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Supporting Local Student Journalism Through Motion Design, Lucy Naland May 2019

Supporting Local Student Journalism Through Motion Design, Lucy Naland

Renée Crown University Honors Thesis Projects - All

The Daily Orange, the independent newspaper of Syracuse, New York, has operated out of 744 Ostrom for more than 30 years. However, the paper will be moving to a new home in 2020 as Syracuse University uses the current space for new student housing. Following this development, The D.O. was in need of designed materials to create a campaign necessary to raise the hundreds of thousands of dollars moving will require. The motion work that resulted from my work on the campaign will be used on social media and The D.O.’s website to raise awareness of the paper’s need, as …

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Re-Imagining A Neighborhood Center: Completing Mixed-Use Streets In The Elmwood Neighborhood Utilizing Dallas' Complete Streets Design Manual, Shirley Jane Mathews, Ardeshir Anjomani May 2019

Re-Imagining A Neighborhood Center: Completing Mixed-Use Streets In The Elmwood Neighborhood Utilizing Dallas' Complete Streets Design Manual, Shirley Jane Mathews, Ardeshir Anjomani

Planning Masters Professional Reports - Archive

Walkable neighborhoods with adjacent commercial centers have the ability to encourage mode shifts to walking, bicycling, or transit. Mode shifts from single-occupancy vehicles (SOV) to the destinations within a neighborhood center of Elmwood's size may result in approximately 3,000 SOV trip reductions per day (H-GAC, 2018). This study examines the Dallas Complete Streets Design Manual (2016) and applies the Dallas Complete Streets Vision to a 1,400 foot (.3 mile) segment of Edgefield Avenue, adapting the guidelines to Edgefield Avenue with site-specific consideration. It refers to the Dallas Complete Streets Design Guidelines in the development of a complete street proposal for …

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City Of North Richland Hills Financial Analysis: Property Tax Revenue Needed To Fund Emergency Services To Support Population Growth, Danielle Dehoyos, Michael Henry, Alma Ibarra, Lindsay Koskiniemi, Lorrinda Osborne, Estevan Troche May 2019

City Of North Richland Hills Financial Analysis: Property Tax Revenue Needed To Fund Emergency Services To Support Population Growth, Danielle Dehoyos, Michael Henry, Alma Ibarra, Lindsay Koskiniemi, Lorrinda Osborne, Estevan Troche

Public Administration Capstone Reports - Archive

The City of North Richland Hills is situated eleven miles northeast of Fort Worth in the heart of the Dallas - Fort Worth Metroplex. NRH is completely within Tarrant County and has a contiguous city limit without extraterritorial jurisdiction. This means NRH cannot annex additional land. The city is approximately 90% built to capacity within the city limits. NRH had 70,441 residents ("North Richland Hills, Texas Population," 2019). In a recent survey, 96% of respondents believe NRH is a great place to live. This project was initiated to find a method for calculating costs of emergency services that include police, …

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North Richland Hills Development Process Improvement Plan, Matthew Baldwin, Katy Bower, Vy Nguyen, Gloria Rodriguez, Erik Smith, Yvonne Williams May 2019

North Richland Hills Development Process Improvement Plan, Matthew Baldwin, Katy Bower, Vy Nguyen, Gloria Rodriguez, Erik Smith, Yvonne Williams

Public Administration Capstone Reports - Archive

The development and permit approval process for the City of North Richland Hills (NRH) was explored with regard to the review process for development proposals, platting, and building permits. Currently, the city conducts a multi-departmental approach to review and approve the aforementioned, as well as other permits. NRH sought outside counsel to map out their platting and permit approval process in an effort to identify inefficiencies and bottlenecks, as well as to gather recommendations for process improvements that could be transferred to an electronic environment as they begin to implement this transition over the next 18 months. The goals and …

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Balancing The Theoretical Toolkit: A Quantitative Examination Of Social Mobility And Culture, Nathan Cole Baggett May 2019

Balancing The Theoretical Toolkit: A Quantitative Examination Of Social Mobility And Culture, Nathan Cole Baggett

Sociology & Anthropology Theses - Archive

Stratification researchers of the last four decades have contributed a multitude of information on how class-origins, culture, and social psychological factors affect class reproduction. However, scholarship has spent comparatively less effort in exploring cultural elements that can facilitate upward mobility for individuals from disadvantaged backgrounds. This thesis addresses this research imbalance through providing a nuanced look at cultural, social, and economic factors associated with educational mobility. Specifically, I investigate how educational aspirations offset financial constraints for individuals from disadvantaged backgrounds. I employ regression analyses to examine how common educational mobility is for individuals from less-educated households and then test to …

