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Theoretical And Experimental Investigations To Improve The Performance Of Surface Acoustic Wave (Saw) Biosensors, Mandek Richardson Jan 2014

Theoretical And Experimental Investigations To Improve The Performance Of Surface Acoustic Wave (Saw) Biosensors, Mandek Richardson

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

The objective of this dissertation is to improve the performance of surface acoustic wave (SAW) biosensors for use in point-of-care-testing (POCT) applications. SAW biosensors have the ability to perform fast, accurate detection of an analyte in real time without the use of labels. However, the technology suffers from the inability to differentiate between specific and non-specific binding. Due to this limitation, direct testing of bodily fluids using SAW sensors to accurately determine an analyte's concentration is difficult. In addition, these sensors are challenged by the need to detect small concentrations of a biomarker that are typically required to give a …


Early Detection Of Pathogens In Blood, Matt Ewert Dec 2013

Early Detection Of Pathogens In Blood, Matt Ewert

USF Patents

The present invention is a method of extracting infectious pathogens from a volume of blood including the steps of creating a fibrin aggregate confining the pathogens and introducing a fibrin lysis reagent to expose the pathogens for analysis. The fibrin lysis reagent is preferably composed of plasminogen and streptokinase frozen in coincident relation until the fibrin lysis reagent is needed whereby streptokinase enzymatically reacts with plasminogen to form plasmin upon thawing. The plasminogen is suspended in an aqueous salt solution prior to freezing including NaCl and Na3PO4.


Post Protein Hydrolysis Removal Of A Potent Ribonuclease Inhibitor And The Enzymatic Capture Of Dna, Matt Ewert Nov 2013

Post Protein Hydrolysis Removal Of A Potent Ribonuclease Inhibitor And The Enzymatic Capture Of Dna, Matt Ewert

USF Patents

The present invention concerns compositions and methods of extracting infectious pathogens from a volume of blood. In one embodiment, the method includes the steps of creating a fibrin aggregate confining the pathogens and introducing a fibrin lysis reagent to expose the pathogens for analysis. The present invention also concerns materials and methods for removing aurintricarboxylic acid (ATA) from a sample.


Post Protein Hydrolysis Removal Of A Potent Ribonuclease Inhibitor And The Enzymatic Capture Of Dna, Matt Ewert Nov 2013

Post Protein Hydrolysis Removal Of A Potent Ribonuclease Inhibitor And The Enzymatic Capture Of Dna, Matt Ewert

USF Patents

The present invention concerns compositions and methods of extracting infectious pathogens from a volume of blood. In one embodiment, the method includes the steps of creating a fibrin aggregate confining the pathogens and introducing a fibrin lysis reagent to expose the pathogens for analysis. The present invention also concerns materials and methods for removing aurintricarboxylic acid (ATA) from a sample.


The Impact Of War And Service On Veterans Attending College, Ashley Abene Nov 2013

The Impact Of War And Service On Veterans Attending College, Ashley Abene

USF St. Petersburg campus Master's Theses (Graduate)

In 2012 alone, almost 400,000 veterans enrolled in college and used GI Bill benefits for the first time (McGovern 21). Several thousand more are anticipated to enroll in college within the next few years as nearly two million veterans return from overseas (Sander 2). The goal of this thesis is to show composition professors the extreme re-adjustment that is required for veterans returning not only to civilian life but especially to academia. Although veterans have been enrolling in college for decades, this thesis focuses solely on the influx of recent war veterans of Operation Iraqi Freedom and Operation Enduring Freedom. …


Counterinsurgency And Union Movement In El Salvador (1967-1968), Lucrecia Molinari Nov 2013

Counterinsurgency And Union Movement In El Salvador (1967-1968), Lucrecia Molinari

Genocide Studies and Prevention: An International Journal

The present paper analyzes the wave of protest lead by urban workers and the teacher union in 1967 and 1968 in El Salvador, and the repressive strategies that the State implemented in response to those protests.


Cultivation And Complete Genome Sequencing Of Gloeobacter Kilaueensis Sp. Nov., From A Lava Cave In Kīlauea Caldera, Hawai'i, Jimmy H. W. Saw, Michael Schatz, Mark V. Brown, Dennis D. Kunkel, Jamie S. Foster, Harry Shick, Stephanie Christensen, Shaobin Hou, Xuehua Wan, Stuart P. Donachie Oct 2013

Cultivation And Complete Genome Sequencing Of Gloeobacter Kilaueensis Sp. Nov., From A Lava Cave In Kīlauea Caldera, Hawai'i, Jimmy H. W. Saw, Michael Schatz, Mark V. Brown, Dennis D. Kunkel, Jamie S. Foster, Harry Shick, Stephanie Christensen, Shaobin Hou, Xuehua Wan, Stuart P. Donachie

