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LBL Publications (1980)
    Cover page: ECONOMICS OF SUGAR PRODUCTION WITH TRICHODERMA REESEI RUTGERS C-30
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    UCLA Electronic Theses and Dissertations (2023)

    Background and Aims: Queer femme Latinx men, trans, and gender variant individuals live in a complex fabric of intersecting structures of oppression including, but not limited to, racism, sexism, homophobia, transphobia, poverty, citizenship status, internalized homophobia, internalized racism and linguistic hierarchy. Consequently, queer femme Latinx individuals navigate complex identities that are often not understood or adequately researched. While empirical research highlights how minoritized identities may negatively impact psychosocial functioning, mental health, and well-being, we still do not have a clear understanding of how individual queer femme Latinx navigate their identities in relation to these structures of oppression. This project seeks to understand how queer femme Latinx individuals subjectively understand their lived experiences.Methods: This phenomenological study is theoretically grounded in intersectionality. Individual semi-structured in-depth interviews with open-ended questions were conducted via Zoom with participants who reside in the state of California, were 18 to 30, self-identify as queer femme men, trans, or gender variant and as Latinx. Recruitment was conducted via a purposive sampling method initiated with a recruitment email sent to LGBTQ+ and Latinx resource centers and university-level academic departments across California. Results: 10 interviews were conducted. The analysis revealed four major themes: (1) “there is no particular way of existing; (2) “safety isn’t guaranteed;” (3) “the different personas you create”; and (4) “reminding myself I’m worth it.” Participants shared a common understanding of feeling a sense of limitlessness and freedom in their identities. They understood safety isn’t guaranteed and discussed the need to create different personas as an adaptive behavior, while, being able to remind themselves they are worth it and practice selflove. Finally, participants were able to use community resources, knowledge building, and peer/family support to strengthen their own identity understanding. Conclusion and Implications: This study provides an inclusive and intersectional understanding of the queer femme Latinx individual experience. Implications for social work practice include developing culturally-based and contextually situated interventions that support well-being and identity management. Particularly, this study shows queer femme Latinx individuals have a strong awareness of their own worth and are able to practice selflove. Social work practitioners could assist queer femme Latinx individuals understand the role of their adaptive behaviors while promoting selflove. Additionally, enhancing relationships with service-providing agencies to building a cohesive community of support to help normalize queer femme Latinx individuals’ experiences could support queer femme Latinx individual’s well-being and identity management.

      Cover page: Viviendo en la Intersecci�n: Queer Femme Latinx Men, Trans, and Gender Variant Individuals Experience Living at the Intersection of Identities
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      Policy Briefs (2021)
      The High Road to Economic Prosperity offers a macro analysis of the California Workforce Development Board’s (CWDB) High Road Training Partnership (HRTP) initiative. The report defines the HRTP model and evaluates the successes and challenges of adopting the high road approach, including recommendations on how to strengthen the HRTP framework and model as the initiative expands. The report finds that HRTPs offer a more inclusive definition of industry leadership and build collective power. HRTPs bring together employers, labor, and community actors to look at their industries from a bird’s eye view and use their collective expertise to find mutually beneficial industry solutions. This values-based approach prioritizes underlying systemic issues like racial inequality. HRTPs move beyond diversity initiatives by identifying racial inequalities and creating tailored workforce development interventions, including sustainable long term policies that can be widely adopted to address the needs of disadvantaged communities. The initiative offers an innovative model for public programs that are responsive to change. HRTPs are continuously experimenting, learning, and refining their interventions, which allows them to respond to external shifts, such as economic downturns and climate change, in real time and work toward solutions that meet the needs of firms, workers, and communities. The HRTP approach advances a shift in measuring workforce development success. Traditional workforce development metrics often measure success by the number — not quality — of job placements. HRTPs also associate success with promoting worker voice and power, systems change, culture shifts, and other qualitatively measured indicators of high road success.