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Creating Sustainable Brands: How The Green 4 Ps Influence Consumers' Attitudes Toward Brands, Julia Dipersio May 2019

Creating Sustainable Brands: How The Green 4 Ps Influence Consumers' Attitudes Toward Brands, Julia Dipersio

Renée Crown University Honors Thesis Projects - All

I study the important brand-building relationship between consumer characteristics and the green 4 Ps that has been neglected in the literature: how the green marketing mix can work simultaneously to influence a consumer’s attitude toward a green brand with the goal of understanding how a green brand image is created. This study considers Information Integration Theory and Social Judgment Theory to assess how attitudes can be formed through the green 4 Ps. I collected data through a Qualtrics online survey from 185 respondents. Subsequent regression analyses in SPSS revealed certain strong relationships between select consumer characteristics and a positive attitudinal …

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Prevalence, Intensity And Risk Factors Of Tungiasis In Kilifi County, Kenya Ii: Results From A School-Based Observational Study, Lynne Elson, Susanne Wiese, Hermann Feldmeier, Ulrike Fillinger May 2019

Prevalence, Intensity And Risk Factors Of Tungiasis In Kilifi County, Kenya Ii: Results From A School-Based Observational Study, Lynne Elson, Susanne Wiese, Hermann Feldmeier, Ulrike Fillinger

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Introduction Awareness of the public health importance of tungiasis has been growing in East Africa in recent years, but data on epidemiological characteristics necessary for the planning and implementation of control measures do not exist. The work presented here was part of a larger cross-sectional study on the epidemiology of tungiasis in coastal Kenya and aims at identifying risk factors of tungiasis and severe disease in school children. Methods A total of 1,829 students of all age groups from five schools and 56 classes were clinically examined for tungiasis on their feet based on standardized procedures and observations made about …

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Modelling Appropriate Use Of Trypanocides To Restrict Wide-Spread Multi-Drug Resistance During Chemotherapy Of Animal African Trypanosomiasis, Ibrahim I. Wangwe, Sarah A. Wamwenje, Caroline Mirieri, Nicodemus M. Masila, Lillian Wambua, Benard W. Kulohoma May 2019

Modelling Appropriate Use Of Trypanocides To Restrict Wide-Spread Multi-Drug Resistance During Chemotherapy Of Animal African Trypanosomiasis, Ibrahim I. Wangwe, Sarah A. Wamwenje, Caroline Mirieri, Nicodemus M. Masila, Lillian Wambua, Benard W. Kulohoma

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Trypanocide resistance remains a huge challenge in the management of animal African trypanosomiasis. Paucity of data on the prevalence of multi-drug resistant trypanosomes has greatly hindered optimal veterinary management practices. We use mathematical model predictions to highlight appropriate drug regimens that impede trypanocide resistance development in cattle. We demonstrate that using drugs in decreasing resistance order results in a negligible increase in number of cattle with resistant infection, in contrast to a more pronounced increase from trypanocide use in increasing resistance order. We demonstrate that the lowest levels of trypanocide resistance are achieved with combination therapy. We also show that …

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Internal Control Quality, Voluntary Disclosure And Cost Of Equity Capital: The Case Of An Unregulated Market, Khaled Ibrahim Hamdy Samaha Apr 2019

Internal Control Quality, Voluntary Disclosure And Cost Of Equity Capital: The Case Of An Unregulated Market, Khaled Ibrahim Hamdy Samaha

Faculty Journal Articles

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Automated Segmentation Of Brain Ventricles Using 3d U-Net, Robert Sandor, Anish P. Dalal Apr 2019

Automated Segmentation Of Brain Ventricles Using 3d U-Net, Robert Sandor, Anish P. Dalal

Creative Activity and Research Day - CARD

Neuro-radiologists currently use qualitative volumetric change of brain ventricles after surgery to assess the safety of removing a ventriculoperitoneal (VP) shunt which is a medical device that relieves pressure on the brain caused by fluid accumulation. Following safe removal of the VP shunt, patients can be released from the hospital. The need for accurate and quick measurement of brain ventricular volumetric change makes automatic 3D segmentation software an ideal candidate to aid decisions after surgery. In this paper, we propose an approach to estimate the ventricular volume variation using segmentation in brain MRI and CT images. Our approach consists of …

