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Improved Permafrost Protection Using Air Convection And Ventilated Shoulder Cooling Systems - Final Project Report, Douglas J. Goering

AIDC Project Reports

This report focuses on the effectiveness of air convection embankments (ACE) and ventilated shoulder (VS) cooling systems designed to cool foundation soils and preserve permafrost beneath roadway embankments. The three main sections of the report include a literature review, an analysis of field data from Thompson Drive and the Alaska Highway Dot Lake test site, and a discussion of techniques for modeling ACE and VS structures.

Electrical & Computer Engineering News, Georgia Southern University

Electrical & Computer Engineering: News & Publications (2014-2023)

• Dr. Davari Receives an NSF Award

Electrical & Computer Engineering, Georgia Southern University

Electrical & Computer Engineering: News & Publications (2014-2023)

• Dr. Davari Receives an NSF Award

Electrical & Computer Engineering, Georgia Southern University

Electrical & Computer Engineering: News & Publications (2014-2023)

• Dr. Davari Receives an NSF Award

Mechanical Engineering News, Georgia Southern University

Mechanical Engineering: News & Publications (2013-2023)

• Dr. Bhoi Receives Award for Scholarly Activity

Newsroom, Georgia Southern University

Newsroom (2006-2023)

• Business Innovation Group partners with local entrepreneur, alumnus Garrett Clark as 'Community Catalyst'
• Georgia Southern expands accessibility with new online Professional Communication and Leadership master's program

Butte Priority Soils Operable Unit (Bpsou) Final Insufficiently Reclaimed Sites - Field Sampling Plan (Fsp) Bres No. 30 – Atlantic-1, Mike Mcanulty

Silver Bow Creek/Butte Area Superfund Site

No abstract provided.

Assessing Annual Nearshore Carbonate Chemistry Trends In Alaska's Marginal Seas, James Currie

Marine Biology

One of the consequences of anthropogenic carbon emissions is ocean acidification (OA). As atmospheric concentrations of carbon dioxide (CO₂) continue to rise, oceanic absorption of CO₂ changes the balance of dissolved inorganic carbon species (DIC) in seawater and alters marine carbonate chemistry. OA is predicted to be more pronounced in high-latitude environments, highlighting the importance of characterizing nearshore carbonate chemistry in polar and subpolar habitats, such as Alaska's marginal seas. OA can have significant impacts on calcifying organisms (including pteropods, clams, mussels, and oysters), lowering the saturation of calcium carbonate minerals that are essential for shell formation in seawater. Despite …

Making 2022-23 A Safe And Healthy Academic Year, Edward Montgomery

WMU President Edward Montgomery

No abstract provided.

Release Of Vocs, Gasses, And Bacteria From Contaminated Landings And Creeks Of Ogeechee River Basin, Victoria A. Clower, Melanie Sparrow, Atin Adhikari

Biostatistics, Epidemiology & Environmental Health Sciences: Faculty Publications

River landings are common public grounds, visited by many people every day. The aftermath of visiting these places may be unsettling since much trash is left behind and scattered throughout. The litter collects and with each rain or high wind, it has a better chance of ending up in our streams, rivers, creeks, and eventually our oceans. The main purpose of this study was to measure both air and water quality throughout the Ogeechee River basin in South Georgia to determine how each was impacted by trash. Ammonia, methane, and volatile organic compounds (VOCs) along with temperature and humidity were …

Limited Rigor In Studies Of Raptor Mortality And Mitigation At Wind Power Facilities, Tara J. Conkling, Christopher J.W. Mcclure, Sandra Cuadros, Scott R. Loss, Todd E. Katzner

United States Geological Survey: Staff Publications

Wind power is an expanding source of renewable energy. However, there are ecological challenges related to wind energy generation, including collisions of wildlife with turbines. Lack of rigor, and variation in study design, together limit efforts to understand the broad-scale effects of wind power infrastructure on wildlife populations. It is not clear, however, whether these types of limitations apply to groups of birds such as raptors that are particularly vulnerable to negative effects of wind energy. We reviewed 672 peer-reviewed publications, unpublished reports, and citations from 321 wind facilities in 12 countries to evaluate methods used to monitor and mitigate …

Nitric Oxide-Inhibited Chloride Transport In Cortical Thick Ascending Limbs Is Reversed By 8-Iso-Prostaglandin-F2Α, Pablo D. Cabral, Guillermo B. Silva, Sandra T. Baigorria, Luis I. Juncos, Ebenezer I. O Ajayi, Néstor H. García

Hypertension and Vascular Research Articles

Background: Salt reabsorption in the cortical thick ascending limb (cTAL) is regulated by opposing effects. Thus, while nitric oxide (NO) inhibits sodium chloride (NaCl) reabsorption, 8-iso-prostaglandin-F2α (8-iso-PGF2α) stimulates it. Their interaction, however, has not been evaluated in the cTAL. Because 8-iso-PGF2α has considerable stability while NO is a free radical with a short half-life, we hypothesized that, in the cTAL, the inhibition of NaCl absorption will be reversed by 8-iso-PGF2α.

