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Video Based Estimation Of Surface Currents In A Tidal Inlet, Benjamin Middour, George Voulgaris, Douglas Cahl Sep 2023

Video Based Estimation Of Surface Currents In A Tidal Inlet, Benjamin Middour, George Voulgaris, Douglas Cahl

Faculty Publications

Oceanic surface currents are estimated from analysis of short duration video obtained by a nadir facing camera installed on a bridge over a tidal inlet. Data analyzed consisted of 13 two-minute video clips captured approximately every 40 min over a period of 8 hr, covering a significant portion of the tidal cycle. Surface current speed and direction estimates are obtained from each collected video using (i) a method originally developed for analysis of imagery from drones (CopterCurrents) and (ii) a particle tracking method. The horizontal (u, v) surface current velocity components and total horizontal velocity magnitude, obtained from the two …

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Separation Anxiety: Filming The Nicosia Buffer Zone, K Parker, S Moore Sep 2023

Separation Anxiety: Filming The Nicosia Buffer Zone, K Parker, S Moore

School of Art, Design and Architecture

Published in the first study on empty places in photography and the Covid-19 pandemic, Parker’s chapter examines the cinematographic depiction of ‘emptiness’ in the author’s site-specific essay film, Father-land (2018), made collaboratively with the film-maker Stuart Moore through an artists’ research residency in Nicosia, the only divided capital city in Europe. It details the process-based research methods that led to Father-land’s affective depiction of the politically-charged, ‘empty landscape’ of the Nicosia Buffer Zone, the demilitarized strip of land monitored by the United Nations, which has separated the Greek Cypriot south of Cyprus from the Turkish-occupied north since the violent conflict …

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Faculty Senate Agenda, Georgia Southern University, Faculty Senate Sep 2023

Faculty Senate Agenda, Georgia Southern University, Faculty Senate

Faculty Senate Agendas

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Office Of Research, Economic Engagement And Outreach Update, September 27, 2023, Office Of Research, Economic Engagement And Outreach Sep 2023

Office Of Research, Economic Engagement And Outreach Update, September 27, 2023, Office Of Research, Economic Engagement And Outreach

Office of Research, Economic Engagement and Outreach

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Detection Of Cancer-Associated Gene Mutations In Urinary Cell-Free Dna Among Prostate Cancer Patients In South Africa, Dada Oluwaseyi Temilola, Martha Wium, Juliano Paccez, Azola Samkele Salukazana, Solomon O. Rotimi, Hasan H. Otu, Giuseppina M. Carbone, Lisa Kaestner, Stefano Cacciatore, Luiz Fernando Zerbini Sep 2023

Detection Of Cancer-Associated Gene Mutations In Urinary Cell-Free Dna Among Prostate Cancer Patients In South Africa, Dada Oluwaseyi Temilola, Martha Wium, Juliano Paccez, Azola Samkele Salukazana, Solomon O. Rotimi, Hasan H. Otu, Giuseppina M. Carbone, Lisa Kaestner, Stefano Cacciatore, Luiz Fernando Zerbini

Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering: Faculty Publications

Prostate cancer (PCa) is the most common cause of cancer death among African men. The presence of tumor-specific variations in cell-free DNA (cfDNA), such as mutations, microsatellite instability, and DNA methylation, has been explored as a source of biomarkers for cancer diagnosis. In this study, we investigated the diagnostic role of cfDNA among South African PCa patients. We performed whole exome sequencing (WES) of urinary cfDNA. We identified a novel panel of 31 significantly deregulated somatic mutated genes between PCa and benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH). Additionally, we performed whole-genome sequencing (WGS) on matching PCa and normal prostate tissue in an …

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Spectrum, Volume 51, Issue 3, Sacred Heart University Sep 2023

Spectrum, Volume 51, Issue 3, Sacred Heart University

Newspapers (Obelisk & Spectrum)

