• Crashworthiness by analysis: verifying FEA modeling capabilities by accident reconstruction 

  Zinzuwadia, Chandresh M.; Olivares, Gerardo; Ly, Hoa T.; Gomez, Luis (ASCE, 2018-11-15)

  A finite element (FE) model of a generic single-aisle narrow body transport aircraft was used for computational crash analysis to compare simulated deformations to those observed in the Turkish Airline Flight 1951 crash ...

• Oral health status of independent older adults in Texas: An observational study comparing urban and rural areas 

  Martin, Julie L.; Boyd, Linda D.; Tapias-Perdigón, Helena; LaSpina, Lisa M. (American Dental Hygienists’ Association, 2017-10)

  Purpose: The purpose of this study was to assess the oral health needs of community-dwelling older adults participating in congregate meal centers and to determine whether differences exist in the oral health needs of ...

• Exploring one-state downhill protein folding in single molecules 

  Liu, Jianwei; Campos, Luis A.; Cerminara, Michele; Wang, Xiang; Ramanathan, Ravishankar; English, Douglas S.; Munoz, Victor (National Academy of Sciences, 2012-01-3)

  A one-state downhill protein folding process is barrierless at all conditions, resulting in gradual melting of native structure that permits resolving folding mechanisms step-by-step at atomic resolution. Experimental ...

• Catalysis of protein folding by chaperones in pathogenic bacteria 

  Bann, James G.; Pinkner, Jerome S.; Frieden, Carl; Hultgren, Scott J. (2004-12-14)

  Molecular chaperones are thought to inhibit off-pathway interactions such as aggregation from occurring without influencing the on-pathway formation of native structure. Here, we present a mechanism whereby the family of ...

• Silicon: Its role in vital processes 

  Tasch, Paul (American Association for the Advancement of Science, 1973-03-23)

  Author pointed that there is some proof of a silicon metabolism role in "vital processes in animals or man" pointing that data on the gastropod Oncidium planatum showing that its liver contained 11.3 percent silica.

• Altered acetylcholinesterase activity (AChE) and maze performance of developing rats (Rattus norvegicus) following mesencephalic electrical brain stimulation 

  Lewis, George A.; Preskorn, Sheldon H.; Hughes, Carroll W. (Springer-Verlag, 1977-09-14)

  Cortical arousal was altered by electrical brain stimulation (EBS) to the mesencephalic ascending reticular formation beginning at 27 days of age and administered 2 h/day for either 14 or 28 days. Subjects receiving brain ...

• Book review: Indigenous prosperity and American conquest: Indian women of the Ohio River Valley, 1690-1792 

  Owens, Robert M. (UNIVERSITY PRESS, 2019-04-01)

  Scholars have long chronicled and analyzed the contest for the Ohio Valley and the dispossession of its Native peoples. Susan Sleeper-Smith is the first to provide an in-depth examination of Indian women and how directly ...

• Effect of experimentally altered food abundance on fat reserves of wintering birds 

  Rogers, Christopher M.; Heath-Coss, Rejeana (Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 8/15/2003)

  1. Current models of adaptive fat regulation make opposing predictions concerning the effect of increased winter food supply on size of the avian winter fat reserve. To distinguish between models, food supply was varied ...

• Lumbar load attenuation for rotorcraft occupants using a design methodology for the seat impact energy-absorbing system 

  Moradi, Rasoul; Beheshti, Hamid; Lankarani, Hamid M. (Springer-Verlag Wien, 9/27/2012)

  Aircraft occupant crash-safety considerations require a minimum cushion thickness to limit the relative vertical motion of the seat-pelvis during high vertical impact loadings in crash landings or accidents. In military ...

• Delamination of impacted composite structures by cohesive zone interface elements and tiebreak contact 

  Dogan, Fatih; Hadavinia, Homayoun; Donchev, Todor; Bhonge, Prasannakumar S. (Springer-Verlag Wien, 9/27/2012)

  Maximising impact protection of fibre reinforced plastic (FRP) laminated composite structures and predicting and preventing the negative effects of impact on these structures are paramount design criteria for ground and ...

