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Identification of Underrepresented Populations for Gifted Programs
Gifted education typically refers to programs designed to meet the needs of learners who have demonstrated a need for accelerated and enriched academic instruction. There has been a documented divergence between the ... -
Identification of Urban Scaling Behavior for Transportation Mode Share
Urban scaling effects provide a means to formulate a general understanding of the processes that govern transportation system outcomes. Urban scaling analysis assumes that the quantity of interest follows a power-law ... -
Identification of ZFR, an ancient and highly conserved murine chromosome-associated zinc finger protein
(Elsevier, 1999-03-04)In a screen for RNA binding proteins expressed during murine spermatogenesis, we cloned a novel, ancient zinc finger protein possessing a region common to a small class of RNA binding proteins. Zfr (zinc ... -
Identification, interactions, and specificity of a novel MAP kinase kinase, MKK7
(1999)The mitogen activated protein kinase (MAP kinase) cascade has emerged as an evolutionarily conserved element in the transduction of a wide variety of extracellular signals. In mammals, at least three distinct pathways have ... -
Identifying a historic shoreline using fine-scale slope variation
(2013-06)[author abstract] A rise of just one meter of sea level rise could displace millions of people and cause billions of dollars of damage. This research identifies a historic submerged shoreline along the continental shelf ... -
Identifying and addressing student difficulties with electrostatics and magnetostatics in introductory and advanced courses
This dissertation describes an investigation of student conceptual understanding of statics concepts in E&M, at the introductory and junior level. At the introductory level, this research led to the development of three ... -
Identifying and Addressing Student Difficulties with the Source-Field Relationship using Tutorials in Upper-Division Electromagnetism
This dissertation describes an investigation of student conceptual understanding of the source-field relationship in upper-division electromagnetism. The three core aspects of the source-field relationship discussed in ... -
Identifying and Characterizing Novel Targets against Rhabdomyosarcoma Disease Relapse
Rhabdomyosarcoma (RMS) is the most common soft tissue pediatric sarcoma. Patients with relapsed or metastatic disease are faced with a poor survival outlook. Self-renewal of tumor propagating cells (TPCs) is believed to ... -
Identifying and Monitoring Water Quality Needs for Puget Sound’s Aquaculture Industry and Environmental Security Through the Design and Use of a Prototype Sensor Suite
(2019)The impact of climate change on the environmental and economic security of marine resources has now entered the public and political discourse. The sectors of the marine industry that must make both short and long-term ... -
Identifying and overcoming barriers to raising funds from individuals for tobacco prevention
Introduction: Nonprofit tobacco prevention programs receive a level of public support that is disproportionately low to the burden of tobacco-related disease and death in the United States (US). Individual donors’ recent ... -
Identifying Areas of Needed Support for Young Girls with Central Precocious Puberty (CPP)
We identified areas of needed support for young girls with Central Precocious Puberty (CPP) by conducting a secondary analysis of 14 semi-structured qualitative interviews with caregivers of girls diagnosed with idiopathic ... -
Identifying changes in activity level in Hemigrapsus nudus under daylight and night conditions
(2021)Mobile predators in the intertidal zone play a key role in the abundances and distributions of their prey. Hemigrapsus nudus is an ecological generalist found in the intertidal that primarily feeds on green algae. With ... -
Identifying Disparities in Pediatric Specialty Referral Completion
Background: Disparities exist in access to pediatric specialty care. The extent to which the referral and scheduling processes contribute is not well understood. Objective: To determine whether sociodemographic factors are ... -
Identifying Disproportionate Burden Through the Spatial Covariance of Two Acute Deaths of Despair: Firearm Suicide and Opioid Overdose
Objectives: To evaluate the spatial covariance in two acute deaths of despair outcomes, firearm suicides and opioid overdoses, to better understand how these two public health crises intersect across US counties. The ... -
Identifying drivers of exemplary family planning performance in low- and middle-income countries between 2000 and 2017
Between 2000 and 2017, average modern contraceptive prevalence increased by 7.8 percentage points and demand satisfied with modern methods increased by 12.8 percentage points among 108 low- and middle-income countries ... -
Identifying drivers of spatial-temporal heterogeneity in COVID-19 outcomes during the 2020-2021 outbreaks in Peru
According to the World Health Organization, it has been estimated that Peru had the highest per capita excess mortality rate for the 2020-2021 period among all countries in the world. Understanding the drivers of heterogeneity ... -
Identifying Essential Components of Effective HIV Teen Clubs in Namibia
Teen clubs are psychosocial support groups based at health facilities that help adolescents living with HIV (ALHIV) learn about their health and engage with their peers. Various nonprofit organizations have set up and ... -
Identifying genetic signatures of vaccine-induced immune responses in HIV-1 infected MRKAd5 STEP vaccine study subjects
Massively parallel sequencing technologies have been extensively applied in HIV-1 research to study the presence of minority variants. Insight gained through these technologies includes identification of minor drug resistant ... -
Identifying high risk children in the emergency department
(2013-07-25)Objectives: Early warning scores reduce the occurrence of in-hospital cardiac arrest by identifying high-risk hospitalized patients prior to clinical deterioration. However, the ability of early warning scores to identify ...