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The Use Of 4-Substituted Pyridines To Afford Amphiphilic, Pegylated Cadmium Selenide Nanoparticles, Habib Skaff, Todd S. Emrick

Todd S. Emrick

Amphiphilic cadmium selenide (CdSe) nanoparticles were prepared by surface functionalization with novel ligands 1 and 2, composed of pyridine moieties substituted in the 4-position with polyethylene glycol (PEG) chains.

A Proposed Data Mining Methodology And Its Application To Industrial Engineering, Jose Solarte

Masters Theses

Data mining is the process of discovering correlations, patterns, trends or relationships by searching through a large amount of data stored in repositories, corporate databases, and data warehouses. Industrial engineering is a broad field and has many tools and techniques in its problem-solving arsenal. The purpose of this study is to improve the effectiveness of industrial engineering solutions through the application of data mining. To achieve this objective, an adaptation of the engineering design process is used to develop a methodology for effective application of data mining to databases and data repositories specifically designed for industrial engineering operations. This paper …

Evaluation Of Dgps Row Guidance Systems, Analyzing Operator Feedback Methods Based On Accuracy And Operator Insights, Timothy Franklin Morrow

Masters Theses

The study analyzed operator feedback methods of four guidance systems used on agricultural spraying vehicles. One system was the traditional foam marker and the three others were GPS guidance systems, manufactured by Trimble, Satloc®, and Cultiva. Twenty-one drivers participated in this study and ran four tests over a 244 m course. An RTK GPS system provided horizontal center positioning data accurate to within a centimeter. Using the center positioning data, areas of overlap and skip were found using ArcView™ 3.2. In addition, positional error terms of maximum deviation, average maximum deviation, RMS, average, starting, and ending deviation were found. After …

A Multiobjective Approach Applied To The Protein Structure Prediction Problem, Richard O. Day

Theses and Dissertations

Interest in discovering a methodology for solving the Protein Structure Prediction problem extends into many fields of study including biochemistry, medicine, biology, and numerous engineering and science disciplines. Experimental approaches, such as, x-ray crystallographic studies or solution Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy, to mathematical modeling, such as minimum energy models are used to solve this problem. Recently, Evolutionary Algorithm studies at the Air Force Institute of Technology include the following: Simple Genetic Algorithm (GA), messy GA, fast messy GA, and Linkage Learning GA, as approaches for potential protein energy minimization. Prepackaged software like GENOCOP, GENESIS, and mGA are in use to …

Ir-Based Estimation Of Velocities Above Flames Spreading Over Different Fuels, Lulu Sun, Xiangyang Zhou, David R. Weise, Shankar Mahalingam

Publications

Wildfire spread in living vegetation such as chaparral in California and eucalyptus forests in Australia often causes significant damage to infrastructure and ecosystems. A physically based empirical model to predict fire spread rate is used in the United States to assist in a variety of fire management operations. The spread model does not adequately describe the chemical processes of combustion in live fuels.

Prior to describing and modeling the chemical processes of combustion in wildland fuels using computational fluid dynamics, we are investigating a technique to non-intrusively measure flame gas velocities using thermal imagery. By tracing "hot" pixels through successive …

Ancient Astronomical Alignments: Fact Or Fiction?, Frank Prendergast

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