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Design And Synthesis Of Cpg-Lytic Peptide Conjugate, Brachytherapy Beads And A Combinatorial Library Of Primary Amines Used As Potential Therapeutics In The Treatment Of Cancers, Josanne-Dee Woodroffe

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

Cancer remains one of the most feared diseases affecting the modern world. Second to heart disease, it is the largest cause of deaths, affecting one in three persons. Cancer cells are formed when normal, healthy cells become damage, losing their normal regulatory mechanism that control cell growth. There are many different types and progression of these cancer cells that determine the type of treatment a patient receives. The primary focus of this dissertation is to propose three studies of anticancer agents. In Chapter one, a CpG-lytic peptide conjugate was designed to target receptors on the cell membrane to concentrate the …

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Tree Canopy Change In Coastal Los Angeles, 2009 - 2014, Dexter H. Locke, Michele Romolini, Michael Galvin, Jarlath P.M. O'Neil-Dunne, Eric G. Strauss

Cities and the Environment (CATE)

Los Angeles, California is prone to extreme climate events—e.g. drought, wildfires, and floods—that are only expected to increase with climate change. The establishment of green infrastructure, including a stable urban forest, is a strategy to improve resilience not only to these events, but also to contribute to other environmental, social, and economic goals. To this end, cities throughout Los Angeles County have tree planting programs and policies aimed to grow and maintain their urban forests. Despite the policy objectives and management goals of such programs, we know surprisingly little about the spatial distribution of the existing urban forest, how and …

Efficient Pebble Game Algorithms Engineered For Protein Rigidity Applications, Mojtaba Nouri Bygi, Ileana Streinu

Computer Science: Faculty Publications

Pebble game rigidity analysis is an efficient method for extracting rigidity and flexibility information of biomolecules without performing costly molecular dynamics simulations. The standard algorithm works on a multi-graph associated to a mechanical model constructed from an arbitrary atom-bond network. Motivated by large scale protein flexibility and simulated unfolding applications, we have developed a faster and more robust variation tailored to the specificities of bio-polymers. We describe this new phased pebble game as implemented in the new version of our software Kinari-2.

Efficient Pebble Game Algorithms Engineered For Protein Rigidity Applications, Mojtaba Nouri Bygi, Ileana Streinu

Computer Science: Faculty Publications

Pebble game rigidity analysis is an efficient method for extracting rigidity and flexibility information of biomolecules without performing costly molecular dynamics simulations. The standard algorithm works on a multi-graph associated to a mechanical model constructed from an arbitrary atom-bond network. Motivated by large scale protein flexibility and simulated unfolding applications, we have developed a faster and more robust variation tailored to the specificities of bio-polymers. We describe this new phased pebble game as implemented in the new version of our software Kinari-2.

Quaternary Sea-Level History And The Origin Of The Northernmost Coastal Aeolianites In The Americas: Channel Islands National Park, California, Usa, Daniel R. Muhs, Jeffrey S. Pigati, R. Randall Schumann, Gary L. Skipp, Naomi Porat, Stephen B. Devogel

United States Geological Survey: Staff Publications

Along most of the Pacific Coast of North America, sand dunes are dominantly silicate-rich. On the California Channel Islands, however, dunes are carbonate-rich, due to high productivity offshore and a lack of dilution by silicate minerals. Older sands on the Channel Islands contain enough carbonate to be cemented into aeolianite. Several generations of carbonate aeolianites are present on the California Channel Islands and represent the northernmost Quaternary coastal aeolianites on the Pacific Coast of North America. The oldest aeolianites on the islands may date to the early Pleistocene and thus far have only been found on Santa Cruz Island. Aeolianites …

Celiac Disease Or Gluten Sensitivity? A Mini Update Review, Dimitrios Papandreou

All Works

Celiac disease is described when some people have with foods that contain gluten. Gluten is a type of protein. It's found in the grains wheat, barley and rye. It has antigenic properties and usually triggers an immune response. On the other hand, gluten sensitivity or intolerance is a similar condition that causes a person to react to gluten found in the above food items described. Even though the clinical symptoms are similar to both conditions, the pathology, diagnosis and treatment is different, thus it is very important to get the correct diagnosis. The purpose of this mini review is to …

Design And Implementation Of A Vhdl Processor For Dct Based Image Compression, Islam Md. Shabiul, Bhuyan M.S., Beg M. Salim, Othman Masuri

ASEAN Journal on Science and Technology for Development

This paper describes the design and implementation of a VHDL processor meant for performing 2D-Discrete Cosine Transform (DCT) to use in image compression applications. The design flow starts from the system specification to implementation on silicon and the entire process is carried out using an advanced workstation based design environment for digital signal processing. The software allows the bit-true analysis to ensure that the designed VLSI processor satisfies the required specifications. The bit-true analysis is performed on all levels of abstraction (behavior, VHDL etc.). The motivation behind the work is smaller size chip area, faster processing, reducing the cost of …

Generalizability Of Multiple Measures Of Treatment Integrity: An Empirical Replication, Elizabeth Wilson

LSU Master's Theses

Treatment integrity is essential for the implementation of interventions in schools as it determines the accuracy or consistency with which different components of a treatment are implemented. There are no current standards regarding the best practices in treatment integrity measurement; however, higher integrity is associated with enhanced student outcomes. At present, there is no database providing information on treatment integrity for practitioners, researchers, and policy-makers to reference for choosing an appropriate level of treatment integrity needed for certain interventions for certain problems. Consequently, there is a need to establish convergent validity among different methods of treatment integrity measurement using multiple …

High-Throughput Droplet Barcoding And Automated Image Analysis In Microfluidic Droplet Trapping Array, Manibarathi Vaithiyanathan

