This research project develops new knowledge of how U.S. national security and
homeland security practitioners and policymakers understand, define, and could yield
value from the concept of environmental security to meet ...
Roads and highways are the backbone of the US transportation system, allowing Americans to travel more than two trillion miles annually. But the conditions of the roads are deteriorating, as the need for transportation ...
We used all-atom molecular dynamics to investigate the unbinding of Alzheimer’s Abeta
peptides from amyloid fibrils. The peptide unbinding is driven by temperature-induced
structural fluctuations and is thought of as an ...
The Microbiome Analysis Center, in collaboration with Rush University Medical Center and Case Western University, has been studying and characterizing gut microbiota in normal and diseased states such as ALD and HIV. ...
Habitat fragmentation is one of the most pervasive threats affecting wildlife populations around the world. The resulting fragments are often small and isolated, increasing a population’s risk of extinction. Demographic ...
In this study, three climate processes are examined using long-term simulations from multiple climate models with increasing horizontal resolutions. These simulations include the European Center for Medium-range Weather ...
There is growing need for environmental literacy in United States public schools (Caldwell, 1996; Kellert, 1997; Wilson, 1984; Zelezny, 1999). This can be achieved through comprehensive integration of environmental issues, ...
Lung cancer diagnoses account for roughly 1.6 million deaths worldwide. It is the leading cause of cancer deaths in the US for men and the second leading cause for women. Due to late detection lung cancers have a high ...
Tortuguero, Costa Rica and the Archie Carr National Wildlife Refuge (ACNWR), Florida, USA represent two critically important sea turtle nesting sites where habitat preservation has been established for many years. In 2014, ...
A Coronal Mass Ejection (CME) is an eruption of magnetized plasma from the Coronaof the Sun. Understanding the physical process of CMEs is a fundamental challenge in solarphysics, and is also of increasing importance for ...
Multiple Sclerosis (MS) is an incapacitating neurological illness, where changesin gene expression play a crucial role. Affecting nearly two million people worldwide,
MS is the most common acquired neurological disorder ...
No fundamental empirical research exists to describe the goal-directed behavior of teams in geographic space. This dissertation describes a basic research project that produces new metrics, hypotheses, and distributions ...
The mining industry and indigenous communities have long been engaged in seemingly intractable conflicts. The conflicts are costly and drain the resources of both parties. There are few examples of creative, substantive, ...
Long Short Term Memory (LSTM) recurrent neural networks (RNNs) are evaluated for their potential to generically detect anomalies in sequences. First, anomaly detection techniques are surveyed at a high level so that their ...
Leishmaniasis is a neglected tropical disease that causes severe morbidity and is endemic in 98 countries. Attempts to develop a vaccine have been unfruitful, aside from leishmanization (deliberate inoculation with a ...
Ocean Anoxic Events (OAEs) are discrete periods in Earth history of decreased marine oxygen concentrations. They are often associated with volcanism, marked by increased organic carbon burial in the oceans, and positive ...
Among the considerable benefits of tree biomass, as measured by canopy cover, is watershed pollution reduction. This study uses open-ended interviews to identify effective strategies for achieving urban tree canopy goals ...
As humans continue to engineer and expand urban ecosystems, extant wildlife is increasingly exposed to novel pressures that drive changes in their spatial and temporal patterns, foraging tactics, anti-predator strategies, ...
Rift Valley Fever Virus (RVFV) is an enveloped negative and ambisense, single-stranded RNA phlebovirus of the family Phenuiviridae that primarily infects domestic livestock, but can be transmitted to, and infect, humans. ...
Three studies on the invertebrate corallivore Hermodice carunculata, commonly known
as the bearded fireworm, were conducted to provide baseline information on the general
anatomical features, nutritional requirements, ...