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Rosen, Paul Andrew | 2D vector field simplification based on robustness | Vector field simplification aims to reduce the complexity of the flow by removing features in order of their relevance and importance, to reveal prominent behavior and obtain a compact representation for interpretation. Most existing simplification techniques based on the topological skeleton succes... | | 2014-01-01 |
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Gerig, Guido | 4D active cut: an interactive tool for pathological anatomy modeling | 4D pathological anatomy modeling is key to understanding complex pathological brain images. It is a challenging problem due to the difficulties in detecting multiple appearing and disappearing lesions across time points and estimating dynamic changes and deformations between them. We propose a novel... | | 2014-01-01 |
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Gerig, Guido | 4D modeling of infant brain growth in Down's Syndrome and controls from longitudinal MRI | Modeling of early brain growth trajectories from longitudinal MRI will provide new insight into neurodevelopmental characteristics, timing and type of changes in neurological disorders from controls. In addition to an ongoing large-scale infant autism neuroimaging study 1, we recruited 4 infants wit... | | 2014-01-01 |
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Sutherland, James Clayton | A comparison of various models in predicting ignition delay in single-particle coal combustion | In this paper, individual coal particle combustion under laminar conditions is simulated using models with various levels of complexity for the particle and gas phase chemical kinetics. The mass, momentum and energy governing equations are fully coupled between the particle and the gas phase. In the... | | 2014-01-01 |
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Narus, Scott P. | A domain analysis model for eIRB systems: addressing the weak link in clinical research informatics | Institutional Review Boards (IRBs) are a critical component of clinical research and can become a significant bottleneck due to the dramatic increase, in both volume and complexity of clinical research. Despite the interest in developing clinical research informatics (CRI) systems and supporting dat... | | 2014-01-01 |
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Furse, Cynthia M. | A history & future of implantable antennas | Implantable antennas have been used for communication with medical implants for decades. This paper traces their roots from early transcutaneous inductively coupled devices to the microstrip and wire antennas in use today. A suggestion for where this technology may go in the future as medical device... | | 2014-01-01 |
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Gerig, Guido | A joint framework for 4D segmentation and estimation of smooth temporal appearance changes | Medical imaging studies increasingly use longitudinal images of individual subjects in order to follow-up changes due to development, degeneration, disease progression or efficacy of therapeutic intervention. Repeated image data of individuals are highly correlated, and the strong causality of infor... | | 2014-01-01 |
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Mathews, V. John | A phase likelihood-based algorithm for blind identification of PSK signals | This paper presents a phase likelihood-based method for automatically identifying different phase-shift keying (PSK) modulations. This method identifies the PSK signals as the hypothesis for which the likelihood function of phase difference between nearby samples of the received signal is the maximu... | | 2014-01-01 |
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Smith, Ken R. | A population-based study of childhood cancer survivors body mass index | Population-based studies are needed to estimate the prevalence of underweight or overweight/obese childhood cancer survivors. Procedure. Adult survivors (diagnosed ≤20 years) were identified from the linked Utah Cancer Registry and Utah Population Database. We included survivors currently aged ≥... | | 2014-01-01 |
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Gerig, Guido | A preliminary study on the effect of motion correction on HARDI reconstruction | Post-acquisition motion correction is widely performed in diffusion-weighted imaging (DWI) to guarantee voxel-wise correspondence between DWIs. Whereas this is primarily motivated to save as many scans as possible if corrupted by motion, users do not fully understand the consequences of different ty... | | 2014-01-01 |
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Myntti, Jeremy | A review of "Introduction to indexing and abstracting" by Donald B. Cleveland and Ana D. Cleveland | Introduction to Indexing and Abstracting by Donald and Ana Cleveland has been used in Library and; Information Science classrooms for many years. The latest edition of this text has been updated to; include more information about the current indexing environment where many people seem to favor; onli... | Indexing; Abstracting | 2014 |
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Berzins, Martin | A survey of high level frameworks in block-structured adaptive mesh refinement packages | Over the last decade block-structured adaptive mesh refinement (SAMR) has found increasing use in large, publicly available codes and frameworks. SAMR frameworks have evolved along different paths. Some have stayed focused on specific domain areas, others have pursued a more general functionality, p... | | 2014-01-01 |
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Liu, Feng | A three-layer-mesh bridging domain for coupled atomistic-continuum simulations at finite temperature: formulation and testing | Although concurrent multiscale methods have been well developed for zero-temperature simulations, improvements are needed to meet challenges pertaining to finite-temperature simulations. Bridging domain method (BDM) is one of the most efficient and widely-used multiscale atomistic-continuum techniqu... | | 2014-01-01 |
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Furse, Cynthia M. | A tutorial on Stochastic FDTD | The Stochastic FDTD (S-FDTD) method provides a way to determine the mean and variance of the electric and magnetic fields in a model where the electrical properties (conductivity and permittivity) vary stochastically, from a single S-FDTD simulation. This method is a realistic and more efficient alt... | | 2014-01-01 |
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Seyedhosseini Tarzjani, Seyed Mojtaba | A workflow for the automatic segmentation of organelles in electron microscopy image stacks | Electron microscopy(EM) facilitates analysis of the form,distribution, and functional status of key organelle systems in various pathological processes,including those associated with neurodegenerative disease.Such EM data often provide important new in sights into the underlying disease mechanisms.... | | 2014-01-01 |
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Francis, Leslie | Accommodating every body | This Article contends that workplace accommodations should be predicated on need or effectiveness instead of group-identity status. It proposes that, in principle, "accommodating every body" be achieved by extending Americans with Disabilities Act-type reasonable accommodation to all work-capable me... | | 2014-01-01 |
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Maas, Steve | Accuracy and feasibility of dual fluoroscopy and model-based tracking to quantify in vivo hip kinematics during clinical exams | Accurate measurements of in-vivo hip kinematics may elucidate the mechanisms responsible for impaired function and chondrolabral damage in hips with femoroacetabular impingement (FAI). The objectives of this study were to quantify the accuracy and demonstrate the feasibility of using dual fluoroscop... | | 2014-01-01 |
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Normann, Richard A. | Acute human brain responses to intracortical microelectrode arrays: challenges and future prospects | The emerging field of neuroprosthetics is focused on the development of new therapeutic interventions that will be able to restore some lost neural function by selective electrical stimulation or by harnessing activity recorded from populations of neurons. As more and more patients benefit from thes... | | 2014-01-01 |
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Brown, Barbara B. | Adding maps (GPS) to accelerometry data to improve study participants recall of physical activity: a methodological advance in physical activity research | Objective Obtaining the ‘when, where and why' of healthy bouts of moderate-to-vigorous physical activity (MVPA) provides insights into natural PA. Design In Salt Lake City, Utah, adults wore accelerometer and Global Positioning System (GPS) loggers for a week in a cross-sectional study to establis... | | 2014-01-01 |
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Sutherland, James Clayton | Advanced regression methods for combustion modelling using principal components | Modelling the physics of combustion remains a challenge due to a large range of temporal and physical scales which are important in these systems. Detailed chemical kinetic mechanisms are used to describe the chemistry involved in the combustion process yielding highly coupled partial differential e... | | 2014-01-01 |
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Rajamani, Raj | Advances in discrete element method application to grinding mills | Discrete element method (DEM) has made significant impact in the design and operation of grinding mills. The internal charge motion of grinding balls and ore can be readily examined. As a result, this method enables one to design and examine mill internals via simulation. This manuscript details es... | | 2014-01-01 |
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Neimoyer, Susan | After the rhapsody: George Gershwin in the Spring of 1924 | The year 1924 was a banner period in the early career of the young George Gershwin. The astonishingly successful premiere of the Rhapsody in Blue with Paul Whiteman's orchestra in 12 February 1924, in some ways made it the year of the Rhapsody. Thanks to the business acumen that prompted Whiteman to... | | 2014-01-01 |
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Stevens, Kenneth | An A-FPGA architecture for relative timing based asynchronous designs | This paper presents an asynchronous FPGA architecture that is capable of implementing relative timing based asynchronous designs. The architecture uses the Xilinx 7-Series architecture as a starting point and proposes modifications that would make it asynchronous design capable while keeping it full... | | 2014-01-01 |
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Sanderson, Allen Reed | An alternative formulation of lyapunov exponents for computing lagrangian coherent structures | Lagrangian coherent structures are time-evolving surfaces that highlight areas in flow fields where neighboring advected particles diverge or converge. The detection and understanding of such structures is an important part of many applications such as in oceanography where there is a need to predic... | | 2014-01-01 |
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Simpson, Jamesina J. | An efficient stochastic approach to uncertainty quantification in 3-D FDTD magnetized cold plasma | An efficient stochastic finite-difference time-domain (S-FDTD) method is developed to analyze electromagnetic field variability in three dimensional anisotropic magnetized plasma. The new S-FDTD plasma model provides a full understanding of the true physics due to the associated uncertainties and ha... | | 2014-01-01 |
