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Submissions from 2019

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Female Headship and Women’s Work in Nepal, Pratistha Joshi-Rajkarnikar and Smita Ramnarain

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Minimized Metal Dissolution from High-Energy Nickel Cobalt Manganese Oxide Cathodes with Al2O3 Coating and Its Effects on Electrolyte Decomposition on Graphite Anodes, Sunhyung Jurng, Satu Kriistina Heiskanen, KWD Kaveendi Chandrasiri, Maheeka Yapa Abeywardana, and Brett L. Lucht

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Processing level and diet quality of the US grocery cart: Is there an association?, Filippa Juul, Bárbara Dos Santos Simões, Jacqueline Litvak, Euridice Martinez-Steele, Andrea Deierlein, Maya Vadiveloo, and Niyati Parekh

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A Comparative Characterization of Smart Textile Pressure Sensors, Vanessa Kamara, Sahil K. Kargwal, Nick Constant, Renee Gordon, George Humphreys, and Kunal Mankodiya

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Identification and Expression Analyses of the Nitrate Transporter Gene (NRT2) Family Among Skeletonema species (Bacillariophyceae), Lee Kuo Kang and Tatiana A. Rynearson

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Challenging Nanopores with Analyte Scope and Environment, Buddini I. Karawdeniya, Y. M.Nuwan D.Y. Bandara, Jonathan W. Nichols, Robert B. Chevalier, James T. Hagan, and Jason R. Dwyer

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Lower bounds for integral functionals generated by bipartite graphs, Barbara Kaskosz and Lubos Thoma

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Casein from bovine milk as a binder for silicon based electrodes, K. W.D. Kaveendi Chandrasiri, M. D.D. Chamithri Jayawardana, Maheeka Yapa Abeywardana, Jongjung Kim, and Brett L. Lucht

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Testing the Utility of Geochemical Proxies to Reconstruct Holocene Coastal Environments and Relative Sea Level: A Case Study from Hungry Bay, Bermuda, Andrew C. Kemp, Christopher H. Vane, Nicole S. Khan, Joanna C. Ellison, Simon E. Engelhart, Benjamin P. Horton, Daria Nikitina, Struan R. Smith, Lisa J. Rodrigues, and Ryan P. Moyer

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Influence of 16S rRNA Hypervariable Region on Estimates of Bacterial Diversity and Community Composition in Seawater and Marine Sediment, Zak Kerrigan, John B. Kirkpatrick, and Steven D'Hondt

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A Direct Comparison of Biplanar Videoradiography and Optical Motion Capture for Foot and Ankle Kinematics, Sarah E. Kessler, Michael J. Rainbow, Glen A. Lichtwark, Andrew G. Cresswell, Susan E. D'Andrea, Nicolai Konow, and Luke A. Kelly

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Effect of pressure profile of shock waves on lipid membrane deformation, Ralph Kfoury, Bahador Marzban, Emad Makki, Michael L. Greenfield, and Hongyan Yuan

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Organophosphate flame retardants in the indoor and outdoor dust and gas-phase of Alexandria, Egypt, Mohammed A. Khairy and Rainer Lohmann

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Uptake of hydrophobic organic compounds, including OCPs and PBDEs, and perfluoroalkyl acids (PFAAs) in fish and blue crabs of the lower Passaic River (NJ, USA), Mohammed A. Khairy, Gregory O. Noonan, and Rainer Lohmann

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Inception of a global atlas of sea levels since the Last Glacial Maximum, Nicole S. Khan, Benjamin P. Horton, Simon E. Engelhart, Alessio Rovere, Matteo Vacchi, Erica L. Ashe, Torbjorn E. Tornqvist, Andrea Dutton, Marc P. Hijma, and Ian Shennan

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Organizing Committee, Omer Khan, Yan Solihin, Christian Pilato, Sara Vinco, Yier Jin, Yier Jin, Devesh Tiwari, Lina Sawalha, Michel Kinsy, Lars Bauer, Resit Sendag, Sheng Wei, Masab Ahmad, Amro Awad, Kee Sup Kim, Peter Michael Seidel, Sandip Kundu, and Georgi Gaydadjiev

