Lung cancer diagnoses account for roughly 1.6 million deaths worldwide. It is the leading cause of cancer deaths in the US for men and the second leading cause for women. Due to late detection lung cancers have a high ...
As a potential biological threat agent, the virulent bacterium Francisella tularensis remains an important topic of research. Understanding the mechanisms of action of antimicrobial peptides on F. tularensis is crucial to ...
The science of extracting, analyzing, and identifying small molecule metabolites from a complex sample matrix is known as metabolomics. Volatilomics is specialized metabolomics, focused on volatile organic compounds (VOCs) ...
Francisella tularensis is a gram negative facultative intracellular pathogen which is a class A biothreat according to the CDC. This bacteria codes for two chitinases (ChiA and ChiB) and one chitin binding protein (CbpA). ...
Rift Valley Fever virus (RVFV) is a Bunyavirus known to cause severe disease in livestock. Its zoonotic capability makes it a serious threat as it has become endemic in many parts of the world. While primarily spread through ...
NeuroMorpho.Org is a scientific database of digital reconstructions of neurons and glia. It
serves as a large-scale repository of a wide range of morphological information that can be
accessed all over the world, thus ...
This investigation included the construction of a spectral library of Mtb H37Rv
peptides followed by a comparison of the results of data-dependent acquisition (DDA)
and data-independent acquisition (DIA) workflows for ...
Venezuelan Equine Encephalitis Virus (VEEV) is a positive-sense, single-stranded, enveloped-RNA alphavirus of the Togaviridae family that is transmitted through the bite of an Aedes aegypti and Aedes albopictus mosquito ...
The Arctic sea ice region has become an increasingly important study area since it is not only a key driver of the Earth’s climate, but also a sensitive indicator of climate change. To model and validate sea ice changes, ...
The investigation and manipulation of novel magnetic textures within topological
quantum materials is emerging as a new frontier for future spin-based electronic devices.
Recently, transition-metal based kagome magnets ...
In religious psychology, deconversion is often studied as an intrapersonal phenomenon, a shift from religious belief to disbelief. But deconversion is at least analogous to (if not coterminous with) social conflict in that ...
Bobo, the narrator and main character, lives with his younger sister (Titi) and grandmother in Sagamu, a town in southwest Nigeria. His mother is dead, his father is in political exile, and his hometown - under the threat ...
Current regulation established for disposal of solid waste (e.g., municipal solid waste, and coal combustion residuals) requires disposal facilities to include a composite liner system consisting of a geomembrane overlying ...
Chagas disease (CD), caused by the protozoan Trypanosoma cruzi, is mainly transmitted
through vectors, blood transfusions or from mothers to their infants. It is estimated that
around 25% of new CD infections occur through ...
The current era of Great Power Competition (GPC) between the People's Republic
of China (PRC), the Russian Federation (Russia), and the United States is characterized
by increased use of \hybrid threats." These are ...
The six daughters of Akhenaten and Nefertiti are known as the Amarna princesses. Their father, Akhenaten, established a new religion centered on the Aten, a solar deity, and shunned the rest of Egyptian gods. Akhenaten ...
Background: Hispanic children are disproportionately affected by obesity in the United States. Interventions targeting the home food environment of obese Hispanic children may contribute to reductions in obesity in both ...
Before this thesis, there did not exist much scholarship on jam bands, and none of
it from the point of view of participants. This oral history explains the history and cultural
context behind jam bands and details the ...
20-year-old Marion Merriweather lives with her aunt, uncle, and self-important cousin in
Camden, Massachusetts. A decade ago, a disastrous family camping trip left her mother
missing and her father committed to a private ...
This thesis is a collection of poems that explores the confines and expansions of young femininity. Working within a “gurlesque” style of poetry, Guilty Pleasures comments on the razzle-dazzle of beauty pageants, the ...