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Fundamental Computer Science Conceptual Understandings for High School Students Using Original Computer Game Design
(The Institute for STEM Education & Research, 2012)Beginning in 2009, the North Carolina Virtual Public Schools worked with researchers at the William and Ida Friday Institute to produce and evaluate the use of game creation by secondary students as a form of learning ... -
Water table depth, surface saturation, and drought response in bog turtle (Glyptemys muhlenbergii) wetlands
(Springer, 2012)The bog turtle (Glyptemys muhlenbergii) is known to select wetland areas that are near water with deep mud, but water table dynamics in their habitats have not been well described. We installed and monitored shallow ... -
Towards the development of latent heat storage electrodes for electroporation-based therapies
(American Institute of Physics, 2012-08-22)Phase change materials (PCMs) capable of storing a large amount of heat upon transitioning from the solid-to-liquid state have been widely used in the electronics and construction industries for mitigating temperature ... -
A Hardware-Accelerated ECDLP with High-Performance Modular Multiplication
(Hindawi Publishing Corporation, 2012-09-01)Elliptic curve cryptography (ECC) has become a popular public key cryptography standard. The security of ECC is due to the difficulty of solving the elliptic curve discrete logarithm problem (ECDLP). In this paper, we ... -
Recombination Activating Gene-2 Regulates CpG-Mediated Interferon-α Production in Mouse Bone Marrow-Derived Plasmacytoid Dendritic Cells
(PLOS, 2012-10-24)Using mice that lack recombination activating gene-2 (Rag2), we have found that bone marrow-derived plasmacytoid dendritic cells (pDCs) as main producers of interferon-α (IFNα) require Rag2 for normal development. This is ... -
A strategy to study pathway cross-talks of cells under repetitive exposure to stimuli
(BMC Systems Biology, 2012-12-17)Background Cells are subject to fluctuating and multiple stimuli in their natural environment. The signaling pathways often crosstalk to each other and give rise to complex nonlinear dynamics. Specifically repetitive ... -
The Influence of the Specimen Shape and Loading Conditions on the Parameter Identification of a Viscoelastic Brain Model
(Hindawi Publishing Corporation, 2013)The mechanical properties of brain under various loadings have been reported in the literature over the past 50 years. Step-and-hold tests have often been employed to characterize viscoelastic and nonlinear behavior of ... -
Bis-(η(2)-ethyl-ene)(η(5)-inden-yl)iridium(I).
(2013)The asymmetric unit of the title compound, [Ir(C9H7)(C2H4)2], consists of two independent mol-ecules. The bonding between iridium and the five-membered ring of the indenyl ligand shows the usual asymmetry associated with ... -
Identifying protein interaction subnetworks by a bagging Markov random field-based method
(Nucleic Acids Research, 2013)Identification of differentially expressed subnetworks from protein-protein interaction (PPI) networks has become increasingly important to our global understanding of the molecular mechanisms that drive cancer. Several ... -
50-kHz-rate 2D imaging of temperature and H2O concentration at the exhaust plane of a J85 engine using hyperspectral tomography
(Optics Express, 2013-01-14)This paper describes a novel laser diagnostic and its demonstration in a practical aero propulsion engine (General Electric J85). The diagnostic technique, named hyperspectral tomography (HT), enables simultaneous 2-dimensional ... -
Molecular Surveillance of Viral Processes Using Silicon Nitride Membranes
(Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute, 2013-03)Here we present new applications for silicon nitride (SiN) membranes to evaluate biological processes. We determined that 50-nanometer thin films of SiN produced from silicon wafers were sufficiently durable to bind active ... -
Numerical and experimental validation of a three-dimensional combustion diagnostic based on tomographic chemiluminescence
(Optics Express, 2013-03-25)Three-dimensional (3D) measurements are highly desirable both for fundamental combustion research and practical monitoring and control of combustion systems. This work discusses a 3D diagnostic based on tomographic ... -
Non-Complexed Four Cascade Enzyme Mixture: Simple Purification and Synergetic Co-stabilization
(PLoS, 2013-04-09)Cell-free biosystems comprised of synthetic enzymatic pathways would be a promising biomanufacturing platform due to several advantages, such as high product yield, fast reaction rate, easy control and access, and so on. ... -
Functional Characterization of Detergent-Decellularized Equine Tendon Extracellular Matrix for Tissue Engineering Applications
(PLOS, 2013-05-17)Natural extracellular matrix provides a number of distinct advantages for engineering replacement orthopedic tissue due to its intrinsic functional properties. The goal of this study was to optimize a biologically derived ... -
Reclaimed water as a reservoir of antibiotic resistance genes: distribution system and irrigation implications
(Frontiers in Microbiology, 2013-05-28)Treated wastewater is increasingly being reused to achieve sustainable water management in arid regions. The objective of this study was to quantify the distribution of antibiotic resistance genes (ARGs) in recycled water, ... -
Intra-Abdominal Fat Depots Represent Distinct Immunomodulatory Microenvironments: A Murine Model
(PLOS, 2013-06-12)White adipose tissue (WAT) is a multi-faceted endocrine organ involved in energy storage, metabolism, immune function and disease pathogenesis. In contrast to subcutaneous fat, visceral fat (V-WAT) has been associated with ... -
Off-chip passivated-electrode, insulator-based dielectrophoresis (OπDEP)
(Springer, 2013-06-30)In this study, we report the first off-chip passivated electrode, insulator-based dielectrophoresis microchip (OπDEP). This technique combines the sensitivity of electrode-based dielectrophoresis (eDEP) with the high ... -
Pronounced hypoxia in the subventricular zone following traumatic brain injury and the neural stem/progenitor cell response
(Society for Experimental Biology and Medicine, 2013-07-04)Traumatic brain injury (TBI) elicits identifiable changes within the adult subventricular zone (SVZ). Previously, we demonstrated that EphB3/ephrinB3 interaction inhibits neural stem/progenitor cell (NSPC) proliferation ... -
Process Authentication for High System Assurance
(IEEE Computer Society, 2013-07-11)This paper points out the need in modern operating system kernels for a process authentication mechanism, where a process of a user-level application proves its identity to the kernel. Process authentication is different ... -
Type IV Pilus Proteins Form an Integrated Structure Extending from the Cytoplasm to the Outer Membrane
(PLoS, 2013-07-26)The bacterial type IV pilus (T4P) is the strongest biological motor known to date as its retraction can generate forces well over 100 pN. Myxococcus xanthus, a 𝞭-proteobacterium, provides a good model for T4P investigations ...
