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A Threatening Heresy: Cathar And Protestant Identity Against Catholicism In France Between The Albigensian Crusade (1209-1229) And The French Wars Of Religion (1562-1598), Jonathan Wright Jul 2021

A Threatening Heresy: Cathar And Protestant Identity Against Catholicism In France Between The Albigensian Crusade (1209-1229) And The French Wars Of Religion (1562-1598), Jonathan Wright

History ETDs

The Albigensian Crusade (1209-1229) and the French Wars of Religion (1562- 1598) were two of the most violent moments in French history. Both involved the persecution of a perceived minority by Catholic forces, and both left irreparable scars on the area of Occitania in the south of France. Battles along river fronts and the clandestine boat smuggling of heretics were actions undertaken by a heretical Cathar group that confronted orthodox religion. Water became a critical part of the creation of a persecuted minority in Occitania. Intensifying Cathar heresy led to increased violence in the Wars of Religion as Catholic aggression …

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أثر استخدام التلعيب في تنمية مهارات الوعي المعلوماتي لدى طالبات ما بعد التعليم الأساسي في سلطنة عمان, كريمة بنت عيسى الهطالية, جمال بن مطر السالمي, سالم بن سعيد الكندي, محمد مختار ساطور Jul 2021

أثر استخدام التلعيب في تنمية مهارات الوعي المعلوماتي لدى طالبات ما بعد التعليم الأساسي في سلطنة عمان, كريمة بنت عيسى الهطالية, جمال بن مطر السالمي, سالم بن سعيد الكندي, محمد مختار ساطور

Journal of Arts and Social Sciences

التلعيب، الوعي المعلوماتي، سلطنة عمان

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A Pilot Study For Evaluating Economic And Societal Impact Of Engineering Research A Pilot Study For Evaluating Economic And Societal Impact Of Engineering Research, Musaab Zarog Jul 2021

A Pilot Study For Evaluating Economic And Societal Impact Of Engineering Research A Pilot Study For Evaluating Economic And Societal Impact Of Engineering Research, Musaab Zarog

Journal of Arts and Social Sciences

Quantitative estimation of research societal and economic impact remains an ongoing issue. This is due to the difficulty to attribute specific economic or societal impact to particular research activity. Nevertheless, evaluating research impact is necessary to justify research spending especially for engineering research studies, as they are generally more costly than humanities or social studies for example. This work considered research impact evaluation in NSF (The National Science Foundation in the USA), EPSRC (Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council in the UK), and TRC (The Research Council in Oman) to propose a low-cost survey-based approach to evaluate the engineering research …

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Interfacial Engineering Of Bipolar Junctions For Electrochemical Processes, Subarna Kole Jul 2021

Interfacial Engineering Of Bipolar Junctions For Electrochemical Processes, Subarna Kole

LSU Doctoral Dissertations

Water and energy scarcity are two of the main problems the world is facing today. A number of industrial processes like chemical manufacturing plants, energy production, electricity generation are heavily dependent on availability of a reliable source of water. Similarly, every step of water collection, treatment, and distribution, is an energy intensive process. The efficient use of electrochemical devices can help tackle some of these problems. Bipolar membranes (BPMs) have historically been deployed in electrodialysis setups for mineral acid and base production. The need to have disparate pH environments in electrochemical cells, and prevent species crossover, have motivated researchers to …

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Leveraging Multiple Data Sources: How Catch Data, Metadata, And Genetic Samples Can Aid The Recovery Of Endangered Smalltooth Sawfish (Pristis Pectinata), Kelcee Smith Jul 2021

Leveraging Multiple Data Sources: How Catch Data, Metadata, And Genetic Samples Can Aid The Recovery Of Endangered Smalltooth Sawfish (Pristis Pectinata), Kelcee Smith

