• EVALUATION OF HAPTIC FEEDBACK METHODS FOR TELEOPERATED EXPLOSIVE ORDNANCE DISPOSAL ROBOTS 

  Burtness, Alex J. (Johns Hopkins University, 2011-01)

  This thesis reports on the effects of sensory substitution methods for force feedback during teleoperation of robotic systems used for Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD). Existing EOD robotic systems do not feature any type ...

• Beyond Polarization: Fragmentation, Cyberbalkanization, and the Politics of Factions 

  Schmidt, Andrew (Johns Hopkins UniversityUSA, 2017-01-05)

  As the political environment in the United States becomes more divisive and contentious with every election cycle, political commentators and scholars become more convinced that the root of the problem is polarization. But ...

• The Effect of Biased Ligand Signaling on Cardiomyocyte Proliferation 

  Baksh, Syeda S (Johns Hopkins UniversityUSA, 2016-12-14)

  Myocardial infarction (MI) (i.e. heart attack) is the permanent death (necrosis) of heart muscle resulting from prolonged lack of oxygen supply (ischemia) (NHLBI, 2015). Without immediate restoration of blood flow, death ...

• HYBRID OF P3HT AND ZnO@GO NANOSTRCTURED PARTICLES FOR INCREASED NO2 SENSITIVITY 

  Yang, Yuhang (Johns Hopkins UniversityUSA, 2016-12-15)

  The NO2 sensing properties and operational mechanism of the hybrid formed from poly(3-hexylthiophene) (P3HT) and zinc oxide-graphene oxide (ZnO@GO) nanoparticles were investigated. We prepared graphene oxide (GO) and zinc ...

• Extension twinning during dynamic compression of polycrystalline magnesium 

  Hustedt, Caleb (Johns Hopkins UniversityUSA, 2016-11-29)

  We performed time-resolved x-ray diffraction on bulk, equal-channel angular extruded (ECAE) polycrystalline magnesium and magnesium alloy AZ31B during dynamic compressive loading at strain rates up to 2500 s−1 at the Cornell ...

• Detection, quantification, and concentration of PfHRPII in urine of malaria patients: implications for urine-based Plasmodium falciparum diagnostics. 

  Assumpcao, Nicole Rimoli (Johns Hopkins UniversityUSA, 2016-10-21)

  Plasmodium falciparum remains a major source of global mortality, causing nearly 500,000 deaths per year. Although diagnostics have made major improvements in recent years, microscopy on blood smears remains the gold ...

• Design, Construction, and Testing of an Intermediate Strain Rate Loading Device for Synchrotron-Based Testing of Geological Materials 

  Robinson, Andrew Kearney (Johns Hopkins UniversityUSA, 2016-10-21)

  Brittle geological materials are very common building materials for impact and penetration resistant structures. From bunkers dug into rock to gabions filled with sand, many military and civilian protective structures ...

• Expandable Monolayer Capacity for Modeling Adsorption Compression Systems 

  Bier, Daniel S; 0000-0001-9242-5855 (Johns Hopkins UniversityUSA, 2016-09-21)

  Adsorption is the process by which gas and liquid molecules reversibly bind to a surface. The phenomenon is driven by attractive forces between molecules and a surface but can also be affected by inter-molecular interactions. ...

• Increasing Phosphorus Concentration in Anaerobic Digesters Utilizing Wastewater Grown Algae 

  Johnson, Evan Wayne (Johns Hopkins UniversityUSA, 2016-09-16)

  The sequestration, recovery and recycling of phosphorus from both environmental and industrial processes is of great importance due to its high demand in fertilizer production. Additionally, high concentrations of phosphorus ...

• Public-Private Partnerships: A Tool For Enhancing Cybersecurity 

  Rogers, Jake (Johns Hopkins UniversityUSA, 2016-09-02)

  The development of cyber technologies has altered the way in which interactions occur on a daily basis at the individual, local, national, and international levels. Cyberspace has provided a myriad of outreach capabilities ...

