Search results | J. Murrey Atkins Library

Title: CuFeO2/Cu photoelectrode modified with SrTiO3 perovskite for efficient hydrogen generation from sanitation water
Author: Abdelazeez, Ahmed A., Rabia, Mohamed, Ahmed, Aya, Ahmed, Ashour M.
Date Created: 2023
Subjects--Topical: Power resources--Research, Perovskite (Mineral)
Description: We prepared a perovskite material, copper-doped strontium titanate (Cu-SrTiO3), using the chemical bath deposition method and cast it on a CuFeO2/Cu photoelectrode to generate hydrogen from sanitation water splitting. This preparation method consi...

Title: Exploring feasibility of mHealth to manage hypertension in rural Black older adults : a convergent mixed method study
Author: Abel, Willie M., Greer, B Danice
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: African Americans, Public health
Description: The purpose of this study was to explore perceived ease of use, usability, and the feasibility of using mobile health applications to manage hypertension self-care in rural Black older adults with hypertension.Mobile health applications have the p...

Title: Self-care management strategies used by Black women who self-report consistent adherence to antihypertensive medication
Author: Abel, Willie M., Joyner, Jessica S, Cornelius, Judith B, Greer, Danice B
Date Created: 2017
Description: Background: Black women in the USA have the highest prevalence rate of hypertension (HTN) contributing to a higher risk of organ damage and death. Research has focused primarily on poorly controlled HTN, negative belief systems, and nonadherence f...

Title: Self‐management program and Black women with hypertension : randomized controlled trial substudy
Author: Able, Willie M., Crane, Patricia B., Efird, Jimmy T., Ferdinand, Keith C.
Date Created: 2023
Subjects--Topical: Women, Black, Hypertension
Description: The prevalence of hypertension (HTN) among Black women in the United States has increased over the past 10 years with a decline in levels of HTN awareness, treatment, and control. Higher death rates occur in Black women from HTN-related diseases w...

Title: Associations between public fear of COVID-19 and number of COVID-19 vaccinations : a county-level longitudinal analysis
Author: Ademu, Lilian, Guo, Yuqi, Gao, Jingjing
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: COVID-19 (Disease), COVID-19 (Disease)--Vaccination
Description: A large number of COVID-19 infections and deaths and the ensuing socioeconomic problems created widespread public fear around COVID-19. Fear around COVID-19 greatly influences people's attitudes towards receiving the COVID-19 vaccines. The purpose...

Title: Impact of short-term air pollution on respiratory infections : a time-series analysis of COVID-19 cases in California during the 2020 wildfire season
Author: Ademu, Lilian, Gao, Jingjing, Thompson, Onah Peter, Ademu, Lawrence Anebi
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: COVID-19 (Disease), Environmental health
Description: The 2020 California wildfire season coincided with the peak of the COVID-19 pandemic affecting many counties in California, with impacts on air quality. We quantitatively analyzed the short-term effect of air pollution on COVID-19 transmission usi...

Title: Biomotors, viral assembly, and rna nanobiotechnology: current achievements and future directions
Author: Afonin, Kirill A., Rolband, Lewis
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: Nucleic acids, Chemistry
Description: The International Society of RNA Nanotechnology and Nanomedicine (ISRNN) serves to further the development of a wide variety of functional nucleic acids and other related nanotechnology platforms. To aid in the dissemination of the most recent adv...

Title: Change in lipofectamine carrier as a tool to fine-tune immunostimulation of nucleic acid nanoparticles
Author: Afonin, Kirill A., Newton, Hannah S., Xu, Jie
Date Created: 2023
Subjects--Topical: Nucleic acids, Chemistry
Description: Nucleic acid nanoparticles (NANPs) require a carrier to allow for their intracellular delivery to immune cells. Cytokine production, specifically type I and III interferons, allows for reliable monitoring of the carrier effect on NANP immunostimul...

Title: Characterization of cationic bolaamphiphile vesicles for sirna delivery into tumors and brain
Author: Afonin, Kirill A., Kim, Taejin, Gupta, Kshitij
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: Nucleic acids, Chemistry
Description: Small interfering RNAs (siRNAs) are potential therapeutic substances due to their gene silencing capability as exemplified by the recent approval by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) of the first siRNA therapeutic agent (patisiran). Howeve...

