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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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(2017-06-26)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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(2017-06-19)A growing body of evidence suggests that public investment in high-quality preschool programs improves school readiness, and produces significant and lasting impacts on children across a wide variety of outcomes. Research ...
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(2017-06-17)HIV infection can be characterized as a brain disease with 47 percent of infected patients experiencing neurocognitive disorders. MRI studies of HIV patients reveal alterations in gray and white matter. Individuals addicted ...
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(2017-06-11)This project analyzes whether writs of mandamus filed by victims of sexual assault in the military justice system should be reviewed at the standard of an ordinary interlocutory appeal. The project conducts a policy ...
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(2017-06-09)The Last Column, the final steel beam removed from Ground Zero, is the centerpiece of the 9/11 Memorial and Museum in New York. This paper demonstrates the Last Column’s significance in the visual narrative of the September ...
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(2017-06-09)In the sixteen years since the 9/11 attacks, the United States government continues to execute a military-centric counterterrorism (CT) strategy in the Middle East and Africa, absent an integrated and synchronized information ...
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(2017-06-05)The ten-year Cultural Revolution exerts a tremendous influence on the domain of cultural production in contemporary China. After the Cultural Revolution, many filmmakers delved into the representation of this traumatic ...
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(2017-06-05)In Cosmopolitanism, Kwame Anthony Appiah writes “people tell and discuss stories in every culture as far back as the record goes.” Donald Brown agrees in his comprehensive cross-cultural anthropological survey, Human ...
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(2017-06-02)In this paper, I examine whether MLB teams are capable of using players’ past performance data to sufficiently estimate future production. The study is motivated by the recent trend by which teams have increasingly signed ...
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(2017-05-30)As a performance whose functioning relies heavily on sociocultural rules, humor does not easily transcend cultural and language lines. In most cases, humor comprehension requires more than fluency in a language. Linguistic ...
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(2017-05-24)This research examines various data dimensionality reduction techniques and clustering methods. The goal was to apply these ideas to a test dataset and a healthcare dataset to see how they practically work and what conclusions ...
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