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    • A wedge or a weight? Critically examining nuclear power’s viability as a low carbon energy source from an intergenerational perspective 

      Barron, Robert W.; Hill, Mary C. (Energy Research & Social Science, 2019-04)
      Some integrated assessment studies of climate change have concluded that nuclear energy has a large potential impact on carbon abatement costs. However, these studies have often modeled the cost of nuclear waste management ...

    • Beyond fossil fuel–driven nitrogen transformations 

      Chen, Jingguang G.; Crooks, Richard M.; Seefeldt, Lance C.; Bren, Kara L.; Bullock, R. Morris; Darensbourg, Marcetta Y.; Holland, Patrick L.; Hoffman, Brian; Janik, Michael J.; Jones, Anne K.; Kanatzidis, Mercouri G.; King, Paul; Lancaster, Kyle M.; Lymar, Sergei V.; Pfromm, Peter H.; Schneider, William F.; Schrock, Richard R. (Science, 2018-05-25)
      How much carbon does it take to make nitric acid? The counterintuitive answer nowadays is quite a lot. Nitric acid is manufactured by ammonia oxidation, and all the hydrogen to make ammonia via the Haber-Bosch process comes ...

    • Towards sustainable agriculture: Fossil-free ammonia 

      Pfromm, Peter H. (Journal of Renewable and Sustainable Energy, 2016-12-28)
      About 40% of our food would not exist without synthetic ammonia (NH3) for fertilization. Yet, NH3 production is energy intensive. About 2% of the world's commercial energy is consumed as fossil fuels for NH3 synthesis based ...

    • Legitimate to whom? The challenge of audience diversity and new venture legitimacy 

      Fisher, Greg; Kuratko, Donald F.; Bloodgood, James M.; Hornsby, Jeffrey S. (Journal of Business Venturing, 2017-01)
      We examine how entrepreneurs manage new venture legitimacy judgments across diverse audiences, so as to appear legitimate to the different audience groups that provide much needed financial resources for venture survival ...

    • The role of network density and betweenness centrality in diffusing new venture legitimacy: an epidemiological approach 

      Bloodgood, James M.; Hornsby, Jeffrey S.; Rutherford, Matthew; McFarland, Richard G. (International Entrepreneurship and Management Journal, 2017)
      To survive and grow, new ventures must establish initial legitimacy, and subsequently diffuse this legitimacy through a given population. While the notion of initial legitimacy has received substantial attention in the ...

    • Regulating the Ogallala: Paradox and Ambiguity in Western Kansas 

      Gibson, Jane W.; Gray, Benjamin Jerome (The Economics of Ecology, Exchange, and Adaptation: Anthropological Explorations, 2016-09-01)
      Purpose: To illuminate the underlying logic of western Kansas farmers’ decisions to irrigate at unsustainable rates and the state’s regulatory policies and practices that enable depletion of the Ogallala aquifer. Meth ...

    • Economic feasibility of algal biodiesel under alternative public policies 

      Amanor-Boadu, Vincent; Pfromm, Peter H.; Nelson, Richard (Renewable Energy, 2014-07)
      The motivation for this research was to determine the influence of public policies on economic feasibility of producing algal biodiesel in a system that produced all its energy needs internally. To achieve this, a steady-state ...

    • Actor–Networks, Farmer Decisions, and Identity 

      Gray, Benjamin Jerome; Gibson, Jane W. (Culture, Agriculture, Food and Environment, 2013)
      Climate change and industrial agricultural practices pose threats to the future of Kansas agriculture. To inform the debate about sustainable agriculture that must soon occur, we seek to illuminate the factors involved in ...

    • Solar thermochemical production of ammonia from water, air and sunlight: Thermodynamic and economic analyses 

      Michalsky, Ronald; Parman, Bryon J.; Amanor-Boadu, Vincent; Pfromm, Peter H. (Energy, 2012-06)
      Ammonia is an important input into agriculture and is used widely as base chemical for the chemical industry. It has recently been proposed as a sustainable transportation fuel and convenient one-way hydrogen carrier. ...

    • Sustainability of algae derived biodiesel: A mass balance approach 

      Pfromm, Peter H.; Amanor-Boadu, Vincent; Nelson, Richard (Bioresource Technology, 2011-01)
      A rigorous chemical engineering mass balance/unit operations approach is applied here to bio-diesel from algae mass culture. An equivalent of 50,000,000 gallons per year (0.006002 m3/s) of petroleum-based Number 2 fuel ...

    • Bio-butanol vs. bio-ethanol: A technical and economic assessment for corn and switchgrass fermented by yeast or Clostridium acetobutylicum 

      Pfromm, Peter H.; Amanor-Boadu, Vincent; Nelson, Richard; Vadlani, Praveen; Madl, Ronald (Biomass and Bioenergy, 2010-04)
      Fermentation-derived butanol is a possible alternative to ethanol as a fungible biomass-based liquid transportation fuel. We compare the fermentation-based production of n-butanol vs. ethanol from corn or switchgrass through ...

