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Viral Metagenomics and Anthropology in the Americas
(2015-05-08)
Viruses are the most abundant and diverse biological entities on earth. As humans, we could not exist without them. For billions of years they have been the unseen mediators of microbial and multicellular life. They are ...
COMMUNICATION FUNCTIONS OF SOUTH AFRICA APARTHEID AND THE U.S. MEXICO SECURITY FENCE
(2015)
Powerful semiotic signs like the Great Wall of China and the Berlin Wall served significant communicative functions. The modern culture of nation state wall building continues despite the fact that the security fences are ...
Selfless Agents
(2015-03-14)
This project will address the fundamental question in the background of the Self, Motivation and Virtue Project: How is the Self to be conceived? We challenge the premise of western philosophy that a diachronically unified ...
Developing a Hands-On Course Around Building and Testing High Performance Computing Clusters
(2015-06-01)
We describe a successful approach to designing and implementing a High Performance Computing (HPC) class focused on creating competency in building, configuring, programming, troubleshooting, and benchmarking HPC clusters. ...
The effects of undermining on newcomer socialization
(2015)
Although much is known about the nature of supportive behaviors during organizational socialization, less is known about the effects of undermining during this process. This study examines the effects of undermining from ...
GROWTH OF WIDE BANDGAP SEMICONDUCTORS USING PULSED ELECTRON BEAM DEPOSITION (PED) PROCESS
(2015)
Wide bandgap materials hold a great potential in solid state lighting, power electronics, and radio frequency (RF) device applications. The cumulative market for all these applications is forecasted to be approximately $75 ...
An Introduction to the General Monotone Model with Application to Two Problematic Data Sets
(Sociological Methodology, 2015-01-21)
We argue that the mismatch between data and analytical methods, along with common practices for dealing with “messy” data, can lead to inaccurate conclusions. Specifically, using previously published data on racial bias ...
Insect-Inspired Navigation Algorithm for an Aerial Agent Using Satellite Imagery
(2015-04-15)
Humans have long marveled at the ability of animals to navigate swiftly, accurately, and across long distances. Many mechanisms have been proposed for how animals acquire, store, and retrace learned routes, yet many of ...
Genotypic and Phenotypic Characterization of P23H Line 1 Rat Model
(PLos One, 2015-05-26)
Rod-cone dystrophy, also known as retinitis pigmentosa (RP), is the most common inherited degenerative photoreceptor disease, for which no therapy is currently available. The P23H rat is one of the most commonly used ...
The Effects of Soil Suction on Shallow Slope Stability / Gerald A. Miller, Amy B. Cerato, Arash Hassanikhah, Maryam Varsei, Roy Doumet, Celine Bourasset, Rifat Bulut
(Oklahoma City, OK : Oklahoma Department of Transportation, 2015., 2015-12)
Research work described in this report was undertaken to improve understanding of desiccation cracking and shallow slope failures in clayey slopes subjected to seasonal variations in weather. Research involved field and ...