LSU Doctoral Dissertations

The small population sizes characteristic of many imperiled species means that they are vulnerable to both demographic and genetic extinction threats. Responses to these threats (e.g., population trends, genetic diversity estimates) are often difficult to obtain, but critical for conservation. Thus, researchers studying imperiled species may have to consult multiple data sources, collaborate with a wide variety of stakeholders, or ask new questions about previously collected data. I used this approach to understand more about the United States (U.S.) population of Pristis pectinata, an endangered elasmobranch that has declined up to 95% due to habitat loss and bycatch in …

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Exploring Ch’Timi’S History, Structure, And Decline: A Field Study Chez Les Ch’Tis, Felix Balak Jul 2021

Exploring Ch’Timi’S History, Structure, And Decline: A Field Study Chez Les Ch’Tis, Felix Balak

The Pegasus Review: UCF Undergraduate Research Journal

This research investigated the history of the Ch’timi language and some of the differences between it and Standard French, as well as its decline and what, if anything, is being done to stop it. Ch’timi is a part of the Picard language group, spoken primarily in the north of France, and parts of Belgium. It is an endangered language, and few people still speak it to this day. This field research aims to determine how speakers of the language see it, whether they think it should be preserved, and whether anything is being done to keep it active. To answer …

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Extracting Microplastic From Anhydrous Beach Sediment Utilizing Relative Terminal Velocities, Grace Robertson, Jackson Schuler Jul 2021

Extracting Microplastic From Anhydrous Beach Sediment Utilizing Relative Terminal Velocities, Grace Robertson, Jackson Schuler

Student Works

The primary intent of this research was to investigate and develop a method to extract microplastics from anhydrous beach sediment. Microplastic is found abundantly in coastal sea environments, including aqueous bottom sediment, and beach sediment (Sagawa, Kawaai, & Hinata, 2018). The scope of the microplastic extraction method in this case is limited to strictly the anhydrous beach sediment. The Venturi Effect and Burnoulli’s Principle have been utilized in the design of a nozzle with airflow that has been injected with a sediment and microplastic heterogenous mixture. A nozzle was designed to operate at the specific terminal velocity of sediment such …

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A Cross-Sectional Survey Of Online Health Information Seeking Behavior Pattern Of Undergraduate Students In A Nigerian Private University, Oluwaseun Eniola Adegbilero-Iwari, Tunrayo Oluwadare, Idowu Adegbilero-Iwari Jul 2021

A Cross-Sectional Survey Of Online Health Information Seeking Behavior Pattern Of Undergraduate Students In A Nigerian Private University, Oluwaseun Eniola Adegbilero-Iwari, Tunrayo Oluwadare, Idowu Adegbilero-Iwari

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

Given the wide-ranging influence of the internet on people in this digital age and the extensive reliance of young people on internet-enabled mobile devices, our study aimed to assess the pattern of online health information seeking behavior among undergraduate students in a Nigerian private university. Employing the cross-sectional survey design and purposive sampling technique, three hundred and four (304) undergraduates took part in the study. A semi-structured questionnaire was used to collect information on the socio-demographic characteristics, participant’s use of the internet, online health information seeking behaviour and use of online health information. The results showed that the mean age …

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Altmetric For Top Three Covid-19 Research Articles Published In 2020 - An Overview, Stephen G Jul 2021

Altmetric For Top Three Covid-19 Research Articles Published In 2020 - An Overview, Stephen G

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

Around the world, researchers are working together to understand COVID-19. Knowing who’s talking about related research and what’s being said is critical to this effort. Altmetric put together resources to help the navigate altmetric data and evaluate the quality of discussions around corona virus literature. The objective of this study is to determine the top three research articles related with Covid-19 and published in 2020. Based on altmetric attention score “The proximal origin of SARS-CoV-2” is the first rank article out of three and it’s published in Nature journal. It has highly mentioned in News Stories, blog posts …

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Status, Adequacy And Use Of Library Collection: A Study Of Govind Ballabh Pant University Of Agriculture & Technology And Indian Agricultural Research Institute, Tanveer Haider Naqvi Dr. Jul 2021

Status, Adequacy And Use Of Library Collection: A Study Of Govind Ballabh Pant University Of Agriculture & Technology And Indian Agricultural Research Institute, Tanveer Haider Naqvi Dr.

