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Genetic Correlation Between Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis And Schizophrenia, C. Robert Cloninger, Dragan M. Svrakic, Et Al

Open Access Publications

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Functional Network Changes And Cognitive Control In Schizophrenia, Kimberly L. Ray, Tyler A. Lesh, Amber M. Howell, Taylor P. Salo, J. Daniel Ragland, Angus W. Macdonald, James M. Gold, Steven M. Silverstein, Deana M. Barch, Cameron S. Carter

Open Access Publications

No abstract provided.

A Comparison Of Per Sample Global Scaling And Per Gene Normalization Methods For Differential Expression Analysis Of Rna-Seq Data, Xiaohong Li, Guy N. Brock, Eric C. Rouchka, Nigel G. F. Cooper, Dongfeng Wu, Timothy E. O'Toole, Ryan S. Gill, Abdallah M. Eteleeb, Liz O'Brien, Sexh N. Rai

Open Access Publications

No abstract provided.

Cahost: An Excel Workbook For Facilitating The Johnson-Neyman Technique For Two-Way Interactions In Multiple Regression, Stephen W. Carden, Nicholas S. Holtzman, Michael J. Strube

Open Access Publications

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An Accurate And Efficient Method For Large-Scale Ssr Genotyping And Applications, Lun Li, Zhiwei Fang, Junfei Zhou, Hong Chen, Zhangfeng Hu, Lifen Gao, Lihong Chen, Sheng Ren, Hongyu Ma, Long Lu, Weiziong Zhang, Hai Peng

Open Access Publications

No abstract provided.

Proxies For Success: How The Application Process Correlates To Phd Pursuit For A Small Diversity Research Program, Dawayne Whittington, Latricia E. Wallace, Cherilynn R. Shadding

Open Access Publications

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Tumor Diversity And Evolution Revealed Through Radseq, Elizabeth B. Perry, Alvin Makohon-Moore, Caihong Zheng, Charles K. Kaufman, Jun Cai, Christine A. Iacobuzio-Donahue, Richard M. White

Open Access Publications

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White Matter Integrity In Genetic High-Risk Individuals And First-Episode Schizophrenia Patients: Similarities And Disassociations, Yifang Zhou, Jie Liu, Naomi Driesen, Fay Womer, Kaiyuan Chen, Ye Wang, Xiaowei Jiang, Qian Zhou, Chuan Bai, Dahai Wang, Yanqing Tang, Fei Wang

Open Access Publications

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Antidiabetic Effect Of Tibetan Medicine Tang-Kang-Fu-San On High-Fat Diet And Streptozotocin-Induced Type 2 Diabetic Rats, Bailu Duan, Zhongqiu Zhao, Ling Lin, Jing Jin, Lijun Zhang, Hui Xiong, Na Ta, Tiexiang Gao, Zhinan Mei

Open Access Publications

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Activity-Dependence Of Synaptic Vesicle Dynamics, Luca A. Forte, Michael W. Gramlich, Vitaly A. Klyachko

Open Access Publications

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A Comparison Of Medical Education In Germany And The United States: From Applying To Medical School To The Beginnings Of Residency, Dmitry Zavlin, Kevin T. Jubbal, Jonas G. Noé, Bernd Gansbacher

Open Access Publications

No abstract provided.

Alu Insertion Polymorphisms As Evidence For Population Structure In Baboons, Cody J. Steely, Jane Phillips-Conroy, Et Al

Open Access Publications

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Mycotic Aneurysm After Bacillus Calmette-Guérin Treatment: Case Report And Review Of The Literature, Nathaniel D. Coddington, Jesse K. Sandberg, Chen Yang, Jennifer K. Sehn, Eric H. Kim, Seth A. Strope

Open Access Publications

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Techno-Economic Studies Of Coal-Biomass To Liquids (Cbtl) Plants With Co2 Capture And Storage (Ccs), Yuan Jiang

Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Problem Reports (ETD)

Due to insecurity in the crude oil supply and global warming, various alternative technologies for fuel production are being investigated. In this project, indirect, direct, and hybrid liquefaction routes are investigated for production of transportation fuels from coal and biomass. Indirect coal liquefaction (ICL) and direct coal liquefaction (DCL) technologies are commercially available, but both processes are plagued with high carbon footprint. Furthermore, significant amount of hydrogen is required in the DCL process leading not only to higher cost but resulting in considerable amount of CO2 production. Addition of biomass and application of carbon capture and storage (CCS) technologies are …

