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New Methods For Trace Analysis Of Iodine And Perchlorate In Biological Fluids, Charles Phillip Shelor Jan 2014

New Methods For Trace Analysis Of Iodine And Perchlorate In Biological Fluids, Charles Phillip Shelor

Chemistry & Biochemistry Dissertations - Archive

Iodine is an essential element necessary for the production of the thyroid hormones T3 and T4. These hormones are necessary for metabolism and are especially important for brain development in infants and young children. Iodine is transported into the thyroid by the sodium iodide symporter. Perchlorate is known to inhibit iodine uptake into the thyroid by binding to the sodium iodide symporter, thus acting as a potential neurotoxicant for developing children.The research in this dissertation consists of two goals. The primary is the development of novel methods for measuring iodine and perchlorate and the second is performing analyses to determine …

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Effect Of Enhanced Leachate Recirculated (Elr) Landfill Operation And Gas Extraction On Greenhouse Gas Emission, Sonia Samir Jan 2014

Effect Of Enhanced Leachate Recirculated (Elr) Landfill Operation And Gas Extraction On Greenhouse Gas Emission, Sonia Samir

Civil Engineering Dissertations - Archive

The bioreactor/ enhanced leachate recirculated (ELR) landfill operation with the addition of moisture/ leachate to the landfill, accelerate the process of landfill waste decomposition; and increase the generation of LFG over a shorter period of time. Since emissions from the landfills are directly related to the gas generation, the increase in gas generation might also increase the emission from the landfill. On the contrary, the presence of gas extraction is suggested to mitigate the fugitive emissions from the landfills. Therefore, the motivation of the current study was to evaluate the effect of ELR operation as well as the gas extraction …

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Estimation Of Optimum Compaction Level For Bioreactor Landfill Operation, Dipak Tiwari Jan 2014

Estimation Of Optimum Compaction Level For Bioreactor Landfill Operation, Dipak Tiwari

Civil Engineering Dissertations - Archive

The effect of compaction on the degradation of MSW is important for the successful operation of bioreactor landfill. It has been a general tendency to compact working face solid waste as much as possible to gain more space. Previous studies has shown moisture content, moisture recirculation and ambient temperature were important components for degradation. There was a limitation on the compaction effect on degradation. Although several studies were conducted in the past to find the hydraulic conductivity of the waste, there was lack of work to find the optimum compaction to achieve sufficient flow inside the landfill and thus to …

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Spatial Variability Models And Prediction Analysis Of Soil Properties Using Geostatistics, Tejo Vikash Bheemasetti Jan 2014

Spatial Variability Models And Prediction Analysis Of Soil Properties Using Geostatistics, Tejo Vikash Bheemasetti

Civil Engineering Dissertations - Archive

Soils are composed of solid, water and air phases whose characteristics are highly variable. The interactions of these phases in the soil matrix can lead to different types of topographical formations and characteristics. Due to the uncertainty and complex interactions among these phases, studies on soils have always been a challenging problem for engineers. These variations and uncertainties make it necessary for engineers to adopt new techniques and methods to analyze soil properties in order to determine or interpret their generalized behaviors and patterns. Existing research in variability analysis tends to focus on the distribution of the soil properties, reliability-based …

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Evaluation Of Lightweight Geofoam For Mitigating Bridge Approach Slab Settlements, Pinit Ruttanaporamakul Jan 2014

Evaluation Of Lightweight Geofoam For Mitigating Bridge Approach Slab Settlements, Pinit Ruttanaporamakul

Civil Engineering Dissertations - Archive

The bump at the end of a bridge infrastructure is one of the frequent problems found in Texas and other states. Transportation agencies spend millions of dollars annually to repair the bump problem. The major cause of the problem is the settlement of backfill materials and foundation soils, as well as the erosion of backfill. Research was undertaken at the University of Texas at Arlington to study the embankment located on US 67 over SH 174 in Johnson County, Cleburne, Texas. The embankment was reconstructed, replacing the top of existing fill soil with lightweight EPS 22 geofoam blocks to reduce …

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Response Of Unsaturated Silty Sand Over A Wider Range Of Suction States Using A Novel Double-Walled Triaxial Testing System, Ujwalkumar Dashrath Patil Jan 2014

Response Of Unsaturated Silty Sand Over A Wider Range Of Suction States Using A Novel Double-Walled Triaxial Testing System, Ujwalkumar Dashrath Patil

