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Full-Text Articles in Physical Sciences and Mathematics
Principal-Component Analysis Of Two-Particle Azimuthal Correlations In Pbpb And Ppb Collisions At Cms, A. M. Sirunyam, A. R. Tumasyan, Adam Wolfgang, M M. Baarmand, Vallary Bhopatkar, Stefano Colafranceschi, Marcus Hohlmann, Daniel Noonan, Tuhin S. Roy, Francisco X. Yumiceva
Principal-Component Analysis Of Two-Particle Azimuthal Correlations In Pbpb And Ppb Collisions At Cms, A. M. Sirunyam, A. R. Tumasyan, Adam Wolfgang, M M. Baarmand, Vallary Bhopatkar, Stefano Colafranceschi, Marcus Hohlmann, Daniel Noonan, Tuhin S. Roy, Francisco X. Yumiceva
Aerospace, Physics, and Space Science Faculty Publications
For the first time a principle-component analysis is used to separate out different orthogonal modes of the two-particle correlation matrix from heavy ion collisions. The analysis uses data from sNN=2.76TeV PbPb and sNN=5.02TeV pPb collisions collected by the CMS experiment at the CERN Large Hadron Collider. Two-particle azimuthal correlations have been extensively used to study hydrodynamic flow in heavy ion collisions. Recently it was shown that the expected factorization of two-particle results into a product of the constituent single-particle anisotropies is broken. The new information provided by these modes may shed light on the breakdown of flow factorization in heavy …
The Growth, Structure, And Dynamics Of Crime In Cities, Marcos Oliveira
The Growth, Structure, And Dynamics Of Crime In Cities, Marcos Oliveira
Theses and Dissertations
Crime is ubiquitous in cities but lacks a statistical characterization that could lead to uncovering its underlying mechanisms. Cities are, however, in a constant process of organization making difficult to analyze urban phenomena. Yet, to understand urbanization and its consequences, we need to approach cities as evolving processes, instead of static objects. With this perspective, we examined regularities in crime regarding its growth, structure, and dynamics. We developed frameworks to examine the spatial, temporal, and periodic variations of crime in cities. Though thefts increase super-linearly with the population, we found burglaries showing a linear increase. Our analyses also confirmed crime …
Metastable-State Photoacids And The Related Photo-Responsive Polymers, Zhuozhi Wang
Metastable-State Photoacids And The Related Photo-Responsive Polymers, Zhuozhi Wang
Theses and Dissertations
Metastable-state photoacid is a type of photo-sensitive compounds that can release large amount of protons reversibly upon visible-light irradiation. Since being developed by our group in 2011, metastable-state photoacid has been utilized to develop many applications that involve controlling proton transfer processes. Since proton transfer process is one of the most common processes in nature, metastable-state photoacid is a powerful tool to control various processes with light. A introduction of metastable state photoacid is described in Chapter 1. In Chapter 2, metastable-state photoacids with different substituents were designed to study the relationship between their structures and physicochemical properties. In Chapter …
Development Of Large-Area Gem Detectors For The Forward Muon Endcap Upgrade Of The Cms Experiment And Search For Sm Higgs Boson Decay In The H → Τ+Τ− → Μ+Μ−¯Νμνμ¯Ντντ Channel At √ S = 13 Tev, Vallary Shashikant Bhopatkar
Development Of Large-Area Gem Detectors For The Forward Muon Endcap Upgrade Of The Cms Experiment And Search For Sm Higgs Boson Decay In The H → Τ+Τ− → Μ+Μ−¯Νμνμ¯Ντντ Channel At √ S = 13 Tev, Vallary Shashikant Bhopatkar
Theses and Dissertations
