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Development of the Catfish 250K SNP Array for Genome-Wide Association Studies
(2013-07-18)
Catfish is the primary aquaculture species in the United States. In recent years, the catfish industry has encountered unprecedented challenges including increased feeding costs, devastating diseases and fierce international ...
Development of the Contact Models to Determine Electrical Contact Resistance Including a Coupled Electro-thermo-mechanical Analysis Considering Temperature-Dependent Material Properties
(2020-07-22)
Reliability of the electrical contact or interface is one of the major concerns in many applications such as batteries, solar cells, electrical connectors, MEMS based sensors for hybrid and electric vehicles, electronic ...
Development of the first generation in-situ pathogen detection system (Gen1-IPDS) based on NanoGene assay for near real-time E. coli O157:H7 detection
(2013-04-29)
We developed the 1st generation in-situ pathogen detection system (Gen1-IPDS) based on the NanoGene assay for detecting and quantifying E. coli O157:H7 gene. The NanoGene assay employs the hybridization of target DNA with ...
Development of the Pediatric Quality of Life Inventory™ (PedsQL™) Food Allergy Module: An examination of child food sensitivity and health-related quality of life
(2012-12-05)
Nearly 10% of U.S. children are affected by food allergy, with peanut allergy being the most common reason for food-induced anaphylaxis. Food allergy has been shown to affect emotional, social, and family functioning; ...
Development of the STEM Attitudes of Educators Tool: A Measurement Tool to Assess the STEM Self-efficacy and Motivation of Afterschool Educators
(2019-04-16)
The purpose of this study was to understand how a science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) professional development workshop improved teachers’ self-efficacy and motivation to implement STEM in their afterschool ...
Development of thermally regulated homogeneous assays and droplet-based microfluidic tools for probing secretion dynamics from pancreatic and adipose tissues
(2018-07-24)
Cells can transmit signals and adapt to microenvironment variations rapidly with dynamic
processes, such as biomolecule secretion for signal delivery. Dynamic, oscillatory secretion is
expected to exist in many cell ...
Development of User-Guided Program for Predicting Time-Dependent Deformations in Prestressed Bridge Girders
(2012-01-12)
A Visual Basic (VB) computer program was developed to predict time-dependent deformations and associated material stresses in prestressed concrete bridge girders. The VB program allows the user to select a model for the ...
Development of Wireless Magnetoresistive Sensor Network for Unexploded Ordnance and Landmine Detection
(2011-05-06)
This thesis summarizes the effort toward developing a passive/active magnetoresistive (MR) sensor array for unexploded ordnance (UXO) realized with wireless sensor network technology. In recent years, the rapid development ...
Development Toward a Bovine Salmonella Model and a Bacteriophage Treatment Cocktail to Reduce Salmonella Peripheral Lymph Node Carriage in Calves
(2016-05-05)
Non-typhoidal salmonellosis is the leading bacterial cause of human foodborne disease in the United States and is responsible for numerous hospitalizations and deaths each year. Although several strategies have been ...
Development, Characterization and Early Evaluation of New Modified Live Vaccines Against Columnaris Disease
(2010-04-07)
Columnaris disease is an acute to chronic bacterial infection that affects commercial aquaculture and the ornamental fish industry. Flavobacterium columnare, causal agent of columnaris disease, is a facultative pathogen ...
Development, Experimentation, and Implementation of a Gap Damper System to Limit Displacements in Extreme Ground Motions
(2015-05-05)
Studies have shown the effectiveness of providing supplemental energy dissipation in base-isolated structures to reduce displacements at the isolation level, often with consequences to superstructure performance. A previous ...
Development, Numerical Implementation, and Application of Methods to Simulate Solute Transport Processes in Porous Media Systems
(2019-04-16)
Solute transport in porous media has been the attention of a plethora of studies over the last several decades. This research identifies gaps in existing knowledge within the realm of solute transport in porous media systems ...
Development, Testing, and Analysis of a Rotational Friction Connection for Improving the Seismic Performance of Metal Building Systems with Hard Walls
(2018-07-27)
The use of metal building systems has become commonplace in today’s society. For well over two decades, the performance of metal building systems during seismic events has been the subject of intense research. It was ...
A Developmental and Relational Perspective on Marital Closeness in Older Adulthood
(2015-07-24)
Although research has generally found that marital closeness is a vital resource for older
adults, the literature has focused minimal attention on this key construct in older marriages. Even
less attention has been focused ...
Developmental Antecedents of Adolescent Parenthood
(2006-05-15)
Adolescent parenthood is an issue of universal concern because of the negative outcomes associated with both the teen parents and their children. The current study sought to examine father absence and being born to a teen ...
The developmental environment and metabolism in the house mouse (Mus musculus)
(2014-07-09)
The environment under which an individual develops plays an important role in
determining its physiological phenotype. Maternal diet is one of several variables that can have
lasting impacts on offspring phenotype. ...
A Developmental Perspective on Juvenile Sexual Offenders: The Role of Childhood Abuse in the Development of Psychopathology and Sex Offending Behavior
(2007-08-15)
The child development field has a relative lack of research considering the impact of child abuse and victimization from a developmental perspective, and even less research that examines the effects of multiple types of ...
Developmental Trajectories of Brain Structure, Motor, and Cognitive Functions from Infancy to Early Childhood and the Impact of SES
(2022-08-03)
During the first years of life, there are significant brain, cognitive, and motor development changes. Although studies have suggested a bidirectional relationship between the brain and these functional outcomes, few studies ...
Deviant Followers Across Cultures: An Investigation of Destructive Leadership, Workplace Deviance, and National Context
(2021-07-15)
Despite continued scholarly and practitioner interest in destructive leadership, the field has an incomplete understanding of the relationship between destructive leadership and followers’ workplace deviance, especially ...
Device Simulation of Density of Interface States of Temperature Dependent Carrier Concentration in 4H-SiC MOSFETs
(2014-07-29)
Interface traps play an important role in the SiO2/4H-SiC interface. They are crucial
issues for the current and trans-conductance in 4H-SiC MOSFET devices. In this thesis,
we present a temperature and bias dependent ...