KIP Articles

The ancestor of Gloeobacter violaceus PCC 7421T is believed to have diverged from that of all known cyanobacteria before the evolution of thylakoid membranes and plant plastids. The long and largely independent evolutionary history of G. violaceus presents an organism retaining ancestral features of early oxygenic photoautotrophs, and in whom cyanobacteria evolution can be investigated. No other Gloeobacter species has been described since the genus was established in 1974 (Rippka et al., Arch Microbiol 100:435). Gloeobacter affiliated ribosomal gene sequences have been reported in environmental DNA libraries, but only the type strain's genome has been sequenced. However, we report here …


Front Matter & Table Of Contents Oct 2013

Front Matter & Table Of Contents

Journal of Strategic Security

No abstract provided.


Intelligence Collection: How To Plan And Execute Intelligence Collection In Complex Environments. By Wayne Michael Hall And Gary Citrenbaum. Santa Barbara, Ca, Abc-Clio, Llc. 2012., Harry I. Nimon Ph.D. Oct 2013

Intelligence Collection: How To Plan And Execute Intelligence Collection In Complex Environments. By Wayne Michael Hall And Gary Citrenbaum. Santa Barbara, Ca, Abc-Clio, Llc. 2012., Harry I. Nimon Ph.D.

Journal of Strategic Security

No abstract provided.


Efficacy Of Modified Cognitive Interviewing, Compared To Human Judgments In Detecting Deception Related To Bio-Threat Activities, Charles A. Morgan Dr., Yaron G. Rabinowitz Dr., Deborah Hilts, Craig E. Weller, Vladimir Coric Dr. Oct 2013

Efficacy Of Modified Cognitive Interviewing, Compared To Human Judgments In Detecting Deception Related To Bio-Threat Activities, Charles A. Morgan Dr., Yaron G. Rabinowitz Dr., Deborah Hilts, Craig E. Weller, Vladimir Coric Dr.

Journal of Strategic Security

National security professionals have few scientifically valid methods for detecting deception in people who deny being involved in illicit activities relevant to national security. Numerous detecting deception studies have demonstrated that the Modified Cognitive Interviewing (MCI) method is one such method - yielding detecting deception rates (i.e. 80-85%) that are significantly above those achieved by chance (i.e. 50%) or by human judgments (i.e. 54-56%). To date, however, no MCI studies have involved dilemmas of ethological interest to national security professionals. This project begins to address this gap in the scientific literature. In it, we compared the efficacy of MCI to …


An International History Of Terrorism: Western And Non-Western Experiences. Edited By Jussi M. Hanhimaki And Bernhard Blumenau. London, New York, And Canada, Routledge, Taylor And Francis Group, 2013., Millard E. Moon Ed.D., Colonel (Ret.) Oct 2013

An International History Of Terrorism: Western And Non-Western Experiences. Edited By Jussi M. Hanhimaki And Bernhard Blumenau. London, New York, And Canada, Routledge, Taylor And Francis Group, 2013., Millard E. Moon Ed.D., Colonel (Ret.)

Journal of Strategic Security

No abstract provided.


Front Matter & Table Of Contents Oct 2013

Front Matter & Table Of Contents

Journal of Strategic Security

No abstract provided.


Red Teaming The Red Team: Utilizing Cyber Espionage To Combat Terrorism, Gary Adkins Sep 2013

Red Teaming The Red Team: Utilizing Cyber Espionage To Combat Terrorism, Gary Adkins

Journal of Strategic Security

No abstract provided.


Ninth Annual Iafie Conference Program Sep 2013

Ninth Annual Iafie Conference Program

Journal of Strategic Security

No abstract provided.


Osint, New Technologies, Education: Expanding Opportunities And Threats. A New Paradigm, Libor Benes Sep 2013

Osint, New Technologies, Education: Expanding Opportunities And Threats. A New Paradigm, Libor Benes

Journal of Strategic Security

No abstract provided.


Building An Intelligence Education Program At Marymount University Course-By-Course, William Costanza Sep 2013

Building An Intelligence Education Program At Marymount University Course-By-Course, William Costanza

Journal of Strategic Security

No abstract provided.


Training Intelligence Producers And Consumers For The Future: The Dutch Approach, Bob De Graaff Sep 2013

Training Intelligence Producers And Consumers For The Future: The Dutch Approach, Bob De Graaff

Journal of Strategic Security

No abstract provided.


The Peacekeeping Information At Un Level, Tiziano Diamanti Sep 2013

The Peacekeeping Information At Un Level, Tiziano Diamanti

Journal of Strategic Security

No abstract provided.


