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The Relationship Between Head Coaching Change And Donations To Intercollegiate Athletic Departments, Michael Paulus
The Relationship Between Head Coaching Change And Donations To Intercollegiate Athletic Departments, Michael Paulus
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Intercollegiate athletic departments encounter unique challenges as organizational units of higher education. Among these challenges is generating revenue to support the rising expenses of operating programs, funding coaches’ salaries, and investing in facilities. Many athletics departments generate revenue by fundraising through donor-based seating programs, philanthropic engagement, and stewardship benefits associated with levels of support. While various factors within an athletics organization can influence fundraising, the important position of head coaches is one of them. These visible positions can play a key role in influencing ticket sales, fan interest, and donations, thereby contributing to the financial viability of the entire organization.This …
Absurdity Is A Distinct Aesthetic Category, Sarah Jean Szopinski
Absurdity Is A Distinct Aesthetic Category, Sarah Jean Szopinski
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Absurdity is the sudden discomfort caused by direct awareness of your being consciousand your relation to reality. Camus’ absurdist philosophy refers to the conflict between the human desire for inherent meaning in reality and the incomprehensible and irrational nature of the universe. Facing absurdity requires confronting the absurd feeling through introspective awareness of this tension. Otherwise, you are overcome by it, succumbing to a lack of mindfulness and avoidance of the confrontation. Absurdity, especially in its aesthetic dimension, has not received the sustained attention it deserves. In this paper, I argue that due to the sustained relevance of the absurd …
An American Pilgrimage: The 1968 Poor People's Campaign Mule Train As Prophetic Social Performance, Cheston M. Bush
An American Pilgrimage: The 1968 Poor People's Campaign Mule Train As Prophetic Social Performance, Cheston M. Bush
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In late spring of 1968, the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) launched a nationwide demonstration known as the Poor People’s Campaign in an effort to overcome poverty. Nine caravans representing people from around the country converged in the Capitol to petition Congress for programs that would broaden opportunities for poor Americans. This work examines the Mississippi contingent of the campaign, the Mule Train caravan, that consisted of roughly 150 people who traveled in 15 covered wagons pulled by about 40 mules. The Mule Train left Marks, Mississippi on May 13 and arrived in Washington, D.C. in time for a June …
The Meat Of The Gothic: Animality And Social Justice In United States Fiction And Film Of The Twenty-First Century, Amber Hodge
The Meat Of The Gothic: Animality And Social Justice In United States Fiction And Film Of The Twenty-First Century, Amber Hodge
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The Meat of the Gothic: Animality and Social Justice in United States Fiction and Film of the Twenty-First Century— situates twenty-first century US gothic narratives in relation to animal studies, even as it illuminates how these narratives interrogate the effects of historic and ongoing global systems of human oppression: slavery, imperialism, and capitalism. Instead of reacting to bias by asserting a claim to a humanity perpetually imbricated in divisions of class, race, and gender, present-day authors and filmmakers create characters who form communities that include nonhuman actors as a means of generating empowerment and critique. My approach to these narratives …
Economic Development Policy And Economic Growth In The American States, Mohammed Shariful Islam
Economic Development Policy And Economic Growth In The American States, Mohammed Shariful Islam
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The American states routinely adopt various economic development policies but those policies do not always contribute to economic growth in the state. Scholars identify several reasons to explain why the policies do not always work. First, policies that do not address market demand; rather, provide economic incentives to bring inward industrial investments do not contribute to economic growth because the cost it takes to create jobs by such industrial recruitments is too high. Second, policies that are adopted out of inertia chosen from traditionally practiced policies do not work because they are not evaluated for their effectiveness in terms of …
Do Bears Prefer The Weak And The Downtrodden? The Effects Of The 52-Week Low And Financial Strength On Short-Seller Behavior, Christopher Alan Miller
