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Bowen, Brady | Fractal geometry of melt ponds: Modeling the fractal geometry of arctic melt ponds using the level sets of random surfaces | During the late spring, most of the Arctic Ocean is covered by sea ice with a layer of snow on top. As the snow and sea ice begin to melt, water collects on the surface to form melt ponds. As melting progresses, sparse, disconnected ponds coalesce to form complex, self-similar structures which are c... | Melt pond geometry | 2016-04 |
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Borrowman, William | Gas exchange of co-occurring plant species of the Great Basin Desert in an irrigated common garden | The majority of plants in the Great Basin ecosystem have adapted to cope with drought during summer. While general characteristics of these plants have been studied in non-managed environments it is important to investigate the physiology of these plants when additional water is supplied. In this ... | Urban heat island -- Prevention; Desert plants -- Ecology -- Great Basin -- Research; Plant ecophysiology -- Research; Irrigation -- Environmental aspects; Red Butte Garden (Salt Lake City, Utah) | 2014-04 |
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Bingham, Kouver | Reflection groups and coxeter groups | In this paper we give a survey of the theory of Coxeter Groups and Reflection groups. This survey will give an undergraduate reader a full picture of Coxeter Group theory, and will lean slightly heavily on the side of showing examples, although the course of discussion will be based on theory. We'll... | Finite groups | 2014-07 |
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Weaver, Bradley | Hypoxia and the mesenchymal transition in glioma | Recent advances in targeted therapy for cancer have had little influence on survival for patients diagnosed with Glioblastoma (GBM, WHO Grade IV tumors), and median survival time remains stagnant at 12-15 months post diagnosis. Genomic profiling of GBM indicates clear phenotypic subsets of these tum... | Glioblastoma multiforme; Gliomas; Hypoxia; Mesenchymal transition | 2014-04 |
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Hales, Laurel | Physics show and tell and elementary science education | It is a well-known fact that American children are performing below their peers in international science and mathematics examinations, leading to what is commonly called the STEM education crisis. This project was created in an attempt to resolve this crisis by improving elementary school science ed... | Science - Study and teaching (Elementary) - United States | 2014-05 |
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Radhakrishnan, Parvathi | PI3K inhibitors as potential new therapy against breast cancer progression | Receptor tyrosine kinases (RTKs) and their pleiotropic effectors play key roles in metastasis. Met and Ron are RTKs that have been shown to contribute to tumor growth and metastasis in both animal models and in patients. Recently, an alternative Ron isoform known as "short-form" Ron (sfRon) was asso... | Breast - Cancer - Treatment - Research; Protein - tyrosine kinase - inhibitors - Therapeutic use; Enzyme inhibitors - Therapeutic use. - Research; Biology - Research | 2014-05 |
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Garcia, Anthony D. | Exploring galactic chemical abundance of phosphorus in the ultra-violet with HST | Ultra violet observed spectral data taken by the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) are made available to the public. These data sets have been extracted into one-dimensional and flux-calibrated spectral data, and are ready for analysis. We have normalized the extracted spectra with a Planck black body cu... | Milky Way - Phosphorus content | 2014-05 |
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Watkins, Ryan Davis | Suppression of lymphangiogenesis using VEGF-C trap | The lymphatic system is responsible for controlling systemic fluid buildup. Lymphangiogenesis is a dynamic process involving sprouting, and maintaining new lymphatic vasculature. Vascular endothelial growth factor C (VEGF-C) is as a key growth factor that induces lymphangiogenesis by binding VEGF re... | Lymphatics - Growth; Vascular endothelial growth factors - Antagonists; Lymphangiogenesis; VEGF-C trap | 2014-05 |
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Wallace, Joshua J. | Lyman-alpha emission as a probe of galaxy environments | As a result of resonant scatterings off hydrogen atoms, Lya emission from star-forming galaxies provides a potential probe of the neutral gas environment around them. In order to determine the utility of Lya emission as a probe of gas environments we study the effects of environmental anisotropy on ... | Galaxies - Spectra | 2014-05 |
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Prestgard-Duke, Michael | Dynamin localization in Caenorhabditis Elegans | Dynamin is a 100-KDa GTPase that is essential for endocytosis. The classic model of endocytosis is a sequential mechanism: first, cell membrane is bent and internalized via the formation of a clathrin coat; next, dynamin facilitates GTP hydrolysis, resulting in membrane scission as the newly formed ... | Caenorhabditis elegans; Guanosine triphosphatase; Endocytosis | 2014-05 |
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Farrall, Nicholas | Structural characterization of the full-length exocyst complex by transmission electron cryo-microscopy | The exocyst is a conserved octameric protein complex in eukaryotes that is essential for tethering and fusion of vesicles to the plasma membrane. Composed of eight subunits, it is essential for growth, secretion, and developmental processes and has been implicated in cell motility, autophagy, cell d... | Saccaromyces cerevisaie - Cytology; Cryomiscroscopy - Research | 2014-05 |
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Fullmer, Alexander T. | Optimization of gamma/hadron separation under variable source intensities and energy spectra | The High Altitude Water Cherenkov (HAWC) gamma-ray observatory consists of an array of water Cherenkov tanks that can detect extensive air showers (EAS) generated by astrophysical cosmic rays and gamma rays. One of the greatest challenges in using the HAWC observatory to search for astrophysical gam... | Gamma ra sources - Observations; Cosmic rays - Observations; Gamma ray astronomy - Research | 2014-05 |
