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Dose-dependent dissociation of pro-cognitive effects of donepezil on attention and cognitive flexibility in rhesus monkeys
(Elsevier, 2021-11)BACKGROUND Donepezil exerts pro-cognitive effects by non-selectively enhancing acetylcholine (ACh) across multiple brain systems. Two brain systems that mediate pro-cognitive effects of attentional control and cognitive ... -
Double Bubbles Sans Toil and Trouble: Discrete Circulation-Preserving Vortex Sheets for Soap Films and Foams
(Association for Computing Machinery, 2015-08-01)Simulating the delightful dynamics of soap films, bubbles, and foams has traditionally required the use of a fully three-dimensional many-phase Navier-Stokes solver, even though their visual appearance is completely dominated ... -
Driving Adsorbed Gold Nanoparticle Assembly by Merging Lipid Gel/Fluid Interfaces
(American Chemical Society, 2015-11-23)Surface forces between inorganic nanoparticles and lipid bilayer is of great relevance to biophysics, medicine, and nanobiotechnology. Adsorbed nanoparticles may influence the fluidity of the underlying lipids, which may ... -
Driving under the influence behaviours among high school students who mix alcohol with energy drinks
(Elsevier, 2018-06-01)Alcohol and energy drinks are commonly used substances by youth in Canada, and are often mixed (AmED). While several studies have shown that AmED can have dangerous effects, less well understood is how AmED is associated ... -
Droplet formation in microfluidic T-junction generators operating in the transitional regime. I. Experimental observations
(American Physical Society Physics, 2012-01-26)This is the first part of a two-part study on the generation of droplets at a microfluidic T-junction operating in the transition regime where confinement of the droplet creates a large squeezing pressure that influences ... -
Droplet formation in microfluidic T-junction generators operating in the transitional regime. II. Modeling
(American Physical Society Physics, 2012-01-26)This is the second part of a two-part study on the generation of droplets at a microfluidic T-junction operating in the transition regime. In the preceding paper [Phys. Rev. E 85, 016322 (2012)], we presented our experimental ... -
Droplet formation in microfluidic T-junction generators operating in the transitional regime. III. Dynamic surfactant effects
(American Physical Society Physics, 2012-08-13)This study extends our previous work on droplet generation in microfluidic T-junction generators to include dynamic interfacial tension effects created by the presence of surfactants. In Paper I [T. Glawdel, C. Elbuken, ... -
Droplet Microfluidic System with On-Demand Trapping and Releasing of Droplet for Drug Screening Applications
(American Chemical Society (ACS), 2017-01-03)96-Well plate has been the traditional method used for screening drug compounds libraries for potential bioactivity. Although this method has been proven successful in testing doseÐresponse analysis, the microliter consumption ... -
A droplet-based microfluidic platform for rapid immobilization of quantum dots on individual magnetic microbeads
(Springer Nature, 2018-06-01)Quantum dots (QDs) provide opportunities for the development of bioassays, biosensors, and drug delivery strategies. Decoration of the surface of QDs offers unique functions such as resistance to non-specific adsorption, ... -
Dual Conditions for Local Transverse Feedback Linearization
(IEEE, 2019-01-21)Given a control-affine system and a controlled invariant submanifold, the local transverse feedback linearization problem is to determine whether or not the system is locally feedback equivalent to a system whose dynamics ... -
Dual network extraction algorithm to investigate multiple transport processes in porous materials: Image-based modeling of pore and grain scale processes
(Elsevier, 2019-04-06)Image processing of 3D tomographic images to extract structural information of porous materials has become extremely important in porous media research with the commoditization of x-ray tomography equipment to the lab ... -
Duetto: Latency Guarantees at Minimal Performance Cost
(IEEE Design, Automation and Test in Europe Conference (DATE), 2021-02-05)The management of shared hardware resources in multi-core platforms has been characterized by a fundamental trade-off: high-performance arbiters typically employed in COTS systems offer no worst-case guarantees, while ... -
Dunhuang Tectonic Belt in northwestern China as a part of the Central Asian Orogenic Belt: Structural and U-Pb geochronological evidence
(Elsevier, 2018-11-13)The Dunhuang Tectonic Belt (DTB) is located about 100 km south of the Beishan–Tianshan orogen in the Central Asian Orogenic Belt in NW China. It was previously considered as a part of the Tarim or North China craton. ... -
Dunning-Kruger effects in reasoning: Theoretical implications of the failure to recognize incompetence
(Springer, 2017-12)The Dunning-Kruger effect refers to the observation that the incompetent are often ill-suited to recognize their incompetence. Here we investigate potential Dunning-Kruger effects in high-level reasoning and, in particular, ... -
DuoMC: Tight DRAM Latency Bounds with Shared Banks and Near-COTS Performance
(ACM International Symposium on Memory Systems (MEMSYS 2021), 2021-09-27)DRAM memory controllers (MCs) in COTS systems are designed primarily for average performance, offering no worst-case guarantees, while real-time MCs provide timing guarantees at the cost of a significant average performance ... -
Dwelling as Method: Lingering in/with Feminist Curated Data Sets on Instagram
(DIGSUM, 2024)This article proposes and delineates “digital dwelling” as one method of grappling with a central methodological challenge that we, as feminist researchers, face of how researchers might account for the multiple entanglements ... -
Dynamic capability matters: Uncovering its fundamental role in decision making of environmental innovation
(Elsevier, 2018-03-10)This study aims to explore organizations’ intrinsic drivers of voluntarily adopting environmental innovations that are in early stage of diffusion. In particular, it investigates the vital role of dynamic capabilities in ... -
Dynamic Hedging Strategies for Cash Balance Pension Plans
(Cambridge University Press, 2018-09)Cash balance pension plans with crediting rates linked to long bond yields are relatively common in the United States, but their liabilities are proving very challenging to hedge. In this paper, we consider dynamic hedge ... -
Dynamic mechanical behaviour of nanoparticle loaded biodegradable PVA films for vaginal drug delivery
(Sage Publishing, 2018-03-01)In this study, we investigated the viscoelastic and mechanical behaviour of polyvinyl alcohol films formulated along with carrageenan, plasticizing agents (polyethylene glycol and glycerol), and when loaded with nanoparticles ... -
Dynamic modeling of electrochemical systems using linear graph theory
(Elsevier, 2011-12-01)An electrochemical cell is a multidisciplinary system which involves complex chemical, electrical, and thermodynamical processes. The primary objective of this paper is to develop a linear graph-theoretical modeling for ...