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Abundance and Diversity of Culturable Bacteria from Healthy and Suspect White Plague Type II-infected Corals in the Flower Garden Banks National Marine Sanctuary

Santora, Karen A. (2008-06-12)

The increasing number and geographic spread of coral diseases over the past three decades is threatening the diversity and viability of coral reef ecosystems. Little is known about the causes of disease outbreaks in ...
PDF modeling of turbulent flows on unstructured grids

Bakosi, József (2008-06-17)

In probability density function (PDF) methods of turbulent flows, the joint PDF of several flow variables is computed by numerically integrating a system of stochastic differential equations for Lagrangian particles. ...
Radar and Multispectral Image Fusion Options for Improved Land Cover Classification

Villiger, Erwin J. (2008-06-17)

Investigators engaged in research utilizing remotely-sensed data are increasingly faced with a plethora of data sources and platforms that exploit different portions of the electromagnetic spectrum. Considerable efforts ...
There are Observable Metabolic Signature Patterns in C. elegans: Specifically for Different Life Stages Grown with and without the Added Antioxidants Vitamin C and Vitamin E?

Sudama, Gita (2008-06-18)

Aging, a complex phenomenon, experienced by all living organisms, continues to intrigue mankind. Characteristics of aging in animals include a decline in motility and strength, reduction of memory retention, weakening ...
Predicting Biological Warfare Agent Detector Performance

Holman, Charles E. (2008-06-19)

Biological warfare agents (BWAs) are inherently dangerous. United States of America public law forbids the release of biological warfare agent into the environment. The test and evaluation community desires realistic ...
DataMapX: A tool for cross-mapping entities and attributes between bioinformatics databases

Kanchinadam, Krishna M. (2008-06-30)

Bioinformatics databases are both syntactically and semantically heterogeneous, reflecting, in this inconsistency of their models, the individual interpretations scientists place on the underlying, highly networked, ...
Improvement of Soil Moisture Prediction through AMSR-E Data Assimilation

Sahoo, Alok Kumar (2008-07-01)

This dissertation is aimed at evaluating the soil moisture estimation from satellites as well as land surface models and improving it using a data assimilation technique. The entire study was conducted over the Little ...
The Impact of ENSO on the Extratropics

Jin, Daeho (2008-07-11)

The impact of tropical remote forcing on the extratropics is examined with ideal El Niño-Southern Oscillation (ENSO) forcing in the tropical Pacific. A set of numerical experiments are described in which perfectly periodic ...
Visceral Adipose as a Source of Inflammatory Cytokines in NASH, Fibrosis, and Type II Diabetes

Estep, James Michael (2008-07-14)

The role of obesity in the development of non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD), and its more severe manifestation non-alcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH), is due, in part, to changes in the milieu of the cytokines and ...
The Assemblage of Water Quality Parameters and Urban Feature Parameters, Utilizing A Geographic Information System Model For The Use Of Watershed Management In The Dardenne Creek Watershed, St. Charles County, Missouri

Serrano, Odean (2008-07-14)

Water quality directly affects virtually all water uses. Fish survival, diversity and growth; recreational activities such as swimming and boating, municipal, industrial, and private water supplies, agricultural uses ...
An Analysis of Phase Separation Processes for Stochastic and Nonlocal Extensions of the Classical Phase-Field Model

Hartley, Tina R. (2008-08-07)

Phase separation in composite materials, or materials that are made up of two or more different components, is a process in which the material separates over time into regions of predominantly one component or the other. ...
An Ectopic Synthesis of the Melanin in the Adipocytes of the Morbidly Obese Subjects

Randhawa, Manpreet Kaur (2008-08-20)

Melanocortins produced from the post-translational processing of pro-opiomelanocortin (POMC) are regulators of pigmentation in the hair and skin and are also critical for proper maintenance of energy balance. Particularly, ...
Computational hemodynamic study of endovascular stenting in patient-specific cerebral aneurysms

Appanaboyina, Sunil (2008-08-21)

Stroke is the leading cause of death after heart disease and cancer and the number one cause of long-term disability in America. About 80% of hemorrhagic stroke are produced by the rupture of cerebral aneurysms. Surgical ...
2-D and 3-D Layouts to Aid Human Cognition of Local Structure in Multivariate Data

Sun, Ru (2008-08-21)

This dissertation addresses the development of new 2-D and 3-D layout algorithms for statistical visualization purposes. These layouts serve tasks that include placing near neighbors close together, showing group or ...
The Efficacy of urban stream restorations to improve water quality across a spectrum of design approaches

Browning, Maura (2008-08-22)

The most recent national water quality inventory lists more than one-third of assessed rivers in the United States as impaired or polluted (EPA 2002). Concerns over the impacts of urbanization – the second largest ...
Extensions to the Computational Hemodynamics Modeling of Cerebral Aneurysms

Mut, Fernando (2008-09-03)

Image-based patient-specific CFD modeling of blood flows is important for better understanding the hemodynamics in cerebral aneurysms and their treatment. Some limitations of current methodologies have been identified, ...
Aerosol-Radiation-Climate Interactions over the Gangetic-Himalayan Region

Gautam, Ritesh (2008-12-15)

A growing body of evidence indicates that tropospheric aerosols, a major component of the global climate system, significantly influence the Earth’s radiation budget and climate forcings. Their multi-faceted impacts on ...
Estimation of Soil Moisture in the Southern United States in 2003 Using Multi-Satellite Remote Sensing Measurements

Soriano, Melissa (2008-12-22)

Soil moisture is a critical parameter for predicting and detecting floods and droughts, as well as indicating crop and vegetation health. Current indicators utilize surrogate or modeled measures of soil moisture. Actual ...
U.S. Environmental Security: Understanding And Enabling It To Matter

Alcorn, Jeremey M. (2008-12-22)

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 ...
Role of KCNRG in B-CELL Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia

Birerdinc, Aybike (2008-12-22)

B-cell chronic lymphocyte leukemia (B-CLL) accounts for approximately 30% of all leukemias in the Western world and has so far been treated with variable success. The newly characterized KCNRG gene has been mapped to ...

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