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Estimating cholera risk from an exploratory analysis of its association with satellite-derived land surface temperatures, Rakibul Khan, Haidar Aldaach, Claire McDonald, Munirul Alam, Anwar Huq, Yongxuan Gao, Ali S. Akanda, Rita Colwell, and Antarpreet Jutla

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Long-Range River Discharge Forecasting Using the Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment, Rakibul Khan, Moiz Usmani, Ali Akanda, Wahid Palash, Yongxuan Gao, Anwar Huq, Rita Colwell, and Antarpreet Jutla

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Immune escape and immune camouflage may reduce the efficacy of RTS,S vaccine in Malawi, Sundos Khan, Matthew Parrillo, Andres H. Gutierrez, Frances E. Terry, Leonard Moise, William D. Martin, and Anne S. De Groot

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Chlorophyll nitrogen isotope values track shifts between cyanobacteria and eukaryotic algae in a natural phytoplankton community in Lake Erie, Jenan J. Kharbush, Derek J. Smith, McKenzie Powers, Henry A. Vanderploeg, David Fanslow, Rebecca S. Robinson, Gregory J. Dick, and Ann Pearson

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AI and Creating the First Multidisciplinary AI Lab, Bohyun Kim

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AI-Powered Robots for Libraries: Exploratory Questions, Bohyun Kim

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Early Childhood Preservice Teachers’ Mathematics Teaching Efficacy : Effects of Passion and Teacher Efficacy, Hyunjin Kim and Jillian Connelly

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Preservice Teachers' Multicultural Attitudes, Intercultural Sensitivity, and their Multicultural Teaching Efficacy, Hyunjin Kim and Jillian Connelly

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Naturally occurring, microbially induced smectite-to-illite reaction, Jinwook Kim, Hailiang Dong, Kiho Yang, Hanbeom Park, W. Crawford Elliott, Arthur Spivack, Tae hee Koo, Gilyoung Kim, Yuki Morono, Susann Henkel, Fumio Inagaki, Qiang Zeng, Tatsuhiko Hoshino, and Verena B. Heuer

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Impression Formation of Male and Female Millennial Students Wearing Eye Glasses or Hearing Aids, Tammy Kinley, Jessica Strübel, and Amyn Amlani

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Microbial Selection and Survival in Subseafloor Sediment, John B. Kirkpatrick, Emily A. Walsh, and Steven D'Hondt

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Underwater Dynamic Collapse of Sandwich Composite Structures, S. Kishore, P. Naik Parrikar, N. DeNardo, and A. Shukla

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Evidence does not support the targeting of cryptic invaders at the subspecies level using classical biological control: the example of Phragmites, Erik Kiviat, Laura A. Meyerson, Thomas J. Mozdzer, Warwick J. Allen, Andrew H. Baldwin, Ganesh P. Bhattarai, Hans Brix, Joshua S. Caplan, Karin M. Kettenring, Carla Lambertini, Judith Weis, Dennis F. Whigham, and James T. Cronin

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Enhancing ways of knowing: The case for utilizing participant-generated visual methods in higher education research, Carrie A. Kortegast, Kristin McCann, Katie Branch, Amanda O. Latz, Bridget Turner Kelly, and Chris Linder

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The impacts of tidal energy development and sea-level rise in the Gulf of Maine, Boma Kresning, M. Reza Hashemi, Simon P. Neill, J. A. Mattias Green, and Huijie Xue

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2-colorability of r-uniform hypergraphs, Michael Krul and Luboš Thoma

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Housing prices and household savings: evidence from urban China, Weida Kuang, Tao Li, and Jing Jian Xiao

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Temporal and Spatial Scales of Correlation in Marine Phytoplankton Communities, A. M. Kuhn, S. Dutkiewicz, O. Jahn, S. Clayton, T. A. Rynearson, M. R. Mazloff, and A. D. Barton

Birkhoff normal forms, KAM theory and continua of periodic points for certain planar system, M. R.S. Kulenović, E. Pilav, and N. Mujić

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Global Dynamics of Leslie-Gower Competitive Systems in the Plane, Mustafa R. S. Kulenović and David T. McArdle

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Global dynamics of a cooperative system with ceiling density dependence, Mustafa R.S. Kulenovic and Sarah Van Beaver

