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Vibrational Analysis Of A Rate-Slowing Conformational Kinetic Isotope Effect, O. Maduka Ogba, Zichen Liu, Daniel J. O'Leary

Biology, Chemistry, and Environmental Sciences Faculty Articles and Research

An enthalpy-entropy approach to analyzing a rate-slowing conformational kinetic isotope effect (CKIE) in a deuterated doubly-bridged biaryl system is described. The computed isotope effect (kH/kD = 1.075, 368 K) agrees well with the measured value (kH/kD = 1.06, 368 K). The rateslowing (normal isotope effect) nature of the computed CKIE is shown to originate from a vibrational entropy contribution defined by the twenty lowest frequency normal modes in the ground state and transition state structures. This normal entropy contribution is offset by an inverse vibrational enthalpy contribution, which also arises from the twenty lowest frequency normal modes. Zero point vibrational …

Mutants Of Cocaine Esterase, Donald Landry, Chang-Guo Zhan

Pharmaceutical Sciences Faculty Patents

Provided are mutant cocaine esterase polypeptides and PEGylated formulations thereof.

Some Peculiarities Of Legal Regulation Of Multimodal Cargo Transportation In Uzbekistan, R. Ismailova

Review of law sciences

This article studies the legal regulation of cargo transportation by various modes of transportation, it is noted that international trade and the improvement of transportation technologies have greatly contributed to the growing popularity of multimodal transport, and although they are recognized as the transportation mode of the future, the legal framework governing this type of transportation has not been still formed. It is justified in the article that despite the fact that Uzbekistan provides support for business logistics, the lack of a legislative framework for multi-modal transportation greatly complicates the process of international transportation of goods.

Assessing The Legal Base For Gender Neutral Society In Uzbekistan Using Un Sustainable Development Goals Framework, R. Arslonova

Review of law sciences

This article critically analyzes existing legal framework with respect to protecting women’s right; substantiating their equal status in society; creating new opportunities to promote better equality between men and women. Author researches UN Sustainable Development Goals framework with the intention of compiling a roadmap to further the agenda on women’s rights in Uzbekistan with global perspective.

Approaches To The Study Of The Physical And Psychological Prophylaxis Of Crimes Committed Against Persons, S. Niyozova

Review of law sciences

This article is devoted to the issues that analyses approaches on Viktimological preventive measures of coercion against persons and basing on the results promotes proposals on that sphere.

Some Legal Issues Of Using Artificial Intelligence In Jurisprudence, M.K. Mekhmonov

Review of law sciences

The article discusses the legal issues of using artificial intelligence in jurisprudence. The author analyzes the legislation and law enforcement practice of foreign countries such as the USA, Great Britain, Australia, Russia, Kazakhstan, as well as the resolution of the European Parliament and the WIPO materials on the use of artificial intelligence. The features of the legislation and practice of the Republic of Uzbekistan on the use of artificial intelligence are revealed. In conclusion, the author gives reasonable conclusions on the improvement of legislation in relation to artificial intelligence in jurisprudence.

International Law: Legal Aspects Of The Protection Of Women’S Rights In Un System, A.B. Xayrulina

Review of law sciences

аrticle analyses the international mechanisms for the protection of women’s rights, the elimination of all forms of discrimination against women, to create and improve the effectiveness of national mechanisms for the advancement of women at the highest political level, as well as the importance of UN activities in resolving this problem.

Civil Law Specifics Of Transactions In E-Commerce, A.A. Yakoenko

Review of law sciences

the essence and significance of transactions in electronic commerce are characterized, the features and the order of their conclusion are shown, problems and legal conflicts arising during electronic data exchange are revealed

Analysis Of Terminological Concept Of Information Technologies In Domestic And Foreign Literature, A.R. Davronov

Review of law sciences

In this article, the conceptual and terminological apparatus of information technologies in domestic and foreign literature has been studied and the concept of “Information technologies” has been analyzed using a comparative method. In addition, proposals are made to improve legislation in the field of information technology.

