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Reflections on the Changing Platform of Education for the Budding Otolaryngologist
(Otolaryngology–Head and Neck Surgery, 2015-08-25)
Learning is a key component to developing and maintaining competency as a physician. Traditional approaches, such as textbooks, lectures, journal articles, and cadaver laboratories, have been instrumental. With the ease ...
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 ...
Autonomous visual navigation of an indoor environment using a parsimonious, insect inspired familiarity algorithm
(2016-04-27)
The navigation of bees and ants from hive to food and back has captivated people for more than a century. Recently, the Navigation by Scene Familiarity Hypothesis (NSFH) has been proposed as a parsimonious approach that ...
Establishment of a 3D In Vitro Model to Accelerate the Development of Human Therapies against Corneal Diabetes
(PLos One, 2016-12-22)
Purpose To establish an in vitro model that would mirror the in vivo corneal stromal environment in diabetes (DM) patients. Methods Human corneal fibroblasts from Healthy (HCFs), Type 1DM (T1DM) and Type 2DM (T2DM) donors ...
Revising the Western: Connecting Genre Rituals and American Western Revisionism in TV’s Sons of Anarchy
(Cultural Studies ‚Üî Critical Methodologies, 2014-06-01)
In this article, I analyze the TV show Sons of Anarchy (SOA) and how the cable drama revisits and revises the American Western film genre. I survey ideological contexts and tropes that span Western mythologies like landscape ...
An Evaluation of the Beyond High School Model on the Self- Determination of Students With Intellectual Disability
(Career Development and Transition for Exceptional Individuals, 2012-08-01)
Students with intellectual disability are often served in community-based services to promote effective adult outcomes in employment, community inclusion, and independent living (Gaumer, Morningstar & Clark (2004). Beyond ...
Lock-In and Team Effects: Recruiting and Success in College Football Athletics
(Journal of Sports Economics, 2015-04-07)
How important is recruiting to a football program’s success? While prior research has attempted to answer this question, we utilize an extensive panel set covering 13 years of games along with a two-stage least squares ...
Negotiating the Meaning of Team Expertise: A Firefighter Team’s Epistemic Denial
(Small Group Research, 2013-02-01)
In this case study, we report how a team of firefighters critiqued one of its member’s decisions to facilitate learning and process improvement. The study is supported by 500+ hr of ethnographic observations, documents, ...
Identification and Characterization of NF-Y Transcription Factor Families in the Monocot Model Plant Brachypodium distachyon
(PLos One, 2011-06-30)
Background Nuclear Factor Y (NF-Y) is a heterotrimeric transcription factor composed of NF-YA, NF-YB and NF-YC proteins. Using the dicot plant model system Arabidopsis thaliana (Arabidopsis), NF-Y were previously ...
Achieved availability importance measure for enhancing reliability-centered maintenance decisions
(Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part O: Journal of Risk and Reliability, 2015-02-01)
An effective defense strategy requires aircraft, among other weapons systems, to be available and ready for use when circumstances deem necessary. This article offers a set of importance measures to identify the critical ...