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Effect of thermal ballast loading on temperature stability of domestic refrigerators used for vaccine storage

July 8, 2020

Author(s)

Michal J. Chojnacky, Alexandra L. Rodriguez

Vaccine temperature control failures represent a significant public and private healthcare cost. Vaccines damaged by excessive heat or freezing lose their effectiveness, putting public health at risk. Some vaccine administration programs recommend placing

Engineering Microporous Ethane-Trapping Metal-Organic Frameworks for Boosting Ethane/Ethylene Separation

February 21, 2020

Author(s)

Jiyan Pei, Jia-Xin Wang, Kai Shao, Yu Yang, Yuanjing Cui, Hui Wu, Wei Zhou, Bin Li, Guodong Qian

Realization of ethane-trapping materials for separating ethane (C 2H 6) from ethylene (C 2H 4) by adsorption, to potentially replace the energy-intensive cryogenic distillation technology, is of prime importance in the petrochemical industry. It is still

Structure of the cell-binding component of the Clostridium difficile binary toxin reveals a di- heptamer macromolecular assembly

January 14, 2020

Author(s)

Xingjian Xu, Raquel Ruiz, Kaylin Adipietro, Christopher Peralta, Danya Ben-Hail, Kristen Varney, Mary Cook, Braden Roth, Paul Wilder, Thomas Cleveland, Alexander Grishaev, Heather Neu, Sarah Michel, Wenbo Yu, Dorothy Beckett, Richard Rustandi, Alex MacKerell, Amedee des Georges, Edwin Pozharski, David Weber

… starting point for developing structure-based drug-design strategies to target the most severe strains of C. difficile. …

Categorization Errors for Data Entry in Maintenance Work-Orders

September 24, 2019

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Thurston B. Sexton, Melinda Hodkiewicz, Michael P. Brundage

… (DB) schema. We subsequently suggest potential mitigation strategies for each to improve the quality of recorded data …

Temperature and light intensity effects on the photodegradation of high-density polyethylene

May 11, 2019

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Andrew W. Fairbrother, Hsiang C. Hsueh, Jae Hyun Kim, Deborah S. Jacobs, Lakesha N. Perry, David G. Goodwin, Christopher C. White, Stephanie S. Watson, Li Piin Sung

… and can be utilized to develop degradation mitigation strategies for these and related thermoplastic materials. …

A practical field guide to thermoelectrics: fundamentals, synthesis, and characterization

June 27, 2018

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Alex Zevalkink, David M. Smiadak, Joshua Martin, Michael Chabinyc, Olivier Delaire, Jeffrey Blackburn, Andrew Ferguson, Jian Wang, Kirill Kovnir, Laura Schelhas, Stephen D. Kang, Maxwell T. Dylla, G. J. Snyder, Brenden Ortiz, Eric Toberer

… inorganic materials, and include a discussion of eﬀective strategies for powder and single crystal synthesis, the use …

PROGRESS AND CHALLENGES IN MODELING COMMUNITY RESILIENCE: AN UPDATE ON THE CENTER FOR RISK-BASED COMMUNITY RESILIENCE PLANNING

June 2, 2018

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John W. van de Lindt, Bruce Ellingwood, Therese P. McAllister, Paolo Gardoni, Daniel Cox

… will enable resilience enhancement/planning and recovery strategies to be optimized. The approaches within the CoE …

Nanofiber Scaffold Based Tissue Engineered Retinal Pigment Epithelium to Treat Degenerative Eye Diseases

March 1, 2017

Author(s)

Carl G. Simon Jr., Nathan A. Hotaling

… of one, or a combination, of the tissue engineering strategies discussed herein in a clinical trial. Translation …

Effects of powder recycling on stainless steel powder and built material properties in metal powder bed fusion processes

February 27, 2017

Author(s)

Gregor Jacob, Christopher U. Brown, M A. Donmez, Stephanie S. Watson

A series of 11 identical laser based powder bed fusion (PBF) builds were completed with varying amounts of virgin and recycled nitrogen gas atomized S17-4 PH stainless steel powder following a specific powder recycling strategy that simulates industrial

Tethered Bilayer Membranes as a Complementary Tool for Functional and Structural Studies: the Pyolysin Case

September 1, 2016

Author(s)

Giulio Preta, Marija Jankunec, Frank Heinrich, Sholeem Griffin, Iain Martin Sheldon, Gintaras Valincius

… the activity of CDCs in eukaryotic cells and to develop strategies to limit the toxic effects of CDCs. …

Mixed Ionic/Electronic Conducting Surface Layers Adsorbed on Colloidal Silica for Flow Battery Applications

August 18, 2016

Author(s)

Jeffrey J Richards, Austin D. Scherbarth, Norman J. Wagner, Paul Butler

… is maintained under flow. These results show that strategies which seek to decouple mechanical and electrical …

Real-Time, Single Molecule Electronic DNA Sequencing by Synthesis Using Polymer Tagged Nucleotides on a Nanopore Array

May 10, 2016

Author(s)

Carl Fuller, Shiv Kumar, Mintu Porel, Michen Chien, Arek Bibillo, P. B. Stranges, Michael Dorwart, Chuanjua Tao, Zengmin Li, Wenjing Guo, Shundi Shi, Daniel Korenblum, Andrew Trans, Anne Aguirre, Edward Liu, Takeshi Harada, James Pollard, Ashwini Bhat, Cynthia Cech, Alexander Yang, Cleoma Spilman, Mirko Palla, Jennifer Hovis, Roger Chen, Irina Morozova, Sergey Kalachikov, James Russo, John J. Kasianowicz, Stefan Roever, George Church, Jingyue Ju

