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Submissions from 2014
A comparison of the financial characteristics of U.S. and German manufacturing firms, Daniel Folkinshteyn, Ozge Uygur, and Gulser Meric
Hair cortisol as a biomarker of stress in mindfulness training for smokers., Simon B Goldberg, Alison R Manley, Stevens S Smith, Jeffrey M Greeson, Evan Russell, Stan Van Uum, Gideon Koren, and James M Davis
Existence and uniqueness of solutions for a fractional boundary value problem on a graph, John R. Graef, Lingju Kong, and Min Wang
Med13p Prevents Mitochondrial Fission and Programmed Cell Death in Yeast Through Nuclear Retention of Cyclin C, Svetlana Khakhina, Katrina Cooper, and Randy Strich
A Gigantic, Exceptionally Complete Titanosaurian Sauropod Dinosaur from Southern Patagonia, Argentina, Kenneth Lacovara, Matthew Lamanna, Lucio Ibiricu, Jason Poole, Elena Schroeter, Paul Ullmann, Kristyn Voegele, Zachary Boles, Aja Carter, Emma Fowler, Victoria Egerton, Alison Moyer, Christopher Coughenour, Jason Schein, Jerald Harris, Ruben Martínez, and Fernando Novas
Synaptic Depression Via Mglur1 Positive Allosteric Modulation Suppresses Cue-Induced Cocaine Craving, Jessica Loweth, Andrew Scheyer, Mike Milovanovic, Amber LaCrosse, Eden Flores-Barrera, Craig Werner, Xuan Li, Kerstin Ford, Tuan Le, M Olive, Karen Szumlinski, Kuei Tseng, and Marina Wolf
Subcloning and expression of recombinant human parathyroid hormone rhPTH by fusion strategy in E.coli, Sadegh Majdi, Elahe Esfahani, Hossein Amani, Ghasem Najaf pour D, and Majid Shahbazi
Electrophoretic extraction and proteomic characterization of proteins buried in marine sediments, Elisha Moore, H. Harvey, Jessica Faux, David Goodlett, and Brook Nunn
Ant Colonies Prefer Infected over Uninfected Nest Sites, Luigi Pontieri, Svjetlana Vojvodic, Riley Graham, Jes Søe Pedersen, and Timothy A. Linksvayer
Active Analog Circuit Design: Laboratory Project and Assessment, Ravi Ramachandran, Kevin Dahm, Richard Kozick, Robert Nickel, Sachin Shetty, Robi Polikar, Ying Tang, and Steven Chin
BDNF Contributes to Both Rapid and Homeostatic Alterations in AMPA Receptor Surface Expression in Nucleus Accumbens Medium Spiny Neurons, Jeremy Reimers, Jessica Loweth, and Marina Wolf
Vitamin D Deficiency in a Multiethnic Healthy Control Cohort and Altered Immune Response in Vitamin D Deficient European-American Healthy Controls, Lauren L. Ritterhouse, Rufei Lu, Hemangi B. Shah, Julie M. Robertson, Dustin A. Fife, Holden T. Maecker, Hongwu Du, Charles G. Fathman, Eliza F. Chakravarty, R. Hal Scofield, Diane L. Kamen, Joel M. Guthridge, and Judith A. James
Applying a reservoir functional-zone paradigm to littoral bluegills: differences in length and catch frequency?, Nathan Ruhl, Holly DeAngelis, Abigale M. Crosby, and Willem M. Roosenburg
Spatial variation in the littoral vertebrate community of a reservoir relative to physical and biological gradients, Nathan Ruhl, Jessica J. Soski, and Willem M. Roosenburg
Stolen Valor: Lies, Deception and the First Amendment, Edward J. Schoen and J. S. Falchek
