Monoclonal antibody (mAb) protein therapeutics are a rapidly growing class of pharmaceuticals. High protein concentrations are required for long-term storage and subcutaneous administration, but these concentrations often ...

The dissertation focuses on the Lakota Sioux and begins with exploring puzzles at the intersections of colonialism, (in)security, and militarization. It focuses how the engagement of traditional cultural practices acts ...

Social capital, defined as “the norms and networks that facilitate collective action” or the “resources embedded in social networks and social structure that can be mobilized by actors”, is a critical component of disaster ...

This dissertation is intended to advance research in building evacuation modeling through the introduction of detailed social groups, collective behavior, and improvements in information visualization. The model built as ...

The Object-in-Place (OiP) task is a variant of the novel object recognition paradigm, which relies on a rat’s natural tendency to explore novel stimuli. The OiP task requires rats to learn the identity of an object in ...

The work of Clem Carney, the last known Lenape net maker, inspired this study of fishing nets, their construction, and materiality from Native groups throughout the Mid-Atlantic region. For this research, I located and ...

The 2018 Delaware Behavioral Risk Analysis Survey (BRFS) surveyed 5,233 Delaware adults aged 18 and older. This study uses the weighting variable offered by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to ...

The integrated regional energy policy and planning (IREPP) framework was devised to evaluate the feasibility of energy policies in meeting declared national targets. While the framework advances the comprehensiveness of ...

Background: Formula fed (FF) infants, the majority of whom are fed a standard cow milk infant formula (CMF), have greater weight gain than breast fed (BF) infants; this is of concern as accelerated weight gain in infancy ...

Mitigating atmospheric turbulence effects in long-range real-time applications such as imaging and laser beam projections requires efficient algorithms coupled with high performance platforms. Such long distance applications ...