Gas Electron Multiplier (GEM) technology is being considered for the forward muon upgrade of the Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) experiment in Phase II of the CERN LHC. The first GEM Endcap (GE1/1) is going to be installed in the 1.5 <| η |< 2.2 region of the muon endcap mainly to control muon level-1 trigger rates after the second long LHC shutdown. A GE1/1 triple-GEM detector is read out by 3,072 radial strips with 453 µrad pitch arranged in eight η-sectors. A meter-long GE1/1 prototype-III was assembled at Florida Tech and tested in 20-120 GeV hadron beams at Fermilab using Ar/CO2 70:30 and the RD51 Scalable Readout System (SRS). Four GEM detectors with 2-D readout and an average measured azimuthal resolution of 36µrad provided precise reference tracks. Construction of this GE1/1 prototype-III detector and its performance in the test beam are described. Strip cluster parameters, detection efficiency, and spatial resolution are studied with position and high voltage scans. The plateau detection efficiency is [97.80 ± 0.2 (stat)]%. The azimuthal resolution is found to be [123.5 ± 1.6 (stat)] µrad when operating in the center of the efficiency plateau and using full pulse height information. The CMS upgrade design calls for readout electronics with binary hit output. When strip clusters are formed correspondingly without charge-weighting and with fixed hit thresholds, a position resolution of [136.8 ± 2.5 stat] µrad is measured, consistent with the expected resolution from strip-pitch/√ 12 = 131.3 µrad. The eight η-sectors of the detector show a similar response and performance. VFAT3 electronics are being considered for the readout system of GE1/1 detectors. The charge that is induced on the GE1/1 readout strips by minimum-ionizing particles is an important parameter that informs the design of the amplifier-shaper input stage of the VFAT3 chip. To estimate the input charge range for these electronics, the most probable value, mean value, and 99th percentile value of the Landau distribution of the charge induced on a single strip are measured and found to be 4 fC, 11 fC, and 115 fC, respectively. The Z/γ∗ → τ τ cross section in proton-proton collisions at √ s = 13 TeV is measured, using data recorded by the CMS experiment at the LHC during 2015 and corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 2.3 fb−1 . The product of the cross section and branching fraction is measured in the dimuon final state to be 1967 ± 121 (stat.) ± 92 (syst.) ± 37 (lumi.) pb, in agreement with the standard model expectation, computed at next-to-next-to-leading order accuracy in perturbative quantum chromodynamics. A search for Standard Model (SM) Higgs bosons decaying into pairs of tau leptons and then to two muons plus (anti)-neutrinos is performed using the data collected by the CMS detector in 2016 with 35.9 fb−1 of integrated luminosity. The upper limits on the cross section relative to SM prediction are calculated in three event categories with different jet multiplicities focusing on Higgs boson signal events produced via gluon-gluon fusion and vector boson fusion. A multivariate analysis with Boosted Decision Trees (BDT) is used to suppress the large Drell-Yan background. The di-tau mass is reconstructed using a Secondary-Vertex fit (SVFit) algorithm using a maximum likelihood approach. Experimental limits are presented in all three categories extracted from the maximum likelihood fit of reconstructed di-tau mass and the visible mass of the dimuon system. The signal strength for the combination of all three categories is estimated as -1.0 ± 1.7. The expected and observed upper limits with 95% CL is at 3.2 and 2.7, respectively, with respect to the SM cross section times branching fraction.
