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Music From The Window, Rhet Lickliter

Manuscripts

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Volume 55, Issue 1: Full Issue, Manuscripts Staff

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Used Pets, Brad Daberko

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Poems, Sarah Hill

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Hart, Lisa Bucki

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The Tiger Vol. 109 Issue 28 2015-08-27, Clemson University

Tiger Newspapers 2015

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Caribbean Officials Ponder Regional Response To Seaweed Influx, Gregory Scruggs

NotiCen

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Quantifying Undisturbed Land In Minnesota's Prairie Coteau And Lac Qui Parle Valley Regions, Pete Bauman, Ben Carlson, Tanner Butler

Quantifying Undisturbed Lands in MInnesota's Prairie Coteau and Lac qui Parle Valley Regions

We employed simple GIS methods utilizing the Minnesota Farm Service Agency’s Common Land Unit (CLU) cropland data layer from 2013, along with 2013 USDA National Agriculture Imagery Program (NAIP) county mosaic aerial imagery, to evaluate over 5 million acres of land in 14 southwest Minnesota counties, including all or portions of 10 counties within the Minnesota portion of the Prairie Coteau region and the entirety of four counties in the Lac qui Parle region. We utilized the CLU cropland layer to first identify and remove any areas with a cropping history, regardless of current land use. We then analyzed the …

Gene Diversification Of An Emerging Pathogen: A Decade Of Mutation In A Novel Fish Viral Hemorrhagic Septicemia (Vhs) Substrain Since Its First Appearance In The Laurentian Great Lakes, Carol A. Stepien, Lindsey R. Pierce, Douglas W. Leaman, Megan D. Niner, Brian S. Shepherd

Biological Sciences Faculty Publications

Viral Hemorrhagic Septicemia virus (VHSv) is an RNA rhabdovirus, which causes one of the world's most serious fish diseases, infecting >80 freshwater and marine species across the Northern Hemisphere. A new, novel, and especially virulent substrain—VHSv-IVb—first appeared in the Laurentian Great Lakes about a decade ago, resulting in massive fish kills. It rapidly spread and has genetically diversified. This study analyzes temporal and spatial mutational patterns of VHSv-IVb across the Great Lakes for the novel non-virion (Nv) gene that is unique to this group of novirhabdoviruses, in relation to its glycoprotein (G), phosphoprotein (P), …

Sharing Research Data And Intellectual Property Law: A Primer, Michael W. Carroll

Joint PIJIP/TLS Research Paper Series

Sharing research data by depositing it in connection with a published article or otherwise making data publicly available sometimes raises intellectual property questions in the minds of depositing researchers, their employers, their funders, and other researchers who seek to reuse research data. In this context or in the drafting of data management plans, common questions are (1) what are the legal rights in data; (2) who has these rights; and (3) how does one with these rights use them to share data in a way that permits or encourages productive downstream uses? Leaving to the side privacy and national security …

The Innovation Makerspace: Geographies Of Digital Fabrication Innovation In Greater New York City, Kathryn Dickerson

Theses and Dissertations

Desktop digital fabrication technology has the potential to powerfully alter the economics, geography, and sociology of production. The desktop technology cannot reach its potential for widespread impact until it improves in quality and decreases in price. Makerspaces have emerged in the United States in the last eight years as informal social organizations where innovation in this technology may be occurring. This study examines whether innovation in digital fabrication technology has occurred, or has the potential to occur, at makerspaces in the New York City area.

Augmented Reality In Android Devices, Fatima Aldaeif

Theses and Dissertations

Augmented Reality is a computer graphic system combines a virtual object with a real physical world, and this work present kind of augmented reality which is called a 3D Eyeglasses Try-on real time tracking system, with help of the mobile phone camera. This system follow the motion of the face user, and renders the glasses immediately in front of the user eyes. This thesis tells that Android OpenCV SDK is applied to recognize the features, extract the characteristic target and make the camera calibration to create an Augmented Reality application.

Modeling The Antipodal Connectivity Structure Of Neural Communities, Bayazit Karaman

Theses and Dissertations

Positive electrical charges in a solid conductor generate an outward electrical field emanating from the charged conductor. In this context, overall cognitive decisions, which were initiated by the electrical activities of neural modules at different parts of the cerebrum, are completed at the highest spatial and hierarchical level. EEG systems are capable of detecting these electrical activities, however, a unified mathematical model of these highest-level cognitive interactions has not yet been stated. Recent studies support the theory that brain is composed of modules and certain nodes establish connections between the modules. Within the scope of this study, the highest spatial …

The New Hampshire, Vol. 105 [106], No. 01 (Aug. 27, 2015), The New Hampshire

The New Hampshire Print Edition

An independent student produced newspaper from the University of New Hampshire. This volume was printed as 105, but it is the 106th volume in the series.

