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Design Ecologies, Locating And Amplifying Individual Motivations In A Collaborative Research Environment, Nicole Koltick Jun 2014

Design Ecologies, Locating And Amplifying Individual Motivations In A Collaborative Research Environment, Nicole Koltick

DRS Biennial Conference Series

Design practice exists as a complex and varied ecology of practitioners, methodologies and outcomes, one that harbors varying internal biases, tangents and conceptual stances. As designers interface with outside practitioners in science, engineering and theory, they are confronted with both problems and opportunities from these external domains that can appear quite foreign in both approach and outcome. Design process and its resultant biases are distinct and yet malleable and these unique aspects should be emphasized when confronting and collaborating with outside disciplines. In acknowledging our own disciplinary and project specific values, we must remain mindful of the risk of ceding …

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Ecological Perception: Seeing Systems, Joanna Boehnert Jun 2014

Ecological Perception: Seeing Systems, Joanna Boehnert

DRS Biennial Conference Series

Graphic designers have the unique ability to make hidden ecological processes visible by revealing relationships, patterns and dynamics in complex socio-ecological systems. This paper describes how communication design can support relational perceptual practices and even nurture ecological perception. It presents specific methods to harness the latent potential of graphic design to communicate the context, comparisons, connections and causality. It proposes that aesthetics experiences can provoke deep perceptual insights supporting new ways of perceiving our relationship with the environment, our ecological context. In ways described in this paper, graphic design has the potential to nurture the ability to ‘see systems’ – …

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Point Of View As Mediacy Of Information Visualization, Soojin Jun Jun 2014

Point Of View As Mediacy Of Information Visualization, Soojin Jun

DRS Biennial Conference Series

In recent decades, the importance of information visualization has greatly increased in our daily lives, as it has provided a medium through which to analyze, explore, and express the meanings of datasets. Although much current research has been devoted to addressing the process and various types of visualization, information visualization still lacks the theoretical foundation as a discipline to delineate clearly the complex relationship among information, audiences, and context. The purpose of this paper is to investigate how to analyze the complex relationship among information, audience, purpose, and context. This paper presents a point of view framework that helps to …

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The Reappearing Computer: The Past And Future Of Computing In Design Research, Simone Gristwood, Stephen Boyd Davis Jun 2014

The Reappearing Computer: The Past And Future Of Computing In Design Research, Simone Gristwood, Stephen Boyd Davis

DRS Biennial Conference Series

This paper investigates the early history of computing in design and in design research, focusing on individuals who were associated with the Department of Design Research at the Royal College of Art between the 1960s and the 1980s. The authors suggest that the theory and practice developed at that time may be valuable in thinking about the future, particularly when considering how computing may be used, in various forms, by designers in their work. A taxonomy of some early ideas and activities is presented which, it is suggested, displays a different emphasis from the way computing in design is conceived …

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Ecotone: Finding Common Ground Across Art, Science And Ranching, Leanne Elias, Christine Clark Jun 2014

Ecotone: Finding Common Ground Across Art, Science And Ranching, Leanne Elias, Christine Clark

DRS Biennial Conference Series

This paper uses the case study of Ecotone, a project that sought to bring disparate groups of people (artists, scientists, ranchers) together for shared discourse and potential action around agricultural environmental stress in southern Alberta, Canada. We explore this project from the perspective of an artist and designer. We examine a framework that values space, time and the pairing of people from different disciplines to encourage meaningful collaboration and interaction. Environmentalism and climate change are divisive topics, particularly in Alberta where the controversial oil and gas industry has made it Canada’s wealthiest province, resulting in both environmental indifference as well …

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Design And The Projecting Of The New, Mads Nygaard Folkmann Jun 2014