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Clayton, Dale H. | An experimental test of the effects of behavioral and immunological defenses against vectors: do they interact to protect birds from blood parasites? | Background: Blood-feeding arthropods can harm their hosts in many ways, such as through direct tissue damage and anemia, but also by distracting hosts from foraging or watching for predators. Blood-borne pathogens transmitted by arthropods can further harm the host. Thus, effective behavioral and im... | | 2014-01-01 |
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Planelles, Vicente | An HIV-encoded antisense long non-coding RNA epigenetically regulates viral transcription | The abundance of long non-coding RNAs (lncRNAs) and their wide range of functional roles in human cells are fast becoming realized. Importantly, lncRNAs have been identified as epigenetic modulators and consequently play a pivotal role in the regulation of gene expression. A human immunodeficiency v... | | 2014-01-01 |
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Parkinson, John Stansfield | An unorthodox sensory adaptation site in the E. coli serine chemoreceptor | The serine chemoreceptor of E. coli contains four canonical methylation sites for sensory adaptation that lie near inter-subunit helix interfaces of the Tsr homodimer. An unexplored fifth methylation site, E502, lies at an intra-subunit helix interface, closest to the HAMP domain that controls input... | | 2014-01-01 |
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Furse, Cynthia M. | Analysis of electromagnetic field variability in magnetized ionosphere plasma using the stochastic FDTD method | A stochastic finite-difference time-domain (S-FDTD) algorithm is presented for electromagnetic wave propagation in anisotropic magnetized plasma. This new algorithm efficiently calculates in a single simulation not only the mean electromagnetic field values, but also their variance as caused by the ... | | 2014-01-01 |
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Bargteil, Adam Wade | Animation of deformable bodies with quadratic bézier finite elements | In this article, we investigate the use of quadratic finite elements for graphical animation of deformable bodies.We consider both integrating quadratic elements with conventional linear elements to achieve a computationally efficient adaptive-degree simulation framework as well as wholly quadratic ... | | 2014-01-01 |
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| ARL Circulation Data 1995-2015 | | | 1995; 1996; 1997; 1998; 1999; 2000; 2001; 2002; 2003; 2004; 2005; 2006; 2007; 2008; 2009; 2010; 2011; 2012; 2013; 2014; 2015 |
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Gur, Yaniv | Assessment of white matter microstructure in stroke patients using NODDI | Diffusion weighted imaging (DWI) is widely used to study changes in white matter following stroke. In various studies employing diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) and high angular resolution diffusion imaging (HARDI) modalities, it has been shown that fractional anisotropy (FA), me... | | 2014-01-01 |
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Smith, Ken R. | The association between adult mortality risk and family history of longevity: the moderating effects of socioeconomic status | Studies consistently show that increasing levels of socioeconomic status (SES) and having a familial history of longevity reduce the risk of mortality. But do these two variables interact, such that individuals with lower levels of SES, for example, may experience an attenuated longevity penalty by ... | | 2014-01-01 |
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Hunt, Steven C. | Association of egg consumption and calcified atherosclerotic plaque in the coronary arteries: The NHLBI Family Heart Study | Background and Aims: Eggs are a ubiquitous and important source of dietary cholesterol and nutrients, yet their relationship to coronary heart disease (CHD) remains unclear. While some data have suggested a positive association between egg consumption and CHD, especially among diabetic subjects, lim... | | 2014-01-01 |
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Painter, Patricia Lynn | Associations of self-reported physical activity types and levels with quality of life, depression symptoms, and mortality in hemodialysis patients: The DOPPS | Background and objectives Physical activity has been associated with better health status in diverse populations, but the association in patients on maintenance hemodialysis is less established. Patient-reported physical activities and associations with mortality, health-related quality of life, and... | | 2014-01-01 |
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Williams, Clayton C. | Atomic scale trap state characterization by dynamic tunneling force microscopy | Dynamic tunneling force microscopy (DTFM) is applied to the study of point defects in an inter-layer dielectric film. A recent development enables simultaneous acquisition of DTFM, surface potential, and topographic images while under active height feedback control. The images show no clear correlat... | | 2014-01-01 |
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Hughes, Kelly T. | ATPase-Independent Type-III Protein Secretion in Salmonella enterica | Type-III protein secretion systems are utilized by gram-negative pathogens to secrete building blocks of the bacterial flagellum, virulence effectors from the cytoplasm into host cells, and structural subunits of the needle complex. The flagellar type-III secretion apparatus utilizes both the energy... | | 2014-01-01 |
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Mishchenko, Eugene | Attraction-repulsion transition in the interaction of adatoms and vacancies in graphene | The interaction of two resonant impurities in graphene has been predicted to have a long-range character with weaker repulsion when the two adatoms reside on the same sublattice and stronger attraction when they are on different sublattices. We reveal that this attraction results from a single energ... | | 2014-01-01 |
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Stevens, Kenneth | Automatic addition of reset in asynchronous sequential control circuits | Asynchronous finite state machines (AFSMs) usually require initialization to place them in a desired starting state. This normally occurs by toggling a reset signal upon power-up. This paper presents an algorithm to automatically generate power-up reset circuitry thus adding reset to an AFSM after t... | | 2014-01-01 |
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Gondolo, Paolo | Axion cold dark matter in view of BICEP2 results | The properties of axions that constitute 100% of cold dark matter (CDM) depend on the tensor-to-scalar ratio r at the end of inflation. If r ¼ 0.20 þ0.07 −0.05 as reported by the BICEP2 Collaboration, then "half" of the CDM axion parameter space is ruled out. Namely, in the context of single-fie... | | 2014-01-01 |
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Jorgensen, Erik | Axon regeneration genes identified by RNAi screening in C. elegans | Axons of the mammalian CNS lose the ability to regenerate soon after development due to both an inhibitory CNS environment and the loss of cell-intrinsic factors necessary for regeneration. The complex molecular events required for robust regeneration of mature neurons are not fully understood, part... | | 2014-01-01 |
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Hughes, Kelly T. | Bacterial flagellin-specific chaperone FliS interacts with anti-sigma factor FlgM | Flagella are extracellular organelles that propel bacteria. Each flagellum consists of a basal body, a hook, and a filament. The major protein of the filament is flagellin. To prevent premature polymerization of newly synthesized flagellin molecules, FliS, the flagellin-specific chaperone, binds fla... | | 2014-01-01 |
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Miller, Jan D. | The behavior of arsenic trioxide in non-ferrous extractive metallurgical processing | Study of the acid bake-leach process has shown potential advantages for the treatment of enargite (Cu3AsS4) concentrates. Among the most important advantages of the process is the transformation of enargite to water-soluble copper sulfate and highly soluble arsenic trioxide (arsenolite). Because ars... | | 2014-01-01 |
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Yamaguchi, Ayako | Bilateral coordination of vocal pathways in African clawed frogs, Xenopus laevis | This poster describes how bilateral coordination of motor programs are achieved in the central vocal pathways of African clawed frogs. | Vocalizations; Central pattern generator; Motor programs; Bilateral coordination | 2014 |
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Narus, Scott P. | Birth of identity: Understanding changes to birth certificates and their value for identity resolution | Introduction Identity information is often used to link records within or among information systems in public health and clinical settings. The quality and stability of birth certificate identifiers impacts both the success of linkage efforts and the value of birth certificate registries for identit... | | 2014-01-01 |
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Myntti, Jeremy | Book review: "Cataloging collaborations and partnerships" | As acknowledged by the editor of this work, there is not a lot of published information on collaboration within cataloging units. To help increase the amount of library literature on this topic, the editor of this book placed a call for articles that were brought together into a triple issue of CCQ.... | Cataloging | 2014 |
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Hansen, Charles D. | Boundary aware reconstruction of scalar fields | In visualization, the combined role of data reconstruction and its classification plays a crucial role. In this paper we propose a novel approach that improves classification of different materials and their boundaries by combining information from the classifiers at the reconstruction stage. Our ap... | | 2014-01-01 |
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Gregory, Joan M. | Building sustainable partnerships: libraries as partners in creating and supporting campus green teams | Libraries as Partners in Creating and Supporting Campus Green Teams | Green teams; Sustainabliity, Recycling; Waste reduction | 2014-07-11 |
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Borodai, Anastasia S. | C-F bond activation | Activation of Carbon-Fluorine Bonds in 2', 3', 4', 5', 6'-Pentafluoroacetophenone through a Transition Metal Complex- Manganese Pentacarbonyl | Carbon; Fluorine; Bond; Activation | 2014-05-30 |
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Llanque, Sarah M. | Caregiver stress: a concept analysis | The purpose of this concept analysis is to provide clarity on the concept of caregiver stress as it pertains to the caregiver of people with Alzheimer's disease and related dementias. | | 2014-01-01 |
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Regehr, John | Cause reduction for quick testing | Abstract-In random testing, it is often desirable to produce a "quick test" - an extremely inexpensive test suite that can serve as a frequently applied regression and allow the benefits of random testing to be obtained even in very slow or oversubscribed test environments. Delta debugging is an alg... | | 2014-01-01 |
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Smith, Timothy W. | Cellular aging and restorative processes: Subjective sleep quality and duration moderate the association between age and telomere length in a sample of middle-aged and older adults | Study Objectives: To examine whether subjective sleep quality and sleep duration moderate the association between age and telomere length (TL). Design: Participants completed a demographic and sleep quality questionnaire, followed by a blood draw. Setting: Social Neuroscience Laboratory. Participant... | | 2014-01-01 |
