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Health and Economic Impacts of Vehicle Fuel Types and Energy Sources in Japan’s Top Ten Cities
(2023-04-25)
Japan's roadmap to the "Beyond-Zero" carbon emissions target starts with a commitment to reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by 46% from 2013 levels by 2030. Transportation accounts for 18.5% of the total carbon ...
Creative Project: Choices We Made in the Past Ten Years
(2023-04-03)
This collection of four creative nonfiction short stories and essays focuses on a common theme: making choices. Two of the stories are based on my personal experiences, and the other two are based on my friends’ experiences. ...
Using Cyclic Immunofluorescence (CyCIF), Deep-learning, and Human Tumor Microarrays (hTMAs) for Antibody Validation and Creation of an Atlas of Cancers Emphasizing Unique Phenotypes
(2023-01-10)
All cancers are different from each other, in their mutation spectrum, primary location of occurrence, and metastases as well as their phenotypic traits and tumor composition. For years, clinicians and pathologists have ...
Understanding Land Change, Resultant Invasive Species Distribution and Management Potential in a Small Coastal Rhode Island Community
(2023-04-20)
Invasive species and resultant degradation of native ecosystems is the most significant threat to biodiversity on the planet (GBO3, 2010, as cited by Hawthorne et al., 2015). In New England, the establishment of invasive ...
Parallel Programming Approaches to Optimize Performance and Energy Consumption on Heterogeneous Computing Systems
(2023-04-25)
Parallel programming offers the ability to simultaneously improve the performance and reduce the energy consumption of software running on heterogeneous computing systems. Software developers have long preferred to avoid ...
A Novel Framework for Medical Learning: Using AI Based Grad-CAM for Improving Otitis Media Diagnosis
(2023-01-10)
Otitis Media (OM) and its sub-categories of pathology are the number one pathology in children. Diagnosis is very difficult as it requires visual inspection the tympanic membrane of a child, which is in view for only a few ...
Investigation of Microplastics from Deep-Sea Antarctic and West Coast North American Sediments
(2023-01-23)
Microplastics have been found to be widespread and pervasive across marine
ecosystems. There is growing body of literature to indicate that microplastics are globally
distributed, including in deep sea sediments, yet there ...
Silica/Alginate Hybrid Super Skin Coat: An Extensive Review and Molecular Dynamic Simulation
(2023-05-02)
Background: Silica aerogels, known for their low density and high surface area, have been a subject of intense research in the field of material sciences with diverse applications including insulation, electronics, and ...
Pretirement
(2023-04-20)
This thesis includes the first seven chapters of an original creative work, a humorous romance novel titled Pretirement. The novel’s protagonist, Drew, is a thirty-year-old Massachusetts transplant in Los Angeles. ...
Bioproduction of D-Tagatose in Escherichia coli by Harnessing the Reverse Leloir Pathway
(2023-01-11)
D-Tagatose is a natural, rare monosaccharide containing 38% of the calories of sucrose. As an alternative sweetener, it offers numerous benefits including a low glycemic index, prebiotic properties, and the ability to lower ...