• Set of Highly Stable Amine- and Carboxylate-Terminated Dendronized Au Nanoparticles with Dense Coating and Nontoxic Mixed-Dendronized Form 

  Ray, Arunendra Saha; Ghann, William E.; Tsoi, Phoebe S.; Szychowski, Brian; Dockery, Lance T.; Pak, Yewon J.; Li, Wenjing; Kane, Maureen A.; Swaan, Peter; Daniel, Marie-Christine (American Chemical Society, 2019-02-04)

  The synthesis of a novel poly(propyleneimine) (PPI) dendron in gram scale as well as its use in the formation of a highly stable, dendronized gold nanoparticle (AuNP)-based drug delivery platform is described herein. The ...

• Structural determinants for the activation of soluble guanylyl cyclase 

  Childers, Kenneth; Giannakoulias, Sam; Garcin, Elsa (2018)

  Structural Determinants for the Activation of Soluble Guanylyl Cyclase Soluble guanylyl cyclase (GC-1) plays a vital role in vascular health by cyclizing GTP into cGMP, a potent vasodilator and inhibitor of platelet ...

• Development and Assessment of Modules to Integrate Quantitative Skills in Introductory Biology Courses 

  Hoffman, Kathleen; Leupen, Sarah; Dowell, Kathy; Kephart, Kerrie; Leips, Jeff (The American Society for Cell Biology, 2017-10-13)

  Redesigning undergraduate biology courses to integrate quantitative reasoning and skill development is critical to prepare students for careers in modern medicine and scientific research. In this paper, we report on the ...

• Unique Down to Our Microbes—Assessment of an Inquiry-Based Metagenomics Activity 

  Lentz, Thomas B.; Ott, Laura E.; Robertson, Sabrina D.; Windsor, Sarah C.; Kelley, Joshua B.; Wollenberg, Michael S.; Dunn, Robert R.; Goller, Carlos C. (American Society for Microbiology, 2017-06)

  Metagenomics is an important method for studying microbial life. However, undergraduate exposure to metagenomics is hindered by associated software, computing demands, and dataset access. In this inquiry-based activity ...

• Interactive Computer Simulations as Pedagogical Tools in Biology Labs 

  Whitworth, Karen; Leupen, Sarah; Rakes, Chistopher; Bustos, Mauricio (The American Society for Cell Biology, 2018-08-24)

  Student learning in biology may be impaired by instructional environments that emphasize technical methodology over analysis. We hypothesized that time gained by experimenting with accurate computer simulations could be ...

• J-PLUS: Two-dimensional analysis of the stellar population in NGC 5473 and NGC 5485 

  Roman, I. San; Sanchez-Blazquez, P.; Cenarro, A. J.; Diaz-Garcia, L. A.; Lopez-Sanjuan, C.; Varela, J.; Vilella-Rojo, G.; Akras, S.; Bonoli, S.; Chies Santos, A. L.; Coelho, P.; Cortesi, A.; Ederoclite, A.; Jiménez-Teja, Y.; Logroño-García, R.; Oliveira, R. Lopes de; Nogueira-Cavalcante, J. P.; Orsi, A.; Ramió, H. Vázquez; Viironen, K.; Cristóbal-Hornillos, D.; Dupke, R.; Marín-Franch, A.; Oliveira, C. Mendes de; Moles, M.; Sodré, L. (ESO, 2019-01-12)

  Context. The spatial variations of stellar population properties within a galaxy are intimately related to their formation process. Therefore, spatially resolved studies of galaxies are essential to uncover their formation ...

• Variability and Proper Motion of X-ray Knots in the Jet of Centaurus A 

  Snios, Bradford; Wykes, Sarka; Nulsen, Paul E. J.; Kraft, Ralph P.; Meyer, Eileen T.; Birkinshaw, Mark; Worrall, Diana M.; Hardcastle, Martin J.; Roediger, Elke; Forman, William R.; Jones, Christine (2019-01-22)

  We report results from Chandra observations analyzed for evidence of variability and proper motion in the X-ray jet of Centaurus A. Using data spanning 15 years, collective proper motion of 11.3±3.3 mas yr We report results ...

• NuSTAR Detection of X-rays Concurrent with Gamma Rays in the Nova V5855 Sgr 

  Nelson, Thomas; Mukai, Koji; Li, Kwan-Lok; Vurm, Indrek; Metzger, Brian D.; Chomiuk, Laura; Sokoloski, J.L.; Linford, Justin D.; Bohlsen, Terry; Luckas, Paul (2018-12-31)

  We report the first detection of hard (>10 keV) X-ray emission simultaneous with gamma rays in a nova eruption. Observations of the nova V5855 Sgr carried out with the NuSTAR satellite on Day 12 of the eruption revealed ...

• On adaptive BDDC for the flow in heterogeneous porous media 

  Sousedík, Bedřich (2019-01-07)

  We study a method based on Balancing Domain Decomposition by Constraints (BDDC) for a numerical solution of a single-phase flow in heterogenous porous media. The method solves for both flux and pressure variables. The ...