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Frederick, Jeanne M. | Centrin 2 is required for mouse olfactory ciliary trafficking and development of ependymal cilia planar polarity | Centrins are ancient calmodulin-related Ca2-binding proteins associated with basal bodies. In lower eukaryotes, Centrin2 (CETN2) is required for basal body replication and positioning, although its function in mammals is undefined. We generated a germline CETN2 knock-out (KO) mouse presenting with s... | | 2014-01-01 |
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Keefe, Kristen A. | Changes in neural circuitry regulating response-reversal learning and Arc-mediated consolidation of learning in rats with methamphetamine-induced partial monoamine loss | Methamphetamine-induced neurotoxicity results in long-lasting depletions of monoamines and changes in basal ganglia function. We previously reported that rats with methamphetamine-induced neurotoxicity no longer engage dorsomedial striatum during a response reversal-learning task, as their performan... | | 2014-01-01 |
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Minteer, Shelley D. | Characterizing efficiency of multi-Enzyme cascade-based biofuel cells by product analysis | The performance of biofuel cells with enzyme cascades have normally been characterized with open circuit potential, power density, and current density measurements. In this work, we demonstrate that with the method of quantitative product analysis by mass spectrometry, we can obtain other valuable i... | | 2014-01-01 |
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Gerig, Guido | Characterizing growth patterns in longitudinal MRI using image contrast | Understanding the growth patterns of the early brain is crucial to the study of neuro-development. In the early stages of brain growth, a rapid sequence of biophysical and chemical processes take place. A crucial component of these processes, known as myelination, consists of the formation of a myel... | | 2014-01-01 |
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Vardhan, Avantika | Characterizing growth patterns in longitudinal MRI using image contrast | Understanding the growth patterns of the early brain is crucial to the study of neuro-development. In the early stages of brain growth, a rapid sequence of biophysical and chemical processes take place. A crucial component of these processes, known as myelination, consists of the formation of a myel... | | 2014-01-01 |
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Coley, Phyllis D. | Chemical and bioactive natural products from microthyriaceae sp., an endophytic fungus from a tropical grass | In screening for natural products with antiparasitic activity, an endophytic fungus, strain F2611, isolated from above-ground tissue of the tropical grass Paspalum conjugatum (Poaceae) in Panama, was chosen for bioactive principle elucidation. Cultivation on malt extract agar (MEA) followed by bioas... | | 2014-01-01 |
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Li, Minqi | Chinas grain production: a decade of consecutive growth or stagnation? | Some progressive writers have argued that while China's agricultural privatization achieved short-term gains, it did so by undermining longterm production facilities such as the infrastructure and public services built in the socialist era.1 Environmental scholars have questioned the sustainability ... | | 2014-01-01 |
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Nicoll, Kathleen | The climate and environment of Byzantine Anatolia: Integrating science, history, and archaeology | This article, which is part of a larger project, examines cases in which high-resolution archaeological, textual, and environmental data can be integrated with longer-term, low-resolution data to afford greater precision in identifying some of the causal relationships underlying societal change. | | 2014-01-01 |
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Jorde, Lynn B. | Clinical and biochemical function of polymorphic NR0B1 GGAA-microsatellites in Ewing sarcoma: A report from the Childrens Oncology Group | Background: The genetics involved in Ewing sarcoma susceptibility and prognosis are poorly understood. EWS/FLI and related EWS/ETS chimeras upregulate numerous gene targets via promoter-based GGAA-microsatellite response elements. These microsatellites are highly polymorphic in humans, and prelimina... | | 2014-01-01 |
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Del Fiol, Guilherme | Clinical questions raised by providers in the care of older adults: a prospective observational study | Objective: To characterise clinical questions raised by providers in the care of complex older adults in order to guide the design of interventions that can help providers answer these questions. Materials and methods: To elicit clinical questions, we observed and audio recorded outpatient visits at... | | 2014-01-01 |
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Codding, Brian | Codding, Brian: Living outside the box: An updated perspective on diet breadth and sexual division of labor in the Prearchaic Great Basin [Author's Manuscript] | A tremendous amount has been learned about the Prearchaic (before 9000 BP) Great Basin since we advocated a perspective of sexual division of labor based on Human Behavioral Ecology a decade ago. Many investigators have taken our advice and a few have challenged our assumptions and inferences. One o... | | 2014-01-01 |
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Olivera, Baldomero M. | Combined proteomic and transcriptomic interrogation of the venom gland of conus geographus uncovers novel components and functional compartmentalization | Cone snails are highly successful marine predators that use complex venoms to capture prey. At any given time, hundreds of toxins (conotoxins) are synthesized in the secretory epithelial cells of the venom gland, a long and convoluted organ that can measure 4 times the length of the snail's body. In... | | 2014-01-01 |
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Eiring, Anna M. | Combined STAT3 and BCR-ABL1 inhibition induces synthetic lethality in therapy-resistant chronic myeloid leukemia | Supporting information to Combined STAT3 and BCR-ABL1 Inhibition Induces Synthetic Lethality in Therapy-Resistant Chronic Myeloid Leukemia | Chemical synthesis and characterization | 2014-05-19 |
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Saam, Brian | Comment on: New limit on lorentz-invariance- and CPT-violating neutron spin interactions using a free-spin-precession 3He- 129Xe comagnetometer | In Ref. [1], the authors use a classical result for the magnetic field created by a uniform magnetization to analyze the effects of magnetic interactions between 3He and 129Xe nuclear spins. We point out that the classical result is not applicable for interaction between nuclear spins: the actual in... | | 2014-01-01 |
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Fleming Aaron M. | Computational studies of electronic circular dichroism spectra predict absolute configuration assignments for the guanine oxidation product 5-carboxamido-5-formamido-2-iminohydantoin | Oxidation of the guanine heterocycle by two electrons can yield the chiral product 5-carboxamido-5-formamido-2-iminohydantoin (2Ih). The 2Ih free base enantiomers were synthesized from 2'-deoxyguanosine oxidized with a Cu(II)/H2O2 oxidant system followed by hydrolysis of the N-glycosidic bond. These... | Guanine oxidation; 2-Iminohydantoin; Electronic circular dichroism; Time-dependent density functional theory | 2014-12-15 |
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Pascucci, Valerio | Conforming Morse-Smale complexes | Morse-Smale (MS) complexes have been gaining popularity as a tool for feature-driven data analysis and visualization. However, the quality of their geometric embedding and the sole dependence on the input scalar field data can limit their applicability when expressing application-dependent features.... | | 2014-01-01 |
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Codding, Brian | Conservation or co-evolution? Intermediate levels of aboriginal burning and hunting have positive effects on kangaroo populations in Western Australia | Studies of conservation in small scale societies typically portray indigenous peoples as either sustainably managing resources, or forsaking long-term sustainability for short-term gains. To explain this variability, we propose an alternative framework derived from a co-evolutionary perspective. In ... | | 2014-01-01 |
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Minteer, Shelley D. | Controlled placement of enzymes on carbon nanotubes using comb-branched DNA | Immobilization is not only useful for preserving enzyme activity, but also to adhere an enzyme to a surface, such as an electrode, so that the enzyme does not leach into solution during testing. Current immobilization approaches do not readily allow for adjustments to the distance between the enzyme... | | 2014-01-01 |
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Wen, Ming | Correlates of leisure-time physical activity participation among Latino children and adolescents with acanthosis nigricans | Childhood obesity has become a serious public health concern in the United States. The prevalence rates of childhood obesity largely increased in the 1980s and 1990s and remained persistently high between 1999-2000 and 2007-2008 in the United States [20]. The highest extreme obesity prevalence rate,... | | 2014-01-01 |
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Harris, Michael D. | Correlations between the alpha angle and femoral head asphericity: Implications and recommendations for the diagnosis of cam femoroacetabular impingement | Objective: To determine the strength of common radiographic and radial CT views for measuring true femoral head asphericity. Patients and Methods: In 15 patients with cam femoroacetabular impingement (FAI) and 15 controls, alpha angles were measured by two observers using radial CT (0º, 30º, 60º,... | | 2014-01-01 |
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Francis, Leslie | Creation Ethics and the harms of existence | David DeGrazia's Creation Ethics1 is a fascinating effort to present a consistent account of creation in many contexts-from reproduction, to self-creation through genetic enhancement, to the creation of entire future generations. For reasons of space, this comment addresses the related discussions o... | | 2014-01-01 |
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Whitaker, Ross T. | Curve boxplot: Generalization of boxplot for ensembles of curves | In simulation science, computational scientists often study the behavior of their simulations by repeated solutions with variations in parameters and/or boundary values or initial conditions. Through such simulation ensembles, one can try to understand or quantify the variability or uncertainty in a... | | 2014-01-01 |
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Clayton, Dale H. | Darwins finches combat introduced nest parasites with fumigated cotton | Introduced parasites are a threat to biodiversity when naïve hosts lack effective defenses against such parasites [1]. Several parasites have recently colonized the Galápagos Islands, threatening native bird populations [2]. For example, the introduced parasitic nest fly Philornis downsi (Diptera:... | | 2014-01-01 |
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Adler, Frederick R. | Deconvolution of isotope signals from bundles of multiple hairs | Segmental analysis of hair has been used in diverse fields ranging from forensics to ecology to measure the concentration of substances such as drugs and isotopes. Multiple hairs are typically combined into a bundle for segmental analysis to obtain a high-resolution series of measurements. Individua... | | 2014-01-01 |
