• 2019 Charles E. Williams II Advanced Leadership Institute Oratorical Contest Winning Speech 

  Nnoromele, Patrick (2019-01-17)

  Patrick Nnoromele is a Eugene McDermott and National Merit Scholar. He is also a recipient of the Barry Goldwater Scholarship. He is majoring in Neuroscience and plans to attend medical school after graduation. This is the ...

• Synthesis and Characterization of a Holmium 2,2′-bipyridine-5,5′-dicarboxylate MOF: Towards the Construction of a Suitable Holmium Carrier 

  Vizuet, Juan P.; Lewis, Abigail L.; McCandless, Gregory T.; Balkus, Kenneth J. (Pergamon-Elsevier Science Ltd, 2019-02)

  Based on the 2,2′-bipyridine-5,5′-dicarboxylic acid ligand (H₂bpdc), a new metal-organic framework using holmium as the coordinating metal site was synthesized through a solvothermal reaction. The 3D compound {[Ho₂(bPdc)₃(DMF)₂] ...

• Gulf War Illness Associated with Abnormal Auditory P1 Event-Related Potential: Evidence of Impaired Cholinergic Processing Replicated in a National Sample 

  Tillman, Gail D.; Spence, Jeffrey S.; Briggs, Richard W.; Haley, Robert W.; Hart, John; Kraut, Michael A. (Elsevier Ireland Ltd, 2018-11-10)

  Our team previously reported event-related potential (ERP) and hyperarousal patterns from a study of one construction battalion of the U.S. Naval Reserve who served during the 1991 Persian Gulf War. We sought to replicate ...

• In Vivo Assessment of Increased Oxidation of Branched-Chain Amino Acids in Glioblastoma 

  Suh, Eul Hyun; Hackett, Edward P.; Wynn, R. Max; Chuang, David T.; Zhang, Bo; Luo, Weibo; Sherry, A. Dean; Park, Jae Mo (Nature Publishing Group, 2019-01-23)

  Altered branched-chain amino acids (BCAAs) metabolism is a distinctive feature of various cancers and plays an important role in sustaining tumor proliferation and aggressiveness. Despite the therapeutic and diagnostic ...

• Expatriates' Performance Profiles: Examining The Effects of Work Experiences on the Longitudinal Change Patterns 

  Takeuchi, Riki; Li, Yixuan; Wang, Mo (Sage Publications Inc, 2018-04-12)

  Using four-wave, longitudinal, archival data sets from an expatriate sample (237 engineers and 191 managers) working in China, we explore whether different performance change patterns exist for expatriates during their ...

• Stellar Tidal Disruption Events in General Relativity 

  Stone, Nicholas C.; Kesden, Michael; Cheng, Roseanne M.; van Velzen, Sjoert (Springer/Plenum Publishers, 2019-02-12)

  A tidal disruption event (TDE) ensues when a star passes too close to a supermassive black hole (SMBH) in a galactic center, and is ripped apart by its tidal field. The gaseous debris produced in a TDE can power a bright ...

• Flow Boiling Heat Transfer from Downward-Facing Thick Heater Block in an Inclined Channel with Plain and Microporous Coated Surfaces 

  Song, Kiwon; Jun, Seongchul; You, Seung M.; Kim, Hwan Yeol; Kim, Moo Hwan; Revankar, Shripad T. (Pergamon-Elsevier Science Ltd, 2019-02)

  Flow boiling experiments were carried out with water on a 300 mm x 120 mm area and 85 mm thick downward-facing heated copper block at 1.4 bar pressure in a channel inclined 10° upwards with respect to horizontal. Heat ...

• Optimal Delivery Due Date for a Supplier with an Unreliable Machine Under Outsourced Maintenance 

  Sharafali, Moosa; Tarakci, Hakan; Kulkarni, Shailesh; Hameed, Raja Abdul Razack Shahul (Elsevier Science B.V., 2018-11-21)

  In this paper, we analyse the due-date-to-promise problem for a supplier who supplies parts to his customer. The parts are produced on an unreliable machine with constant production rate. The machine is leased from a ...

• Characterization of Caenorhabditis elegans Nucleosome Assembly Protein 1 Uncovers the Role of Acidic Tails in Histone Binding 

  Sarkar, Prithwijit; Zhang, Naifu; Bhattacharyya, Sudipta; Salvador, Karlah; D'Arcy, Sheena (Amer Chemical Soc, 2018-12-06)

  Nucleosome assembly proteins (Naps) influence chromatin dynamics by directly binding to histones. Here we provide a comprehensive structural and biochemical analysis of a Nap protein from Caenorhabditis elegans (CeNap1). ...

• Molecularly-Engineered, 4D-Printed Liquid Crystal Elastomer Actuators 

  Saed, Mohand O.; Ambulo, Cedric P.; Kim, Hyun; De, Rohit; Raval, Vyom; Searles, Kyle; Siddiqui, Danyal A.; Cue, John Michael O.; Stefan, Mihaela C.; Shankar, M. Ravi; Ware, Taylor H. (WILEY-VCH Verlag GmbH, 2018-11-27)

  Three-dimensional structures that undergo reversible shape changes in response to mild stimuli enable a wide range of smart devices, such as soft robots or implantable medical devices. Herein, a dual thiol-ene reaction ...

