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Biochemical and molecular analysis of carboxylesterase‐mediated hydrolysis of cocaine and heroin by Hatfield, MJ, Tsurkan, L, Hyatt, JL, Yu, X, Edwards, CC, Hicks, LD, Wadkins, RM, Potter, PM

“…Background and purpose:  Carboxylesterases (CEs) metabolize a wide range of xenobiotic substrates including heroin, cocaine, meperidine and the anticancer…”
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Use of quantum-well superlattices to obtain a high figure of merit from nonconventional thermoelectric materials by HICKS, L. D, HARMAN, T. C, DRESSELHAUS, M. S

“…Currently, the materials with the highest thermoelectric figure of merit (ZT) are one-band materials. The presence of both electrons and holes lowers ZT, so…”
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Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics Stability Analysis by Swegle, J.W., Hicks, D.L., Attaway, S.W.

“…SPH (smoothed particle hydrodynamics) is a gridless Lagrangian technique which is appealing as a possible alternative to numerical techniques currently used to…”
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Conservative smoothing with B-splines stabilizes SPH material dynamics in both tension and compression by Hicks, D.L., Liebrock, L.M.

“…Smooth particle hydrodynamics (SPH) is a grid free method for material dynamics which appears to have potential advantages over fixed grid methods with respect…”
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Experimental study of the effect of quantum-well structures on the thermoelectric figure of merit by Hicks, LD, Harman, TC, Sun, X, Dresselhaus, MS

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Lanczos' generalized derivative: Insights and Applications by Hicks, D.L., Liebrock, L.M.

“…Generalizations of the Lanczos derivative provide a basis for certain grid-free Finite Interpolation Methods (FIMs) which appear to have advantages over…”
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Impacts of mass movement erosion on land productivity: a review by Blaschke, Paul M., Trustrum, Noel A., Hicks, Douglas L.

“…Wherever people gain their livelihood in mountains and steeplands, the productive capacity of the soils they use is likely to be affected by mass movement…”
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Multiple Cadherin Extracellular Repeats Mediate Homophilic Binding and Adhesion by Chappuis-Flament, Sophie, Wong, Ellen, Hicks, Les D., Kay, Cyril M., Gumbiner, Barry M.

“…The extracellular homophilic-binding domain of the cadherins consists of 5 cadherin repeats (EC1-EC5). Studies on cadherin specificity have implicated the…”
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Effect of quantum-well structures on the thermoelectric figure of merit by HICKS, L. D, DRESSELHAUS, M. S

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Thermoelectric figure of merit of a one-dimensional conductor by HICKS, L. D, DRESSELHAUS, M. S

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Pig Heart CoA Transferase Exists as Two Oligomeric Forms Separated by a Large Kinetic Barrier by Rochet, Jean-Christophe, Brownie, Edward R, Oikawa, Kim, Hicks, Leslie D, Fraser, Marie E, James, Michael N. G, Kay, Cyril M, Bridger, William A, Wolodko, William T

“…Pig heart CoA transferase (EC 2.8.3.5) has been shown previously to adopt a homodimeric structure, in which each subunit has a molecular weight of 52 197 and…”
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Conservative smoothing stabilizes discrete-numerical instabilities in SPH material dynamics computations by Hicks, D.L., Swegle, J.W., Attaway, S.W.

“…Analysis of Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics reveals that SPH: (i) has an instability; (ii) cannot be stabilized with artificial viscosities; (iii) can be…”
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Steady state hemodynamic and energetic characterization of the Penn State/3M Health Care Total Artificial Heart by Weiss, W J, Rosenberg, G, Snyder, A J, Pierce, W S, Pae, W E, Kuroda, H, Rawhouser, M A, Felder, G, Reibson, J D, Cleary, T J, Ford, S K, Marlotte, J A, Nazarian, R A, Hicks, D L

“…Total Artificial Heart (TAH) development at Penn State University and 3M Health Care has progressed from design improvements and manufacturing documentation to…”
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A WAY TO ESTIMATE THE FREQUENCY OF RAINFALL-INDUCED MASS MOVEMENTS (NOTE) by Hicks, D.L.

“…Frequency of mass movement is hard to estimate from meteorological data, soil physical data, or historical records, because insufficient data are available…”
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Gonococcal MinD affects cell division in Neisseria gonorrhoeae and Escherichia coli and exhibits a novel self-interaction by Szeto, J, Ramirez-Arcos, S, Raymond, C, Hicks, L D, Kay, C M, Dillon, J A

“…The Min proteins are involved in determining cell division sites in bacteria and have been studied extensively in rod-shaped bacteria. We have recently shown…”
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Hypophosphorous acid–iodine: a novel reducing system.: Part 1: Reduction of diaryl ketones to diaryl methylene derivatives by Hicks, Latorya D., Han, Ja Kyung, Fry, Albert J.

“…A mixture of hypophosphorous acid (H 3PO 2) and iodine in hot acetic acid reduces diaryl ketones quickly and aryl alkyl ketones slowly to the corresponding…”
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In vivo testing of a completely implanted total artificial heart system by Snyder, A J, Rosenberg, G, Weiss, W J, Ford, S K, Nazarian, R A, Hicks, D L, Marlotte, J A, Kawaguchi, O, Prophet, G A, Sapirstein, J S

“…The authors performed 14 implants of a completely implanted total artificial heart (TAH) system in calves. The system consisted of a dual pusher plate…”
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Physical properties of apolipoprotein A-I from the chicken, Gallus domesticus by Kiss, Robert S, Ryan, Robert O, Hicks, Leslie D, Oikawa, Kim, Kay, Cyril M

“…The amphipathic alpha-helices of exchangeable apolipoproteins (apo) function to simultaneously facilitate interaction with lipid surfaces and the aqueous…”
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Error Bounds for Numerical Solutions to Hydrodynamical Problems Involving Shocks by Hicks, D. L., Kuttler, K. L.

“…Models C and D are mathematical formulations for the motion of materials. Model C is the classical, continuum model and Model D is an alternative with some…”
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SPH hydrocodes can be stabilized with shape-shifting by Hicks, D.L., Liebrock, L.M.

“…Grid free methods, such as SPH (Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics), may, eventually, be more efficacious in their representations of material dynamics than the…”
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