Highlights include: The Results Are In: New Faces of Student Government -- Hacking the Constitution -- Cheers, Beers, Pioneers: “Pack the Pub” at Red’s -- Behind the Seams: Fashion Club Visits Mitchell’s -- Book Talk: Editors^ Picks -- Arts and Entertainment: Hollywood on Hold -- The Rising Stars of the Sports Media Word


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Exploring Conformational Landscapes And Cryptic Binding Pockets In Distinct Functional States Of The Sars-Cov-2 Omicron Ba.1 And Ba.2 Trimers: Mutation-Induced Modulation Of Protein Dynamics And Network-Guided Prediction Of Variant-Specific Allosteric Binding Sites, Gennady M. Verkhivker, Mohammed Alshahrani, Grace Gupta Sep 2023

Exploring Conformational Landscapes And Cryptic Binding Pockets In Distinct Functional States Of The Sars-Cov-2 Omicron Ba.1 And Ba.2 Trimers: Mutation-Induced Modulation Of Protein Dynamics And Network-Guided Prediction Of Variant-Specific Allosteric Binding Sites, Gennady M. Verkhivker, Mohammed Alshahrani, Grace Gupta

Mathematics, Physics, and Computer Science Faculty Articles and Research

A significant body of experimental structures of SARS-CoV-2 spike trimers for the BA.1 and BA.2 variants revealed a considerable plasticity of the spike protein and the emergence of druggable binding pockets. Understanding the interplay of conformational dynamics changes induced by the Omicron variants and the identification of cryptic dynamic binding pockets in the S protein is of paramount importance as exploring broad-spectrum antiviral agents to combat the emerging variants is imperative. In the current study, we explore conformational landscapes and characterize the universe of binding pockets in multiple open and closed functional spike states of the BA.1 and BA.2 Omicron …

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Differential Effects Of Pancreatic Cancer-Derived Extracellular Vesicles Driving A Suppressive Environment, Anurag Purushothaman, Jacqueline Oliva-Ramírez, Warapen Treekitkarnmongkol, Deivendran Sankaran, Mark W Hurd, Anirban Maitra, Subrata Sen Sep 2023

Differential Effects Of Pancreatic Cancer-Derived Extracellular Vesicles Driving A Suppressive Environment, Anurag Purushothaman, Jacqueline Oliva-Ramírez, Warapen Treekitkarnmongkol, Deivendran Sankaran, Mark W Hurd, Anirban Maitra, Subrata Sen

Faculty, Staff and Student Publications

Pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) cells display extensive crosstalk with their surrounding environment to regulate tumor growth, immune evasion, and metastasis. Recent advances have attributed many of these interactions to intercellular communication mediated by small extracellular vesicles (sEVs), involving cancer-associated fibroblasts (CAF). To explore the impact of sEVs on monocyte lineage transition as well as the expression of checkpoint receptors and activation markers, peripheral blood monocytes from healthy subjects were exposed to PDAC-derived sEVs. Additionally, to analyze the role of sEV-associated HA in immune regulation and tissue-resident fibroblasts, monocytes and pancreatic stellate cells were cultured in the presence of PDAC sEVs …

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The ‘Capability’ Of South African Energy Governance To Deliver Urban Sustainable Transitions, Stephen Essex, Federico Caprotti, Jiska De Groot, Jon Phillips, Lucy Baker, Peta Wolpe, Yachika Reddy Sep 2023

The ‘Capability’ Of South African Energy Governance To Deliver Urban Sustainable Transitions, Stephen Essex, Federico Caprotti, Jiska De Groot, Jon Phillips, Lucy Baker, Peta Wolpe, Yachika Reddy

School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences

Critical to the trajectory and outcome of urban sustainable energy transitions is the ability of government institutions to foster conditions for change and innovation. In this paper, a theoretical perspective combining state power and local governance capability is used as a lens to examine the transition of the energy system in South Africa based on semi-structured interviews with a range of relevant stakeholders, supplemented by analysis of published academic and policy literature. The discussion highlights uneven transitional pathways across the country caused by variations in ‘capability’, together with continuing conflicting interests within the system which require more politically-informed policy processes.