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The Effects Of Socioeconomic Status On Childhood Obesity And The Effectiveness Of Intervention Programs, John Rock Apr 2019

The Effects Of Socioeconomic Status On Childhood Obesity And The Effectiveness Of Intervention Programs, John Rock

Academic Festival

In the United States, the rates of childhood obesity have steadily increased over the past twenty years. There are numerous instances that support this increasing trend which have been documented and they will serve as the basis of evidence proving that there indeed, is a problem that needs to be addressed. Current data supports that areas of a lower socioeconomic status have higher rates of childhood and adolescent obesity, the data shows that this high prevalence is due to a wide range of diet and exercise related factors that are much more common in areas of lower socioeconomic standing.The issue …

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Lessons From Abroad: Perspectives On Indian Culture, Lauren J. Lyver, Ashley N. Saenz Apr 2019

Lessons From Abroad: Perspectives On Indian Culture, Lauren J. Lyver, Ashley N. Saenz

Academic Festival

During January 2019, we participated in the Sacred Heart University and Pandit Deendayal Petroleum University 5th Study Abroad in India Short Term Program. Throughout the Program, we learned about varying aspects of working in a cross-cultural context, while considering People, Behavior, and Communication. This paper will recount our experiences and the lessons we learned from being abroad.

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Project Management 9330y: Participation House, Sydney Mensen Apr 2019

Project Management 9330y: Participation House, Sydney Mensen

Community Engaged Learning Final Projects

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Panel Discussion: Decoding Turkey - Ambassador Dr. Alaa Elhadidi, Bahgat Korany Apr 2019

Panel Discussion: Decoding Turkey - Ambassador Dr. Alaa Elhadidi, Bahgat Korany

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"Decoding Turkey" European or Neo-Ottoman? Secular or Islamist? Democratic or authoritarian? .......? Where does Turkey at present stand exactly? Guest Speaker: Ambassador Dr. Alaa ElHadidi Former Ambassador to Turkey, Russia and Romania; Former Director of Institute of Diplomatic Studies and Spokesman for the Egyptian Prime Minister Chair: Professor Bahgat Korany Director, AUC Forum Professor, Department of Political Science The panel took place on Sunday April 27th, 2019 at AUC New Cairo.

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Decoding Turkey, Bahgat Korany, Alaa Elhadidi Apr 2019

Decoding Turkey, Bahgat Korany, Alaa Elhadidi

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European or Neo-Ottoman? Secular or Islamist? Democratic or authoritarian? .......? Where does Turkey at present stand exactly? Guest Speaker: Ambassador Dr. Alaa ElHadidi Former Ambassador to Turkey, Russia, and Romania; Former Director of the Institute of Diplomatic Studies and Spokesman for the Egyptian Prime Minister Chair: Professor Bahgat Korany Director, AUC Forum Professor, Department of Political Science

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Mollusk And Meiofauna Communities Data Collected Onboard The R/V Weatherbird Ii Cruise Wb0517 In The Northwestern Margin Of Cuba From 2017-05-13 To 2017-05-23, Maickel Armenteros Apr 2019

Mollusk And Meiofauna Communities Data Collected Onboard The R/V Weatherbird Ii Cruise Wb0517 In The Northwestern Margin Of Cuba From 2017-05-13 To 2017-05-23, Maickel Armenteros

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Mollusk and meiofauna communities data were collected during an expedition of the R/V Weatherbird II cruise WB0517 to the northwestern margin of Cuba from 2017-05-13 to 2017-05-23. Sediment was collected using a multi-corer and three replicates were kept for these communities and preserved in a 10% buffered formalin. Mollusks (dead and alive shells) were sieved through a 0.5 mm sieve and species were identified from the top 10 cm of each core. The presence/absence of 129 mollusks species is presented in this dataset. Meiofauna was sieved through a 0.063 mm sieve and all the alive organisms were identified to their …

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Hollywood, Hashtags, And Cultural Disharmony: A Comparative Framing Analysis Of How American Newspapers Have Framed The Me Too Movement, Julia M. Fechter Apr 2019

Hollywood, Hashtags, And Cultural Disharmony: A Comparative Framing Analysis Of How American Newspapers Have Framed The Me Too Movement, Julia M. Fechter

