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Synthesis of an Indolocarbazole Based Small Molecule: Towards Donor-Acceptor Type Ladder Polymers
(2015-09-24)
The use of donor-acceptor (D-A) type ladder polymers as p-type semiconducting materials in optoelectronic devices has received significant attention recently due to the possibilities of increasing the efficiency of organic ...
Disruption of the Temporal Activation of Ras-EGFR-MAPK Axis by Targeting a Critical Membrane Phospholipid Second Messenger
(2015-10-02)
The Ras-EGFR-MAPK signaling axis is chronically up-regulated in colon cancer, and pharmacological inhibition of signaling through Ras and/or EGFR has been shown to prevent colon tumor formation. Recent evidence suggests ...
Dynamic Whole Blood Study of Silicone Modified with PEO-Silane Amphiphiles
(2015-09-04)
Blood-contacting medical devices rapidly adsorb plasma proteins that initiate clot (i.e. thrombus) formation. Antithrombotic drugs may reduce clotting and associated device dysfunction and ischemia, but put the patient at ...
Heavy-Atom Tunneling in Ring-Opening Pericyclic Reactions - A Computational Exploration
(2015-09-04)
Though ubiquitous in everyday organic reactions, the phenomenon of tunneling must often be corrected for, and the elusive and subtle nature of its appearance in experimental studies allows it to be a continued interest for ...
Application of Generalized Multiscale Finite-Element Method (GMsFEM) for Seismic Wavefield Simulation in Geological Models with Fluid-Solid Interface
(2015-09-22)
Numerical simulation of seismic wave propagation is widely employed to characterize petroleum reservoirs and complex geological structures. Conventional numerical wave equation simulation methods can become prohibitively ...
The Effects of Polyphosphate on Chemotaxis
(2015-11-12)
Wound treatment in the United States costs $25 billion annually (Sen, Gordillo et al. 2009) and one in a hundred people are hospitalized each year for a wound that requires professional medical attention (Drew, Posnett et ...
A Graphical User Interface for Composing Parallel Computation in the STAPL Skeleton Library
(2015-09-17)
Parallel programming is a quickly growing field in computer science. It involves splitting the computation among multiple processors to decrease the run time of programs. The computations assigned to a processor can depend ...
The Effect of Phosphorylated Glucose on Major Pathogens of Bovine Mastitis
(2015-11-12)
Mastitis is the number one infectious disease on dairies. Treatment and prevention is mainly through good milking hygiene, proper environmental conditions, and antibiotic usage. For organic dairies, mastitis prevention and ...
Roots of Sparse Polynomials over a Finite Field
(2015-09-29)
For a $t$-nomial $f(x) = \sum_{i = 1}^t c_i x^{a_i} \in \mathbb{F}_q[x]$, we show that the number of distinct, nonzero roots of $f$ is bounded above by $2 (q-1)^{1-\varepsilon} C^\varepsilon$, where $\varepsilon = 1/(t-1)$ ...
Shapeshifter and Chameleon: Grendel as an Indicator of Cultural Fears and Anxieties
(2015-09-25)
The Anglo-Saxon poem, Beowulf, has seen many revivals and revisals. It has been employed within contemporary society primarily as a form of entertainment, but has also been evoked in the name of political reform and used ...