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Amoeboid movement is the crawling like technique that amoebas use to move from place to place. Amoeboid movement in eukaryotes is primarily driven by cytoskeletons including actin and myosin. The debate regarding whether or not microtubules are involved in amoeboid movement among scientists is widel...

Invasive species are nonnative species that become established in a new ecosystem. In this new area, they can significantly influence the biodiversity and impact populations of native species and their ecosystem-serving niches. Invasive plant species can cause ecological stress to the area through c...

“A space can bear the imprint of its inhabitants even in their absence. An object can personify an individual even more than his or her portrait.” -María Magdalena Campos-Pons      María Magdalena Campos-Pons’ Spoken Softly with Mama elucidates the entanglement of identity performance ...

In comparison to other countries, the United States has had the most mass shootings. Mass shootings in public settings have received a lot of media coverage, making it look like the new normal. Many studies focus on gun control (Newman and Hartman 2017). Violent video games and aggressive behavior i...

Plants mine the soil to obtain essential nutrients and in so doing, they can take-up several antibiotics produced in the soil by some microorganisms. One such antibiotic is kanamycin. Plants are sensitive to antibiotics therefore appear to have developed different mechanisms of resistance. For examp...

The nucleoside analog, 3’-azido-3’-deoxythymidine (Zidovudine, AZT), is a major component in the first-line therapy for HIV-1 infection worldwide. HIV-1 infected patients treated long-term with AZT often become resistant, and different mechanisms have been proposed. Two possible mechanisms are ...

Prostate cancer, a multifocal disease, is initially responsive to therapies that inhibit androgen receptor (AR) signaling, but the disease eventually progresses to an androgen-independent or refractory state. Understanding and modulating AR function may be essential to the development of new treatme...

Data collection, literacy and application has become increasingly prevalent in our society. The submitted work is the first installation of the D.O.P.E Arts (Data Obstructions of Physical Environments) collective. This interdisciplinary group is a collective whose purpose is to interject art and tec...

The use of robots as educational tools has shown to be an effective means of attracting students to science and technology related academic fields. By developing relatable robotic programs, an increase in interest in the field of technology will occur. For this work, researchers focus on the social ...

There is recent evidence that suggests that cancer development and progression may be influenced by an interplay between cancer cells and the surrounding tumor microenvironment, which includes extracellular matrix (ECM) components. Understanding changes in human prostate cancer cell progression and ...

The Black experience, both within and outside of the United States, has been consistently problematized by those outside of the culture. The associated issues range from violent language and images to physical violence. As a result of this, ideologies and created identities -- neither of which are w...

  This research will explore the notion that black women grow up learning that it’s our job to defend black men, even if they’re misogynistic or abusive to black girls, as a twisted definition of racial solidarity. The black community is so used to supporting black men due to police brutality, ...

The flagellum is a lash-like appendage that protrudes from the cell body. The Flagellum functions as a rotary device for cells. In the analysis of the flagella there are many different proteins that make up the flagellar structure. The focus of this study is to see how the inner and outer dynein ar...

Research on primates, both human and non-human, indicates that social systems are structured by a hierarchal model. This means that the members of each system are assigned a social rank that determines their level of opportunity in terms of benefits such as food and mating for non-human primates and...

  Plants take up essential nutrients from the soil and in the process absorb substances released by soil microorganisms such as antibiotics. It is expected that the natural propensity of organisms to fight off unwanted influences drives plants to develop resistance against these antibiotics. One w...

According to research, there is a positive correlation between language and literacy development and music instruction. For example, Ozernov-Palchik (2017) described how musical interventions were used in their study to help children learn how to sound out words. With a consideration for previous re...

    Cochliopodium species are difficult to identify based on morphological characters due to cryptic diversity. Recent molecular analyses (DNA sequence data) of barcoding markers such as Cytochrome c oxidase subunit I (COI) have begun to reveal the true diversity of this genus. Here, we present mo...

With origins rooted in colonial practices, most museum collections are teeming with artworks that despite being created in a variety of periods, styles, and subject matter, are linked by one undeniable fact: the majority are created by white male artists. This one-sided perspective is embedded in mo...

Semiconducting single-walled carbon nanotubes (s-SWNTs) fluoresce in the near-infrared, a spectral window where tissue is transparent, making them ideal for biosensing applications. Prior studies demonstrated that s-SWNTs can be used as fluorophores and can also be made sensitive to single molecules...

    Microgel particles are soft polymer hydrogels, in particulate form. These materials are studied as colloidal suspensions, where their physical interactions provide a pathway for developing new biomaterials for biologically related applications, including tissue regeneration and drug delivery. ...

  Intimate partner violence (IPV) is a major health and safety concern in the United States (U.S.). On average, more than 10 million women and men per year are physically abused by an intimate partner in the U.S.. Additionally, Black and Hispanic couples are two to three times more likely to report...

The data that were used in the present study were obtained from Wave III of the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health (Add Health). The Add Health study followed adolescents’ transition into adulthood. Wave III, for which participants were interviewed in 2001, consisted of 4,88...

Low development in Thailand primarily affects reading, writing, and math skills. The current study aimed to provide support to the children, who have been impacted by the skip generation, in their educational studies. Eight students in the Nong Sang Village School, that were classified as having lea...

  Previous studies have shown that red light can prevent apoptosis in human pigmented retinal cells. Researchers are examining the biological pathways of red light to determine if other substances that are nitric oxide donors can induce the same effects. Methanol is an apoptosis inducer. This exper...

My work focuses on cultural capital, beauty, and possession in the black community. I saw a parallel between the Instagram posts of young black couples and Renaissance portraits and used both to inform my work. During the Renaissance, marriage was centered around the family, with little connection t...

Can a conversational agent assist children of the diaspora in learning and retaining their families ethnic mother-tongue?  In much of the world, native languages are at risk of extinction due to displacement by national language appropriation. Much of the world’s indigenous knowledge, trad...

    Nitrocyclopropanes (NCPs), a class of cyclopropanes that contains a three-carbon ring with a nitrogen dioxide substituent, are important building blocks for designing organic molecules. Their reactivity allows them to participate in many reactions that involve ring opening of the NCP. The purp...

Lipotoxicity, intracellular lipid metabolites accumulation, has been proposed as an important pathogenic mechanism contributing to kidney dysfunction and disease. This study was aimed to investigate the effect of palmitic acid, the dominant saturated fatty acid, on apoptosis and exosome release by r...

Protoplanetary disks are important astronomical structures that are believed to form planets. Protoplanetery disks contain dust that scatters and emits light that comes from a star(s) that lie in the center of the disk. The objective of my research is to use a computer code to run numerical simulati...

Amyloid Beta has been studied for years for its role in Alzheimer disease. Insulin and Amylin are hormones that are co-secreted from pancreatic beta cells and have been known to play a role in creating amyloid plaques in the brain. The normal role of amylin and insulin in the brain are to regulate s...