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Qualitative Performance Analysis for Large-Scale Scientific Workflows
(2008-05-30)Today, large-scale scientific applications are both data driven and distributed. To support the scale and inherent distribution of these applications, significant heterogeneous and geographically distributed resources are ... -
Qualitative, Quantitative, and Autonomous Optical Coherence Tomography Guided Ophthalmic Microsurgery
(2018)Ophthalmic microsurgery is a challenging subspecialty mainly due to the size of the operating environment. Tissues and distances are measured in micrometers and a surgical microscope is required to view the surgical field. ... -
Quality and the Craft of The Good Life
(2016-01-08)“Quality and the Craft of The Good Life” is a personal essay exploring the relationship between work and the pursuit of a fulfilling life. Originally intended to follow the narrative arc of the construction of a table, this ... -
Quality of Life and Neurocognitive Functioning in Children with Sickle Cell Disease: Investigating the Feasibility of a Computerized Cognitive Training Program
(2014)Children with sickle cell disease (SCD) have a high risk of neurocognitive impairment. No known research, however, has examined the impact of neurocognitive functioning on quality of life in this pediatric population. In ... -
Quantification of Biomass Potential from Timber Stand Improvement (TSI) Operations in Hardwood Stands in North Carolina
(2011-12-08)Across North Carolina, forest species composition has changed substantially over the past 35 years. Oak species have declined while other species, especially red maple and sweetgum have proliferated. This general trend ... -
Quantification of Lung Ventilation Using Voxel-based Delta Radiomics Extracted from Thoracic 4DCT
(2020)Purpose: Lung ventilation imaging offers guidance for functional avoidance during radiation therapy. Ventilation imaging modalities such as radioactive aerosols PET and SPECT, and hyperpolarized gas MRI, are not widely available ... -
Quantification of the Health Impacts Associated with Fine Particulate Matter due to Wildfires
(2008-04-24)Wildfires can be devastating to property and the ecological landscape; they also have a substantial impact on human health and welfare. Wildfires emit a variety of air pollutants such as fine particulate matter (PM2.5), ... -
Quantification of the Oxygen Consumption Capabilities of Human, Tissue-Engineered Myobundles under Perfusion and Simulated Exercise
(2017)Advances in tissue engineering have led to the development of 3D biomimetic models of human skeletal muscle (myobundles), which have the potential to serve as surrogates for animals in drug trials and even implanted into ... -
Quantifying Albedo and Surface Temperature over Different Land Covers: Implications for Carbon Offsets
(2008-04-24)Many organizations, both internationally and within the United States, have invested in forest sequestration projects to offset their carbon emissions. However, changes in albedo and surface temperature due to reforestation ... -
Quantifying and Elucidating the Physical Basis of Uncertainty in GPM-DPR Precipitation in Mountain Regions Using Multi-Frequency Observations and Models
(2019)Quantitative precipitation estimation (QPE) in mountainous regions remains a challenging task owing to its high spatial and temporal variability. Satellite-based radar observations at high resolution have the best potential ... -
Quantifying and Engineering Bacterial Population Dynamics in Time and Space
(2016)Recent technological advances enable us to examine bacterial population dynamics with high temporal resolution with capacity for collecting high throughput data. Precise quantification of bacterial population dynamics can ... -
Quantifying and Inhibiting Horizontal Gene Transfer-Mediated Antibiotic Resistance
(2017)Antibiotic discovery and widespread usage has revolutionized the treatment of infectious diseases. However, this golden age of modern-day medicine is threatened by the increasing prevalence of antibiotic-resistant pathogens. ... -
Quantifying and Prioritizing Opportunities for Canal Backfilling in Louisiana
(2014-04-25)Canal backfilling-degrading and replacing the spoil adjacent to canals-has a wide range of potential benefits for the restoration of Louisiana coastal wetlands, but is not incorporated into current coastwide-scale restoration ... -
Quantifying Ecologically Significant Feeding Areas for Marine Mammals and Seabirds in the Arctic
(2017-04-27)The Arctic marine ecosystem is highly dynamic and sensitive to environmental change, experiencing the impacts of climate change at a rate at least twice as fast as other areas of the world. Arctic organisms are adapted to ... -
QUANTIFYING ECOSYSTEM SERVICES OF GREEN INFRASTRUCTURE IN AUSTIN, TEXAS
(2019-04-26)The City of Austin, Texas is evaluating a new landscape ordinance called Functional Green, which is intended to integrate nature in the city and meet the growth demands. With this ordinance, it is anticipated that 10,000 ... -
Quantifying Eukaryotic Gene Regulation in Hormone Response and Disease.
(2016)Quantifying the function of mammalian enhancers at the genome or population scale has been longstanding challenge in the field of gene regulation. Studies of individual enhancers have provided anecdotal evidence on which ... -
Quantifying Gene Regulatory Networks
(2014)\abstractTranscription and translation describe the flow of genetic information from DNA to mRNA to protein. Recent studies show that at a single cell level, these processes are stochastic, which results in the variation ... -
Quantifying High Dimensional Recordings of Neural Surface Potentials
(2018)Chronically reliable neural implants are needed to provide long lasting, high fidelity interfaces for clinical use and for basic science. Minimally invasive implants, such as micro-electrocorticographic arrays (µECoG), have ... -
Quantifying how Drought and Increases in Water Demand may Impact Municipal Water Supplies for Durham, North Carolina
(2015-04-24)In 2007, North Carolina experienced its worst drought in the past 112 years of record. North Carolina has also seen a steady increase in population growth with the Triangle area acting as one of the fastest growing metropolitan ... -
Quantifying injury rates on nesting leatherback turtles (Dermochelys coriacea) at Sandy Point National Wildlife Refuge, St. Croix
(2017-04-27)Sandy Point National Wildlife Refuge (SPNWR) in St. Croix is one of three critical US nesting locations for leatherback sea turtles (Dermochelys coriacea). Many female leatherbacks nesting at SPNWR have been observed with ...