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

The study aimed to explore the status, adequacy, and use of library collection at the G.B. Pant University of Agriculture & Technology and Indian Agricultural Research Institute. A well-designed questionnaire was randomly administered to both the universities students in order to collect the relevant data. The five-point Likert scale and summated mean score have also been applied in questionnaire design and data analysis. The results presented substantial differences in the status, adequateness, use, purpose, and satisfaction in terms of library collections at both universities. Electronic resources and databases have turn out to be a major component of collection in meeting …

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The Wifi Pineapple - The Forbidden Fruit Of Networking, Daniel Hautzinger Jul 2021

The Wifi Pineapple - The Forbidden Fruit Of Networking, Daniel Hautzinger

Summer Interdisciplinary Research Symposium

This project conducted a careful investigation into the capabilities of the Hak5 Wifi Pineapple Mark VII, which is a commercially available security and testing apparatus for wireless networks. This device has been used by cybersecurity engineers and companies to audit the networks of many different businesses. A key question of this investigation was whether the device is suitable for use in classroom environments. The risks, side effects, and propriety of the Pineapple were of particular focus. This project also investigated the ethical and legal implications that might arise from use or even casual reception of signal. The investigation concluded that …

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Structural Damage Detection Using Machine Learning Techniques, Zhuolin Yuan Jul 2021

Structural Damage Detection Using Machine Learning Techniques, Zhuolin Yuan

Summer Interdisciplinary Research Symposium

In order to ensure the integrity of the structure, timely and accurate detection and identification of structural damage during and after an extreme event or over the lifetime of a structure is a very important for safety and economic resons. Structural damage detection and identification techniques can be generally classified into two main categories based on whether they use dynamic or static test data. This research project will use convolutional neural networks, which will focus on leveraging the capabilities of several models and toolkits, including AlexNet, Tensorflow and Pytorch. We will establish baseline performance metrics for an existing CNN-based program …

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Narrowing The Universe: A Machine Learning Approach To Patent Clearance, Rebecca Weires, Joshua Rosefelt, Katelyn Meylor, Stephanie Shim, Lindsay Chong Jul 2021

Narrowing The Universe: A Machine Learning Approach To Patent Clearance, Rebecca Weires, Joshua Rosefelt, Katelyn Meylor, Stephanie Shim, Lindsay Chong

Chicago-Kent Journal of Intellectual Property

Companies cannot reliably predict which patents are likely to be asserted against them. If they could, they would be better able to quantify and mitigate their own patent infringement risk. We used machine learning methods, informed by legal scholars’ understanding of relevant patent traits, to improve on prior attempts to predict litigation. We built primarily on Colleen Chien’s Predicting Patent Litigation. Chien used traits from a patent’s legal history and developed a method of prediction based on the traits acquired before litigation, but not after. She demonstrated that the traits acquired before litigation are useful predictors. Evaluating Chien’s approach, we …

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Ai Output: A Human Condition That Should Not Be Protected Now, Or Maybe Ever, Xiao Wang Jul 2021

Ai Output: A Human Condition That Should Not Be Protected Now, Or Maybe Ever, Xiao Wang

Chicago-Kent Journal of Intellectual Property

AI is usually considered to be a form of automatic and autonomous work, but when applied to the creation of literary and artistic works, challenges arise in deciding whether the AI is the de facto author of its output and whether AI outputs or AI-generated products should be protected under the copyright system. This article argues that these outputs should be human creations because the working principles of AI determine that AI functions merely as a mathematical tool applied by humans to not only conceive of but also to execute the creation of AI outputs. The creativity reflected in these …

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Euphemism And Jus Cogens, G. Alex Sinha Jul 2021