Title: Editorial for the special issue on nucleic acid architectures for therapeutics, diagnostics, devices and materials
Author: Afonin, Kirill A., Halman, Justin
Date Created: 2019
Subjects--Topical: Nucleic acids, Chemistry

Title: Exosome mediated delivery of functional nucleic acid nanoparticles (NANPs)
Author: Afonin, Kirill A., Ke, Weina
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: Nucleic acids, Chemistry
Description: RNAi-based technologies have shown biomedical potential; however, safe and efficient delivery of RNA remains a barrier for their broader clinical applications. Nucleic acid nanoparticles (NANPs) programmed to self-assemble and organize multiple th...

Title: First step towards larger DNA-based assemblies of fluorescent silver nanoclusters: template design and detailed characterization of optical properties
Author: Afonin, Kirill A., Shevchenko, Oleg
Date Created: 2019
Subjects--Topical: Nucleic acids, Chemistry
Description: Besides being a passive carrier of genetic information, DNA can also serve as an architecture template for the synthesis of novel fluorescent nanomaterials that are arranged in a highly organized network of functional entities such as fluorescent ...

Title: The immunorecognition, subcellular compartmentalization, and physicochemical properties of nucleic acid nanoparticles can be controlled by composition modification
Author: Afonin, Kirill A., Marriott, Ian, Halman, Justin
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: Nucleic acids, Chemistry
Description: Nucleic acid nanoparticles (NANPs) have become powerful new platforms as therapeutic and diagnostic tools due to the innate biological ability of nucleic acids to identify target molecules or silence genes involved in disease pathways. However, th...

Title: Special issue nanotechnology to overcome the world's most critical health issues: liposomes and beyond-a themed issue dedicated to Professor Yechezkel Barenholz
Author: Afonin, Kirill A., Dobrovolskaia, Marina
Date Created: 2023
Subjects--Topical: Nucleic acids, Chemistry

Title: The recognition of and reactions to nucleic acid nanoparticles by human immune cells
Author: Afonin, Kirill A., Bila, Dominika, Panigaj, Martin
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: Nucleic acids, Chemistry
Description: The relatively straightforward methods of designing and assembling various functional nucleic acids into nanoparticles offer advantages for applications in diverse diagnostic and therapeutic approaches. However, due to the novelty of this approach...

Title: Retinoic acid inducible gene-I mediated detection of bacterial nucleic acids in human microglial cells
Author: Afonin, Kirill A., Marriott, Ian, Halman, Justin
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: Nucleic acids, Chemistry
Description: Background Bacterial meningitis and meningoencephalitis are associated with devastating neuroinflammation. We and others have demonstrated the importance of glial cells in the initiation of immune responses to pathogens invading the central nervou...

Title: Therapeutic immunomodulation by rationally designed nucleic acids and nucleic acid nanoparticles
Author: Afonin, Kirill A., Marriott, Ian, Panigaj, Martin
Date Created: 2023
Subjects--Topical: Nucleic acids, Chemistry
Description: The immune system has evolved to defend organisms against exogenous threats such as viruses, bacteria, fungi, and parasites by distinguishing between self and non-self. In addition, it guards us against other diseases, such as cancer, by detecting...

Title: Toll-like receptor-mediated recognition of nucleic acid nanoparticles (NANPs) in human primary blood cells
Author: Afonin, Kirill A., Truong, Nguyen, Halman, Justin
Date Created: 2019
Subjects--Topical: Nucleic acids, Chemistry
Description: Infusion reactions (IRs) create a translational hurdle for many novel therapeutics, including those utilizing nanotechnology. Nucleic acid nanoparticles (NANPs) are a novel class of therapeutics prepared by rational design of relatively short olig...

Title: Structure and composition define immunorecognition of nucleic acid nanoparticles
Author: Afonin, Kirill A.
Date Created: 2022, 2022, 2022
Subjects--Topical: Immune system, Interferon, Nucleic acids

Title: The single robot line coverage problem : theory, algorithms, and experiments
Author: Agarwal, Saurav, Akella, Srinivas
Date Created: 2023
Subjects--Topical: Linear programming, Environmental engineering--Linear programming
Description: Line coverage is the task of servicing a given set of one-dimensional features in an environment. It is important for the inspection of linear infrastructure such as road networks, power lines, and oil and gas pipelines. This paper addresses the s...