DNA sequencing by synthesis (SBS) offers a robust platform to decipher nucleic acid sequences. Recently, we developed a single molecule nanopore-based SBS strategy (NanoSBS) that accurately distinguishes four bases by electronically detecting and

The Importance of Relative Reaction Rates in the Optimization of Detailed Kinetic Models

April 26, 2016

Author(s)

Jeffrey A. Manion, William S. McGivern

Numerous mathematical tools intended to optimize rate constants employed in detailed kinetic models and make them consistent with experimental data have been reported in the literature. A typical methodology begins with the assignment of uncertainties in

Community Resilience Economic Decision Guide for Buildings and Infrastructure Systems An Overview

December 16, 2015

Author(s)

Robert E. Chapman

The Economic Guide provides a standard economic methodology for evaluating investment decisions aimed at improving the ability of communities to adapt to, withstand, and quickly recover from disasters. The Economic Guide is designed for use in conjunction

A Self Learning Algorithm for Temperature Prediction in a Single Family Residence

September 29, 2015

Author(s)

Farhad Omar, Steven T. Bushby

… In order to develop effective control optimization strategies to manage residential electricity consumption in a …

Investigation of lead and cadmium in counterfeit cigarettes seized in the United States

April 8, 2015

Author(s)

Yi He, Klaus von Lampe, Laura J. Wood, Marin Kurti

The information on the content of toxic elements of lead (Pb) and cadmium (Cd) in counterfeit cigarettes offers insight of the potential impact of consuming counterfeit cigarettes on public health and the criminology strategy for investigation of the

Elucidating the Effects of Adsorbent Flexibility on Fluid Adsorption Using Simple Models and Flat-Histogram Sampling Methods

June 24, 2014

Author(s)

Vincent K. Shen, Daniel W. Siderius

Using flat-histogram Monte Carlo methods, we investigate the adsorptive behavior of the square-well fluid in two simple slit-pore- like models intended to capture fundamental characteristics of flexible adsorbent materials. The models require thermodynamic

Storage Wars: How citrate capped silver nanoparticle suspensions are affected by not-so-trivial decisions

March 21, 2014

Author(s)

Justin M. Gorham, Anne B. Rohlfing, Katrice A. Lippa, Robert I. MacCuspie, Amy Hemmati, Richard D. Holbrook

A critical but often overlooked component of silver nanoparticle (AgNPs) suspensions involves their behavior following short- and long-term storage. The current study investigates the integrity of citrate-capped AgNP suspensions, nominally 20 nm in

Development of a conceptual framework for evaluation of nanomaterials release from nanocomposites: environmental and toxicological implications

January 2, 2014

Author(s)

Jame Ging, Raul Tejerina-Anton, Girish Ramakrishnan, Mark Nielsen, Kyle Murphy, Justin Gorham, Tinh Nguyen, Alexander Orlov

… this research can lead to recommendations on safer design strategies for the next generation of CNTs containing …

Principles for Profiling Healthcare Data Communication Standards

July 22, 2013

Author(s)

Robert D. Snelick

Healthcare organizations often have many proprietary heterogeneous information systems that must exchange data reliably. Seamlessly sharing information among systems is complex. The widely adopted HL7 version 2 messaging standard has helped the process of

The evaluation of photo/e-beam complementary grayscale lithography for high topography 3D structure

March 29, 2013

Author(s)

Liya Yu, Richard J. Kasica, Robert D. Newby, Lei Chen, Vincent K. Luciani

This article demonstrates and evaluates photo/e-beam grayscale complementary lithography processes for the fabrication of large area, high topography grayscale structure. The combination of these two techniques capitalizes on the capability of

Gradient Nanofiber Scaffold Libraries for Screening Cell Response to Poly(e-caprolactone)-Calcium Phosphate Composites

March 1, 2013

Author(s)

Carl G. Simon Jr., Limin Sun, Laurence C. Chow, William Miles, Christopher K. Tison, Kaushik Chatterjee, Marian F. Young, Vinoy Thomas, Murugan Ramalingam

… topography presented by 3D scaffolds [7-11]. In addition, strategies for patterning cells and tissues are in high …

Fast standard addition method for LA-ICPMS using a spinning platform

February 19, 2013

Author(s)

John L. Molloy, Stephen E. Long, Fanny Claverie, Julian Malherbe, Naomi Bier

A method has been developed for the fast and easy determination of Pb, Sr, Ba, Ni, Cu, and Zn, which are of geological and environmental interest, in solid samples by Laser Ablation Inductively Coupled Plasma Mass Spectrometry (LA-ICPMS) using a sample

Quantifying CD4 Receptor Density on Human T Lymphocytes Using Multiple Reaction Monitoring Mass Spectrometry

January 3, 2013

Author(s)

Meiyao M. Wang, Hua-Jun He, Illarion Turko, Karen W. Phinney, Lili Wang

CD4 is an important glycoprotein containing a transmembrane portion and a short intracellular tail. It locates on the surface of various types of immune cells and performs critical role in multiple cellular functions such as signal amplification and

Modeling Gaps and Overlaps of Sustainability Standards

May 28, 2012

Author(s)

Paul W. Witherell, Sudarsan Rachuri, Anna D'Alessio

… may vary in scope, application domain, and implementation strategies, thus creating a challenge for stakeholders to …

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