This report is one of a series issued in cooperation with the Air Force-Navy-Civil Subcommittee on Aircraft Design Criteria under the supervision of the Aircraft Committee of the Munitions Board. Information reviewed and reaffirmed March 1956. Original report issued July 1950.
The overall objective of this study is to address questions concerning the long-term
mechanical strength of the lithosphere across the equatorial margin of Brazil. The
approach used in this study consists of calculating the frequency response function
estimates, also called admittance, using gravity and bathymetry data. These
experimental estimates are...
This paper discusses the design strategies for interface of bus
architectures. It also describes the design of interface between the
two popular bus architectures, the Micro Channel and the Nu Bus.
The main objective of this thesis is to develop a procedure for
bus interface design and use this procedure...
A decision support system (DSS) for nurse scheduling in
hospitals is developed and implemented on microcomputer. The
system includes algorithms and databases for developing weekly
work and shift patterns and combining these into working
schedules for nurses for a specified time horizon, and
interface modules for the user to interact...
The aim of this investigation was to develop an Adjustment Assessment Instrument for Omani College Students. The adjustment instrument items were constructed and grouped into academic, family, social and personal adjustment areas common to Omani college students. The content validity of the adjustment instrument was determined by utilizing two Delphi...
Poplar Bark Storage Proteins (BSP) are important in storing nitrogen (N)
recovered from autumn-senescent leaves, and supply N for spring growth. Plants of
Populus tremula x P. alba were transformed with a poplar BSP antisense cDNA
fused to a double 35S promoter. Regenerated lines were screened for reduced BSP
accumulation...
This project describes the investigation of marine cyanobacteria collected from the Red Sea with an emphasis on the identification and prioritization of biologically active fractions for future purification and molecular structure elucidation of medicinally relevant secondary metabolites.
Five crude extracts of taxonomically unidentified Red Sea cyanobacteria supplied by Egyptian collaborators...
Metagenomics has revealed that the marine microbial biosphere is immensely more diverse than originally considered, and is an almost untapped reservoir for the potential discovery of microbial natural products. Despite numerous advances in culturing, biosynthetic engineering and genomic-based screening efforts to uncover much of this diversity in relatively accessible environments,...
Cyclic nitramines are a class of compounds that include most of the commonly used explosives today. These are among the most common toxicants released into the environment as a result of human activity, generated on military ranges, battlefields, and production sites. Of these, hexahydro-1,3,5-trinitro-1,3,5- triazine (RDX) is of particular interest,...
The sexually transmitted disease gonorrhea, caused by the Gram-negative bacterium and obligate human pathogen Neisseria gonorrhoeae, remains a significant health and economic burden worldwide. In the absence of a protective vaccine, antimicrobial agents are the only pharmacological intervention for patients with gonorrhea. However, due to the remarkable ability of gonococcus...
Cancer risk at low-dose ionizing radiation has been the subject of great scientific controversy in the past century. The clear majority of national and international radiation protection regulators adopt the linear no-threshold (LNT) model based on the atomic-bomb survivors Life Span Study (LSS) for solid cancer risk assessment. The LNT...
Marine natural products possess an abundance of diverse chemical scaffolds with unique biological activities. By targeting unusual or unique microbial environments within varying marine ecologies we can continue to discover novel chemistry with potentially new molecular targets. The research presented here is focused on exploring unusual chemical ecologies and the...
Continuous Improvement (CI) of academic computing programs is a main requirement of accreditation. Academic computing programs must have a well-documented CI plan in order to be granted accreditation. Based on the existing literature, we developed a comprehensive CI (or 360-CI) model consisting of 8 components: course, curriculum, administration, faculty, research,...