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Bargteil, Adam Wade | Deformation embedding for point-based elastoplastic simulation | We present a straightforward, easy-to-implement, point-based approach for animating elastoplastic materials. The core idea of our approach is the introduction of embedded space-the least-squares best fit of the material's rest state into three dimensions. Nearest neighbor queries in the embedded spa... | | 2014-01-01 |
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Meyer, Miriah Dawn | Design activity framework for visualization design | An important aspect in visualization design is the connection between what a designer does and the decisions the designer makes. Existing design process models, however, do not explicitly link back to models for visualization design decisions. We bridge this gap by introducing the design activity fr... | | 2014-01-01 |
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Lundahl, Brad Ward | Different histories, different stories: using a narrative tool to assess childrens internal worlds | This study investigated the concurrent validity of a children's narrative assessment tool, the Plenk Story-Telling Test (PST). The PST attempts to measure aspects of young children's internal working models by eliciting narratives from nine pictures. The PST, Child Behavior Checklist, and the Parent... | | 2014-01-01 |
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Zick, Cathleen D. | Does daylight savings time encourage physical activity? | Background: Extending Daylight Savings Time (DST) has been identified as a policy intervention that may encourage physical activity. However, there has been little research on the question of if DST encourages adults to be more physically active. Methods: Data from residents of Arizona, Colorado, Ne... | | 2014-01-01 |
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Riloff, Ellen M. | Domain-specific coreference resolution with lexicalized features | Most coreference resolvers rely heavily on string matching, syntactic properties, and semantic attributes of words, but they lack the ability to make decisions based on individual words. In this paper, we explore the benefits of lexicalized features in the setting of domain-specific coreference reso... | | 2014-01-01 |
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Gerig, Guido | DTIPrep: quality control of diffusion-weighted images | In the last decade, diffusion MRI (dMRI) studies of the human and animal brain have been used to investigate a multitude of pathologies and drug-related effects in neuroscience research. Study after study identifies white matter (WM) degeneration as a crucial biomaker for all these diseases. The too... | | 2014-01-01 |
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Bargteil, Adam Wade | Dynamic sprites | Traditional methods for creating dynamic objects and characters from static drawings involve careful tweaking of animation curves and/or simulation parameters. Sprite sheets offer a more drawing-centric solution, but they do not encode timing information or the logic that determines how objects shou... | | 2014-01-01 |
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Chapman, Kathy L. | Early lexical characteristics of toddlers with cleft lip and palate | Main Outcome Measures: The groups were compared for size of expressive lexicon reported on the MacArthur Communicative Development Inventory and the percentage of words beginning with obstruents and sonorants produced in a language sample. Differences between groups in the percentage of word initial... | | 2014-01-01 |
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Bowling, David R. | Ecological processes dominate the 13C land disequilibrium in a Rocky Mountain subalpine forest | Fossil fuel combustion has increased atmospheric CO2 by ≈ 115 μmol mol1 since 1750 and decreased its carbon isotope composition (δ13C) by 1.7-2‰(the 13C Suess effect). Because carbon is stored in the terrestrial biosphere for decades and longer, the δ13C of CO2 released by terrestrial ecosyst... | | 2014-01-01 |
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Hughes, Kelly T. | The effect of cell growth phase on the regulatory cross-talk between flagellar and Spi1 virulence gene expression | The flagellar regulon controls Salmonella biofilm formation, virulence gene expression and the production of the major surface antigen present on the cell surface: flagellin. At the top of a flagellar regulatory hierarchy is the master operon, flhDC, which encodes the FlhD4C2 transcriptional complex... | | 2014-01-01 |
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Askew, Eldon W | Effect of leucine supplementation on fat free mass with prolonged hypoxic exposure during a 13-day trek to Everest Base Camp: A double-blind randomized study | Loss of body weight and fat free mass (FFM) are commonly noted with prolonged exposure to hypobaric hypoxia. Recent evidence suggests protein supplementation, specifically leucine, may potentially attenuate loss of FFM in subcaloric conditions during normoxia. The purpose of this study was to determ... | | 2014-01-01 |
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Miller, Jan D. | Effect of surface oxidation on interfacial water structure at the pyrite (100) surface as studied by MDS | Flotation provides a number of alternatives for the processing of gold ores containing sulfide minerals. e.g. flotation of free gold and gold-bearing sulfides to produce a gold-rich concentrate for regrinding, oxidative pretreatment and cyanidation. | | 2014-01-01 |
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Newton, Maria | Effects of a classroom-based physical activity program on childrens physical activity levels | High levels of physical inactivity are evident among many American children. To address this problem, providing physical activity (PA) during the school day within the CSPAP framework, is one strategy to increase children's PA. Thus, the purpose of this study was to examine the effects of a classroo... | | 2014-01-01 |
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Forster, Richard R. | Effects of bedrock lithology and subglacial till on the motion of Ruth Glacier, Alaska, deduced from five pulses from 1973 to 2012 | A pulse is a type of unstable glacier flow intermediate between normal flow and surging. Using Landsat MSS, TM and ETM+ imagery and feature-tracking software, a time series of mostly annual velocity maps from 1973 to 2012 was produced that reveals five pulses of Ruth Glacier, Alaska. Peaks in ice ve... | | 2014-01-01 |
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Hughes, Kelly T. | The effects of codon context on in vivo translation speed | We developed a bacterial genetic system based on translation of the his operon leader peptide gene to determine the relative speed at which the ribosome reads single or multiple codons in vivo. Low frequency effects of so-called ‘‘silent'' codon changes and codon neighbor (context) effects could... | | 2014-01-01 |
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Scarpulla, Michael | Effects of sodium on electrical properties in Cu2ZnSnS4 single crystal | We have studied the effect of sodium on the electrical properties of Cu2ZnSnS4 (CZTS) single crystal by using temperature dependence of Hall effect measurement. The sodium substitution on the cation site in CZTS is observed from the increasing of unit-cell size by powder X-ray diffraction. Sodium in... | | 2014-01-01 |
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Khan, Faisal Habib | Efficiency characterization and impedance modeling of a multilevel switched-capacitor converter using pulse dropping switching scheme | Apulse dropping switching technique (PDT) has been presented in this paper to accomplish variable conversion ratio (CR) in a multilevel modular capacitor-clamped dc-dc converter in the step-up conversion mode. The switching pattern is generated by comparing a triangular wave with a rectangular wave,... | | 2014-01-01 |
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Gopalakrishnan, Ganesh | Efficient search for inputs causing high floating-point errors | Tools for floating-point error estimation are fundamental to program understanding and optimization. In this paper, we focus on tools for determining the input settings to a floating point routine that maximizes its result error. Such tools can help support activities such as precision allocation, p... | | 2014-01-01 |
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Wu, Yong-Shi | Emergent exclusion statistics of quasiparticles in two-dimensional topological phases | We demonstrate how the generalized Pauli exclusion principle emerges for quasiparticle excitations in 2D topological phases. As an example, we examine the Levin-Wen model with the Fibonacci data (specified in the text), and construct the number operator for fluxons living on plaquettes. By numerical... | | 2014-01-01 |
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Rondina, Matthew Thomas | Emerging evidence for platelets as immune and inflammatory effector cells | While traditionally recognized for their roles in hemostatic pathways, emerging evidence demonstrates that platelets have previously unrecognized, dynamic roles that span the immune continuum. These newly recognized platelet functions, including the secretion of immune mediators, interactions with e... | | 2014-01-01 |
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Kasera, Sneha K. | Energy efficient radio tomographic imaging | In this paper, our goal is to develop approaches to reduce the energy consumption in Radio Tomographic Imaging (RTI)-based methods for device free localization without giving up localization accuracy. Our key idea is to only measure those links that are near the current location of the moving object... | | 2014-01-01 |
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Anderson, James A. | Epistemological movements in communication: reference tables | This publication supports the chapter EpistemologicalMovements in Communication: An Analysis o f Empirical and Rhetorical/Critical Scholarship to be published in the NCA Centennial Volume. It provides the extended data tables that could not be presented in the chapter because of space limitations. I... | | 2014-01 |
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Liu, Feng | Epitaxial growth of large-gap quantum spin Hall insulator on semiconductor surface : The substrate orbital filtering effect | Formation of topological quantum phase on conventional semiconductor surface is of both scientific and technological interest. Here, we demonstrate epitaxial growth of 2D topological insulator, i.e. quantum spin Hall (QSH) state, on Si(111) surface with a large energy gap, based on first-principles ... | | 2014-01-01 |
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Mathews, V. John | Equalization of excursion and current-dependent nonlinearities in loudspeakers | This paper presents a novel equalizer for nonlinear distortions in direct-radiator loudspeakers in a closed cabinet by constructing an exact inverse of an electro-mechanical model of the loudspeaker. This exact inverse compensates for distortions introduced by excursion and current-dependent nonline... | | 2014-01-01 |
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Mishchenko, Eugene | Equilibrium currents in chiral systems with nonzero Chern number | We describe a simple quantum-mechanical approach to calculating equilibrium particle current along the edge of a system with nontrivial band spectrum topology. The approach does not require any a priori knowledge of the band topology and, as a matter of fact, treats topological and nontopological co... | | 2014-01-01 |
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Lucich, Stephen; Smith, Amanda | Estimating building CO2 emissions reductions with EnergyPlus | The aim of this research is to investigate the potential to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from the buildings sector in the Salt Lake Valley by altering the operational strategies of existing buildings. Air quality efforts typically focus on reducing emissions from transportation and industri... | Building energy modeling, Energy efficiency, HVAC, Greenhouse gas emissions | 2014-02-07 |