Do Bears Prefer The Weak And The Downtrodden? The Effects Of The 52-Week Low And Financial Strength On Short-Seller Behavior, Christopher Alan Miller
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This dissertation investigates the effects of a company’s financial strength on short-seller behavior around a non-information-producing event. The distance of a stock price to its 52-week high or low does not provide fundamental information, but the price extremes serve as salient price points upon which investors anchor their expectations of future stock performance. Using a large sample of daily short sales data, I investigated the effects of both the proximity to the 52-week low and the financial strength of the underlying company on short-seller behavior. I found that short-selling volume increases as the price nears its 52-week low and that …
Your Presence Threatens Me! Experimental Examination Of Intergroup Threat Theory To Assess Prejudice Towards Muslims, Sukhmani Pal
Your Presence Threatens Me! Experimental Examination Of Intergroup Threat Theory To Assess Prejudice Towards Muslims, Sukhmani Pal
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Prejudice towards Muslims has been longstanding and is on the rise in the World. To address this prejudice, it is important to understand the associated underlying mechanism. Intergroup Threat Theory (ITT) suggests that prejudice is motivated by the perceived symbolic and/or realistic threat a group represents. To date, the relationship between threat and prejudice towards Muslims has primarily been examined correlationally rather than experimentally. This project experimentally examines ITT to understand the role of threat in prejudice towards Muslims. Across three studies, I examine how manipulating the salience of threat leads to prejudice, support for harsh policies, and violence towards …
Development Of Site - Specific Drug Delivery Systems Using Hot Melt Extrusion And Fused Deposition Modeling 3d Printing, Nagireddy Reddy Dumpa
Development Of Site - Specific Drug Delivery Systems Using Hot Melt Extrusion And Fused Deposition Modeling 3d Printing, Nagireddy Reddy Dumpa
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Due to preferential site of drug absorption and the need for increased concentration of medication at the required tissues, dosage forms should be designed or formulated in such a way that medication is released at a specific site or after a specific time in the gastrointestinal tract (GIT). Knowledge of transit times of dosage forms in each part of GIT, by use of particular polymers or employing specific delivery systems such as floating systems, delivery of medication to specific sites in the GIT can be achieved. HME coupled FDM 3D printing has the capability to create customized dosage forms for …
Polyester-Pamam “Janus-Type” Linear-Dendritic Blockopolymers (Ldbcs) As Next Generation Biomaterials, Indika Chandrasiri
Polyester-Pamam “Janus-Type” Linear-Dendritic Blockopolymers (Ldbcs) As Next Generation Biomaterials, Indika Chandrasiri
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Nanomedicine is defined as the application of knowledge and tools of nanotechnology for disease treatment, diagnosis, monitoring, delivery, and sensing. Rapid advances in polymer chemistry and nanotechnology have led to an extensive development of polymeric-based therapeutic systems for nanomedical applications. Compared to traditional molecular-based therapies, polymers facilitate a higher level of versatility and functionality, such as simultaneous imaging and delivery. In particular, amphiphilic diblock copolymers and their self-assemblies have shown apparent success in nanomedicine owing to their ability to provide narrow molar mass distributions and highly ordered nanoscale multimolecular aggregates, including micelles and vesicles. However, engineering these polymeric materials to …
Nmr-Based Characterization Of A Glucan Isolated From Ganoderma Lucidum, Alysia Gonzales
Nmr-Based Characterization Of A Glucan Isolated From Ganoderma Lucidum, Alysia Gonzales
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Ganoderma lucidum is a polypore fungus commonly known as Lingzhi, Youngji or Reishi mushroom in East Asia. It is frequently marketed as an herbal supplement and often utilized as traditional Chinese medicine. Our research comprises the structural investigation of the principal polysaccharide from this fungus. After proper purification, the fungal glucan was subjected to multiple experiments of NMR spectroscopy, including 1D 1H and 13C, 2D; 1H-1H COSY, 1H-1H TOCSY, 1H-1H NOESY, 1H-13C HSQC, 1H-1H Phase Sensitive-TOCSY, and 1H-13C TOCSY-HSQC NMR spectra. Data has confirmed that this fungal polysaccharide contains residues of glucose (91.31%) as major, galactose (4.99%), and mannose (3.69%) …
