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Comparative Analysis of Marine Diatom Species Richness and Diversity Across the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum at Different Latitudes
(2022)This study examines the impacts of rapid warming experienced during the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum (PETM) at approximately 56 Ma on marine diatom communities and how these effects differ based on latitude. Understanding ... -
Physical activity in adolescents: an expanded theory of planned behavior approach with interaction effects
(2021)Obesity in adolescents in the United States has increased at an alarming rate over the past decade, with concerns related to the issue centered around a lifetime of greater prevalence of poor health outcomes for these ... -
Optic nerve subarachnoid space cerebral spinal fluid computational fluid dynamics
(2021)Cerebral spinal fluid (CSF) is driven throughout the subarachnoid space (SAS) and serves a variety of crucial functions. The behavior of CSF within the optic nerve subarachnoid space (ONSAS) has special interest because ... -
Self-Controlled Food and Leisure Activity Decision-Making
(2021)The experiment aimed to examine the effects of stress, coping, weight status, age, and attribute weightiness on health decision-making in females and males. Participants completed an online experiment consisting of ... -
Assessment of genetic algorithm based assignment strategies for unmanned systems using the multiple traveling salesman problem with moving targets
(2021)The continuous and rapid advancements in autonomous unmanned systems technologies presents increasingly sophisticated threats to military operations. These threats necessitate the prioritization of improved strategies for ... -
Domain Playground: Extending Deep Learning Models to Open Domain Boundaries
(2021)Deep learning models have demonstrated monumental performance in classification tasks but require extensive data and training procedures to converge. Additionally, the performance is only guaranteed when there is no domain ... -
StoryNet: A 5W1H-based knowledge graph to connect stories
(2021)Stories are a powerful medium through which the human community has exchanged information since the dawn of the information age. They have taken multiple forms like articles, movies, books, plays, short films, magazines, ... -
Aminoxyl Catalyzed Electrochemical Ethanol Detection: Development of a New Breathalyzer Using Molecular Catalysis
(2021)Blood alcohol concentration (BAC) is the indicator of alcohol intoxication, and its measurement has emerged as the most common analytical procedure requested by law enforcement. Due to its volatility, ethanol vapor can be ... -
A novel approach to embedding memory with crosstalk logic circuits for high performance applications
(2021)One of the essential elements of computing is the memory element. Flip-flops form an integral part of a System-on-Chip (SoC) and consume most of the area on the die. To meet the high-speed performance demands by data-intensive ... -
Coffeehouse Sociability: Samuel Pepys and the Creation of Networks in Late Seventeenth Century England
(2021)The aim of this work is to address how coffeehouse culture in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century England facilitated the creation of networks. The emergence of the coffeehouse in London created a new social atmosphere for ... -
Digital Technology and Digital Workflow Application in the Current Landscape of Private Practice Orthodontics
(2021)This study examined which demographic factors and practice characteristics influence orthodontists to utilize a digital workflow in their private practice, as well as which factors influence their opinions on the current ... -
Orthodontists' perceptions of teledentistry and remote dental monitoring in orthodontic treatment
(2021)The purpose of this study was two-fold. First, to survey orthodontists to determine the clinician demographics and practice characteristics that may influence the utilization of teledentistry and/or remote dental monitoring. ... -
Advanced Education Orthodontics Program Curricula Pre- and Post-COVID-19
(2021)A survey was conducted to investigate faculty numbers across advanced education orthodontic programs and its association with curriculum, didactic learning, utilization of distance education, and impact of the COVID-19 ... -
A single molecule study on the structural basis of ion selective permeation in voltage-gated sodium channels
(2021)High resolution studies of voltage-gated sodium channels (VGSCs) can not reveal the dynamic nature of the channel structures, especially in lipid environments, which are vital for rational drug design. The bacterial NavAb ... -
The Effects of Anthropogenic Warming on Changes of Extreme Precipitation Over Kansas City Metropolitan Area
(2021)When the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Special Report Global Warming of 1.5°C was released in 2018 it postulated about the devastating effects of a 2° C increase in global temperature, based on projections ... -
The Role of Surfaces and Structural Disorder on the Core Level Chemical Shift in Perovskite Solar Cells
(2021)The local electronic environment of atoms near interfaces in thin-film solar cells plays a crucial role in the overall performance. Core electron chemical shifts are sensitive indicators of variation in the local environment ... -
Experimental investigation of U-Pipe evacuated tube solar collector: thermal performance enhancement methodology
(2021)In this study thermal performance comparison of U-Pipe evacuated tube solar collector (ETC) vs heat pipe ETC (HPETC) was investigated experimentally. ETC's are available in either heat pipe or u-pipe configurations. In ... -
Chirality directed self-assembly: in situ construction of recyclable and reusable Janus dendrimers
(2021)The underlying theme at the forefront of synthetic organic chemistry has always been about compounding simple precursors into more complex molecular targets. However, this strenuous process often involves the generation ... -
Assessment of the impact of the great plains biomass burning on the air quality of the Kansas City metro area
(2021)This study investigates the impact of biomass burning smoke emissions from the Great Plains on Kansas City’s Air quality from 2015 to 2019 (5 years). The daily data of carbon monoxide (CO), nitrogen dioxide (NO2), sulfur ... -
Development of a Jet Impingement Thermal Management System for a Semiconductor Device with the Implementation of Dielectric Nanofluids
(2021)This study investigates the viability of a liquid jet-impingement (JI) thermal management system (TMS). The JI-TMS was used as a heat dissipation tactic to ensure a silicon semiconductor-based pulse-power devices temperature ...