Erythropoietin (EPO) is a hormone produced by the kidneys that is responsible for stimulating red blood cell (RBC) production. The stimulus for EPO production is a reduction in oxygen delivery to the kidneys, which can ...
The high prevalence of type II diabetes in India necessitates novel public health tools to promote behaviors that lower the likelihood of developing diabetes and associated comorbidities. We introduce a public health text ...
Weddell Seals (Leptonychotes weddellii) are a species of polar seal found circumpolar in the waters of Antarctica. This species, like all marine mammals, use highly complex vocalizations to communicate in aquatic environments ...
Lossy audio compression is a digital process that uses models of human hearing to remove parts of the sound deemed less important, in order to compress audio to much smaller file sizes. The MP3 encoding process, one of the ...
Contemporary Romance, while building on a foundation of traditional Romantic idealism, is often referring to novels that have been historically scoffed at by literary scholars. Because of the wide, sustained reach of these ...
Wyland, Jacqueline V.(University of Oregon, 1967-05)
This paper is an introduction to the processes of
osmoregulation and ionic regulation in Crustacea, and
a s elected review of the literature pertinent to a study
of those processes. The problems of adaptation to ...
Roberts, Jenette Elizabeth(University of Oregon, 1939-08)
This study endeavors to show the part played in Oregon
during the years 1851-1913 by Asahel Bush, pioneer editor,
politician, and banker.
The writer has made use of the plentiful source
material available for the ...
Manis, Merle Eugene(University of Oregon, 1966-06)
The purpose of this paper is to extend some results
from the theory of valuations on a field to an arbitrary
commutative ring with identity. The results obtained are
well known when interpreted in the context of a field ...
During western expansion, dams helped settlers conquer nature and develop the frontier. Oregon depends on dams for flood control, efficient renewable energy, and irrigation. As 20th-century infrastructure ages, removing ...
Across professional sports, players typically unionize and collectively bargain with team owners to construct an agreement as to how revenue will be shared and how the league will operate. These agreements largely dictate ...
Dihydrofolate reductase (DHFR) is an essential enzyme in the folic acid synthesis pathway and has been the subject of intense study in recent decades. Despite the wide diversity of homologs, research attention has primarily ...
Often considered one of the most influential and most quotable pieces of William Shakespeare’s repertoire, The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, has stood the test of time. Analyzed by high school and college students ...
Healthy muscle is characterized in part by its ability to recover from atrophy after surgery, bedrest, or immobilization. The goal of this thesis is to determine if the combined effects of essential amino acid (EAA) ...
People with disabilities are at increased risk of experiencing severe COVID-19 outcomes and should receive vaccinations and boosters to mitigate risk. However, COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy has been previously observed in ...
The field of tissue engineering (TE) works to produce artificial replicas of tissues and organs for clinical applications. To achieve this ambitious outcome, TE works at the interface of biology, engineering, and medicine ...
Prions are a form of protein that can switch from their native conformation to one that can promote aggregation. This sometimes inhibits or changes their normal cellular function, causing phenotypic changes. The Garcia Lab ...
Inexpensive large-scale de novo gene synthesis technologies are in high demand for protein characterization and engineering as they enable the testing of many complex hypotheses. One such technology is DropSynth, which can ...
Introduction: During exercise, core (Tc) and skin temperatures (Tsk) increase due to elevations in heat production (Hprod) from increased metabolism by exercising muscles. To maintain Tc and Tsk within a precise range, the ...
This work is two translation pieces of the short story Je Suis Plein D’Autres Aussi by Marie-Sabine Roger from French into English and Spanish. The translation is preceded by an essay where I explain my translation process. ...
Anticipatory force control is the ability to plan the amount of force needed to successfully manipulate an object and is known to predominantly rely on two key aspects: sensorimotor memories derived from previous experience ...