• Capital Budgeting and Management Practices: Smoothing Out Rough Spots in Government Outlays 

  Srithongrung, Arwiphawee (Blackwell Publishing Inc., 2017-06-21)

  Public capital budgeting and management literature recommends long-term capital and fiscal planning practices to prevent large fluctuations in outlays caused by fiscal stresses. This study extends the literature by examining ...

• Toxicity of nalidixic acid on Candida albicans, Saccharomyces cerevisiae, and Kluyveromyces lactis 

  Sobieski, Rodney J.; Brewer, Alan R. (American Society for Microbiology, 1976-09-04)

  The antibacterial drug nalidixic acid (Nal) can suppress the growth of Candida albicans at levels of the drug normally found in urine. Growth suppression increases as drug levels are increased, and Nal also causes a similar ...

• Increased production of beta-lactamase under anaerobic conditions in some strains of Escherichia coli 

  Rashtchian, Ayoub; Nouravarsani, Roya; Miller, Glendon R.; Gerlach, E.H. (American Society for Microbiology, 1979-07-25)

  A simple biological assay to detect beta-lactamase activity exhibited by selected cultures of Escherichia coli was used to test enzyme production in cells incubated aerobically and anaerobically. Anaerobic incubation ...

• Examining the impact of interorganizational systems on process efficiency and sourcing leverage in buyer-supplier dyads 

  Saeed, Khawaja A.; Malhotra, Manoj K.; Grover, Varun (Wiley-Blackwell Publishing, Inc., 2005-10-02)

  Manufacturing firms are increasingly seeking cost and other competitive advantages by tightly coupling and managing their relationship with suppliers. Among other mechanisms, interorganizational systems (IOS) that facilitate ...

• Experiential marketing, social judgements, and customer shopping experience in emerging markets 

  Ihtiyar, Ali; Barut, Mehmet; Ihtiyar, Hatice Gulsah (Emerald Publishing Limited, 2019)

  Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to examine the influence of experiential marketing modules, service quality and social judgement on experiential values of young customers. The paper also investigates the effects of ...

• Evolution of stability/flexibility relationships in beta-lactamase 

  Patterson, John; Tsilimigras, Matthew C. B.; Livesay, Dennis R.; Jacobs, Donald J. (Cell Press, 2019-02-15)

  We have curated over 100 structures of class A beta-lactamase proteins, a family of enzymes that is responsible for a considerable percentage of multidrug antibiotic resistance in bacteria. Our dataset includes three ...

• Characterizing dynamical differences between TEM-1 and TEM-52 beta-lactamases 

  Avery, Christopher; Farmer, Jenny; Tsilimigras, Matthew C. B.; David, Charles; Livesay, Dennis R.; Jacobs, Donald J. (Cell Press, 2019-02-15)

  Beta-lactamase, produced in bacteria, defends against beta-lactam antibiotics such as penicillin and cephalosporins by hydrolyzing the beta-lactam ring. This is a primary cause of antibiotic resistance to beta-lactam ...

• Antiviral drug discovery: norovirus proteases and development of inhibitors 

  Chang, Kyeong-Ok; Kim, Yunjeong; Lovell, Scott; Rathnayake, Athri D.; Groutas, William C. (MDPI AG, Basel, Switzerland, 2019-02-25)

  Proteases are a major enzyme group playing important roles in a wide variety of biological processes in life forms ranging from viruses to mammalians. The aberrant activity of proteases can lead to various diseases; ...

• How supply chain architecture and product architecture impact firm performance: An empirical examination 

  Saeed, Khawaja A.; Malhotra, Manoj K.; Abdinnour, Sue (Elsevier, 2019-01)

  In order to enhance performance, manufacturing firms are building various capabilities and utilizing supply chain networks that are geographically dispersed around the globe. This study examines how decisions related to ...

• Performance evaluation of a differentially-private neural network for cloud computing 

  Hoefer, Nathaniel D.; Salinas Monroy, Sergio A. (IEEE, 2018-12)

  Due to the large computational cost of data classification using deep learning, resource-limited devices, e.g., smart phones, PCs, etc., offload their classification tasks to a cloud server, which offers extensive hardware ...

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