Anisotropic complementary acoustic metamaterial for canceling out aberrating layers, Chen Shen, Jun Xu, Nicholas X. Fang, and Yun Jing
Enzymatic Surface Erosion of High Tensile Strength Polycarbonates Based on Natural Phenols, Sven Sommerfeld, Zheng Zhang, Marius Costache, Sebastián Vega, and Joachim Kohn
DBA/2J Mice Are Susceptible to Diabetic Nephropathy and Diabetic Exacerbation of IOP Elevation, Ileana Soto Reyes, Gareth R. Howell, Cai W. John, Joseph L. Kief, Richard T. Libby, and Simon W.M. John
DTAF dye concentrations commonly used to measure microscale deformations in biological tissues alter tissue mechanics., Spencer E Szczesny, Rachel S. Riley, and Dawn M Elliott
Market reaction to acquisition announcements after the 2008 stock market crash, Ozge Uygur, Gulser Meric, and Ilhan Meric
Fine Structure in Manhattan's Daytime Urban Heat Island: A New Dataset, Brian Vant-Hull, Maryam Karimi, Awolou Sossa, Jade Wisanto, Rouzbeh Nazari, and Reza Khanbilvardi
Effects of Step-Wise Increases in Dietary Carbohydrate on Circulating Saturated Fatty Acids and Palmitoleic Acid in Adults with Metabolic Syndrome, Brittanie M. Volk, Laura J. Kunces, Daniel J. Frieidenreich, Brian R. Kupchak, Catherine Saenz, Juan C. Artistizabal, Maria Luz Fernandez, Richard S. Bruno, Carl M. Maresh, William J. Kraemer, Stephen D. Phinney, and Jeff S. Volek
NACK Is an Integral Component of the Notch Transcriptional Activation Complex and Is Critical for Development and Tumorigenesis, Kelly L Weaver, Marie-Clotilde Alves-Guerra, Ke Jin, Zhiqiang Wang, Xiaoqing Han, Prathibha Ranganathan, Xiaoxia Zhu, Thiago DaSilva, Wei Liu, Francesca Ratti, Renee M Demarest, Cristos Tzimas, Meghan Rice, Rodrigo Vasquez-Del Carpio, Nadia Dahmane, David J Robbins, and Anthony J Capobianco
Health capabilities and diabetes self-management: The impact of economic, social, and cultural resources, Robert Weaver, Manon Lemonde, Naghmeh Payman, and William M. Goodman
Data-based perfect-deficit approach to understanding climate extremes and forest carbon assimilation capacity, Suhua Wei, Chuixiang Yi, George Hendrey, Timothy Eaton, Gerald Rustic, Shaoqiang Wang, Heping Liu, Nir Krakauer, Weiguo Wang, Ankur Desai, Leonardo Montagnani, Kyaw U, Matthias Falk, Andrew Black, Christian Bernhofer, Thomas Grünwald, Tuomas Laurila, Alessandro Cescatti, Eddy Moors, Rosvel Bracho, and Riccardo Valentini
Temporal phase mask encrypted optical steganography carried by amplified spontaneous emission noise., Ben Wu, Zhenxing Wang, Bhavin Shastri, Matthew Chang, Nicholas Frost, and Paul Prucnal
Integrated transcriptome analysis reveals miRNA-mRNA crosstalk in laryngeal squamous cell carcinoma., Yang Zhang, Yong Chen, Jinhai Yu, Guiming Liu, and Zhigang Huang
Submissions from 2013
An ab-initio study of pyrrole and imidazole arylamides, Abramyan Ara, Zhiwei Liu, and Vojislava Pophristic
Patent Trends among Small and Large Innovative Firms during the 2007-2009 Recession, Anthony Breitzman