Civil Engineering Dissertations - Archive

In recent decades, the state-of-the-art of our understanding of unsaturated soil performance has been considerably enhanced by incorporating novel and advanced features to the conventional testing devices such as direct shear device, ring shear device, triaxial device and true triaxial device. The novel suction-controlled triaxial system used in this research is fully automated and has enhanced features such as volume change device and double-walled cell to monitor the volume change accurately during all the stages of unsaturated triaxial test. Despite the sophistication, such devices can help in testing mechanical behavior of unsaturated soils only up to matric suction (s) value …

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Numerical Modeling Of Ground Movements Associated With Trenchless Box Jacking Technique, Babak Haji Mohammad Hasan Mamaqani Jan 2014

Numerical Modeling Of Ground Movements Associated With Trenchless Box Jacking Technique, Babak Haji Mohammad Hasan Mamaqani

Civil Engineering Dissertations - Archive

The Trenchless Technology (TT) is defined as a family of methods used to install, renew, replace or renovate new pipe/box or existing pipe/box underground with little or no surface disruption. TT is divided into two main categories including Trenchless Construction Methods (TCMs) and Trenchless Renewal Methods (TRMs). TCMs are used to install new utilities and pipes underground while TRMs are used to renew, renovate and replace an existing utility or pipe. Box jacking (BJ) is a TCM used to install rectangular box culverts under existing facilities such as highways and railroads. In this method, box culverts are pushed through the …

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Phase I Monitoring With Applications In Manufacturing And Healthcare, Smriti Neogi Jan 2014

Phase I Monitoring With Applications In Manufacturing And Healthcare, Smriti Neogi

Industrial, Manufacturing, and Systems Engineering Dissertations - Archive

This research develops statistical methods for quality monitoring in complex systems. Quality monitoring typically consists of two phases called Phase I analysis (or offline monitoring) and Phase II analysis (or online monitoring). This research is focused on Phase I monitoring. Two application areas are considered, complex manufacturing processes and healthcare delivery processes. In the first application, a robust strategy for Phase I analysis of optical profiles in low-E glass manufacturing is developed. The proposed approach aims to solve the problems such as violation of normality, high dimensionality, detection of multiple change points, etc. It will provide a convenient process monitoring …

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Antioxidant Activity Of Phaleria Macrocarpa (Mahkota Dewa) Fruits / Ahmad Farid Bin Asmail @ Ismail, Ahmad Farid Asmail @ Ismail Jan 2014

Antioxidant Activity Of Phaleria Macrocarpa (Mahkota Dewa) Fruits / Ahmad Farid Bin Asmail @ Ismail, Ahmad Farid Asmail @ Ismail

Student Works (2010-2019)

The study was conducted to determine the antioxidant activity of fruit and seed parts of Phaleria macrocarpa in hexane, chloroform, methanol and water extracts. The antioxidant activity were evaluated using in-vitro bioassay system namely 2,2-diphenyl-1-picrylhydrazyl (DPPH) radical scavenging assay, Ferric Reducing Antioxidant Power (FRAP) Assay and Metal Chelating Assay. In the DPPH assay, water extract of Phaleria macrocarpa fruit had the highest antioxidant activity with IC50 of 1.56 ug/ml while in Phaleria macrocarpa seed, chloroform extract showed good free radical scavenging activity with IC50 of 1.83 ug/ml when compared with standard ascorbic acid (IC50 = 1.25 ug/ml). For isolated compounds …

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Investigation Of Dynamical Structure Of Solar Radio Burst Type Iii And The Tendencies To Form Type Ii Burst Based On Coronal Mass Ejections Events (Cmes) In Low Frequency Radio Region / Zety Sharizat Binti Hamidi, Zety Sharizat Hamidi Jan 2014

Investigation Of Dynamical Structure Of Solar Radio Burst Type Iii And The Tendencies To Form Type Ii Burst Based On Coronal Mass Ejections Events (Cmes) In Low Frequency Radio Region / Zety Sharizat Binti Hamidi, Zety Sharizat Hamidi

Student Works (2010-2019)

