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An Investigation of Quantitative Measures of Sleep-Apnea-Induced Nocturnal Cardiac Stress
(ACM, 2022-07-11)Obstructive Sleep Apnea (OSA) affects an estimated 18 million individuals in the U.S. adult population. Numerous research findings indicate that OSA has significant adverse effects on the cardiac health. Current method of ... -
Investigation of range verification in carbon ion therapy using Monte Carlo simulation
(2020-08-11)Carbon ion therapy is one of the advanced forms for radiotherapy and currently only available in few developed countries. Unlike conventional radiation therapy methods, carbon ion therapy has high potential in treating ... -
INVESTIGATION OF RATE PRESSURE PRODUCT AS A METRIC TO QUANTIFY CARDIAC WORKLOAD IN SLEEP APNEA EVENTS
(2024-01-09)An investigation on the use of rate pressure product (RPP) to measure the cardiac workload in sleep apnea patients is presented. RPP is the product of systolic blood pressure (SBP) and heart rate (HR). The application of ... -
Investigation Of Redox-active Ruthenium(II) Polypyridyl Complexes As Potential Anti-cancer Drugs
(Chemistry & Biochemistry, 2009-09-16)Stereospecific binding of ruthenium metallointercalators with DNA is of particular interest because of the potential for improved targeting of specific sites in DNA. The present studies are focused on new metallointercalator, ... -
Investigation of reuse of coal fly ash to mitigate landfill methane gas
(2017-06-08)Methane (CH4) is a powerful greenhouse gas (GHG), contributing 32% of current climate forcing (US EPA, 2015). In 2014 the White House released the “Strategy to Cut Methane Emissions” as part of the Climate Action Plan. ... -
Investigation Of Ruthenium (II) Polypyridyl Dimers As Potential Chemotherapeutic Agents
(Chemistry & Biochemistry, 2007-08-23)The exploration of transition metal complexes as chemotherapeutic agents is still a relatively unexplored but promising area of research. Chapter 1 highlights the most successful anticancer drugs and potential drugs based ... -
INVESTIGATION OF SCALABLE HEVC AND ITS BITRATE ALLOCATION FOR UHD DEPLOYMENT IN THE CONTEXT OF HTTP STREAMING
(2015-12-07)High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC/H.265) [1] is the state of the art video compression standard, which provides bitrate reduction in the range of 50% when compared to the previous Advanced Video Coding (AVC/H.264) [5] ... -
Investigation Of Side Wall Effects On An Inward Scramjet Inlet At Mach Number 8.6
(Aerospace Engineering, 2013-10-22)Experimental and computational studies were conducted to evaluate the performance of a scramjet inlet as the side cowl length is changed. A slender inward turning inlet with a total length of 304.8 mm, a span of 50.8 mm ... -
Investigation Of Spectral Properties Of A DFB Laser Source
(Electrical Engineering, 2013-10-22)We determine the linewidth characteristic of a DFB laser source by conducting experiments employing a coherent detection setup. We use an instrument grade external semiconductor laser device as the local oscillator and the ... -
INVESTIGATION OF STRENGTH-ENHANCEMENT MECHANISM AND SIZE EFFECT ON ULTIMATE SHEAR STRENGTH OF STEEL FIBER-REINFORCED CONCRETE (SFRC) SLENDER BEAMS
(2016-05-10)This research study consists of two separate phases. In the first phase, an experimental study was conducted to identify the shear-enhancement and failure mechanisms behind the ultimate shear strength of steel fiber-reinforced ... -
INVESTIGATION OF SUPPLY CHAIN GOVERNANCE MECHANISMS AND ASSESSING THEIR EFFECT ON SUPPLY CHAIN PERFORMANCE IN THE MANUFACTURING INDUSTRY
(2016-05-11)With the increasing level of globalization in manufacturing, it is becoming increasingly pertinent to monitor the execution of contractual agreements between buyers and suppliers. These monitoring mechanisms are essential ... -
An Investigation Of Support Vector Machine Classifier In Detecting Nocturnal Airway Obstruction From Spontaneous Heart Rate Combined With ECG Morphology Changes
(Biomedical Engineering, 2011-10-11)Sleep apnea is a sleep disordered breathing resulting from limitation or cessation to breathing for 10 or more seconds. The prevalence of sleep apnea has increased exponentially in the past decade. The increase in epidemic ... -
INVESTIGATION OF SURFACE CONTAMINATION IN A Cu-BASED Al ALLOY OCCURRING DURING TEM SAMPLE PREPARATION
(2018-08-17)This thesis investigates the nature of surface contamination originating from the jet-polishing process on Cu-6 wt% Al TEM disks. During previous TEM imaging and diffraction analysis performed by our group, surface ... -
Investigation Of Techniques To Increase The Scalability Of Graph-based Data Mining Algorithms.
(Computer Science & Engineering, 2007-08-23)Frequent subgraph pattern recognition and graph-based relational learning have been an emerging area of data mining research with scientific and commercial applications. At the kernel of these algorithms are the ... -
INVESTIGATION OF THE CELLULAR UPTAKE AND CYTOTOXICITY OF RUTHENIUM(II) POLYPYRIDYL COMPLEXES AS A FUNCTION OF LIPOPHILICITY
(2022-05-17)Ru(II) polypyridyl complexes have been one of the focal points of investigation for inorganic anti-cancer drugs, as they are robust enough to remain chemically intact in vivo and many show potent cytotoxicty. In particular, ... -
INVESTIGATION OF THE CHANNEL HOT CARRIER (CHC) STRESSING EFFECTS AND IDENTIFICATION OF THE STRESS-INDUCED OXIDE TRAPS LEADING TO RTS IN PMOSFETS
(2020-11-12)Electrical stressing mechanisms are responsible for the generation of stress-induced gate SiO2 defects, in addition to the presence of process-induced oxide traps, in MOSFETs. Random telegraph signal (RTS) can be utilized ... -
An Investigation Of The Conceptual Understanding Of Continuity And Derivatives In Calculus Of Emerging Scholars Versus Non-emerging Scholars Program Students
(Mathematics, 2011-07-14)The Emerging Scholars Program (ESP) has been adapted at colleges and universities across the nation in efforts to increase student access to Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) disciplines. This study ... -
An Investigation Of The Covariations Between Variations In Exhaled Carbon Dioxide And Cerebral Blood Flow Levels During Apnea
Sleep apnea is a breathing disorder characterized by repetitive reduction or cessation of breathing during sleep. It is estimated that that around 17% of adults suffer from mild to severe sleep disordered breathing. The ... -
An Investigation Of The Effect Of Obstructive Sleep Apnea On Cerebral Hemodynamics In Relation With Systemic Hemodynamics
Obstructive Sleep Apnea (OSA) is a major sleep disorder affecting approximately 18 million adults in the US. Recent studies have observed cognitive impairments and brain structural changes in OSA subjects where these ... -
Investigation of the Evolution and Structural Basis of Caspases: Insights into Conformational Dynamics, Stability and Allostery
(2023-05-01)Caspases, a class of cysteinyl proteases, are well known for their roles in apoptosis or programmed cell death. However, at lower levels of activation in the body, they also play other non-apoptotic roles in cell proliferation, ...