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Showing 1 to 20 of 67 for “"SMM"”.
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A Softened Membrane Model for UHPC (SMM-UHPC)
… thesis by utilizing the Softened Membrane Model (SMM). Since the SMM is a two-dimensional shear modeling framework developed for normal concrete, a parametric investigation was performed to assess its suitability for UHPC, namely SMM-UHPC. Through this assessment, a softening coefficient for the …
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Characterization of Novel CB2 Agonist SMM-295 and Its Effects in Ischemia/Reperfusion Injury
… group tested a small molecule agonist, SMM-295 [3′-methyl-4-(2-(thiophen-2-yl) propan-2-yl) biphenyl-2,6-diol], in an investigation of the CB2 receptor as a potential therapeutic target in the prevention of tubular epithelial cell damage after AKI. To test this compound in AKI, we used a …
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Validation of ACTOne CB1 and CB2 Assays, Subsequent Characterization of SMM-189, and Development and Characterization of New CB2 Inverse Agonists
… antagonist activity. Our lead compound, SMM-189, was evaluated using the ACTOne assays and determined to be a CB2 inverse agonist. Further investigation revealed SMM-189 to exert anti-inflammatory effects on the brain’s immune cells, microglia, through polarization to a pro-wound healing …
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Women’s health after having a baby: exploring the impact of severe maternal morbidity on psychological and physical health at 6-8 weeks postpartum
… <br/>The incidence of severe maternal morbidity (SMM) is increasing in high-income countries as a consequence of increased obstetric intervention and increasingly complex medical needs of women who become pregnant. The most commonly reported SMM in the UK includes postpartum haemorrhage and …
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EXAMINING THE IMPACT OF THE MARYLAND GLOBAL BUDGET MODEL ON SEVERE MATERNAL MORBIDITY DISPARITIES
… affected. Severe maternal morbidity (SMM), the life-threatening events that occur during hospitalization for childbirth leading to major short- or long-term health consequences, has steadily increased over the past few decades, though approximately half of SMM events are considered …
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Selenium supplementation and selected immune responses of beef cattle
… by ad libitum salt-mineral mixture (SMM) and/or Se injection, on bovine immune response was evaluated in three experiments. Sixty weaned beef calves, with marginal blood Se (67 μg Se/1), were allotted to one of six Se treatment groups in a 70-day experiment. Antibody responses to …
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Interactions of Smooth Muscle Myosin Filaments with Actin and Myosin Light Chain Kinase: Insights into the Mechanics of Smooth Muscle Contraction
The functional form of smooth muscle myosin (SMM) within cells is the filament. Smooth muscle contraction is thick (myosin) filament-regulated by phosphorylation of the myosin regulatory light chain (RLC). Upon phosphorylation of Serine 19 of the RLC of SMM by myosin light chain kinase (MLCK), SMM …
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The Role of Attentional Processes in the Associations Between Syndemics and HIV Risk
<p>Sexual minority men (SMM) remain the group most affected by HIV in the United States. The term “syndemic” has been used to describe high levels of comorbidity and additive effects that some factors—childhood sexual abuse, intimate partner violence, sexual compulsivity, substance use, and …
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Separation of liquid mixtures by membranes.
… surface modifying macromolecule (SMM) was added into a polyethersulfone (PES) membrane casting solution. Because of its lower surface energy, SMM is expected to move up to the top surface of the membrane. The resulting membrane is to have a layer of SMM at the top surface and a PES …
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The oligomerization of propene over nickel synthetic mica-montmorillonite
… fuels using synthetic mica montmorillonite (SMM) as well as the effect of incorporating nickel into the lattice and nickel, cobalt and zinc into the interlayer spaces was investigated. NiSMM is more active for propene oligomerization than SMM, although the product selectivity (60% of the …
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New routes to single molecule magnets
… for the generation of single molecule magnet (SMM) behaviour. The product family includes a Co4 SMM cluster, a Co6 SMM cluster and a 3D network of linked SMM units. A new route to the erinaceous Co6 cluster crystals is reported, which allows further investigation of the hydration dependent …
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Synthesis, characterisation and olefin oligomerization over nickel, cobalt and zinc substituted synthetic mica montmorillonite
… for structural octahedral aluminium in SMM. X-ray diffraction, together with elemental analysis, confirmed that a 2: 1 layered aluminosilicate had been formed. The inclusion of these metals facilitated the crystallisation of the SMM structure in the synthesis process as was shown by …
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Spirituality in American Muslim Marriages: An Investigation of Marital Sanctification, Spiritual Intimacy and Emotional Intimacy
… Marital Quality–Serial Mediator Model; PMQ–SMM), positive marital quality functioned as the outcome variable and negative marital quality served as a control variable. The second serial mediation analysis (the Negative Marital Quality–Serial Mediator Model; NMQ–SMM) situated negative marital …
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Sustainable metropolitan mobility and public-private partnerships : a highway to institutional reform?
… to achieving sustainable metropolitan mobility (SMM). The question is how to optimally configure institutions to address the challenge of SMM for metropolitan transportation infrastructure delivery? Focusing on highways, this thesis adopts a broad definition of SMM that compasses efficient road …
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Internal organizational barriers to the adoption of social media marketing in the retailing industry of electronics and home appliances : the case of Egypt
… study examines the barriers to the adoption of SMM by retailers of electronics and home appliances in Egypt. Despite the long stream of research in this field, research investigating the generalizability of measures, antecedents and models of organizational barriers within developing markets has …
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Investigating the Cluster Chemistry of α-Methyl-2-pyridine methanol (mpmH) with Select 3d Ions
… clusters with single molecule magnet (SMM) properties. Chapter 1 introduces the theory of molecular magnetism, SMMs and the concepts of chiral SMMs, magnetochiral dichroism and multiferroics. In Chapter 2, two NiII clusters, {Ni8} and {Ni18} prepared from rac-mpmH are reported. The …
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Financial Implications of Investing in the Global Art Market: Risk, Return and Diversification
… (AP), Art Market Research (AMR) and Sotheby’s (SMM)—this studyexplores risk, return, and portfolio diversification following Markowitz’s (1952) mean-variance optimization and efficient frontier models. The indices cover a range of years from 1858 through 2018. The art market data are externally …
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Essays in Health Economics
… racial disparities in severe maternal morbidity (SMM) and blood transfusion events during inpatient delivery in the United States. Our findings indicate that SMM and blood transfusion events continue to be prevalent and slowly but steadily increasing. Beneath this trend, substantial disparities …
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Scalable online estimation with performance guarantees: Application to traffic network monitoring
… linear form, i.e., the switching mode model (SMM). We provide a rigorous analysis on the performance of the Kalman filter (KF) on the SMM. Although the error dynamics of the KF is very likely to diverge under general unobservable systems, we show that in the context of traffic estimation, a …
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Synthesis, characterisation and catalytic testing of pillared clays and lanthanum exchanged ZSM-5 for hydrocarbon conversion
… with different swellable properties (beidellite, SMM, and Ni-SMM) were investigated. In an attempt to enhance the acidic properties of the pillars, montmorillonite was pillared with a hydroxy-Al solution containing tetraethyl orthosilicate. Montmorillonite was also pillared with a hydroxy-Ni/Al …
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