        Cover page: The High Road to Economic Prosperity: An Assessment of the California Workforce Development Board’s High Road Training Partnership Initiative
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        LBL Publications (1980)
          Cover page: Economics of Sugar Production with Trichoderma Reesei Rutgers C-30
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          LBL Publications (1980)
            Cover page: Economics of Sugar Production with Trichoderma Reesei Rutgers C-30Creative Commons 'BY' version 4.0 license
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            UC Berkeley Previously Published Works (2021)
            A critical component of tissue engineering is the ability to functionally replace native tissue stroma. Electrospinning is a technique capable of forming fibrous constructs with a high surface area for increased cell-material interaction and enhanced biocompatibility. However, physical and biological properties of electrospun scaffolds are limited by design controllability on a macroscale. We developed a methodology for generating electrospun scaffolds with defined patterns and topographic features to influence physical properties and biological interactions. Five unique design electrospinning target collectors were fabricated to allow for generation of defined polymeric scaffold patterns including lines, sinusoids, squares, zigzags, and solid. Poly(lactic-co-glycolic) acid was electrospun under identical conditions utilizing these varied targets, and constructs generated were examined as to their physical configuration, mechanical and chemical properties, and their ability to foster vascular smooth muscle cell adhesion and retention at 24 h. Modifying collector designs led to significant differences in fiber target coverage ranging from 300 mm2 for solid (100% of the target area) to 217.8 mm2 for lines (72.6% of the target area). Measured fiber excess, residual open area, and contact angle (hydrophobicity) followed the same trend as fiber target coverage with respect to the collector pattern: lines > sinusoids > squares > zigzags > solid. Similarly, the line design allowed for the greatest cell adhesion and retention (258 ± 31 cells), whereas solid exhibited the lowest (150 ± 15 cells); p < 0.05. There was a strong direct correlation of cell adhesion to construct residual open area (R2 = 0.94), normalized fiber excess (R2 = 0.99), and fiber grammage (R2 = 0.72), with an inverse relationship to fiber target coverage (R2 = 0.94). Our results demonstrate the ability to utilize patterned collectors for modifying macroscopic and microscopic electrospun scaffold features, which directly impact cell adhesion and retention, offering translational utility for designing specific tissue constructs.
              Cover page: Patterned Electrospinning: A Method of Generating Defined Fibrous Constructs Influencing Cell Adhesion and Retention
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              LBL Publications (2022)
              Through an expansive international effort that involved data collection on 12 small-angle X-ray scattering (SAXS) and four small-angle neutron scattering (SANS) instruments, 171 SAXS and 76 SANS measurements for five proteins (ribonuclease A, lysozyme, xylanase, urate oxidase and xylose isomerase) were acquired. From these data, the solvent-subtracted protein scattering profiles were shown to be reproducible, with the caveat that an additive constant adjustment was required to account for small errors in solvent subtraction. Further, the major features of the obtained consensus SAXS data over the q measurement range 0-1 Å-1 are consistent with theoretical prediction. The inherently lower statistical precision for SANS limited the reliably measured q-range to <0.5 Å-1, but within the limits of experimental uncertainties the major features of the consensus SANS data were also consistent with prediction for all five proteins measured in H2O and in D2O. Thus, a foundation set of consensus SAS profiles has been obtained for benchmarking scattering-profile prediction from atomic coordinates. Additionally, two sets of SAXS data measured at different facilities to q > 2.2 Å-1 showed good mutual agreement, affirming that this region has interpretable features for structural modelling. SAS measurements with inline size-exclusion chromatography (SEC) proved to be generally superior for eliminating sample heterogeneity, but with unavoidable sample dilution during column elution, while batch SAS data collected at higher concentrations and for longer times provided superior statistical precision. Careful merging of data measured using inline SEC and batch modes, or low- and high-concentration data from batch measurements, was successful in eliminating small amounts of aggregate or interparticle interference from the scattering while providing improved statistical precision overall for the benchmarking data set.
                Cover page: A round‐robin approach provides a detailed assessment of biomolecular small‐angle scattering data reproducibility and yields consensus curves for benchmarkingCreative Commons 'BY' version 4.0 license
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                LBL Publications (2014)
                NEXT is an experiment dedicated to neutrinoless double beta decay searches in xenon. The detector is a TPC, holding 100 kg of high-pressure xenon enriched in the 136Xe isotope. It is under construction in the Laboratorio Subterráneo de Canfranc in Spain, and it will begin operations in 2015. The NEXT detector concept provides an energy resolutionbetter than 1% FWHM and a topological signal that can be used to reduce the background. Furthermore, the NEXT technology can be extrapolated to a 1 ton-scale experiment. © 2014 J. J. Gómez Cadenas et al.
                  Cover page: Present Status and Future Perspectives of the NEXT Experiment
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