Multiresolution Modeling Of Semidilute Polymer Solutions: Coarse-Graining Using Wavelet-Accelerated Monte Carlo, Animesh Agarwal, Brooks D. Rabideau, Ahmed E. Ismail

Faculty & Staff Scholarship

We present a hierarchical coarse-graining framework for modeling semidilute polymer solutions, based on the wavelet-accelerated Monte Carlo (WAMC) method. This framework forms a hierarchy of resolutions to model polymers at length scales that cannot be reached via atomistic or even standard coarse-grained simulations. Previously, it was applied to simulations examining the structure of individual polymer chains in solution using up to four levels of coarse-graining (Ismail et al., J. Chem. Phys., 2005, 122, 234901 and Ismail et al., J. Chem. Phys., 2005, 122, 234902), recovering the correct scaling behavior in the coarse-grained representation. In the present work, we extend this …

Periodontal Status And Quality Of Life: Impact Of Fear Of Pain And Dental Fear, Casey D. Wright, Daniel W. Mcneil, Cierra B. Edwards, Richard J. Crout, Katherine Neiswanger, John R. Shaffer, Mary L. Marzita

Faculty & Staff Scholarship

Background. Oral health-related quality of life (OHRQoL) is impacted by periodontal disease and orofacial pain. There is a limited research examining the impact of avoidance of care or physiological arousal related to the fear of pain response on periodontal-related OHRQoL. Methods. Data are from the Center for Oral Health Research in Appalachia family-based study focusing on 1,339 adults. Measures included a modified Periodontal Screening and Recording Index across sextants of dentition, dental fear survey, Fear of Pain Questionnaire-9, and Oral Health Impact Profile-14. Structural equation modeling was used to estimate the effects of periodontal disease screening indicators on OHRQoL including …

Puncture Initial Data For Black-Hole Binaries With High Spins And High Boosts, Ian Ruchlin, James Healy, Carlos O. Lousto, Yosef Zlochower

Faculty & Staff Scholarship

We solve the Hamiltonian and momentum constraints of general relativity for two black-holes with nearly extremal spins and relativistic boosts in the puncture formalism. We use a non-conformally-flat ansatz with an attenuated superposition of two Lorentz-boosted, conformally-Kerr or conformally-Schwarzschild 3-metrics and their corresponding extrinsic curvatures. We compare evolutions of these data with the standard Bowen-York conformally-flat ansatz (technically limited to intrinsic spins \(\chi=S/M^2_{\text{ADM}}=0.928\) and boosts \(P/M_{\text{ADM}}=0.897\)), finding, typically, an order of magnitude smaller burst of spurious radiation and agreement with inspiral and merger. As a first case study, we evolve two equal-mass black-holes from rest with an initial separation of …

Evolutions Of Nearly Maximally Spinning Black Hole Binaries Using The Moving Puncture Approach, Yosef Zlochower, James Healy, Carlos O. Lousto, Ian Ruchlin

Faculty & Staff Scholarship

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Using Extremophile Bacteriophage Discovery In A Stem Education Professional Development Partnership To Explore Model Classroom Research Experiences Integrating The Three Dimentions Of The Next Generation Science Standards, Carrie L. Boudreau Ms

All Student Scholarship

The National Research Council’s (NRC) A Framework for K-12 Science Education: Practices, Crosscutting Concepts, and Core Ideas describes a vision of what it means to be proficient in science. The project discussed in this thesis was developed with a NIH SEPA Grant 8R25OD010937 to the Virology and Electron Microscopy Laboratory at the University of Southern Maine (USM) under the direction of Dr. S. Monroe Duboise. The goal of the project was to explore using discovery of extreme environment bacteria and their bacteriophages as a model for using the three dimensions of learning to teach Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS). Specifically, …

A Wasserstein Gradient Flow Approach To Poisson-Nernst-Planck Equations, David Kinderlehrer, Leinard Monsaingeon, Xiang Xu

Mathematics & Statistics Faculty Publications

The Poisson-Nernst-Planck system of equations used to model ionic transport is interpreted as a gradient flow for the Wasserstein distance and a free energy in the space of probability measures with finite second moment. A variational scheme is then set up and is the starting point of the construction of global weak solutions in a unified framework for the cases of both linear and non-linear diffusion. The proof of the main results relies on the derivation of additional estimates based on the flow interchange technique developed by Matthes et al. in [D. Matthes, R.J. McCann and G. Savare, Commun. Partial …