    • Multi-dose Formulation Development for a Quadrivalent Human Papillomavirus Virus-Like Particle-Based Vaccine: Part II- Real-time and Accelerated Stability Studies (Dataset) 

      Sharma, Nitya; Jerajani, Kaushal; Wan, Ying; Kumru, Ozan S.; Pullagurla, Swathi R.; Ogun, Oluwadara; Mapari, Shweta; Brendle, Sarah; Christensen, Neil D.; Batwal, Saurabh; Mahedvi, Mustafa; Rao, Harish; Dogar, Vikas; Chandrasekharan, Rahul; Shaligram, Umesh; Volkin, David B.; Joshi, Sangeeta B. (Elsevier, 2022-11-21)
      This work describes Part 2 of multi-dose formulation development of a Human Papillomavirus (HPV) Virus-Like Particles (VLPs) containing vaccine (see Part 1 in companion paper). Storage stability studies with candidate ...

    • Warrior Gods and Otherworldly Lands: Daoist Icons and Practices in Late Chosŏn Korea 

      Stiller, Maya (MDPI, 2022-11-15)
      This article brings Chosŏn dynasty (1392–1910) Korea into the discussion about the various roles of Daoism in East Asian cultures in which it has, unfortunately, all too often been absent. Based primarily on art-historical ...

    • Internet-Based Intervention Compared to Brief Intervention for Smoking Cessation in Brazil: Pilot Study 

      Machado, Nathalia Munck; Gomide, Henrique Pinto; Bernardino, Heder Soares; Ronzani, Telmo Mota (JMIR Publications, 2022-11-03)
      Background: Smoking is still the leading cause of preventable death. Governments and health care providers should make available more accessible resources to help tobacco users stop. Objective: This study describes a ...

    • COVID-19 in a mosaic trisomy 13 patient with polycystic kidney disease 

      Ost, Natalie K.; Minchew, Heather M.; Garcia, Andrew; Ganatra, Hammad A. (SAGE Publications, 2022-08-17)
      Presentation, management, and outcomes of COVID-19 infections among younger patients is an area of medicine with deficits in research, likely due to the lower incidence of severe COVID-19 disease among the younger population. ...

    • Dementia risk and dynamic response to exercise: A non-randomized clinical trial 

      VidoniI, Eric D.; Morris, Jill K.; Palmer, Jacqueline A.; Li, Yanming; White, Dreu; Kueck, Paul J.; John, Casey S.; Honea, Robyn A.; Lepping, Rebecca J.; Lee, Phil; Mahnken, Jonathan D.; Martin, Laura E.; Billinger, Sandra A. (Public Library of Science, 2022-07-08)
      Background Physical exercise may support brain health and cognition over the course of typical aging. The goal of this nonrandomized clinical trial was to examine the effect of an acute bout of aerobic exercise on brain ...

    • Bone Density Variation in Rattails (Macrouridae,Gadiformes): Buoyancy, Depth, Body Size, and Feeding 

      Martin, Rene P.; Dias, Abigail S.; Summers, Adam P.; Gerringer, Mackenzie E. (Oxford University Press, 2022-10-16)
      Extreme abiotic factors in deep-sea environments, such as near-freezing temperatures, low light, and high hydrostatic pressure, drive the evolution of adaptations that allow organisms to survive under these conditions. ...

    • Comparing Sex-Specific Outcomes After Rotator Cuff Repair: A Meta-analysis 

      Fancher, Andrew J.; Mok, Anthony C.; Vopat, Matthew L.; Templeton, Kim; Kimbrel, Brandon K.; Tarakemeh, Armin; Mulcahey, Mary K.; Mullen, Scott; Schroeppel, John P.; Vopat, Bryan G. (SAGE Publications, 2022-05-20)
      Background: Rotator cuff repair (RCR) is a well-studied procedure. However, the impact of patient sex on outcomes after RCR has not been well studied. Purpose: To conduct a systematic review and meta-analysis of ...

    • Phylogenetics of Archerfishes (Toxotidae) and Evolution of the Toxotid Shooting Apparatus 

      Girard, M.G.; Davis, M.P.; H.H., Tan; Wedd, D.J.; Chakrabarty, P.; Ludt, W.B.; Summers, A.P.; Smith, W.L. (Oxford University Press, 2022-03-21)
      Archerfishes (Toxotidae) are variously found in the fresh- and brackish-water environments of Asia Pacific and are well known for their ability to shoot water at terrestrial prey. These shots of water are intended to strike ...

    • Regulation of Liver Regeneration by Hepatocyte O-GlcNAcylation in Mice 

      Robarts, Dakota R.; McGreal, Steven R.; Umbaugh, David S.; Parkes, Wendena S.; Kotulkar, Manasi; Abernathy, Sarah; Lee, Norman; Jaeschke, Hartmut; Gunewardena, Sumedha; Whelan, Stephen A.; Hanover, John A.; Zachara, Natasha E.; Slawson, Chad; Apte, Udayan (Elsevier, 2022-01-01)
      Background & Aims The liver has a unique capacity to regenerate after injury in a highly orchestrated and regulated manner. Here, we report that O-GlcNAcylation, an intracellular post-translational modification regulated ...