Testing The Wind-Shock Paradigm For B-Type Star X-Ray Production With Θ Carinae, Trisha F. Doyle
Testing The Wind-Shock Paradigm For B-Type Star X-Ray Production With Θ Carinae, Trisha F. Doyle
Theses and Dissertations
We present Chandra X-ray grating spectroscopy of the B0.2V star, θ Carinae. θ Car is in a critical transition region between the latest O-type and earliest B-type stars, where some of these stars are observed to have UV-determined mass-loss rates much lower than theoretically expected. In general, X-ray emission in this low-luminosity regime should be less prominent than in O-star winds, but observations have shown a higher than expected production of X-ray emission from the winds of these stars (e.g., Cohen et al. 2008; Huenemoerder et al. 2012). A hot wind could explain weak UV wind signatures, but this severely …
Interaction Between Fragments Of Tau Protein Investigated By Force Spectroscopy Using Afm, Anad Mohamed Afhaima
Interaction Between Fragments Of Tau Protein Investigated By Force Spectroscopy Using Afm, Anad Mohamed Afhaima
Theses and Dissertations
Over the last couple of decades, there has been rapidly growing interest in research of natively unfolded proteins. Some proteins from this group are implicated in a number of neurodegenerative diseases. One group of neurodegenerative diseases, taupathies, is associated with tau protein. A number of biophysical and spectroscopic studies have revealed that tau protein can expand to a largely extended state and to transition rapidly between many different conformations. Although many of the techniques that elucidate structure of macromolecules have provided important information about the folded states of proteins, important information about the transition between the extended conformation states remain …
Metastable-State Nh Photoacids And Organic Photo Carbon Monoxide Releasing Materials, Aluthwatte Rallage Nawodi Madhusanka Abeyrathna
Metastable-State Nh Photoacids And Organic Photo Carbon Monoxide Releasing Materials, Aluthwatte Rallage Nawodi Madhusanka Abeyrathna
Theses and Dissertations
The recently discovered metastable-state photoacids (mPAHs) can produce a large proton concentration with high efficiency and good reversibility upon irradiation with visible light with moderate intensity. Therefore, mPAHs can be conveniently incorporated in to different systems to control various proton-transfer processes. Recently, several applications of mPAHs have been demonstrated. However, none of the previously reported mPAHs can function at a pH 7.4. Thus, biological applications of mPAHs are limited. In this work, mPAHs that can reversibly release a proton in PBS buffer (pH = 7.4) under visible light are designed and synthesized. NH-PAH-1 is the first of this type of …
Surface Modification Of Core-Shell Silver-Titania Nanocomposites With Copper Bipyridine–Phosphonates And Studies On Ag@Tio₂ Mediated Degradation Of Organophosphates, Somayeh Talebzadeh Farooji
Surface Modification Of Core-Shell Silver-Titania Nanocomposites With Copper Bipyridine–Phosphonates And Studies On Ag@Tio₂ Mediated Degradation Of Organophosphates, Somayeh Talebzadeh Farooji
Theses and Dissertations
Silver nanoparticles, coated with a titania shell were prepared and were shown to be catalytically active for the rapid degradation of organothiophosphate methyl parathion (MeP). Formation of the degradation product, p-nitrophenolate (PNP) was monitored as a function of pH, using UV-Vis spectroscopy, and 31P NMR spectroscopy confirmed the hydrolysis is the predominant pathway for substrate breakdown under non-photocatalytic degradation. We have demonstrated that the unique combination of TiO2 and silver nanoparticles is required for catalytic hydrolysis with good reproducibility. This work represents the first example of MeP degradation using TiO2 doped with AgNP under mild and ambient conditions. It is …
5-Oxo-Ete Antagonists In Allergic Disease; Design And Synthesis Of Affinity Chromatography Ligand For 5-Hedh; And Synthesis Of Isoprostanes As An Index For The Diagnosis In Alzheimer’S Disease, Qiuji Ye
Theses and Dissertations