Honors College Theses

This project explored how The New York Times, The Washington Post, and the New York Post covered the Me Too movement by studying the frames and framing techniques embedded in the newspapers’ articles. As one of the initial studies to analyze how American newspapers covered the movement, this study investigated how such content might be formative to subsequent narratives published about the Me Too movement. The articles were analyzed using a codebook adapted from Kowalewski (2006). Elements coded included but were not limited to the articles’ political affiliations, article tones, main news angles and main frames in order …

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Disobeying Seagulls: Making Music With Animals, Nuria Bonet Apr 2019

Disobeying Seagulls: Making Music With Animals, Nuria Bonet

School of Art, Design and Architecture

The first European Gull Screeching Championship was held on 24 March 2019 in Belgium, bringing together bird enthusiasts to imitate the marine birds. While it may seem like a silly or absurd exercise, it also reminds us of humans’ long-lasting tradition of imitating natural sounds and recreating their soundscapes through instruments and music. Would it, however, be possible to use an animal, such as a Gull as an actual instrument? I will look at some of the ways that animals have been used as musical instruments, in some way or other, before introducing my own attempt at incorporating seagull screeching …

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Madrigal Gps-Tec Maps Of The High-Latitude Northern Hemisphere 2009-2017, Michael David, Jan J. Sojka Apr 2019

Madrigal Gps-Tec Maps Of The High-Latitude Northern Hemisphere 2009-2017, Michael David, Jan J. Sojka

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Raw data obtained from the Madrigal web site cedar.openmadrigal.org has been recast into a format of dial grids in geo-magnetic coordinates.

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Double Wall Cooling Of A Full Coverage Effusion Plate With Main Flow Pressure Gradient, Including Internal Impingement Array Cooling, Sneha R. Vanga, David Ritchie, Austin Click, Zhong Ren, Phil Ligrani, Federico Liberatore, Rajeshriben Patel, Ram Srinivasan, Yin-Hsiang Ho Apr 2019

Double Wall Cooling Of A Full Coverage Effusion Plate With Main Flow Pressure Gradient, Including Internal Impingement Array Cooling, Sneha R. Vanga, David Ritchie, Austin Click, Zhong Ren, Phil Ligrani, Federico Liberatore, Rajeshriben Patel, Ram Srinivasan, Yin-Hsiang Ho

PRC-Affiliated Research

The present study provides new effusion cooling data for both the surfaces of the fullcoverage effusion cooling plate. For the effusion-cooled surface, presented are spatially resolved distributions of surface adiabatic film cooling effectiveness and surface heat transfer coefficients (measured using transient techniques and infrared thermography). For the impingement-cooled surface, presented are spatially resolved distributions of surface Nusselt numbers (measured using steady-state liquid crystal thermography). To produce this cool-side augmentation, impingement jet arrays at different jet Reynolds numbers, from 2720 to 11,100, are employed. Experimental data are given for a sparse effusion hole array, with spanwise and streamwise impingement hole spacing …

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Double Wall Cooling Of A Full Coverage Effusion Plate With Main Flow Pressure Gradient, Including Internal Impingement Array Cooling, Sneha R. Vanga, David Ritchie, Austin Click, Zhong Ren, Phil Ligrani, Federico Liberatore, Rajeshriben Patel, Ram Srinivasan, Yin-Hsiang Ho Apr 2019

Double Wall Cooling Of A Full Coverage Effusion Plate With Main Flow Pressure Gradient, Including Internal Impingement Array Cooling, Sneha R. Vanga, David Ritchie, Austin Click, Zhong Ren, Phil Ligrani, Federico Liberatore, Rajeshriben Patel, Ram Srinivasan, Yin-Hsiang Ho

PRC-Affiliated Research

The present study provides new effusion cooling data for both the surfaces of the fullcoverage effusion cooling plate. For the effusion-cooled surface, presented are spatially resolved distributions of surface adiabatic film cooling effectiveness and surface heat transfer coefficients (measured using transient techniques and infrared thermography). For the impingement-cooled surface, presented are spatially resolved distributions of surface Nusselt numbers (measured using steady-state liquid crystal thermography). To produce this cool-side augmentation, impingement jet arrays at different jet Reynolds numbers, from 2720 to 11,100, are employed. Experimental data are given for a sparse effusion hole array, with spanwise and streamwise impingement hole spacing …

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Double Wall Cooling Of A Full Coverage Effusion Plate With Main Flow Pressure Gradient, Including Internal Impingement Array Cooling, Sneha R. Vanga, David Ritchie, Austin Click, Zhong Ren, Phil Ligrani, Federico Liberatore, Rajeshriben Patel, Ram Srinivasan, Yin-Hsiang Ho Apr 2019