Coronal Mass Ejections (CMEs) are well known as one of the most massive eruptions which potentially create major disturbances in the interplanetary medium and initiate severe magnetic storms when they collide with the Earth‟s magnetosphere. As indicated with radio signatures so-called type II and III burst it also divided by sub-type of burst depending on the physical characteristics and different mechanisms. For empirical case studies, the statistical properties of both solar bursts by using the Compound Astronomical Low-cost Low-frequency Instrument for Spectroscopy in Transportable Observatories (CALLISTO) network data has been analyzed. The aim of the present study is to reveal …

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Optimization Of Large-Scale Sustainable Renewable Energy Supply Chains In A Stochastic Environment, Atif Osmani Jan 2014

Optimization Of Large-Scale Sustainable Renewable Energy Supply Chains In A Stochastic Environment, Atif Osmani

Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering

Due to the increasing demand of energy and environmental concern of fossil fuels, it is becoming increasingly important to find alternative renewable energy sources. Biofuels produced from lignocellulosic biomass feedstock's show enormous potential as a renewable resource. Electricity generated from the combustion of biomass is also one important type of bioenergy. Renewable resources like wind also show great potential as a resource for electricity generation. In order to deliver competitive renewable energy products to the end-market, robust renewable energy supply chains (RESCs) are essential. Research is needed in two distinct types of RESCs, namely: 1) lignocellulosic biomass-to-biofuel (LBSC); and 2) …

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13_349_Coimbdistances.Nex, Agustin Jimenez-Ruiz, Jorge Luis Peralta-Rodríguez, Juan Caspeta-Mandujano, Silvia Edith Ramírez-Díaz Jan 2014

13_349_Coimbdistances.Nex, Agustin Jimenez-Ruiz, Jorge Luis Peralta-Rodríguez, Juan Caspeta-Mandujano, Silvia Edith Ramírez-Díaz

Zoology Data Sets

Data Matrix, cytochrome oxidase I (Cox1), mitochondrial DNA of bat dwelling Anoplostrongylinae , including Macuahuitloides inexpectans n. s.p

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13_349tree_Coimbnex.Tre, Agustin Jimenez-Ruiz, Jorge Luis Peralta-Rodríguez, Juan Caspeta-Mandujano, Silvia Edith Ramírez-Díaz Jan 2014

13_349tree_Coimbnex.Tre, Agustin Jimenez-Ruiz, Jorge Luis Peralta-Rodríguez, Juan Caspeta-Mandujano, Silvia Edith Ramírez-Díaz

Zoology Data Sets

Relationships of Macuahuitloides inexpectans n. gen., n. sp., relative to 2 bat-dwelling Anoplocephalinae present in Morelos, Mexico; reconstructed using datamatrix 13_349_COImbdistances.nex

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Jfl Rda Copy Cataloging Guidelines, Anne Foust Jan 2014

Jfl Rda Copy Cataloging Guidelines, Anne Foust

Faculty Publications and Presentations

This is a PowerPoint presentation used to teach the cataloging staff the new cataloging standard, RDA (Resource Description Access).

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Eeg/Qeeg Technology Identifies Neurobiomarkers Critical To Medication Selection And Treatment In Refractory Cases, Vijayan K. Pillai, Ronald J. Swatzyna, Jay D. Tarnow, Jonika D. Tannous, Christine Schieszler, Gerald P. Kozlowski Jan 2014

Eeg/Qeeg Technology Identifies Neurobiomarkers Critical To Medication Selection And Treatment In Refractory Cases, Vijayan K. Pillai, Ronald J. Swatzyna, Jay D. Tarnow, Jonika D. Tannous, Christine Schieszler, Gerald P. Kozlowski

Social Work Faculty Publications & Presentations-Archive

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Liminality And Mental Health Court Diversion: An Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis Of Offender Experiences, Anne Nordberg Jan 2014

Liminality And Mental Health Court Diversion: An Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis Of Offender Experiences, Anne Nordberg

Social Work Faculty Publications & Presentations-Archive

Seriously mentally ill people are a 'revolving-door' population in criminal justice systems where they cycle in and out of courts and jails. In response and consonant with the principles of therapeutic jurisprudence, mental health courts (MHCs) have flourished in North America and Western Europe in attempts to divert this population away from jail and provision them with the social services they require to avoid legal contact. Little research has focused on the perspective of the accused in MHCs and there has been little information about which aspects of the court and diversion processes contribute to therapeutic processes in MHCs. This …

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Ghosts Of The Horseshoe, Heidi Rae Cooley, Richard Walker, Duncan Buell Jan 2014