Arachidonic acid (AA, 4, Figure 1) is a 20:4 (ω-6) fatty acid with a 20-carbon chain and four cis-double bonds, and the esterified form of AA in phospholipids can be enzymatically liberated by phospholipases (PL) and subsequently metabolized into a variety of physiologically important mediators known as eicosanoids (Figure 2). One of the most important eicosanoids is 5-oxo-6,8,11,14-eicosatetraenoic acid (5-oxo-ETE, 17). The 5-oxo-ETE (17) is the most known potent chemotactic factors for human eosinophils, and it can stimulate the late-phase asthma attacks.¹ To determine how the biosynthesis of 5-oxo-ETE is regulated, so as to determine its pathophysiological roles in the …
High Volume Test Automation With Yeager, Casey Doran
High Volume Test Automation With Yeager, Casey Doran
Theses and Dissertations
High Volume Automated Testing is a powerful family of software testing techniques which enable a variety of testing goals, including the discovery of hard-to-reproduce bugs, which can enable new levels of quality assurance when applied correctly. This thesis presents a software tool, Yeager, which may be used in conjunction with existing test code to execute tests similar to Long Sequence Regression Tests based on an inferred state-model of the system under test as provided by tester annotations of state transitions caused by individual test code snippets. The usefulness of the package is evaluated through the development and deployment of a …
Information Densification Of Social Constructs Via Behavior Analysis Of Social Media Users – A Study On Twitter, Diogo F. Pacheco
Information Densification Of Social Constructs Via Behavior Analysis Of Social Media Users – A Study On Twitter, Diogo F. Pacheco
Theses and Dissertations
We live in a digital era where everyday activities are increasingly being replaced by online interactions. In addition, technology advances and data availability are changing the way we expand our knowledge about ourselves, society, and the environment. The increasing availability of data, especially social media data, has called the attention of researchers, and we have been witnessing an outbreak in studies relying on this rich source of information. However, most social media research is tuned to improve the outcomes of specific problems. Therefore, the reuse of techniques used in different areas is limited to data specialists. We propose a straightforward …
A Mixed-Reality Approach For Cyber-Situation Awareness, Tapas Dipakkumar Joshi
A Mixed-Reality Approach For Cyber-Situation Awareness, Tapas Dipakkumar Joshi
Theses and Dissertations
As the proliferation and adoption of smart devices increase, there is an unprecedented amount of data being released into the network every second. Computer networks are the carriers for the movement of this ever generating amounts of data, but are dumb in a way that they do not distinguish between suspicious data traffic and valid data traffic. Also, for however secure a computer network be, suspicious network traffic activities are bound to happen. These suspicious traffic activities have to be detected, analyzed and stopped before it compromises the entire network and leaves the information and data security of an organization …
A Context-Free Method Of Visualizing Streaming Object Data For The Purpose Of Identifying Known Events: An Implementation And Analysis, Quinn Gregory Carver
A Context-Free Method Of Visualizing Streaming Object Data For The Purpose Of Identifying Known Events: An Implementation And Analysis, Quinn Gregory Carver
Theses and Dissertations
This year, every second, five gigabytes of new data will be streamed to storage and yet less than half a percent of all this data will ever be analyzed. Much of this muted data is high-variety object data, unnoticed in a void of sorely needed tools to make it readily understandable. A software tool for visualizing streaming object data in a context-free manner can be built, and this tool would aid in finding predictor data for known events which are functions of the data. The design of the tool to support the hypothesis is presented and field results from over …
Mining Location And User Information From Users’ Trajectories, Marcello Tomasini
Mining Location And User Information From Users’ Trajectories, Marcello Tomasini
Theses and Dissertations