Teachers Perceptions Of Using Young Adult Literature As A Catalyst To Discuss Social Justice In Mississippi Classrooms, Shimikqua Ellis
Teachers Perceptions Of Using Young Adult Literature As A Catalyst To Discuss Social Justice In Mississippi Classrooms, Shimikqua Ellis
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ABSTRACT Educational inequality and racial injustice are serious challenges that educators continue to face. More educators are seeking social justice teaching practices and implementing culturally responsive pedagogies to address systemic inequities in schools. Literary scholars suggest that books should serve as mirrors and windows for readers. Diverse young adult literature is a powerful medium through which social injustices, racial inequities, and social problems can be addressed in the classroom. This study is designed to help teachers create a more inclusive classroom through using adolescent literature. Four teachers in diverse schools throughout Mississippi used The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas …
An Applied Research On Promoting Proficiency In Fourth-Grade Reading, Deirdre Huntley
An Applied Research On Promoting Proficiency In Fourth-Grade Reading, Deirdre Huntley
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This applied research study was conducted to promote proficiency in fourth-grade reading. There was a need for improvement in fourth-grade reading after receiving data from the school and state assessments. The study examined the implementation of specific reading and vocabulary strategies, student interventions, strengthening of teacher-student relationships, and encouraging student motivation to help students become proficient in understanding what the students were reading. Student diagnostic results and teacher interviews were utilized in this study. The findings revealed students were demonstrating advancement in reading comprehension. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the school building was closed in March of 2020 which impacted …
The Validity Of Transracialism, Samantha Nichole Priest
The Validity Of Transracialism, Samantha Nichole Priest
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In this article, the idea that transracialism could be a valid identity is considered. Standpoint epistemology presents the strongest case against transracialism as a valid identity because, according to Collin’s, racial groups have a special sense of a shared history. However, arguments for race as a social construction show how transracialism could function the same way we ordinarily feel like gender functions in our society. The violent disapproval of transracialism highlights both that ordinary usage is being challenged and that it is changing. Ultimately, narrative views of personal identity, like those suggested by Aslidair MacIntyre, and the ordinary function of …
Woman Enough?: Transgender Women And Intimate Partner Violence Shelters, Parker Smith
Woman Enough?: Transgender Women And Intimate Partner Violence Shelters, Parker Smith
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This research drawing from analysis of a Qualtrics, pre-interview survey and in-depth, semi-structured interviews with seven intimate partner violence shelter leaders across the united states examines service provision for transgender women and how these shelters rationalized inclusion or exclusion for these services. Analysis revealed that despite speaking negatively and against cisnormative public narratives of intimate partner violence that shelter leaders and their organizations actively displayed cisnormative imagery throughout their websites and did not utilize large scale outreach to transgender women to also build relationships past how transgender women might see these shelters as. Shelter leaders also discussed how their allocation …
Perceptions Of Role Conflict And Role Ambiguity Among Fraternity And Sorority Advising Professionals, Anthony E. Vukusich
Perceptions Of Role Conflict And Role Ambiguity Among Fraternity And Sorority Advising Professionals, Anthony E. Vukusich
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Campus-based professionals in the area of Fraternity and Sorority Advising Programs (FSAP) have a known and documented high rate of attrition; more than half departing within the first five years of employment. Two recognized role stressors that are associated with high rates of turnover are role conflict and role ambiguity. Studies by Gold & Roth, 2013; Khan, Yusoff, Khan, Yasir, & Khan, 2014; Rizzo, House & Lirtzman, 1970; and Wolverton, Wolverton & Gmelch, 1999 have demonstrated that role conflict and role ambiguity are contributing factors in employee attrition across an array of industries and position types, including nurses, teachers, academic …
