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How Our Thoughts About Language Influence What We Hear

In this study, we wanted to conduct a statistical analysis on a set of questions concerning a person’s accent.

Posted by buchanle on Tuesday, April 30th, 2024 in May 2024, , , , ,

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Novel Cardioprotective Effects of Ferroptosis Inhibitors in Human-Derived Induced Pluripotent Cardiomyocytes in Response to Hypoxic Conditions

Zileuton and Ferrostatin-1s potential to mitigate hypoxia's impact on calcium metabolism and sarcomere structure.

Posted by buchanle on Tuesday, April 30th, 2024 in May 2024, , , ,

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Effect of Histamine on the Retina

Studying the development of the visual system through the application of histamine on the developing retina.

Posted by buchanle on Tuesday, April 30th, 2024 in May 2024, ,

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Optimization of 6-Thioguanosine Concentration to Detect RNA Bound by IFIT-1 via PAR-dCLIP

Analysis of 6SG efficacy in PAR-dCLIP method for future application in characterization of RNA binding protein IFIT1.

Posted by buchanle on Tuesday, April 30th, 2024 in May 2024, , , ,

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Deciphering the Impact of Cytomegalovirus on Endothelial Cell Function and Endothelial Nitric Oxide Synthase Expression

Using movement of endothelial cells and expression of endothelial nitric oxide synthase as measures to see how cytomegalovirus alters endothelial cell function, and contribution to endothelial dysfunction, which can lead to cardiovascular disease.

Posted by buchanle on Tuesday, April 30th, 2024 in May 2024, , , , ,

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Confirming the Suitability of Unnatural Amino Acids as Labels to Monitor Structural Changes in Amyloid-Beta(40) with Two-Dimensional Infrared Spectroscopy

This study uses azidohomoalanine as an unnatural amino acid label to establish its usability as such when monitoring the pathways between monomer and oligomer of Amyloid-Beta (40).

Posted by John Lee on Tuesday, May 30th, 2023 in May 2023, , ,

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Evaluating the Affinity of Tumor-Specific and Self-Specific CD8+ T Cells in a Liver Cancer Mouse Model

Tumor-specific and self-specific CD8+ T cells have a difference in their affinity to their antigen.

Posted by John Lee on Tuesday, May 30th, 2023 in May 2023, , ,

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Survival of Tribolium confusum when co-infected with gregarine parasite at different life stages and Bacillus thuringiensis infection

Flour Beetles were exposed to two immune threats to assess how their fitness would change due to the life stage and dosage of the threat.

Posted by John Lee on Tuesday, May 30th, 2023 in May 2023, , , ,

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Tracking Provenance of Glacial Sediments in Ong Valley, Antarctica

Comparing sections of till in Ong Valley to track the past movement of the Argosy glacier.

Posted by John Lee on Tuesday, May 30th, 2023 in May 2023, , ,

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An Assessment of Diel Patterns in the East Fork Creek, Franklin, TN

A characterization of the health of the East Fork Creek using diel cycles and stream metabolism analysis.

Posted by John Lee on Tuesday, May 30th, 2023 in May 2023, , ,

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The effects of verbal instruction, age, and gender on performance and self-efficacy during cognitive tasks in high school students

This study examines the relationship between verbal instruction and self-efficacy, as well as investigating the role of age and gender as predictors of self-efficacy.

Posted by John Lee on Saturday, May 7th, 2022 in May 2022, , ,

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An Assessment of Water Quality and Macroinvertebrate Evenness as Indicators of Stream Health in Six Duck River Tributaries

Comparison between six streams to determine the effects of water quality on macroinvertebrates.

Posted by John Lee on Saturday, May 7th, 2022 in May 2022, , , ,

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Integrating Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and Historical Data to Justify the Placement of Forts Henry and Donelson

Through modern mapping technology and historical maps, the location of the Tennessee forts is justified.

Posted by John Lee on Saturday, May 7th, 2022 in May 2022, , , ,

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Observing the effects of familiarity on puzzle completion time in preschool children

Using puzzles to determine if the familiarity of the teacher impacts how long it takes for preschool students to complete the puzzles.

Posted by John Lee on Saturday, May 7th, 2022 in May 2022, , ,

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Crime and Grocery Store Density using Spatial Statistics in ArcGIS

Crime data was collected, analyzed, mapped, and examined for correlations between grocery store density, median household income, and unemployment rate.

Posted by John Lee on Saturday, May 7th, 2022 in May 2022, , , , ,

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Global Patent Landscape of Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells

Review and analysis of worldwide patent literature regarding induced pluripotent stem cells.

Posted by John Lee on Thursday, May 20th, 2021 in May 2021, , , ,

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Adipose Tissue Macrophage Transcriptome Suggests Trained Innate Immunity Formation in Response to Weight Cycling

Single cell sequencing suggests evidence of trained innate immunity in adipose tissue macrophages from weight cycled mice.