Euphemism And Jus Cogens, G. Alex Sinha

Northwestern Journal of Human Rights

Jus cogens norms of international law encompass the most stringent prohibitions of the law of nations. They reflect a global—and typically moral—consensus about impermissible conduct so complete and forceful that no derogation is permissible under any circumstances. Yet states derogate nevertheless. Lacking any valid legal justification for violating jus cogens norms, derogating states instead seek to euphemize their unlawful conduct. Doing so appears at a glance to be a calculated choice that allows States to have their cake and eat it too—to acknowledge the peremptory norms that purportedly bind all sovereigns while acting freely in violation of those norms by …

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Demystifying Data: An Expert Clears Up The Confusion On Today's Hottest Jobs, Matt Windsor Jul 2021

Demystifying Data: An Expert Clears Up The Confusion On Today's Hottest Jobs, Matt Windsor

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Utilizing Image And Caption Information For Biomedical Document Classification., Pengyuan Li, Xiangying Jiang, Gongbo Zhang, Juan Trelles Trabucco, Daniela Raciti, Cynthia Smith, Martin Ringwald, G Elisabeta Marai, Cecilia Arighi, Hagit Shatkay Jul 2021

Utilizing Image And Caption Information For Biomedical Document Classification., Pengyuan Li, Xiangying Jiang, Gongbo Zhang, Juan Trelles Trabucco, Daniela Raciti, Cynthia Smith, Martin Ringwald, G Elisabeta Marai, Cecilia Arighi, Hagit Shatkay

Faculty Research 2021

MOTIVATION: Biomedical research findings are typically disseminated through publications. To simplify access to domain-specific knowledge while supporting the research community, several biomedical databases devote significant effort to manual curation of the literature-a labor intensive process. The first step toward biocuration requires identifying articles relevant to the specific area on which the database focuses. Thus, automatically identifying publications relevant to a specific topic within a large volume of publications is an important task toward expediting the biocuration process and, in turn, biomedical research. Current methods focus on textual contents, typically extracted from the title-and-abstract. Notably, images and captions are often used …

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Fixed Bottom Wind Turbine Wave-Wake Interaction, Ondrej Fercak Jul 2021

Fixed Bottom Wind Turbine Wave-Wake Interaction, Ondrej Fercak

Dissertations and Theses

The interest and benefits of offshore wind energy has also brought along legitimate design challenges for engineers. Most notably, the complex interaction between wind and turbine is further complicated by the addition of dynamic ocean waves. This dynamic coupling between wind, wave, and turbine is not fully understood. Even small improvements in wind turbine performance are welcome, so characterizing a fundamental dynamic in offshore energy is necessary to optimize design. Experimentation and simulation have been used to characterize inflow and turbine wakes and separately, wind-wave interactions. But only simulations have just begun to look at the wind, wave, and turbine …

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"Technology: Present And Future" Featuring Dr. Jose Morey, Armando F. Sanchez Productions Jul 2021

"Technology: Present And Future" Featuring Dr. Jose Morey, Armando F. Sanchez Productions

Armando F. Sanchez Productions collection

Video recording from the "Technology: Present and Future" series featuring host Armando F. Sanchez and his guest Dr. Jose Morey, CEO and founder of Ad Astra Media LLC that provides role models and educational STEAM content to encourage more diversity in STEAM related fields.

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Graph-Theoretic Partitioning Of Rnas And Classification Of Pseudoknots-Ii, Louis Petingi Jul 2021

Graph-Theoretic Partitioning Of Rnas And Classification Of Pseudoknots-Ii, Louis Petingi

Publications and Research

Dual graphs have been applied to model RNA secondary structures with pseudoknots, or intertwined base pairs. In previous works, a linear-time algorithm was introduced to partition dual graphs into maximally connected components called blocks and determine whether each block contains a pseudoknot or not. As pseudoknots can not be contained into two different blocks, this characterization allow us to efficiently isolate smaller RNA fragments and classify them as pseudoknotted or pseudoknot-free regions, while keeping these sub-structures intact. Moreover we have extended the partitioning algorithm by classifying a pseudoknot as either recursive or non-recursive in order to continue with our research …