The understanding of human mobility is integral to the advancement of many fields including public health, city planning, economic forecasting, and it attracts the interest of researchers from a broad number of fields. The work of such researchers would not have been possible without the availability of large localized datasets such as mobile phone Call Detail Records (CDRs) provided by telco operators and Location Based Social Networks (LBSNs) check-ins provided by popular applications such as Twitter, Facebook and Foursquare. However, such datasets are often incomplete, anonymized, and/or inaccurate. Hence there is a need to partially reconstruct or extract more information …
Decision Support For Shared Responsibility Of Cloud Security Metrics, Moteeb Aieed Al Moteri
Decision Support For Shared Responsibility Of Cloud Security Metrics, Moteeb Aieed Al Moteri
Theses and Dissertations
With the rapid growth of cloud computing and the increasing importance of measuring the security of cloud systems, more attention has been focused on the need for security metrics that are specific to cloud computing. The use of metrics in cloud computing enables improved service selection, service agreement, and service verification. This dissertation presents a taxonomy of cloud security metrics and guideline and a framework for allocating cloud security metrics shared responsibility. The taxonomy considers several novel viewpoints. Metrics are organized by cloud capability type (Application, Platform, Infrastructure) along with the type of cloud deployment (public, private, hybrid, community), and …
Parametric And Non-Parametric Regression Models With Applications To Climate Change, Osita Eluemuno Onyejekwe
Parametric And Non-Parametric Regression Models With Applications To Climate Change, Osita Eluemuno Onyejekwe
Theses and Dissertations
In this dissertation we have studied the climate factors that contribute to climate change using univariate and multivariate parametric methods as well as nonparametric models. In this study, we have three major contributions. First, the extent of mountain glaciers around the globe and their responses to climate factors are investigated using multivariate methods and we have proposed a predictive model to estimate the mountain glacier response to climate factors. Second, we have addressed the important problem of bandwidth selection in presence of correlated noise in nonparametric regression analysis. We have proposed a denoising method based on an ensemble bandwidth optimization …
On Logconcavity Of Multivariate Discrete Distributions, Majed Ghazi Alharbi
On Logconcavity Of Multivariate Discrete Distributions, Majed Ghazi Alharbi
Theses and Dissertations
The contribution of this dissertation to the literature is twofold. First, we use a geometric perspective to present all possible subdivisions of R³ into tetrahedra with disjoint interiors and adopt a combinatorial approach to obtain a special subdivision of Rⁿ into simplices with disjoint interiors, where two simplices are called neighbors if they share a common facet. We then use the neighborhood relationship of the simplices in each subdivision to fully describe the sufficient conditions for the strong unimodality/logconcavity of the trivariate discrete distributions and further extend these results to present a new sufcient condition for the strong unimodality/logconcavity of …
Copper Tolerance Of Amphibalanus Amphitrite As Observed In Central Florida, Hannah Grace Brinson
Copper Tolerance Of Amphibalanus Amphitrite As Observed In Central Florida, Hannah Grace Brinson
Theses and Dissertations
Copper tolerance in the invasive barnacle Amphibalanus amphitrite has been observed in Florida by the Center for Corrosion and Biofouling Control since 2012 and by Weiss (1947). To test the theory that this barnacle preferentially settles on copper coated surfaces to avoid settlement competition by other sessile species, a series of two experiments and a literature review of historical copper toxicity tests on larval barnacles was conducted. The barnacle A amphitrite was preferentially used in many previous toxicity studies because it is readily available, has high fecundity, and is more sensitive to some toxicants than other species, including the native …
St. Lucie Shoal Complex: Regional Sediment Resource Or Submerged Storm Breakwater, Leaf Erickson
St. Lucie Shoal Complex: Regional Sediment Resource Or Submerged Storm Breakwater, Leaf Erickson
Theses and Dissertations