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Is selenoprotein K required for Borrelia burgdorferi infection within the tick vector Ixodes scapularis?, Deepak Kumar, Monica Embers, Thomas N. Mather, and Shahid Karim

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Maternal and Infant Lipid-Based Nutritional Supplementation Increases Height of Ghanaian Children at 4–6 Years Only if the Mother Was Not Overweight Before Conception, Sika M. Kumordzie, Seth Adu-Afarwuah, Mary Arimond, Rebecca R. Young, Theodosia Adom, Rose Boatin, Maku E. Ocansey, Harriet Okronipa, Elizabeth L. Prado, Brietta M. Oaks, and Kathryn G. Dewey

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Maternal–Infant Supplementation with Small-Quantity Lipid-Based Nutrient Supplements Does Not Affect Child Blood Pressure at 4–6 Y in Ghana: Follow-up of a Randomized Trial, Sika M. Kumordzie, Seth Adu-Afarwuah, Rebecca R. Young, Brietta M. Oaks, Solace M. Tamakloe, Maku E. Ocansey, Harriet Okronipa, Elizabeth L. Prado, and Kathryn G. Dewey

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Maternal and Child Factors Associated with Child Body Fatness in a Ghanaian Cohort, Sika M. Kumordzie, Harriet Okronipa, Mary Arimond, Seth Adu-Afarwuah, Maku E. Ocansey, Rebecca R. Young, Helena J. Bentil, Solace M. Tamakloe, Brietta M. Oaks, and Kathryn G. Dewey

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Keep Your Stats in the Cloud! Evaluating the Use of Google Sheets to Teach Quantitative Methods, Zachary J. Kunicki, Nicholas S. Zambrotta, Marie C. Tate, Angela R. Surrusco, Megan M. Risi, and Lisa L. Harlow

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Scaffold-based lung tumor culture on porous PLGA microparticle substrates, Aneetta E. Kuriakose, Wenjing Hu, Kytai T. Nguyen, and Jyothi Menon

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Attitudes and perceptions of naloxone dispensing among a sample of Massachusetts community pharmacy technicians, Shawn Kurian, Baloy, Janette Baird, Dina Burstein, Ziming Xuan, Jeffrey Bratberg, Abigail Tapper, Alexander Walley, and Traci C. Green

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The Chemical Defences of the Invasive Alga Sargassum muticum (Yendo) Fensholt Correlate to Mesoherbivore Diversity, but Not to Time-Since-Invasion, Martyn Kurr and Andrew J. Davies

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Making American white men great again: Tom Brady, Donald Trump, and the allure of white male omnipotence in post-Obama America, Kyle W. Kusz

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MinC N- and C-Domain interactions modulate ftsz assembly, division site selection, and minD-dependent oscillation in Escherichia coli, Christopher J. LaBreck, Joseph Conti, Marissa G. Viola, and Jodi L. Camberg

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Spatially Explicit Network Analysis Reveals Multi‐Species Annual Cycle Movement Patterns of Sea Ducks, Juliet S. Lamb, Peter W. C. Paton, Jason E. Osenkowski, Shannon S. Badzinski, Alicia M. Berlin, Tim Bowman, Chris Dwyer, Luke J. Fara, Scott G. Gilliland, Kevin Kenow, Christine Lepage, Mark L. Mallory, Glenn H. Olsen, Matthew C. Perry, Scott A. Petrie, Jean‐Pierre L. Savard, Lucas Savoy, Michael Schummer, Caleb S. Spiegel, and Scott R. McWilliams

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Evaluating Summer Flounder Spatial Sex-Segregation in a Southern New England Estuary, Joseph A. Langan, M. Conor McManus, Adena J. Schonfeld, Corinne L. Truesdale, and Jeremy Collie

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Oyster Reefs in Northern Gulf of Mexico Estuaries Harbor Diverse Fish and Decapod Crustacean Assemblages: A Meta-Synthesis, Megan K. La Peyre, Danielle Aguilar Marshall, Lindsay S. Miller, and Austin T. Humphries

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Understanding electrolyte decomposition of graphite/NCM811 cells at elevated operating voltage, Nina Laszczynski, Sophie Solchenbach, Hubert A. Gasteiger, and Brett L. Lucht