Posted by John Lee on Thursday, May 20th, 2021 in May 2021, , , ,

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The Biological Concepts and Treatment Therapies of Rhabdoid Tumors

This review will explore the biology behind rhabdoid tumors and current/potential future treatment therapies.

Posted by John Lee on Wednesday, May 19th, 2021 in May 2021, , ,

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Enabling Far-Infrared Nanophotonics with 2D Materials

The dielectric functions of several 2D materials were extracted in order to determine the infrared optical properties of these materials.

Posted by John Lee on Thursday, December 24th, 2020 in May 2019, , , , ,

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Development of an Educational Platform for Teaching Young Students Complex Networking Topics using the Parallax BadgeWX

A platform was created that allows students to more thoroughly engage in group learning using models that teach complex networking concepts.

Posted by John Lee on Wednesday, December 23rd, 2020 in May 2020, , , ,

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Developing remote procedure calls for NetsBlox to facilitate climate change lessons in K-12 STEM education

Climate change services were implemented into NetsBlox, as linking computer science to outside fields of science is an effective method of teaching programming.

Posted by John Lee on Wednesday, December 23rd, 2020 in May 2020, , , , ,

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Development of a Python-based Platform for Teaching Computer Science

This project consists of the creation of a robotics platform built on Python and a curriculum for middle and high school students in order to increase the amount of students interested in computer science.

Posted by John Lee on Wednesday, December 23rd, 2020 in May 2020, , , , ,

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The effects of C2STEM on student mastery and motivation in learning marine biology concepts and developing computational thinking skills

A computational thinking-based curriculum is an effective and productive tool for facilitating a transition into an interdisciplinary approach to precollege education.

Posted by John Lee on Tuesday, December 22nd, 2020 in May 2019, , , , ,

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Imputing Gene Expression in Twelve Ancient Europeans

Analysis of the viability of applying a prediction model to impute the gene expression of ancient humans.

Posted by John Lee on Tuesday, December 22nd, 2020 in May 2019, , ,

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Integrating ligand- and receptor-based descriptors in deep neural network QSAR

We demonstrated the functionality of a novel drug discovery technique in a proof-of-concept study.

Posted by John Lee on Tuesday, December 22nd, 2020 in May 2019, , , , ,

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In Vitro Analysis of Synergy between Adjuvants MPLA, CpG, and cGAMP for Treatment of Cancer

Synergistic application of adjuvants was used to analyze interferon and NF-κB immunological responses in mouse macrophages for the treatment of cancer.

Posted by John Lee on Tuesday, December 22nd, 2020 in May 2019, , , ,

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Identification and Characterization of Helicobacter pylori Genes Regulating DNA Translocation and TLR9 Activation by the Cancer-Associated cag Type IV Secretion System

Novel Helicobacter pylori genes regulating DNA translocation and TLR9 activation were identified and characterized to investigate the role of DNA translocation in gastric cancer development.

Posted by John Lee on Tuesday, December 22nd, 2020 in May 2019, , , , ,

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SPRR3 Regulates the Cooperative Signaling of Integrins and Growth Factor Receptors to Modulate Cardiac Fibrosis

The SPRR3 protein does not affect individual integrin function in fibroblasts, supporting that SPRR3 influences the cooperative signaling of integrins and growth factor receptors.

Posted by John Lee on Tuesday, December 22nd, 2020 in May 2018, , , , ,

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An Analysis of Ice Sheet – Ice Shelf Mechanics through Finite Element Models

A 2D computational model of an idealized ice sheet was created and validated to understand the relations between ice sheet-ice shelf geometry and mechanical stress.

Posted by John Lee on Tuesday, December 22nd, 2020 in May 2018, , , ,

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A Multi-User Collaborative Game Created to Improve Cognitive and Physical Aspects and Socialization Skills of Individuals with Dementia

A multi-user collaborative game was created to improve the socialization skills and cognitive aspects of individuals with dementia.

Posted by John Lee on Tuesday, December 22nd, 2020 in May 2018, , ,

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Crime Prediction and Optimal Police Allocation

In this report, we use the transportation problem, a classical optimization problem, to optimize police allocation and survival analysis to predict crime. By doing this, we minimize the overall response time for police officers.

Posted by John Lee on Tuesday, December 22nd, 2020 in May 2018, , ,

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Cortical Evoked Potentials Identify Compensatory Effects of Attention on Auditory Processing in Children and Adults

This study examines the effects of noise, attention, and age on neural processing of speech.

Posted by John Lee on Tuesday, December 22nd, 2020 in May 2018, , , ,

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Development of a Machine Learning Algorithm for the Prediction of Enhancer Region Activity

A machine learning algorithm was programmed and optimized to predict the activity of enhancer regions of DNA.

Posted by John Lee on Tuesday, December 22nd, 2020 in May 2018, , , , ,

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An Analysis on the Impact of Peer-Mediated Theatre Interventions for Children with Autism on Typically Developing Peers

The analysis of changes in model peers during behavioral interventions designed for children with Autism Spectrum Disorder.

