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Qatar Beyond Doha
(2020-05)In the book “The Heritage of Qatar”, authors Peter Vine and Casey Paula provide an insight into Qatar’s history through its natural history and culture. The artificiality of landscape in Doha has replaced the once bare ... -
QiaoPing Lin - Master of Music - Masters Recital
(2020-04)Toccata in E minor, BWV 914 / J.S.Bach (1685-1750) -- Fantasia in C minor, K.475 / Wolfgang Mozart (1756-1791) -- Piano Sonata No.2 in B-flat Minor / Frédéric Chopin (1810-1849) -- Les soirées de Nazelles, FP 84 / Francis ... -
QR Codes and Augmented Reality Help Libraries Extend Services
(2011-03-16)Emerging technologies like QR Codes and Augmented Reality can help libraries extend services, widen access to resources, and promote events to users in exciting and innovative ways. Using simple and free technologies, QR ... -
Qualitative Investigation of Mexican-American Experiences of Racial Microaggressions
(2011-08)Racial microaggressions are the brief, commonplace racial slights and insults that are expressed by Whites against people of color (Sue, Capodilupo et al, 2007). This qualitative study examined previously unexplored area ... -
Quality Remediation Programs Lead to Successful Learning
(December 2)Background: The mission of nursing programs is to prepare as many students as possible to pass the first-time attempt on the National Council Licensure Examination-RN (NCLEX-RN®). If a school’s first-time pass rate drops ... -
Quantification and Molecular Characterization of Anti-citrulline Antibodies in Rheumatoid Arthritis
(August 201)Autoimmune diseases are believed to result from the inability of the immune system to distinguish self and non-self. Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA) is a systemic autoimmune disease that leads to joint destruction and affects ... -
Quantification of Age-Related and per Diopter Accommodative Changes of the Lens and Ciliary Muscle in the Emmetropic Human Eye
(Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science, 2013-02)Purpose: To calculate age-related and per diopter (D) accommodative changes in crystalline lens and ciliary muscle dimensions in vivo in a single cohort of emmetropic human adults ages 30 to 50 years. Methods: The right ... -
Quantifying Hurricane Harvey Sediment Transport in The Houston-Galveston Region
(2021-04-21)Hurricane Harvey made landfall as a Category 4 hurricane in Port Aransas, Texas on August 26, 2017 and produced the largest precipitation event in recorded US history over Houston and southeastern Texas. Harvey stalled ... -
Quantifying morphological heterogeneity: a study of more than 1 000 000 individual stored red blood cells
(Vox Sanguinis, 10/1/2016)Background and Objectives The morphology of red blood cells (RBCs) deteriorates progressively during hypothermic storage. The degree of deterioration varies between individual cells, resulting in a highly heterogeneous ... -
Quantifying T cell Mediated Killing for Melanoma Immunotherapy
(2014-12)Adoptive cell therapy (ACT), based on the adoptive transfer of tumor-infiltrating lymphocytes (TILs) has well-recognized advantages such as (1) high specificity for target cells; (2) the ability to target even micrometastases; ... -
Quantifying the Effect of Vitamin D Deficiency and Alcohol Exposure on Immune Response to Mycobacterium Infection
(2019-05)The goal of the May Multiscale Immunobiology Design, Algorithms, & Simulation (MIDAS) Lab is to develop dynamic empirical and simulation-based models of host-pathogen interactions to further our understanding of the ... -
Quantifying the Kinetics of Immune Responses to Cancer: Applications in Serum Profiling and Single-Cell Biology
(2019-08)Immunotherapy that harnesses the body’s immune system to fight cancer has revolutionized the treatment of the disease. Advances in utilizing checkpoint inhibitors that release the potential of the adaptive immune system, ... -
Quantifying the Net Cost of Transport Curve During Human Walking: How Much Time Is Required?
(2020)The U-shaped net cost of transport (COT) curve of walking, a highly conserved feature in humans, helps us understand the biomechanical basis that underlies energy minimization during walking. However, to produce a subject’s ... -
Quantifying the Optical, Physical, and Predicted Visual Consequences of Daily Cleaning on Conventional and Wavefront-Guided Scleral Lenses
(2021-05-13)Purpose: To test whether an equivalent of 12 months of manual cleaning alters optical aberrations, base curve or predicted visual performance of conventional and wavefront-guided scleral contact lenses. Methods: Twelve ... -
Quantitative Comparison of Channel-belt Dimensions, Internal Architecture and Characteristics of Two Fluvial Systems in Sequence 1, Ferron Notom Delta, South-Central Utah, U.S.A.
(2013-05)The geometry, proportion, and spatial distribution of fluvial deposits are critical components in subsurface reservoir analysis, but their prediction can be difficult. This study describes and compares an amalgamated, high ... -
Quantitative comparison of metrics for human pose estimation
(2013-08)Human Pose Estimation is an important problem in computer vision that has received considerable attention in recent years. The multitude of application's related to Visual Surveillance, Human Computer Interaction and ... -
Quantitative High-Throughput Single-Cell Cytotoxicity Assay for T cells
(Journal of Visualized Experiments, 2013)Cancer immunotherapy can harness the specificity of immune response to target and eliminate tumors. Adoptive cell therapy (ACT) based on the adoptive transfer of T cells genetically modified to express a chimeric antigen ... -
Quantitative Real-Time PCR Analysis of Colchicine Pathway Genes
(2021-02-05)Modern synthetic drugs consistently show side effects, which underlines the need for the development and manufacturing of plant-based drugs [47]. Colchicine is a naturally cultivated, plant-based alkaloid extracted from ... -
Quantitative Resolution Analysis for Seismic Spectral Decomposition Methods
(December 2)The S-transform is one way to transform a one-dimensional seismogram into a two-dimensional time-frequency analysis. This study investigates its use to compute seismic interpretive attributes, such as peak frequency and ... -
Quantitative Sediment Provenance Modelling in the Paleogene Northern Altiplano Basin, Southern Peru Using Detrital Zircon Geochronology
(2019-12)Opposing models of orogenic growth in the central Andes propose different timing and loci of crustal shortening, exhumation, and topographic growth. Discriminating between Eastern and Western Cordilleran sources provides ...