Double Wall Cooling Of A Full Coverage Effusion Plate With Main Flow Pressure Gradient, Including Internal Impingement Array Cooling, Sneha R. Vanga, David Ritchie, Austin Click, Zhong Ren, Phil Ligrani, Federico Liberatore, Rajeshriben Patel, Ram Srinivasan, Yin-Hsiang Ho

PRC-Affiliated Research

The present study provides new effusion cooling data for both the surfaces of the fullcoverage effusion cooling plate. For the effusion-cooled surface, presented are spatially resolved distributions of surface adiabatic film cooling effectiveness and surface heat transfer coefficients (measured using transient techniques and infrared thermography). For the impingement-cooled surface, presented are spatially resolved distributions of surface Nusselt numbers (measured using steady-state liquid crystal thermography). To produce this cool-side augmentation, impingement jet arrays at different jet Reynolds numbers, from 2720 to 11,100, are employed. Experimental data are given for a sparse effusion hole array, with spanwise and streamwise impingement hole spacing …

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Dataset For: Exploring The Complexity Of Two Iconic Crude Oil Spills In The Gulf Of Mexico (Ixtoc I And Deepwater Horizon) Using Comprehensive Two-Dimensional Gas Chromatography (Gc×Gc), Christopher Reddy Apr 2019

Dataset For: Exploring The Complexity Of Two Iconic Crude Oil Spills In The Gulf Of Mexico (Ixtoc I And Deepwater Horizon) Using Comprehensive Two-Dimensional Gas Chromatography (Gc×Gc), Christopher Reddy

C-IMAGE data

Comprehensive two-dimensional gas chromatography (GC x GC), a highly advanced analytical tool, was used to investigate the chemical composition of the Ixtoc reference oils in order to enable the fingerprinting of oil and the study of weathering patterns of released oil. More specifically, with the use of a GC × GC system coupled to a flame ionization detector and a high-resolution time-of-flight mass spectrometric detector, the types and families of GC-amenable compounds present in these crude oils were characterized and this consisted of the detection of alkylated carbazoles, alkylated sulfur-containing species, and other compounds. This dataset supports the publication: Nelson, …

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Frieda Fligelman: Feminist Academic, Marias Mckenzie Blundell Apr 2019

Frieda Fligelman: Feminist Academic, Marias Mckenzie Blundell

University of Montana Conference on Undergraduate Research (UMCUR)

In this sketch, the life and accomplishments of Frieda Fligelman will be explored in depth. Frieda Fligelman was a suffragist based out of Helena, Montana who made great strides for women in higher education and scholarly work. Frieda Fligelman comes from a family of feminist activists with her sister Belle Fligelman Winestine working on Jeanette Rankin’s campaign and working as her secretary. Frieda was the first woman ever admitted to the Ph.D. program of Columbia’s Political Science field. She worked with renowned anthropologist Franz Boas, as well as breaking major ground in the field of Linguistic Anthropology with her work …

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Infection With Bacteriophage Impacts The Evolution Of Antibiotic Resistance In Pseudomonas Aeruginosa, Jacob E. Cohen Apr 2019

Infection With Bacteriophage Impacts The Evolution Of Antibiotic Resistance In Pseudomonas Aeruginosa, Jacob E. Cohen

University of Montana Conference on Undergraduate Research (UMCUR)

Pseudomonas aeruginosa is a pathogenic bacterium commonly found in hospital acquired infections. P. aeruginosa infections often evolve antibiotic resistance. It is known that clinical isolates from P. aeruginosa infections contain high concentrations of filamentous Pf bacteriophage. We hypothesize that P. aeruginosa infections that are infected with Pf phage will have greater resistance to antibiotics. This is because Pf phage are known to be negatively charged, while commonly used aminoglycoside antibiotics such as tobramycin are positively charged. Thus, the negatively charged phage attracts the positively charged antibiotics and draws the antibiotic away from the bacteria, allowing them to survive. To test …

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Cold Plasma Poration And Corrugation Of Pumpkin Seed Coats, Alexander G. Volkov, Jewel S. Hairston, Darayas Patel, Ryan P. Gott, Kunning G. Xu Apr 2019

Cold Plasma Poration And Corrugation Of Pumpkin Seed Coats, Alexander G. Volkov, Jewel S. Hairston, Darayas Patel, Ryan P. Gott, Kunning G. Xu