Methods: Chloride absorption (JCl) was measured in isolated perfused cTALs. We also evaluated whether activation of protein kinase A (PKA) is required for this interaction. Since cyclic adenosine monophosphate (cAMP) …

Public Sector Unions And Government Financing, Qian He

Lingnan Theses (MPhil & PhD)

Unions play a significant role in the U.S. public sector. Most studies focus on unions in the private sector, but their role in the public sector is much more significant. According to the latest Current Population Survey (CPS) by the U.S. Census Bureau, more than one-third of public sector employees are union members, whereas private sector union membership is around 6%. In this paper, we examine the impact of public sector unions on the financing costs of government because the cost of financing is one of the major concerns of governments.

We employ an exogenous shock induced by the Supreme …

Targeted Next-Generation Sequencing Of Congenital Hypothyroidism-Causative Genes Reveals Unexpected Thyroglobulin Gene Variants In Patients With Iodide Transport Defect, Carlos Eduardo Bernal Barquero, Romina Celeste Geysels, Virginie Jacques, Gerardo Hérnan Carro, Mariano Martín, Victoria Peyret, María Celeste Abregú, Patricia Papendieck, Ana María Masini-Repiso, Frédérique Savagner, Ana Elena Chiesa, Cintia E. Citterio, Juan Pablo Nicola

Pharmacy Faculty Articles and Research

Congenital iodide transport defect is an uncommon autosomal recessive disorder caused by loss-of-function variants in the sodium iodide symporter (NIS)-coding SLC5A5 gene and leading to dyshormonogenic congenital hypothyroidism. Here, we conducted a targeted next-generation sequencing assessment of congenital hypothyroidism-causative genes in a cohort of nine unrelated pediatric patients suspected of having a congenital iodide transport defect based on the absence of 99mTc-pertechnetate accumulation in a eutopic thyroid gland. Although, unexpectedly, we could not detect pathogenic SLC5A5 gene variants, we identified two novel compound heterozygous TG gene variants (p.Q29* and c.177-2A>C), three novel heterozygous TG gene variants (p.F1542Vfs*20, p.Y2563C, and …

Assessment Of Information And Computer Literacy Skills Among The Students Of The University Of Jammu: A Case Study, Meghabat Singh, Avinash Singh Charak, Gulshan Kumar

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

This study was organized to assess and have records about the information literacy and computer literacy skills among the students at the University of Jammu. To collect the data, a questionnaire was framed and distributed among 265 students studying at the University of Jammu. Out of 265 students, 243 questionnaires were received with responses being filed in them. Of the 243 students, there were 159 males and 84 females. The data revealed that the majority of the students 177 (72.84%) were familiar with the concept of computer and digital literacy and most of the students possess knowledge about the basic …

Spatial Analysis Of Burn Severity And Streamflow Response In The Western Conus, Will Brendan Long

Dissertations and Theses

Wildfire increases the magnitude of runoff in catchments, which can lead to the degradation of ecosystems, risk to infrastructure, and loss of life. The Labor Day Fires of 2020 provided an opportunity to compare multiple large and severe wildfires with the objective of determining potential changes to hydrologic processes in Oregon Cascades watersheds. Geographic information systems (GIS) were implemented to determine the total percentage burned and percentage of high burn severity class of six watersheds on the west-slope of the Oregon Cascade Range. In addition, two control watersheds were included to contrast the influence of climatic effects. Spatial arrangement of …

Measurement Of The Branching Fractions Of The B+ → Η′ℓ+Νℓ And B+ → Η′ℓ+Νℓ Decays With Signal-Side Only Reconstruction In The Full Q2 Range, U. Gebauer, C. Beleño, A. Frey, I. Adachi, K. Adamczyk, H. Aihara, S. Al Said, D. M. Asner, H. Atmacan, T. Aushev, R. Ayad, V. Babu, S. Bahinipati, P. Behera, K. Belous, J. Bennett, M. Bessner, V. Bhardwaj, B. Bhuyan, Milind Purohit, Et. Al.