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Pathcnn: Interpretable Convolutional Neural Networks For Survival Prediction And Pathway Analysis Applied To Glioblastoma, Jung Hun Oh, Wookjin Choi, Euiseong Ko, Mingon Kang, Allen Tannenbaum, Joseph O. Deasy Jul 2021

Pathcnn: Interpretable Convolutional Neural Networks For Survival Prediction And Pathway Analysis Applied To Glioblastoma, Jung Hun Oh, Wookjin Choi, Euiseong Ko, Mingon Kang, Allen Tannenbaum, Joseph O. Deasy

Computer Science Faculty Research

Motivation: Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have achieved great success in the areas of image processing and computer vision, handling grid-structured inputs and efficiently capturing local dependencies through multiple levels of abstraction. However, a lack of interpretability remains a key barrier to the adoption of deep neural networks, particularly in predictive modeling of disease outcomes. Moreover, because biological array data are generally represented in a non-grid structured format, CNNs cannot be applied directly. Results: To address these issues, we propose a novel method, called PathCNN, that constructs an interpretable CNN model on integrated multi-omics data using a newly defined pathway image. …

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Temperature Dependence Of Field-Response Mechanisms In 0.4ba(Zr0.2Ti0.8)O3-0.6(Ba0.7Ca0.3)Tio3, Chris M. Fancher, Özgür Keleṣ, Matthias Ehmke, Keith J. Bowman Jul 2021

Temperature Dependence Of Field-Response Mechanisms In 0.4ba(Zr0.2Ti0.8)O3-0.6(Ba0.7Ca0.3)Tio3, Chris M. Fancher, Özgür Keleṣ, Matthias Ehmke, Keith J. Bowman

Faculty Research, Scholarly, and Creative Activity

Understanding the temperature dependence of how ferroelectric materials respond to electric fields is critical for determining how best to use these materials in applications. Here, temperature dependent in situ x-ray diffraction is used to study how field-response mechanism Ba(Zr0.2Ti0.8)O3-x(Ba0.7Ca0.3)TiO3 evolves with temperature. Increasing the measurement temperature was found to slightly reduce the extent of domain reversal and the magnitude of the 111 lattice strain. Instead, these results indicate that temperature predominantly impacted the angular dependence of the 002/200 lattice strain. We attribute the observed differences in 002/200 lattice strain to the flattening of the free-energy near the tetragonal-orthorhombic phase boundary, …

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An Overview Of Planar Flow Casting Of Thin Metallic Glasses And Its Relation To Slot Coating Of Liquid Films, Eric A. Theisen, Steven J. Weinstein Jul 2021

An Overview Of Planar Flow Casting Of Thin Metallic Glasses And Its Relation To Slot Coating Of Liquid Films, Eric A. Theisen, Steven J. Weinstein

Articles

Planar flow casting (PFC) is a method that can be used to make thin, long, and wide metallic alloy foils by extruding molten liquid through a thin and wide nozzle and immediately quenching on a moving roller. The quenching rates are high enough that amorphous metallic glasses may be formed which have many desirable properties for a wide variety of applications. This paper reviews how PFC processes were developed, examines the typical operability range of PFC, and reviews the defects that commonly form. The geometrical similarities between PFC and slot coating process are apparent, and this paper highlights differences between …

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An Overview Of Planar Flow Casting Of Thin Metallic Glasses And Its Relation To Slot Coating Of Liquid Films, Eric A. Theisen, Steven J. Weinstein Jul 2021

An Overview Of Planar Flow Casting Of Thin Metallic Glasses And Its Relation To Slot Coating Of Liquid Films, Eric A. Theisen, Steven J. Weinstein