LSU Master's Theses

Molecularly-targeted therapeutics and personalized medicine have dramatically increased the median survival rate of patients suffering from cancer. However, cellular heterogeneity and the personalized nature of cancer have resulted in the limited success of single drug treatments which has led to the use of multiple therapeutic combinations. This has required the development of new analytical methods capable of multiplexed high-throughput screening (HTS) technologies necessary to identify is single or multi-agent therapies are effective in ex vivo samples like liquid biopsies. Droplet microfluidic devices have garnered significant interest to facilitate high-throughput, single cell analysis of heterogeneous populations. However, these devices are still …

An Approach Designing Autonomous Robot Navigation System Based On Behavior Coordination, Ngo Long Thanh, Pham Long The, Nguyen Phuong Hoang

ASEAN Journal on Science and Technology for Development

Robot navigation using fuzzy behavior is suited in unknown and unstructured environment in which each behavior have an individual task. This paper deals with an approach designing autonomous robot navigation system based on fuzzy behaviors including collision avoidance, wall-following, go-to-target. The proposed hierarchy of fuzzy behaviors is used to fuse the command in which each behavior is a fuzzy inference system and its outputs are fuzzy sets. Its inputs are information fused from sensors using fuzzy directional relationship. The simulation results with some statistics show that the system works correctly.

2017-11- 16 Undergraduate Curriculum Meeting Minutes, Morehead State University. Faculty Senate., Undergraduate Curriculum Committee

Faculty Senate Records

Undergraduate Curriculum Committee meeting minutes for November 16, 2017.

2017-11-16 Faculty Senate Meeting Minutes, Morehead State University. Faculty Senate.

Faculty Senate Records

Faculty Senate meeting minutes for November 16, 2017.

November 16, 2017, The Daily Mississippian

Daily Mississippian (all digitized issues)

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The Treachery Of Images: Reinterpreting Compelled Commercial-Speech Doctrine, Peter Bozzo

DePaul Law Review

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President Nixon's Prescience: The Honorable Kevin Thomas Duffy, Timothy John Casey

The Catholic Lawyer

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The Constitutionality Of Polygamy Prohibitions After Lawrence V. Texas: Is Scalia A Punchline Or A Prophet?, Joseph Bozzuti

The Catholic Lawyer

No abstract provided.

Taking Liberalism And Religious Liberty Seriously: Shifting Our Notion Of Toleration From Locke To Mill, James R. Beattie, Jr.

The Catholic Lawyer

No abstract provided.

Born Again On Death Row: Retribution, Remorse, And Religion, Michael A. Simons

The Catholic Lawyer

No abstract provided.

Abortion, Bishops, Eucharist, And Politicians: A Question Of Communion, Gregory C. Sisk, Charles J. Reid, Jr.

The Catholic Lawyer

No abstract provided.

Crime And Punishment: A Catholic Perspective, Joseph L. Falvey, Jr.

The Catholic Lawyer

No abstract provided.

Silent Protest: A Catholic Justice Dissents In Buck V. Bell, Phillip Thompson

The Catholic Lawyer

No abstract provided.

Reaping Where They Have Not Sowed: Have American Churches Failed To Satisfy The Requirements For The Religious Tax Exemption?, Vaughn E. James

The Catholic Lawyer

No abstract provided.

Faith, Pluralism, And The Practice Of Law, Robert K. Vischer

The Catholic Lawyer

No abstract provided.

Catholic Lawyers In An Age Of Secularism, The Honorable Diarmuid F. O'Scannlain

The Catholic Lawyer

No abstract provided.

Inside Research: Q&A With Katalin Tari, Rachel L. Wood

Steeplechase: An ORCA Student Journal

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Disaster And Recovery: The Effects Of Post-Disaster Aid On Economic Development, Joshua M. Drouin

Steeplechase: An ORCA Student Journal

The effects of aid on economic development is topic typically studied from the perspective of corruption and allocative efficiency. We examine aid to less developed nations from a different viewpoint; assuming aid reaches the intended recipients, does it actually benefit them? We utilize Indonesia and the 2004 earthquake and tsunami as a natural experiment to observe the influx of aid, and compare the regions development before and after the disaster. By establishing a baseline before the disaster, and utilizing a new start point after the destruction, we can gauge the reconstruction efforts and observe whether aid is beneficial or harmful. …

Voice Activated Spell-Check, Pedro Gonnet, Victor Carbune

Defensive Publications Series

Voice based user queries sometimes include words in multiple languages that could stymie speech recognition systems. Alternatively, different words in the same language may have similar pronunciation. A device, e.g., smart home speaker, smartphone, etc. that implements a voice-based user interface receives a user command, where portions of the user speech are parsed with low confidence, e.g., due to similar pronunciation, or use of a different language. The described techniques enable improved voice-based interaction by permitting a user to provide corrections for such portions. For example, the techniques enable users to provide a correction via speech, via a displayed interface, …

The Mouse, Katherine M. Carithers

HUMBUG

No abstract provided.

Total Internal Reflection Based Angle Filter For Side Image Mitigation In A Curved Lightguide, Ozan Cakmakci, James Dunphy, Oscar Martinez

Defensive Publications Series

A system is provided for removing extraneous side images produced by light emitted at high angles from a display in a head mounted display (HMD), which results in light rays traveling along undesired paths that bounce one or three times from a worldside surface of a lightguide in the HMD, instead of the two bounces along the path taken by the light that forms the primary image. The system includes an optical element that couples the display to a prism to provide light to a lightguide in the HMD. The optical element is fabricated to include a V-shaped groove. Light …