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The Life And Keyboard Works Of (Franz) Xaver Scharwenka (1850-1924), Michael Patrick Mihalyo Jan 2002

The Life And Keyboard Works Of (Franz) Xaver Scharwenka (1850-1924), Michael Patrick Mihalyo

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(Franz) Xaver Scharwenka (1850-1924) was a highly acclaimed performer, teacher, editor, and composer of international fame during the late Romantic period. Overshadowed by the innovative styles of a number of contemporaneous composers including Ravel, Debussy, and Scriabin, Scharwenka's works gradually disappeared from the teaching studio and the concert hall. Regrettably, his compositions, although critically acclaimed in his lifetime, are now for the most part out of print and rarely performed. This study explores Scharwenka's works as a significant addition to the repertory of the late Romantic literature for study and performance. This research project, the result of a lengthy investigation …


Landscaping The Lehigh: The Creation Of A Middle Industrial Landscape In Nineteenth-Century Pennsylvania., Augustine Nigro Jan 2002

Landscaping The Lehigh: The Creation Of A Middle Industrial Landscape In Nineteenth-Century Pennsylvania., Augustine Nigro

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Located sixty miles above Philadelphia, the Lehigh Valley follows the seventy-mile path of the Lehigh River as it descends from the Pocono Mountains south through the Blue Mountains into the rich agricultural lands of the Appalachian Great Valley. With anthracite deposits in its northern reaches, rich agricultural lands in its middle section, and commercial connections to Philadelphia at its mouth, nineteenth-century industrialists saw the river as a potential transportation route. From 1817 to 1829, the Lehigh Coal and Navigation Company developed a system of slack water navigation along the river. With the opening of the channel in 1829, extractive industries …


The Relationship Of Superintendent Instructional Leadership Behavior And Student Achievement In High-Performing High Schools That Work Network Public High Schools In West Virginia., Steven Louis Paine Jan 2002

The Relationship Of Superintendent Instructional Leadership Behavior And Student Achievement In High-Performing High Schools That Work Network Public High Schools In West Virginia., Steven Louis Paine

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The purpose of this study was to determine instructional leadership behaviors that West Virginia school superintendents employ in leading principals in school districts containing high performing High Schools That Work Network public high schools and to determine what relationship exists between superintendent instructional leadership behaviors and student achievement based on the High Schools That Work Assessments. Data derived from 20 pairs of superintendents and principals from high performing High Schools That Work Network public high schools were analyzed to determine superintendent instructional leadership behaviors that related to student achievement. Statistically significant relationships were determined between superintendents and principals for instructional …


Incorporating Risk Into Watershed Management: A Chance Constrained Programming Approach., Sujittra Rodsomboon Jan 2002

Incorporating Risk Into Watershed Management: A Chance Constrained Programming Approach., Sujittra Rodsomboon

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Abandoned mine lands are areas affected by past coal mining activities that often pose significant water quality problems from acid mine drainage (AMD). Weather, a primary determinant of AMD, is inherently stochastic. The economic costs of treating AMD problems are an issue of importance to policymakers and citizens. This study develops a spatial model to devise cost effective plans for treating AMD in a watershed when pollution loads are stochastic and the level of certainty of treating all of the AMD is allowed to vary. Mixed integer and stochastic chance constrained programming methods are applied to a model of AMD …


An Automated Damage Detection System For Armoured Vehicle Launched Bridge., Eduard S. Sazonov Jan 2002

An Automated Damage Detection System For Armoured Vehicle Launched Bridge., Eduard S. Sazonov

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This dissertation presents a non-destructive automated damage detection system for the Armored Vehicle Launched Bridge. The goal of the system is to automate the damage detection procedure and enable early detection of structural damage. The system would complement the existing visual inspection procedure and eventually replace it. The designed system utilizes the method of strain energy mode shapes as the core damage detection method. The presented research covers both practical design issues and new theoretical developments in the area of non-destructive damage detection using strain energy mode shapes. The dissertation presents a methodology for exciting the structure, acquiring the vibration …


Exchange Bias And Its Angular Dependence In Iron Zinc Fluoride/Cobalt Bilayers., Hongtao Shi Jan 2002

Exchange Bias And Its Angular Dependence In Iron Zinc Fluoride/Cobalt Bilayers., Hongtao Shi

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When materials with antiferromagnetic (AF)/ferromagnetic (F) interfaces are cooled through the Neel temperature (TN) of the AF in a magnetic field, a unidirectional magnetic exchange anisotropy (EA) is induced in the F layers. Such anisotropy is manifested by a shift of the center of the F hysteresis loop by an amount known as exchange bias HE. Exchange anisotropy has attracted much attention in the last decade due to its applications in magnetic random access memory, permanent magnets, and magnetic recording media. Despite this interest, the basic mechanism responsible for EA is not well understood. In this thesis the EA is …