Pilates, Mindfulness and Somatic Education, Karen Caldwell, Marianne Adams, Rebecca Quinn, Mandy Harrison, and Jeffrey M. Greeson
Identification and Distribution of Projections from Monoaminergic and cholinergic nuclei to Functionally Differentiated Subregions of Prefrontal Cortex, Daniel Chandler, Carolyn Lamperski, and Barry Waterhouse
Identifying potential cancer driver genes by genomic data integration., Yong Chen, Jingjing Hao, Wei Jiang, Tong He, Xuegong Zhang, Tao Jiang, and Rui Jiang
Integrating human omics data to prioritize candidate genes., Yong Chen, Xuebing Wu, and Rui Jiang
Tracing evolutionary footprints to identify novel gene functional linkages., Yong Chen, Li Yang, Yunfeng Ding, Shuyan Zhang, Tong He, Fenglou Mao, Congyan Zhang, Huina Zhang, Chaoxing Huo, and Pingsheng Liu
Prototypical dimensions of business opportunity in early stages of the entrepreneurial process, Silvia F. Costa, Susana C. Santos, and Antonio Caetano
Wind Speed Regionalization Under Climate Change Conditions, Masoomeh Fakhry, Mohammad Farzaneh, Saeid Eslamian, and Rouzbeh Nazari
Role of gamma-aminobutyric acid type A (GABAA) receptor subtypes in acute benzodiazepine physical dependence-like effects: evidence from squirrel monkeys responding under a schedule of food presentation., Bradford D Fischer, Laura P Teixeira, Michael L van Linn, Ojas A Namjoshi, James M Cook, and James K Rowlett
Coordinated dynamic gene expression changes in the central nucleus of the amygdala during alcohol withdrawal., Kate Freeman, Mary M. Staehle, Rajanikanth Vadigepalli, Gregory E Gonye, Babatunde A Ogunnaike, Jan B Hoek, and James S Schwaber
Effects of local meteorology and aerosols on ozone and nitrogen dioxide retrievals from OMI and pandora spectrometers in Maryland, USA during DISCOVER-AQ 2011, Andra J. Garner, Anne M. Thompson, Debra E. Kollonige, Douglas K. Martins, Maria A. Tzortziou, Jay R. Herman, Timothy A. Berkoff, Nader K. Abuhassan, and Alexander Cede
Phylogenetic Portrait of the Saccharomyces cerevisiae Functional Genome, Patrick A. Gibney, Mark J. Hickman, Patrick H. Bradley, John C. Matese, and David Botstein
Deficiency of complement component 5 ameliorates glaucoma in DBA/2J mice, Gareth R. Howell, Ileana Soto Reyes, Margaret Ryan, Leah C. Graham, Richard S. Smith, and Simon W.M. John
Stability of Silk and Collagen Protein Materials in Space, Xiao Hu, Waseem K. Raja, Bo An, Olena Tokareva, Peggy Cebe, and David L. Kaplan
Translating Dosage Compensation to Trisomy 21, Jun Jiang, Yuanchun Jing, Gregory J. Cost, Jen-Chieh Chiang, Heather J. Kolpa, Allison M. Cotton, Dawn M. Carone, Benjamin R. Carone, David A. Shivak, Dmitry Y. Guschin, Jocelynn R. Pearl, Edward J. Rebar, Meg Byron, Philip D. Gregory, Carolyn J. Brown, Fyodor D. Urnov, Lisa L. Hall, and Jeanne B. Lawrence
Exploring the Use of Mobile Technology in Qualitative Inquiry in Africa, Ane T. Johnson
A novel mGluR5 antagonist, MFZ 10-7, inhibits cocaine-taking and cocaine-seeking behavior in rats, Thomas Keck, Mu-Fa Zou, Gui-Hua Bi, Hai-Ying Zhang, Xiao-Fei Wang, Hong-Ju Yang, Ratika Srivastava, Elliott L. Gardner, Zheng-Xiong Xi, and Amy Hauck Newman
