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Spring 2022

Tsviklist, Valeriya

The cell envelope of Gram-negative bacteria is a unique multilayered structure that protects them from the constantly changing and often times inhospitable environments, and significantly contributes to their virulence. Having a complex structure, it requires an extensive regulatory network to...

Spring 2022

Burdick, Matthew

Medium-chain fatty acids (MCFA) are fatty acids with chain lengths between 6-12 carbons and are primarily metabolized by the liver, however they may be absorbed and metabolized by intestinal mucosa. Medium-chain fatty acids provide the animal with available energy quicker as compared to other...

Spring 2022

Menze, Lukas

The rapid isolation of specific rare target cells is of rising importance in current targeted patient treatment plans. Common cell sorting approaches such as stream-based dielectrophoresis (DEP) based cell sorters are limited by their spatial dimensions as only a number of cell types...

Spring 2022

Hoover, Michelle NM

Play therapy is an effective form of psychotherapy typically used with children under the age of 12. Numerous meta-analyses amalgamating the results of hundreds of play therapy research studies have shown that children who engage in play therapy are better off than nearly 80% of those who do not...

Spring 2022

Wheeler, Kyle D

This project sought to determine the effect of grazing management decisions on operation wealth; specifically, to determine both the wealth maximizing system for producers and to determine the impact on producers who adopt more intensive management systems. Adoption of four grazing management...

Spring 2022

Diaz Jimenez, Daniela

Four alloys were studied to observe the effects of Rapid Solidification and alloying on the morphology of a hypereutectic Al-40Si. Impulse Atomization was used to produce the samples studied. This processing technique was used to attain high undercoolings and liquid cooling rates ranging 103-105...

Spring 2022

Liu, Hongyang

Deep neural networks (DNNs) have been widely used in the modern world in recent years. However, due to the substantial memory consumption and high computational power use of DNNs, deploying them on devices with limited resources is challenging. Model compression methods can provide us with a...

Spring 2022

Kepezhinskas, Nikita

This work presents new petrography, mineral major and trace element chemistry, whole rock major and trace element chemistry, whole rock Sr-Nd-Hf isotope composition, and phlogopite Rb-Sr isotope geochronology for the Mel kimberlite, Nunavut and Dharma kimberlite, Northwest Territories. This data...

Spring 2022

Tianzi Bai

Interactions involving deformable bubbles/oil droplets play a critical role in many industrial applications. Understanding the dynamic thin film drainage process and interaction forces involving deformable bubbles/oil droplets and solid surfaces in the oil sands extraction process is of great...

Spring 2022

Negrin, Kelly A.

Abstract Background: Upon graduation, nursing students continue to be ill-prepared in gerontological nursing care and lack a desire to work with older persons. Although nurse educators are expected to facilitate students’ learning about how to provide appropriate older person care, they lack...