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Pecchia-Bekkum, Annika | Applications of controlled DNA assembly and disassembly in biosensing and responsive drug delivery | Deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) provides many exciting functions outside of simply encoding genetic information. Herein, we report two techniques to control the assembly and disassembly of nucleic acids. Within these techniques, DNA is used as a programmable material for biosensing and drug delivery. In... | Nucleic acids - Biotechnology | 2013-08 |
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Rose, Steven | Biofuel cells for self powered arsenic detection | Research in the Minteer group has centered on procedures for immobilizing enzymes and organelles on carbon electrodes for use in sensory and fuel cell applications. Similar strategies have been used to prepare a series of electrodes capable of pyruvate oxidation which, in the presence of arsenic, wi... | Fuel cells; Arsenic - Detection | 2013-05 |
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Edwards, Jennifer Lynn | Application of a TBHP-mediated Wacker-type oxidation to internal alkenes | The Wacker oxidation allows access to methyl ketones from terminal alkenes. This transformation is important for industrial, synthetic, and medicinal chemists, as carbonyls are present in many natural and pharmaceutical products. With the carbonyl, a wide variety of reactions become available, such ... | Wacker-type oxidatioin - Research; TBHP | 2013-05 |
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Johnson, KariAnne Rencher | Identification of PASK substrates and/or interacting proteins | PAS kinase (PASK) is an evolutionary conserved serine/threonine kinase that appears to have a role in the regulation of cellular energy metabolism. It has previously been shown that mice lacking PASK (PASK"/_ mice) are resistant to the development of hepatic steatosis (lipid accumulation in the live... | Biology | 2012-05 |
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Richards, Jackson | Chasing channels: Progress in calcium channel localization in the C. Elegans synapse | Calcium channels play a crucial role in neurotransmission by facilitating the flow of calcium ions necessary for synaptic vesicle fusion and neurotransmitter release. Different types of calcium channels participate in this process in the neurons of the nematode C. elegans. L- and N-type channels res... | Calcium channels; Synaptic vesicles; Caenorhabditis elegans | 2013-05 |
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Lee, Zachary | Using Drosophila to investigate p53 life-or-death decisions | The p53 tumor suppressor is a central regulator of cellular responses to DNA damage. When DNA damage cannot be repaired most cells undergo p53-dependent cell death. Thisp55-mediated apoptosis is important to eliminate cells with damaged genomes and provides an important block to the development of c... | Biology | 2013-05 |
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Simonsen, Kyle | Breast cancer knowledge and attitudes among women in Armenia | Background: Breast cancer, the most common invasive cancer among women, has high incidence and mortality rates among women in the Republic of Armenia. Advanced stage at detection limits treatment options and contributes to high morbidity and mortality. Understanding women's breast cancer knowledge a... | Breast - Cancer; Breast - Cancer - Patients - Attitudes; Breast - Cancer - Patients - Armenia (Republic) | 2013-07 |
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Trakhimets, Alesia | Pre-clinical trials of anti-neoplastic drugs using zebrafish with T-cell cancer | Note: To agree with NCBI nomenclature guidelines, human gene abbreviations are italicized and capitalized; human protein abbreviations are non-italicized and capitalized, and zebrafish gene abbreviations are italicized in lowercase. T lymphocytes, or T-cells, are blood cells that normally fight vira... | Antineoplastic agents - Testing; Zebra danio | 2013-04 |
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Judd, David Paul | Telomere proteins of Drosophila melanogaster: HipHop and MSK81 | DNA molecules encoding two proteins, HipHop and MSK81, were cloned into bacteria so as to make large amounts of these proteins that bind to telomeres of Drosophila (fruit fly) chromosomes. The goal was to determine whether known DNA binding motifs are present in HipHop and MSK81. Understanding how t... | Biology | 2012-05 |
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Burga, Carlos Alberto | Binary superlattices of semiconductor nanocrystals : a path towards possible high-temperature superconductivity | This thesis provides a platform to experimentally test Dr. Daniel Mattis' theoretical work on the possible superconductive behavior of nanostructured intrinsic semiconductors1-2. The theoretical work hinged on the nano-scale architecture of semiconductors. Therefore, using various types of semicondu... | Semiconductor nanocrystals; Superconductivity; Superlattices as materials | 2013-05 |
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Fan, Huijun | Examination of Y-Deterium isotope effects for the solvolysis of model isoprenoid compounds | Model isoprenoid compounds can undergo two distinct pathways, dissociative or associative nucleophilic substitution depending on the conditions used. The dissociative pathway consists of two steps, involving a carbocation intermediate where the formation of that carbocation is rate determining. The ... | Isopentenoids; Solvolysis; Deuterium - Isotopes | 2012-05 |
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Chure, Griffin Daniel | FLHE influences cellular morphology through control of flagellar assembly in escherichia coli | The bacterial flagellar motor is a complex nanomachine composed of thousands of individual protein subunits. One of these proteins, FlhE, has not been studied in depth and its function is not completely understood. The flhE gene is cotranscribed with flhB and flhA in the flhBAE flagellar operon. In ... | Escherichia coli; Flagella (Microbiology) | 2013-05 |
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Little, Nancy Ann | Characterizing and mapping l(3)7E103 a gene required for Drosophila dorsal closure | Dorsal closure in the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster is a complex morphogenetic process dependent upon three embryonic tissues: the lateral epidermis, leading edge epidermis, and amnioserosa. Additionally, the Jun N-terminal Kinase (JNK) and Decapentaplegic (Dpp) signaling cascades are required f... | Drosophila melanogaster - Genetics; Drosophila melanogaster - Embryology | 2013-05 |