Toward High-Definition Reservoir Characterization, Gheorghe Luca Dec 2001

Toward High-Definition Reservoir Characterization, Gheorghe Luca

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A new methodology for high resolution reservoir characterization is proposed. It combined the advantages of the surface seismic (low resolution, large coverage) and crosswell seismic (improved resolution, small coverage).;The process involves deconvolution of a low resolution signal (surface seismic traces) into a high resolution crosswell seismic trace. The problem has multiple solutions and an analytical solution is hard or difficult to be developed.;This project proved that it is possible to predict high-resolution crosswell seismic traces using low-definition surface seismic traces. The statistical comparison between the real and the synthetic crosswell seismic traces gives confidence that future work in this area …


Moisture Diffusion Through Vinyl Ester/Clay Nanocomposites, Apoorva Paresh Shah Dec 2001

Moisture Diffusion Through Vinyl Ester/Clay Nanocomposites, Apoorva Paresh Shah

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Moisture diffusion was studied through vinyl ester samples containing up to 5 wt% montmorillonite clay; two different kinds of clay surface treatments were employed to make the clay compatible with the vinyl ester resin. These nanocomposites were characterized using differential scanning calorimetry (DSC), mechanical property measurements, x-ray diffraction (XRD) and transmission electron microscopy (TEM). TEM pictures showed that the clay platelets were either exfoliated or intercalated, and the two different surface treatments resulted in different dispersion characteristics. All the samples were post cured, and the diffusivity of moisture was measured by soaking the samples in water at 25°C and noting …


Optical Gradation For Crushed Limestone Aggregates, Ken Cheng Dec 2001

Optical Gradation For Crushed Limestone Aggregates, Ken Cheng

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The strength and durability of asphalt pavement is directly affected by the characteristics of its main ingredient, mineral aggregate. Besides material strength, research has shown that mixture properties such as particle shape and mixture gradation have a significant affect on the quality of the asphalt concrete. A standard called "Superpave" has been developed which sets forth specifications for material selection and methods for measurement of aggregate properties. These standards require monitoring of aggregate properties, particularly gradation. In this dissertation, the feasibility of developing an optically based method for determining aggregate gradation was explored. The physical system primarily consists of a …


Prevalence Of Campylobacter In A Turkey Production Facility, Aaron Shawn Kiess Dec 2001

Prevalence Of Campylobacter In A Turkey Production Facility, Aaron Shawn Kiess

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Frequency of detection was monitored in three flocks of turkeys from May, 2000 to March 2001. The effect of time was considered for hens in flocks 1 and 2, and the effect of time, gender, and litter (fresh or used) was determined for flock 3. Poults, poult-box liners, waterers, and fecal droppings were monitered throughout production for the presence of Campylobacter using Campy-Cefex agar incubated at 42°C under microaerophilic conditions (85% N2, 10% CO2, and 5% O2). Peak colonization occurred near 3 weeks of production. Frequency of Campylobacter isolation from bird sources paralleled isolation from waterers. Frequency of detection from …


Rates Of Adoption In A University Course Management System, David Russell Feeney Dec 2001

Rates Of Adoption In A University Course Management System, David Russell Feeney

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This research focuses on diffusion of an education innovation in a large, traditional University. In March 1999, the Blackboard digital course management system was installed for enterprise-wide availability at Temple University, the 39th largest university in the United States. The web-enabled database of Temple Blackboard logs the adoption date, course ID, and course title for every Blackboard course, unobtrusively, twenty-four hours a day. Temple Blackboard serves as 4 digital approximation of the cumulative recorder pioneered by B. F. Skinner, recording more than 2800 course adoptions across 30 months, in real time. Temple Blackboard course records provide unprecedented quantity and quality …


Lda And Cta In-Cylinder Measurements Of Intake-Generated Turbulence For Steady Flow Around A Centrally Located Valve, Gearle Ray Bailey Jr. Dec 2001

Lda And Cta In-Cylinder Measurements Of Intake-Generated Turbulence For Steady Flow Around A Centrally Located Valve, Gearle Ray Bailey Jr.