Alegal: Biopolitics And The Unintelligibility Of Okinawan Life, Annmaria M. Shimabuku

Sociology

Okinawan life, at the crossroads of American militarism and Japanese capitalism, embodies a fundamental contradiction to the myth of the monoethnic state. Suspended in a state of exception, Okinawa has never been an official colony of the Japanese empire or the United States, nor has it ever been treated as an equal part of Japan. As a result, Okinawans live amid one of the densest concentrations of U.S. military bases in the world. By bringing Foucauldian biopolitics into conversation with Japanese Marxian theory, Alegal uncovers Japan’s determination to protect its middle class from the racialized sexual contact around its mainland …

A Companion Study Guide For The Cisco Dcicn Data Center Certification Exam (200-150), Miguel Ramlatchan

Distance Learning Faculty & Staff Books

The official Cisco DCICN book and practice exams are great resources, but this is not an easy exam. This study guide is a companion to those resources and summarizes the subject areas into additional review questions with an answer description for each item. This book is not a "braindump" and it is not bootleg screenshots of the actual exam. Instead, this book provides additional context and examples, serves to complement other study guides, and provides additional examples. If you are getting ready to take the exam for the first time, I hope that this guide provides the extra help to …

Musical Source Separation: An Introduction, Estefania Cano

Publications

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Improving Wound Care Using The Time Framework, Pavel Kulikov

Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP) Projects

Abstract

Background and purpose:Although wound care guidelines are available for primary care providers, barriers to assessment and treatment remain. This paper examines current evidence, guidelines, and discusses the need for improved training, education, and a simplified approach to wound management in primary care. The goal of the project was to increase the provider’s comfort level in assessing and initiating wound care treatment in the clinical setting. Methods:An evidence-based wound treatment framework, identified as the TIME (tissue, infection, moisture, epithelial) framework, was selected for the project. The framework was tailored by subject matter experts to provide a distinctive approach …

The Disk Substructures At High Angular Resolution Project (Dsharp). V. Interpreting Alma Maps Of Protoplanetary Disks In Terms Of A Dust Model, Tilman Birnstiel, Cornelis P. Dullemond, Zhaohuan Zhu, Sean M. Andrews, Xue-Ning Bai, David J. Wilner, John M. Carpenter, Jane Huang, Andrea Isella, Myriam Benisty, Laura M. Pérez, Shangjia Zhang

Physics & Astronomy Faculty Research

The Disk Substructures at High Angular Resolution Project (DSHARP) is the largest homogeneous high-resolution (~0 035, or ~5 au) disk continuum imaging survey with the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) so far. In the coming years, many more disks will be mapped with ALMA at similar resolution. Interpreting the results in terms of the properties and quantities of the emitting dusty material is, however, a very non-trivial task. This is in part due to the uncertainty in the dust opacities, an uncertainty that is not likely to be resolved any time soon. It is also partly due to the fact …

Microfluidic Platforms For Optical Biosensing, Julie Lutti, Jing Wang

USF Patents

In one embodiment, a microfluidic platform for optical biosensing, the platform including an optical substrate, a layer provided on the substrate, and a channel formed within the layer and defined by the layer and the substrate through which fluid can flow, the channel including a channel constriction that gradually narrows along a length of the channel to a point at which the channel is physically sized and configured to trap a microsphere suspended in the fluid when the fluid flows through the channel so that the microsphere cannot pass the channel constriction.

Predicting Post-Procedural Complications Using Neural Networks On Mimic-Iii Data, Namratha Mohan

LSU Master's Theses

The primary focus of this paper is the creation of a Machine Learning based algorithm for the analysis of large health based data sets. Our input was extracted from MIMIC-III, a large Health Record database of more than 40,000 patients. The main question was to predict if a patient will have complications during certain specified procedures performed in the hospital. These events are denoted by the icd9 code 996 in the individuals' health record. The output of our predictive model is a binary variable which outputs the value 1 if the patient is diagnosed with the specific complication or 0 …

Medicine Research In India: A Scientometric Assessment Of Publications During 2009 – 2018, Chaman Sab M, Dharani Kumar P, Biradar B. S

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

The purpose of this paper is to qualitative analyse of medicine research output using select scientometric indicators with the aim of identifying top preparing countries, subject subthemes, organisations, authors and journals in the area. The present study has examined 29153 publications in medicine research, the present study deals with the Assessment of Indian medicine research output as reflected in Web of Science (WOS) database for the period 2009 to 2018 for identifying the research output in the field of medicine literature. It also provides a comparative evaluation and performance of different types of scientometric indicators, such as number of publications, …

Firm Establishes Legal Domicile, Author Unknown

Clippings

Article celebrating the establishment of legal domicile of the Mississippi Light and Power company; Source: unknown; Unknown date