Posted by Greta Clinton-Selin on Monday, June 5th, 2017 in May 2017, , ,

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Stable Isotope and Dental Microwear Ecology of the Arid Adapted Red Kangaroo (Macropus rufus)

Analysis of the relationship between climate, isotopes, and dental microwear for the red kangaroo.

Posted by Greta Clinton-Selin on Friday, June 2nd, 2017 in May 2017, , , , ,

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The Impact of Connective Tissue Growth Factor on Glucose Home-ostasis and Islet Physiology in Virgin and Pregnant Mice

The loss of Connective tissue growth factor (Ctgf) does not affect islet physiology, indicating other existing problems in glucose homeostasis.

Posted by Greta Clinton-Selin on Tuesday, May 30th, 2017 in May 2017, , , , ,

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Analyzing Phospho-signaling in Human Glioblastoma Cell Lines Using Ex Vivo Culture

Phospho-protein activation was highest at the edges of organoids grown from glioblastoma cell lines, which may indicate key locations for potential treatment targets.

Posted by Greta Clinton-Selin on Thursday, May 25th, 2017 in May 2017, , , , ,

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Measuring the degradation of robot components caused by gamma radiation.

Individual component radiation testing is an effective way to gather data for the development of modeling software to predict a system's radiation response.

Posted by Greta Clinton-Selin on Friday, June 3rd, 2016 in May 2016, , ,

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Obesity Contributes to an Accumulation of Ly6chigh Pro-inflammatory Monocytes in the Spleen and White Adipose Tissue

The purpose of this experiment was to see whether or not obesity correlated with an increase in pro-inflammatory monocytes

Posted by Greta Clinton-Selin on Friday, June 3rd, 2016 in May 2016, , , ,

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Assessment of Hedgehog/GLI2 signaling inhibitors within metastatic breast cancers

Hedgehog pathway inhibitors were established as potential remediation treatments for tumor-induced bone disease. Additionally, hypotheses concerning inhibition methods were established for future investigation.

Posted by Greta Clinton-Selin on Friday, June 3rd, 2016 in May 2016, , , ,

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The Role of the Non-Canonical NF-kB Pathway in Benign Prostatic Hyperplasia

The Role of the Non-Canonical NF-kB Pathway in Benign Prostatic Hyperplasia

Posted by Printess Berry on Thursday, October 15th, 2015 in May 2014, , , ,

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Tablet Technology to Improve Colonoscopy

Tablet Technology to Improve Colonoscopy

Posted by Printess Berry on Tuesday, October 13th, 2015 in May 2014, , ,

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The Role of HNF6 on Pancreatic Cancer

The effects of the acinar-specific inactivation of the Hnf6 transcription factor in pancreatic cancer as well as the correlation between PanIN progression to pancreatic cancer and HNF6 expression were studied here. Authors:

Posted by Printess Berry on Tuesday, September 15th, 2015 in May 2011, , , , ,

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A Comparison of Co-Occuring Sexual Versus Gynogenetic Reproductive Strategies in the Sycamore Leaf Beetle, Neochlamisus platani

A comparison between sexual and gynogenetic Neochlamisus platani leaf beetles was conducted through feeding/mating choice tests.

Posted by Printess Berry on Tuesday, September 15th, 2015 in May 2011, , , ,

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Coronavirus Subversion of Host Cell Membranes

This study focused on the novel use of dextrans to assess the capacity for a model Coronavirus to induce macropinocytosis through the course of infection.

Posted by Printess Berry on Tuesday, September 15th, 2015 in May 2011, , ,

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Method for Overcoming Bandwidth Limitations of Standard Fluorescence Microscopy

A procedure for measuring fluorescence from multiple sources in microfluidic devices.

Posted by Printess Berry on Tuesday, September 15th, 2015 in May 2011, , , , ,

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MTG16 and Zbtb Family Members Interact to Repress the Wnt Target Matrilysin

Determination of the interaction between MTG16 and Zbtb family members and their ability to repress the Wnt target matrilysin.

Posted by Printess Berry on Thursday, August 27th, 2015 in May 2012, , , ,

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Rotary Fluidic Feed-through Device for Use in Microfluidics

The fabrication of a novel microfluidic device for use in centrifugal microfluidics.

Posted by Printess Berry on Thursday, August 27th, 2015 in May 2012, ,

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Regulation of Chemoattractant-mediated G protein Signaling

The use of fluorescence microscopy to observe the localization of signaling molecules.

Posted by Printess Berry on Thursday, August 27th, 2015 in May 2012, , , ,

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An Evaluation of Bid Phosphorylation Status in Myeloid Malignancies

An assay was optimized to query a correlation between Bid protein phosphorylation and the development of acute myelogenous leukemia.

Posted by Printess Berry on Thursday, August 27th, 2015 in May 2012, , ,

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