• A Unified Approach for Solving Sequential Selection Problems 

  Goldenshluger, Alexander; Malinovsky, Yaakov; Zeevi, Assaf (2019-01-25)

  In this paper we develop a unified approach for solving a wide class of sequential selection problems. This class includes, but is not limited to, selection problems with no–information, rank–dependent rewards, and ...

• Intensive oyster aquaculture can reduce disease impacts on sympatric wild oysters 

  Ben-Horin, Tal; Burge, Colleen A.; Bushek, David; Groner, Maya L.; Proestou, Dina A.; Huey, Lauren I.; Bidegain, Gorka; Carnegie, Ryan B. (Inter-Research, 2018-12-13)

  Risks associated with disease spread from fish and shellfish farming have plagued the growth and public perception of aquaculture worldwide. However, by processing nutrients and organic material from the water column, ...

• Oral vaccination of Macrobrachium rosenbergii with baculovirus-expressed M. rosenbergii nodavirus (MrNV) capsid protein induces protective immunity against MrNV challenge 

  Citarasu, Thavasimuthu; Lelin, Chinnadurai; Babu, Mariavincent Michael; Anand, Setty Balakrishnan; Nathan, Abel Arul; Vakharia, Vikram N. (Elsevier B.V, 2019-03)

  White Tail Disease (WTD) is one of the important viral diseases of fresh water giant prawn Macrobrachium rosenbergii, which is caused by Macrobrachium rosenbergii nodavirus (MrNV). In the present study, the capsid protein ...

• Macrobrachium rosenbergii nodavirus ( Mr NV)-CP-RNA-2 DNA vaccine confers protective immunity in giant freshwater prawn Macrobrachium rosenbergii against Mr NV infection 

  Citarasu, Thavasimuthu; Lelin, Chinnadurai; Thirumalaikumar, Eswaramoorthy; Babu, Mariavincent Michael; Vakharia, Vikram N. (Elsevier B.V., 2019-03)

  Macrobrachium rosenbergii Nodavirus (MrNV) causes white tail disease (WTD) in Giant freshwater prawn Macrobrachium rosenbergii which leads to immense economic losses in hatcheries and farms. In the present study, we cloned ...

• Rembrandt in his Studio: a Cross-Species Installation for the Brids 

  Moren, Lisa

  "This public art project is an installation where birds and humans can share in a visual experience unique to a non-human species. Using the idea that birds see in the ultra-violet spectrum, a low-spectrum violet that ...

• Analyzing Two-Dimensional Gel Images 

  Roy, Anindya; Seillier-Moiseiwitsch, Françoise; Lee, Kwan R.; Hang, Yarning; Marten, Mark; Raman, Babu (Taylor and Francis Online, 2012-09-20)

• Protein Image Alignment via Piecewise Affine Transformations 

  Potra, Florian A.; Liu, Xing; Seillier-Moiseiwitsch, Françoise; Roy, Anindya; Hang, Yaming; Marten, Mark R.; Raman, Babu; Whisnant, Carol

  We present a new approach for aligning families of 2D gels. Instead of choosing one of the gels as reference and performing a pairwise alignment, we construct an ideal gel that is representative of the entire family and ...

• Effect of impurities on the morphology on electrical properties of multifunctional TAS Crystals: Tl₃AsSe₃ 

  Nagaradona, Teja; Su, Ching-Hua; DeVilbiss, Michael; Arnold, Brad; Choa, Fow-Sen; Kelly, Lisa; Singh, N. B.

• Optical characteristics of novel bulk and nanoengineered laser host materials 

  Prasad, Narasimha S.; Sova, Stacey; Kelly, Lisa; Bevan, Talon; Arnold, Bradley; Cooper, Christopher; Choa, Fow-Sen; Singh, N. B. (SPIE, 2018-02-23)

  The hexagonal apatite single crystals have been investigated for their applications as laser host materials. Czochralksi and flux growth methods have been utilized to obtain single crystals. For low temperature processing ...

• Discovery Learning: Development of a Unique Active Learning Environment for Introductory Chemistry 

  Ott, Laura E.; Carpenter, Tara S.; Hamilton, Diana S.; LaCourse, William R. (The Trustees of Indiana University, 2018-12-10)

  It is well established that active learning results in greater gains in student conceptual knowledge and retention compared to traditional modes of learning. However, active learning can be very difficult to implement in ...

• Chemiluminescent solid lipid nanoparticles (SLN) and interations with intact skin 

  Breidenich, Jennifer; Patrone, Julia; Kelly, Lisa; Benkoski, Jason; Le, Huong; Sample, Jennifer (SPIE, 2009-08-24)

  We report the synthesis and characterization of a novel nanoparticle formulation designed for skin penetration for the purpose of skin imaging. Solid lipid nanoparticles (SLNs), a drug delivery vehicle, were used as the ...

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