PROBLEM: Vaccine-preventable disease (VPD) surveillance information systems are essential for monitoring disease trends, guiding immunization strategies, and responding t[...]

Flower thrips (Frankliniella tritici Fitch) is a key pest in southeastern U.S. blueberry production systems, particularly during the flowering period when injury to flora[...]

The United States has a long history of systemic racism against Black Americans that persists into today, causing Black individuals to experience disproportionate levels [...]

The rapid growth of complex, high-dimensional data—such as graphs and time series—has created a pressing need for robust and scalable representation learning methods. Geo[...]

The long-term success of blood-contacting medical devices remains challenged by surface-induced complications such as thrombosis and infection. Nitric oxide (NO)-releasin[...]

Drawing from theology and classical perspectives in clinical psychology, I introduce and develop the phenomenon of micro-confessing—self-disclosing shortcomings of desire[...]

The importance of cyclic species in both the interstellar medium (ISM) and Titan’s atmosphere has been realized since benzene was positively identified in both environmen[...]

The family and consumer sciences nutrition and food science career pathway is currently the most popular career pathway in Georgia and many Sates, yet there is very littl[...]

The purpose of this study was to understand the experience of co-teachers in an elementary setting, namely the general education teachers and the special education or Eng[...]

The manuscript-formatted dissertation represents an exploration of the college choice process of African Americans students who experienced whole-grade academic accelerat[...]

Although S. pneumoniae (Spn) has been investigated for over a century, it is still a major human pathogen that causes a variety of invasive pneumococcal diseases (IPDs) s[...]

Early diagnoses and targeted therapies are the crux of successful patient care for almost every cancer. Within this work, we explore various facets of this by studying tu[...]

The family Nairoviridae consists of a group of tick-borne viruses in the order Bunyavirales. Several nairoviruses have been demonstrated to cause human disease, the most [...]

The intentional use of organophosphate (OP) nerve agents and pesticides pose a significant health threat through their inhibition of human acetylcholinesterase (hAChE), w[...]

J Paramyxovirus (JPV) was first isolated from moribund mice with hemorrhagic lung lesions in Australia in 1972. JPV is a paramyxovirus with a non-segmented, negative-stra[...]

Touchspinning is a simple and scalable method which does not depend on the dielectric properties of polymer solutions and it has shown advantages over the common fiber sp[...]

Informed by queer theory (Sullivan, 2003) and taking place in the southeastern United States, this qualitative study explores the following questions: 1) What themes, if [...]

Antimony (Sb) is an industrially significant metalloid that has been exploited by humans for the last 3,000 years. Although Sb is more toxic than its well-known group 15[...]

SMOOTH MUSCLE CELL (SMC) PROLIFERATION AND DIFFERENTIATION CONTRIBUTES TO SEVERAL VASCULAR DISEASES, SUCH AS ATHEROSCLEROSIS, POST-TRANSPLANT VASCULOPATHY, RESTENOSIS AFT[...]

P-glycoprotein (Pgp) is an efflux transporter that is a member of the ATP binding cassette (ABC) superfamily. The transporter is found on the apical surface of cells and [...]

Microfluidic cell separation based on negative magnetophoresis in ferrofluids (ferrohydrodynamics) has unique advantages over other competing techniques. Magnetic force d[...]

Although Paul Ehrlich has envisioned the concept of targeted delivery of a cytotoxic agent to cancer cells back to 1913, the clinical efficacy of anticancer agents has be[...]

Smooth muscle cell (SMC) differentiation is an important process during vasculogenesis and angiogenesis. However, molecular mechanisms controlling VSMC differentiation ar[...]

Human activities including supplemental feeding substantially impact wildlife. In South Florida, wetland birds including American white ibis increasingly forage in urban [...]

Beetles are the most diverse group of life on Earth. However numerous organizational problems remain in describing such a large radiation of life. Small, cryptic, drably [...]