PRC-Affiliated Research

The treatment of seeds and plants by electrically generated cold atmospheric pressure plasma can accelerate seed germination and radicle growing rates. The plasma generated reactive oxygen and nitrogen species, UV photons, and high frequency electromagnetic fields can penetrate into seed coats and modify their surface properties. Atomic force microscope data shows that cold helium or argon plasma induces strong corrugation of pumpkin seed coats, produces pores and surface defects. These structural deformations and poration enhance water uptake by seeds during the imbibing process, accelerate seeds germination, and increase seed growth. The cold atmospheric pressure plasmas treatment of pumpkin seeds also …

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Red Drum Cewaf Uptake/Depuration Study: Rna-Seq Transcriptome Characterization Of Tissue, Dana Wetzel, Tracy Sherwood, Christelle Miller, Rebecca Medvecky Apr 2019

Red Drum Cewaf Uptake/Depuration Study: Rna-Seq Transcriptome Characterization Of Tissue, Dana Wetzel, Tracy Sherwood, Christelle Miller, Rebecca Medvecky

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This dataset contains the raw reads generated from RNA sequencing of the transcriptome of liver tissue collected from controls (three replicates) and chemically enhanced water accommodated fraction (CEWAF, three replicates) exposed red drum (Sciaenops ocellatus). Illumina high-throughput RNA-sequencing technology was used to sequence, assemble and annotate the transcriptome of tissues from livers of the red drum after exposure to CEWAF/Control. This dataset is available at the NCBI-SRA database accession number SRP159002.

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Cold Plasma Poration And Corrugation Of Pumpkin Seed Coats, Alexander G. Volkov, Jewel S. Hairston, Darayas Patel, Ryan P. Gott, Kunning G. Xu Apr 2019

Cold Plasma Poration And Corrugation Of Pumpkin Seed Coats, Alexander G. Volkov, Jewel S. Hairston, Darayas Patel, Ryan P. Gott, Kunning G. Xu

PRC-Affiliated Research

The treatment of seeds and plants by electrically generated cold atmospheric pressure plasma can accelerate seed germination and radicle growing rates. The plasma generated reactive oxygen and nitrogen species, UV photons, and high frequency electromagnetic fields can penetrate into seed coats and modify their surface properties. Atomic force microscope data shows that cold helium or argon plasma induces strong corrugation of pumpkin seed coats, produces pores and surface defects. These structural deformations and poration enhance water uptake by seeds during the imbibing process, accelerate seeds germination, and increase seed growth. The cold atmospheric pressure plasmas treatment of pumpkin seeds also …

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Cold Plasma Poration And Corrugation Of Pumpkin Seed Coats, Alexander G. Volkov, Jewel S. Hairston, Darayas Patel, Ryan P. Gott, Kunning G. Xu Apr 2019

Cold Plasma Poration And Corrugation Of Pumpkin Seed Coats, Alexander G. Volkov, Jewel S. Hairston, Darayas Patel, Ryan P. Gott, Kunning G. Xu

PRC-Affiliated Research

The treatment of seeds and plants by electrically generated cold atmospheric pressure plasma can accelerate seed germination and radicle growing rates. The plasma generated reactive oxygen and nitrogen species, UV photons, and high frequency electromagnetic fields can penetrate into seed coats and modify their surface properties. Atomic force microscope data shows that cold helium or argon plasma induces strong corrugation of pumpkin seed coats, produces pores and surface defects. These structural deformations and poration enhance water uptake by seeds during the imbibing process, accelerate seeds germination, and increase seed growth. The cold atmospheric pressure plasmas treatment of pumpkin seeds also …

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Oil Degradation In Laboratory Simulated Shallow Sandy Sediments From Pensacola Beach, Florida, Will Overholt Apr 2019

Oil Degradation In Laboratory Simulated Shallow Sandy Sediments From Pensacola Beach, Florida, Will Overholt

C-IMAGE data

This dataset contains the results of laboratory experiments performed on samples of shallow sandy sediments from Pensacola Beach, Florida with the goal of determining how beach microbes will respond to Macondo oil buried in sandy sediments. The dataset includes information about oxygen profiles, nitrate concentrations, nitrite concentrations, ammonium concentrations, phosphate concentrations, microbial 16S amplicons, microbial metagenomes, and total petroleum hydrocarbon concentrations.

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