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A Comparative Study Between Fetal and Calf Bovine Pericardium
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2016-07-18)There is a need of a lower profile device of transcatheter heart valves. One way to simply achieve this task is to decrease the size of the device by using a thinner bovine pericardium. The devices currently use calf ... -
A Molecular Dynamics SImulation of Norepinephrine Metabolites on Amyoid-Beta Proteins
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2016-07-18)The cause of Alzheimer’s disease are the deposits of Amyloid-Beta (Aβ) protein fragments and the twisted fibers of tau proteins. These proteins build up inside the brain inducing the destruction and death of nerve cells ... -
A Qualitative Study on Engaging Students in Computing Through Computational Remixing with EarSketch
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2014-05-02)Computer Science fields have a difficult time engaging underrepresented populations such as African Americans and women. EarSketch is an approach to engage these student through authentic STEAM learning involving computational ... -
A Study on Porous Silicon Gas Sensors: Metal Oxide Depositions to Organic Materials
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2015-08-18)This paper has two main topics. The first topics covers the detection of volatile organic compounds with porous silicon (PSi) sensors. The second part explores the possibility of using conducting polymers as coatings for ... -
Activation of betaglobin through the use of transcriptor activator-like effectors to combat sickle cell anemia
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2014-05-02)This research is particularly important to Sickle Cell Anemia, but also for other genetic diseases. As this is relatively new research, most of the research is more specific to the structure of TALEs and certain genes ... -
Advanced Mixed Matrix Membranes for Biofuel Related Separations
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2013-05-08)Algae-based biofuels are a promising approach for producing fuel grade ethanol at industrially relevant scales. To achieve this goal, algae processes require large amounts of CO₂ to operate efficiently — this CO₂ ideally ... -
Aerobic biodegradation of diphenylamine
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2010-12-20)Diphenylamine (DPA) is a primary pollutant used as a stabilizer and as precursor for pesticides, pharmaceutical products and dyes. It has recently been found that a dioxygenase enzyme is responsible for the ability of ... -
Age Related Effects of Emotions on Brain Potentials
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2007-12-17)This experiment will use event-related brain potential (ERP) measures to investigate the time course of emotional expression processing across six emotions (happy, sad, anger, fear, disgust, and neutral) in young and older ... -
Agonist peptide inhibition by antagonist peptide during T cell activation: global or local effect on T cell
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2013-05-08)T-cell activation is one of the key mechanisms for the generation of adaptive immunity. This process begins from the T-cell receptor (TCR) recognition of agonist ligand presented by antigen presenting cells (APC) like ... -
AirTouch: Mobile Gesture Interaction with Wearable Tactile Displays
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2011-05-09)AirTouch is a wrist-based gesture interface that enables mobile gesture interaction under limited visual attention settings. Since the original Gesture Watch lacked non- visual feedback, visual attention was required. ... -
Al Qaeda and Unconventional Weapons
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Altering Fibrin Structure and Polymerization Dynamics Using Unaltered and PEGylated Fibrin Knob Peptides
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2011-05-09)The behavior of the fibrin network in the presence of unaltered and PEGylated fibrin knob peptides is unknown. Fibrinogen, the principle protein investigated, participates in the coagulation cascade during hemostasis. Once ... -
Amazon River influence on nitrogen fixation and export production in the western tropical north Atlantic
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2012-12-17)As part of the multidisciplinary ANACONDAS program, we characterized the distributions of nutrients, particulate organic matter, phytoplankton, and stable carbon and nitrogen isotopes in the Amazon plume region during the ... -
Amino Acid Profiling by Reactive Desorption Electrospray Ionization Tandem Mass Spectrometry (DESI-MS/MS)
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2009-12)Desorption electrospray ionization mass spectrometry (DESI MS) has gained significant recognition over the past few years because of its simplicity and rapid throughput capabilities, allowing for the direct analysis of ... -
Amorphous silicon and carbon nanotube-based photovoltaics
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2010-12-20)In this study, the possibilities of creating an effective amorphous silicon (a-Si) based photovoltaic (PV) cell supported by a 3D carbon nanotube (CNT) structure are investigated. Vertically aligned carbon nanotubes ... -
An Evaluation of GUI and Kinesthetic Teaching Methods for Constrained-Keyframe Skills
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2015-08-18)Keyframe-based Learning from Demonstration has been shown to be an effective method for allowing end-users to teach robots skills. I propose a method for using multiple keyframe demonstrations to learn skills as sequences ... -
Animal Model of Mild Traumatic Brain Injury: An Assessment of Impact Location
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2015-08-18)With a high prevalence of mild traumatic brain injuries that occur in sports today, more research is needed in order to reveal the biomechanics behind these devastating and often life-changing injuries. At the professional ... -
Antiretroviral Drugs Efavirenz and Tenofovir and their Effects on Arterial Remodeling and Protease Activity
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2014-04-01)Highly antiretroviral therapies (HAART) have been implemented to slow the progression of the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). Although these new advances in the medications for HIV-positive patients have contributed in ... -
Assessing the conformation shift of transfer RNA phenylalanine in the presence of iron(II) and magnesium(II)
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2013-05-08)The combining of the small subunit and large subunit (LSU) of the ribosome activates the synthesis and extension of a polypeptide through peptide bond formation at the peptidyl transferase center (PTC). This complex ... -
Assessing the Genotoxic Effects of Microparticulate Exposure in Drosophila Melanogaster
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2011)Exposure to microparticulate matter and endocrine disruptors has been linked to severe pathological and disruptive effects on human health. Airborne microparticles are confirmed vectors for various pulmonary and cardiovascular ...