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Integrating PD-1 Blockade and OX40 Agonism: A Bispecific Fusion Protein for Comparative Cancer Immunotherapy
(2025-12-03)
Canine cancers represent a major clinical challenge, often recapitulating the immunosuppressive mechanisms observed in human oncology but lacking effective immunotherapeutic strategies. To address this gap, we developed a ...
Understanding the Fundamental Influence of Wood Extractives on Wood adhesion
(2025-12-03)
Spotted gum (Corymbia citriodora) is a highly desirable Australian hardwood species, valued by the forestry industry for its fast growth, durability, strength, and attractive color, making it ideal for structural applications. ...
Evaluation of Stress and Strain in Structural Components Using LiDAR Scan Data
(2025-12-03)
Assessing structural behavior with conventional field monitoring techniques is a challenging task that can be time consuming and expensive. This is especially true when the structure being investigated is a highway bridge ...
Experimental Evaluation of Concrete Bridge Girders Flexural Strengthened with Near Surface Mounted Titanium Alloy Bars
(2025-12-03)
This research presents findings from a comprehensive study evaluating the feasibility of using Near-Surface-Mounted (NSM) Titanium Alloy Bars (TiAB) to strengthen structurally deficient reinforced concrete (RC) bridges in ...
Development of a qPCR assay to detect and quantify Paenibacillus riograndensis DH44, and the effect of drought on Peanut soil fungal diversity.
(2025-12-02)
Plant health is not only determined by the plant itself, but also by its interaction with the
surrounding microbial environment. These communities comprise various microbes, including
bacteria and fungi, that inhabit ...
Effect of Storage on the Physicochemical and Textural Quality of Pork Chops and Chicken Breast
(2025-12-02)
Meat is an essential source of amino acids and micronutrients in the human diet, and its consumption is increasing worldwide. Chicken and pork meat currently dominate the global market due to their affordability and ...
Synthesis and characterization of isocyano-based monolayers as potential dual-function electric field probes.
(2025-12-01)
Electric field catalysis is an up-and-coming subfield of chemistry. The method most tunable for a wider range of reactions is the oriented external electric field method, which relies on an external potentiostat to generate ...
Explainable Deep Learning for Assessing Terrestrial Hydroclimate Impacts on Coastal River Discharge
(2025-11-30)
Coastal river discharge plays a critical role in regulating coastal water quality, ecosystem health, and community resilience. However, understanding how terrestrial hydroclimate influences past and future discharge remains ...
Establishing context surrounding ambiguous loss and childhood trauma: How are adults with childhood trauma coping?
(2025-11-30)
Childhood trauma can contribute to the experience of ambiguous loss, which is a relational and unclear loss that can create long lasting impacts to one’s well-being. The first paper within this dissertation presents a ...
Minimizing Data Dependency through Predictive and Few-Shot Approaches
(2025-11-25)
The advancement of deep learning in complex real-world applications is fundamentally constrained by the scarcity of high-quality unlabeled data. This challenge is particularly acute in two critical domains: biomedical ...
Security and Privacy in Federated Learning with Non-IID Data: Knowledge Deception, Concealment, and Multi-Perspective Defenses
(2025-11-25)
Federated learning (FL) enables collaborative model training across decentralized data silos without direct data sharing, providing significant privacy advantages. However, its distributed nature also makes it vulnerable ...
Evaluating the potential for spatial redistribution of black bass Micropterus spp. by tournaments at Neely Henry Reservoir, Alabama
(2025-11-25)
Tournaments for black bass species (Micropterus spp.) are popular throughout the United States. At these events, fish are typically caught and moved long distances from their capture location where they are subsequently ...
The comparative evolution of developmental plasticity across Anolis lizards
(2025-11-25)
Developmental plasticity describes the sensitivity of phenotypes to early-life environmental conditions, and occurs widely across organisms and traits. Depending on the spatial and temporal environmental context, developmental ...
Multi-omic analysis of skeletal muscle in response to disuse and retraining in trained and untrained individuals
(2025-11-25)
We previously examined how resistance training status (RT) in young healthy individuals, either well-resistance trained (T) or untrained (UT), affected molecular markers with leg immobilization followed by recovery RT. ...
Electromagnetic Effects on the Transmission of Radio Waves Through Plasma
(2025-11-25)
At speeds exceeding Mach 5, vehicles reentering Earth's atmosphere generate enough heat to ionize the atmosphere as they move through it, creating a layer of plasma around the leading surface of the vehicle. Free electrons ...
Do Resident-Induced Motivating Operations for Staff Behavior Carryover to Other Residents?
(2025-11-25)
In Applied Behavior Analysis, practitioners often train caregivers and staff members to follow a behavior plan; however, few if any studies have evaluated the motivation of the implementer to follow the established rules. ...
Optimized Model Training with Reinforcement Learning and Domain Preservation via Divergence Reduction in Distributed Learning
(2025-11-25)
Federated Learning (FL) is a distributed framework for collaborative model training over large-scale distributed data, enabling higher performance while maintaining client data privacy. However, the nature of model aggregation ...
The Costs and Benefits of Visibility: A Panel Study of Nonprofit Fundraising and Marketing Effectiveness Before and After COVID-19
(2025-11-25)
This dissertation examines how marketing and fundraising investments shape nonprofit financial outcomes in the United States. Drawing on IRS Form 990 data from more than 35,000 public charities between 2013 and 2023, it ...
Evaluating the Performance of Southern Highbush Blueberry Cultivars Grown in Conventional and Alternative Production Systems
(2025-11-24)
The blueberry is the most valued berry fruit in the United States. The rising demand for blueberries can be accomplished by increased production areas in warmer climates. The enhanced adaptability of southern highbush ...
Prepared to Serve: Evaluating Two Interventions Promoting Readiness Among Service Members and the Helping Professionals Who Serve Them
(2025-11-24)
The social organization theory of action and change (Mancini et al., 2005) highlights the role of community service organizations and social processes in promoting adaptability and well-being within communities. Support ...