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A new chronology from Truckee River Canyon
(2019)By counting tree growth rings it is possible to establish the year of birth of a tree. Moreover, the ring width measurement can provide important information about the past climatic history of a place. In fact, the trees ... -
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A Role for LDB3 Acetylation in the Heart: Does LDB3 Acetylation Promote Cardiomyocyte Hypertrophy
(5/6/2019)Heart failure is a public health concern, with a 5-year mortality rate of approximately 50%. Hallmarks of this disease include structural changes to the heart that entail cardiac enlargement and fibrosis as well as ... -
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Algae Cultivation from Heterotrophic Growth with Hydrothermal Aqueous Product of Dairy Manure
(5/6/2019)Algae has grown in popularity as a human and livestock food supplement due to its high protein content and because it can be grown year-round on non-arable land. However, current drawbacks to algae production include the ... -
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An Initial Study of the Spanish Miranda Warnings in Nevada
(5/6/2019)Since the passage of the Bill of Rights, every person in the United States is entitled to know and understand their rights to legal counsel and protection against self- incrimination. The Supreme Court decision in Miranda ... -
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An Updated Chronology from Hunter Creek
(2019)Dendrochronology is one of the most important environmental recording techniques for a variety of natural processes and a monitor for human-caused changes to the environment such as pollution and contamination. The ethymology ... -
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Approaches to improving wheat quality by targeting local induced lesions in genomes
(2019)As a staple in many popular foods, wheat plays an important role in many different cultures' cuisines and dishes. Therefore, it is important to be aware what the potential effects local wheat synthesis can have on local ... -
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Being and Freedom: Ahmed, Irigaray and Beauvoir on Subjectivity Lack and Liberation
(5/6/2019)In this essay, I explore the concept of lack and its presence in the thought of Simone de Beauvoir, Luce Irigaray and Sara Ahmed. Simone de Beauvoir's The Ethics of Ambiguity establishes an ethical system based on the ... -
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Case Marking in the Pyramid Lake Dialect of Northern Paiute: A Speaker-Based Approach
(5/6/2019)Numu, or Northern Paiute, is a language indigenous to the Great Basin area and is spoken by the Numu people. Although there have been some scholarly works examining the Numu language, most are not particularly accessible ... -
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Chemical nociception in Wild-type and dYPEL3 Drosophila larva mutants
(2019)Drosophila larval nociception is widely used for studying various basic circuit mechanisms. Traditionally, the behavioral assay for Drosophila nociception relied on either optogenetic or physical stimulation. The behavioral ... -
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Contagion Dynamics on an Adaptive Network: Norovirus as a Case Study
(5/6/2019)In the field of public health and epidemiology, creating an epidemic model that accurately reflects real world contact networks has proven to be a complicated task. Contact networks model how individuals in a population ... -
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Determining monarch (Danaus plexippus) natal site distribution in Nevada using stable isotope analysis and wing morphometrics
(5/6/2019)West of the Rockies, monarch butterfly (Danus plexippus) populations have been significantly declining over the last 30 years. Although the Eastern monarchs have also shown a similar decline, the two populations are ... -
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Developing A Smart City
(2019)"Developing a smart city. Smart cities are expected to improve the quality of daily life, promote sustainable development, and improve the functionality of urban systems. There is general and growing concern of the challenges, ... -
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Developing Automated Procedure to Quantify Mouse Behavior
(2019)Animals have evolved many different behavioral responses to cope with sensory information. Understanding how sensory information can affect animal behavior will provide new insights into the quantification of animal behavior. ... -
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Development of a Flow Cytometric Screening Assay for Serial Cytotoxicity by Natural Killer (NK) Lymphocytes
(2019)"The annual number of new cancer cases in the USA has continued to increase and cancer remains a leading cause of death globally, stressing the need for improved therapeutics. NK cell immunotherapy is an emerging therapeutic ... -
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Distress Tolerance and Psychological Resilience in First Responders
(5/6/2019)First responders are regularly exposed to significant stress and trauma, which increases their risk for negative psychological outcomes. In general populations, distress tolerance has been shown to predict recovery after ... -
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Effect of the MS Bacteriophage on STEC O157:H7 Populations in Beef
(5/6/2019)Objectives: This research was conducted to evaluate the killing efficiency of the Mello-Shebs (MS) O157:H7 bacteriophage against three strains of STEC O157:H7 in vitro and on beef surface under aerobic conditions. Materials ... -
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Effects of Various Antibiotics on Biological Fouling in a Membrane Bioreactor
(5/6/2019)Forward osmosis (FO) has recently been demonstrated as a favorable choice for wastewater treatment in comparison to reverse osmosis because of its improved energy efficiency and subsequent economic advantages. One of the ... -
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ELISA for Detection of Rhizopus oryzae Fucomannan
(2019)Mucormycosis is an invasive fungal infection that can cause severe morbidity and mortality in immunocompromised patients. Patients at risk for Mucormycosis include those with hematopoietic stem cell or, organ transplants, ... -
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Genotyping of CRISPR-Edited Mice and Axonal Localization Patterns of Calmodulin 1 3’UTR Isoforms
(5/6/2019)Calmodulin (CaM) is a key calcium-signal transducer in multiple cell types and is known to influence neuron differentiation, development, and maturation. Calmodulin 1 (Calm1) is one of many genes that encode for the CaM ... -
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Hierarchical Task Learning Through Human Demonstration
(2019)In order for robots to carry out a task sequence, it must be translated in such a way that they can understand. One way this can be done is by using a task tree representation. Currently this method does not allow robots ...