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Solomon, Douglas Kip | Evaluating the use of strontium isotopes in tree rings to record the isotopic signal of dust deposited on the Wasatch Mountains | Dust cycling from the Great Basin to the Rocky Mountains is an important component of ecological and hydrological processes. We investigated the use of strontium (Sr) concentrations and isotope ratios (87Sr/86Sr) in tree rings as a proxy for dust deposition. We report Sr concentrations and isotope r... | | 2014-01-01 |
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Liu, Feng | Exceptional optoelectronic properties of hydrogenated bilayer silicene | Silicon is arguably the best electronic material, but it is not a good optoelectronic material. By employing first-principles calculations and the cluster-expansion approach, we discover that hydrogenated bilayer silicene (BS) shows promising potential as a new kind of optoelectronic material. Most ... | | 2014-01-01 |
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Liu, Feng | Exotic electronic states in the world of flat bands: from theory to material | It has long been noticed that special lattices contain single-electron at bands (FB) without any dispersion. Since the kinetic energy of electrons is quenched in the FB, this highly degenerate energy level becomes an ideal platform to achieve strongly correlated electronic states, such as magnetism,... | | 2014-01-01 |
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Couldwell, William T. | Expanding neurosurgery | The history of medicine is replete with innovations in neurosurgery that have spurred further developments across the medical spectrum. Surgeons treating pathologies in the head and spine have broken ground with new approaches, techniques, and technologies since ancient times. Neurosurgeons occupy a... | | 2014-01-01 |
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Forster, Richard R. | Explaining the presence of perennial liquid water bodies in the firn of the Greenland Ice Sheet | Recent observations have shown that the firn layer on the Greenland Ice Sheet features subsurface bodies of liquid water at the end of the winter season. Using a model with basic firn hydrology, thermodynamics, and compaction in one dimension, we find that a combination of moderate to strong surface... | | 2014-01-01 |
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Kasera, Sneha K. | Exploiting altruism in social networks for friend-to-friend malware detection | We propose a novel malware detection application- SocialScan-which enables friend-to-friend (f2f) malware scanning services among social peers, with scanning resource sharing governed by levels of social altruism. We show that with f2f sharing of resources, SocialScan achieves a 65% increase in the ... | | 2014-01-01 |
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Zick, Cathleen D. | Family, frailty, and fatal futures? Own-health and family-health predictors of subjective life expectancy | Subjective life expectancy is a powerful predictor of a variety of health and economic behaviors. This research expands upon the life expectancy literature by examining the influence of familial health histories. Using a genetic/environmental model, we hypothesize that individuals' assessments of th... | | 2014-01-01 |
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Utz, Rebecca L. | Feeling lonely vs. being alone: loneliness and social support among recently bereaved persons | Objectives: Despite increases in social support following widowhood, loneliness is among the most frequently reported challenges of bereavement. This analysis explores the dynamic relationship between social support and loneliness among recently bereaved older adults. Methods: Using longitudinal dat... | | 2014-01-01 |
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Mansour, Suzanne L. | Fgf10 is required for specification of non-sensory regions of the cochlear epithelium | The vertebrate inner ear is a morphologically complex sensory organ comprised of two compartments, the dorsal vestibular apparatus and the ventral cochlear duct, required for motion and sound detection, respectively. Fgf10, in addition to Fgf3, is necessary for the earliest stage of otic placode ind... | | 2014-01-01 |
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Armentrout, Peter B. | Fifty years of ion and neutral thermochemistry by mass spectrometry | Originating with the appearance potentials for "positive rays", the ability of mass spectrometry to obtain quantitative information about the energetics of both ions and neutrals has evolved dramatically. About 50 years ago, many of the techniques that are now common place were first implemented, th... | | 2014-01-01 |
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Steenburgh, William James | Finescale orographic precipitation variability and gap-filling radar potential in Little Cottonwood Canyon, Utah | Finescale variations in orographic precipitation pose a major challenge for weather prediction, winter road maintenance, and avalanche forecasting and mitigation in mountainous regions. In this investigation, ground based X-band radar observations collected during intensive observing period 6 (IOP6)... | | 2014-01-01 |
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Hughes, Kelly T. | FliT selectively enhances proteolysis of FlhC Subunit in FlhD4C2 complex by an ATP-dependent protease, ClpXP | We previously reported that the ClpXP ATP-dependent pro-tease specifically recognizes and degrades the flagellar master transcriptional activator complex, FlhD 4C2, to negatively control flagellar biogenesis. The flagellum-related protein, FliT, isalso a negative regulator of flagellar regulon by in... | | 2014-01-01 |
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Miller, Jan D. | Flotation chemistry of soluble salt minerals: from ion hydration to colloid adsorption | In this paper, recent progress with respect to the flotation chemistry of soluble salt minerals is reviewed, and some of the more relevant issues including the hydration states of ions, the interfacial phenomena of salt surfaces and the flotation behavior of selected soluble salts are discussed. Due... | | 2014-01-01 |
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Mastrangelo, Carlos H. | From chips to dust: the MEMS shatter secure chip | This paper presents the implementation of a transience mechanism for silicon microchips via low-temperature post-processing steps that transform almost any electronic, optical or MEMS substrate chips into transient ones. Transience is achieved without any hazardous or explosive materials. Triggered ... | | 2014-01-01 |
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Gur, Yaniv | Generalized hardi invariants by method of tensor contraction | We propose a 3D object recognition technique to construct rotation invariant feature vectors for high angular resolution diffusion imaging (HARDI). This method uses the spherical harmonics (SH) expansion and is based on generating rank-1 contravariant tensors using the SH coefficients, and contracti... | | 2014-01-01 |
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Wittwer, Carl T. | Genotyping accuracy of high-resolution DNA melting instruments | High-resolution DNA melting is a closed-tube method for genotyping and variant scanning that depends on the thermal stability of PCR-generated products. Instruments vary in thermal precision, sample format, melting rates, acquisition, and software. Instrument genotyping accuracy has not been assesse... | | 2014-01-01 |
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Gerig, Guido | Geodesic regression of image and shape data for improved modeling of 4D trajectories | A variety of regression schemes have been proposed on images or shapes, although available methods do not handle them jointly. In this paper, we present a framework for joint image and shape regression which incorporates images as well as anatomical shape information in a consistent manner. Evolutio... | | 2014-01-01 |
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Herbert, John; Myntti, Jeremy; Witkowski, Alan; Alexander, John | Getting the Crowd into Obituaries: How a Unique Partnership Combined the World's Largest Obituary Index with the Utah's Largest Historic Newspaper Database | Paper given at the IFLA International Newspaper Conference, Salt Lake City, UT. | Newspapers; Crowdsourcing | 2014-02-04 |
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Herbert, John; Myntti, Jeremy; Witkowski, Alan; Alexander, John | Getting the Crowd into Obituaries: How a Unique Partnership Combined the World's Largest Obituary Index with the Utah's Largest Historic Newspaper Database | Presentation given at the IFLA International Newspaper Conference, Salt Lake City, UT. | Newspapers; Crowdsourcing | 2014-02-04 |
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Liu, Feng | Giant room-temperature spin caloritronics in spin-semiconducting graphene nanoribbons | Spin caloritronics refers to generating spin current by thermal gradient. Here we report a theoretical study demonstrating giant spin caloritronic effects in a new class of materials, called spin semiconductors, which are characterized with a "spin gap," the energy gap between spin-up and -down chan... | | 2014-01-01 |
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Kirby, Robert Michael | GPU-based volume visualization from high-order finite element fields | This paper describes a new volume rendering system for spectral/hp finite-element methods that has as its goal to be both accurate and interactive. Even though high-order finite element methods are commonly used by scientists and engineers, there are few visualization methods designed to display thi... | | 2014-01-01 |
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Wright, Scott D. | Gray and green revisited: a multidisciplinary perspective of gardens, gardening, and the aging process | Over fourteen years ago, the concept of "gray and green" was first introduced by Wright and Lund (2000) to represent a new awareness and a call for increased scholarship at the intersection of environmental issues and the aging process. This review paper revisits that concept with a fresh perspectiv... | | 2014-01-01 |
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Ring, Terry Arthur | Growth kinetics of hexagonal sub-micrometric β-tricalcium phosphate particles in ethylene glycol | Recently, uniform, non-agglomerated, hexagonal b-tricalcium phosphate (b-TCP) platelets (diameter 400-1700 nm, h 100-200 nm) were obtained at fairly moderate temperatures (90-170 C) by precipitation in ethylene glycol. Unfortunately, the platelet aspect ratios (diameter/thickness) obtained in the ... | | 2014-01-01 |
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Dailey, Andrew T. | Guideline update for the performance of fusion procedures for degenerative disease of the lumbar spine. Part 10: Lumbar fusion for stenosis without spondylolisthesis | Lumbar stenosis is one of the more common radiographic manifestations of the aging process, leading to narrowing of the spinal canal and foramen. When stenosis is clinically relevant, patients often describe activity-related low-back or lower-extremity pain, known as neurogenic claudication. For tho... | | 2014-01-01 |
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Dailey, Andrew T. | Guideline update for the performance of fusion procedures for degenerative disease of the lumbar spine. Part 11: Interbody techniques for lumbar fusion | Interbody fusion techniques have been promoted as an adjunct to lumbar fusion procedures in an effort to enhance fusion rates and potentially improve clinical outcome. The medical evidence continues to suggest that interbody techniques are associated with higher fusion rates compared with posterolat... | | 2014-01-01 |