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The purpose of this study was to measure the axial and swirl velocities for steady flow in a cylinder past an intake valve, in order to study the effects of swirl and valve lift on turbulence generation. A simple geometry was used for an initial look at the flow past a valve.;A cylinder with a centrally located valve was used as the test bed. The valve was tested at lifts of 4 and 9 mm Two intake geometries were tested: a straight intake port and a swirl intake port. A single sensor Constant Temperature Anemometry (CTA) and a one-component Laser …


Fuzzy Logic Cost Estimation Method For High Production Volume Components, Shirley Jean Copen Dec 2001

Fuzzy Logic Cost Estimation Method For High Production Volume Components, Shirley Jean Copen

Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Problem Reports (ETD)

The purpose of this research is to develop fuzzy logic cost models that estimate the cost of a component based on the component's geometric shape, size, material and manufacturing process. The research is focused on components made from high production quantity processes i.e. stamping, injection molding, rolling and extrusion. However, the method may also be used for other types of manufacturing processes. The method is useful to both engineers and cost estimators whenever an estimated cost is desired. Engineers and cost estimators may use the method to obtain the cost of components or products of similar design without a detailed …


Study Of The Rheological Properties Of Nomex Fibrids, Long Han Dec 2001

Study Of The Rheological Properties Of Nomex Fibrids, Long Han

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Paints and caulks typically contain (spherical) fumed silica particulates as viscosity enhancers. A similar viscosity enhancement can be achieved by using aramid fibrids. Aramid fibrids are believed to form microstructures in suspensions because of the "space-filling" nature of their shapes and thus provide a convenient means of introducing desired rheological behavior for various commercial applications.;The flow responses of aramid fibrids dispersed in mixtures of corn syrup and water were determined in dynamic shear, steady shear, low shear capillary, and extensional stretching flows. Yield stress, strong shear thinning, thixotropy, and strong dispersion effects were observed, and these are consistent with observed …


Development Of Environmental Health And Safety Database For Small Communities, Ragava S. Nadig Dec 2001

Development Of Environmental Health And Safety Database For Small Communities, Ragava S. Nadig

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The National Environmental Services Center (NESC) is a group of programs, national in scope, that provide a variety of environmental services directly to small community officials, engineers, technicians, regulatory officials, and private citizens.;The primary mission of each of the NESC programs is to protect public health and the environment of America's small and rural communities-those communities of less than 10,000 people. The NESC programs provide information, technical assistance, and training to help small communities deal with their wastewater, drinking water, and solid waste treatment issues.;Thousands of informational materials pass through the organization each year. This material ranges from manufacturing product …


Detection Of Subsurface Anomalies In Fiber-Reinforced Polymer (Frp) Wrapped Timber Bridge Components Using Infrared Thermography, William Edward Steele Iii Dec 2001

Detection Of Subsurface Anomalies In Fiber-Reinforced Polymer (Frp) Wrapped Timber Bridge Components Using Infrared Thermography, William Edward Steele Iii

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This thesis presents the results of an experimental study on the use of Infrared Thermography technique for detection of subsurface anomalies in fiber reinforced polymer (FRP) wrapped timber bridge components. An extensive literature review on the application of various nondestructive evaluation techniques to composite structures has also been presented.;Simulated subsurface delaminations were constructed in the laboratory in timber piles wrapped with FRP composite fabric. The delaminations varied in size, thickness, and severity. These delaminations were placed between the 1/8&inches; thick FRP wrap and timber surface. The thermal images from the delaminated specimens were compared with thermal images from undamaged specimens …


Parent-Infant Interactions During Acute Painful Procedures, Catherine Bradford Mcclellan Dec 2001

Parent-Infant Interactions During Acute Painful Procedures, Catherine Bradford Mcclellan

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Despite the current recognition of infant procedural pain and distress, there is a dearth of research, both in the assessment and treatment literature, of infant procedural distress. This study examined how specific parent behaviors relate to infant procedural distress and whether this relation is mediated by birth order. Results indicated that females were rated as more distressed than were males, and that birth order did not prove to be a distinguishing factor in infant distress. Finally, while some behaviors appear to have a similar influence on both preschoolers' and infants' behaviors, parents' behavior during infants' distressing procedures were found to …


Factors Affecting The Accumulation Of Pentosidine In The Skin Of Wild Birds, Richard Clair Chaney Jr. Dec 2001

Factors Affecting The Accumulation Of Pentosidine In The Skin Of Wild Birds, Richard Clair Chaney Jr.