Through Hazel Eyes (3), Hazel Brannon Smith

Clippings

Column discussing Governor Paul Johnson's efforts to expand police forces in Mississippi in preparation for anticipated racial unrest; Source: Northside Reporter (Jackson, Miss.); Unknown date

Shock-Absorbing Vibrations Of The Elastic Elastomeric End Of The Rotary Inertia, N.J Khujatov, N.I Abdikarimov

Central Asian Problems of Modern Science and Education

The problem of the longitudinal vibrations of the elastic strerin of the longitudinal impact of the second free end of the end of the tape is settled on the basis of the second order (classic) differential equation. Depending on the nature of stroke endings and the nature and conditions of the impact, the initial and boundary conditions of the problem were found. To solve the problem, a structured block scheme was created, using a duplicate scheme. Created a structured block-scheme based on "Pascal" and the results were obtained.

Physical And Chemical Researches Of The Relaxol Series Of Cement Composition With Complex Chemical Additive Kdj-3, N A. Samigov, A T. Djalilov

Scientific-technical journal

To study the process of structure formation of the cement composition, the method of infrared spectroscopy, X-ray phase analysis and electron microscopy were used. With the help of mechanical mixing it is difficult to provide the binder with the right amount of water. This task is performed by a complex additive, improving the wettability of cement particles. By reducing the content of calcium hydroxide, the possibility of the formation and existence of polybasic calcium hydroaluminates decreases. This circumstance prevents the formation of calcium hydrosulfonate (GSAC) in the later periods of hardening. On electron micrographs of cement stone samples with the …

Simulating Detection-Censored Movement Records For Home Range Analysis Planning, Lyndsie S. Wszola, Victoria L. Simonsen, Lucía Corral, Christopher J. Chizinski, Joseph J. Fontaine

Nebraska Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit: Staff Publications

Home range estimation is an important analytical method in applied spatial ecology, yet best practices for addressing the effects of spatial variation in detection probability on home range estimates remain elusive. We introduce the R package “DiagnoseHR,” simulation tools for assessing how variation in detection probability arising from landscape, animal behavior, and methodological processes affects home range inference. We demonstrate the utility of simulation methods for home range analysis planning by comparing bias arising from three home range estimation methods under multiple detection scenarios. We simulated correlated random walks in three landscapes that varied in detection probability and constructed home …

Introduction: The Transatlantic Undead: Zombies In Hispanic And Luso-Brazilian Literatures And Cultures, David Dalton, Sara Potter

Alambique. Revista académica de ciencia ficción y fantasía / Jornal acadêmico de ficção científica e fantasía

This introduction lays out key questions that the contributors to The Transatlantic Undead: Zombies in Hispanic and Luso-Brazilian Literatures and Cultures aim to engage. Regardless of its exact articulation, the zombie constantly serves as a means for criticizing undemocratic elements of society. As the articles in this collection show, the nature of oppression differs depending on where a particular work of literary and cultural production is articulated. Furthermore, the zombie’s role in critiquing said social order also changes depending on numerous factors ranging from the author to the cultural context in which it appears. Nevertheless, when viewed in their entirety, …

The Heart Of A Zombie: Dominican Literature's Sentient Undead, Emily A. Maguire

Alambique. Revista académica de ciencia ficción y fantasía / Jornal acadêmico de ficção científica e fantasía

A formerly human being that has been separated from its human consciousness, the has always been marked as more dead than alive. Yet in recent cultural production, another kind of zombie has emerged, what we might call the “sentient undead.” In these recent narratives, the undead protagonist is conscious of his or her inhumanity/non-humanness, along with the marginality of this position, and his or her potential “redemption” or return to humanity is often what drives the plot. Although the sentient zombie’s outsider position can function as a meditation on the social mores that make up human behavior, it also allows …

Postcolonial Pandemics And Undead Revolutions: Contagion As Resistance In Con Z De Zombie And Juan De Los Muertos, Sara A. Potter

Alambique. Revista académica de ciencia ficción y fantasía / Jornal acadêmico de ficção científica e fantasía

