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Self-Renewal and Differentiation Capacity of Urine-Derived Stem Cells after Urine Preservation for 24 Hours
(PLos One, 2013-01-18)
Despite successful approaches to preserve organs, tissues, and isolated cells, the maintenance of stem cell viability and function in body fluids during storage for cell distribution and transportation remains unexplored. ...
The Influence of Engineering Competition Team Participation on College Students' Leadership Development
(2015-05)
Engineering competition teams are promoted as incubators for the development of leadership among college students, yet we know little about how leadership actually develops within the teams. This descriptive, instrumental ...
USE OF INTELLIGENT PUMPING SYSTEM TO DEVELOP RESERVOIR CHARACTERIZATION
(2018-05-11)
With the advancement in drilling and production technologies, deeper and more challenging formations are drilled every day. A pivotal part of sustaining this advancement is to permanently monitor the reservoir. While PDG ...
Reflections on the American Lyceum: The Legacy of Josiah Holbrook and the Transcendental Sessions Undergraduate
(2014-10-02)
The American Lyceum Movement became a pivotal foundation of U.S. adult education during the nineteenth-century. Holbrook recognized adult learners’ educational demands diversified during the rise of industrialism. Thus, ...
EEG Investigations of Creativity in Engineering and Engineering Design
(2021-05)
Creativity has been in steady decline since the 1990s. This is an area of significant concern because creative ability is considered to be among the most important skills for national prosperity in the 21st century. Action ...
Microbial Electricity Generation Enhances Decabromodiphenyl Ether (BDE-209) Degradation
(PLos One, 2013-08-05)
Due to environmental persistence and biotoxicity of polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDEs), it is urgent to develop potential technologies to remediate PBDEs. Introducing electrodes for microbial electricity generation to ...
Exposure of Soil Microbial Communities to Chromium and Arsenic Alters Their Diversity and Structure
(PLos One, 2012-06-29)
Extensive use of chromium (Cr) and arsenic (As) based preservatives from the leather tanning industry in Pakistan has had a deleterious effect on the soils surrounding production facilities. Bacteria have been shown to be ...
Analysis of the Finite Array on the Scanning Performance of Phased Array Antennas
(2020-12-18)
Modern high performance phased array antennas require large apertures to achieve both high gain and narrow beamwidth. It is not practical to manufacture such large apertures, so the full array is composed of smaller ...
Design, Development, and Characterization of a Low Velocity Impact System
(2023-05-12)
This paper introduces low-velocity impacts (LVI), presents a concept for evaluating them, tests various materials for proof-of-concept, and discusses how the machine could be used in future university projects as well as ...
Crumple: A Method for Complete Enumeration of All Possible Pseudoknot-Free RNA Secondary Structures
(PLos One, 2012-12-27)
The diverse landscape of RNA conformational space includes many canyons and crevices that are distant from the lowest minimum free energy valley and remain unexplored by traditional RNA structure prediction methods. A ...