Nearshore sand shoals have become the predominant sediment resource for beach nourishment projects on the east coast of Florida. Along this coast, the St. Lucie Shoal Complex (SLSC) is comprised of several shoals designated as sediment resources for beach nourishment, many having depths less than 7 meters, at their crests. This group of shoals represents the largest high-quality beach nourishment sediment resource in southeast Florida. Among these shoals, the St. Lucie shoal is the largest and shallowest at the crest. This project explores the current best practice methodologies to explore impacts of excavating sand resources from shallow-crested shoal systems like …
Search For Pair Production Of Vector-Like T And B Quarks In Single-Lepton Final States Using Boosted Jet Substructure In Proton-Proton Collisions At √S=13 Tev, Cms Collaboration, A. M. Sirunyan, A. Tumasyan, Marc M. Baarmand, Vallary Bhopatkar, Stefano Colafranceschi, Marcus Hohlmann, Daniel Noonan, Tuhin Roy, Francisco X. Yumiceva
Search For Pair Production Of Vector-Like T And B Quarks In Single-Lepton Final States Using Boosted Jet Substructure In Proton-Proton Collisions At √S=13 Tev, Cms Collaboration, A. M. Sirunyan, A. Tumasyan, Marc M. Baarmand, Vallary Bhopatkar, Stefano Colafranceschi, Marcus Hohlmann, Daniel Noonan, Tuhin Roy, Francisco X. Yumiceva
Aerospace, Physics, and Space Science Faculty Publications
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Measurements Of Differential Cross Sections For Associated Production Of A W Boson And Jets In Proton-Proton Collisions At Square Root Of S = 8 Tev, A. M. Sirunyan, A. R. Tumasyan, W. Adam, Marc M. Baarmand, Vallary Bhopatkar, Stefano Colafranceschi, Marcus Hohlmann, Daniel Noonan, Tuhin S. Roy, Francisco X. Yumiceva
Measurements Of Differential Cross Sections For Associated Production Of A W Boson And Jets In Proton-Proton Collisions At Square Root Of S = 8 Tev, A. M. Sirunyan, A. R. Tumasyan, W. Adam, Marc M. Baarmand, Vallary Bhopatkar, Stefano Colafranceschi, Marcus Hohlmann, Daniel Noonan, Tuhin S. Roy, Francisco X. Yumiceva
Aerospace, Physics, and Space Science Faculty Publications
A measurement of the differential cross sections for a W boson produced in association with jets in the muon decay channel is presented. The measurement is based on 13 TeV proton-proton collision data corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 2.2 fb-1, recorded by the CMS detector at the LHC. The cross sections are reported as functions of jet multiplicity, jet transverse momentum pT, jet rapidity, the scalar pT sum of the jets, and angular correlations between the muon and each jet for different jet multiplicities. The measured cross sections are in agreement with predictions that include multileg leading-order (LO) and …
Measurement Of The B± Meson Nuclear Modification Factor In Pb-Pb Collisions At Snn =5.02 Tev, A. M. Sirunyam, A. R. Tumasyan, Adam Wolfgang, Marc M. Baarmand, Vallary Bhopatkar, Stefano Colafranceschi, Marcus Hohlmann, Daniel Noonan, Toohin S. Roy, Francisco X. Yumiceva
Measurement Of The B± Meson Nuclear Modification Factor In Pb-Pb Collisions At Snn =5.02 Tev, A. M. Sirunyam, A. R. Tumasyan, Adam Wolfgang, Marc M. Baarmand, Vallary Bhopatkar, Stefano Colafranceschi, Marcus Hohlmann, Daniel Noonan, Toohin S. Roy, Francisco X. Yumiceva
Aerospace, Physics, and Space Science Faculty Publications
The differential production cross sections of B± mesons are measured via the exclusive decay channels B±→J/ψK±→μ+μ-K± as a function of transverse momentum in pp and Pb-Pb collisions at a center-of-mass energy sNN=5.02 TeV per nucleon pair with the CMS detector at the LHC. The pp(Pb-Pb) data set used for this analysis corresponds to an integrated luminosity of 28.0 pb-1 (351 μb-1). The measurement is performed in the B± meson transverse momentum range of 7 to 50 GeV/c, in the rapidity interval |y|<2.4. In this kinematic range, a strong suppression of the production cross section by about a factor of 2 is observed in the Pb-Pb system in comparison to the expectation from pp reference data. These results are found to be roughly compatible with theoretical calculations incorporating beauty quark diffusion and energy loss in a quark-gluon plasma. © 2017 CERN, for the CMS Collaboration. Published by the American Physical Society under the terms of the «https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/» Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license. Further distribution of this work must maintain attribution to the author(s) and the published article's title, journal citation, and DOI.