Outlook Magazine, Winter 2017

Outlook Magazine

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Rumination, Realignment And Reflection: Who Is Really Teaching Health Education In Secondary Schools?, Donna Barwood

Research outputs 2014 to 2021

In Western Australia (WA), health education (HE) is timetabled as a separate, disciplinebased subject belonging to the health and physical education (HPE) learning area. Globally, this subject is identified as a key site to support and strengthen the health and wellbeing of children and young people. In WA, teachers from outside-of-the-field of HPE are commonly used to deliver HE. This situation is not exclusive to HE nor to WA, and in some circles is referred to as education’s dirty little secret. This mixed-methods study critically examined the role of the teacher in the delivery of HE with the purpose of …

Variable Step Size Methods For Solving Simultaneous Algebraic Reconstruction Technique (Sart)-Type Cbct Reconstructions, Heui Chang Lee, Bongyong Song, Jin Sung Kim, James J. Jung, H. Harold Li, Sasa Mutic, Justin C. Park

Open Access Publications

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The Male Mentor Figure In Women's Fiction, 1778-1801, Jessica R. Evans

Theses and Dissertations--English

This dissertation follows the development of the mentor figure from Frances Burney’s Evelina published in 1778 to Maria Edgeworth’s Belinda in 1801. The mentor becomes a key figure for exploring women’s revolutionary ideas on female education and women’s roles in society. My dissertation contributes to discussions on mentoring, development of the Gothic mode, and debates over sensibility and sentimental fiction. It considers how the female mentee paradoxically both desires and criticizes her male mentor and his authority. Each author under discussion employed the mentor figure in a way that addressed their contemporary society’s issues and prejudices toward the treatment of …

Secondary Voltage Control Using Singular Value Decomposition By Discovering Community Structures In Power Networks, Talha Iqbal

Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Problem Reports (ETD)

Voltage and Frequency control are the two fundamental control problems in power systems. Unlike frequency control, voltage control is complicated by the fact that reactive power can't travel far distances from its source of generation. Due to this distributed nature of reactive power, voltage control is usually performed in decentralized manner. Typically, voltage control problem is divided into a three-level hierarchical structure namely primary, secondary and tertiary voltage control.;The aim of this thesis is to present an optimal secondary voltage control by decomposing a large power system into small subsystems called voltage control areas (VCAs) using the fast community detection …

Sinatra Living: Letter Of Intent, University Of Nevada, Las Vegas. Solar Decathlon Team.

Sinatra Living: Competition Materials

This document is a letter of intent to enter the Solar Decathlon 2017 contact. Letter contains information about Team Las Vegas and the project abstract.

Las Vegas: Innovation Jury Feedback, Solar Decathlon Jury

Sinatra Living: Competition Materials

A document containing the evaluation and feedback of the Team Las Vegas project house (Sinatra Living) by the Innovation Jury. The Innovation Jury is responsible for determining the winners of the Innovation category for the 2017 Solar Decathlon.

Las Vegas: Architecture Jury Feedback, Solar Decathlon Jury

Sinatra Living: Competition Materials

A document containing the evaluation and feedback of the Team Las Vegas project house (Sinatra Living) by the Architecture Jury. The Architecture Jury is responsible for determining the winners of the Architecture category for the 2017 Solar Decathlon.

Sinatra Living: Option 1 Floor Plan, University Of Nevada, Las Vegas. Solar Decathlon Team.

Sinatra Living: Planning and Design

An architectural drawing showing Option 1, which is one of three available floor plans. This document contains drawings for the interior of the Sinatra Living house only.

Is Lisdexamfetamine Dimesylate Safe And Effective In Reducing Adhd Symptoms?, Jordan A. Drelich

PCOM Physician Assistant Studies Student Scholarship

Objective: The purpose of this careful EBM review is to determine whether lisdexamfetamine dimesylate (LDX) is safe and effective in reducing attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) symptoms.

Study Design: A systematic review of two randomized controlled studies and one double-blind, 2-arm, parallel-group placebo-controlled RWP published between 2011-2014, all in the English language.

Data Sources: Two randomized controlled trials and one double-blind, 2-arm, parallel-group placebo-controlled RWP published between 2011 and 2014 which were found using PubMed and Cochrane databases.

Outcomes Measured: ADHD global symptomatic improvement was measured using Clinical Global Impressions – Severity of Illness (CGI-S), Clinical Global Impression-Improvement …