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Recent Submissions
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La pedofilia en el inconsciente del varón hispanoamericano a través de algunos autores
(2022-12)In this dissertation, six Latin American novels have been analyzed to show how literature represents the pedophile ideas of the characters. The novels studied are La increíble y triste historia de la cándida Eréndira y de ... -
Atrangik narivad: New directions for queer feminist studies in India
(2023)This essay places Srila Roy’s recently published Changing the Subject in dialogue with my book, Worlding Postcolonial Sexualities studying Southern feminist and queer activism to reveal solidarities and dissensions that ... -
Metamaterial as perfect absorber for high sensitivity refractive index based biosensing applications at infrared frequencies
(2023)In this paper, we introduce a novel design of a metamaterial unit cell absorber, which is based on a metal/insulator/metal sandwich structure. The design is subjected to comprehensive finite element method computational ... -
The rhetoric of spatial reproduction: Urban rhetoric and the enjoyment of structural fantasy
(2023-05)When we often ask about an individual’s hometown, we inflate the place they grew up with something about their personality. Looking at a three-way intersection of materialist rhetoric, psychoanalytic theory, and urban ... -
Attacks and Defenses in Privacy-Preserving Representation Learning
(2023-08)Nowadays, the users’ privacy concerns mandate data publishers to protect privacy by anonymizing the data before sharing it with data consumers. Thus, the ultimate goal of privacy-preserving representation learning is to ... -
Pláticas with Mexican American Engineering Teachers in High School: Counterstorytelling of Students, Educators, and Professionals in the STEM Pipeline
(2023-05)The following study was conducted as a qualitative narrative study of four Mexican American secondary engineering teachers, including my own auto-ethnography as a Mexican American engineer and educator, working in school ... -
The Associations Between Aggression Toward Teachers, Teachers’ Traumatic Stress Response, Job Satisfaction, and Perceived Administrator Support
(December 2)Aggression toward teachers by students is not a new phenomenon in schools, but the impact on teachers has just recently been included in the literature. Aggression toward teachers by students has primarily been studied by ... -
Flexible Magnetic Field Nanosensors for Wearable Electronics: A Review
(2023)Flexible magnetic field nanosensors hold immense potential for wearable electronics, offering a range of advantages such as comfort, real-time health monitoring, motion sensing, durability, and seamless integration with ... -
Exploring The Impact of Learning Space Design at Home for Children with Autism
(2021)This study will synthesize information on learning spaces and home design and apply it to environments used for remote learning by students with ASD. There are many resources that emphasize the importance of identifying a ... -
Modeling of Blockchain and Application Concerns in Blockchain Applications
(2023)This paper addresses a modeling approach to describe blockchain concerns and application concerns in blockchain applications. Those concerns are modeled using the meta-model of the functional, static, and dynamic views for ... -
Phylogenetic analysis of genetic diversity of hemolysins in Leptospira
(2012)Leptospirosis is a zoonotic disease distributed worldwide. It has now been identified as one of the emerging infectious diseases. The genomic sequences of Leptospira species have helped to identify the genetic diversity ... -
Microbiological profile of three commercial poultry processing plants in Colombia
(2017)Poultry meat production in Colombia has significant growth potential to fulfill national demands and to become an important global exporter. Entering export markets requires compliance with international food safety standards ... -
Scott-representability of some spaces of Tall and Miškin
(2008)In this paper we show that a variation of a technique of Miskin and Tall yields a cocompact completely regular Moore space that is Scott-domain- representable and has a closed Gδ-subspace that is not Scott-domain-representable. ... -
Plants influenced by growing media and compost addition on mock green roofs within the ozark highlands
(2014)Green roof technology and other low impact development practices help mitigate hydrologic impacts from urbanization. Green roofs are widely recognized for stormwater retention, and these systems provide many other ecological ... -
Misfolding-assisted selection of stable protein variants using phage displays
(2006)We describe a phage display strategy, based on the differential resistance of proteins to denaturant-indueed unfolding, that can be used to select protein variants with improved eonformational stability. To test the ... -
Physical activity, screen-based sedentary behavior, and sleep duration in adolescents: Youth risk behavior survey, 2011-2013
(2016)This study examined the concurrent associations of physical activity and screen-based sedentary behavior with sleep duration among adolescents by using data from the national Youth Risk Behavior Survey 2011-2013. Using ... -
Association of miR-193b down-regulation and miR-196a up-regulation with clinicopathological features and prognosis in gastric cancer
(2014)Dysregulated expression of microRNAs (miRNAs) has been shown to be closely associated with tumor development, progression, and carcinogenesis. However, their clinical implications for gastric cancer remain elusive. To ... -
Remediation of diesel contaminated soils using surfactants: Coulumn study
(2012)This study presents the experimental remediation studies of diesel contaminated soil with Sodium Deducible Sulfate (SDS) as surfactants using column tests. Sandy selected soil had the grain size distribution of # 40 meshes ... -
Two-dimensional arrays of gold nanoparticles for plasmonic nanosensor
(2011)Two dimensional (2D) arrays of noble metal nanoparticles are widely used in the sensing of nanoscale biological and chemical events. Research in this area has sparked considerable interest in many fields owing to the novel ... -
The delta method for analytic functions of random operators with application to functional data
(2007)In this paper, the asymptotic distributions of estimators for the regularized functional canonical correlation and variates of the population are derived. The method is based on the possibility of expressing these regularized ...