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Postprandial triglycerides and fibroblast growth factor-19 as potential screening tools for pediatric non-alcoholic fatty liver disease
(2022-05)
Background: Screening tools for pediatric NAFLD are lacking. We tested the hypothesis that the postprandial triglyceride (TG) and FGF19 response to an abbreviated fat tolerance test (AFTT) could discriminate children with ...
Structure and functional characterization of the pheromone binding protein 2 from Ostrinia furnacalis
(2021-05)
Animal olfaction has an immense impact on their survival. The insect olfactory system is the most exquisitely sensitive in the animal kingdom. Moth antennae contain hair-like structures called sensilla, which are involved ...
Application of autocorrelation principles to characterize line source radiation
(2021-12)
The problem of line source radiation is examined through the application of autocorrelation principles. These principles enable the radiation from a line source to be characterized with only knowledge of the current ...
Experimentally validated heat exchanger refrigerant charge model and optimization of refrigerant charge for a heat pump
(2023-05)
Refrigerant charge affects the efficiency, capacity, and reliability of a heat pump, and incorrect charge can lead to increased energy consumption and decreased performance as well as potential damage to the system. ...
Emergency operations center organizational structure during disasters a qualitative study
(2022-05)
This dissertation explores the State of Oklahoma Emergency Operations Center (EOC) organizational structure before and during disaster response. I utilized the lens of contingency theory to review prior EOC research and ...
Coxiella burnetii: Intranasal immunizations and axenic media adaptations
(2020-07)
Coxiella burnetii is an obligate intracellular pathogen and the causative agent of the zoonotic illness Q fever. With an infectious dose of 1-10 organisms, C. burnetii is one of the most infectious bacteria known. This low ...
Expression, purification, NMR structure, and molecular dynamics studies of Ost4 and Ost4V23D: A critical subunit of yeast oligosaccharyltransferase
(2021-05)
N-linked glycosylation is an essential and highly conserved protein modification reaction that takes place in all eukaryotes and some prokaryotes. This reaction is catalyzed by the enzyme complex, oligosaccharyltransferase ...
Mutual reinforcement learning to improve robots as trainers
(2020-05)
Recently, collaborative robots have begun to train humans to achieve complex tasks, and the mutual information exchange between them can lead to successful robot-human collaborations. In this thesis we demonstrate the ...
Interpreting natural language processing (NLP) models and lifting their limitations
(2021-07)
There have been many advances in the artificial intelligence field due to the emergence of deep learning and big data. In almost all sub-fields, artificial neural networks have reached or exceeded human-level performance. ...
Administrators' perceptions of censorship and policy-making practices in one school district
(2022-07)
Little scholarship exists on administrators’ perceptions of censorship in specific districts and schools. I studied secondary administrators’ perceptions of censorship in one, Midwestern suburban school district and how ...