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(2018-04)Background: Head and neck cancer (HNC) survivors experience significant symptom burden as a result of tumor location and treatment received. These symptoms may negatively impact quality of life (QOL) and compromise dietary ...
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(2018-04)Introduction: Personality traits have been associated with physical fitness. Additionally, tolerance of exercise intensity has been related to exercise behavior. However, less is understood about these traits in firefighters ...
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(2018-04)In an aging society with a great deal of noise exposure, hearing disorders have become prevalent. One such disorder is tinnitus, which is defined as phantom ringing or noises in the ears. Some patients are bothered by their ...
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(2018-04)Abstract Vacuoles purified from Saccharomyces cerevisiae are a well-studied model for membrane fusion and fission as the machinery is highly conserved throughout eukaryotes. Vacuole membranes undergo cycles of fusion and ...
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(2018-04)Microstegium Vimineum (Japanese Stiltgrass) is an invasive grass species that is currently dominating susceptible ecosystems across the eastern half of the United States. The presence of Japanese Stiltgrass can result in ...
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(2018-04)Maternal mental health is a major public health issue. Illinois Public Act 100-0574 was signed into law January 8th, 2018. The law will allow postpartum depression or postpartum psychosis to be considered a mitigating ...
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(2018-04)We propose a supervised machine learning system to learn from text and financial data and predict whether an asset will have positive, neutral, or negative excess returns one day after the release of a text document. Our ...
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(2018)In this paper we compare the performance of several methods for providing tight error bounds for linearly constrained ill-posed linear equation solutions. Specifically, we compare accuracy and computational cost of three ...
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(2018-04)The study aims to examine the relationship among mathematics anxiety, parental support and peer support. Quantitative approach will be employed and undergraduate students will be asked to complete the surveys. Students ...
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(2018-04)The carotenoid lutein has been shown to have protective functions for the retina, lens, and brain. Lutein is the primary carotenoid in the brain, and preferentially accumulates in the retina of the eye. Opportunely, ...
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(2018-04)This research is intended to investigate the university students’ preferences on different study environments and how it affects their academic accomplishments. Intelligence is not the exclusive element which determines ...
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(2018-04)It is known that obesity causes the morphology of lining of the small intestine, the epithelium, to change. It causes the villi, the finger like projections responsible for nutrient absorption, to be longer. It also causes ...
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(2018-04)Increase in social media use as a source of information has seen supplemented usage by those seeking health related information. Nevertheless, HOW CREDIBLE IS THIS INFORMATION? Information Overload and Misinformation ...
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(2018-04)This research examines the difference in benefits for bandwagon fans and loyal fans when supporting a high-achieving sports team. Information for this project was gathered using a literary analysis of documents from social ...
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(2018-04)Although the inclusion of children on the autism spectrum in regular education has become more commonplace, facilitating positive peer interaction continues to be a challenge. The purpose of this study is to illustrate ...
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(2018-04)Exoticism is a recurring motif in Japanese novelist Tanizaki Jun’ichiro’s Naomi or Chijin no ai “A Fool’s Love” (1924), in Russian American writer Vladimir Nabokov’s Lolita (1955), as well as in the Lolita subculture fashion ...
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(2018-04)Peptidomics is the complete quantitative and qualitative analysis of endogenous peptides in a biological sample. The total protein content is an important analytical task for peptidomics as it allows for the determination ...
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(2018-04)A dearomative [4+2] photocycloaddition of the arenophile N-methyl-1,2,4-triazolinedione (MTAD) with benzene allows for the concise synthesis of (+)-pancratistatin, (+)-7-deoxypancratistatine, (+)-lycoricidine, and (+)-narciclasine
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(2018)We will estimate how retracted research spreads through citation. Our goal is to understand how retracted research gets cited and used using the citation network for one particular article, Matsuyama et al. 2005, about a ...
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(2018-04)A look into the legislative actions the United States took in order to prevent or limit the amount of green house gas that was being emitted into the global atmosphere. I also delve into the processes during these negotiations ...
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