Articles

Planar flow casting (PFC) is a method that can be used to make thin, long, and wide metallic alloy foils by extruding molten liquid through a nozzle slot and immediately quenching on a moving roller. The quenching rates are high enough that amorphous metallic glasses may be formed that have many desirable properties for a wide variety of applications. This paper reviews how PFC processes were developed, examines the typical operability range of PFC, and reviews the defects that commonly form. The geometrical similarities between PFC and slot coating process are apparent, and this paper highlights differences between the operability …

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Laboratory And Full-Scale Pavement Sections Testing For Evaluating Frost Action In Cold Regions, Dorin Papuc Jul 2021

Laboratory And Full-Scale Pavement Sections Testing For Evaluating Frost Action In Cold Regions, Dorin Papuc

Theses and Dissertations

A comprehensive laboratory testing plan was conducted as part of this project to select two frost-susceptible soils for use in constructing three full-scale test strips. A total of 16 soils were obtained from various suppliers in NJ and were evaluated to determine their frost-susceptibility. The evaluation included conducting sieve analysis, hydrometer analysis, and specific gravity. Using these measures, two soils were selected (namely, Soil #2 and Soil #13) for constructing the test strips. The properties (Atterberg Limits, moisture-density relationships, California bearing ratio (CBR), Resilient Modulus among others) were determined through a laboratory testing plan. In addition, this study involved constructing …

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The Guardian, Week Of July 12, 2021, Wright State Student Body Jul 2021

The Guardian, Week Of July 12, 2021, Wright State Student Body

The Guardian Student Newspaper

News articles from The Guardian for the week of July 12, 2021. The Guardian is the official student-run newspaper for Wright State University. It has been published regularly since March of 1965.

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Board Of Directors Meeting Minutes (July 12, 2021), Dmacc Jul 2021

Board Of Directors Meeting Minutes (July 12, 2021), Dmacc

Board of Directors Meeting Minutes

This file contains the minutes from the Des Moines Area Community College Board meeting held on July 12, 2021.

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Focus, 2021, Spring, Andrews University Jul 2021

Focus, 2021, Spring, Andrews University

Focus

FOCUS (ISSN 1077-9345) is published quarterly, free of charge, for alumni and friends of Andrews University, an institution owned and operated by the Seventh-day Adventist Church.

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Correlating Diffusional Dynamics And Receptor Tyrosine Kinase Function Using Single Quantum Dot Tracking, Irais Ortiz Caraveo Jul 2021

Correlating Diffusional Dynamics And Receptor Tyrosine Kinase Function Using Single Quantum Dot Tracking, Irais Ortiz Caraveo

Biomedical Engineering ETDs

Epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) signal transduction is initiated via ligand (EGF) binding, followed by dimerization, autophosphorylation of the C-terminal tails, and recruitment of proteins that form a larger signaling complex to propagate the signal. We explored the relationship between receptor mobility and signaling using single-particle tracking (SPT) by examining the diffusional dynamics of EGFR and two truncation mutants to understand whether mobility changes are correlated with signaling. Results revealed that phosphorylation of the C-terminal tail of EGFR is required for maximal reduction in mobility that occurs with EGF stimulation, indicating that receptor mobility is a read-out for receptor signaling. …

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In-Vitro And In-Silico Investigations Of Alternative Surgical Techniques For Single Ventricular Disease, Arka Das Jul 2021

In-Vitro And In-Silico Investigations Of Alternative Surgical Techniques For Single Ventricular Disease, Arka Das

Doctoral Dissertations and Master's Theses

Single ventricle (SV) anomalies account for one-fourth of all cases of congenital Heart disease. The conventional second and third stage i.e. Comprehensive stage II and Fontan procedure of the existing three-staged surgical approach serving as a palliative treatment for this anomaly, entails multiple complications and achieves a survival rate of 50%. Hence, to reduce the morbidity and mortality rate associated with the second and third stages of the existing palliative procedure, the novel alternative techniques called “Hybrid Comprehensive Stage II” (HCSII), and a “Self-powered Fontan circulation” have been proposed. The goal of this research is to conduct in-vitro investigations to …

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