Propaganda In Mexico’S Drug War, America Y. Guevara Sep 2013

Propaganda In Mexico’S Drug War, America Y. Guevara

Journal of Strategic Security

No abstract provided.


The Role Of Culture In Intelligence Reform, Satgin S. Hamrah Sep 2013

The Role Of Culture In Intelligence Reform, Satgin S. Hamrah

Journal of Strategic Security

No abstract provided.


Teaching About ‘Area 51’? How To Cover Secret Government Technology And Capabilities In Intelligence Studies Courses, Armin Krishnan Sep 2013

Teaching About ‘Area 51’? How To Cover Secret Government Technology And Capabilities In Intelligence Studies Courses, Armin Krishnan

Journal of Strategic Security

No abstract provided.


The British State And The Irish Rebellion Of 1916: An Intelligence Failure Or A Failure Of Response?, Geoffrey Sloan Sep 2013

The British State And The Irish Rebellion Of 1916: An Intelligence Failure Or A Failure Of Response?, Geoffrey Sloan

Journal of Strategic Security

No abstract provided.


Bearing Silent Witness: A Grandfather’S Secret Attestation To German War Crimes In Occupied France, Mckay M. Smith Sep 2013

Bearing Silent Witness: A Grandfather’S Secret Attestation To German War Crimes In Occupied France, Mckay M. Smith

Journal of Strategic Security

No abstract provided.


Is Iran An Offensives Realist Or A Defensive Realist? A Theoretical Reflection On Iranian Motives For Creating Instability, Rusty Treviño Sep 2013

Is Iran An Offensives Realist Or A Defensive Realist? A Theoretical Reflection On Iranian Motives For Creating Instability, Rusty Treviño

Journal of Strategic Security

No abstract provided.


The Emergence Of The Digital Humanities, Steven E. Jones Aug 2013

The Emergence Of The Digital Humanities, Steven E. Jones

English Faculty Publications

The past decade has seen a profound shift in our collective understanding of the digital network. What was once understood to be a transcendent virtual reality is now experienced as a ubiquitous grid of data that we move through and interact with every day, raising new questions about the social, locative, embodied, and object-oriented nature of our experience in the networked world.

In The Emergence of the Digital Humanities, Steven E. Jones examines this shift in our relationship to digital technology and the ways that it has affected humanities scholarship and the academy more broadly. Based on the premise …


The Weekly Challenger, August 1, 2013, The Weekly Challenger, Et Al Aug 2013

The Weekly Challenger, August 1, 2013, The Weekly Challenger, Et Al

Weekly Challenger Newspaper Collection

The August 1, 2013, issue of The Weekly Challenger.


Lessons From Japan: Resilience After Tokyo And Fukushima, Michelle L. Spencer Jul 2013

Lessons From Japan: Resilience After Tokyo And Fukushima, Michelle L. Spencer

Journal of Strategic Security

In the spring of 1995 Japan experienced the world’s first major terrorist attack using chemical weapons by a little-known religious cult called Aum Shinrikyo. The attack on the Tokyo subway, which killed 13 people, was the first lethal case of a non-state actor using a chemical agent against a civilian population. In March 2011, following a 9.0 magnitude earthquake in Japan, the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear reactor experienced a full meltdown releasing radiation into the surrounding area. The seemingly unhurried government reaction provided conflicting information to Japanese citizens, slowing evacuation and protective actions. Government failure is cited as a significant factor …


Invisible Armies: An Epic History Of Guerrilla Warfare From Ancient Times To The Present. By Max Boot, New York & London, Liveright Publishing Corporation, A Division Of W.W. Norton & Company, 2013., Millard E. Moon Ed.D., Colonel (Ret) Jul 2013

Invisible Armies: An Epic History Of Guerrilla Warfare From Ancient Times To The Present. By Max Boot, New York & London, Liveright Publishing Corporation, A Division Of W.W. Norton & Company, 2013., Millard E. Moon Ed.D., Colonel (Ret)

Journal of Strategic Security

No abstract provided.


Iran's Revolutionary Guard: The Threat That Grows While America Sleeps. By Steven O’Hern. Washington: Potomac Books, 2012., Martin Scott Catino Ph.D. Jul 2013

Iran's Revolutionary Guard: The Threat That Grows While America Sleeps. By Steven O’Hern. Washington: Potomac Books, 2012., Martin Scott Catino Ph.D.

Journal of Strategic Security

No abstract provided.


Front Matter & Table Of Contents Jul 2013

Front Matter & Table Of Contents

Journal of Strategic Security

No abstract provided.