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Native amphibian larvae exhibit higher upper thermal limits but lower performance than their introduced predator Gambusia affinis, Edward Tak Chuen Lau, Kenneth Mei Yee Leung, and Nancy Elizabeth Karraker

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A Framework for the Development, Design and Implementation of a Sustained Arctic Ocean Observing System, Craig M. Lee, Sandy Starkweather, Hajo Eicken, Mary-Louise Timmermans, Jeremy Wilkinson, Stein Sandven, Dmitry Dukhovskoy, Sebastian Gerland, Jacqueline Grebmeier, Janet M. Intrieri, Sung-Ho Kang, Molly McCammon, An T. Nguyen, Igor Polyakov, Benjamin Rabe, Hanne Sagen, Sophie Seeyave, Denis Volkov, Agnieszka Beszczynska-Möller, Léon Chafik, Matthew Dzieciuch, Gustavo Goni, Torill Hamre, Andrew Luke King, Are Olsen, Roshin P. Raj, Thomas Rossby, Øystein Skagseth, Henrik Søiland, and Kai Sørensen

Implementing an interdisciplinary intergenerational program using the Cyber Seniors® reverse mentoring model within higher education, Skye N. Leedahl, Sereny Brasher, Erica Estus, Bethany M. Breck, Cory B. Dennis, and Samantha C. Clark

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Process Evaluation of a Policy, Systems, and Environmental Change Intervention in an Urban School District, Silvia Lepe, Jennifer Goodwin, Katie T. Mulligan, Kate Balestracci, Linda Sebelia, and Geoffrey Greene

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Carbon Fluxes and Primary Magma CO2 Contents Along the Global Mid-Ocean Ridge System, Marion Le Voyer, Erik H. Hauri, Elizabeth Cottrell, Katherine A. Kelley, Vincent J.M. Salters, Charles H. Langmuir, David R. Hilton, Peter H. Barry, and Evelyn Füri

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Uncertainty, momentum, and profitability, Claire Y.C. Liang, Zhenyang Tang, and Xiaowei Xu

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An improved two-stage optimization for network and load recovery during power system restoration, Shiwu Liao, Wei Yao, Xingning Han, Jiakun Fang, Xiaomeng Ai, Jinyu Wen, and Haibo He

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Wealth, labor supply and life satisfaction: The case of urban housing demolition in China, Feng Li, Jing Jian Xiao, and Feiying Cai

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The effect of short sale constraints on analyst forecast quality: Evidence from a natural experiment in China, Hao Li, Zhisheng Li, Bingxuan Lin, and Xiaowei Xu

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Identification of variable amplitude fatigue loading based on bivariate probability mass functions, Hewenxuan Li and David Chelidze

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Variable amplitude fatigue testing apparatus and its dynamical characterization, Hewenxuan Li and David Chelidze

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Information Generative Bayesian Adversarial Networks: A Representation Learning Model for Transmission Gear Parameters, Jie Li and Haibo He

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A Novel Generative Model With Bounded-GAN for Reliability Classification of Gear Safety, Jie Li, Haibo He, Lusi Li, and Guorong Chen

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A Novel Framework for Gear Safety Factor Prediction, Jie Li, Song Liu, Haibo He, and Lusi Li

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Evidence for activated Lck protein tyrosine kinase as the driver of proliferation in acute myeloid leukemia cell, CTV-1, Li Li, Yixin Cui, Jinyan Shen, Hannah Dobson, and Gongqin Sun

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Adversarial Domain Adaptation via Category Transfer, Lusi Li, Haibo He, Jie Li, and Guang Yang

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Imbalanced learning for cooperative spectrum sensing in cognitive radio networks, Lusi Li, He Jiang, and Haibo He

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Parenting practices that may encourage and discourage physical activity in preschool-age children of Brazilian immigrant families: A qualitative study, Ana Cristina Lindsay, Carlos André Moura Arruda, Gabriela Perreira De Andrade, Márcia Maria Tavares Machado, and Mary L. Greaney