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Effect Of Harassment, Stereotypes, And Distractions On Female Driving Behavior In Egypt, Eman K. Ali, Sherif M. El-Badawy, Ragaa T. Abd El-Hakim Sep 2023

Effect Of Harassment, Stereotypes, And Distractions On Female Driving Behavior In Egypt, Eman K. Ali, Sherif M. El-Badawy, Ragaa T. Abd El-Hakim

Mansoura Engineering Journal

Men and women are different in their driving behavior. The reasons for these differences vary from neurochemical structures, hormonal processes, to physical abilities for long driving hours or stress coming from accompanying children while driving. In Egypt and Middle East, female drivers face a diversity of challenges such as the stereotype that women are poor drivers. Moreover, there have been incidents when female drivers faced road harassments from other drivers, which may lead to accidents. In this research, data was collected from 1038 Egyptian female drivers in the age of 16 to 75 years old. The risk factors that play …

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Is Madeira Airport The Beginning Of A Tourism Experience On The Island?, Helena Viríssimo, Jorge Abrantes Sep 2023

Is Madeira Airport The Beginning Of A Tourism Experience On The Island?, Helena Viríssimo, Jorge Abrantes

International Journal of Islands Research

Air transport is the main mode of transport used when traveling to the Autonomous Region of Madeira (ARM), Portugal. The airport and the entire airport infrastructure are essential for tourists to access the island. It is therefore important to assess their importance in the tourism development of the region and, to what extent, being the first and last experience with the destination, they impact the image and perception of passengers about the destination and their future desire to return. The present investigation, being exploratory, intends to evaluate the relationship between passenger satisfaction with airport services and its role in the …

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Payment Support For Hierarchy Of Third Party Sellers, Nagaraju Shiramshetti Sep 2023

Payment Support For Hierarchy Of Third Party Sellers, Nagaraju Shiramshetti

Defensive Publications Series

Third party sellers and sub-partners can provide a range of benefits to primary sellers, such as lower operating costs, specialized expertise, and access to new markets. However, payment systems may not be set up to work with such hierarchies, e.g., may not be set up to calculate commissions that are owed to multiple partners. This disclosure describes payment systems with built-in support for a hierarchy of third party sellers and sub-partners. The payment systems allow sellers in a marketplace to automate billing and invoices, including for third party sellers and sub-partners, based on an item sold in the marketplace. Payments …

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Large Language Model Powered Test Case Generation For Software Applications, Victor Dantas Sep 2023

Large Language Model Powered Test Case Generation For Software Applications, Victor Dantas

Defensive Publications Series

Test cases for software are designed to provide code coverage as well as to test the code against real user behavior. Building such test cases can be challenging. Current tools to build test cases rely on macros (scripts) to simulate user behavior. Building such macros requires manually programming test cases and/or randomizing user actions during the test. This disclosure describes the use of generative artificial intelligence (AI) techniques to learn the patterns of user behavior on a website, app, or other software to be tested. For example, a large language model (LLM) can be utilized to learn the patterns. The …

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Tag Aggregation Across Public/Private Clouds, Magdy Louis Sep 2023

Tag Aggregation Across Public/Private Clouds, Magdy Louis

Defensive Publications Series

Techniques described herein provide for using existing native private/public cloud tags' constructs across different clouds while still being able to normalize groups and rules constructs for an effective enforcement that is cloud independent, region independent, and IP address independent. Techniques described herein provide for normalizing the tags into a common format, normalizing the tags into a common address space, and propagating the tags and rules across clouds/systems for effective enforcement.

