• Studying School Gardens as Habitat for Urban Butterflies and Outcomes of Involving Elementary School Students in Data Collection during a DC Summer Program 

  Pontarelli, Katherine

  Schoolyard gardens are increasing in cities to simultaneously provide students with experiential learning opportunities and local communities with increased food security. These gardens may also provide urban habitats ...
• Assessing Thermal Imagery Integration into Object Detection Methods on Air-Based Collection Platforms 

  Gallagher, James

  Object detection models commonly focus on utilizing the visible spectrum via Red-Green-Blue (RGB) imagery. Due to various limitations with this approach in low visibility settings, there is growing interest in fusing RGB ...
• Urban Stream Restorations Increase Floodplain Soil Carbon and Nutrient Retention along a Chronosequence 

  Napora, Katrina

  Stream restoration is a common management practice to meet regulatory or voluntary efforts to improve water quality via carbon and nutrient retention, including in the Chesapeake Bay watershed. However, restoration ...
• Creation of a Novel Fusion Protein WGA-eNpHR3.0 for Circuit Dissection in The Brain 

  Kinsey, Lucas

  Over the last decade, optogenetic manipulation of neuronal activity has redefined functional circuit analysis in the central nervous system. Combined with promoters for specific neuron types, optogenetic actuators permit ...
• Extracellular Vesicle Subpopulations From HTLV-1 Infected Cells Induce Differential Effects in Recipient Cells 

  Cuba, Zachary

  Human T-cell Leukemia Virus Type 1 (HTLV-1) is the causative agent of Adult T-Cell Leukemia/Lymphoma (ATLL) and HTLV-1 associated myelopathy/tropical spastic paraparesis (HAM/TSP). Extracellular vesicles (EVs)—membrane-bound ...
• Sentinel-1 Synthetic Aperture Radar Burned Area Detection Using Expectation Maximization in a Multiscale Approach 

  Heying, Louis D

  This research explores wildfire burn mapping using Sentinel-1 Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) imagery for the 2021 Woods Creek Fire in the Helena-Lewis and Clark National Forest in Montana and the 2021 French Fire near ...
• Neural Effects of Estrogen on Mitochondrial Lipids and Cardiolipin Levels and Distribution 

  Lebert, Nadege

  A variety of lipid classes play important roles in neuronal structure and function. One of these lipids is cardiolipin, a phospholipid exclusive to the mitochondria and important to processes such as mitophagy and apoptosis ...
• Mammal Reactions to Novel Objects in Their Environment 

  Wood, Hannah

  The way in which mammals respond to novel objects can inform experts and managers about how urbanization is impacting species. The behaviors of three common North American mammal species with great behavioral adaptability, ...
• The Geographic Roots of Cultural and Liturgical Differences Amongst American Catholics 

  Conti, Joel

  This paper addresses the geographic components of American Catholicism from 1972-2020. The study found significant, previously undiscussed geographic variations in the character and expression of the Catholic faith within ...
• #COVID-19 Searching for a Relationship between Twitter Sentiment and Infectious Disease 

  Stassinos, James Odysseus Van Der Loo

  Digital health data such as social media data has shown potential for identifying outbreaks faster than official records of disease incidence. The objective of this thesis 1 is to examine the relationship between ...
• Advancements in Computational Digital Pathology for EGFR and pd-l1 

  Hoo-Fatt, Nicholas

  Annually Inova Health Care System treats more than two million individuals through their integrated network. With the increasing need for fast and accurate results for its cancer patients, the Inova Laboratories Healthcare ...
• Color and Temperature Are Not Related in the Crepuscular Reptile, Eublepharis macularius 

  Hastings, Brandon

  Ectothermic organisms depend on external sources for heating and cooling to regulate their internal body temperature. Some ectotherms rely on physiological color change by adjusting melanistic body coloration to increase ...
• Mechanisms of Innate Immune Response Activation in Human Monocytes by Small Extracellular Vesicles Released During Infection with Burkholderia thailandensis 

  Matulis, Graham

  The function of small extracellular vesicles (sEVs) released from host cells during bacterial infections is still largely uncharacterized, despite EVs representing key components of cell-to-cell communication. In particular, ...
• Using GEDI Data to Evaluate the Impact of the Australian 2019-2020 Fire Season on the Structure and Biomass of Gondwana Rainforests 

  Flynn, Colin G

  Wildfires are increasing globally in their intensity, frequency, and range. A unique yet globally significant example is the devastating eastern Australia 2019-2020 fire season, which resulted in an unprecedented burnt ...
• Automated Electrochemistry for Measuring the Temperature Dependence of Various Cell Parameters via A Custom Built Microcontroller-Based Potentiostat 

  Canon, Benjamin

  A $70 microcontroller based potentiostat with a temperature probe was designed, fabricated, and tested. The potentiostat was programmed to automatically repeat chronoamperometric experiments on a solution of potassium ...
• Vibrio vulnificus Type 6 Secretion System Exhibits Influence in Marine Aggregate Colonization 

  Amiri, Navolle

  Oysters are among the most economically beneficial species with regards to aquaculture, the process of farming aquatic species. As such, in order to ensure that oyster farming remains profitable, it is necessary to maintain ...
• Determining the Safety of Antimicrobial Peptides, GATR3 and DRGN1, Against Host Cells and Red Blood Cells A 

  Carpenter, Ashley

  Up to half of all combat injured patients suffer from infectious complications, predominately with biofilm-forming, multidrug-resistant (MDR) bacteria. Biofilm management of chronic wounds is an increasingly recognized ...
• Affinity Functionalized Strings for Blood Purification 

  Cachaco, Silvia

  Pathogen reduction is a proactive approach to maximize safety of blood transfusion. Methods of bacterial reduction are available for plasma and platelets but not for red blood cell concentrates and whole blood. We addressed ...
• A Floristic Checklist of Shenandoah River State Park Warren Co., Virginia 

  Sheik, Matthew

  A floristic checklist of vascular plants was conducted at Shenandoah River State Park (SHSP) in Bentonville, Virginia during the 2021 and 2022 growing seasons. SHSP encompasses 665 hectares (1619 acres) of the northern ...
• Inhibitors of Ubiquitin Signaling Pathways Exhibit Antiviral Activities against Venezuelan Equine Encephalitis Virus 

  McGraw, Brittany

  Acutely infectious viruses including alphaviruses, Venezuelan equine encephalitis virus (VEEV) is vector transmitted, resulting in increased disease burden in the civilian and military population. Several of these pathogens ...

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