Challenging Beijing’s Mandate of Heaven: Taiwan’s Sunflower Movement and Hong Kong’s Umbrella Movement

Lo, Ming-Cheng M.

Examining Collaboration within U.S. National Park Service Advisory Committees

Foster, Megan

This study develops an evaluative tool for assessing collaboration within U.S. National Park Service (NPS) Federal Advisory Committees. Advisory committees are one of the mechanisms the NPS uses for active community participation. Howeve…

The use of context in resolving syntactic ambiguity: structural and semantic influences

Bousquet, Kathryn; Swaab, Tamara Y.; Long, Debra L.

Verb bias facilitates parsing of temporarily ambiguous sentences, but it is unclear when and how comprehenders use probabilistic knowledge about the combinatorial properties of verbs in context. In a self-paced reading experiment, partic…

The microbial safety of fish and fish products: Recent advances in understanding its significance, contamination sources, and control strategies

Sheng, Lina; Wang, Luxin

Microorganisms play a crucial and unique role in fish and fish product safety. The presence of human pathogens and the formation of histamine caused by spoilage bacteria make the control of both pathogenic and spoilage microorganisms cri…

Multiparametric Cardiac F-18-FDG PET in Humans: Kinetic Model Selection and Identifiability Analysis

Zuo, Yang; Badawi, Ramsey D.; Foster, Cameron C.; Smith, Thomas; Lopez, Javier E.; et al.

Cardiac F-18-fluorodeoxyglucose (FDG) positron emission tomography (PET) has been used in clinics to assess myocardial glucose metabolism. Its ability for imaging myocardial glucose transport, however, has rarely been exploited in clinic…