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Dailey, Andrew T. | Guideline update for the performance of fusion procedures for degenerative disease of the lumbar spine. Part 12: Pedicle screw fixation as an adjunct to posterolateral fusion | The utilization of pedicle screw fixation as an adjunct to posterolateral lumbar fusion (PLF) has become routine, but demonstration of a definitive benefit remains problematic. The medical evidence indicates that the addition of pedicle screw fixation to PLF increases fusion rates when assessed with... | | 2014-01-01 |
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Dailey, Andrew T. | Guideline update for the performance of fusion procedures for degenerative disease of the lumbar spine. Part 13: Injection therapies, low-back pain, and lumbar fusion | The medical literature continues to fail to support the use of lumbar epidural injections for long-term relief of chronic back pain without radiculopathy. There is limited support for the use of lumbar epidural injections for short-term relief in selected patients with chronic back pain. Lumbar intr... | | 2014-01-01 |
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Dailey, Andrew T. | Guideline update for the performance of fusion procedures for degenerative disease of the lumbar spine. Part 14: Brace therapy as an adjunct to or substitute for lumbar fusion | The utilization of orthotic devices for lumbar degenerative disease has been justified from both a prognostic and therapeutic perspective. As a prognostic tool, bracing is applied prior to surgery to determine if immobilization of the spine leads to symptomatic relief and thus justify the performanc... | | 2014-01-01 |
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Dailey, Andrew T. | Guideline update for the performance of fusion procedures for degenerative disease of the lumbar spine. Part 15: Electrophysiological monitoring and lumbar fusion | Intraoperative monitoring (IOM) is commonly used during lumbar fusion surgery for the prevention of nerve root injury. Justification for its use stems from the belief that IOM can prevent nerve root injury during the placement of pedicle screws. A thorough literature review was conducted to determin... | | 2014-01-01 |
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Dailey, Andrew T. | Guideline update for the performance of fusion procedures for degenerative disease of the lumbar spine. Part 16: Bone graft extenders and substitutes as an adjunct for lumbar fusion | In an attempt to enhance the potential to achieve a solid arthrodesis and avoid the morbidity of harvesting autologous iliac crest bone (AICB) for a lumbar fusion, numerous alternatives have been investigated. The use of these fusion adjuncts has become routine despite a lack of convincing evidence ... | | 2014-01-01 |
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Dailey, Andrew T. | Guideline update for the performance of fusion procedures for degenerative disease of the lumbar spine. Part 17: Bone growth stimulators as an adjunct for lumbar fusion | The relationship between the formation of a solid arthrodesis and electrical and electromagnetic energy is well established; most of the information on the topic, however, pertains to the healing of long bone fractures. The use of both invasive and noninvasive means to supply this energy and supplem... | | 2014-01-01 |
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Dailey, Andrew T. | Guideline update for the performance of fusion procedures for degenerative disease of the lumbar spine. Part 1: Introduction and methodology | Fusion procedures are an accepted and successful management strategy to alleviate pain and/or neurological symptoms associated with degenerative disease of the lumbar spine. In 2005, the first version of the "Guidelines for the performance of fusion procedures for degenerative disease of the lumbar ... | | 2014-01-01 |
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Dailey, Andrew T. | Guideline update for the performance of fusion procedures for degenerative disease of the lumbar spine. Part 2: Assessment of functional outcome following lumbar fusion | Assessment of functional patient-reported outcome following lumbar spinal fusion continues to be essential for comparing the effectiveness of different treatments for patients presenting with degenerative disease of the lumbar spine. When assessing functional outcome in patients being treated with l... | | 2014-01-01 |
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Dailey, Andrew T. | Guideline update for the performance of fusion procedures for degenerative disease of the lumbar spine. Part 3: Assessment of economic outcome | A comprehensive economic analysis generally involves the calculation of indirect and direct health costs from a societal perspective as opposed to simply reporting costs from a hospital or payer perspective. Hospital charges for a surgical procedure must be converted to cost data when performing a c... | | 2014-01-01 |
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Dailey, Andrew T. | Guideline update for the performance of fusion procedures for degenerative disease of the lumbar spine. Part 4: Radiographic assessment of fusion status | The ability to identify a successful arthrodesis is an essential element in the management of patients undergoing lumbar fusion procedures. The hypothetical gold standard of intraoperative exploration to identify, under direct observation, a solid arthrodesis is an impractical alternative. Therefore... | | 2014-01-01 |
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Dailey, Andrew T. | Guideline update for the performance of fusion procedures for degenerative disease of the lumbar spine. Part 6: Discography for patient selection | Identifying the etiology of pain for patients suffering from chronic low-back pain remains problematic. Noninvasive imaging modalities, used in isolation, have not consistently provided sufficient evidence to support performance of a lumbar fusion. Provocative testing has been used as an adjunct in ... | | 2014-01-01 |
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Dailey, Andrew T. | Guideline update for the performance of fusion procedures for degenerative disease of the lumbar spine. Part 7: Lumbar fusion for intractable low-back pain without stenosis or spondylolisthesis | Establishing an appropriate treatment strategy for patients presenting with low-back pain, in the absence of stenosis or spondylolisthesis, remains a controversial subject. Inherent to this situation is often an inability to adequately identify the source of low-back pain to justify various treatmen... | | 2014-01-01 |
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Dailey, Andrew T. | Guideline update for the performance of fusion procedures for degenerative disease of the lumbar spine. Part 8: Lumbar fusion for disc herniation and radiculopathy | Patients suffering from a lumbar herniated disc will typically present with signs and symptoms consistent with radiculopathy. They may also have low-back pain, however, and the source of this pain is less certain, as it may be from the degenerative process that led to the herniation. The surgical al... | | 2014-01-01 |
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Dailey, Andrew T. | Guideline update for the performance of fusion procedures for degenerative disease of the lumbar spine. Part 9: Lumbar fusion for stenosis with spondylolisthesis | Patients presenting with stenosis associated with a spondylolisthesis will often describe signs and symptoms consistent with neurogenic claudication, radiculopathy, and/or low-back pain. The primary objective of surgery, when deemed appropriate, is to decompress the neural elements. As a result of t... | | 2014-01-01 |
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Parkinson, John Stansfield | HAMP domain structural determinants for signalling and sensory adaptation in Tsr, the E. coli serine chemoreceptor | Motile Escherichia coli cells track chemical gradients with high sensitivity over wide concentration ranges [recently reviewed in (Hazelbauer et al., 2008; Hazelbauer & Lai, 2010)]. Stimulus detection, amplification, and integration occur in an arrayed network of signaling complexes that contain tra... | | 2014-01-01 |
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Kriesel, John D. | Helicase-primase inhibitor pritelivir for HSV-2 infection | Background Pritelivir, an inhibitor of the viral helicase-primase complex, exhibits antiviral activity in vitro and in animal models of herpes simplex virus (HSV) infection. We tested the efficacy and safety of pritelivir in otherwise healthy persons with genital HSV-2 infection. Methods We randomly... | | 2014-01-01 |
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Dwight, Zachary Lawrence | Heterozygote PCR product melting curve prediction | Melting curve prediction of PCR products is limited to perfectly complementary strands. Multiple domains are calculated by recursive nearest-neighbor thermodynamics. However, the melting curve of an amplicon containing a heterozygous single nucleotide variant (SNV) after PCR is the composite of four... | | 2014-01-01 |
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Del Fiol, Guilherme | Heuristics in managing complex clinical decision tasks in experts decision making | Background: Clinical decision support is a tool to help experts make optimal and efficient decisions. However, little is known about the high level of abstractions in the thinking process for the experts. Objective: The objective of the study is to understand how clinicians manage complexity while... | | 2014-01-01 |
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Meadows, Natalie | Hunting for insight: an analysis of hunting behaviors in mice | Behaviors revolving around the acquisition of food resources are complex and crucial processes for many organisms. Hunting is an especially interesting behavior, which involves complex cognitive and social behaviors. In order to study rudimentary hunting behaviors in a controlled setting a model org... | Hunting; Mouse behavior; ADD/ADHD; Autism | 2014-06-24 |
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Forster, Richard R. | Ice surface morphology and flow on Malaspina Glacier, Alaska: Implications for regional tectonics in the Saint Elias orogen | The Saint Elias Mountains in southern Alaska are located at a structural syntaxis where the coastal thrust and fold belt of the Fairweather plate boundary intersects thrust faults and folds generated by collision of the Yakutat Terrane. The axial trace of this syntaxis extends southeastward out of t... | | 2014-01-01 |
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Bowling, David R. | Impacts of anthropogenic emissions and cold air pools on urban to montane gradients of snowpack ion concentrations in the Wasatch Mountains, Utah | Urban montane valleys are often characterized by periodic wintertime temperature inversions (cold air pools) that increase atmospheric particulate matter concentrations, potentially stimulating the deposition of major ions to these snow-covered ecosystems. We assessed spatial and temporal patterns o... | | 2014-01-01 |
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Blair, Steven | Implantable glass optrodes for deep-tissue light delivery | 3D needle-type glass waveguide arrays were developed as potentially compact neural interfaces for light delivery in deep-tissue. As much as 90% of input light is transmitted via a single optrode to depths >1mm in tissue. Light emission profiles from the optrode tips into tissue can exhibit beam widt... | | 2014-01-01 |
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Sekercioglu, Cagan | Importance of Ethiopian shade coffee farms for forest bird conservation | Coffee is the most important tropical commodity and is grown in high-priority areas for biological conservation. There is abundant literature on the conservation value of coffee farms internationally, but there has been little research on this topic in Africa. Ethiopia is a diverse and little-studie... | | 2014-01-01 |
