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Targeted Mutagenesis of Human BRCA2 via Recombineering for Functional Evaluation of Unclassified Variants
(2019-04-29)Breast cancer is a significant area of research, as it is the most common type of cancer to affect women. BRCA2 is a cancer susceptibility gene that, when carrying a mutation, has a high chance of causing hereditary breast ... -
Theory of Planned Behavior: Public Employee Intentions to Recycle Correctly
(2021-11-14)Environmental performance refers to the impact business operations have on the natural environment. The more employees perform green behaviors, the greater an organization’s environmental performance becomes, and the less ... -
THERAPEUTIC POTENTIAL OF BIOENGINEERED BACTERIOPHAGE FOR PSEUDOMONAS INFECTION CONTROL
(2018-11-27)The increasing resistance of bacteria to traditional antibiotics calls for novel countermeasures. Pseudomonas aeruginosa, an opportunistic pathogen, is intrinsically resistant to several classes of antibiotics. Pseudomonas ... -
THERMAL DENATURATION AND REFOLDING OF CARBOHYDRATE BINDING MODULES TO IMPROVE ENZYME RECYCLING IN A LIGNOCELLULOSIC BIOREFINERY
(2019-08-01)Second generation bioethanol using lignocellulosic waste is a promising source of renewable energy. Cellulose, lignin, and other biopolymers make up lignocellulose. Saccharification of lignocellulose requires cellulases, ... -
Un Rêve Français à la Lumière de l'Art Japonais Pendant le 19ème Siècle au début du 20ème Siècle
(2019-04)How Japanese art before the fall of the Shogun influenced French art during the 19th century to the beginning of the 20th century. The styles of French art that were directly influenced by Japanese pottery, poetry, and ... -
Unseemly: Soda-fired ceramics and the breakdown of social class distinctions
(2022-04-15)In Victorian England, having the proper goods in one’s home indicated one’s social status on a scale of vulgar to tasteful. This project, consisting of soda-fired functional tableware, takes the material symbol of fine ... -
The Use of Remote Sensing to Assess Salt Marsh Dieback
(2019-04-12)Salt marshes are invaluable to coastal communities, providing carbon sequestration, habitat, and mitigation from storms. All along the Eastern Atlantic seaboard, salt marsh vegetation has been experiencing diebacks. While ... -
USING PAM FLUOROMETRY TO DETERMINE SALINITY STRESS IN A NATURAL PERIPHYTON COMMUNITY DURING A SHORT-TERM LABORATORY EXPOSURE
(2020-11-18)Road salt application is a common practice within the United States during the winter season. Depending on the intensity of the snow events, deicing amounts vary from year to year. The introduced sodium chloride from deicers ... -
Using Redox Sensitive Dye for Expedited Antibiotic Minimum Inhibitory Concentration Analysis of Tier 1 Bacterial BSAT
Here, we present an optimized colorimetric broth microdilution assay for Bacillus anthracis and Yersinia pestis that includes the redox sensitive dye resazurin added to the media. We found the assay results were easier ... -
Western Colonization and Its Impact on Female Migrant Workers: The Study of Labor Management of Domestic Migrant Workers from Indonesia and the Philippines
(2021-05-26)Indonesia and the Philippines are two countries of origin for labor migration. These countries share similar historical roots; however, female Overseas Filipino Workers (OFWs) are often more successful than Indonesian ... -
What's Partisanship Got to Do With It? Racial Disparities of Maternal and Infant Mortality in North Carolina
(2019-04-29)This research aims to examine whether there are common conditions such as, race, poverty level, rural or urban location, and partisanship that lead to higher rates of infant and maternal mortality among African-American ... -
Whom Do We Entrust to Care for Our Students: Organizational Fit to Foster an Ethical Culture of Employee and Student Success
(2020-08-03)With the shift in focus from access to college education to completion of post-secondary degree, community colleges are facing increasing challenges to ensure students succeed after arriving on campus regardless of academic ... -
Why Early Reading Matters and Improving Outcomes for Young Children At-Risk for Reading Difficulties
(2021-04-25)The purpose of this research paper is to communicate the importance of why early reading matters and to identify various methods to improve reading outcomes for all students regardless of race or background. The research ... -
WNT/NFΚB CROSSTALK MAY DOWNREGULATE CYTOPLASMIC Β-CATENIN LEADING TO INDUCTION OF EMT.
(2018-04)Molecular interactions in the cell are not bound by discrete cellular pathways; there is significant communication between the pathways leading to tightly regulated processes. The current research will examine if Wnt and ... -
A Woman's Place is in the Resistance: The Power of the Female Role Model
(2022-01-14)What makes a good role model? The women’s marches that took place beginning in 2017 provide us with a somewhat unexpected answer. These marches not only protested the election of the 45th President of the United States but ...