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Illuminating the Impacts of Tourists With Hand-Held Lights on Sea Turtles
(2020-04-22)
The marine life of the ocean is in decline. Over a period spanning 300 years, the human ecological footprint decimated sea turtle populations. Though sea turtle over-exploitation is mostly controlled, recent documented ...
Defining the Role of Operational Sex Ratio in Fitness of Organisms With Sexually Antagonistic Genes
(2020-04-23)
In many species, populations vary in size and reproductive sex ratio, producing situations in which small population sizes are paired with strongly skewed effective sex ratios. This imbalance among sexes is particularly ...
Characterizing Epithelial-Mesenchymal-Transition (EMT)-Like Behavior in Breast Cancer Cells in a Tissue Engineering Co-Culture Model
(2020-04-13)
Tissue engineered 3D cell culture models have shown promise investigating the influence of the tumor microenvironment on cancer cell behavior. Synthetic hydrogels, such as those made from poly(ethylene glycol) (PEG), can ...
Reconstruction of Past Environmental Changes in Southern Patagonia Using Stable Isotopes
(2020-04-16)
Paleoclimate reconstructions allow us to build a better picture of how climate has changed over time. However, relatively little research has been done in the higher latitudes of the southern hemisphere, leaving a gap in ...
Design Analytics Dashboards to Support Students and Instructors
(2020-04-29)
Design coursework is iterative and continuously-evolving. Separation of digital tools used in design courses disaffects instructors’ and students’ iterative process experiences. As technology becomes increasingly integrated ...
Analyzing Multi-Phase Flow in 3D Printed Micro-Models
(2020-04-13)
In a world where energy demands are increasing and resources are depleting, gaining better insights into fluid saturation distributions and transport mechanisms within hydrocarbon reservoirs at the pore scale will be ...
The Incorporation of Boronophenylalanine Into Phage Display Libraries for Identifying Inhibitors of Cd44
(2020-04-21)
Many cancers, including breast and pancreatic, are known to display similar cancer stem cell markers, and the CD44 receptor is a common marker. The receptor binds specific biomolecules that lead to increased cell proliferation ...
Carbon Parks: A New Conservation Tool to Protect Peatlands
(2020-04-22)
Peatland ecosystems are the most effective long-term terrestrial carbon sinks on Earth. They accumulate large quantities of carbon over thousands of years in the form of thick organic-rich soils. However, there are no ...
Generation of Novel Genetic Resources in the Model Organism Tribolium castaneum
(2020-04-23)
The stored product pest, the red flour beetle (Tribolium castaneum), has emerged as a novel and powerful model organism over the last decade. Because these are stored product pests, the lab environment is similar to field ...
Development of Protocols to Test the Ability of Akkermansia muciniphila to Rescue Gut Barrier Integrity and Metabolize Azoxymethane
(2020-04-21)
The recent discovery of the bacterial species Akkermansia muciniphila (A. muc.) and subsequent studies have proposed a correlation between gut health and the presence of A. muc., however conflicting reports of enrichment ...