Search For Direct Production Of Supersymmetric Partners Of The Top Quark In The All-Jets Final State In Proton-Proton Collisions At √S=13 Tev, A. M. Sirunyan, Marc M. Baarmand, Vallary Bhopatkar, Stefano Colafranceschi, Marcus Hohlmann, Daniel Noonan, Tuhin S. Roy, F. Yumiceva, The Cms Collaboration
Search For Direct Production Of Supersymmetric Partners Of The Top Quark In The All-Jets Final State In Proton-Proton Collisions At √S=13 Tev, A. M. Sirunyan, Marc M. Baarmand, Vallary Bhopatkar, Stefano Colafranceschi, Marcus Hohlmann, Daniel Noonan, Tuhin S. Roy, F. Yumiceva, The Cms Collaboration
Aerospace, Physics, and Space Science Faculty Publications
A search for direct production of top squark pairs in events with jets and large transverse momentum imbalance is presented. The data are based on proton-proton collisions at a center-of-mass energy of 13 TeV, collected with the CMS detector in 2016 at the CERN LHC, and correspond to an integrated luminosity of 35.9 fb−1. The search considers a variety of R-parity conserving supersymmetric models, including ones for which the top squark and neutralino masses are nearly degenerate. Specialized jet reconstruction tools are developed to exploit the unique characteristics of the signal topologies. With no significant excess of events observed above …
Distributions Of Polychaetes As A Function Of Sediment Composition In A Subtropical Lagoon, Anthony William Cox
Distributions Of Polychaetes As A Function Of Sediment Composition In A Subtropical Lagoon, Anthony William Cox
Theses and Dissertations
Fine-grained organic-rich sediments (FGORS) in the Indian River Lagoon (IRL), Florida, the human activities and nutrient inputs and have a varied composition, including water content, silt-clay content, and organic matter. When these constituents reach, by weight, 75%, 60% dry, and 10% dry, respectively, this is sometimes referred to as IRL “muck”. Many polychaetes inhabit the benthic sediments of estuaries and must tolerate various degrees of FGORS. The Cox IRL Muck Index (CMI) is proposed as a mechanism for determining the organic sediment tolerances of infaunal species in a simple and direct manner. IRL muck will have a minimum CMI of …
Development And Non-Toxic And Stable Perovskites For High Efficiency Solar Cells, Duyen H. Cao
Development And Non-Toxic And Stable Perovskites For High Efficiency Solar Cells, Duyen H. Cao
Link Foundation Energy Fellowship Reports
The efficiency of halide perovskite solar cells has dramatically increased from 9% to 22% in less than 5 years.1 They have shown promise toward the future for low cost and highly efficient solar electricity. While there are still considerable rooms for device optimization, it is now the time to tackle the device long-term stability and toxicity challenges. The presence of Pb in the champion material, methylammonium lead iodide CH3NH3PbI3, may prevent this technology from large-scale deployment due to environmental and health concerns. Attempts have been made in replacing Pb with other non-toxic metals such as Sn, Bi, or Sb.2-6 Long-term …
Search For Low Mass Vector Resonances Decaying To Quark-Antiquark Pairs In Proton-Proton Collisions At √ S = 13 Tev, A. M. Sirunyan, Marc M. Baarmand, Vallary Bhopatkar, Stefano Colafranceschi, Marcus Hohlmann, Daniel Noonan, Tuhin Roy, Francisco Yumiceva
Search For Low Mass Vector Resonances Decaying To Quark-Antiquark Pairs In Proton-Proton Collisions At √ S = 13 Tev, A. M. Sirunyan, Marc M. Baarmand, Vallary Bhopatkar, Stefano Colafranceschi, Marcus Hohlmann, Daniel Noonan, Tuhin Roy, Francisco Yumiceva
Aerospace, Physics, and Space Science Faculty Publications
A search is reported for a narrow vector resonance decaying to quark-antiquark pairs in proton-proton collisions at ffiffiffi s p ¼ 13 TeV, collected with the CMS detector at the LHC. The data sample corresponds to an integrated luminosity of 2.7 fb−1. The vector resonance is produced at large transverse momenta, with its decay products merged into a single jet. The resulting signature is a peak over background in the distribution of the invariant mass of the jet. The results are interpreted in the framework of a leptophobic vector resonance and no evidence is found for such particles in the …