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Birds have few reliable indicators of aging. Pentosidine (Ps), a biomarker of aging, is a product of non-enzymatic glycation, which accumulates in the tissues of an animal over its lifespan. The intent of this study was to determine if comparable change in Ps concentrations could be established in the skin of wild birds of known ages. Skin samples were obtained from the breast of 44 birds of various species. Foot webbing samples were obtained from 24 California Gulls. Collagen was measured by a hydroxyproline spectrophotometric method and Ps was quantified using reverse phase HPLC. Ps concentration in the skin and …


Influence Of The West Virginia Dome On Paleocurrent Patterns In The Upper Devonian-Lower Mississippian Price Formation In The Central Appalachians, Sheldon James Murphy Dec 2001

Influence Of The West Virginia Dome On Paleocurrent Patterns In The Upper Devonian-Lower Mississippian Price Formation In The Central Appalachians, Sheldon James Murphy

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Upper Devonian-Lower Mississippian sedimentation was influenced by a positive area known as the West Virginia Dome located in the Central Appalachians of West Virginia. Paleocurrent data collected from the Price Formation demonstrates the significance of the dome on paleoflow patterns. Exposures in West Virginia are located along the Allegheny Front and include the lowermost marine Oswayo Member, Riddlesburg Shale Member, unnamed Upper Member and the uppermost non-marine Rockwell Member. These units overlie the Devonian Hampshire Formation or Greenland Gap Formation and underlie the Mississippian Greenbrier Limestone or Maccrady Formation. At the center of the dome the Price Formation is absent …


Characterization And Quality Of Soils Developing On A Mountaintop Removal Coal Mine, Kevin Alfred Thomas Dec 2001

Characterization And Quality Of Soils Developing On A Mountaintop Removal Coal Mine, Kevin Alfred Thomas

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Mountaintop surface mining for coal has been practiced in West Virginia for over three decades, but its environmental impacts have become increasingly scrutinized in recent years. Therefore, this study evaluated soil development on different aged mined lands. Four different ages (2, 7, 11, and 23 years) of minesoils and two different slope classes, nearly level to gently sloping and steep to very steep, along with three contiguous native soils on a reclaimed mountaintop removal mine in Logan County, West Virginia were described and sampled. Standard analyses of physical and chemical properties were conducted in order to classify these soils. Some …


Transfer Of Heart Rate Feedback Training To Reduce Heart Rate Response To Laboratory Tasks, Jeffrey Louis Goodie Dec 2001

Transfer Of Heart Rate Feedback Training To Reduce Heart Rate Response To Laboratory Tasks, Jeffrey Louis Goodie

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Researchers have demonstrated that individuals can successfully reduce their heart rate (HR) response to a stressor when provided with heart rate feedback. However, it is unclear whether individuals can transfer HR reduction skills to stressors not used during HR feedback training. The present study used a multiple baseline, single subject design to examine the transfer of HR feedback training among six individuals. Participants were provided with HR feedback training during the presentation of a videogame, a mental arithmetic challenge, and a hand grip task until the participants reduced their HR to within 4 bpm of their resting HR or until …


Electrical Characterization Of Thin Film Nanostructure Templates, Christopher James Garman Dec 2001

Electrical Characterization Of Thin Film Nanostructure Templates, Christopher James Garman

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An improved apparatus for anodizing aluminum films on Si substrates is presented. In addition, an explanation is given for adapting the system to SiC and glass substrates. The system presented is optimized for throughput and safety to focus on volume production. MOS capacitors created with the system are analyzed with capacitance-voltage measurement techniques to provide insight into device operation. Ni is deposited into porous alumina templates to create Ni nanostructures.


Development Of Instrumentation For The Investigation Of Surface Regeneration For Candle Filters, Sean Patrick Gregory Dec 2001

Development Of Instrumentation For The Investigation Of Surface Regeneration For Candle Filters, Sean Patrick Gregory

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Two methods of improving efficiency of coal based power generation are integrated gasification combined-cycle (IGCC) and pressurized fluidized-bed combustion (PFBC). Both of these options require high-temperature gas stream particle cleanup for optimum efficiency. Candle filters in a pressurized vessel have received the greatest amount of attention in dealing with this topic, but problems still persist and there does not seem to be clear-cut answer to the problem. This research is an investigation of the candle filter cleaning process, a process known as surface regeneration.;The objective of this research program has been to develop the instrumentation necessary to investigate the surface …


Kinematic Synthesis Of A Well Service Machine, Prashanth Kaparthi Dec 2001

Kinematic Synthesis Of A Well Service Machine, Prashanth Kaparthi

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Blowout preventers are used in the oil well industry to prevent accidental oil fires, and guide valves are assembled atop the preventers. The current solution is to use cranes, as this is time-consuming and expensive, a solution using an appropriate four-bar mechanism for this purpose was contemplated, using Burmester theory and the four-position synthesis method.;The angles and distance of the four positions were calculated and the data obtained was specified as input for the synthesis of the four-bar mechanism using four-position synthesis programmed in MATLAB(TM). The moving pivots (k) and the ground pivots (m) were obtained from the program and …