Design And The Projecting Of The New, Mads Nygaard Folkmann

DRS Biennial Conference Series

The paper is a theoretical contribution to the discussion of projection in design and is, beyond the paper, a part of a larger discussion of meaning creation in design. The paper discusses the paradoxical situation in projecting the new and unknown as all projection necessarily is bound to a starting point in the given. Nevertheless, design offers a series of methods for projecting. The paper proposes five models in design that have attempted at organizing experience in a new way and aimed at offering a projection into a future with a concrete starting point and an abstract intention of carrying …

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Contradictions In The Design Space, Frederick M.C. Van Amstel, Vedran Zerjav, Timo Hartmann, Mascha C. Van Der Voort, Geert P.M.R. Dewulf Jun 2014

Contradictions In The Design Space, Frederick M.C. Van Amstel, Vedran Zerjav, Timo Hartmann, Mascha C. Van Der Voort, Geert P.M.R. Dewulf

DRS Biennial Conference Series

The design space is a concept often used to encompass all possible designs for a given brief, impossible to be determined, but passive of manipulation by creative designers. The concept as such cannot prevent deterministic accounts of design activity. With the aim of overcoming determinism, this concept is reconsidered beyond the cognitive realm, as part of the social production of space. This renewed perspective is applied to study a medical imaging center project in The Netherlands. The boundaries found in this design space were not self-imposed constraints, but imperative economic, political, and cultural conditions that contradicted each other. To reveal …

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Complexity In Design-Driven Innovation: A Case Study Of Knowledge Transfer Flow In Subsea Seismic Sensor Technology And Design Education, Nenad Pavel, Arild Berg Jun 2014

Complexity In Design-Driven Innovation: A Case Study Of Knowledge Transfer Flow In Subsea Seismic Sensor Technology And Design Education, Nenad Pavel, Arild Berg

DRS Biennial Conference Series

To the extent previously claimed, concept exploration is not the key to product innovation. However, companies that are design-focused are twice as innovative as those that are not. To study design-driven innovation and its occurrence in design education, two case studies are conducted. The first is an example of design practice which includes observation and cooperation process maps in an offshore project. The second is an example of product design education which includes observations of teamwork, team member interviews and archival studies. While the first case study demonstrates how a company innovates through a design-driven process with complex knowledge transference …

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Designed Research: Publishing Designs As Scholarship, Cheryl E. Ball Jun 2014

Designed Research: Publishing Designs As Scholarship, Cheryl E. Ball

DRS Biennial Conference Series

Scholarly publications are a primary means for researchers in any field to foster and support a shared discourse. As design researchers debate what forms their scholarship might take, this author suggests looking to examples from other, transdisciplinary academic fields that have long traditions in publishing designed research, or scholarship that enacts its argument through design. The author offers cases of several online journals in the sciences, arts, and humanities that publish designed research of various types, including one example from digital writing studies, which shares design researchers’ interests in collaborative, processbased, rhetorical practices. By considering alternative modes of publishing design …

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Translating Smells Into Colors: A Proposal For Improve The Perception Of Perfume Packaging Design, Camila Assis Peres Silva, Clice Sanjar Mazzilli Jun 2014

Translating Smells Into Colors: A Proposal For Improve The Perception Of Perfume Packaging Design, Camila Assis Peres Silva, Clice Sanjar Mazzilli

DRS Biennial Conference Series

The present paper is an exploratory research within packaging design for perfumes. It discusses about the possibility of enhancing the experience of the user by associating the visual language with the smells. It is common sense in the design field the importance of user experience. Designers from different areas have been discussing a way of enhance it. One of the approaches which appear in this scenario is the term (multi)sensorial. It is believed in the contribution of this approach for the packaging design. It is interest of the authors the use of color as a language in design able to …

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Deconstructing Expected Passenger Experience In Aiports, Philip J Kirk, Anna Harrison, Vesna Popovic, Ben Kraal Jun 2014

Deconstructing Expected Passenger Experience In Aiports, Philip J Kirk, Anna Harrison, Vesna Popovic, Ben Kraal

