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The Role of Centralized Wastewater Treatment in the Rural Alabama Black Belt
(2023-05-02)
Centralized and decentralized wastewater treatment systems play a major role in protecting human health and U.S. waters from contamination. However, failing wastewater treatment in the rural Alabama Black Belt has become ...
Role of Chemokine Receptor CXCR7 in Adipocyte Physiology and Disease
(2022-04-14)
Objective—Chemokines and chemokine receptors have long been shown to play important roles in inflammation, obesity, and type II diabetes. CXCR7 is characterized as an atypical chemokine receptor whose function as a signaling ...
Role of Climate, Land Use/Cover and Water Quality on West Nile Virus Incidence: A Modeling Approach
(2015-07-02)
West Nile virus (WNV), a vector-borne infectious disease, has been a major public health concern in North America since 1999. This virus is transmitted to susceptible mosquitoes when they feed on infected birds. Infected ...
The Role of Communication and Social Skills in Postsecondary Education Programs for Students with Intellectual Disabilities
(2020-04-16)
The purpose of the current investigation was to explore the educational missions and priorities of postsecondary education (PSE) programs for individuals with intellectual disabilities (ID), where and how communication and ...
Role of CXCR7 in Human Coronary Artery Smooth Muscle Restenosis
(2019-07-12)
Objective—Whether CXCR7 is a signaling or non-signaling scavenger receptor is still in debate. Our previous study showed that during monocyte-to-macrophage differentiation, CXCR7 mediates positive signaling to the p38 and ...
The Role of Data Analytics in Accelerating Assessments of the Impacts of Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances (PFAS) in Source and Drinking Water
(2022-12-05)
Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) are a large, diverse, and growing family of persistent, mobile organofluorine compounds that are used for a wide variety of industrial and consumer applications, and that are ...
The role of digital platform adoption and venture capital abundance location in scale entrepreneurship: An entrepreneurial ecosystem perspective
(2023-04-22)
This paper investigates the role of digital platform adoption and VC abundance location in scale entrepreneurship from an EE perspective. My results show positive relationships between digital platform adoption and VC ...
Role of Distant, Intrasubunit Residues in Catalase-Peroxidase Catalysis: Tracing the Role of Gene Duplication and Fusion in Enzyme Structure and Function
(2009-05-08)
In spite of being positioned 30 Å away from the active site, the C-terminal domain is essential for catalase-peroxidase (KatG) function. Addition of equimolar amounts of separately expressed and isolated C-terminal domain ...
The Role of Dopamine Receptor Subtypes in Reinforced Variability
(2008-08-15)
Variability in behavior can be measured and reinforced. However, the underlying neurological mechanisms of such variability are unknown. Dopamine is associated with reinforcement but its role in reinforced variability is ...
The Role of Emotion in Computer Skill Acquisition
(2008-08-15)
In response to recent calls for researchers to identify the underlying causes of training effectiveness, this study investigated the role of emotion in computer skill acquisition (CSA). The current study introduced empathetic ...
The role of excited state electron-impact ionization and configuration mixing in the population modeling of neutral Ne and W in fusion-capable plasmas using large-scale R-matrix collisional data
(2019-12-09)
This work reports on large-scale non-perturbative \textit{R}-matrix quantum mechanical calculations for neutral neon and tungsten. In addition, generalized collisional-radiative modeling of neutral neon and tungsten is ...
The Role of Executive Functioning on the Intention - Behavior Relationship of Health Behaviors: A Temporal Self-Regulatory Perspective
(2016-12-20)
A variety of theories have been used to develop interventions designed to improve health behaviors in college students; however, many people who intend to engage in healthy behaviors still fall short of their goals. While ...
The Role of Frataxin in Doxorubicin Mediated Cardiac Hypertrophy
(2016-07-29)
Doxorubicin (DOX) is a highly effective anti-neoplastic agent, used to treat a wide range of cancer. However, the clinical application of DOX is limited due to its dose dependent cardiotoxic complications which eventually ...
The Role of gyrA, Efflux Pump and Integrons in Mediating the Emergence of Multi-Drug Resistance among Canine and Feline Pathogenic Clinical Escherichia coli
(2009-05-01)
A series of experiments was performed to elucidate the emergence of fluoroquinolone (FQ)/multi-drug resistance (MDR) and the contribution of selected mechanisms of resistance to MDR (i.e. mutations in gyrA, efflux pump, ...
The Role of Hardiness in First Year AROTC and University Students: Examining Changes and Related Performance.
(2022-07-13)
The Big Five has dominated personality-performance literature, but within the overarching Five Factor Theory characteristic adaptations can be more contextually specific and better predictors of performance. Hardiness, ...
The Role of Hope in School Leadership
(2016-12-09)
The purpose of this mixed methods study was to explore the relationship of hope in school principal leadership through (a) the administration of a self-report instrument that measures trait hope in the school principal, ...
The role of hormones in the development of the adrenal gland
(2023-08-02)
The adrenal cortex, a crucial endocrine gland, is comprised of three distinct regions: the zona glomerulosa, zona fasciculata, and zona reticularis (referred to as the X-zone in mice). This organ plays a critical role in ...
The role of hormones in the development of the adrenal gland
(2023-08-02)
The adrenal cortex, a crucial endocrine gland, is comprised of three distinct regions: the zona glomerulosa, zona fasciculata, and zona reticularis (referred to as the X-zone in mice). This organ plays a critical role in ...
The role of host sea anemones in the cleaning mutualism between anemoneshrimp and client fishes
(2010-11-11)
Cleaning symbioses may strongly impact the diversity of coral reef fishes, but little is known about the dynamics of mutualistic networks involving cleaner shrimps that form obligate associations with sea anemones. I used ...
The Role of Identity Styles and Academic Possible Selves on Academic Outcomes for High School Students
(2010-10-20)
The present study investigated the influence of identity styles and academic possible selves on academic outcomes for high school students. Specifically, the present study examined the relationship between identity styles ...