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  • Disparities in Organ Allocation Among Patients of Varying Socioeconomic Status

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    Kahn, Margo S.
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    Research Objective: Determine if disparities in the allocation of lifesaving organs, specifically the kidney and liver, exist between low and non-low socioeconomic status (SES) groups in the US. Study Design: A literature review will be conducted to examine anticipated inequalities between patients of different SES. Potential causes of the disparity...
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    (Accessed May 2, 2019) Gentry, S. E., Massie, A. B., Cheek, S. W., Lentine, K. L., Chow, E. H., Wickliffe

  • Cool hideaways: use of temperature refuges by juvenile coho salmon in the West Fork Smith River

    Creator:
    Raskauskas, Nancy
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    The West Fork Smith River, a 69 km2 watershed in the Coast Range of Oregon, is prone to short periods of very high water temperature in mid-summer due to a combination of human and natural influences. In the summers of 2003 and 2004 more than 400 juvenile coho salmon regularly...
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    ., Wigington, J.L. Jr., Baker, J.P., Cairns, M.A., Church, M.R., Compton, J.E., Leibowitz, S., Hansen, B

  • Effect of Reaction Parameters on the Catalytic Oxidation of Poplar Lignin

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    Lu, Lin
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    Nowadays, woody biomass is becoming increasingly significant because of its renewability and biodegradability. Lots of opportunities have been found to use excessive biological resources to derive products as diverse as fuels, heat, electricity, chemicals, food, clothing, paper, and much more. As such, biomass plays an important role in meeting demands...
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    Zhenglun Li Nowadays, woody biomass is becoming increasingly significant because of its

  • Optimization of Schizochytrium limacinum SR21 Growth using Different Carbon Sources and Copper Concentrations

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    Soo, Steven W.
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    The purpose of this project was to optimize the biomass growth of Schizochytrium limacinum SR21. This was achieved by studying the effect of various concentrations of glucose, use of pure glycerol and purified crude glycerol as alternative carbon sources, and inhibition of cell growth with the presence of copper. The...
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    Abstract approved:_____________________________________________________ Zhenglun “Glen” Li The

  • A General Framework for Predicting the Geospatial Distribution of Botanical Species

    Creator:
    Chick, Jesse S.
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    The local presence or absence of individual botanical species can be predicted with high accuracy by a simple feed-forward neural network, using only local climate data to make inference. This study proposes a framework for learning these predictive models, demonstrates highly accurate predictions for species with a sufficiently large area...
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    , Mentor, representing Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Sciences Fuxin Li, Committee Member, representing

  • Optimization of Schizochytrium limacinum SR21 Growth using Different Carbon Sources and Copper Concentrations

    Creator:
    Soo, Steven W.
    Abstract:
    The purpose of this project was to optimize the biomass growth of Schizochytrium limacinum SR21. This was achieved by studying the effect of various concentrations of glucose, use of pure glycerol and purified crude glycerol as alternative carbon sources, and inhibition of cell growth with the presence of copper. The...
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    Abstract approved:_____________________________________________________ Zhenglun “Glen” Li The

  • HIV and the Transmasculine Community – Can Statistical Significance Be Harmful?

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    Harger, Stephen A.
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    Epidemiological research on HIV/AIDS seeks to determine at-risk populations not reached by current care. In the forty years since the AIDS epidemic began, transgender people were only recently deemed “at-risk” by the CDC and more action was taken to study them. Most current research centers on transgender women, with transgender...
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    ? Abstract approved:_____________________________________________________ Qwo-Li Driskill

  • A critical analysis of the globalization of English in the U.S. and abroad

    Creator:
    De Lora, Emily
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    Although thousands of volunteers from the United States go abroad each year to teach English, many are unprepared for their experiences. Undergraduate students teaching in a foreign country seem to lack training in educational methodology or foreign relations that would prepare them for teaching and living abroad. This project was...
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    become socialized to believe that English should be dominant (Boggs, 1981). During the 1960’s a large

  • New Inorganic Pigments from Mineral Structures

    Creator:
    Schettini Mejia, Carlo A.
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    The discovery of new blue pigments is a field of great interest, as commercially available pigments present properties that make them undesirable such as poor sustainability, cost, and stability. By researching solid solutions with the melilite structure, we discovered a new solid solution Sr2Zn1-xNixGe2O7, with 0.1 ≤ x ≤ 0.6,...
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    formula (Equations 5-6), where μB is the Bohr magneton, n is the number of unpaired electrons, and S is

  • A Comparative Study of Non-Normal Distributions in Continuous Dropout

    Creator:
    Guyer, Alexander D.
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    Recent studies have shown that novel continuous dropout methods can be viewed as a Bayesian interpretation of model parameters, though most such studies have shown results using normal distributions. As the posterior distributions over neural network nodes and parameters are intractable, given that they are a result of artificial construction...
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    Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering Fuxin Li, Committee Member, representing Electrical Engineering and