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Identification and characterization of novel components in brassinosteroid signaling and biosynthetic pathways in Arabidopsis thaliana
(2010)
Brassinosteroids (BRs) are steroidal hormones essential for normal plant growth and development. To dissect the essential role of BRs in plants, a gain-of-function approach, activation tagging, was used to identify components ...
Exploring Educational Interests and Preferences of Older Adults
(2018-12-14)
This qualitative study examines the lived experience of 12 older adults aged 55 – 86, participants in the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute and living independently in the Midwest of the United States. The primary data ...
Frictional Properties of Fault Gouge in HIgh Velocity/Long Distance Shear Experiments
(2016-05-14)
The present objective is the characterization of the dynamic friction and seismic stability of fault gouge in high-velocity/long-distance shear experiments. The study has two parts based on the gouge source: A) Reservoir ...
A Defense of Nonreductive Mental Causation
(2013)
Mental causation is a problem and not just a problem for the nonphysicalist. One of the many lessons learned from Jaegwon Kim's writings in the philosophy of mind is that mental causation is a problem for the nonreductive ...
Environment and interspecific interactions at the margin of species ranges: a spatial analysis of forest communities
(2017-05-12)
Problem: Species’ geographic ranges are determined, in part, by suitable environmental conditions, the ability to reach sites possessing those environmental conditions, and the capability to survive interactions with other ...
Sensitivities of 1-km Forecasts of Tornadic Supercells to Microphysics Parameterizations, Assimilated Radar Data, and Assimilation Techniques
(2016-05-13)
The aim of this study is to examine the impact of using five different microphysics parameterization schemes, including single-, double-, and triple-moment microphysics, in an efficient high-resolution data assimilation ...
A Risk And Trust Security Framework For The Pervasive Mobile Environment
(2013)
A pervasive mobile computing environment is typically composed of multiple fixed and mobile entities that interact autonomously with each other with very little central control. Many of these interactions may occur between ...
A New Random Walk for Replica Detection in WSNs
(PLos One, 2016-07-13)
Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) are vulnerable to Node Replication attacks or Clone attacks. Among all the existing clone detection protocols in WSNs, RAWL shows the most promising results by employing Simple Random Walk ...
Trauma and Resistance in the Short Story Corpus of Ana Maria Matute 1953-1962
(2013)
From 1953 to 1962 Ana María Matute Ausejo (b. 1926) published ten short story collections of and two additioinal stories.
Follower Mental Models and Outstanding Leadership
(2015)
Charismatic, ideological, and pragmatic (CIP) leaders use different mental models to understand and interpret the world. The present study uses this framework to gain a better understanding of how outstanding leaders ...