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“If You Let Them, They Will Be on It 24 Hours a Day”: Qualitative Study Conducted in the United States Exploring Brazilian Immigrant Mothers’ Beliefs, Attitudes, and Practices Related to Screen Time Behaviors of Their Preschool-Age Children, Ana Cristina Lindsay, Carlos André Moura Arruda, Márcia M. T. Machado, and Mary L. Greaney

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Sociocultural and interpersonal influences on latina women’s beliefs, attitudes, and experiences with gestational weight gain, Ana Cristina Lindsay, Marcia Maria Tavares Machado, Sherrie F. Wallington, and Mary L. Greaney

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A three-dimensional underwater sound propagation model for offshore wind farm noise prediction, Ying-Tsong Lin, Arthur E. Newhall, James H. Miller, Gopu R. Potty, and Kathleen J. Vigness-Raposa

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Pomegranate (Punica granatum) phenolics ameliorate hydrogen peroxide-induced oxidative stress and cytotoxicity in human keratinocytes, Chang Liu, Hao Guo, Nicholas A. DaSilva, Dongli Li, Kun Zhang, Yinsheng Wan, Xing Hua Gao, Hong Duo Chen, Navindra P. Seeram, and Hang Ma

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Ponatinib Inhibits Proliferation and Induces Apoptosis of Liver Cancer Cells, but Its Efficacy Is Compromised by Its Activation on PDK1/Akt/mTOR Signaling, Chang Liu, Xiuli Mu, Xuan Wang, Chan Zhang, Lina Zhang, Baofeng Yu, and Gongqin Sun

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Construction of a cDNA library and preliminary analysis of the expressed sequence tags of the earthworm Eisenia fetida (Savigny, 1826), Chang Liu, Xuan Wang, Jiu-Bo Tian, Pei-Yuan Ma, Fan-Xiu Meng, Qi Zhang, Bao-Feng Yu, Rui Guo, Zhi-Zhen Liu, Hai-Long Wang, Jun Xie, Niu-Llang Cheng, Jian-Hua Wang, Bo Niu, and Gongqin Sun

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Golgi membrane protein GP73 modified-liposome mediates the antitumor effect of survivin promoter-driven HSVtk in hepatocellular carcinoma, Chang Liu, Chaochao Wen, Xi Wang, Yan Wei, Chunyang Xu, Xiuli Mu, Lina Zhang, Xuan Wang, Jiubo Tian, Peiyuan Ma, Fanxiu Meng, Qi Zhang, Na Zhao, Baofeng Yu, Tao Gong, Rui Guo, Hailong Wang, Jun Xie, Gongqin Sun, Gaopeng Li, Hongwei Zhang, Qin Qin, Jun Xu, Xiushan Dong, and Lumei Wang

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Kinect-based hand gesture recognition using trajectory information, hand motion dynamics and neural networks, Fenglin Liu, Wei Zeng, Chengzhi Yuan, Qinghui Wang, and Ying Wang

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Deep associative neural network for associative memory based on unsupervised representation learning, Jia Liu, Maoguo Gong, and Haibo He

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Genome-wide annotation and comparative analysis of cuticular protein genes in the noctuid pest Spodoptera litura, Jianqiu Liu, Shenglong Li, Wanshun Li, Li Peng, Zhiwei Chen, Yingdan Xiao, Huizhen Guo, Jiwei Zhng, Tingcai Cheng, Marian R. Goldsmith, Kallare P. Arunkumar, Qingyou Xia, and Kazuei Mita

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Adjuvant Use and the Intensification of Pharmacologic Management for Pain in Nursing Home Residents with Cancer: Data from a US National Database, Shao Hsien Liu, N. Hunnicutt, Christine M. Ulbricht, Catherine E. Dubé, Anne L. Hume, and Kate L. Lapane

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Air-soil diffusive exchange of PAHs in an urban park of Shanghai based on polyethylene passive sampling: Vertical distribution, vegetation influence and diffusive flux, Ying Liu, Shuya Xie, Lirong Zheng, Tongtong Li, Yajie Sun, Limin Ma, Zhifen Lin, Peter Grathwohl, and Rainer Lohmann

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PIPULS: Predicting I/O patterns using LSTM in storage systems, Wenjiang Li, Dongyang Li, Yan Wang, Bin Xu, Weijun Li, Lina Yu, and Qing Yang