Redox-Mediated Quorum Sensing In Plants, Alexandra W. Fuller, Phoebe Young, B. Daniel Pierce, Jamie Kitson-Finuff, Purvi Jain, Karl Schneider, Stephen Lazar, Olga Teran, Andrew G. Palmer, David G. Lynn
Redox-Mediated Quorum Sensing In Plants, Alexandra W. Fuller, Phoebe Young, B. Daniel Pierce, Jamie Kitson-Finuff, Purvi Jain, Karl Schneider, Stephen Lazar, Olga Teran, Andrew G. Palmer, David G. Lynn
Ocean Engineering and Marine Sciences Faculty Publications
The rhizosphere, the narrow zone of soil around plant roots, is a complex network of interactions between plants, bacteria, and a variety of other organisms. The absolute dependence on host-derived signals, or xenognosins, to regulate critical developmental checkpoints for host commitment in the obligate parasitic plants provides a window into the rhizosphere's chemical dynamics. These sessile intruders use H2O2 in a process known as semagenesis to chemically modify the mature root surfaces of proximal host plants and generate p-benzoquinones (BQs). The resulting redox-active signaling network regulates the spatial and temporal commitments necessary for host attachment. Recent evidence from non-parasites, including …
Measurement Of The T T ¯ Production Cross Section Using Events With One Lepton And At Least One Jet In Pp Collisions At √S=13 Tev, M M. Baarmand, Vallary Bhopatkar, Stefano Colafranceschi, Marcus Hohlmann, D Noonan, Tuhin S. Roy, Francisco X. Yumiceva, Cms Collaboration
Measurement Of The T T ¯ Production Cross Section Using Events With One Lepton And At Least One Jet In Pp Collisions At √S=13 Tev, M M. Baarmand, Vallary Bhopatkar, Stefano Colafranceschi, Marcus Hohlmann, D Noonan, Tuhin S. Roy, Francisco X. Yumiceva, Cms Collaboration
Aerospace, Physics, and Space Science Faculty Publications
A measurement of the t t ¯ production cross section at s=13 TeV is presented using proton-proton collisions, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 2.2 fb−1, collected with the CMS detector at the LHC. Final states with one isolated charged lepton (electron or muon) and at least one jet are selected and categorized according to the accompanying jet multiplicity. From a likelihood fit to the invariant mass distribution of the isolated lepton and a jet identified as coming from the hadronization of a bottom quark, the cross section is measured to be σtt¯=888±2,(stat)−28+26(syst)±20(lumi) pb, in agreement with the standard model …
Mobile In-Situ Visualization, Mahdi Abbaspour Tehrani
Mobile In-Situ Visualization, Mahdi Abbaspour Tehrani
Link Foundation Modeling, Simulation and Training Fellowship Reports
In this work we present a new distributed technique to geometrically calibrate multiple projectors on a fiducial free arbitrary surface using multiple casually aligned cameras where every point of the surface is seen by at least one camera. Using a multi-step method that uses binary blob patterns, we estimate robustly the display’s 3D surface geometry, the cameras’ extrinsic parameters, and the intrinsic and extrinsic parameters of the multiple projectors.
Evaluating Ensemble Wind Downscaling Methodologies Over A Coastal Estuary, Bryan Paul Holman
Evaluating Ensemble Wind Downscaling Methodologies Over A Coastal Estuary, Bryan Paul Holman
Theses and Dissertations
Current numerical weather prediction (NWP) ensemble systems are biased and under dispersive. While statistical methods have been developed to correct for these errors, the resulting post processed forecasts are typically available at observing stations only. Yet post processed forecasts are needed everywhere. Additionally, the horizontal grid spacing of current ensemble systems is too coarse to resolve the Indian River Lagoon (IRL), a coastal estuary in central Florida that impacts the local wind climatology. Thus, computationally reasonable approaches are needed that simultaneously downscale and post process ensemble wind forecasts. Currently no approach exists to do this, particularly in coastal areas such …