A narrative review of yoga and mindfulness as complementary therapies for addiction., Surbhi Khanna and Jeffrey M Greeson
Randomized clinical trial examining duration of voucher-based reinforcement therapy for cocaine abstinence., Kimberly C Kirby, Carolyn M Carpenedo, Karen L Dugosh, Beth J Rosenwasser, Lois A Benishek, Alicia Janik, Rachel Keashen, Elena Bresani, and Kenneth Silverman
Serines in the Intracellular Tail of Podoplanin (PDPN) Regulate Cell Motility, Harini Krishnan, Jhon Ochoa-Alvarez, Yongquan Shen, Evan Nevel, Meenakshi Lakshminarayanan, Mary Williams, Maria Ramirez, W. Miller, and Gary Goldberg
Different Roles of BDNF in Nucleus Accumbens Core versus Shell during the Incubation of Cue-Induced Cocaine Craving and Its Long-Term Maintenance, Xuan Li, M.R. DeJoseph, Janice Urban, Amine Bahi, Jean-Luc Dreyer, Gloria Meredith, Kerstin Ford, Carrie Ferrario, Jessica Loweth, and Marina Wolf
Persistent Reversal of Enhanced Amphetamine Intake by Transient CaMKII Inhibition, Jessica Loweth, Dongdong Li, James Cortright, Georgia Wilke, Okunola Jeyifous, Rachael Neve, K. Bayer, and Paul Vezina
Natural IgG Autoantibodies Are Abundant and Ubiquitous in Human Sera, and Their Number Is Influenced By Age, Gender, and Disease, Eric Nagele, Min Han, Nimish Acharya, Cassandra DeMarshall, Mary Kosciuk, and Robert Nagele
Methylphenidate and Atomoxetine Enhance Sensory-Evoked Neuronal Activity in the Visual Thalamus of Male Rats, Rachel Navarra, Brian Clark, Gerard Zitnik, and Barry Waterhouse
Near-unity nuclear polarization with an open-source 129Xe hyperpolarizer for NMR and MRI, Panayiotis Nikolaou, Aaron Coffey, Laura Walkup, Brogan Gust, Nicholas Whiting, Hayley Newton, Scott Barcus, Iga Muradyan, Mikayel Dabaghyan, Gregory Moroz, Matthew Rosen, Samuel Patz, Michael Barlow, Eduard Chekmenev, and Boyd Goodson
Psychological and neural mechanisms of trait mindfulness in reducing depression vulnerability, Natalie A. Paul, Steven J. Stanton, Jeffrey M. Greeson, Moria J. Smoski, and Lihong Wang
An Investigation of Interactions Between Hypocretin/Orexin Signaling and Glutamate Receptor Surface Expression in the Rat Nucleus Accumbens Under Basal Conditions and After Cocaine Exposure, Ainhoa Plaza-Zabala, Xuan Li, Mike Milovanovic, Jessica Loweth, Rafael Maldonado, Fernando Berrendero, and Marina Wolf
Configuration and Assessment of a Senior Level Course in Biometric Systems, Ravi Ramachandran, Robi Polikar, Kevin Dahm, Robert Nickel, Richard Kozick, Sachin Shetty, Ying Tang, and Steven Chin
Does Lean Inventory Lead to Firm Performance? An International Comparison between the US and Japanese Manufacturers, James Roh and Jooh Lee
Nanosecond pulsed electric field thresholds for nanopore formation in neural cells., Caleb C Roth, Gleb P Tolstykh, Jason A Payne, Marjorie A Kuipers, Gary L. Thompson III, Mauris N DeSilva, and Bennett L Ibey
Snyder v. Phelps: A Cautiously Outrageous Protest, John C. Schoen and Edward J. Schoen
