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Renal Allograft Histopathology in Dog Leukocyte Antigen (DLA) Mismatched Dogs Following Renal Transplantation
(2005-08-15)
Chronic renal failure (CRF) is the most common disease of the kidney in dogs.1 It can result from congenital abnormalities, toxic and infectious insults, metabolic alterations, and age related pathology. Replacement of ...
Renewable Biomaterials from Bovine Serum Albumin
(2014-12-10)
Bovine Serum Albumin (BSA) is one of the most abundant proteins from the livestock industry, and it has been widely used in biomedical research as a reagent. However, only limited areas of application and a very small ...
Repatterning: Improving the Reliability of Android Applications with an Adaptation of Refactoring
(2014-07-02)
Studies of Android applications show that NullPointerException, OutofMemoryError, and BadTokenException account for a majority of errors observed in the real world. The technical debt being born by Android developers from ...
Replacement of Fish Meal with Poultry By-Product Meal as a Protein Source in Sunshine Bass, Morone Chyrsops X Morone Saxatilis , Diets
(2005-12-15)
The sunshine bass Morone chrysops x Morone saxatilis has become an important fish to aquaculture in the United States favored as both a sport fish and a food fish. As with many cultured species, feed often accounts for ...
Replacement of Poultry By-Product Meal in Production Diets for the Pacific White Shrimp (Litopenaeus vannamei)
(2007-12-15)
In recent years there has been increasing interest in the replacement of animal proteins with plant proteins in commercial feeds for the Pacific white shrimp, Litopenaeus vannamei. Primary reasons for this interest are to ...
Reports of Child Conduct Problems and Parenting Styles Among Asian Indian Mothers in the United States
(2006-12-15)
Parenting in the United States takes on a variety of different characteristics as a result of the cultural diversity. According to Calzada and Eyberg (2002), understanding parenting in the United States can be done through ...
Representations of Catholicism in American Literature, 1820-1920
(2009-04-30)
This dissertation examines the representation of Catholics and Catholicism in literature by non-Catholic authors in nineteenth-century and early twentieth-century American prose fiction and travel narratives. Moving ...
Representative Bureaucracy across Diverse Policy Spaces: An analysis of the relationship between the attitudes and perceptions of street-level bureaucrats and advocacy for client interest of shared identity
(2020-05-19)
This study investigates the relationship between the major components of representative bureaucracy theory (RBT) across diverse policy spaces. After examining the existing literature, it becomes clear that a comprehensive ...
The Representativeness of Gender Typicality and Attractiveness Bias in Personnel Selection
(2018-05-03)
Bias in selection procedures has the potential to hinder effective decision making and disparage members of underrepresented groups. Thus, it is important to investigate factors which may contribute to biased judgments in ...
Repressible Transgenic Sterilization in Channel Catfish, Ictalurus punctatus, by Knockdown of Primordial Germ Cell Genes
(2016-08-05)
Genetic engineering has great potential for development of fish with higher growth rate, better disease resistance and increased nutritional value. However, genetically modified animals could pose ecological risk to the ...
Reproduction and Herpetofauna Depredation of Feral Pigs (Sus scrofa) at Fort Benning, Georgia
(2007-05-15)
The continued range expansion of feral pigs (Sus scrofa) in North America is an increasing cause for concern due to the numerous negative impacts that feral pigs can have on ecosystem structure and function. Once populations ...
Reproduction of channel x channel, channel x blue, and blue x blue catfish as influenced by morphological characteristics and behavior
(2013-04-22)
Although hybrid catfish that are produced from channel female (Ictalurus punctatus) and blue male (Ictulurus furcatus) display superior characteristics for aquaculture, hybridization successes in natural environments are ...
Reproductive Biology of Relict Trillium (Trillium reliquum)
(2006-08-15)
Pollination and seed dispersal were studied in six populations of the endangered plant species Trillium reliquum in Bullock and Lee counties in Alabama and in Muscogee County, Georgia. Few populations of this species exist ...
Reproductive Confinement of Common Carp, Cyprinus carpio, and Channel Catfish, Ictalurus punctatus, via Transgenic Sterilization
(2012-12-05)
Transgenic animals had shown great potential for increasing growth rate, ability to resist disease, and for use as tool to research in forward and reverse genetics. Genetically modified animals could pose ecological risk ...
Reproductive success in white-tailed deer: using structural equation modeling to understand the causal relationships of MHC, age, and morphology
(2019-08-14)
Understanding factors that influence reproductive success is of utmost importance to the study of wildlife population dynamics. There are a multitude of factors that can influence a male’s ability to acquire mates, such ...
Repurposing FDA Approved Drugs to Antagonize Pregnane X Receptor Mediated Chemoresistance
(2019-12-05)
Human pregnane X receptor (hPXR) is an orphan nuclear receptor that regulates key drug metabolism enzymes (DMEs) and drug-transport proteins (DTPs), including Cytochrome p450 3A4 (CYP3A4) and multidrug resistance protein ...
The Research and Design of Pediatric Dental Handpieces That Offer Reduced Apprehension for Pediatric Patients and Enhanced Ergonomics for Dentists
(2008-05-15)
10.7% of 5 to 11-year-olds are afraid of dental visits (Australian Dental Journal, 2001). Interviews with five dentists revealed that reasons for this include separation from parents, dental workers’ poor bedside manner ...
The Research and Design of Spinal Orthosis to Create a Back Brace for Post Operative Patients
(2009-05-15)
There are 11,000 new injuries that affect the back each year. The injuries sustained are often serious and require surgical treatment. The treatment, along with the rehabilitation process, can often be physically and ...
Research Based Teaching Strategies for Teaching Multilingual Learners: A Qualitative Case Study of Mainstream, ESL and General Music Teachers
(2023-07-27)
The purpose of this qualitative multiple case study was to compare evidence-based teaching strategies in the mainstream classroom, the ESL classroom, and the elementary music classroom that assist Multilingual Learners ...
A Research Framework for Asynchronous Adversarial Multi-Player Games with Human Player GUI and AI Gym
(2023-07-27)
The primary contribution of this thesis is to describe the design and development of a research framework to support complex, real-time asynchronous multi-agent simulations with both homogeneous as well as heterogeneous ...