Undergraduates In The News
Hemorrhage is the leading cause of preventable death from trauma, yet little research has been done in the pre-hospital first aid environment to evaluate the best methods for first aid bleeding control. The most common technique and first line therapy for bleeding control in the first aid setting is the use of direct pressure, with which slows bleeding and promotes clotting.
Extracorporeal Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (ECPR) is a life-saving therapy for patients with cardiac arrest, particularly infants with congenital heart disease. However, there are many potential complications of ECPR including acute kidney injury (AKI). Currently, there are no clinical therapies to mitigate AKI.
Kinesin-6 family member, Kif20b, is a microtubule motor with a known role in microtubule bundling and neuron morphogenesis. We have previously reported that the loss of Kif20b causes microcephaly. When neurons from brains of mutant embryos are grown in vitro on poly-L-lysine (PLL) they have decreased neuron polarization.
Purpose: Utilizing firsthand accounts of student’s biographies as well as second-hand material to construct a better understanding of the student experience and their beliefs. UVA was a center of intellectual activity but also the students here illustrated the pinnacle of mainstream attitudes and behaviors.
The human brain is an incredibly complex machine. Mother nature has evolved to efficiently create such an intricate structure by massively overproducing neurons and synapses during human development. Over time, only half of these original neurons survive. How does the brain achieve this? How does it differentiate between those neurons that survive, and those that die?
Introduction: The circadian system is responsible for maintaining an internal clock that is synchronized between every cell in the body. While the genetic mechanisms underlying the circadian system has been well understood, the neurological systems that allow for a coordinated system across cells in the body is still obscure.
The U.S. faces a crisis that is burying cities in tons of landfill waste each day. Most waste management occurs downstream after commingled material has been collected from buildings. Sorting waste at that stage is expensive, slow, and manual.
PURPOSE: Although prior work highlights an exercise dose-response relationship for glucose regulation, no study has assessed the exercise dose needed for reducing arterial stiffness. We tested the hypothesis that increased exercise dose would correlate with reduced arterial stiffness in obese adults with prediabetes.
Particle physics research requires collecting massive amounts of particle collision data. In this data one can extract evidence for the production and decay of new, interesting types of matter.
The past is often mysterious. By analyzing firsthand accounts and primary documents, a fraction of the mystery becomes clearer. The Washington Papers assists this endeavor by collecting, editing and publishing all of George Washington’s documentary record from his colonial days to the week of his death.
Much of the scholarship centered around the May 1968 Paris protests have ignored women’s participation in the protests, and its correlation to subsequent developments in French feminism.
As the complexity of biological systems and tunability of synthetic materials are further understood, opportunities for engineers to design synthetic materials that interact with the natural world seamlessly are brought to light. For this project, synthetic materials will contain synthetic polymers and complementary peptides.
There are many different factors that contribute to a legislator's effectiveness, and perhaps one of the strongest among armchair political scientists is a track record in a previous lawmaking position.
This study investigates the high concentration of female workers in Senegal’s informal economy. Women in the informal sector generally do not receive social or legal protections, often face poor working conditions, and receive relatively low wages. As a result, these individuals are at greater risk of suffering from health issues, discrimination, and violence at work, as well as poverty.
The aging of the global population is associated with an increasing prevalence of chronic diseases and functional impairments, resulting in a greater proportion of homebound patients. Homebound status prevents people from accessing hospitals, office-based medical care, and social interactions.