TOPIC: Education, Research, and Quality Improvement TYPE: Original Investigations PURPOSE: Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is the third leading cause of death in United States. It prevalent 15 million USA alone, one out 10 people are affected worldwide. has negative effects on patient's quality life impacts many healthcare systems around States.[1-4] COPD accounts for an annual dir...

TOPIC: Education, Research, and Quality Improvement TYPE: Original Investigations PURPOSE: Cardiovascular death is the number one cause of in US. Over half these deaths are due to myocardial infarction. While high costs hospital admissions infarction common, there additional stress healthcare system with regards readmission. In an effort curb cost readmission improve patient outcomes, Centers f...

Recent work by Rankin & Deshpande strongly suggests that there exist strong " micro-storms " rotating around the magnetic axis of the 1.1s pulsar PSR 0943+10. Such a feature hints that most probably the large-voltage vacuum gap proposed by Ruderman & Sutherland (RS) does exist in the pulsar polar cap. However, there are severe arguments against the formation of the RS-type gap in pulsars, since...

SerDes design exceeding 6.25 Gbps for existing backplanes has to overcome significant signal integrity challenges on channel attenuation, cross talk, and multiple reflections. Adaptive decision feedback equalization becomes a requirement to overcome these challenges. The non-ideality from silicon implementation is not negligible for bit error rate degradation. This paper presents a 6.25 Gbps ba...

1. Mendes RE, Deshpande LM, Costello AJ, Farrell DJ. Molecular epidemiology of Staphylococcus epidermidis clinical isolates from U.S. hospitals. Antimicrob Agents Chemother. 2012;56:4656–61. http://dx.doi.org/10.1128/AAC.00279-12 2. de Almeida LM, Lincopan N, Araújo MR, Mamizuka EM. Dissemination of the linezolid-resistant Staphylococcus epidermidis clone ST2 exhibiting the G2576T mutation in t...

Title of dissertation: REAL-TIME ANALYTICS ON LARGE DYNAMIC GRAPHS Jayanta Mondal, Doctor of Philosophy, 2015 Dissertation directed by: Professor Amol Deshpande Department of Computer Science In today’s fast-paced and interconnected digital world, the data generated by an increasing number of applications is being modeled as dynamic graphs. The graph structure encodes relationships among data i...

TOPIC: Education, Research, and Quality Improvement TYPE: Original Investigations PURPOSE: Pulmonary Embolism (PE) is the third leading cause of cardiovascular death in United States [1]. Venous thromboembolism (VTE) has an annual incidence 1-2 people per 1000. The 1-year mortality can be as high 21.6% [2]. greatest risk factor for VTE, a prior episode VTE. Bikdeli et al (2019), found that thou...

References 1. Solomon T, Lewthwaite P, Perera D, Cardosa MJ, McMinn P, Ooi MH. Virology, epidemiology, pathogenesis, and control of enterovirus 71. Lancet Infect Dis. 2010;10:778–90. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S1473-3099(10)70194-8 2. Bessaud M, Razafindratsimandresy R, Nougairede A, Joffret ML, Deshpande JM, Dubot-Peres A, et al. Molecular comparison and evolutionary analyses of VP1 nucleotide ...

Title of Document: RNAI AND MORPHOLINO AS TOOLS TO STUDY SIGNALING IN LIMULUS VENTRAL PHOTORECEPTORS. Monika M Deshpande, Doctor of Philosophy, 2006 Directed By: Dr. Richard Payne, Neuroscience and Cognitive Science program Limulus ventral photoreceptors have been studied using electrophysiological, immunocytochemical, and biochemical techniques. However, genetic manipulation has eluded Limulus...

Over 40 years ago Osborne & Mendel (1914) showed that the protein of wheat is deficient in lysine. This limitation of the nutritive value of wheat protein was emphasized when Rose’s (1937) classical work established that the requirement for lysine of the weanling rat is higher than for any of the other indispensable amino acids. If the amino-acid composition of wheat and flour proteins is consi...