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Kinematic, Back Squat, Bar, Jordanian National Team, Preferred Side., Iyad Abu Touq, Khaled Atiyat, Osama Abdel Fattah Sep 2023

Kinematic, Back Squat, Bar, Jordanian National Team, Preferred Side., Iyad Abu Touq, Khaled Atiyat, Osama Abdel Fattah

Jordan Journal of Applied Science-Humanities Series

This study aimed to conduct a kinematic analysis of the dominant and non-dominant sides among Jordanian sports players in the back squat exercise by identifying the values of some kinematic variables on the dominant and non-dominant sides at different intensities, as well as the differences in these kinematic variable values. To achieve this, the researchers used a descriptive approach with a sample of 15 players, who were selected using a purposive method, ensuring that their training included squatting for no less than two years. To record the study sample, the researchers used three cameras—two positioned at the lateral view and …

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Multi-Criteria Analysis Of The Possibility Of Retrofitting The System Of Rainwater Drainage From Subsidence Basins In A Liquidated Mine, Andrzej Chmiela, Małgorzata Wysocka, Adam Smoliński Sep 2023

Multi-Criteria Analysis Of The Possibility Of Retrofitting The System Of Rainwater Drainage From Subsidence Basins In A Liquidated Mine, Andrzej Chmiela, Małgorzata Wysocka, Adam Smoliński

Journal of Sustainable Mining

Mine closure is the natural final stage of mining activity. The process of financing mine liquidation is complex and expensive. The many years of conducted hard coal extraction affect the surface height differences. Analyses of the shifts in hydrogeological conditions and water hazard states in mining plants led to legal regulation adaptations, primarily in terms of hydrogeological documentation preparation, and made it necessary to conduct work concerning new options for water hazard assessment and prevention. Current subjects of particular interest include shifts in terrain morphology and the water regime, resulting in periodic flooding and permanent flooding of the most depressed …

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Buncombe Street Administrative Board Minutes 1996-2000, Buncombe Street United Methodist Church Sep 2023

Buncombe Street Administrative Board Minutes 1996-2000, Buncombe Street United Methodist Church

Methodist Local Church Records

No abstract provided.

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Buncombe Street Administrative Board Minutes 2001-2005, Buncombe Street United Methodist Church Sep 2023

Buncombe Street Administrative Board Minutes 2001-2005, Buncombe Street United Methodist Church

Methodist Local Church Records

No abstract provided.

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Executive Committee - Minutes, 9/26/2023, Academic Senate Sep 2023

Executive Committee - Minutes, 9/26/2023, Academic Senate

Academic Senate Minutes

No abstract provided.

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Stafford Collection Review, The Conservation Center, Southwestern Oklahoma State University Sep 2023

Stafford Collection Review, The Conservation Center, Southwestern Oklahoma State University

Library Grants

This report evaluating the Thomas P. Stafford Collection has been made possible in part by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities.

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Spartan Daily, September 26, 2023, San Jose State University, School Of Journalism And Mass Communications Sep 2023

Spartan Daily, September 26, 2023, San Jose State University, School Of Journalism And Mass Communications

Spartan Daily, 2023

Volume 161, Issue 15

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Executive Committee - Agenda 9/26/2023, Academic Senate Sep 2023

Executive Committee - Agenda 9/26/2023, Academic Senate

Academic Senate Agendas

No abstract provided.

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Legalbench: A Collaboratively Built Benchmark For Measuring Legal Reasoning In Large Language Models, Neel Guha, Julian Nyarko, Daniel E. Ho, Christopher Ré, Adam Chilton, Aditya Narayana, Alex Chohlas-Wood, Austin Peters, Brandon Waldon, Daniel Rockmore, Diego A. Zambrano, Dmitry Talisman, Enam Hoque, Faiz Surani, Frank Fagan, Galit Sarfaty, Gregory M. Dickinson, Haggai Porat, Jason Hegland, Jessica Wu, Joe Nudell, Joel Niklaus, John Nay, Jonathan H. Choi, Kevin Tobia, Margaret Hagan, Megan Ma, Michael A. Livermore, Nikon Rasumov-Rahe, Nils Holzenberger, Noam Kolt, Peter Henderson, Sean Rehaag, Sharad Goel, Shang Gao, Spencer Williams, Sunny Gandhi, Tom Zur, Varun Iyer, Zehua Li Sep 2023

