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Alexithymia, meaning, and well-being : how emotional processes relate to meaning in life and calling in career
Emotional factors such as positive affect and empathy have been proposed as key factors influencing the constructs of meaning in life and calling in career. Alexithymia, or difficulty identifying and describing one's ... -
Analysis of land use change and greenhouse gas emissions in Kalasin Province, Thailand
Growing global population causes many stresses on the environment, perhaps the most serious is global warming due to Greenhouse Gas (GHG) emissions. Major contributors to GHG emissions include agricultural production and ... -
Molecular ecology and hierarchical models elucidate chronic wasting disease dynamics
Prions present a unique evolutionary scenario because a single gene codes for both a disease agent and a functionally constrained native protein. The prion precursor gene, Prnp, codes for the prion precursor protein, PrP, ... -
The fate of Dinwoody Glacier : present state of mass balance and downstream impacts of glacier runoff
The Wind River Range in Wyoming supports many of the few remaining continental glaciers of the North American Rocky Mountains; the glacier meltwater runoff feeds four major river systems within the U.S. West. Runoff from ... -
A comprehensive microbiome analysis of wheat and its wild relatives
Microbiomes are diverse assemblages of endophytic and free-living microorganisms that can confer competitive advantages to their plant hosts such as water acquisition, nutrient mobilization, drought tolerance, salt tolerance, ... -
A Unified Modeling Language framework for specifying and analyzing temporal properties
In the context of Model-Driven Engineering (MDE), designers use the Unified Modeling Language (UML) to create models that drive the entire development process. Once UML models are created, MDE techniques automatically ... -
Mixing in stably stratified turbulent flows : improved parameterizations of diapycnal mixing in oceanic flows
Mixing of fluid with different properties across a gravitationally stable density interface, due to background turbulence is an ubiquitous phenomenon in both natural and engineered flows. Fundamental understanding and ... -
Nanofiber based smart wound dressing combined with bacteria detection and drug delivery
Since the emergence of Nanotechnology in the past decades, the development and design of nanofibers demonstrated the great potential for applications in wound treatment. Proliferation of bacteria in wound site is a major ... -
Parasites and immunogenetic diversity in prairie dogs
Prairie dogs (Cynomys spp.) are an important component of North American grassland communities. Prairie dogs have been characterized as ecosystem engineers and keystone species because their extensive burrow systems alter ... -
Infinite dimensional Stochastic Inverse Problems
In many disciplines, mathematical models such as differential equations, are used to characterize physical systems. The model induces a complex nonlinear measurable map from the domain of physical parameters to the range ... -
Improving rock ramp fishways for small-bodied Great Plains fishes
The growing global need to improve the longitudinal connectivity of lotic systems is often met by using fish passage structures (fishways). When designing fishways in the past, biologists and engineers focused primarily ... -
Gross count multi-spectra analysis of weak activity sources amid elevated background and various shielded conditions
Current methods to detect low activity radiological sources in areas with elevated or changing background may be insufficient for assessing real-time events. Background radiation fluctuates throughout the day, which thwarts ... -
Resource management for extreme scale high performance computing systems in the presence of failures
High performance computing (HPC) systems, such as data centers and supercomputers, coordinate the execution of large-scale computation of applications over tens or hundreds of thousands of multicore processors. Unfortunately, ... -
Sustainability implications of carbon delivery in microalgae cultivation for the production of biofuel
Supplementation of carbon is critical for high productivity cultivation of most microalgae. Moreover, using microalgae for atmospheric CO2 mitigation to combat climate change is promising, as waste sources and atmospheric ... -
Nutrient analysis of ten raw U.S. beef variety meat items and beef flavor myology
Many factors play a role in decision-making related to food and diet; these are closely linked to preferences and personal values in populations with access to a safe and affordable food supply. Many consumers value both ... -
Oncofetal proteins regulate proliferation and differentiation in placental cells
The chromatin associated transcription factor HMGA2 is a downstream target of let-7 miRNAs and binds to chromatin to regulate gene expression, inducing rapid cell proliferation during embryogenesis. Inhibition of let-7 ... -
Development of a decision threshold for radiological source detection utilizing Bayesian statistical techniques applied to gross count measurements
Numerous studies have been published using Bayesian statistics in source localization and identification, characterization of radioactive samples, and uncertainty analysis; but there is a limited amount of material specific ... -
Examining emerging water quality markets through a collective action lens
Water quality trading (WQT) is a collective action mechanism increasingly employed to address water quality concerns arising from nonpoint source pollution. Yet, many established WQT programs have experienced little or no ... -
An eco-epidemiological approach to management of tuberculosis in free-ranging and captive wildlife
Tuberculosis (TB) is a disease of global importance affecting millions of humans, livestock, and wildlife. Control and eventual eradication of TB depends on dedicated management actions for all species. Accurately diagnosing ... -
Development of microsystems for point-of-use microorganism detection
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