DRS Biennial Conference Series

The effect of passenger satisfaction on airport profitability has been widely acknowledged in the aviation industry. As a result, there has been much attention directed towards developing a deeper understanding of the factors that influence the passenger experience. In this paper, we explore passenger experience from a novel perspective - that of the activities expected to be undertaken by passengers while in the airport terminal building. Using the Taxonomy of Passenger Experience (TOPA) as our framework, we look at the pre-travel interview data of 48 participants. The results of our analysis are used to construct an activity-centred account of the …

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Uab School Of Medicine, Hudsonalpha Create Joint Center For Genomic Medicine, Jim Bakken Jun 2014

Uab School Of Medicine, Hudsonalpha Create Joint Center For Genomic Medicine, Jim Bakken

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Emerging From The Shadows: Civil War, Human Rights, And Peacebuilding Among Peasants And Indigenous Peoples In Colombia And Peru In The Late 20th And Early 21st Centuries, Charles A. Flowerday Jun 2014

Emerging From The Shadows: Civil War, Human Rights, And Peacebuilding Among Peasants And Indigenous Peoples In Colombia And Peru In The Late 20th And Early 21st Centuries, Charles A. Flowerday

Department of Anthropology: Theses and Student Research

Peacebuilding in Colombia and Peru following their late-20th and early 21st century civil wars is a challenging proposition. In this study, it becomes necessary as indigenous peoples and peasants resist domination by extractive industries and governments in their thrall. Whether they protest nonviolently or rebel in arms, they are targeted for human-rights violations, especially murder, disappearance and displacement. The armed actors, state, insurgency, paramilitaries or drug traffickers, destroy civic institutions (local or regional government) and the civil (nonprofit) sector and replace them with their own authoritarian versions. Therefore, peacebuilding has emphasized rebuilding civic institutions, civil society and local …

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Uab School Of Medicine, Hudsonalpha Create Joint Center For Genomic Medicine, Clinton Colmenares Jun 2014

Uab School Of Medicine, Hudsonalpha Create Joint Center For Genomic Medicine, Clinton Colmenares

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Collective Action And The Competence Of Courts: The Lessons Of Nml V. Argentina, Jesse Kaplan Jun 2014

Collective Action And The Competence Of Courts: The Lessons Of Nml V. Argentina, Jesse Kaplan

Stanford Journal of Law, Business & Finance

The recent Second Circuit decision in NML Capital v. Argentina, in which the court upended settled understanding of a common provision of sovereign debt contracts, has garnered a great deal of attention for its potential market and debt restructuring implications. This Essay takes a different tack, and instead identifies and elaborates a crucially important yet almost entirely overlooked aspect of the holding: the court’s fundamental misunderstanding of the purpose and function of contractual collective action clauses. The court’s error in this regard raises questions about the capacity of the U.S. judiciary to grapple with the complexities of modern globalized finance.

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Deafdigest: Gold Edition, June 15, 2014, Barry Strassler Jun 2014

Deafdigest: Gold Edition, June 15, 2014, Barry Strassler

DeafDigest Gold 2014

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Family Affairs Newsletter Business Directory 2014-06-15, Zack Paakkonen Jun 2014

Family Affairs Newsletter Business Directory 2014-06-15, Zack Paakkonen

Family Affairs newsletter (2004-2016)

Family Affairs Newsletter Directory of GLBTQIA Businesses.

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Endostatin And Kidney Fibrosis In Aging: A Case For Antagonistic Pleiotropy?, Chi Hua Lin, Jun Chen, Bruce Ziman, Shannon Marshall, Julien Maizel, Michael S. Goligorsky Jun 2014

Endostatin And Kidney Fibrosis In Aging: A Case For Antagonistic Pleiotropy?, Chi Hua Lin, Jun Chen, Bruce Ziman, Shannon Marshall, Julien Maizel, Michael S. Goligorsky

