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POST 9/11 UNITED STATES: THE GLOBAL WAR ON TERRORISM AND BEYOND
(Johns Hopkins UniversityUSA, 2017-06-12)September 11th, 2001 was a turning point in the trajectory of the United States military strategy and tactics. The United States had to quickly adjust to a new enemy consisting of insurgents and terrorists that perpetrated ... -
THE WORLD FROM AL-QAEDA’S PERSPECTIVE: DECIPHERING ITS GEOSTRATEGY, DETERRENCE STRATEGY, AND EFFORTS TO BUILD THE CALIPHATE
(Johns Hopkins UniversityUSA, 2017-06-05)Since the September 11, 2001 attacks al-Qaeda has been a forefront national security issue for the United States. This thesis is written by looking at how al-Qaeda perceives the international community and how they make ... -
SUBS, SWARMS, AND STRICKEN INFRASTRUCTURE: THE VULNERABILITY OF THE UNITED STATES TO NON-TRADITIONAL TERRORIST THREATS
(Johns Hopkins UniversityUSA, 2017-06-02)The lack of mass casualty domestic attacks in the United States, carried out by foreign fighters, since 9/11 should not be taken for a sign of future invulnerability. Major Islamic terrorist organizations have previously ... -
INVESTIGATING THE PROFILE OF ABERRANTLY EXPRESSED MEIOTIC GENES IN ALT POSITIVE AND NEGATIVE CANCER CELL LINES
(Johns Hopkins UniversityUSA, 2017-05-30)Meiosis is a unique form of cellular division that requires the use of genes normally not expressed in other tissues. Recently, it has been discovered that many of these meiotic genes are being expressed in cancer cell ... -
Biodegradation of Chlorobenzenes under Aerobic and Anaerobic Conditions in Model Systems
(Johns Hopkins UniversityUSA, 2017-05-22)Chlorobenzenes are one major class of pollutants in the water environment. Because chlorobenzenes have been produced extensively in the past century, this brings some spillage accidents throughout history, and the Standard ... -
Yeast Proteostasis under Acute Stress
(Johns Hopkins UniversityUSA, 2017-05-16)Protein homeostasis (proteostasis) is crucial to maintain normal cell activity. Loss of proteostasis is related to cell dysfunction and many neurodegenerative diseases. Protein aggregation is a sign of proteostasis loss. ... -
In Vivo Imaging of Angiogenesis in 3D-Printed Bioactive Scaffolds
(Johns Hopkins UniversityUSA, 2017-05-08)Due to the complexities associated with bone regeneration and wound site geometry, successful surgical reconstruction of craniomaxiofacial (CMF) injuries remains challenging. To circumvent this issue, investigators have ... -
Cone-Beam Computed Tomography For Neuro-Angiographic Imaging
(Johns Hopkins UniversityUSA, 2017-05-08)Accurate and timely diagnosis and treatment of head trauma incidents, particularly ischemic stroke, rely on confident visualization of brain vasculature and accurate measurements of flow characteristics. Due to their low ... -
IMPEDANCE-BASED FEEDBACK CONTROL OF COMBINATORIAL DROPLET INJECTIONS ON A VALVE-ACTUATED MICROFLUIDIC DEVICE
(Johns Hopkins UniversityUSA, 2017-05-05)Droplet microfluidics has found use in many biological assay applications as a means of high-throughput sample processing. One of the challenges of the technology, however, is the ability to control and merge droplets ... -
EXPLORING THE CONSEQUENCES OF REGULATORY VARIATION ON THE GENESIS AND FUNCTION OF MELANOCYTES
(Johns Hopkins UniversityUSA, 2017-05-16)Our understanding of genetic disease is increasingly dependent on understanding the effects of transcriptional regulation. While we have a strong command on predicting the effects of variation in coding sequence, our ability ... -
Development of the Electronics and Electrodes for a Safe Direct Current Stimulator
(Johns Hopkins UniversityUSA, 2017-05-05)Currently available commercial neuroprostheses are limited in their functionality by the necessity of biphasic pulsatile stimulation. Direct current (DC) has the capability both excite and inhibit neural activity; however, ... -
PROTECTING UNIVERSITY PATENT RIGHTS FOLLOWING STANFORD V. ROCHE, FILMTEC CORP. V. ALLIED-SIGNAL, AND PATENT REFORM
(Johns Hopkins UniversityUSA, 2017-05-04)The Bayh-Dole Act (“the Act”) was passed in 1980, permitting U.S. small businesses and nonprofit organizations (including universities) to elect retention of title to inventions created in federally-funded research. Since ... -
The Role of Hypoxia-Regulated RhoB Expression in Breast Cancer Tumorigenesis and Metastasis
(Johns Hopkins UniversityUSA, 2017-05-05)Although Rho GTPases RhoA, RhoB, and RhoC share more than 85% amino acid sequence identity, they may play very distinct roles in tumor progression. RhoA and RhoC have been suggested in many studies to contribute positively ... -
Obama's Plagues: A Qualitative Content Analysis of White House Messaging in Response to Ebola and Zika
(Johns Hopkins UniversityUSA, 2017-05-03)Over the last two years, Ebola and Zika have made international headlines and been the focus of a storm of legislation, media attention and public concern in the United States. As each disease threatened the United States ... -
Computational Modeling of Thrombus Formation in A Simple Artery Model
(Johns Hopkins UniversityUSA, 2017-05-05)The present study focuses on the numerical investigation of thrombus formation in a modeled artery, and in particular, on the validation of a coupled chemo-fluidic computational model for thrombus formation via comparison ... -
Correlation of Salaries in Research Administration Field With Geographic Location, Size of Institution, Scope of Research, Volume of Research Expenditures, Sub-type of Research Administration, Advancement of Information Technology and Additional Training
(Johns Hopkins UniversityUSA, 2017-05-04)This research was designed to investigate if salaries of research administrators employed in higher education across the United States were correlated with factors such as geographic location, size of the institution, ... -
Calibration of Optical See-Through Head Mounted Display with Mobile C-arm for Visualization of Cone Beam CT Data
(Johns Hopkins UniversityUSA, 2017-04-28)This work proposes the visualization of Cone-Beam Computed Tomography (CBCT) volumes in situ via the Microsoft Hololens, an optical see-through Head-Mounted Display (HMD). The data is visualized in the display as virtual ... -
Epistemic negligence at the seams of permissibility: assessing epistemic injustice in bioethics
(Johns Hopkins UniversityUSA, 2017-04-27)Recent explorations of the territory between epistemology and ethics identify a distinctively epistemic form of injustice through which an individual can be harmed in their capacity as a knower. Starting with Miranda ... -
Cavitation Breakdown in an Axial Waterjet Pump: An Experimental Characterization of Flow Phenomena
(Johns Hopkins UniversityUSA, 2017-05-04)Cavitation breakdown results in the performance failure of a turbomachine, for which head rise and flow rate through the machine each drop significantly, as a result of an inlet pressure below a certain critical value. ... -
Characterization of Mutations in the C-Terminal Domain of the NS1 Protein of Influenza A Viruses and Live Attenuated Influenza Vaccine
(Johns Hopkins UniversityUSA, 2017-04-21)Influenza virus is one of the most pervasive pathogenic threats to the global public health on an annual basis. Each year, this RNA virus causes hundreds of thousands of deaths and billions of dollars in economic damage. ...
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