Faculty Publications

The branching fractions of the decays B⁺ → ηl⁺νl and B⁺ → ηl⁺νl are measured, where l is either an electron or a muon, using a data sample of 711 fb⁻¹ containing 772 × 10⁶ BB̅ pairs collected at the ϒ(4S) resonance with the Belle detector at the KEKB asymmetric-energy e⁺e⁻ collider. To reduce the dependence of the result on the form factor model, the measurement is performed over the entire q² range. The resulting branching fractions are B(B⁺ → η ℓ + ν ℓ)=(2.83 …

Measurement Of The Branching Fractions Of The B+ → Ηl+ Νl And B+ → Η0l+ Νl Decays With Signal-Side Only Reconstruction In The Full Q2 Range, U. Gebauer, C. Beleño, A. Frey, I. Adachi, K. Adamczyk, H. Aihara, S. Al Said, D. M. Asner, H. Atmacan, T. Aushev, R. Ayad, V. Babu, S. Bahinipati, P. Behera, K. Belous, J. Bennett, M. Bessner, V. Bhardwaj, B. Bhuyan, Milind Purohit, Et. Al.

Faculty Publications

The branching fractions of the decays B⁺ → ηl+νl and B+ → η0 lþνl are measured, where l is either an electron or a muon, using a data sample of 711 fb⁻¹ containing 772 × 10⁶ BB̅ pairs collected at the ϒ(4S) resonance with the Belle detector at the KEKB asymmetric-energy e⁺e⁻ collider. To reduce the dependence of the result on the form factor model, the measurement is performed over the entire q² range. The resulting branching fractions are B(B⁺ → ηlþνl)=(2.83 ± 0.55_(stat.) ± 0.34_(syst.) )× 10 …

Structure-Based Design Of Stapled Peptides That Bind Gabarap And Inhibit Autophagy, Hawley Brown, Mia Chung, Alina Üffing, Nefeli Batistatou, Tiffany Tsang, Weiqun Mao, Robert C Bast, Zhen Lu, Oliver H Weiergräber, Joshua A Kritzer

Faculty, Staff and Student Publications

The LC3/GABARAP family of proteins is involved in nearly every stage of autophagy. Inhibition of LC3/GABARAP proteins is a promising approach to blocking autophagy, which sensitizes advanced cancers to DNA-damaging chemotherapy. Here, we report the structure-based design of stapled peptides that inhibit GABARAP with nanomolar affinities. Small changes in staple structure produced stapled peptides with very different binding modes and functional differences in LC3/GABARAP paralog selectivity, ranging from highly GABARAP-specific to broad inhibition of both subfamilies. The stapled peptides exhibited considerable cytosolic penetration and resistance to biological degradation. They also reduced autophagic flux in cultured ovarian cancer cells and sensitized …

Review Of Elisabeth Johansson-Nogués, Martijn C. Vlaskamp And Esther Barbé, Eds., European Union Contested: Foreign Policy In A New Global Context, Springer, L Cladi

School of Law, Humanities and Social Sciences

Book review Cladi, L. (2022) Book Reviews. JCMS: Journal of Common Market Studies, 60: 1529–1530. https://doi.org/10.1111/jcms.13393.

Impairment Of Dna Repair By Oncogenic Virus Hhv8, Viktorija Podlutskaya

Chemistry and Biochemistry

Cancer is a growing disease burden worldwide. Lifestyle and environmental factors are the largest contributors to cancer development (90-95%) in contrast to genetics (5-10% of cases,); of the environmental factors, infections contribute 15-20% of the "external" risk in developing cancer. In the US, breast cancer is the most common type of cancer with 284,000 new cases expected in 2021, with the next most common being prostate and lung cancer. Viruses have long been suspected to promote cancerous transformations. Kaposi Sarcoma Associated Herpesvirus (KSHV) is implicated in Kaposi Sarcoma (KS) cancer transformation and in vitro is found in BCBL1 cells. KSHV …

An Examination Of A Sleep-Related Hypermotor Epilepsy Associated Mutation In Complex Α4Β2* Nicotinic Acetylcholine Receptors, Tyler Smith

Chemistry and Biochemistry

Epilepsy is a disease that involves large networks of neurons. As such, studying the pathology of epilepsy has been complicated. Investigating epilepsy through the lens of Sleep-related Hypermotor Epilepsy (SHE) presents itself as a good strategy as SHE is linked to a variety of single point mutations. These mutations affect receptors, the most prominent being mutations in nicotinic acetylcholine receptors (nAChRs). nAChRs are pentameric ligand-gated ion channels. Five individual subunits combine to form a functional receptor. These nAChRs can either be homomeric, where all 5 subunits are the same, or heteromeric where there are different subunits combining. The most common …

Developing Historical Waterfront That Located In Central Business District Case Study: El Manchya, Eastern Harbor, Alexandria, Haitham El Sayed Ahmed El Sharnouby