• HIGH-DIMENSIONAL MULTIVARIATE MEDIATION: WITH APPLICATION TO NEUROIMAGING DATA 

  Chen, Yibing (Johns Hopkins UniversityUSA, 2016-08-22)

  Mediation analysis is an important tool in the behavioral sciences for investigating the role of intermediate variables that lie in the path between a randomized treatment and an outcome variable. The influence of the ...

• K16 as a novel regulator of Nrf2 function in glabrous skin: Implications for pachyonychia congenita and its treatment 

  Lu, Rosemary; 0000-0002-4918-3579 (Johns Hopkins UniversityUSA, 2016-08-17)

  The painful palmoplantar keratoderma (PPK) arising in individuals with pachyonychia congenita (PC) exhibit a significant upregulation of danger-associated molecular patterns and skin barrier regulators. Mice null for keratin ...

• Assessing the role of Keratin 17 in the DNA damage response in vivo 

  Prendergast, Stefan Alexander; 0000-0001-7147-5044 (Johns Hopkins UniversityUSA, 2016-08-18)

  The type I intermediate filament protein keratin 17 (K17) is normally absent in the interfollicular epidermis but is robustly induced in the setting of inflammatory skin disorders such as psoriasis and cancer. Our recent ...

• COMPARING OUTCOMES OF DRIED BLOOD SPOT AND PLASMA VIRAL LOAD MONITORING FOR HIV TREATMENT IN RESOURCE-LIMITED SETTINGS USING A MARKOV STATE-TRANSITION MODEL 

  Adams, Zachary Elijah; 0000-0002-5521-9152 (Johns Hopkins UniversityUSA, 2016-08-17)

  Background and Objective: People living with HIV who are receiving antiretroviral therapy need to be monitored to evaluate treatment failure. Gold standard plasma viral load is logistically difficult in many resource-limited ...

• Geometrically projected discrete dislocation dynamics 

  Akhondzadeh, Shamseddin (Johns Hopkins UniversityUSA, 2016-08-15)

  Plastic deformation of crystalline materials is due to the motion of large numbers of dislocations, which are line defects in the crystal’s atomic structure. Various macroscopic properties of deformed crystalline solids ...

• FUNCTIONAL ANALYSIS OF TYROSINE KINASE MUTANTS IN CANCER 

  Kalvapalle, Prashant Bharadwaj (Johns Hopkins UniversityUSA, 2016-08-15)

  Cancer or uncontrolled cell division which can invade into other tissues is today among the leading causes of morbidity and mortality worldwide. Genomic alterations in protein coding genes are a major feature of cancerous ...

• Cellular Engineering in Human Cells: A Synthetic Biology and Metabolic Engineering Approach 

  Calzadilla, Nathan (Johns Hopkins UniversityUSA, 2016-08-12)

  Mammalian cells are extensively used for the production of protein therapeutics due to their increased biocompatibility—when compared to those produced by bacteria, yeast, and plant eukaryotes—which stems from their ability ...

• Computational Modeling of the C-Terminal Glycan of Type IV Pilin 

  Zuo, Xiaotong (Johns Hopkins UniversityUSA, 2016-08-01)

  Type IV pili are extracellular, filamentous, adhesive appendages that are assembled from a protein monomer called pilin. Type IV pili provide several properties to the bacterium, including twitching motility [1], DNA uptake ...

• Calibration of spatial relationships between multiple robots and sensors 

  Goh, Zachariah (Johns Hopkins UniversityUSA, 2016-08-08)

  Classic hand-eye calibration methods have been limited to single robots and sensors. Recently a new calibration formulation for multiple robots has been proposed that solves for the extrinsic calibration parameters for ...

• THE EFFECT OF RESTORING GDNF SIGNALING ON SPERMATOGONIAL STEM CELL DIFFERENTIATION 

  Laychur, Andrew J; 0000-0001-6320-6530 (Johns Hopkins UniversityUSA, 2016-08-02)

  Spermatogonia Stem cells (SSCs) are the foundation of male fertility. A group of infertile men lack enough SSCs to maintain sperm production, a phenotype labeled Stertoli Cell-Only. Decades of research has implied glial ...

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