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(Jan 1 201)<p>Proteins are involved in all of life's processes and are also responsible for many diseases. Thus, engineering proteins to perform new tasks could revolutionize many areas of biomedical research. One promising technique ...
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(Jan 1 201)<p>There are over 30 million Foley urinary catheters used annually, and the greatest problem with Foley catheters is catheter-associated urinary tract infections (CAUTIs). CAUTIs are the number one cause of hospital-acquired ...
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(Jan 1 201)<p>Quality assurance (QA) is a critical component of radiation oncology medical physics for both effective treatment and patient safety, particularly as innovations in technology allow movement toward advanced treatment ...
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(Jan 1 201)<p>Flow-based microfluidic biochips constitute an emerging technology for the automation of biochemical procedures. Recent advances in fabrication techniques have enabled the development of these devices. Increasing ...
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(2017-09-19)This thesis discusses narration as a tool that mediates the portrayal of women and nature by subjecting both to the perspective of an observer. Realist fiction provides us with material to study this phenomenon in depth ...
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(2017-09-18)Much empirical literature analyzing crime and violence omits an important theoretical “fundamental cause”: an underlying mechanism that might drive both the analysis’s proposed explanatory factors and outcome phenomena of ...
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(2017-08-24)This paper investigates women’s confidence in the elite university setting in the United States and argues that women often experience a decline in confidence in this space. Within the scope of this paper the elite university ...
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(2017-08-23)In summer 2016, I travelled along the Balkan route conducting semi-structured interviews with local organizations (n=24) and refugees (n=16) in an effort to explore the consequences of stasis within mobility. Through hearing ...
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(2017-08-18)Sea level rise (SLR) and severe weather events have already exposed the vulnerability of coastal cities to flood events. Regional planning bodies are developing comprehensive plans to build resiliency utilizing both hardened ...
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(2017-07-06)Why is there such a disparity of infrastructure between the Jewish settlements and Palestinian villages adjacent to one another in the West Bank? Through historical events, agreements, and continuing conflicts, enormous ...
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(2017-07-02)This paper is a three-part examination in philosophical anthropology that reflects the curricular framework of my Program II major, "Markets, Society, and Personalism," which focuses on the consequences of a society's ...
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(2017-06-30)This project examines the problem of why there is often a long duration between proposing a marine protected area (MPA) and implementing the MPA. The European Union has a vast network of proposed MPAs, but not enough are ...
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(2017-06-26)Approximately 2.8 billion people around the world still cook their meals and heat their homes with solid fuels. In addition to being inefficient, the use of solid fuels for cooking leads to high levels of pollution, ...
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(2017-06-26)What are the effects of household, community, technical, and environmental variables on the performance and resilience of CWOs in dry regions? Since 2014, drought has severely affected Central American economic and health ...
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(2017-06-21)Sexual assault on college campuses is a longstanding and pervasive problem. Increasing media coverage has led to growing concern about sexual violence on college campuses and most universities’ failure to respond appropriately. ...
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(2017-06-20)Half of the world’s population (2.7 billion people), of which 95 percent is in ‘poor’ countries, rely on solid fuels including biomass fuels like wood, dung, agricultural residue and coal, to meet most of their energy ...
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(2017-06-19)By utilizing low-cost, behavioral economic "nudges," we achieved a significant increase in the rate of on-time property tax payments in Guilford County, North Carolina. Using a large-scale randomized control trial, we ...
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