Detection and quantification of methylation in DNA using solid-state nanopores., Jiwook Shim, Gwendolyn I Humphreys, Bala Murali Venkatesan, Jan Marie Munz, Xueqing Zou, Chaitanya Sathe, Klaus Schulten, Farhad Kosari, Ann M Nardulli, George Vasmatzis, and Rashid Bashir
Reinforcing effects of compounds lacking intrinsic efficacy at α1 subunit-containing GABAA receptor subtypes in midazolam- but not cocaine-experienced rhesus monkeys., Nina M Shinday, Eileen K Sawyer, Bradford D Fischer, Donna M Platt, Stephanie C Licata, John R Atack, Gerard R Dawson, David S Reynolds, and James K Rowlett
Student understanding of Taylor series expansions in statistical mechanics, Trevor I. Smith, John R. Thompson, and Donald B. Mountcastle
Evolutionary Interrelationships and Insights into Molecular Mechanisms of Functional Divergence: An Analysis of Neuronal Calcium Sensor Proteins, Jeffrey Viviano, Hao Wu, and Venkat Venkataraman
Microbial Gut Diversity of Africanized and European Honey Bee Larval Instars, Svjetlana Vojvodic, Sandra M. Rehan, and Kirk E. Anderson
Using high-powered long-range zigbee devices for communication during amateur car racing events, James Wakeman, Matthew Hodson, Philip Shafer, and Vasil Hnatyshin
Loss of Sustained Activity in the Ventromedial Prefrontal Cortex in Response to Repeated Stress in Individuals with Early-Life Emotional Abuse: Implications for Depression Vulnerability, Lihong Wang, Natalie Paul, Steven J. Stanton, Jeffrey M. Greeson, and Moria J. Smoski
Optical steganography based on amplified spontaneous emission noise, Ben Wu, Zhenxing Wang, Yue Tian, Mable Fok, Bhavin Shastri, Daniel Kanoff, and Paul Prucnal
Expressive writing as a brief intervention for reducing drinking intentions, Chelsie Young, Lindsey Rodriguez, and Clayton Neighbors
Service Learning Without Borders – Turning Peanut Shells to Fuel Briquettes in the Gambia, Hong Zhang, Jess Everett, and Jessica Tryner
Submissions from 2012
Critical biliteracy in the ESOL classroom: Bringing the outside in with dual language mentor texts, Stephanie Abraham
Change Detection Performance in Naturalistic Scenes: The Influence of Visual Working Memory for Identity and Spatial Locations, Bonnie L. Angelone and Melissa R. Beck
Catalysis of methanol-air mixture using platinum nanoparticles for microscale combustion, James Applegate, Howard Pearlman, and Smitesh Bakrania
Who Invents It? Women's Participation in Information Technology Patenting, 2012 Update, Catherine Ashcraft and Anthony Breitzman Sr.
Combustion Synthesis of Fe-Incorporated SnO2 Nanoparticles Using Organometallic Precursor Combination, Thomas Barkley, Jenna Vastano, James Applegate, and Smitesh Bakrania
Differential Sensitivity to Psychostimulants Across Prefrontal Cognitive Tasks: Differential Involvement of Noradrenergic α1- and α2-Receptors, Craig Berridge, Jed Shumsky, Matt Andrzejewski, Jill McGaughy, Robert Spencer, David Devilbiss, and Barry Waterhouse
Slavery in New Jersey: A Roundtable, Emily Blanck
Analysis of Patent Referencing to IEEE Papers, Conferences, and Standards 1997-2011, Anthony Breitzman Sr.