Ghosts Of The Horseshoe, Heidi Rae Cooley, Richard Walker, Duncan Buell

Digital Projects

Ghosts of the Horseshoe (Ghosts) is a mobile interactive application that endeavors to bring into view--literally, on mobile micro screens (iPads and iPhones at present)--the largely unknown history of slavery at South Carolina College. It deploys game mechanics (i.e., ludic methods), as well as Augmented Reality (AR) and GPS functionality to generate awareness of and questioning about what otherwise seems ordinary: a grassy space at the center of a university campus. It organizes content into distinct but overlapping themes: (1) architectural ghosts (e.g., razed outbuildings); (2) human ghosts (e.g., un/named enslaved persons); and (3) the historic Wall delimiting the Horseshoe …

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Henry's Big Adventure, Kelly Rippeth Jan 2014

Henry's Big Adventure, Kelly Rippeth

Honors Projects

I have written and illustrated a children’s book as well as planned a selection of lesson plans that can be used in addition to the book titled Henry’s BIG Adventure. Illustrated children’s books are very valuable to the development of children by aiding in comprehension. According to Mary Renck Jalongo, author of Young Children and Picture Books, children can learn so much from reading stories, even fiction ones. Henry’s BIG Adventure centers on a young boy who finds an old photo album with pictures of several places he has never been before. The album leads him on a big …

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Prefrontal Responses To Digit Span Memory Phases In Patients With Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (Ptsd): A Functional Near Infrared Spectroscopy Study, Fenghua Tian, Amarnath Yennu, Alexa Smith-Osborne, F. Gonzalez-Lima, Carol S. North, Hanli Liu Jan 2014

Prefrontal Responses To Digit Span Memory Phases In Patients With Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (Ptsd): A Functional Near Infrared Spectroscopy Study, Fenghua Tian, Amarnath Yennu, Alexa Smith-Osborne, F. Gonzalez-Lima, Carol S. North, Hanli Liu

Go Open Fund Publications-Archive

Neuroimaging studies of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)-related memory impairments have consistently implicated abnormal activities in the frontal and parietal lobes. However, most studies have used block designs and could not dissociate the multiple phases of working memory. In this study, the involvement of the prefrontal cortex in working memory phases was assessed among veterans with PTSD and age-/ gender-matched healthy controls. Multichannel functional near infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS) was utilized to measure prefrontal cortex hemodynamic activations during memory of neutral (i.e., not trauma-related) forward and backward digit span tasks. An event-related experimental design was utilized to dissociate the different phases (i.e., …

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The Use Of Liquid Chromatography And Subcritical Fluid Chromatography For Chiral Separations Using Macrocyclic Chiral Stationary Phases: Insights Into Mechanisms Of Retention And Chiral Discrimination, Ross M. Woods Jan 2014

The Use Of Liquid Chromatography And Subcritical Fluid Chromatography For Chiral Separations Using Macrocyclic Chiral Stationary Phases: Insights Into Mechanisms Of Retention And Chiral Discrimination, Ross M. Woods

Chemistry & Biochemistry Dissertations - Archive

Enantiomeric separations are an essential component of pharmaceutical drug development, not only at the analytical scale, but also to separate usable quantities for further analysis. The field of asymmetric synthesis is also heavily dependent on chromatographic methods to separate and quantitate the results of asymmetric transformations as well as characterize new ligands and catalysts. This dissertation focuses on the use of macrocyclic chiral stationary phases for use in high performance liquid chromatography as well as subcritical fluid chromatography to separate individual enantiomers of molecules of importance to the scientific community. Optimized separation conditions are provided for many of these important …

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A Method For Exact Solutions To Integrable Evolution Equations In 2+1 Dimensions, Alicia Machuca Jan 2014

A Method For Exact Solutions To Integrable Evolution Equations In 2+1 Dimensions, Alicia Machuca

Mathematics Dissertations - Archive

A systematic method is developed to obtain solution formulas for certain explicit solutions to integrable nonlinear partial differential equations in two spatial variables and one time variable. The method utilizes an underlying Marchenko integral equation that arises in the corresponding inverse scattering problem. The method is demonstrated for the Kadomtsev-Petviashvili and the generalized Davey-Stewartson II system. A derivation and analysis of the solution formulas to these two nonlinear partial differential equations are given, and an independent verification of the solution formulas is presented. Such solution formulas are expressed in a compact form in terms of matrix exponentials, by using a …

