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Showing 1 to 20 of 98 for “"Low-input"”.
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Energetics of low-input corn production
… /ha required by the standard-practice winter-fallow treatment. Alternative-practice treatments that utilized vetches to provide nitrogen for com production performed significantly better than standard-practice treatments in terms of energy use per unit of crop output. In addition, the alternative …
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Microfluidic Technology for Low-Input Epigenomic Analysis
… utilized microfluidic immunoprecipitation followed by next genereation sequencing technologies to enable low input and high through epigenomics profiling. First, I examined RNA polymerase II transcriptional regulation with microfluidic chromatin immunoprecipitation followed by next generation …
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Operation of buck regulator with ultra-low input voltage
… buck regulator proposed in this thesis aims to lower the allowed input voltage and increase efficiency compared to the original part without making significant changes to quiescent current and part performance. This thesis will discuss additions and modifications made to the original …
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Poultry Litter as a Nutrient Source for Low Input Forage Systems
… naturalized pastures. Two sites each had the following treatments applied for two consecutive years: 1) split application of litter: 3.36 Mg ha-1 in spring and 3.36 Mg ha-1 in summer; 2) inorganic fertilizer at same N, P and K rates as Trt. No. 1; 3) single application of litter: 6.72 Mg ha-1 in …
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Microfluidics for Low Input Epigenomic Analysis and Its Application to Brain Neuroscience
… this thesis, I report three projects focusing on low-input, cell-type-specific and spatially resolved histone modification profiling on microfluidic platforms. First, I applied Microfluidic Oscillatory Washing-based Chromatin Immunoprecipitation followed by sequencing (MOWChIP-seq) to study the …
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Low-Input Multi-Omic Studies of Brain Neuroscience Involved in Mental Diseases
Psychiatric disorders are believed to result from the combination of genetic predisposition and many environmental triggers. While the large number of disease-associated genetic variations have been recognized by previous genome-wide association studies (GWAS), the role of epigenetic mechanisms …
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An economic analysis of low-input agriculture as a groundwater protection strategy
… solution, such as the voluntary use of low-input agriculture (LIA) practices. This study was conducted to identify potential barriers to LIA adoption, analyze the effectiveness of agriculture and natural resource policies designed to remove the barriers to LIA adoption, and to determine …
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Opuntia ficus-indica: a climate-resilient biomass feedstock for low-input drylands agriculture
… both as a model to understand adaptations that allow biomass productivity on semi-arid lands and as a platform for producing food, forage, fodder, and fuel in areas uninhabitable by traditional crops. Molecular analysis of the Opuntia cuticle has identified putative polymeric aldehydes in the …
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Microfluidics for low input epigenomic analysis and application to oncology and brain neuroscience
… we developed microfluidic tools to conduct low input ChIP-seq and ChIRP-seq. We applied them to a variety of samples profiling different targets. The native MOWChIP-seq platform was developed to map RNA polymerase II, transcription factors and histone deacetylase binding in 1,000-50,000 …
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Low-Input and Single-Cell Transcriptomic Technologies and Their Application to Disease Studies
… of full-length scRNA-seq methods is usually lower, as each single cell needs to be processed separately to produce scRNA-seq libraries. However, full-length methods enable the researchers to investigate the splicing variants and allele-specific expression. Non-full-length methods only capture …
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Utilizing Beneficial Bacterial Endophytes to Promote Switchgrass Growth in Low- input Agricultural Production Systems
… of switchgrass seedlings in the field with both low and high nutrient content. Highly significant (p<0.001) stimulation of root and shoot growth, lateral root formation and number of tillers was recorded on soil with low fertility. PsJN bacterization also enhanced biomass accumulation during the …
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Effects of Low-Input Vegetation Management on Pine-Hardwood Mixed Stands in the Northern Piedmont
In an attempt to provide low-cost, low-input alternatives for regenerating pine-hardwood mixtures, this study examined several mechanisms that influence the growth of pine-hardwood stands. The Regeneration Alternatives Study is an ongoing experiment that was designed to gain biological and …
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Adaptive Control of a Step-Up Full-Bridge DC-DC Converter for Variable Low Input Voltage Applications
… stage of a power conversion system where the input is a variable low voltage high current source. The converter is designed to step-up the low voltage input to an acceptable level that can be inverted to a 120/240 VAC 60Hz voltage for residential power. A DSP based adaptive control model is …
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Virtual microfluidics : a novel single-cell technology based on diffusion-restricted reaction that makes high-quality low-input genomic research accessible
… virulence factors as part of the mobile gene flow between the microbes in the gut. Understanding such heterogeneous systems often involves studying the nature and behavior of the individual cells that constitute the system and their interactions. However, it is technically challenging to probe …
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Effect of rotation, organic inputs and tillage on crop performance and soil quality in conventional and low-input rotations in central Iowa
Even though the benefits of low external input (LEI) cropping systems to crops and soils are well recognized the specific links between cropping practices and associated soil quality and crop responses are not yet clear. In the Marsden plots in central Iowa, crop yields and input use efficiency …
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Environmental Impact of Pasture-Based Milk Production in Integrated Crop-Livestock Systems
… integrated crop-livestock system (ICLS) under low-input conditions, conducted over two years (2021–2023) at the Lindhof experimental farm of Christian Albrecht University Kiel, focusing on enteric methane (CH₄) emissions, carbon (C) dynamics, and nitrogen (N) losses. The first objective …
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Microfluidic platforms for Transcriptomics and Epigenomics
… we discuss a number of platforms for developing low-input or single cell Omic technologies. The first part talks about the development of a novel microfluidic platform to carry out single-cell RNA-sequencing in a one-pot method with a diffusion-based reagent swapping scheme. This platform helps …
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Implementation of ACR and AVR controls for high voltage gain DC-DC Converter
… converter to get higher DC voltage from the low input voltage. In this project, Marx topology boost converter (MTBC) analyzed and proposed for conversion from low input dc voltage to high output dc voltage. (MTBC) depends on the principle of the Marx generator. The proposed (MTBC) is …
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New Microfluidic Technologies for Studying Histone Modifications and Long Non-Coding RNA Bindings
… technology offers advantages to utilize low-input starting material and for high-throughput. In this thesis, I developed novel microfluidic technologies to study epigenomic regulations, including 1) profiling epigenomic changes associated with LPS-induced murine monocytes for …
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