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Delivery of Antioxidant and Anti-inflammatory Agents for Tissue Engineered Vascular Grafts
(2017-09-21)The treatment of patients with severe coronary and peripheral artery disease represents a significant clinical need, especially for those patients that require a bypass graft and do not have viable veins for autologous ... -
Design and Development of a Physiological Stress Monitoring/Alert System Using a Wristband
(2016-12)The design and development of wearable physiological systems for stress monitoring have gathered a lot of attention during the past few years. These systems have undergone much-needed development to tackle long-term ... -
Developing the Three Dimensional Tumor Model for Melanoma Drug Screening
(2016-12)Two-dimensional (2D) Tissue Culture Treated Plastic (TCTP) is widely used for cancer drug screening and has dominated the field for a long time. Compared with traditional two dimensional cell culture, a three dimensional ... -
Effect of Tannic Acid Crosslinking on the Mechanical Properties of Collagen Scaffolds and Melanoma Cell Proliferation
(2017-07)Metastatic melanoma is responsible for nearly 10,000 deaths in the United States each year. While the prognosis for patients with localized early stage melanoma cancer is good, the chances of survival for patients with ... -
Effects of normal and abnormal loading conditions on morphogenesis of the prenatal hip joint: application to hip dysplasia
(2015-06-30)Joint morphogenesis is an important phase of prenatal joint development during which the opposing cartilaginous rudiments acquire their reciprocal and interlocking shapes. At an early stage of development, the prenatal hip ... -
Enhanced ablation with a femtosecond-nanosecond dual-pulse
(2018-02-19)Single-shot ablation of GaAs samples by a collinear femtosecond-nanosecond (fs-ns) dual-pulse is investigated. Significantly enhanced material removal is achieved by optimally combining a single 8 ns pulse at 1064 nm and ... -
Gap-based estimation: Choosing the smoothing parameters for probabilistic and general regression neural networks
(2007-10)Probabilistic neural networks (PNN) and general regression neural networks (GRNN) represent knowledge by simple but interpretable models that approximate the optimal classifier or predictor in the sense of expected value ... -
Impact of Collagen-Incorporation within Electrospun Vascular Conduits on the Inflammatory Response and Conduit Mechanics
(2015-05)Current surgical alternatives for treating coronary artery diseases are limited in patients with systemic vascular diseases due to unavailability of suitable autologous vessels. The overall goal of this research project ... -
Impact of elastin incorporation into electrochemically aligned collagen fibers on mechanical properties and smooth muscle cell phenotype
(2016-03-17)Application of tissue-engineered vascular grafts (TEVGs) for the replacement of small-diameter arteries is limited due to thrombosis and intimal hyperplasia. Previous studies have attempted to address the limitations of ... -
Impact of Electrospun Conduit Composition and Peritoneal Pre-conditioning on Patency and Remodeling of Tissue Engineered Vascular Grafts
(2017-10)Overall goal of this project was to develop a tissue engineered vascular graft by implanting an electrospun tubular conduit into the peritoneal cavity to recruit autologous cells to it and provide the cells with the ... -
Keeping up with sea-level rise: Carbonate production rates in Palau and Yap, western Pacific Ocean
(2018-05-08)Coral reefs protect islands from tropical storm waves and provide goods and services for millions of islanders worldwide. Yet it is unknown how coral reefs in general, and carbonate production in particular, will respond ... -
Mapping Tools for Measuring Gross Motor Function in Conductive Education
(2017-03)Cerebral Palsy (CP) is a collection of disorders caused by disturbances in the developing brain before, during, or just after birth that affect the development of movement and posture resulting in limitations in activity. ... -
Modeling Diffusion-Based Transport for Drug Delivery From Fibrous Tissue Engineered Scaffolds
(2017-12)The development of advanced computing techniques has generated a shift out of the world contained solely in laboratories and into the world of computational modeling. These advanced methods help alleviate some of the ... -
Monitoring Heart Rate Variability in Relation to Sleep Quality
(2017-05)The development and analysis of heart rate variability for sleep quality monitoring have been concerned for many years in human being. Sleep is a physiological process that is essentially maintaining the function of human ... -
MOTIL™ Monitoring and tracking integrated in life
An estimated 70% of the population does not walk with correct pronation. Pronation is the method of distributing weight across the plantar surface of the foot. This leads to severe pain and joint damage over time. -
Multiscale Mechanics of Bone: Examining the Influence of Genetic Alterations
(2016-12)This MSc thesis investigates how genetic alterations involved in the synthesis of proteins or in the regulation of tissue remodeling affects the composition, structure and mechanics of bone at the multiscale levels. This ... -
Novel modeling techniques for tumor diagnostics using pulsed laser sources
(2002-05-13)In this paper, a two-dimensional transient radiation transport algorithm is developed to analyze short pulse laser transport through a tissue medium having tumors and inhomogeneities imbedded in it. Short pulse probing ... -
Optimal Transfer Point Locations in Two-Stage Distribution Systems
(2017-12-07)Limited range of emerging delivery vehicles, speci cally unmanned aerial systems, creates gaps in last mile retail distribution networks and excludes signi cant numbers of potential customers. Implementing a two-stage ... -
PEGDA Pouches to Prevent Adhesions with in vivo Bioreactor- based Vascular Graft Strategies
(2017-05)Different strategies have been investigated for the fabrication of vascular grafts. Using the peritoneal cavity of the patient as an “in vivo bioreactor” to recruit autologous cells to the implanted vascular conduit is ... -
Phospho1 deficiency transiently modifies bone architecture yet produces consistent modification in osteocyte differentiation and vascular porosity with ageing
(2015-12-01)PHOSPHO1 is one of principal proteins involved in initiating bone matrix mineralisation. Recent studies have found that Phospho1 KO mice ( Phospho1-R74X) display multiple skeletal abnormalities with spontaneous fractures, ...