NYMC Faculty Publications

A recurring theme of a host of gerontologic studies conducted in either experimental animals or in humans is related to documenting the functional decline with age. We hypothesize that elevated circulating levels of a powerful antiangiogenic peptide, endostatin, represent one of the potent systemic causes for multiorgan microvascular rarefaction and functional decline due to fibrosis. It is possible that during the life span of an organism there is an accumulation of dormant transformed cells producing antiangiogenic substances (endostatin) that maintain the dormancy of such scattered malignant cells. The proof of this postulate cannot be obtained by physically documenting these scattered …

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A Prairie Rendezvous, Vol. 16, No. 2 (Summer 2014), Grand Prairie Friends Jun 2014

A Prairie Rendezvous, Vol. 16, No. 2 (Summer 2014), Grand Prairie Friends

Newsletters

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Eng 3808-001: Modern British Literature, Ruth Hoberman Jun 2014

Eng 3808-001: Modern British Literature, Ruth Hoberman

Summer 2014

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The Peer Collaborative: Supporting Engineering Education Research Faculty With Near-Peer Mentoring Unconference Workshops, Alice L. Pawley, Adam R. Carberry, Monica E. Cardella, Maria-Isabel Carnasciali, Shanna R. Daly, Jenna L. Gorlewicz, Geoffrey L. Herman, Morgan M. Hynes, Shawn S. Jordan, Nadia N. Kellam, Micah Lande, Matthew A. Verleger, Dazhi Yang Jun 2014

The Peer Collaborative: Supporting Engineering Education Research Faculty With Near-Peer Mentoring Unconference Workshops, Alice L. Pawley, Adam R. Carberry, Monica E. Cardella, Maria-Isabel Carnasciali, Shanna R. Daly, Jenna L. Gorlewicz, Geoffrey L. Herman, Morgan M. Hynes, Shawn S. Jordan, Nadia N. Kellam, Micah Lande, Matthew A. Verleger, Dazhi Yang

Engineering and Applied Science Education Faculty Publications

The PEER Collaborative National Network is a national peer mentoring network for early career tenure-track or mid-career tenured faculty who conduct and are primarily evaluated based on their research related to engineering education. This paper discusses the development, logistics, and outcomes of two PEER workshops built around a community of practice framework. Data from internal and external evaluations are presented to provide insights into aspects that worked well and aspects that need further development. Additionally, by reflecting on the workshops, participants crafted vignettes describing the impact the PEER workshops had on their personal and professional lives. The paper concludes with …

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Students Perceptions Of An Alternative Testing Method: Hints As An Option For Exam Questions, Christian Rogers, Jerry Schnepp Jun 2014

Students Perceptions Of An Alternative Testing Method: Hints As An Option For Exam Questions, Christian Rogers, Jerry Schnepp

Visual Communications and Technology Education Faculty Publications

In the Proceedings of the 2014 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition. Indianapolis, Indiana, June 15 – 18, 2014.

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Metabolic Suppression In Mammalian Hibernation: The Role Of Mitochondria., James F Staples Jun 2014

Metabolic Suppression In Mammalian Hibernation: The Role Of Mitochondria., James F Staples

Biology Publications

Hibernation evolved in some small mammals that live in cold environments, presumably to conserve energy when food supplies are low. Throughout the winter, hibernators cycle spontaneously between torpor, with low metabolism and near-freezing body temperatures, and euthermia, with high metabolism and body temperatures near 37°C. Understanding the mechanisms underlying this natural model of extreme metabolic plasticity is important for fundamental and applied science. During entrance into torpor, reductions in metabolic rate begin before body temperatures fall, even when thermogenesis is not active, suggesting active mechanisms of metabolic suppression, rather than passive thermal effects. Mitochondrial respiration is suppressed during torpor, especially …

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The Tumor Suppressive Role Of Camk2n1 In Castration-Resistant Prostate Cancer., Tao Wang, Zhuo Liu, Shuiming Guo, Licheng Wu, Mingchao Li, Jun Yang, Ruibao Chen, Hua Xu, Shaoxin Cai, Hui Chen, Weiyong Li, Liang Wang, Zhiquan Hu, Qianyuan Zhuang, Shaohua Xu, Liping Wang, Jihong Liu, Zhangqun Ye, Jun-Yuan Ji, Chenguang Wang, Ke Chen Jun 2014