Order Effects Of Fear And Pain Induction, Kevin Erik Vowles Dec 2001

Order Effects Of Fear And Pain Induction, Kevin Erik Vowles

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Although pain responding and emotional states such as fear are highly correlated and appear to interact, the causal relations between these variables have yet to be fully defined. This study sought to further illuminate these relations by investigating how exposure to one of these states (i.e., pain or fear) affects responding to the other. The order in which participants experienced fearful or painful stimuli was manipulated, as well as fear level (i.e., "low" & "high"). Measures of behavioral escape, heart rate, and verbal reports were obtained throughout four experimental trials, as well as rankings of aversiveness for all stimuli encountered. …


Simulation Of Heavy-Duty Hybrid Electric Vehicles, Anjali Devi Nennelli Dec 2001

Simulation Of Heavy-Duty Hybrid Electric Vehicles, Anjali Devi Nennelli

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Microsoft Excel and ADvanced VehIcle SimulatOR (ADVISOR) were used to simulate the driving conditions of heavy-duty hybrid electric vehicles over various driving cycles in an attempt to optimize their design and control. The fuel economy data thus obtained were compared with those of the in-use heavy-duty hybrid electric vehicles. For this the drive cycles are modified to represent realistic expectations of the dynamic performance of vehicles. The cycles used are "Central Business District" cycle (CBD), "Urban Dynamometer Driving Schedule" cycle (UDDS), "Manhattan" cycle and "City Suburban Heavy Vehicle Cycle" (CSHVC). The vehicle considered for simulations was a transit bus, which …


Improved Velocity Data In Circular Jets Using An Avalanche Photodiode-Based 2-Component Point Doppler Velocimeter, Thomas Trent Scarberry Dec 2001

Improved Velocity Data In Circular Jets Using An Avalanche Photodiode-Based 2-Component Point Doppler Velocimeter, Thomas Trent Scarberry

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An existing Point Doppler Velocimeter (pDv) has been modified in an effort to improve the RMS velocity results. Improvements have been made by reducing the probe volume size by focusing the incident laser beam, thereby reducing the effects of spatial averaging on the mean and RMS velocity measurements.;In particular, the PIN photodetectors used previously, were tested using the reduced probe volume, and were then replaced by high-gain, high signal-to-noise ratio large area avalanche photodetectors (APD's).;Comparisons have been made between the data acquired and hot wire data obtained on the same jet flow, as well as data obtained in previous pDv …


Study Of West Virginia Wood Industry Roundwood Consumption In 1999, O'Dell Emanuel Tucker Dec 2001

Study Of West Virginia Wood Industry Roundwood Consumption In 1999, O'Dell Emanuel Tucker

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Use of wood composite products has increased over the last decade in the market for construction material. Softwood species and soft hardwood species are the preferred forest resources for manufacturing these products. Reduction in available softwood forest resources from the Western states has forced a shift to use of more soft hardwood species in the Northeast. What impact this shift may have on the forest resources in the Northeast is not known.;The objective of this study was to canvass primary wood manufacturers in and around the forest of West Virginia and determine how roundwood consumption has changed since the shift …


Large -Eddy Simulation Of Ship Wakes, Shaoping Shi Dec 2001

Large -Eddy Simulation Of Ship Wakes, Shaoping Shi

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The objective of the present study is to improve our understanding of turbulent wake flows. Large-Eddy Simulation (LES) technique is applied for this purpose. A readily available code was used with necessary modifications. Three dimensional incompressible Navier-Stokes equations are solved in non-orthogonal curvilinear coordinates. Finite-volume approach is implemented on a non-staggered grid. The core of the numerical scheme is a fractional step method. The overall accuracy of the method is second order in both space and time.;The LES approach has been validated for four cases: channel flow, flow past a square body, a shear layer flow, and open channel flow. …


Green Tea Antioxidants Inhibition Of Oxidation And Mutation, Paul Stout Mcconnell Aug 2001

Green Tea Antioxidants Inhibition Of Oxidation And Mutation, Paul Stout Mcconnell

Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Problem Reports (ETD)

Green tea is a complex mixture containing several major potent antioxidants e.g., flavins and/or polyphenols. These antioxidants in green tea may react directly or indirectly with strong oxidizers e.g. peroxynitrite or its constituents (superoxide or nitric oxide). Green tea antioxidants can destroy the oxidants. Based on a simple chemical interaction of peroxynitrite (OONO-) and luminol, blue light is produced upon oxidation. It was shown that green tea and constituents have light inhibitory capabilities. In order to show the possible beneficial effects of green tea with DNA, plasmids were chosen to determine whether or not green tea was also capable of …