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Estimation Of Variance In Bivariate Normal Distribution After Preliminary Test Of Homogeneity, Juan Manuel Romero Padilla Jan 2014

Estimation Of Variance In Bivariate Normal Distribution After Preliminary Test Of Homogeneity, Juan Manuel Romero Padilla

Mathematics Dissertations - Archive

A preliminary test estimator of variance in the bivariate normal distribution is proposed after Pitman-Morgan test of homogeneity of two variances. We propose one estimator of variance after preliminary test of two tails and another one for one tail test. The biases and mean square errors of both estimators are derived. The relative efficiency (RE) of the preliminary test estimator is studied. Computations and 3D graphs of RE for different parameters are analyzed. In order to get the maximum RE, recommendations of the significance level for the preliminary test are given for various sample sizes by using the max-min criterion.

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The Impact Of Salesperson Listening: A Multi-Faceted Research Approach, Emily A. Goad Jan 2014

The Impact Of Salesperson Listening: A Multi-Faceted Research Approach, Emily A. Goad

Marketing Dissertations - Archive

Relationships are based on communication between parties; an important aspect of communication that is necessary for building long-term relationships is listening (Ingram et al. 1992). In sales, researchers have posited that salespeople's relationships with their customers are strengthened when salespeople consistently have effective listening skills (Ramsey and Sohi 1997; Marshall et al. 2003). Given the importance of listening in relationship building and the sales context, this dissertation examines salesperson listening from varying research approaches in three essays. First, a meta-analysis was conducted to synthesize existing empirical research on listening to empirically assess the research stream of salesperson listening. This meta-analysis …

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Chemosensory Receptors In Tsetse Flies Provide Link Between Chemical And Behavioural Ecology, Daniel Masiga, George Obiero, Rosaline Macharia, Paul Mireji, Alan Christoffels Jan 2014

Chemosensory Receptors In Tsetse Flies Provide Link Between Chemical And Behavioural Ecology, Daniel Masiga, George Obiero, Rosaline Macharia, Paul Mireji, Alan Christoffels

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Tsetse flies survive in a variety of environments across tropical Africa, often rising to large numbers, despite their low birth rate of one offspring every seven to nine days. They use olfactory receptors to process chemical signals in their environments to find food, escape from predators, and locate suitable larviposition sites. We discuss the identification of odorant and gustatory receptors in Glossina morsitans morsitans and the role genomics could play in management of nuisance insects. © 2014 Elsevier Ltd.

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Storage Of Mung Bean (Vigna Radiata [L.] Wilczek) And Pigeonpea Grains (Cajanus Cajan [L.] Millsp) In Hermetic Triple-Layer Bags Stops Losses Caused By Callosobruchus Maculatus (F.) (Coleoptera: Bruchidae), C. M. Mutungi, H. Affognon, A. W. Njoroge, D. Baributsa, L. L. Murdock Jan 2014

Storage Of Mung Bean (Vigna Radiata [L.] Wilczek) And Pigeonpea Grains (Cajanus Cajan [L.] Millsp) In Hermetic Triple-Layer Bags Stops Losses Caused By Callosobruchus Maculatus (F.) (Coleoptera: Bruchidae), C. M. Mutungi, H. Affognon, A. W. Njoroge, D. Baributsa, L. L. Murdock

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Dry mung bean and pigeonpea grains that had sustained some insect damage but fumigated before the start of the experiment were stored in triple-layer hermetic bags (Purdue Improved Crop Storage (PICS™ bags) or woven polypropylene (PP) bags for 6 months. Some of the bags were artificially infested with cowpea bruchid Callosobruchus maculatus (F.) (PICS1, PP1) while others were not (PICS0, PP0). In an additional trial, PP bags containing the grains were treated with Actellic Super® dust before being artificially infested (PP1Ac). Moisture content, live adult C.maculatus count, grain damage, weight loss, and seed germination were determined on a monthly basis. …

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Cumulative Effects And Economic Benefits Of Intercropping Maize With Food Legumes On Striga Hermonthica Infestation, Charles A.O. Midega, Daisy Salifu, Toby J. Bruce, Jimmy Pittchar, John A. Pickett, Zeyaur R. Khan Jan 2014