• PET-MRI Image Fusion Using Adaptive Filter Based on Spectral and Spatial Discrepancy 

  Saboori, Arash; Birjandtalab, Javad (Springer London Ltd, 2018-07-21)

  Recently, medical imaging equipment has undergone major developments. They play an important role in healthcare industry since they provide visual interpretation of human organs. Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and positron ...

• Exact Recovery in Community Detection with Continuous-Valued Side Information 

  Saad, Hussein; Nosratinia, Aria (IEEE-inst Electrical Electronics Engineers Inc, 2019-02)

  The community detection problem, as a special case of inference on graphs, has received much attention lately. However, in the presence of continuous-valued side information, the behavior of a sharp threshold for exact ...

• "Hot Electrons in Si Lose Energy Mostly to Optical Phonons:" Truth or Myth? 

  Fischetti, Massimo V.; Yoder, P. D.; Khatami, Mohammad Mahdi; Gaddemane, Gautam; Van De Put, Maarten L. (American Institute of Physics Inc., 2019-06-05)

  Theoretical studies of heat generation and diffusion in Si devices generally assume that hot electrons in Si lose their energy mainly to optical phonons. Here, we briefly review the history of this assumption, and using ...

• Halide-Free Neodymium Phosphate Based Catalyst for Highly cis-1,4 Selective Polymerization of Dienes 

  Ren, Yixin; Miller, Justin T.; Polderman, Stefanie T.; Vo, Trinh D.; Wallace, Adele C. M.; Cue, John Michael O.; Tran, Sarah T.; Biewer, Michael C.; Stefan, Mihaela C. (Royal Soc Chemistry, 2019-01-24)

  Neodymium-based Ziegler-Natta type catalytic systems are known to produce polydienes with high cis-1,4 content. It is generally believed that in Ziegler-Natta catalytic systems, a halide or pseudohalide, whether in the ...

• Measurement of Angular and Momentum Distributions of Charged Particles within and Around Jets in Pb+Pb and pp Collisions at √{sₙₙ} = 5.02 TeV with ATLAS at the LHC 

  Puri, Akshat; Aaboud, M.; Aad, G.; Abbott, B.; Abdinov, O.; Abeloos, B.; Abhayasinghe, D. K.; Abidi, S. H.; Izen, Joseph M.; Meirose, Bernhard; Reeves, Kendall; ATLAS Collaboration (Elsevier Science B.V., 2019-01-22)

  Studies of the fragmentation of jets into charged particles in heavy-ion collisions can help in understanding the mechanism of jet quenching by the hot and dense QCD matter created in such collisions, the quark-gluon plasma. ...

• Deforestation and the United States-Peru Trade Promotion Agreement 

  Peinhardt, Clint; Kim, Alisha A.; Pavon-Harr, Viveca (MIT Press, 2019-02-25)

  Do environmental provisions in trade agreements make a difference? In part to coopt environmental criticisms, the United States has included environmental components to trade agreements since NAFTA side agreements in the ...

• Withdrawal, Attachment Security, and Recovery from Conflict in Couple Relationships 

  Prager, Karen J.; Poucher, Jesse; Shirvani, Forouz K.; Parsons, Julie A.; Allam, Zoheb (Sage Publications Ltd, 2017-11-21)

  This study used 115 cohabiting couple partners' 21-day diaries, with which they reported each evening on their moods and their relationships, to test hypotheses about connections between withdrawal following conflict, ...

• Smart MRI Agents for Detecting Extracellular Events In Vivo: Progress and Challenges 

  Parrott, Daniel; Fernando, W. Shirangi; Martins, Andre F. (MDPI, 2019-02-09)

  Many elegant inorganic designs have been developed to aid medical imaging. We know better now how to improve imaging due to the enormous efforts made by scientists in probe design and other fundamental sciences, including ...

• Training Needs of Clinical and Research Professionals to Optimize Minority Recruitment and Retention in Cancer Clinical Trials 

  Niranjan, Soumya J.; Durant, Raegan W.; Wenzel, Jennifer A.; Cook, Elise D.; Fouad, Mona N.; Vickers, Selwyn M.; Konety, Badrinath R.; Rutland, Sarah B.; Simoni, Zachary R.; Martin, Michelle Y. (Springer, 2017-08-03)

  The study of disparities in minority recruitment to cancer clinical trials has focused primarily on inquiries among minority patient populations. However, clinical trial recruitment is complex and requires a broader ...

• Two ABC Transporters and a Periplasmic Metallochaperone Participate in Zinc Acquisition in Paracoccus Denitrificans 

  Neupane, Durga P.; Kumar, Santosh; Yukl, Erik T. (Amer Chemical Soc, 2018-10-24)

  Bacteria must acquire the essential element zinc from extremely limited environments, and this function is performed largely by ATP binding cassette (ABC) transporters. These systems rely on a periplasmic or extracellular ...

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