Manipulation Of The Intracellular Redox Environment By Hsv-1, Brandon S. Albright

Doctoral Dissertations

This thesis describes three separate but related projects exploring how herpes simplex virus 1 (HSV-1) induces and copes with a pro-oxidant environment during infection. We found that the UL6 portal ring, the conduit responsible for the uptake and release of viral DNA, required disulfide bonds for ring formation and stability. Mutagenesis studies revealed that these disulfide bonds might be mediated by cysteines 166 and 254. We next examined the protein UL32 as a potential virally encoded oxidoreductase. UL32 contains three C-X-X-C motifs reminiscent of proteins that regulate disulfide bond formation. Mutation of two of these C-X-X-C motifs abrogated protein function. …

Preparation And Radioprotective Effects Of A Standardized Tocotrienol Containing Extract Isolated From Annatto Seeds (Bixa Orellana L.), Edith Nathalie Pineda

Theses and Dissertations

Currently there is no ideal radioprotective agent: one which does not show toxicity, offers long term protective effects, and is easy to administer. In this research we have developed a standardized extract of annatto, Bixa Orellana L, containing a total 60% of delta and gamma tocotrienol, in a 10:1 ratio. The extract was prepared via solvent extraction and chromatography. Radioprotective effects of the standardized extract against total body radiation were determined. Twenty-four hour before radiation CD2F1 mice received a subcutaneous injection of annatto extract a dose of 200 mg/Kg body weight. Experimental groups each received two different single radiation doses …

Harnessing The Transient Sound Waves From Space Repository For Source Identification, Onur Kececi

Theses and Dissertations

We believe that the sound waves originated from a given source have unique patterns that are damped down in time but maintain their inherent characteristics. These sound waves travel through the air and are echoed upon encountering a new (harder) surface. These waves are short lived and transitional in nature, and so far no successful attempt has been made to capture and analyze the aftermath of sound waves after their release. Considering the hypothesis principle of conservation of acoustic energy and uniqueness of sound signal patterns and echoes, and by employing some of the known techniques selectively, we designed an …

Top-Free Rights For Women: A Showdown In Manhattan, Joanna L. Grossman

Hofstra Law Faculty Scholarship

A battle over whether topless women with body paint who call themselves “desnudas” can solicit tips in Times Square—and whether they might be soliciting them too aggressively—might raise real legal questions; it certainly raises political hackles. In a weak moment, Mayor DiBlasio even threatened to rip up the pedestrian plaza where they have stationed themselves rather than allow them to continue appearing.

The Pacifican August 27, 2015, University Of The Pacific

All Issues - Student Newspaper, The Pacifican, Pacific Weekly

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The George-Anne, Georgia Southern University

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Treatment-Induced Changes In Plasma Adiponectin Do Not Reduce Urinary Albumin Excretion In The Diabetes Prevention Program Cohort., Kieren J Mather, Qing Pan, William C Knowler, Tohru Funahashi, George A Bray, Richard Arakaki, Bonita Falkner, Kumar Sharma, Barry J. Goldstein

Department of Medicine Faculty Papers

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: Molecular data suggests that adiponectin may directly regulate urinary albumin excretion. In the Diabetes Prevention Program (DPP) we measured adiponectin and albuminuria before and after intervention, and we previously reported increases in adiponectin with interventions. Here we have used the DPP dataset to test the hypothesis that treatment-related increases in adiponectin may reduce albuminuria in obesity.

DESIGN, SETTING, PARTICIPANTS AND METHODS: We evaluated cross-sectional correlations between plasma adiponectin and urinary albumin excretion at baseline, and the relationship of treatment-related changes in adiponectin and albuminuria. Baseline and follow-up urine albumin to creatinine ratios (ACR (albumin to creatinine ratio)) …

Direct Regularization From Co-Registered Anatomical Images For Mri-Guided Near-Infrared Spectral Tomographic Image Reconstruction, Limin Zhang, Yan Zhao, Shudong Jiang, Brian W. Pogue, Keith Paulsen

Dartmouth Scholarship

Combining anatomical information from high resolution imaging modalities to guide near-infrared spectral tomography (NIRST) is an efficient strategy for improving the quality of the reconstructed spectral images. A new approach for incorporating image information directly into the inversion matrix regularization was examined using Direct Regularization from Images (DRI), which encodes the gray-scale data into the NIRST image reconstruction problem. This process has the benefit of eliminating user intervention such as image segmentation of distinct regions. Specifically, the Dynamic Contrast Enhanced Magnetic Resonance (DCE-MR) image intensity value differences within the anatomical image were used to implement an exponentially-weighted regularization function between …

Sharing Research Data And Intellectual Property Law: A Primer, Michael Carroll

Scholarly Articles in Law Reviews & Journals

Sharing research data by depositing it in connection with a published article or otherwise making data publicly available sometimes raises intellectual property questions in the minds of depositing researchers, their employers, their funders, and other researchers who seek to reuse research data. In this context or in the drafting of data management plans, common questions are (1) what are the legal rights in data; (2) who has these rights; and (3) how does one with these rights use them to share data in a way that permits or encourages productive downstream uses? Leaving to the side privacy and national security …

Volume 54, Issue 1: Full Issue, Manuscripts Staff

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A Poet Lives In Indiana, Jay Lesandrini

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Navigating The Operational & Permitting Requirements For Shipping In The Canadian Arctic: A Visualization Tool For Shipping Companies, Leah Beveridge, Melanie Fournier Ph.D

ShipArc 2015 Conference

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Volume 53, Issue 1: Full Issue, Manuscripts Staff

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Pick A Number, Jim Rattan

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Fear Of Dying, Linda Lee Horvath

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Hello, Brian Stokes

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