The Tumor Suppressive Role Of Camk2n1 In Castration-Resistant Prostate Cancer., Tao Wang, Zhuo Liu, Shuiming Guo, Licheng Wu, Mingchao Li, Jun Yang, Ruibao Chen, Hua Xu, Shaoxin Cai, Hui Chen, Weiyong Li, Liang Wang, Zhiquan Hu, Qianyuan Zhuang, Shaohua Xu, Liping Wang, Jihong Liu, Zhangqun Ye, Jun-Yuan Ji, Chenguang Wang, Ke Chen

Department of Cancer Biology Faculty Papers

Prostate cancer at advanced stages including metastatic and castration-resistant cancer remains incurable due to the lack of effective therapies. The CAMK2N1 gene, cloned and characterized as an inhibitor of CaMKII (calcium/calmodulin-dependent protein kinase II), has been shown to affect tumorigenesis and tumor growth. However, it is still unknown whether CAMK2N1 plays a role in prostate cancer development. We first examined the protein and mRNA levels of CAMK2N1 and observed a significant decrease in human prostate cancers comparing to normal prostate tissues. Re-expression of CAMK2N1 in prostate cancer cells reduced cellular proliferation, arrested cells in G0/G1 phases, and induced apoptotic cell …

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A New Liquid Chromatography/Tandem Mass Spectrometry Method For Quantification Of Gangliosides In Human Plasma, Qianyang Huang, Xiang Zhou, Danting Liu, Baozhong Xin, Karen Cechner, Heng Wang, Aimin Zhou Jun 2014

A New Liquid Chromatography/Tandem Mass Spectrometry Method For Quantification Of Gangliosides In Human Plasma, Qianyang Huang, Xiang Zhou, Danting Liu, Baozhong Xin, Karen Cechner, Heng Wang, Aimin Zhou

Chemistry Faculty Publications

Gangliosides are a family of glycosphingolipids characterized by mono- or polysialic acid-containing oligosaccharides linked through 1,3- and 1,4-β glycosidic bonds with subtle differences in structure that are abundantly present in the central nervous systems of many living organisms. Their cellular surface expression and physiological malfunction are believed to be pathologically implicated in considerable neurological disorders, including Alzheimer and Parkinson diseases. Recently, studies have tentatively elucidated that mental retardation or physical stagnation deteriorates as the physiological profile of gangliosides becomes progressively and distinctively abnormal during the development of these typical neurodegenerative syndromes. In this work, a reverse-phase liquid chromatography/tandem mass spectrometry …

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Mimo Transmission In Spatially Correlated Fading, Joy Iong-Zon Chen, Chi-Tsung Huang, Yu-Hsing Chien Jun 2014

Mimo Transmission In Spatially Correlated Fading, Joy Iong-Zon Chen, Chi-Tsung Huang, Yu-Hsing Chien

Journal of Marine Science and Technology–Taiwan

A multiple-input, multiple-output (MIMO) system transmission over a channel characterized by spatially correlated fading is addressed in this article. Two scenarios that involved using well-known statistical fading distributions, correlatedRician and correlated-Nakagami-m fading, were deployed in analysis. The moment-generating function obtained using a stochastic process was applied to determine the ergodic, or average, channel capacity, thus by passing the difficulty traditionally associated with calculating the probability density function of the signal-to-noise ratio. The results of several numerical and Monte-Carlo comparisons are offered for validating the accuracy of the theoretically derived formulae. Furthermore, many plots were designed by combining different numbers of …