Abuse Deterrent Formulation Using Hot Melt Extrusion Technology, Vishvesh Raje
Abuse Deterrent Formulation Using Hot Melt Extrusion Technology, Vishvesh Raje
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The purpose of the current study was to formulate hot melt extruded (HME) abuse deterrent pellets of acetaminophen(APAP), a model drug with the aid of high molecular weight hydroxypropyl methylcellulose (HPMC 4M ) and gelling agents (starch, pectin and carbopol). The formulated HME pellets were assessed for their abuse-deterrence (AD) potential using Category- 1 laboratory in-vitro evaluation standards. The pellets were examined for the particle size reduction (PSR), extraction in small volume, syringeability, thermal manipulation and dissolution for evaluating the resilience of the AD properties. Though, most of the formulation showed complete particle size reduction after grinding, grounded pellets were …
The Black Petromodernism Of Zora Neale Hurston: Energy, Race, And Mobility, Stuart Mullet
The Black Petromodernism Of Zora Neale Hurston: Energy, Race, And Mobility, Stuart Mullet
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This thesis situates Zora Neale Hurston and the folk communities in her oeuvre within the context of modernity’s dependencies on fossil fuels. Such a disciplinary context provides an energy footing for our understandings of African American migrations in the twentieth century—which radically transformed the nation on multiple levels—and it illuminates the communal values that undergird Black approaches to petromodern forms of mobility. Furthermore, by engaging the Black spaces of the South, my argument begins filling a gap in the energy humanities. Few scholars in this field engage deeply those populations and regions that disproportionately experience the underbelly of petromodernity and …
The Role Of Year-Round Fan Engagement: A New Approach To Sport Fan Behavior, Han Soo Kim
The Role Of Year-Round Fan Engagement: A New Approach To Sport Fan Behavior, Han Soo Kim
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Fan engagement, the substantial psychological connectedness to a specific club, team, or sport itself, is in a state of rapid transformation due to the growth of digital media. For sport organizations, managing fan engagement throughout the year is important to maximizing team revenues and sponsors’ interests. While fans consume sports differently depending on the season, the focus has been primarily on fan behavior during the in-season in the sport management literature. Thus, the purposes of this study were to (1) provide a conceptual framework of year-round fan engagement by applying the season distinction approach, (2) establish the scale of off-season …
Nonreciprocity Applications In Acoustics And Microfluidic Systems, Masoud Naghdi
Nonreciprocity Applications In Acoustics And Microfluidic Systems, Masoud Naghdi
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Breaking reciprocity in linear acoustic systems and designing a novel actuator for the nonreciprocal valveless pumps are studied in this dissertation. The first part was started by deriving the acoustic governing equations in a moving wave propagation medium. It was shown thatthe Coriolis acceleration term appears ina cross-product term with the wave vector. It means the main reason for breaking reciprocity in the circular fluid flow is the Coriolis acceleration term. Finally, the governing equations were solved numerically by COMSOL Multiphysics software. Moreover, Green`s second identity was used as a complimentary method to prove breaking reciprocityin such a system with …
Applications Of Hot-Melt Extrusion (Hme) Technology And Investigation Of A Screening Tool For Hme, Gauri Deepak Shadambikar
Applications Of Hot-Melt Extrusion (Hme) Technology And Investigation Of A Screening Tool For Hme, Gauri Deepak Shadambikar
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Hot-melt extrusion (HME), an adaptable technology, has established its position in manufacturing operations like amorphous solid dispersions, immediate and controlled oral formulations, implants and taste masked products. In recent years the industrial focus has shifted towards continuous manufacturing, thus HME is being explored for new applications. The aim of this research was to investigate the novel applications of HME by carrying out an in-depth study to understand the interaction between the process and product and to investigate a screening tool for its small-scale formulation and development.As HME consumes large amount of samples during the developmental phase, we investigated a screening …
Midwifery And Medicine In Britain: A Comparative View Of Midwifery And Childbearing In Scotland And England, 1650-1780, Summer Smith