Cumulative Effects And Economic Benefits Of Intercropping Maize With Food Legumes On Striga Hermonthica Infestation, Charles A.O. Midega, Daisy Salifu, Toby J. Bruce, Jimmy Pittchar, John A. Pickett, Zeyaur R. Khan

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The parasitic weed Striga hermonthica, commonly known as striga, is a major biotic constraint to maize production in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) where it causes serious food insecurity and poverty in smallholder farming communities. We previously discovered an effective control method for it involving intercropping cereals with fodder legumes in the genus Desmodium, commonly known as desmodium. The objectives of the current study were to evaluate cumulative effects of intercropping maize with the commonly grown food legumes on striga infestation, and to establish any economic benefits of the same. Treatments comprised maize plots planted in monocrop stands or intercropped with five …

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Aquaporins Are Critical For Provision Of Water During Lactation And Intrauterine Progeny Hydration To Maintain Tsetse Fly Reproductive Success, Joshua B. Benoit, Immo A. Hansen, Geoffrey M. Attardo, Veronika Michalková, Paul O. Mireji, Joel L. Bargul, Lisa L. Drake, Daniel K. Masiga, Serap Aksoy Jan 2014

Aquaporins Are Critical For Provision Of Water During Lactation And Intrauterine Progeny Hydration To Maintain Tsetse Fly Reproductive Success, Joshua B. Benoit, Immo A. Hansen, Geoffrey M. Attardo, Veronika Michalková, Paul O. Mireji, Joel L. Bargul, Lisa L. Drake, Daniel K. Masiga, Serap Aksoy

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Tsetse flies undergo drastic fluctuations in their water content throughout their adult life history due to events such as blood feeding, dehydration and lactation, an essential feature of the viviparous reproductive biology of tsetse. Aquaporins (AQPs) are transmembrane proteins that allow water and other solutes to permeate through cellular membranes. Here we identify tsetse aquaporin (AQP) genes, examine their expression patterns under different physiological conditions (blood feeding, lactation and stress response) and perform functional analysis of three specific genes utilizing RNA interference (RNAi) gene silencing. Ten putative aquaporins were identified in the Glossina morsitans morsitans (Gmm) genome, two more than …

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Improving Scoliosis Rehabilitation, Ryan Neufeld Jan 2014

Improving Scoliosis Rehabilitation, Ryan Neufeld

Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Theses - Archive

Scoliosis, a disease that mainly affects children, is a deformity of the spinal column in all three dimensions. Treatment for scoliosis aims at straightening the spine with minimal discomfort to the patient. Current treatments involve wearing a polymeric brace that based on its design, exerts force on the spine in order to straighten it. The shape of the brace and the locations where the brace should apply forces are defined based on the experience of the orthotics specialist. Currently used braces are not equipped with sensors to monitor the loads generated and possibly aid in the rehabilitation process. The rehabilitation …

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Computational Study Of Data Center Hotspot Mitigation With Snorkels As An Alternative Rack-Level Containment Strategy, Chris Onyiorah Jan 2014

Computational Study Of Data Center Hotspot Mitigation With Snorkels As An Alternative Rack-Level Containment Strategy, Chris Onyiorah

Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Theses - Archive

One of the major concerns of companies around the world is business continuity and with that comes the need to prevent operational dysfunction by keeping their information systems available and functional. IT professionals therefore, are constantly striving towards network sustainability by boosting the cooling cycle and infrastructure in data centers, while also reducing overall energy consumption. The combination of increasing IT workloads and packaging densities place stringent requirements on data center cooling systems and so, various traditional airflow management technologies have been implemented that propose significant energy savings and potential reduction in net annual cost for running data centers.In this …

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Data Center Cooling Augmentation Using Micro-Encapsulated Phase Change Material, Ruddhi Shashikumar Deshmukh Jan 2014

Data Center Cooling Augmentation Using Micro-Encapsulated Phase Change Material, Ruddhi Shashikumar Deshmukh

Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Theses - Archive

The ever increasing information technology heat load and data center cooling energy are the main reasons to investigate the performance of microencapsulated phase change slurry over other heat transfer fluids. In recent years, more effort is being made on the development of a new technique to use the phase change materials as pump-able heat transfer fluid and as heat storage system. Thermal Energy Storage (TES) using Phase Change Materials for data centers offers a very effective method of cutting electric power costs for owners and easing demand on the power grid. Thermal storage systems have been around for decades and …

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