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Expression of cationic amino acid transporters, carcass traits, and performance of growing pigs fed low-protein amino acid-supplemented versus high protein diets
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Morales, Adriana, García, Hector, Araiza, Alfonso, Cervantes, Miriam, Grageola, Fernando, Zijlstra, Ruurd T.
Free amino acids (AA) appear to be absorbed faster than protein-bound AA (PB-AA). We conducted an experiment to assess the effect of feeding pigs with a partially free (F-AA) or totally PB-AA diet on expression of selected genes and performance of pigs. The expression of cationic AA transporters...
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2019-01-01
Tiruneh, Getaneh Gezahegne, Fayek, Aminah Robinson
Organizational competencies have a significant influence on performance; therefore, it is vital that organizations in the construction industry assess and enhance their competencies in order to improve performance. The set of variables that captures construction organizational competencies is...
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2018-01-01
Raoufi, Mohammad, Fayek, Aminah Robinson
Recently, agent-based modeling (ABM) has been used to model construction processes and practices because it is capable of handling some of the complexities that arise from the interactions of system components. However, ABM alone cannot take into account the subjective uncertainty that exists in...
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Spring 2018
Crew performance is influenced not only by the environment where construction activities occur, but also by crew motivation, which has largely been overlooked in construction research. For many years, construction engineering researchers have observed that motivational differences within...
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Fall 2016
The full thesis for this degree consists of two concerts and a scholarly essay. The concerts, presented on March 2, 2014 and November 2, 2015 featured the following works: Gloria RV 589 by Antonio Vivaldi, Mass No. 2 in G Major D. 167 by Franz Schubert, Cantata BWV 6 – Bleib bei uns, denn es will...
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Fall 2019
This thesis, broadly speaking, deals with ontological security and the ways it is managed through multiple local Ukrainian enchantments with the “Western” and the “normal.” Starting with an analysis of media representations of police reform in Ukraine, I then follow hegemonic discourses on their...
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2022-01-24
Tiruneh, Getaneh Gezahegne, Fayek, Aminah Robinson
The majority of competency and performance modeling methods available in the literature are deterministic conceptual, statistical,and/or regression models that cannot capture the subjective uncertainty, complex, and nonlinear relationships inherent in construction, whichmakes accurate prediction...
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Spring 2024
Hydrogen as a fuel has the potential to reduce tailpipe carbon dioxide emissions of vehicles to near-zero, while also allowing for the generation of a hydrogen-based economy and lowering humanity's dependence upon oil. Hydrogen-diesel dual fuel combustion, where hydrogen and diesel are combusted...
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Imag(in)ing the cancerous body: representations of cancer in medical discourse and contemporary visual art
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This thesis examines representations of cancer in contemporary art, with a particular focus on unruly, un-idealized bodies at risk. In bringing together the discourses of art history and medicine, its aim is to engage conventions of visualizing cancer, and more importantly, to highlight the ways...