Midwifery And Medicine In Britain: A Comparative View Of Midwifery And Childbearing In Scotland And England, 1650-1780, Summer Smith
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In this dissertation I contend the female midwives and childbearing women did not passively accept the alteration of the experience of birth and the ideology surrounding it in eighteenth-century Britain. While the imposition of the man-midwife and the reframing of birth as a disease to be cured in some ways forced childbearing to shift to a medicalized event, many practices persisted from the seventeenth through the nineteenth centuries, illustrating a vein of consistency in a seemingly tumultuous period. Furthermore, the changes that did take root were not solely the purview of the male medical community, but were influenced by women …
Graphene Sand Composites And Their Applications In Water Treatment, Abdulla Nusair
Graphene Sand Composites And Their Applications In Water Treatment, Abdulla Nusair
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Water scarcity and the emergence of new contaminants are making the world in need of renewable water resources. Slow sand filtration is looked at as an affordable and easy method to filter water with a few weaknesses such as clogging and the inability to remove complex matrix ingredients. To overcompensate these limited weaknesses, graphene-coated sand was studied. Ottawa, concrete, and masonry sand were used, using a reduction method to transform a coating of sugar into elemental carbon in N2 atmosphere at temperatures reaching 750°C. After that, the synthesized materials were activated using sulfuric acid. To verify the effectiveness of the …
Exploring Current Community College Transfer Students’ Perceptions Of The University Of Mississippi Brand And Potential Connections To College Choice, Sarah Christopher Sapp
Exploring Current Community College Transfer Students’ Perceptions Of The University Of Mississippi Brand And Potential Connections To College Choice, Sarah Christopher Sapp
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Institutions of higher learning today rely on tuition dollars to function. During a time when the pool of high school graduates is shrinking, colleges and universities must look to alternative target markets to meet enrollment goals, including those transferring from community college. Community college transfers have unique attributes that contribute to their brand perception of colleges and universities and their overall college choice process. This dissertation suggests a need to study the college decision-making process for community college students and their perception of brand identity, specifically at the University of Mississippi. As the Flagship university in Mississippi, UM has a …
Sustained Delivery Of Moxifloxacin For Ocular Applications., Ruchi Amit Thakkar
Sustained Delivery Of Moxifloxacin For Ocular Applications., Ruchi Amit Thakkar
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Moxifloxacin is available as a marketed solution (Vigamox(R) which has to be administered 3 or more times a day leading to poor patient compliance and low ocular bioavailability. The overall goal of this research was to use formulation strategies and develop patient compliant dosage forms of moxifloxacin which are sustained-release so as to improve its retention and thereby ocular bioavailability. The first strategy that was explored was to develop sustained release inserts of moxifloxacin hydrochloride using hot-melt extrusion. The inserts showed sustained release and antibacterial activity up to 24h and could potentially be a once-a-day application and improve patient compliance …
Reframing Hegemonic And Fragmented Identities Through Subjective In-Betweenness: A Postcolonial Political Theology Of Care And Praxis In Ethiopia’S Era Of Identity Politics, Rode Shewaye Molla
Reframing Hegemonic And Fragmented Identities Through Subjective In-Betweenness: A Postcolonial Political Theology Of Care And Praxis In Ethiopia’S Era Of Identity Politics, Rode Shewaye Molla
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Modern Ethiopian imperial religious and political evangelization generated and imposed externally-defined hegemonic fictive identities on all Ethiopians. This fictive identity (based on Amhara) contributes to current identity politics that cause ethnic violence, political instability, war, identity fragmentation, and, most of all, the elimination of in-between spaces where boundaries of identity can be crossed for peaceful co-existence. This dissertation integrates the study of Ethiopian religion and politics to advocate the restoration of in-between spaces and in-between subjectivities of Ethiopians. In-between spaces include political, social, religious, and geographical spaces that enable Ethiopians to live as a diversified community with solidarity, equity, care, …