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Scarpulla, Michael | The importance of Se partial pressure in the laser annealing of CuInSe2 electrodeposited precursors | One method for producing CuInSe2 (CISe) absorber layers is electrodeposition followed by annealing. Replacing the commonly used furnace annealing step with a laser can reduce annealing times by 2-3 orders of magnitude: from 30 minutes to 1 s. However, laser processing has, to date, not resulted in a... | | 2014-01-01 |
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Gerton, Jordan | Improved localization accuracy in stochastic super-resolution fluorescence microscopy by K-factor image deshadowing | Localization of a single fluorescent particle with sub-diffraction-limit accuracy is a key merit in localization microscopy. Existing methods such as photoactivated localization microscopy (PALM) and stochastic optical reconstruction microscopy (STORM) achieve localization accuracies of single emitt... | | 2014-01-01 |
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Minteer, Shelley D. | Improved performance of a thylakoid bio-solar cell by incorporation of carbon quantum dots | Carbon quantum dots (CQDs) were incorporated into thylakoid bioanodes capable of direct photobioelectrocatalysis in order to increase the photocurrent generation. More thylakoids are in contact with the increased surface area which allows for greater direct electron transfer (DET). Additionally, the... | | 2014-01-01 |
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Sansone, Carol | Improving the dependability of research in personality and social psychology: recommendations for research and educational practice | The Society for Personality and Social Psychology (SPSP) Presidential Task Force on Publication and Research Practices was appointed in response to concerns about the dependability and replicability of research findings in personality and social psychology, a problem that also plagues fields as dive... | | 2014-01-01 |
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Haber, Matthew | In defense of the organism: Thomas Pradeu (Elizabeth Vitanza, trans.): The limits of the self: immunology and biological identity. New York: Oxford University Press, 2012, ix+302 pp, ISBN: 978-0-19-977528-6, $65 HB. | Thomas Pradeu's The Limits of the Self provides a precise account of biological identity developed from the central concepts of immunology. Yet the central concepts most relevant to this task (self and nonself ) are themselves deemed inadequate, suffering from ambiguity and imprecision. Pradeu seeks... | | 2014-01-01 |
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Minteer, Shelley D. | In recognition of Adam Heller and his enduring contributions to electrochemistry | Recent progress in diverse scientific fields ranging from bioelectrochemistry to battery technology to photoconversion has been deeply influenced by the contributions of Professor Adam Heller of the University of Texas at Austin to electrochemistry and materials science. This focus issue recognizes ... | | 2014-01-01 |
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Frederick, Jeanne M. | Inactivity of human β,β-carotene-9′, 10-′dioxygenase (BCO2) underlies retinal accumulation of the human macular carotenoid pigment | The macula of the primate retina uniquely concentrates high amounts of the xanthophyll carotenoids lutein, zeaxanthin, and meso-zeaxanthin, but the underlying biochemical mechanisms for this spatial- and species-specific localization have not been fully elucidated. For example, despite abundant reti... | | 2014-01-01 |
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Wittwer, Carl T. | Influence of PCR reagents on DNA polymerase extension rates measured on real-time PCR instruments | BACKGROUND: Radioactive DNA polymerase activity methods are cumbersome and do not provide initial extension rates. A simple extension rate assay would enable study of basic assumptions about PCR and define the limits of rapid PCR. METHODS: A continuous assay that monitors DNA polymerase extension us... | | 2014-01-01 |
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Forster, Richard R. | Initial in situ measurements of perennial meltwater storage in the Greenland firn aquifer | A perennial storage of water in a firn aquifer was discovered in southeast Greenland in 2011. We present the first in situ measurements of the aquifer, including densities and temperatures. Water was present at depths between ~12 and 37m and amounted to 18.7 ± 0.9 kg in the extracted core. The wate... | | 2014-01-01 |
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Stevens, Kenneth | Interfacing synchronous and asynchronous domains for open core protocol | Intellectual property (IP) blocks are connected in a system on chip using a bus or network-on-chip (NoC). IP reuse is facilitated by the modularity that results when using common interfaces between the IP cores and the bus or NoC. This paper investigates and implements several versions of one of the... | | 2014-01-01 |
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Jorgensen, Erik | Interferometric localization microscopy | Interference of signal in Fourier space, emitted from single probes, is used to localize it by recording and computing the phase of the fringes. Such system has applications in super resolution localization microscopy. | | 2014-01-01 |
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Rodin, Ernst A. | Interictal infraslow activity in patients with epilepsy | Objective: To evaluate if interictal infraslow activity (ISA), as obtained from a conventional EEG system, can contribute information about the epileptogenic process. Methods: The entire long-term intracranial monitoring sessions of 12 consecutive patients were evaluated on an XLTEK system for ISA. ... | | 2014-01-01 |
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LaStayo, Paul C. | Intermuscular fat: a review of the consequences and causes | Muscle's structural composition is an important factor underlying muscle strength and physical function in older adults. There is an increasing amount of research to support the clear disassociation between the loss of muscle lean tissue mass and strength with aging. This disassociation implies that... | | 2014-01-01 |
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Couldwell, William T. | Intracranial hypotension as a complication of lumbar puncture prior to elective aneurysm clipping | Background: Lumbar dural defects are an uncommon but important cause of persistent intracranial hypotension in the neurosurgical population. We present a case of intracranial hypotension after elective craniotomy due to a lumbar puncture performed 3 weeks earlier. Case Description: A 55‑year‑old... | | 2014-01-01 |
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Couldwell, William T. | Intraoperative aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage after rupture of a previously undiagnosed intracranial aneurysm during Chiari decompression: case report and literature review | Type 1 Chiari malformation occurs when caudal displacement of cerebellar tonsils below the level of foramen magnum obstructs the normal flow of cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) between the cranial and spinal spaces, a condition that often needs surgical decompression to restore normal CSF circulation. Abru... | | 2014-01-01 |
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Simpson, Jamesina J. | Introducing a new method for FDTD modeling of electromagnetic wave propagation in magnetized plasma | Computational investigations of electromagnetic wave propagation in the upper atmosphere are important for studying space weather hazards, such as geomagnetically induced currents (GICs). GICs are currents generated in gas/oil pipelines, railroads, and electric power networks due to solar storms and... | | 2014-01-01 |
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Minteer, Shelley D. | Investigating the reversible inhibition model of laccase by hydrogen peroxide for bioelectrocatalytic applications | The reversible inhibition of laccase by H2O2 as a bioelectrocatalyst was studied in mediated- and direct electron transfer-based configurations to understand the differences in mechanism. The reversible inhibition of laccase follows a noncompetitive inhibition model when 2,2-azino-bis(3-ethylbenzoth... | | 2014-01-01 |
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Scarpulla, Michael | Investigation of combinatorial coevaporated thin film Cu 2ZnSnS4 (II): Beneficial cation arrangement in Cu-rich growth | Cu2ZnSn(S,Se)4 (CZTSSe) is an earth-abundant semiconductor with potential for economical photovoltaic power generation at terawatt scales. In this work, we use Raman scattering to investigate phase coexistence in combinatorial CZTS thin films grown at 325 or 470 C. The surface of the samples grown a... | | 2014-01-01 |
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Scarpulla, Michael | Investigation of combinatorial coevaporated thin film Cu 2ZnSnS4. I. Temperature effect, crystalline phases, morphology, and photoluminescence | Cu2ZnSnS4 is a promising low-cost, nontoxic, earth-abundant absorber material for thin-film solar cell applications. In this study, combinatorial coevaporation was used to synthesize individual thin-film samples spanning a wide range of compositions at low (325 C) and high (475 C) temperatures. Film... | | 2014-01-01 |
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Foster, Norman L. | Justifying reimbursement for Alzheimers diagnostics and treatments: Seeking alignment on evidence | The increasing cost of health care combined with expensive new drugs and diagnostics is leading to more frequent gaps between regulatory and reimbursement approval decisions. As a result, persons with Alzheimer's disease may have difficulty accessing the benefits of medical advances. In contrast to ... | | 2014-01-01 |
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Sekercioglu, Cagan | Keystone species in seed dispersal networks are mainly determined by dietary specialization | One central issue in Ecology ecology has been the definition and identification of keystone species, i.e., species that are relatively more important than others for maintaining the structure of a community. Several keystone species concepts have been proposed, and network theory has been pointed o... | | 2014-01-01 |
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Planelles, Vicente | Kinase control of latent HIV-1 infection: PIM-1 kinase as a major contributor to HIV-1 reactivation | Despite the clinical relevance of latent HIV-1 infection as a block to HIV-1 eradication, the molecular biology of HIV-1 latency remains incompletely understood. We recently demonstrated the presence of a gatekeeper kinase function that controls latent HIV-1 infection. Using kinase array analysis w... | | 2014-01-01 |
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Dailey, Andrew T. | Lateral mass screw fixation in the cervical spine | To The Editor: We read with interest the article by Kawabata et al.15 (Kawabata S, Watanabe K, Hosogane N, et al: Surgical correction of severe cervical kyphosis in patients with neurofibromatosis Type 1. Report of 3 cases. J Neurosurg Spine 18:274-279, March 2013). Reconstructive spinal surgery has... | | 2014-01-01 |
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Bronson, Jonathan Richard | Lattice cleaving: a multimaterial tetrahedral meshing algorithm with guarantees | We introduce a new algorithm for generating tetrahedral meshes that conform to physical boundaries in volumetric domains consisting of multiple materials. The proposed method allows for an arbitrary number of materials, produces high-quality tetrahedral meshes with upper and lower bounds on dihedral... | | 2014-01-01 |