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Genome Sequence Of The Listia Angolensis Microsymbiont Microvirga Lotononidis Strain Wsm3557ᵀ, Wayne Reeve, Julie Kaye Ardley, Rui Tian, Sofie E. De Meyer, Jason Terpolilli, Vanessa Melino, Ravi P. Tiwari, Ronald J. Yates, Graham William O'Hara, John Gregory Howieson, Mohamed Ninawi, Xiaojing Zhang, David Bruce, Chris Detter, Roxanne Tapia, Cliff Han, Chia-Lin Wei, Marcel Huntemann, James Han, I-Min Chen, Konstantinos Mavromatis, Victor Markowitz, Ernest Szeto, Natalia Ivanova, Ioanna Pagani, Amrita Pati, Lynne Goodwin, Tanja Woyke, Nikos Kyrpides Jun 2014

Genome Sequence Of The Listia Angolensis Microsymbiont Microvirga Lotononidis Strain Wsm3557ᵀ, Wayne Reeve, Julie Kaye Ardley, Rui Tian, Sofie E. De Meyer, Jason Terpolilli, Vanessa Melino, Ravi P. Tiwari, Ronald J. Yates, Graham William O'Hara, John Gregory Howieson, Mohamed Ninawi, Xiaojing Zhang, David Bruce, Chris Detter, Roxanne Tapia, Cliff Han, Chia-Lin Wei, Marcel Huntemann, James Han, I-Min Chen, Konstantinos Mavromatis, Victor Markowitz, Ernest Szeto, Natalia Ivanova, Ioanna Pagani, Amrita Pati, Lynne Goodwin, Tanja Woyke, Nikos Kyrpides

Grain and Other Field Crops Research Articles

Microvirga lotononidis is a recently described species of root-nodule bacteria that is an effective nitrogen- (N2) fixing microsymbiont of the symbiotically specific African legume Listia angolensis (Welw. ex Bak.) B.-E. van Wyk & Boatwr. M. lotononidis possesses several properties that are unusual in root-nodule bacteria, including pigmentation and the ability to grow at temperatures of up to 45°C. Strain WSM3557T is an aerobic, motile, Gram-negative, non-spore-forming rod isolated from a L. angolensis root nodule collected in Chipata, Zambia in 1963. This is the first report of a complete genome sequence for the genus Microvirga. Here we describe the features …

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The Daily Gamecock, Wednesday, June 14, 2006, University Of South Carolina, Office Of Student Media Jun 2014

The Daily Gamecock, Wednesday, June 14, 2006, University Of South Carolina, Office Of Student Media

June

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Traceability Implementation In Organic Farming: Case Study, Chamomile Tea Production, Shaima Abdelfattah Ibrahim Jun 2014

Traceability Implementation In Organic Farming: Case Study, Chamomile Tea Production, Shaima Abdelfattah Ibrahim

Theses and Dissertations

Implementing a traceability plan in an herbal production plant is a complex task. In this study an attempt to integrate food safety, quality and traceability through the different stages of the organic German Chamomile (Matricaria recutita) production chain was made. First, all the current relevant international laws, regulations and standards regarding traceability, safety and quality, with emphasis on how and why they are necessary for any food production chain, were set forward. Second, physico-chemical and microbiological analyses were run throughout the different processing stages of production, for four different Chamomile batches produced over the same season using the same farming …

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Uncertainty Quantification Driven Predictive Multi-Scale Model For Synthesis Of Mycotoxins, Sourav Banerjee, Gabriel A. Terejanu, Anindya Chanda Jun 2014

Uncertainty Quantification Driven Predictive Multi-Scale Model For Synthesis Of Mycotoxins, Sourav Banerjee, Gabriel A. Terejanu, Anindya Chanda

Faculty Publications

Many toxic molds synthesize and release an array of poisons, termed mycotoxins that have an enormous impact on human health, agriculture and economy [1]. These molds contaminate our buildings, indoor air and crops, cause life threatening human and animal diseases and reduce agricultural output [2]. In order to design appropriate approaches to minimize the detrimental effects of these fungi, it is essential to develop diagnostic methodologies that can rapidly and accurately determine based on fungal strains and their growth patterns, the extent of mycotoxin mediated damage caused to the environment.Here we developed a novel multi-scale predictive mathematical model that could …

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