Empirical Evaluation of Bone Extraction Protocols, Timothy Cleland, Kristyn Voegele, and Mary Schweitzer
Stress-Induced Impairment of a Working Memory Task: Role of Spiking Rate and Spiking History Predicted Discharge, David Devilbiss, Rick Jenison, and Craig Berridge
Identification of the major functional proteins of prokaryotic lipid droplets., Yunfeng Ding, Li Yang, Shuyan Zhang, Yang Wang, Yalan Du, Jing Pu, Gong Peng, Yong Chen, Huina Zhang, Jinhai Yu, Haiying Hang, Peng Wu, Fuquan Yang, Hongyuan Yang, Alexander Steinbüchel, and Pingsheng Liu
Study of Morphological Changes in MgH2 Destabilized LiBH4 Systems Using Computed X-ray Microtomography, Tabbetha A. Dobbins, Shathabish NaraseGowda, and Leslie G. Butler
Rapid temporal changes in the expression of a set of neuromodulatory genes during alcohol withdrawal in the dorsal vagal complex: molecular evidence of homeostatic disturbance., Kate Freeman, Mary M. Staehle, Zeynep H Gümüş, Rajanikanth Vadigepalli, Gregory E Gonye, Carmen N Nichols, Babatunde A Ogunnaike, Jan B Hoek, and James S Schwaber
Meditation-State Functional Connectivity (msFC): Strengthening of the Dorsal Attention Network and Beyond, Brett Froeliger, Eric L. Garland, Rachel V. Kozink, Leslie A. Modlin, Nan-Kuei Chen, F. Joseph McClernon, Jeffrey M. Greeson, and Paul Sobin
Diagnosis of Parkinson's Disease Based on Disease-Specific Autoantibody Profiles in Human Sera, Min Han, Eric Nagele, Cassandra DeMarshall, Nimish Acharya, and Robert Nagele
Conceptual Operations Issue within the International Context, Jooh Lee
New Insights on the Operational Link between Corporate Sustainability & Performance in Service, Jooh Lee and Niranjan Pati
Sequias en el sur de la peninsula de Yucatan: analisis de la variabilidad anual y estacional de la precipitacion (Droughts in the Southern Yucatan Peninsula: analysis of the annual and seasonal precipitation variability), Sofia Mardero, Elsa Nickl, Birgit Schmook, Laura Schneider, John Rogan, Zachary Christman, and Deborah Lawrence
Water Reuse and Sustainability, Rouzbeh Nazari, Saeid Eslamian, and Reza Khanbilvardi
Plant Lectin Can Target Receptors Containing Sialic Acid, Exemplified by Podoplanin, to Inhibit Transformed Cell Growth and Migration, Jhon Ochoa-Alvarez, Harini Krishnan, Yongquan Shen, Nimish Acharya, Min Han, Dean McNulty, and Hitoki Hasegawa
Conflicted Research: Medical Scientists on the Payroll, Edward J. Schoen, Phil A. Lewis, and J. S. Falchek
The efficacy of vigorous-intensity exercise as an aid to smoking cessation in adults with elevated anxiety sensitivity: study protocol for a randomized controlled trial, Jasper AJ Smits, Michael J. Slovensky, David Rosenfield, Bess H. Marcus, Timothy S. Church, Georita M. Frierson, Mark B. Powers, Michael W. Otto, Michelle L. Davis, Lindsey B. DeBoer, and Nicole F. Briceno
The proteomics of lipid droplets: structure, dynamics, and functions of the organelle conserved from bacteria to humans., Li Yang, Yunfeng Ding, Yong Chen, Shuyan Zhang, Chaoxing Huo, Yang Wang, Jinhai Yu, Peng Zhang, Huimin Na, Huina Zhang, Yanbin Ma, and Pingsheng Liu
Climate extremes and grassland potential productivity, Chuixiang Yi, Gerald Rustic, Xiyan Xu, Jingxin Wang, Anand Dookie, Suhua Wei, George Hendrey, Daniel Ricciuto, Tilden Meyers, Zoltán Nagy, and Krisztina Pinter
Submissions from 2011
Psychostimulants as Cognitive Enhancers: The Prefrontal Cortex, Catecholamines and Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, Craig Berridge and David M. DeVilbiss
Analysis of Small Business Innovation in Green Technologies, Anthony Breitzman and Patrick Thomas
Emerging technologies of polymeric nanoparticles in cancer drug delivery, Erik Brewer, Jason Coleman, and Anthony Lowman
The American Chemical Society's Undergraduate Chemistry Program Approval: A Conflict of Interest?, Denise Brush
Changes in Mindfulness, Well-Being, and Sleep Quality in College Students Through Taijiquan Courses: A Cohort Control Study, Karen Caldwell, Lisa Emery, Mandy Harrison, and Jeffrey M. Greeson
Uncover disease genes by maximizing information flow in the phenome-interactome network., Yong Chen, Tao Jiang, and Rui Jiang