Argentinian director Alejandro Brugués’s 2011 Cuban-Spanish film Juan de los muertos and Mexican playwright Pedro Valencia’s 2013 play Con Z de zombie spring from similar roots: both initially place the blame for each country’s zombie apocalypse at the feet of the United States. In Brugués’s film, the accusation is clear but never proven: news reports interspersed through the film state that the country is being invaded by “dissidents” paid by the U.S. government, though there is no political or military U.S. presence in the film beyond the symbolic presence of the country’s flag. In Valencia’s Mexico, the cause is entirely …

Undermining Authoritarianism: Retrofitting The Zombie In "Seminário Dos Ratos" By Lygia Fagundes Telles, James R. Krause

Alambique. Revista académica de ciencia ficción y fantasía / Jornal acadêmico de ficção científica e fantasía

Although the figure of the zombie has proved to be quite popular in recent years in Brazil—thanks in large part to the wave of imported graphic novels, television shows, and movies—Brazilian literature does not possess a strong tradition of autochthonous zombie narratives. Nevertheless, a number of texts lend themselves to a zombie reading, including “Seminário dos Ratos” (1977), by Lygia Fagundes Telles. In this modern allegory of a world plagued by rats, Fagundes Telles surreptitiously decries the political corruption, censorship of the press, foreign intervention, class warfare, and abuses of power of the Brazilian military dictatorship (1964–1985). Reading “Seminário dos …

Overview On Steady-State Nuclear Methods For Bwr Nuclear Core Design And Analysis, Chiang Ren-Tai

ASEAN Journal on Science and Technology for Development

An overview on nuclear methods for boiling water reactors (BWR) core design and analysis is provided based on the ANS Standard 19.3. The steady-state BWR nuclear methods, composed of neutron cross section library generation method, lattice physics method and core physics method, are systematically reviewed and associated computer codes in common use for BWR core design and analysis are listed. Verification and validation, the two complementary aspects in determining the range of applicability of the calculation system, are discussed extensively. The biases and uncertainties for the predictions from the calculation system over its demonstrated range of applicability are also discussed.

Overview Of Boron Neutron Capture Therapy: A Medical Aspect, Bangun Alan Anderson, Poedjomartono Bagaswoto

ASEAN Journal on Science and Technology for Development

Cancer is an abnormal growth of a cell due to the cell’s inability to control and maintain its proliferation, differentiation and apoptosis cycle. There are several methods to treat cancer; one of which is boron neutron capture therapy (BNCT). BNCT is a radiation modality by which a high radiation dose is delivered to tumor cells with lower damage to surrounding normal tissue. This modality has been used widely as a treatment for several cancer cases, such as head and neck cancer, breast cancer, and liver cancer. BNCT uses sodium borocaptate (BSH) or boronophenylalanine (BPA) as the delivery agent. Then, the …

Dosimetry Of In Vivo Experiment For Lung Cancer Based On Boron Neutron Capture Therapy On Radial Piercing Beam Port Kartini Nuclear Reactor By Mcnpx Simulation Method, Maysaroh Atika, Kusminarto Kusminarto, Palupi Dwi Satya, Sardjono Yohannes

ASEAN Journal on Science and Technology for Development

Cancer is one of the leading causes of death globally, with lung cancer being among the most prevalent. Boron Neutron Capture Therapy (BNCT) is a cancer therapy method that uses the interaction between thermal neutrons and boron-10 which produces a decaying boron-11 particle and emits alpha, lithium 7 and gamma particles. A study was carried out to model an in vivo experiment of rat organisms that have lung cancer. Dimensions of a rat’s body were used in Konijnenberg research. Modeling lung cancer type, non-small cell lung cancer, was used in Monte Carlo N Particle-X. Lung cancer was modeled with a …

Dose Analysis Of Gadolinium Neutron Capture Therapy (Gdnct) On Cancer Using Shield-Hit12a, Fasni Bagus Novrianto, Sardjono Yohannes, Lapanporo Boni Pahlanop

ASEAN Journal on Science and Technology for Development

This research aimed to determine the dose of radiation received in cancer therapy for each decay of Gadolinium atomic nuclei with isotope 157 (157Gd) in Gadolinium Neutron Capture Therapy using the SHIELD-HIT12A program. Knowing the amount of dose given to cancer tissue should aid in minimizing the damage that could occur in the healthy tissue around the cancer tissue, effectively killing only the cancer cells. The simulation employed in this research used the SHIELD-HIT12A program by providing input on beam.dat, mat.dat, detect.dat, and geo.dat files. The output data from the program comprised the value of recoil energy lost (energy absorbed …