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Factors that Increase the Efficiency of DNA Repair when Using Transcript RNA as a Template
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2016-01-25)Interaction with various chemicals and environmental agents can cause damages to DNA. In this study, we particularly focus on double stranded breaks (DSBs) and a repair mechanism that uses transcript RNA to repair the ... -
FairVis: Visual Analytics for Discovering Intersectional Bias in Machine Learning
The growing capability and accessibility of machine learning has led to its application to many real-world domains and data about people. Despite the benefits algorithmic systems may bring, models can reflect, inject, or ... -
False memory and aging: an event-related potential study
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2007-05-04)The DRM paradigm is used to examine false memory—when a list of highly associated words (e.g. SEWING, THREAD, THIMBLE) is studied, a nonpresented but associated false target (e.g. NEEDLE) is often confidently (but incorrectly) ... -
Fast and robust cloth simulation
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2012-12-17)The goal of this project is to develop a realistic, robust, and fast cloth-simulator - realistic and robust, so that the clothes behave as expected; and fast, so that results can be seen instantly and the clothes can be ... -
Fat Infiltration and Pressure Ulcers in Wheelchair Users
Individuals with spinal cord injuries (SCI) are at a higher risk for secondary complications, such as pressure ulcers and muscular atrophy. Fat infiltration commonly occurs in SCI individuals, and although it is prevalent, ... -
Fenretinide induces lethal autophagy via a novel ensemble of life and death regulators: dihydroceramide and sphinganine versus sphinganine 1-phosphate
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2007-05)Sphingolipids are unique lipids that serve numerous functions important in cell regulation. Some categories of sphingolipids have also been implicated in the mechanism of action of cancer chemotherapeutic drugs, with the ... -
Finding Evidence of a Cancer Suppressing Mutation, rs 3814113
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2011-05-09)For the past twenty years ovarian cancers has been one of the most well studied cancers. While many aspects of ovarian cancer are understood, scientists do not know what mutations cause tumor genesis. In recent years ... -
Finding Food in an Aquatic Desert: How cruising copepods detect their next phytoplankton meal
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2016-01-25)Copepods exist in an aquatic food desert where finding food is difficult given the constraints of their environment. They live in a three dimensional world and must filter 106 times their own body volume to cover their ... -
Finding Kernels in Non-Linear Data-Driven CHC Solving
Program verification has seen a lot of progress, but its still unable to automatically find proofs for industry programs. This paper builds on data-driven approaches from previous work [11] to provide a more robust automatic ... -
Finite Element Simulations of Comprehensive Mitral Valve Model
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2015-01-27)Mitral regurgitation (MR) is an increasingly prevalent disorder of the heart in which the mitral valve (MV) does not close properly causing blood to flow backward (leak) into the upper heart chamber when the left lower ... -
Force-Signaling Coupling at Single Focal Adhesions
Cell adhesion to extracellular matrices (ECM) is regulated by integrin receptors. After binding to ECM proteins, integrin clustering occurs to form focal adhesion (FA) complexes. These complexes contain proteins that link ... -
Förster Resonance Energy Transfer and Fluorescence Quenching Based Low-density Lipoprotein Probes for Visualizing Transcytosis
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2008-05-05)Transcytosis is the process by which macromolecules are transported across a polarized cell. It is one of the main methods of nutrient absorption from the blood stream as well as the only means past the blood brain barrier. ... -
An FPGA-based microarchitecture for the implementation of quantum gates with trapped ions
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2012-12-18)Quantum computing promises to revolutionize computing by providing exponential speed improvements to classically difficult problems. Over the past 30 years, experimental research has progressed from manipulating quantum ... -
Fracture Mechanics of Pelleted Feces Within Mammals
In this combined experimental and theoretical study, we test the hypothesis that feces length is set by the dynamics of drying within the intestine. With previous measurements of the water contents of both pelleted and ... -
Frustrated Magnetism and Searching For Quantum Spin Liquid Phases in Novel Materials
In my research, I wish to classify and identify a possible Quantum Spin-Liquid (QSL) phase on novel quantum materials. Materials of interest include the two triangular lattice materials, Li4CoTeO6 and Li4NiTeO6, in which ... -
Functional Neuroimaging Investigation of the Neural Mechanisms for Successful Feeling-of-Knowing Judgments
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2009-05-04)A feeling-of-knowing (FOK) is a sense of knowing that an item would be recognizable if seen again later, despite one’s current inability to recall that item from memory. An FOK judgment occurs after a memory search and is ... -
Fundamentals of stack filters and their use in image processing
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2010-05-12)Image processing is a field that has seen tremendous growth in the last few decades. After computers became common for commercial use in the late 1970s, digital image processing was recognized as an important electrical ... -
Gamma-frequency entrainment using audiovisual 40 Hz flicker
Neural oscillations, or brain waves, are endogenous rhythms of synchronized electrical activity that are the result of communication between large groups of cortical and/or subcortical neurons. Using entrainment methodologies, ... -
Gastrointestinal Motility: Kinematic Properties of Segmentation Contraction
The kinematic processes of the small intestine play integral roles in overseeing the digestion and transportation of food throughout the gastrointestinal tract. Specifically responsible for governing the flow and digestion ... -
Gaussian Mixture Belief Space Reinforcement Learning
In reinforcement learning and optimal control, one successful approach to address system stochasticity and epistemic uncertainty in the dynamics model is to consider, rather than a single state, a distribution over the ...