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3D Printing and Structural Testing of Quick Connection
(2018-05)3D printing technology allows three-dimensional solid objects to be created from a digital file. It is an additive manufacturing process that creates objects by laying down successive layers of material in one continuous ... -
Admixture Correction in the Outgroup-f3 Statistic
(2018-05)Genetic inheritance can be studied within a purely genetic scope. However, this eliminates part of the picture. The field of genetics is often thought of as a natural science with little in common with fields of social ... -
Advances in a C. elegans model of Alzheimer's disease for drug screening against neurodegeneration
(2015-04)Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is the sixth leading cause of death in the United States, yet no treatment effectively prevents, halts or reverses the disease. Progress in developing treatments is hampered by the extensive time ... -
Aesthetic image rating (AIR) algorithm
(2008-05)Rapidly advancing technologies o er a greater volume of people the possi- bility to both create and consume information. And, with this widening of opportunity, the volume of digital information has increased in ... -
AGB stars in the early universe I: Towards a portable chemical and thermal evolution model
(2012)Stars in the asymptotic giant branch (AGB) are in the penultimate stage of their lives as low- mass dwarfs. During this stage, they produce in their cool, bloated envelopes vast quantities of dust composed from metals ... -
Alcohol consumption promotes breast cancer development in female mice
(2008)Backgrounds: Epidemiological studies show that alcohol consumption increases breast cancer risk. However, the mechanism by which alcohol causes this effect is not known. Therefore, our objective is to generate an animal ... -
Alcove walks and spherical Whittaker functions
(2021)Labeled minimal walks in the path model correspond bijectively with points of the affine flag variety $G/I$. By using the folding algorithm introduced in \cite{prs09}, we can use folded labeled walks to describe points of ... -
All Mutual Aid is Speculative Fiction: Critical Fabulation and its Role in Achieving Abolition
(2021)Through the practice of critical fabulation, authors of speculative fiction can practice mutual aid with the goal of achieving abolition. Critical fabulation within speculative fiction allows authors to use their imagine ... -
Alterations on rodent ultrasonic vocalizations and consequent effects on mate selection
(2009-05)In this study, the effects of altering different components of a rodent’s mating calls and their consequent effects on mate selection were explored. Rodents have become an established animal model in laboratory studies ... -
Altering the oligomerization state of GFP-like purple protein to enhance protein taggin ability
(2009)Since its discovery and purification in the 1960s, Green Fluorescent Protein has quickly become an extremely useful scientific tool for analyzing protein expression and dynamics. GFP was originally discovered in a species ... -
America's Second Southern Border? Mexico's 2014 Programa Frontera Sur and the Widening of North American Immigration Cooperation
(2019-05)This study seeks to answer whether Mexico’s 2014 Programa Frontera Sur (PFS) represents a widening of US/Mexico immigration cooperation and a shift toward what may become a multilateral North American immigration posture. ... -
The American West through Representations of the World’s Largest Rattlesnake Roundup
(2019-05)The Sweetwater Jaycees’ World’s Largest Rattlesnake Roundup includes a pageant; a carnival; community dances; guided hunts; bus tours of rattlesnake dens; a gun, coin and knife show; cook-offs; and a flea market, all in ... -
Analysis of Dimension Expansion in Spatial Modeling of American Voter Behavior
(2018-05)Understanding voter behavior has the potential to give us key insights and reflections on election outcomes and even serves useful in managing campaigns and predicting election outcomes. Yet political scientists have yet ... -
Anchors away: Determining the role of outer membrane proteins in Pseudomonas aeruginosa vesicle formation
(2010)Pseudomonas aeruginosa is a Gram-negative opportunistic pathogen that causes chronic infections in the lungs of individuals with cystic fibrosis (CF). Like many Gram-negatives, P. aeruginosa produces outer membrane ... -
An Anthropology of Waste: The University of Texas’s Zero Waste Goal
(2020-05)This is an examination of how we define waste and, subsequently, how waste is used as a weapon by the power structures in place. First, this paper provides a definition to the broad term “waste” and continues on to examine ... -
Anti-Mexican Violence, Race, and the Myth of Color-Blindness
(2021)Race and color-blindness have been examined in Mexican American and Latina/o Studies scholarship to explain the United States’ use of power through white supremacy to enact anti-Mexican violence. Anglo Americans have ... -
Antibiotic Markers: An Overlooked Design Choice in Synthetic Biology?
(2021)Synthetic biology seeks to engineer living systems to enhance human health, improve material synthesis and degradation, and simplify diagnostics. When researchers design synthetic constructs, they rely on predictable host ... -
Application of the HEAT Protocol on Select Commonly Studied Chemical Species
(2015-05-13)The High accuracy extrapolated ab initio thermochemistry (HEAT) protocol has been applied to a variety of commonly studied chemical species in order to obtain the thermodynamic energy values of their relevant states -- ... -
Approaches to discover new human disease models through Boolean relationships of orthologous phenotypes
(2012-04-26)In the development of genome-wide databases of model organisms, non-traditional approaches to study genomic networks have emerged to model molecular interactions. Past approaches to model such systems have used the homology ... -
Approximately orchestrated routing and transportation analyzer: City-scale traffic simulation and control schemes
(2013-12)Along with other intelligent traffi c control schemes, autonomous vehicles present new opportunities for addressing traffi c congestion. Traffi c simulators enable researchers to explore these possibilities be- fore ...