HvZ Website: The Re-Engineering

As part of our Software Design and Development class, we were given a customer and tasked with providing them a product that they specifically request. Our customer was the Humans vs Zombies (HvZ) student group here on campus. They are a group that periodically plays a campus-wide game of tag using their own online resources, and they requested that we provide them a new, updated website. Their problem was that they needed to both update their site and acquire a more maintable version. The current site that they own now is three years old with code that is difficult to decipher

Lactic Acid Threshold Stimulator

As a person works out, the threshold of lactic acid will build causing anywhere from discomfort to pain. Reducing the discomfort caused by lactic acid could greatly improve an individual’s performance while working out. Reducing this discomfort may be done through Electrical Muscle Stimulation (EMS), which is the procedure of contracting muscles through sending electrical signals. Our team’s goal is to create LATS, a wearable and mobile application that alleviates discomfort and aids muscle recovery during the intense parts of a workout. The system consists of a heart rate monitor to measure lactic acid levels, a garment that is worn on the leg to stimulate muscles using EMS, and an app that allows the user to monitor their data. The user will control the hardware components through the app on their mobile device while exercising. Over time, our goal is that through the use of LATS, the user will be able to work through the muscle discomfort and push on to meet any workout goal that they set. While we were not able to carry out our test plan to reach any conclusive results, we hope to one day have approval from the Institutional Review Board to see just how effective our planned solution really is

Terahertz time-gated spectral imaging for content extraction through layered structures

Spatial resolution, spectral contrast and occlusion are three major bottlenecks for non-invasive inspection of complex samples with current imaging technologies. We exploit the sub-picosecond time resolution along with spectral resolution provided by terahertz time-domain spectroscopy to computationally extract occluding content from layers whose thicknesses are wavelength comparable. The method uses the statistics of the reflected terahertz electric field at subwavelength gaps to lock into each layer position and then uses a time-gated spectral kurtosis to tune to highest spectral contrast of the content on that specific layer. To demonstrate, occluding textual content was successfully extracted from a packed stack of paper pages down to nine pages without human supervision. The method provides over an order of magnitude enhancement in the signal contrast and can impact inspection of structural defects in wooden objects, plastic components, composites, drugs and especially cultural artefacts with subwavelength or wavelength comparable layers

KSU Chorale, Women\u27s Choir and special guest Hillgrove High School Chamber Choir, Fall Choral Concert

KSU School of Music presents Fall Choral Concert featuring KSU Chorale, KSU Women\u27s Choir and special guest, Hillgrove High School Chamber Choir.https://digitalcommons.kennesaw.edu/musicprograms/1278/thumbnail.jp

Factores que influyen en el abandono de métodos anticonceptivos de larga duración en usuarias atendidas en consultorio de planificación familiar del Centro Materno Infantil Santa Luzmila II julio – diciembre 2020

La presenta investigación tiene como propósito determinar la asociación entre los factores de abandono - no abandono y los métodos anticonceptivos de larga duración en usuarias atendidas en consultorio de Planificación Familiar en el Centro Materno Infantil Santa Luzmila II en el periodo de julio – diciembre, 2020

Malignant renal tumors in children

Renal malignancies are common in children. While the majority of malignant renal masses are secondary to Wilms tumor, it can be challenging to distinguish from more aggressive renal masses. For suspicious renal lesions, it is crucial to ensure prompt diagnosis in order to select the appropriate surgical procedure and treatment. This review article will discuss the common differential diagnosis that can be encountered when evaluating a suspicious renal mass in the pediatric population. This includes clear cell sarcoma of the kidney, malignant rhabdoid tumor, renal medullary carcinoma and lymphoma.

A global transcriptional network connecting noncoding mutations to changes in tumor gene expression.

Although cancer genomes are replete with noncoding mutations, the effects of these mutations remain poorly characterized. Here we perform an integrative analysis of 930 tumor whole genomes and matched transcriptomes, identifying a network of 193 noncoding loci in which mutations disrupt target gene expression. These 'somatic eQTLs' (expression quantitative trait loci) are frequently mutated in specific cancer tissues, and the majority can be validated in an independent cohort of 3,382 tumors. Among these, we find that the effects of noncoding mutations on DAAM1, MTG2 and HYI transcription are recapitulated in multiple cancer cell lines and that increasing DAAM1 expression leads to invasive cell migration. Collectively, the noncoding loci converge on a set of core pathways, permitting a classification of tumors into pathway-based subtypes. The somatic eQTL network is disrupted in 88% of tumors, suggesting widespread impact of noncoding mutations in cancer