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Disintegration of Amyloid fibrils using chaperones, inorganic chemicals
(East Carolina University, 2021-11-29)
Protein aggregation in the form of amyloid has been implicated in more than 50 human diseases. These diseases range from neuropathic, like Alzheimer's and Parkinson's, to common diseases like cataracts. The number of people ...
Bibliographic Reference Analysis in Archival Data Using Supervised Machine Learning and Grammatical Features
(East Carolina University, 2021-11-19)
Bibliographic references are integral to scholarly discourse in humanities disciplines. While prior work has focused on reference extraction and parsing, little research has investigated the classification of footnotes ...
Securing Internet-of-Things Devices
(East Carolina University, 2021-12-01)
Smart home devices, also known as the Internet of Things (IoT) devices, are utilized more and more each day. As these devices grow in popularity, users connect to personal and private networks with devices that were unheard ...
Investigating the Safety Challenges of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) in the Construction Environment
(East Carolina University, 2021-12-01)
The technologies associated with Unmanned Aerial vehicles (UAVs) have revolutionized the construction industry, simultaneously demanding a comprehensive understanding of the underlying safety implications in order to reduce ...
SYNTHESIS AND ANALYSIS OF FLUORESCENT ANTIFREEZE GLYCOPROTEIN MIMIC PEPTIDES FOR DETERMINATION OF THE ICE BINDING MECHANISM
(East Carolina University, 2021-09-13)
Properties of antifreeze glycoproteins (AFGPs) are well known; however, it is unclear which molecular components of the proteins are directly responsible for binding to the ice surface. Previous molecular dynamics studies ...
Using Random Sampling Consensus (RANSAC) to Detect Errors in Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS) Signals and Data
(East Carolina University, 2021-12-03)
A positioning, navigation, and timing (PNT) signal can be used to estimate a user's position at an identified time. A global navigation satellite system (GNSS) uses the PNT signal to provide satellite-based navigation. ...
Creation of an Effective Manufacturing Supply Chain Utilizing Lean Best Practices
(East Carolina University, 2021-12-03)
The purpose of this experimental case study is to define best practices in supply chain and describe the effect of improvements in manufacturing efficiencies. It is essential to embed "Lean," "Agile" and "Intelligent" ...
A Patient-Specific Multiscale Model of Mechanical Ventilation of COVID-19-afflicted Lungs
(East Carolina University, 2022-07-24)
Coronavirus disease-2019 (COVID-19) is a respiratory disease that caused a worldwide pandemic and, in some cases, manifests as an acute respiratory distress syndrome. Severe cases of COVID-19 are often treated with mechanical ...
Quantifying Dissolved Lignin Phenols in the Albemarle–Pamlico Estuarine System and Coastal North Carolina following the 2018 Hurricane Florence
(East Carolina University, 2022-08-19)
The global carbon cycle (GCC) involves the exchange and transformation of carbon across the ocean, atmosphere, and terrestrial reservoirs. It consists of a positive feedback loop involving dissolved organic matter in natural ...
Colocalization of Known Focal Adhesion Proteins and Novel Focal Adhesion Protein GPR98 in Human Neurites during Neuronal Development in 2 and 3 Dimensions
(East Carolina University, 2022-07-29)
Focal adhesions are critical to cell motility, morphology, and neuronal circuit formation. Proper neuronal circuit formation relies on neurons reaching the right location, assuming a specific morphology, and connecting ...