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Furse, Cynthia M. | Learning to teach in the flipped classroom | The flipped classroom has gained tremendous recent popularity. This paper reports on a new faculty training program for helping and mentoring faculty to learn to teach with the flipped classroom. Several modules were piloted in 2013-2014, including active teaching, how to create video lectures, cont... | | 2014-01-01 |
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Myers, Chris J. | LEMA: A tool for the formal verification of digitally-intensive analog/mixed-signal circuits | The increasing integration of analog/mixed-signal (AMS) circuits into system designs has further complicated an already difficult verification problem. Recently, formal verification, which has been successful in the purely digital domain, has made some in-roads in the AMS domain. This paper describe... | | 2014-01-01 |
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Beckerle, Mary C. | LIM proteins in actin cytoskeleton mechanoresponse | The actin cytoskeleton assembles into branched networks or bundles to generate mechanical force for critical cellular processes such as establishment of polarity, adhesion, and migration. Stress fibers are contractile, actomyosin structures that physically couple to the extracellular matrix through ... | | 2014-01-01 |
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Anderson, Rick | Local and global, now and forever: a matrix model of "depth perception" in library work | Academic libraries are in an interesting and difficult position, one that makes us different from most other public and private institutions. We are charged with meeting the immediate needs of students and faculty (needs that can usually be identified and defined with at least some degree of precisi... | Academic libraries; Library collections; Library work | 2014-11 |
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Adler, Frederick R. | Long-term models of oxidative stress and mitochondrial damage in insulin resistance progression | Insulin resistance, characterized by a reduced cellular response to insulin, is a major factor in type 2 diabetes pathogenesis, with a complex etiology consisting of a combination of environmental and genetic factors. Oxidative stress, which develops through an accumulation of toxic reactive oxygen ... | | 2014-01-01 |
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Khan, Faisal Habib | Magnetic stimulation of mammalian peripheral nerves in vivo: An alternative to functional electrical stimulation | Functional electrical stimulation is the current gold standard for stimulating neuronal interfaces for functional neuromuscular and cortical applications, but it is not without its drawbacks. One such fault is the need to have direct electrical contact with the nerve tissue, and any side effect... | | 2014-01-01 |
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Tiwari, Ashutosh | Manifestation of two-channel nonlocal spin transport in the shapes of Hanle curves | The dynamics of charge-density fluctuations in a system of two tunnel-coupled wires contains two diffusion modes with dispersion iω = Dq2 and iω = Dq2 + 2τt, where D is the diffusion coefficient and τt is the tunneling time between the wires. The dispersion of corresponding spin-density modes de... | | 2014-01-01 |
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Beckerle, Mary C. | Mathematical modeling of the dynamic mechanical behavior of neighboring sarcomeres in actin stress fibers | Actin stress fibers (SFs) in live cells consist of series of dynamic individual sarcomeric units. Within a group of consecutive SF sarcomeres, individual sarcomeres can spontaneously shorten or lengthen without changing the overall length of this group, but the underlying mechanism is unclear. We us... | | 2014-01-01 |
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Lupton, John Mark | Mechanisms of spin-dependent dark conductivity in films of a soluble fullerene derivative under bipolar injection | We report room-temperature pulsed electrically detected magnetic resonance measurements of the dark conductivity of films of the fullerene derivative [6,6]-phenyl-C61-butyric acid methyl ester (PCBM) under bipolar (electron-hole) and unipolar (electron-rich) injection conditions. Directly after mate... | | 2014-01-01 |
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Balasubramonian, Rajeev | MemZip: exploring unconventional benefits from memory compression | Memory compression has been proposed and deployed in the past to grow the capacity of a memory system and reduce page fault rates. Compression also has secondary benefits: it can reduce energy and bandwidth demands. However, most prior mechanisms have been designed to focus on the capacity metric an... | | 2014-01-01 |
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Gale, Bruce K. | Microfluidic devices for rapid and sensitive identification of organisms | Microfluidic devices for rapid and highly sensitive detection of living organisms were developed for two applications. First, a zebrafish embryo genotyping system was developed and shown to be able to genotype embryos in the first 48 hours of the embryos life without damaging the embryos in any a... | | 2014-01-01 |
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Capecchi, Mario R. | Modeling alveolar soft part sarcomagenesis in the mouse: a role for lactate in the tumor microenvironment | Alveolar soft part sarcoma (ASPS), a deadly soft tissue malignancy with a predilection for adolescents and young adults, associates consistently with t(X;17) translocations that generate the fusion gene ASPSCR1-TFE3. We proved the oncogenic capacity of this fusion gene by driving sarcomagenesis in m... | | 2014-01-01 |
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Stevens, Kenneth | Modelling mixed 4phase pipelines: structures and patterns | This paper presents an exploration of the design space for homogeneous and mixed 4phase asynchronous linear pipelines. We extend previously published results by uncovering their complete ordered design space, demonstrate relationships between the latter's governing lattice structures, tabulating the... | | 2014-01-01 |
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Kasera, Sneha K. | Monitoring breathing via signal strength in wireless networks | This paper shows experimentally that standard wireless networks which measure received signal strength (RSS) can be used to reliably detect human breathing and estimate the breathing rate, an application we call "BreathTaking". We present analysis showing that, as a first order approximation, breath... | | 2014-01-01 |
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Goller, Franz | Motor control of sound frequency in birdsong involves the interaction between air sac pressure and labial tension | Frequency modulation is a salient acoustic feature of birdsong. Its control is usually attributed to the activity of syringeal muscles, which affect the tension of the labia responsible for sound production. We use experimental and theoretical tools to test the hypothesis that for birds producing to... | | 2014-01-01 |
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Gerig, Guido | Multi-atlas segmentation of subcortical brain structures via the AutoSeg software pipeline | Automated segmenting and labeling of individual brain anatomical regions, in MRI are challenging, due to the issue of individual structural variability. Although atlas-based segmentation has show its potential for both tissue and structure segmentation, due to the inherent natural variability as wel... | | 2014-01-01 |
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Awate, Suyash Prakash | Multiatlas segmentation as nonparametric regression | This paper proposes a novel theoretical framework to model and analyze the statistical characteristics of a wide range of segmentation methods that incorporate a database of label maps or atlases; such methods are termed as label fusion or multiatlas segmentation.We model these multiatlas segmentati... | | 2014-01-01 |
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Bargteil, Adam Wade | Multiphase flow of immiscible fluids on unstructured moving meshes | In this paper, we present a method for animating multiphase flow of immiscible fluids using unstructured moving meshes. Our underlying discretization is an unstructured tetrahedral mesh, the deformable simplicial complex (DSC), that moves with the flow in a Lagrangian manner. Mesh optimization opera... | | 2014-01-01 |
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Angelucci, Alessandra | Multiple components of surround modulation in primary visual cortex: Multiple neural circuits with multiple functions? | The responses of neurons in primary visual cortex (V1) to stimulation of their receptive field (RF) are modulated by stimuli in the RF surround. This modulation is suppressive when the stimuli in the RF and surround are of similar orientation, but less suppressive or facilitatory when they are cross... | | 2014-01-01 |
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Venkatasubramanian, Suresh | Multiple target tracking with RF sensor networks | RF sensor networks are wireless networks that can localize and track people (or targets) without needing them to carry or wear any electronic device. They use the change in the received signal strength (RSS) of the links due to the movements of people to infer their locations. In this paper, we cons... | | 2014-01-01 |
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Pascucci, Valerio | Multivariate volume visualization through dynamic projections | We propose a multivariate volume visualization framework that tightly couples dynamic projections with a high-dimensional transfer function design for interactive volume visualization. We assume that the complex, high-dimensional data in the attribute space can be well-represented through a collecti... | | 2014-01-01 |
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LaStayo, Paul C. | Muscle force and movement variability before and after total knee arthroplasty: a review | Variability in muscle force output and movement variability are important aspects of identifying individuals with mobility deficits, central nervous system impairments, and future risk of falling. This has been investigated in elderly healthy and impaired adults, as well as in adults with osteoarthr... | | 2014-01-01 |
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Parkinson, John Stansfield | Mutational analysis of the P1 phosphorylation domain in E. coli CheA, the signaling kinase for chemotaxis | The histidine autokinase CheA functions as the central processing unit in the Escherichia coli chemotaxis signaling machinery. CheA receives autophosphorylation control inputs from chemoreceptors and in turn regulates the flux of signaling phosphates to the CheY and CheB response regulator proteins... | | 2014-01-01 |
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Myntti, Jeremy | NACO update | Presentation given at the J. Willard Marriott Library's All Staff Meeting, Salt Lake City, UT. | Cooperative cataloging; Program for cooperative cataloging; NACO (Program) | 2014-01-15 |
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Pascucci, Valerio | The natural Helmholtz-Hodge decomposition for open-boundary flow analysis | The Helmholtz-Hodge decomposition (HHD), which describes a flow as the sum of an incompressible, an irrotational, and a harmonic flow, is a fundamental tool for simulation and analysis. Unfortunately, for bounded domains, the HHD is not uniquely defined, traditionally, boundary conditions are impose... | | 2014-01-01 |
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Balasubramonian, Rajeev | NDC: Analyzing the impact of 3D-stacked memory+logic devices on MapReduce workloads | While Processing-in-Memory has been investigated for decades, it has not been embraced commercially. A number of emerging technologies have renewed interest in this topic. In particular, the emergence of 3D stacking and the imminent release of Micron's Hybrid Memory Cube device have made it more pra... | | 2014-01-01 |