Mansoura Engineering Journal

Developing waterfront historic districts especially that lying in Central Business District (CBD), helps in integrating communities with their water elements and reflects the ability of CBD to adapt economic and social environments. The aim of the research is to set a new approach to be applied to achieve sustainable waterfront development. By emphasize the quality of life means in El-Manchya Square to increase economic return in terms of tourism, and public and private investments. These through guidance of similar case; which is Aristotelous plaza; one of Greece's best known locations. After studying Aristotelous plaza we can conclude certain approaches to …

Machining Of Carbon Steel Under Aqueous Environment: Investigations Into Some Performance Measures, Mushtaq Ali, Tahir Abdul Hussain Ratlamwala, Ghulam Hussain, Tauheed Shehbaz, Riaz Muhammad, Muhammad Aamir, Khaled Giasin, Danil Yurievich Pimenov

Research outputs 2022 to 2026

In this study, a new machining approach (aqueous machining) is applied for mill machining and its performance is compared with traditional wet machining. AISI 1020 steel is employed as the test material and Taguchi statistical methodology is implemented to analyze and compare the performance of the two machining approaches. The cutting speed, feed rate, and depth of cut were the machining parameters used for both types of machining, while the selected response variables were surface roughness and hardness. Temperature variations were also recorded in aqueous machining. Compared with wet machining, aqueous machining resulted in lower surface roughness (up to 13 …

Bayesian Inference And Prediction In Cardiac Electrophysiology Models With An Application To Representing Variability, Alejandro Nieto Ramos

Theses

Many different techniques have been used for parameter estimation in cardiac electrophysiology models, from optimization algorithms to heuristic and frequentist statistical methods. However, the fixed parameter values obtained from such approaches cannot provide a complete description of variability within an individual or across a population. To overcome this shortcoming, in this work we adopt a Bayesian approach by applying the Hamiltonian Monte Carlo (HMC) algorithm to cardiac electrophysiology models and data for the first time through three studies. (i) Using HMC, we fit synthetic and experimental cardiac voltage data from different pacing rates and find the probability distributions of the …

Pediatric Open Long-Bone Fracture And Subsequent Deep Infection Risk: The Importance Of Early Hospital Care, Andrew W Kuhn, Stockton C Troyer, Jeffrey E Martus

2020-Current year OA Pubs

The purpose of the current study was to identify risk factors for deep infection after an open long-bone fracture in pediatric patients. Systematic billing queries were utilized to identify pediatric patients who presented to a level I trauma center from 1998 to 2019 with open long-bone fractures. There were 303 open long-bone fractures, and 24 (7.9%) of these became infected. Fractures of the tibia/fibula (

Defining Hierarchical Protein Interaction Networks From Spectral Analysis Of Bacterial Proteomes, Mark A Zaydman, Alexander S Little, Fidel Haro, Valeryia Aksianiuk, William J Buchser, Aaron Diantonio, Jeffrey I Gordon, Jeffrey Milbrandt, Arjun S Raman

2020-Current year OA Pubs

Cellular behaviors emerge from layers of molecular interactions: proteins interact to form complexes, pathways, and phenotypes. We show that hierarchical networks of protein interactions can be defined from the statistical pattern of proteome variation measured across thousands of diverse bacteria and that these networks reflect the emergence of complex bacterial phenotypes. Our results are validated through gene-set enrichment analysis and comparison to existing experimentally derived databases. We demonstrate the biological utility of our approach by creating a model of motility in

Accurate Break Reminder Based On Fatigue Detection By Tof Sensor, Hp Inc

Defensive Publications Series

This disclosure is using ToF sensor to detect user’s body fatigue symptom e.g., side‐bend/wingspan/neck rotation/shoulder shrug/back and forward bend/neck rotation…etc. stretching movement caused by fatigue, which calculated through unique algorithm to trigger the message of fatigue detection to increase the accuracy of sending break reminder.

Personalization Of Graphical User Interfaces - Id-06099, Christian Mohr

Defensive Publications Series

The invention relates to an adaptive user interface (UI) for controlling a kitchen appliance, e.g., a hob system. The hob system comprises a display unit and a programmable microcontroller (µC) which communicate with each other. The display unit is a TFT display and shows the adaptive user interface (UI) allowing the user to interact with the hob system. The programmable microcontroller (µC) is configured to receive the input signals from a user via the adaptive UI and deliver commands to the UI or operational components of a hob system. The adaptive UI may include featured icons, cooking functions, setting modes, …

Additional Packaging Part For Easy Removal Of Orange Ship Cap, Hp Inc

Defensive Publications Series

The Ziggy orange ship cap is having high and variable torque for all sizes. Whereby genuine customer complains on the bad experience in removing the orange cap. Internal testers were giving feedback on the high and variable torque needed in opening different batches of the same supplies. Other feedback includes finger scratches whilst opening the cap. The root cause is unwanted weld which is due to constraint of the line to meet high volume manufacturing.