Browsing 26th Hayes Graduate Research Forum (February, 2012) by Title
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Accessible Attitudes Improve Dieters' Food Choices
Young, Alison ( 2012-02 )Previous research on attitude accessibility has found that accessible attitudes influence both visual and cognitive attention. Smith, Fazio, and Cejka (1996), for instance, found that categories towards which we have ... -
Assessing and managing soil quality for urban agriculture in Ohio
Beniston, Josh ( 2012-02 )Urban agriculture (UA) is rapidly expanding in the majority of Ohio's cities and is widely recognized as a means of improving the ecological conditions, quality of life, and food security in urban areas. This project will ... -
BIOMECHANICAL EVALUATION OF MEDIAL FEMORAL CONDYLAR SUBCHONDRAL CYSTIC LESIONS AND THE EFFECTS OF TREATMENT WITH INTERNAL FIXATION
Williams, Jarred ( 2012-02 )Purpose of the study: Subchondral cystic lesions (SCLs) in the medial femoral condyle are a common equine orthopedic problem occurring most commonly in the first two years of life. They are located on the weightbearing ... -
Breed Associated miRNA Expression in Canine Osteosarcoma
Fenger, Joelle ( 2012-02 )Introduction: MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are small non-protein coding RNAs that have been implicated in humans as having a fundamental role in cancer initiation and progression. Osteosarcoma (OSA) is the most common bone tumor in ... -
CARPO: Correlation-Aware Power Optimization in Data Center Networks
Xiaodong, Wang ( 2012-02 )Power optimization has become a key challenge in the design of large-scale enterprise data centers. Existing research efforts focus mainly on computer servers to lower their energy consumption, while only few studies have ... -
Central IL-4 promotes a neuroprotective and anti-inflammatory brain environment following peripheral LPS injection
Fenn, Ashley ( 2012-02 )Aging is associated with the loss of appropriate immune regulation resulting in increased inflammatory status within the central nervous system (CNS). Microglia, the innate immune cell of the CNS, are particularly sensitive ... -
Combinatorial library approach to decipher the stability effects of loop mutagenesis in model protein scaffold via high throughput methods
Sen, Shiladitya ( 2012-02 )The inability to accurately predict the relationship between protein’s primary sequence and its overall stability presents a major hurdle in determining the effects of mutations on protein folding. To study the effects of ... -
Contextual Constraints in Science Assessment: Effects of Item Sequencing and Item Features on Measures of Student Performance
Rector, Meghan A. ( 2012-02 )Innovations in automated scoring and related technologies are facilitating increased use of constructed-response (CR) assessment instruments in science education and other content areas. While a large body of work has ... -
Designing Theory-based Curriculum to Positively Affect Psychosocial Variables for Weight Loss in College Students
Thall, Michelle ( 2012-02 )The percent of overweight/obese college students increased from 20.5% to 33.5% between 1995 and 2010. This growing segment of our college population is both understudied and underserved. The purpose of this multi-phase ... -
The Disruption of Real Kinship
McKee, Kimberly D. ( 2012-02 )Since the end of the Korean War (1950-1953), approximately 200,000 Korean children have been sent abroad for adoption. Two thirds of these children arrived in the United States, and they constitute the earliest and largest ... -
Dropout from Randomized, Controlled Treatments for Depression
Cooper, Andrew ( 2012-02 )PURPOSE: Premature treatment termination, also known as "dropout", is a ubiquitous problem in the field of mental health. There is an extensive literature investigating this phenomenon in clinical contexts, including ... -
Dynamics and mechanism of cyclobutane pyrimidine dimer repair by DNA photolyase
Liu, Zheyun ( 2012-02 )Photolyase uses blue light to restore the major ultraviolet (UV)-induced DNA damage, the cyclobutane pyrimidine dimer (CPD), to two normal bases by splitting the cyclobutane ring. Our earlier studies showed that the overall ... -
Efficient Ambient RF Energy Harvesting Technology and its Applications
Olgun, Ugur ( 2012-02 )This paper is focused on equipping wireless devices (including sensors) with novel, high efficiency circuitry to harvest and convert ambient RF power to direct current (dc). Key components of this technology are (a) ... -
EVALUATING THE EFFECT OF SUPER FINISHING ON GEARS
Sundar, Sriram ( 2012-02 )The aim of this study is to evaluate the effect of super finishing on gear acceleration and noise level. Many researchers have studied the gear dynamic models to study the effect of various parameters on gear dynamics. A ... -
Feasibility Analysis and Intelligent Technologies for An Innovative Nuclear Reactor Enabling Waste Transmutation
Bhattacharyya, Sampriti ( 2012-02 )Nuclear energy has tremendous potential as a reliable source of cheap, clean energy. The two key impediments to expanded use of nuclear energy are safety, as highlighted by the accidents at Chernobyl and Fakushima; ... -
Finding the missing KASH
Zhou, Xiao ( 2012-02 )The nucleus holds and protects the genetic information of a cell. Nuclear positioning is correlated with several important cellular processes, such as cell division, migration and differentiation, and it is essential to ... -
"For look you where my abridgement comes;" The Playability of Shakespeare's Variant Play Texts
Vadnais, Matthew ( 2012-02 )Shakespeare's plays were originally printed in varying conditions. Traditionally, the earlier, shorter printings have been understood as being derivative of the longer, original versions, even though the longer versions ... -
A Generalized Framework for Learning and Recovery of Structured Sparse Signals
Ziniel, Justin ( 2012-02 )We report on a framework for recovering single- or multi-timestep sparse signals that can learn and exploit a variety of probabilistic forms of structure. Message passing-based inference and empirical Bayesian parameter ... -
Identity, Modernity, and Occupation: The Colonial Style of Taiwanese Painter Chen Chengbo (1895-1947)
Mathison, Christina ( 2012-02 )Identity, Modernity, and Occupation: The Colonial Style of Taiwanese Painter Chen Chengbo (1895-1947) I feel very fortunate to have examined the personal journal of Chen Chengbo (1895-1947). It has become an invaluable ... -
Impact of Light at Night on Cardiac Arrest Outcome
Fonken, Laura ( 2012-02 )Little is known about the influence of hospital environment on patient recovery. Nighttime light exposure is particularly prevalent in the hospital setting and may be detrimental because of its neuroinflammatory effects. ...