Legalbench: A Collaboratively Built Benchmark For Measuring Legal Reasoning In Large Language Models, Neel Guha, Julian Nyarko, Daniel E. Ho, Christopher Ré, Adam Chilton, Aditya Narayana, Alex Chohlas-Wood, Austin Peters, Brandon Waldon, Daniel Rockmore, Diego A. Zambrano, Dmitry Talisman, Enam Hoque, Faiz Surani, Frank Fagan, Galit Sarfaty, Gregory M. Dickinson, Haggai Porat, Jason Hegland, Jessica Wu, Joe Nudell, Joel Niklaus, John Nay, Jonathan H. Choi, Kevin Tobia, Margaret Hagan, Megan Ma, Michael A. Livermore, Nikon Rasumov-Rahe, Nils Holzenberger, Noam Kolt, Peter Henderson, Sean Rehaag, Sharad Goel, Shang Gao, Spencer Williams, Sunny Gandhi, Tom Zur, Varun Iyer, Zehua Li

All Papers

The advent of large language models (LLMs) and their adoption by the legal community has given rise to the question: what types of legal reasoning can LLMs perform? To enable greater study of this question, we present LegalBench: a collaboratively constructed legal reasoning benchmark consisting of 162 tasks covering six different types of legal reasoning. LegalBench was built through an interdisciplinary process, in which we collected tasks designed and hand-crafted by legal professionals. Because these subject matter experts took a leading role in construction, tasks either measure legal reasoning capabilities that are practically useful, or measure reasoning skills that lawyers …

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Numerical Study Of Solar Receiver Tube With Modified Surface Roughness For Enhanced And Selective Absorptivity In Concentrated Solar Power Tower, Shawn Hatcher, Mathew Z. Farias, Jianzhi Li, Peiwen Li, Ben Xu Sep 2023

Numerical Study Of Solar Receiver Tube With Modified Surface Roughness For Enhanced And Selective Absorptivity In Concentrated Solar Power Tower, Shawn Hatcher, Mathew Z. Farias, Jianzhi Li, Peiwen Li, Ben Xu

Manufacturing & Industrial Engineering Faculty Publications

Concentrated solar power (CSP) is a reliable renewable energy source that is progressively lowering its cost of energy. However, the heat loss due to reflected and emitted radiation hinders the maximum achievable thermal efficiency for solar receiver tubes on the solar tower. Current solar selective coatings cannot withstand the high temperatures that come with state-of-the-art CSP towers often needing to be recoated soon after initial operation. We intend to use Inconel 718 with different additive manufacturing (AM) practices to construct surfaces that allow for more light-trapping to occur. By adjusting printing parameters, we can tailor a surface to allow for …

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Exogenous Ketone Supplements For Reducing Anxiety-Related Behavior, Csilla Ari D'Agostino, Dominic Paul D'Agostino Sep 2023

Exogenous Ketone Supplements For Reducing Anxiety-Related Behavior, Csilla Ari D'Agostino, Dominic Paul D'Agostino

USF Patents

Methods of treating anxiety disorders or reducing anxiety-related behaviors. The methods include administering a therapeutically effective amount of ketone supplementation, such as butanediol, ketone esters (e.g., 1,3-butanediol-acetoacetate diester) and/or ketone salts (e.g., beta-hydroxybutyrate-mineral salt), chronically, sub-chronically, or acutely, with or without admixture with a medium chain triglyceride or in combination. It was determined herein that ketone supplementation reduced anxiety in rats on elevated plus maze as measured by less entries to closed arms, more time spent in open arms, more distance travelled in open arms, and delayed latency to entrance to closed arms, when compared to control. Along with reducing …

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Irrigation Water Quality Sampling Guide, Burdette Barker, Matt Yost, Erin N. Rivers, Rhonda Miller, Kalen Taylor, Tiffany Evans Sep 2023

Irrigation Water Quality Sampling Guide, Burdette Barker, Matt Yost, Erin N. Rivers, Rhonda Miller, Kalen Taylor, Tiffany Evans

All Current Publications

Understanding irrigation water quality is an important part of irrigation water management. Water quality testing begins with identifying constituents for which to test. Proper sample collection is important for characterizing a water source. This fact sheet addresses water sampling, what to sample or test, irrigation equipment concerns, pollutants, and when, where, and how to sample.

