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Showing 1 to 19 of 19 for “"OSU"”.
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Suppression of Carcinogenesis and Tumor Progression by an Energy Restriction-Mimetic Agent in Murine Models of Prostate Cancer
… and the thiazolidinedione derivatives OSU-CG12 and OSU-CG5. Here, we characterized OSU-CG5’s mechanism of action in vitro and its chemotherapeutic and chemopreventive activities in vivo. Specifically, we evaluated OSU-CG5’s activity in three different human prostate cancer cell lines …
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Antigenic Relationship of Different Porcine Rotavirus Isolates and the Identification of a New Porcine Strain
… has been reported. This strain, designated OSU, has been attenuated and is currently available as a federally licensed, live oral vaccine for pigs. This study is concerned with the antigenic relationship of the OSU vaccine strain to four virulent porcine rotavirus isolates as measured by the …
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Predictors of Educational Outcomes among Undergraduate Students with Disabilities
… 233 students from their date of admission into OSU through June 2012, the end of the quarter academic calendar at OSU, and provided these data to the author for analysis. This study was reviewed and approved by the OSU Behavioral and Social Sciences Institutional Review Board (Protocol …
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Exploring Food System Change through a Mixed Methods Analysis of Cooperative Extension's Role in the Farm to School Movement
… case study that explored Ohio State University (OSU) Extension involvement and leadership in the Ohio Farm to School Program. The case study included 21 interviews with OSU Extension professionals and Farm to School program partners. Regression models were developed to explore which behavioral …
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Factors Related to Extension Professional’s Use of Online Tools in Their Educational Programs
… in the world using many different devices. OSU Extension is challenged to keep up with this trend to remain relevant to the target audience. Shifting toward online delivery methods by Extension professionals will require time, training, and possibly a change in the organizational culture. …
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Social entrepreneurship a solution to societies problem's : can social entrepreneurship contribute, to the sustainability og Children's homes in Ghana?
… the situation in Ghana. Finally I will focus on Osu children’s home (OCH). I will relate the operating activities of OCH to the United Nations (UN) Millennium Development Goals (MDG). My purpose with the MDG’s is to illustrate that the OCH is not operating sustainably. I chose OCH for three …
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Elucidating the Impact of Previous Head Injury on Cognition, Brain Structure, and Pathophysiology in Cognitively Normal Individuals Across the Adult Lifespan
… related to head injury: the novel Head Injury Exposure and Assessment Data (HEAD) questionnaire and the current "gold standard," the Ohio State University TBI Identification Method (OSU TBI-ID). MTBI exposure variables were: number of mTBI and HEAD Total Index Score (overall seriousness of mTBI …
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Understanding the Responses of a Metal and a CMCTurbine Blade during a Controlled Rub Event using a Segmented Shroud
… research program between GE Aviation and the OSU Gas Turbine Laboratory, the response of a CMC stage 1 LPT blade has been compared with the response of a comparable metal blade using the OSU GTL large spin pit facility, LSPF as the test vehicle. Load cell mounted on the casing wall, strain …
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A Study of GPR Performance in the Presence of Buried Biomass
… GPR measurements were performed using the OSU/ESL radar system which employs a wideband, polarimetric, dielectric-loaded horn antenna. In the measurements, the antenna was scanned along the ground surface transverse to a horizontal steel rod buried at different depths. The data were …
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Towards the exploitation of the American hazelnut (Corylus americana)
… quantitative trait loci (QTL) in C. americana OSU 403.040. In the first study, to improve our understanding of C. americana as a donor of EFB resistance, 29 diverse EFB-resistant C. americana accessions were crossed with EFB-susceptible C. avellana selections (31 total progenies) to produce …
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Igbo caste practices: persistence and public attitudes in the media
… former slaves and servant groups known as osu or ohu as well as other names and are generally referred to as caste groups. Forbidden to associate freely with the freeborn, these groups still maintain their stigma. The origins of the caste groups lie in the past. However, after 1900, they …
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Plenum-to-plenum heat transfer characteristics under natural circulation in a scaled-down prismatic modular reactor
… Test Facility at Oregon State University (OSU-HTTF). The natural circulation heat transfer in terms of temperature fields and heat transfer coefficients across the core of current facility (i.e., channels) has been investigated at different conditions to understand the passive safety …
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A critical evaluation of the prospects for a transition towards ocean based renewable energy development in Nigeria.
The move towards addressing two pertinent energy challenges that is access to electricity and climate change has seen the transition towards sustainable forms of energy including Ocean Based Renewable Energy (OBRE). However, much work remains to be done in understanding the critical success factors …
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Development and application of methods for analysis of fungal glycosphingolipid structure and functional interactions
… lectins from the mushrooms Polyporus squamosus and Coprinus cinereus have an affinity for beta-galactosides, with extended binding sites for the non-reducing terminal trisaccharide sequence NeuAcalpha2→6Galbeta1→4Glc/GlcNAc, and substituted beta-galactosides resembling mammalian …
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Development of Instrumental and Computational tools for investigation of polymer flammability
… as cone calorimeter and Ohio State University (OSU) fire calorimeter. Although these tests are also dependent on the physical properties and test geometry, they measure properties such as burning rates, mass loss rates, and combustion efficiency under different imposed fire scenarios from which …
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The Sleepless Forest Observers : Ecologists are using remote observation to advance their understanding of environments. Are they losing something in the process?
… happening now,” says Taal Levi, an ecologist at OSU who studies quantitative wildlife ecology, conservation, and environmental genetics at the Andrews. A review article published in Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution found that the number of scientific publications with the keyword “eDNA” tripled …
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A critical evaluation of the role of human resources in the transition towards sustainable business practices in the oil and gas industry in Nigeria.
Heightened pressure on those organisations that are to be held accountable for the impact of their processes on the societies and the environment in which they operate has resulted in sustainable business practices (SBPs) becoming a major area of focus in sustainability debates. Amidst growing …
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Artificial phylloplanes: A novel tool to study parameters linked to bacterial and viral contamination of fresh produce
… and removal of porcine rotavirus (PRV), strain OSU, and tulane virus (TV), a surrogate of human norovirus. In addition, the artificial phylloplanes were used to screen commercially available and new sanitizers and to study the use of ultrasonication as an enhancer of viral detachment in the …
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Impact of formula additives on immune and gastrointestinal development in the piglet
… of proliferation increased with longer HMO exposure (72h vs. 24h). When NT and HMO were simultaneously added, NT reduced the anti-proliferative effect of HMO. FL mix treatments significantly increased cells S phase and SL mix and LNnT treatments significantly increased cells in G2/M and S …