Recreational Female Crossfit Athletes And Low Energy Availability, Alison Kuch
Recreational Female Crossfit Athletes And Low Energy Availability, Alison Kuch
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CrossFit is a demanding sport in which athletes perform constantly varied, functional movements at a high intensity, therefore requiring an adequate energy availability to avoid negative health and performance consequences. The purpose of this study was to assess risk of low energy availability (low EA) (phase 1) among recreational, female CrossFit athletes and measure and calculate energy availability using a 7-day dietary to measure energy intake (EI) and exercise energy expenditure (ExEE) (phase 2). In phase 1, using the LEAF-Q (Low Energy Availability in Females Questionnaire), 49% of survey respondents (n=149) were found to be at risk of low EA. …
Policies Affecting Post-Traditional Students And Students Facing Economic Instability At The Community College, Joshua Patrick Bowens
Policies Affecting Post-Traditional Students And Students Facing Economic Instability At The Community College, Joshua Patrick Bowens
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The following dissertation in practice researches policies from the Colorado Community College System (CCCS) that relate to Post-Traditional students and students experiencing economic instability. Using a conceptual framework of Motivational Theory (Maslow, 1943; Harrigan & Lamport-Commons, 2015; Herzberg, 1959) and the Principal-Agent theory (Jensen, & Meckling, 1976), this dissertation focuses on how one community college (CC) within the CCCS system interprets and implements those policies both college and campus wide, as well as departmentally. Although many studies exist pertaining to community college students, literature pertaining to Post-Traditional students in a community college setting has not been fully explored. This will …
Evaluating Foundational Components Of Research Consultations In An Academic Library Research Center, Ryan F. Buller
Evaluating Foundational Components Of Research Consultations In An Academic Library Research Center, Ryan F. Buller
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As our society continues to evolve at an ever-increasing rate, our higher education institutions, and the services they provide, must keep pace with societal changes in order to ensure that those services stay current and relevant. This program evaluation examines one such service, the research consultation model in University Libraries at the University of Denver. This evaluation was situated within the Human Ecological Theory Framework, to help understand how different environments can impact the recognition and value placed upon the foundational components of the service. An exploratory sequential mixed methods approach was used to determine what the foundational components of …
Exploring The Impact Of Leadership Values And Practices To Support Equity And Social Justice In An Urban School, Susan-Marie Farmen
Exploring The Impact Of Leadership Values And Practices To Support Equity And Social Justice In An Urban School, Susan-Marie Farmen
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This qualitative case study explores the leadership values and practices of a principal in a sixth through twelfth-grade school in the Rocky Mountain West to determine how leadership values and practices support the implementation of equitable and socially just practices in the school. Five key themes emerged: (a) equity as a Black/non-Black construct; (b) a lack of knowledge and awareness of the historical contexts of marginalized populations; (c) moral courage for all members of the school; (d) equity as an initiative or program; (e) resistance to deep equity work. From these themes, I devise three recommendations to support substantial and …
Image Analysis Of Colloidal Systems For Pair And Triplet Correlations., Brianna Price
Image Analysis Of Colloidal Systems For Pair And Triplet Correlations., Brianna Price
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Interactions among colloidal particles drive stability of suspensions or the assembly of particles into larger superstructures such as agglomerates or crystals. Typically, colloidal interactions are modeled using pairwise interaction potential energies which consider the interactions between pairs of particles. However, additional particles can modulate pair potentials, leading models to predict incorrect behavior. To analyze the effects of three-body interactions on the structuring of colloidal systems, pair and triplet correlation functions are calculated from published experimental data. These correlation functions are then translated into empirical pair and triplet potentials of mean force, which are then used to model systems more accurately …