Durham, North Carolina is at the center of the metropolitan region known as the Research Triangle. This area is experiencing rapid and sprawling growth. In addition, there is a lack of substantial public transportation, ...

In another paper Rosa Jacobs will describe the Houston Flexible Wrist and its successful use on a nurnber of children and adults. Reported here is the method followed for generating a production version of this wrist and ...

Executive Summary Background In North Carolina, the number of deaths from unintentional drug overdoses has increased more than 300 percent in just over a decade, from 279 in 1999 to 1,140 in 2011. An increasing ...

<p>This dissertation explores strategies for reducing HIV-virion transport to mucosal surfaces to prevent HIV infection. Infection requires contact between HIV and an infectable cell, so any means of inhibiting this step ...

Aim: To examine whether smokers who reduce their quantity of cigarettes smoked between two periods are more or less likely to quit subsequently. Study Design: Data come from the Health and Retirement Study, a nationally ...

A one-step reductive ligation mediated disulfide formation of S-nitrosothiols was developed. This reaction involves the reaction of the S-nitroso group with phosphine-thioesters to form sulfenamide and thiolate intermediates, ...

There has been much hyperbole over the past few years about Virtual Reality (VR). Could this phenomenon of transporting the human mind into a computer-generated world be important in the rehabilitation realm? Is it an area ...

Marine protected areas (MPAs) are often implemented to conserve or restore species, fisheries, habitats, ecosystems, and ecological functions and services; buffer against the ecological effects of climate change; and ...

<p>This dissertation examines the changing concepts and experiences of slavery and freedom in South Carolina from its founding in 1670 through 1747, a period during which the legal status of "slave" became solidified in ...

Time-dependent density functional theory (TDDFT) has broad application in the study of electronic response, excitation and transport. To extend such application to large and complex systems, we develop a reformulation of ...