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Morphological diversity of extracellular vesicles revealed by cryo-electron microscopy
(2022-10-01)Introduction: Exosomes are extracellular vesicles 80-150 nm in diameter, containing proteins, mRNAs, microRNAs, and lipids reflecting the parent cell. While there has been an extensive characterization of the cargo incorporated in exosomes, a detailed morphological analysis of exosomes purified by various isolation techniques has not been performed. ... -
Morphological diversity of extracellular vesicles revealed by cryo-electron microscopy
(2022-10-01)Introduction: Exosomes are extracellular vesicles 80-150 nm in diameter, containing proteins, mRNAs, microRNAs, and lipids reflecting the parent cell. While there has been an extensive characterization of the cargo incorporated in exosomes, a detailed morphological analysis of exosomes purified by various isolation techniques has not been performed. ... -
Resilience-informed infrastructure network dismantling
(2022-09-13)Large-scale networked infrastructure systems contribute significantly to modern society. Highly intra- and interconnnected systems enable communities to be more productive, at the expense of becoming more vulnerable to extreme events, cascading failures, and operational demands, including random failures and even targeted attacks. The resilience of ... -
Parts List, Prices, and Links for Commercial Components of Mesoscale Testing Device
(2020)File displaying names, prices, quantities, and purchasing links of commercial components of mesoscale testing device -
Tracking Demonstration Video of 1:15 PDMS from Mesoscale Testing Device
(2020)Point tracking output from testing video taken using a stereomicroscope at 0.63x magnification of 1:15 PDMS. Yellow lines indicate tracking paths. One red line directly connects the center points of the sample-attached and static element points. The other red line indicates where the sample-attached point would have been without the presence of a ... -
Pixel Selection Demonstration Video of 1:10 PDMS from Mesoscale Testing Device on Fluorescence Microscope
(2020)Testing video taken using a fluorescence microscope at 10x magnification of 1:10 PDMS demonstrating which pixels are selected as belonging to edges to be tracked in yellow. Only every other pixel was checked for the appropriate color to reduce processing time -
Pixel Selection Demonstration Video of 1:15 PDMS from Mesoscale Testing Device
(2020)Testing video taken using a stereomicroscope at 0.63x magnification of 1:15 PDMS demonstrating which pixels are selected as belonging to points to be tracked in yellow. Only every other pixel was checked for the appropriate color to reduce processing time -
Tracking Demonstration Video of 1:10 PDMS from Mesoscale Testing Device on Fluorescence Microscope
(2020)Edge tracking output from testing video taken using a fluorescence microscope at 10x magnification of 1:15 PDMS. Yellow lines indicate tracking paths -
Demonstration of Piecewise Cubic Polynomial Fitting on Mesoscale Tester Data
(2020)Animation of piecewise cubic polynomial fitting to data from a replicate of 1:15 PDMS performed in order to obtain stress values at exact increments of strain -
Print and CAD Files for Mesoscale Testing Device
(2020)Folder containing 3D-printable components of mesoscale testing device -
Autocorrelation Reflectivity of Mars
(2020)The seismic structure of the Martian interior can shed light on the formation and dynamic evolution of the planet and our solar system. The deployment of the seismograph carried by the InSight mission provides a means to study Martian internal structure. We used ambient noise autocorrelation to analyze the available vertical component seismic data ... -
Simple ultraviolet microscope using off-the-shelf components for point-of-care diagnostics.
(2019-02-12)At the primary care setting, where there are often no or minimal laboratories, examinations often consist of self-testing and rapid diagnostics. Because of this, medical devices must be simple, robust, and easy to operate. To address these concerns, an alternate fluorescence microscope design uses ultraviolet (UV) excitation, since fluorescent dyes ... -
Origin and Early Differentiation of Carbon and Associated Life-Essential Volatile Elements on Earth
(2019)This chapter reviews what is known about the fate of carbon during early differentiation of inner solar system planets. It reviews the nature of carbon fractionation in a magma ocean as compared to the core, mantle, and atmosphere, and how this may have varied between planetary bodies in the solar system. It discusses whether magma ocean processes ... -
Simulating Transport and Adsorption of Organic Contaminants in 3D Porous Activated Carbon Block Media
(2019)To evaluate the organic contaminants removal performance of hollow cylindrical block-shaped porous activated carbon media, COMSOL Multiphysics® simulation software with Chemical Engineering module was used. The study clearly demonstrates how each organic compound in a steady-state fluid is dynamically transported in the three-dimensional porous media ... -
Rescoping research through student-librarian collaboration: Lessons from the Fondren Fellows program
(2018)Academic library professionals increasingly see student workers as full coparticipants in the design and delivery of library resources and services. For some librarians, this perspective grows out of a commitment to critical and feminist pedagogy,1 while for others, greater reliance on student workers in the face of flat or contracting budgets has ... -
Application of a fully polynomial randomized approximation scheme (FPRAS) to infrastructure system reliability assessments
(2017-08-06)Networked systems make the reliability assessment of critical infrastructure computationally challenging given the combinatorial nature of system-level states. Several methods from numerical schemes to analytical approaches, such as Monte Carlo Simulation (MCS) and recursive decomposition algorithms (RDA), respectively, have been applied to this ... -
On the Problem of the Namesake
(2016-02)