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Estrogen Dominance in Endometriosis & Naturopathic Treatments
No full textThis thesis is being archived as a Digitized Shelf Copy for campus access to current students and staff only. We currently cannot provide this open access without the author's permission. If you are the author of this work and desire to provide it open access or wish access removed, please contact the Wahlstrom Library to discuss permission.The main purpose of this paper is to demonstrate how estrogen dominance plays an important role in the pathophysiology of endometriosis. The paper also presents an overview of endometriosis. It contains the etiology, risk factors, symptoms, diagnosis, convectional medicine and naturopathic medicine therapeutics. For the purpose of this paper, naturopathic medicine is the main focus of the treatment plan. Nutritional and natureceuticals can help balance hormones, which help alleviate the symptoms with out any side effects. While most of the research has focused mainly on Vitex agnus cactus and vitamin E, there are several other herbs and nutritional supplements that can be used to help decrease estrogen and increase the progesterone levels, specifically in those with endometriosis
Ideation
No full textPROJECT GOALS: Design a low cost soap that is affordable and flexible. Sold in the common market sales place: tables, ground, wagons, under tents. Use biodegradable or recyclable material
Energy Storage using Graphene-Polymer nanocomposite thin film
No full textThere is an unmet need for efficient and environmentally-friendly ultrathin energy storage devices. Here we report a thin and flexible energy
storage mechanism using electrically conductive polymer (ECPs) polypyrrole and atomically thin material and a highly conductive allotrope of
carbon graphene which is coated on thin paper substrate made from cladophora aegagropila algae cellulose. The cyclic voltammetry data exhibits
a capacitive behavior of the device, as do the multimeter readings of the voltage while charging and discharging exhibit a battery performance.
The device demonstrated hybrid characteristics in which graphene behaved as an electrochemical double layer capacitance (EDLC) and PPy
behaved as a pseudo-capacitor. With significant mechanical strength and flexibility, the device shows good power density, higher charge discharge
cycles, and lower self discharge rates. TEM and SEM images show well dispersion of graphene on the surface of cellulose fibers. In order to
decrease the effective weight of the insulating material and to achieve a controlled thickness of the electrode in few microns to nm range we
propose the fabrication of the thin film using electrodeposition technique. Preliminary experiments show that using a small electrode of 1cm2 area
we can achieve up to 1.5 V of potential across the terminal
Advancing Wireless Sensor Networks Performance over Radio Trigger Wake-up Capabilities
No full textIn this Paper, we enhance the performance of Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) by optimizing the Wake-up capabilities within a passive radio-triggered wakeup circuit and then used its applications to manage the power consumption of the WSNs. The architecture of our proposed circuit manages the radio power consumption of WSN by harvesting energy from the radio signals and making the radio-triggered hardware sends a wake-up signal to the microcontroller (MCU) of the node. This harvest process takes only 15μs or less to produce wake-up signals within the wake-up circuit and prolongs the lifetime of the WSN nodes. In addition, the proposed circuit receives the RF signal of the network controller through the antenna node and produces an output voltage (VOLDC) by its rectifier module so that this voltage produces direct current DC of 250 mV with the received power of 0.85uW (-13.85dBm). Most importantly, the proposed circuit can produce an output triggered voltage (VOLTG) by its module of LTC1540 –Nano-power Comparator which works as an amplifier (VOLDC) and only needs 0.3μA of energy for the setting of the threshold detector value within the long distance of 100m or more and radiation source of 2W in free-space. The simulation results demonstrate that the proposed circuit can produce VOLDC and VOLTG to trigger the wake-up signal of MCU within the long distance and low duty cycle as well as this circuit can identify the synchronization on WSNs
Document: Dreams
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Upright and left out: Posture moderates the effects of social exclusion on mood and threats to basic needs
No full textThe present study sought to examine the relationship between the experience of social-exclusion (ostracism), the posture that one maintains while being socially included or excluded, and how these factors impact basic needs (e.g., feelings of belonging) and mood
Return Transmissions between ADRs and A-Shares of Dual-Listed Chinese Firms
No full textThis study examines the mutual return transmissions between ADRs and A-shares for a sample of Chinese companies that are dual-listed in New York and Shanghai. The U.S. listing takes the form of American Depositary Receipts (ADRs) while the Shanghai listing takes the form of A-shares. Though ADRs and their underlying A-shares lack full fungibility due to regulatory constraints, they nevertheless represent the same claiming rights and hence should be affected by the same fundamentals. We investigate this issue by using the bivariate VAR model while at the same time accounting for the non-synchronous trading problem caused by the fact that the two markets are located in different time zones and that the two market observe different national and religious holidays. We find that the two types of securities affect each other strongly. The mutual influence is stronger and more prevalent going from China to U.S. than it is the other way around. We also find that the returns of ADRs and A-shares are strongly affected by the market sentiments of the marketplace where they are listed. Finally, the global financial crisis has strengthened the mutual influences between ADRs and A-shares
A Highly Secure Video Steganography using Hamming Code (7, 4)
No full textDue to the high speed of internet and advances in technology, people are becoming more worried about information being hacked by attackers. Recently, many algorithms of steganography and data hiding have been proposed. Steganography is a process of embedding the secret information inside the host medium (text, audio, image and video). Concurrently, many of the powerful steganographic analysis software programs have been provided to unauthorized users to retrieve the valuable secret information that was embedded in the carrier files. Some steganography algorithms can be easily detected by steganalytical detectors because of the lack of security and embedding efficiency.
In this paper, we propose a secure video steganography algorithm based on the principle of linear block code. Nine uncompressed video sequences are used as cover data and a binary image logo as a secret message. The pixels’ positions of both cover videos and a secret message are randomly reordered by using a private key to improve the system’s security. Then the secret message is encoded by applying Hamming code (7, 4) before the embedding process to make the message even more secure. The result of the encoded message will be added to random generated values by using XOR function. After these steps that make the message secure enough, it will be ready to be embedded into the cover video frames. In addition, the embedding area in each frame is randomly selected and it will be different from other frames to improve the steganography scheme’s robustness. Furthermore, the algorithm has high embedding efficiency as demonstrated by the experimental results that we have obtained. Regarding the system’s quality, the Pick Signal to Noise Ratio (PSNR) of stego videos are above 51 dB, which is close to the original video quality. The embedding payload is also acceptable, where in each video frame we can embed 16 Kbits and it can go up to 90 Kbits without noticeable degrading of the stego video’s quality