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Content And Effects Of Facebook Breastfeeding Support Groups For WIC Mothers
(2024)Breastfeeding inequity in the United States is a significant public health concern, with low-income women facing disproportionate challenges that contribute to lower rates of breastfeeding, highlighting a critical need for ... -
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Conflict-Based Pedestrian Safety Scoring with All-Traffic Trajectory Data
(2024)The increasing urgency for pedestrian safety in urban areas underscores the necessity for advanced methodologies in traffic management, aligning with the Vision Zero initiative's goal to eradicate traffic-related fatalities ... -
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PTSD Symptom Clusters Among People of Color
(2024)As the U.S. has grown increasingly diverse, with people of color now comprising over 40% of the population, understanding how Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) impacts different ethnic groups is crucial. PTSD is a ... -
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Advancing Gait Identification and Analysis with a Soft, Compact 3D Force Sensing Insole System
(2024)The field of smart insoles has seen tremendous improvement throughout the last 25 years, driven primarily by the miniaturization of technology and introduction of novel sensing methods. These innovations have broadened the ... -
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Robust and cross-domain anomaly detection and mitigation
(2024)Anomaly detection aims to identify unusual patterns in data that significantly diverge from normal instances. When an anomaly is detected, specific steps are undertaken to address and resolve the issue. Despite significant ... -
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P-401 Mixtures: Aggregate Gradation Bands
(2024)The Federal Aviation Administrations (FAA) efficient specifications have delivered high quality airport pavement with good performance since those pavements will endure high load applications. Despite the efficiency of ... -
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Verification and Development of a Steady Thermal CFD Model for High Density Staging of Radiological Materials Packages
(2024)This thesis overviews the work that took place to exercise and verify results of a computational fluid dynamics model with a densely-packed array of staged heat generating packages in a theoretical ventilated room for the ... -
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Ant-plant mutualism as a driver of caterpillar community abundance, diversity, and specialization
(2024)Understanding how species assemble into diverse communities—and why some communities are more diverse than others—is a central goal of ecology. Much of this complexity is likely due to the interplay among species interactions, ... -
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System Identification and Control Modeling of 6-Rotor Unmanned Air Craft for Wildfire Spread Monitoring
(2024)Wildfires are natural occurrences that have been significantly acknowledgedas devastating natural disasters globally. The fuel type, temperature, wind and humidity are some of the elements that directly affect the orientation ... -
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Improving Asphalt Concrete Mixtures’ Resistance to Studded Tires and Chains Wear
(2024)Studded tires and chains are widely used in the United States to provide safer vehicle operating conditions on roads covered with snow or ice. However, they can result in severe damage to the pavement wearing course. The ... -
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Development of a Reduced-Order Simulation Model for the Nonlinear Response Analysis of a Large-Scale Laminar Soil Box Experimental System
(2024)The stability of major structures is influenced by the properties of the soil on which the structure is founded. During earthquake shaking, soil deforms and transfers the vibrations to the supported structure. Consequently, ... -
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Using an Adaptive Learning Platform to Promote Underprepared Students’ Success in Corequisite Mathematics Courses: A Logistic Regression Analysis
(2024)The issue of college readiness persists in higher education, with many students entering college unprepared for the demands of college-level coursework. This challenge is particularly pronounced in math-intensive fields, ... -
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Informing Code-Compliant Site-Specific Infrastructure Seismic Evaluations with Physics-Based Simulated Ground Motions
(2024)Site-specific code-compliant approaches for seismic design require the use of a suite of ground motions that are selected and scaled to a target spectrum for performing nonlinear time-history analyses. Suitable sets of ... -
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Do regional habitat models outperform a single-model approach for resource selection at a population scale? A case study with mule deer in Nevada
(2024)Effective conservation and management of ungulate species requires characterization of resource availability, selection, and use. Mule deer (Odocoileus hemionus) in the Great Basin are experiencing population reductions ... -
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Towards Development and Implementation of eco2-UHPC: Material Characterization and Applications to Structural Precast Columns
(2024)Ultra-high performance concrete (UHPC) is a rapidly growing construction material with excellent mechanical properties and enhanced ductility, making it a leading material for future infrastructure projects. Currently, ... -
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Electrocatalytic Oxygen and Nitrate Reduction Reactions Using Cu-Based Electrodes
(2024)There has been a resurgence of interest in electrocatalysis because interesting chemistry frequently happens at the electrochemical interface between electrodes and electrolytes that are relevant to energy conversion ... -
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Leveraging the Reactivity of Photogenerated Quinone Methides from 2H-Chromenes for Target-Directed Synthesis: The Total Synthesis of Piperaduncin A and Alfileramine
(2024)In a recent study conducted by the Hitchcock Center of Chemical Ecology focused on analyzing phytochemical diversity of plant species within a specific area of Ecuador, a new 2H-chromene, its prenylated benzoic acid ... -
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Extending Vision with Extended Reality
(2024)Extended Reality (XR) head-mounted displays (HMD) are equipped with a camera system and a dichoptic display system. The sensory data captured by the camera system is not an accurate representation of the reality. Furthermore, ... -
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Designing Tissue Inhibitors of Metalloproteinases to Target Specific Metalloproteinases
(2024)Metalloproteinases (MPs) are zinc-dependent enzymes critical to the regulation of extracellular matrix (ECM) components. Overexpression of specific MPs is associated with numerous pathological conditions, including cancer, ... -
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Schools as Societal Change Agencies
(2024)There is a call to action to close disparities and address inequalities throughout various institutions across the United States. There is a growing amount of research on the topic of education in relation to how schools ...