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Design and intracellular trafficking of poly(L-lysine)-grafted-poly(ethylene glycol) fiberless adenoviral gene delivery vector
(2020-07)
The first gene therapy clinical trials were started nearly 30 years ago, but the field only now seems to be on the verge of widespread adoption. Safe and efficient gene delivery, however, is still a major obstacle and is ...
How Generation Z college students in the Ferguson College of Agriculture perceive technology in their lives: A Q methodology study
(2020-07)
Generation Z is the generation everyone is talking about (Dimock, 2019). The oldest are entering the workforce, and the rest are in classrooms (Dimock, 2019). They are the most unique generation to date, and they have been ...
Context-aware quality assessment of structured and unstructured data
(2020-07)
Data analysis is a crucial process in the field of data science that extracts useful information from any form of data. The ease of access and maintenance makes structured data the most popular choice among many organizations ...
Investigation into biodegradability of ionic liquids employing active site models
(2020-07)
Ionic liquids have the potential for driving industrial processes in a sustainable fashion due to their environmentally benign characteristics like inherent low vapor pressure and flammability. Their extremely low vapor ...
Identity and home in three Caribbean authors
(2020-07)
The search for identity is a major theme in modern literature. It is particularly prevalent in societies that have historically been colonized where the colonizer has sabotaged the values of the colonized that are at the ...
Perceived competence of paraprofessionals in elementary physical education
(2020-07)
The purpose of the study was to develop a preliminary instrument to ascertain the perceived competence, autonomy, and relatedness of special education paraprofessionals in elementary physical education. The Physical Education ...
Influence of religiosity on coping stress and marital relationship of parents raising a child with Autism Spectrum Disorder in Pakistan
(2020-12)
Parents in Pakistan are under stress by challenges of raising a child with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD). This study aimed to find if there is a mean difference in stress, religiosity and marital satisfaction of parents ...
Person-environment fit theory approach to teacher retention
(2020-12)
Recent research suggests the United States is experiencing a nation-wide teaching shortage. Though the shortage appears to differ from state to state, patterns of shortages appear most often in urban, high-poverty, and ...
Signal opacity and debt contracts in entrepreneurial ventures
(2020-07)
New ventures that are unable to fund expansion using internal equity or that prefer to maintain complete firm ownership may supplement existing cash flow by accessing external funds in the form of debt contracts. To overcome ...
Small resolutions of closures of K-orbits in flag varieties
(2020-05)
We construct explicit proper morphisms \(\mu\,\colon Z\to Y\), where \(Y\) is the closure of a \(K\)-orbit in a flag variety. Of particular interest is when \(\mu\) is a resolution of singularities and when it is a small ...