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Non-Hermitian Gauged Laser Arrays With Localized Excitations: Anomalous Threshold And Generalized Principle Of Selective Pumping, Li Ge, Zihe Gao, Liang Feng Sep 2023

Non-Hermitian Gauged Laser Arrays With Localized Excitations: Anomalous Threshold And Generalized Principle Of Selective Pumping, Li Ge, Zihe Gao, Liang Feng

Publications and Research

We investigate non-Hermitian skin modes in laser arrays with spatially localized excitation. Intriguingly, we observe an unusual threshold behavior when selectively pumping either the head or the tail of these modes: both cases exhibit the same lasing threshold and hence defy the conventional principle of selective pumping, which aims to maximize the overlap between the pump profile and the target lasing mode. To shed light on this enigma, we reveal a previously overlooked phenomenon, i.e., energy exchange at non-Hermitian coupling junctions with the photonic environment, which does not occur with uniform gain or loss. Utilizing a transfer matrix approach, we …

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Seeing Inside Shocked Plastic-Bonded Explosives, Dhanalakshmi Sellan, Lawrence Salvati, Siva Kumar Valluri, Dana D. Dlott, Xuan Zhou Sep 2023

Seeing Inside Shocked Plastic-Bonded Explosives, Dhanalakshmi Sellan, Lawrence Salvati, Siva Kumar Valluri, Dana D. Dlott, Xuan Zhou

Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Faculty Research & Creative Works

A new method is described to study how microstructures within a plastic-bonded explosive (PBX) interact with shock waves to produce hot spots, and to identify the critical hot spots that grow into a deflagration. A unique feature of this method is that it allows us to see every crystal in the PBX during the shock. We used an HMX-based PBX fabricated into a wafer about one crystal thick so there are no crystals hidden from view. The wafer is embedded in a transparent polymer in a traveling wave geometry, and a microscope with a laser flyer launcher and a nanosecond …

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Using Multiple Lenses To See An Invisible Group, Kathleen J. Farkas, Jaroslaw Richard Romaniuk Sep 2023

Using Multiple Lenses To See An Invisible Group, Kathleen J. Farkas, Jaroslaw Richard Romaniuk

Faculty Scholarship

Social work in Poland and in the United States shares the values of human dignity and self-determination, but there are often value conflicts in terms of how various groups experience social roles and social expectations. This paper explores the use of multiple lenses to understand the past and current conditions for LGBT+ people in Poland. An international, university-level collaboration uses a framework of “invisible groups” to highlight the needs of those who are on the margins of society and whose human and individual rights are suppressed. The article reviews the results of a recently published on-line survey of LGBT+ populations …

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Quantification Of Solution-Free Red Blood Cell Staining By Sorption Kinetics Of Romanowsky Stains To Agarose Gels, Chae Yun Bae, Hamid Esmaeili, Syed A. Zamin, Min Jeong Seol, Eunmi Hwang, Suk Kyung Beak, Younghoon Song, Bhuvnesh Bharti, Jangwook P. Jung Sep 2023

Quantification Of Solution-Free Red Blood Cell Staining By Sorption Kinetics Of Romanowsky Stains To Agarose Gels, Chae Yun Bae, Hamid Esmaeili, Syed A. Zamin, Min Jeong Seol, Eunmi Hwang, Suk Kyung Beak, Younghoon Song, Bhuvnesh Bharti, Jangwook P. Jung

Faculty Publications

The imaging and quantification of stained red blood cells (RBCs) are important for identifying RBCs in hematology and for diagnosing diseased RBCs or parasites in cytopathology. Romanowsky staining has been used traditionally to produce hues in blood cells using a mixture of anionic eosin Y and cationic methylene blue and azure B. While Romanowsky stains have been widely used in cytopathology, end-users have experienced problems with varying results in staining due to the premature precipitation or evaporation of methanol, leading to the inherent inconsistency of solution-based Romanowsky staining. Herein, we demonstrate that the staining and destaining of blood smears are …

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