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The Composition and Spatial Patterns of Bacterial Virulence Factors and Antibiotic Resistance Genes in 19 Wastewater Treatment Plants
(PLos One, 2016-12-01)
Bacterial pathogenicity and antibiotic resistance are of concern for environmental safety and public health. Accumulating evidence suggests that wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs) are as an important sink and source of ...
The Use of Recycled Material Backfills to Mitigate the Effects of Expansive Soils on Subterranean Structures
(2016)
The extreme annual weather patterns of the Midwest United States have created a demand for basements as emergency shelters in both residential and commercial structures. However, with the majority of the Midwest experiencing ...
Translating Clojure to ACL2 for Verification
(2016)
Software spends a significant portion of its life-cycle in the maintenance phase and over 20\% of the maintenance effort is fixing defects. Formal methods, including verification, can reduce the number of defects in software ...
Dispersal polymorphisms in invasive fire ants
(2016-04-15)
In the Found or Fly (FoF) hypothesis ant queens experience reproduction-dispersal tradeoffs such that queens with heavier abdomens are better at founding colonies but are worse flyers. We tested predictions of FoF in two ...
Predictors of Elementary Students' Intentions to Continue in Music when Entering Middle or Junior High School
(2016-08)
The purpose of this study was to determine those variables that best predict a student’s intention to continue in a music class when entering middle or junior high school. This study utilized the theory of planned behavior ...
The Income Color Line: The Significance of Race for New Immigrants in the United States
(2016-05-13)
Using data from the first wave of the New Immigrant Survey, I examine differences in personal income—combined wage/salary, tips, professional practice, and self-employment—among new immigrants in the United States based ...
Listening At the Lab: Bird Watchers and the Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology
(2016-05)
Professionalization within the sciences has often been presented as a process of separation between scientists and the public. Implicit within this conception of professionalization is a hierarchical conception of knowledge ...
Applying the Simplified Local Density Model to Study the Effects fo Confinement on Density in Shale Formation
(2016)
The pores in shale gas reservoirs are represented on a nanometer scale. In addition to having smaller pore sizes than conventional reservoirs, shale gas reservoirs exhibit different mechanisms of gas storage, i.e. gas ...
SON: PREDICTING THE NATURE OF SERVICE DISRUPTIONS IN CELLULAR NETWORKS
(2016-12)
An important aspect of communication is involved in its cellular network. To meet the demands, communication requires the next generation cellular network, i.e., self organizing networks (SON). In order to implement a ...
Synoptic and Local Influences on a Summertime, Long-Lived, Mixed-Phase Cloud Event Over Summit, Greenland
(2016-08-12)
Long-lived, Arctic mixed-phase clouds play a crucial role in modulating the surface energy balance over the Greenland Ice Sheet. However, due to temporally and spatially inconsistent observations, little is known about the ...