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Convergent evolution of hetero‐oligomeric cellulose synthesis complexes in mosses and seed plants, Xingxing Li, Tori L. Speicher, Dianka CT Dees, Nasim Mansoori, John B. McManus, Ming Tien, Luisa M. Trindade, Ian S. Wallace, and Alison Roberts

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New Acylated Phenolic Glycosides with ROS-Scavenging Activity from Psidium guajava Leaves, Yuanyuan Li, Dongli Li, Qi An, Hang Ma, Yu Mu, Wenjun Qiao, Zengguang Zhang, Jingsheng Zhang, Xueshi Huang, and Liya Li

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Water is life, but the colony is a necropolis: Environmental terrains of struggle in Puerto Rico, Hilda Lloréns and Maritza Stanchich

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Older adults learning technology in an intergenerational program: Qualitative analysis of areas of technology requested for assistance, Dara L. LoBuono, Skye N. Leedahl, and Elycia Maiocco

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From cruise director to rabbi: Authoring the agentic self through conventions of narrative necessity, Jaco Lok, W. E. Douglas Creed, and Rich Dejordy

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The International Symposium on Dynamic Response and Failure of Composite Materials, Draf2018, Valentina Lopresto, Antonello Astarita, Maurizio Porfiri, and Arun Shukla

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Managing and improving electronic thesis and dissertation programs (book review), Julia Lovett

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A multi-scale computational approach to understanding cancer metabolism, Angelo Lucia and Peter A. Dimaggio

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A cubic equation of state for compounds with no critical point: Application to asphaltenes, Angelo Lucia and Arthur S. Gow

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Mapping Sand Resources on the Near (3-8 Nautical Mile) Outer Continental Shelf of the Southeastern US: Investigating Regional Trends in Sediment Thicknesses, Age Estimates, and Geologic Evolution, Katherine Luciano, M. Scott Harris, Clark Alexander, J. P. Walsh, David Mallinson, Andrew Tweel, C. Scott Howard, Ian Conery, and D. Reide Corbett

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RasGRF2 promotes migration and invasion of colorectal cancer cells by modulating expression of MMP9 through Src/Akt/NF-κB pathway, Peifen Lu, Junjun Chen, Lihong Yan, Lijun Yang, Litao Zhang, Jie Dai, Zixuan Hao, Tao Bai, Yanfeng Xi, Yahui Li, Zhiming Kang, Jun Xv, Gongqin Sun, and Tao Yang

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Higher dietary diversity scores and protein-rich food consumption were associated with lower risk of all-cause mortality in the oldest old, Yuebin Lv, Virginia Byers Kraus, Xiang Gao, Zhaoxue Yin, Jinhui Zhou, Chen Mao, Jun Duan, Yi Zeng, Melanie S. Brasher, Wanying Shi, and Xiaoming Shi

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Realistic atomic structure of fly ash-based geopolymer gels: Insights from molecular dynamics simulations, Gideon A. Lyngdoh, Rajesh Kumar, N.M. Anoop Krishnan, and Sumanta Das

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Alternative functional strategies and altered carbon pathways facilitate broad depth ranges in coral‐obligate reef fishes, Chancey MacDonald, Tom C.L. Bridge, Kelton W. McMahon, and Geoffrey P. Jones

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Operationalizing emotional intelligence for team performance, Gretchen A. Macht, David A. Nembhard, and Robert M. Leicht

Magnetoliposome-integrated hydrogels for delayed and triggered deliveries, S. Zahra M. Madani, Anne Reisch, Emily Hughes, Geoffrey D. Bothun, and Stephen M. Kennedy

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Field Performance of Reinforced Dunes for Improving Coastal Resilience, Brian Maggi, Aaron Bradshaw, Christopher Baxter, Annette Grilli, Stephen Licht, Naser Al Naser, and Paolo Stegagno

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Regional prevalences of Borrelia burgdorferi, Borrelia bissettiae, and Bartonella henselae in Ixodes affinis, Ixodes pacificus and Ixodes scapularis in the USA, Ricardo G. Maggi, Marcée Toliver, Toni Richardson, Thomas Mather, and Edward B. Breitschwerdt