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Combination Of Natural Variability Estimation With Real Time Measurement For Mushroom Shelf Life Assessment., Leixuri Aguirre Jan 2008

Combination Of Natural Variability Estimation With Real Time Measurement For Mushroom Shelf Life Assessment., Leixuri Aguirre

Doctoral

The shelf life of mushrooms (Agaricus bisporus) is affected by the natural variability of the produce which influences the perishable vegetable quality. One of the main causes of this variability is non-homogeneity in the product maturity at harvest, resulting in each vegetable batch being at a different stage of senescence. The present work aims to study a new approach to improve the assessment of the shelf life of mushrooms (Agaricus bisporus) taking into account this variability. The study of variability involved the: i) study of the shelf life, quality parameters and variability of the mushrooms and modelling these experimental laboratory …


A Macro-Bend Fiber Based Wavelength Demodulation System For Optical Fiber Sensing Applications, Ginu Rajan Jan 2008

A Macro-Bend Fiber Based Wavelength Demodulation System For Optical Fiber Sensing Applications, Ginu Rajan

Doctoral

This thesis considers the design and development of a wide range all fiber interrogation system with a rapid measurement capability for extracting reliable measure and information from fiber Bragg grating sensors. Existing passive and active interrogation systems have certain limitations and do not satisfy all requirements. In this thesis a wavelength demodulation system is proposed, based on a macro-bend fiber filter employed in a ratiometric detection scheme. A theoretical model and analysis of an edge filter based ratiometric wavelength measurement (RWM) system is presented. A fiber edge filter is realized by carefully selecting an appropriate bend radius and number of …


Novel Photoelectrochemical Cell For The Remediation Of Organic Compounds In Water, Patrick Enright Jan 2008

Novel Photoelectrochemical Cell For The Remediation Of Organic Compounds In Water, Patrick Enright

Doctoral

Titanium dioxide (TiO2) suspensions have widely been used as photocatalysts, either alone or in a doped form to degrade organic compounds and kill bacteria. Because of its relatively large band gap, UV light has been the most efficient radiation used to allow this catalysis to occur. TiO2 has also been immobilised on electrodes in order to separate the ‘reduction’ and ‘oxidation’ reactions. Typical systems involve the oxidation of a ‘fuel’ at a TiO2 coated anode and the reduction of oxygen at a separate cathode, where the passage of current can be monitored, and this work utilises such a system. In …


Polymer Reinforced Aerogels And Composites A. Polyimide Crosslinked Aerogels B. Silica-Polymethylmethacrylate Composites, Vishal U. Patil Jan 2008

Polymer Reinforced Aerogels And Composites A. Polyimide Crosslinked Aerogels B. Silica-Polymethylmethacrylate Composites, Vishal U. Patil

Masters Theses

"Crosslinking of aerogels is a promising approach to combine the advantages of inorganic and polymeric materials. In the present study, two types of polyimide-silica hybrid aerogels, APTES-BTDA-MDA (mol ratio: 2:2:1) and APTES-BTDA-MDA (mol ratio: 2:3:2), were synthesized using a sol-gel process followed by heating in order to imidize the polyamic acid that is formed quickly and is covalently bonded to silica. The hybrid aerogels were made using 3-aminopropyltriethoxysilane (APTES) endcapped polyamic acids and tetramethoxysilane (TMOS) as precursors. Polyimide crosslinked aerogels were characterized by TGA, SEM, FT-IR, BET, solid state NMR and gas pycnometry. These hybrid aerogels exhibit high thermal stability …


Friction Stir Spot Welding Of Aluminum Alloys, Wei Yuan Jan 2008

Friction Stir Spot Welding Of Aluminum Alloys, Wei Yuan

Masters Theses

"Efforts to reduce vehicle weight and improve safety performance have resulted in increased application of light-weight aluminum alloys and a recent focus on the weldability of these alloys. Friction stir spot welding (FSSW) is a solid state welding technique (derivative from friction stir welding (FSW), which was developed as a novel method for joining aluminum alloys). During FSSW, the frictional heat generated at the tool-workpiece interface softens the surrounding material, and the rotating and moving pin causes material flow. The forging pressure and mixing of the plasticized material result in the formation of a solid bond region. The present work …


Friction Stir Form Welding Of Aluminum Structures, Kamini Ashokkumar Gupta Jan 2008

Friction Stir Form Welding Of Aluminum Structures, Kamini Ashokkumar Gupta

Masters Theses

"The objective of this work was to demonstrate the applicability of friction stir welding (FSW) technology in the automotive industry. Increasing fuel prices, stringent safety and emission norms are continuously striving automakers to make lightweight, fuel efficient vehicles. Automotive engineers are researching for alternate materials in order to meet weight savings targets. Use of aluminum in place of steel in a car has been increasing for making lightweight vehicles. Conventional welding and spot welding are used as preferred joining methods by the automotive industry. However, if aluminum is used in place of steel alternate joining methods are to be researched. …


Gerrymanders And Theories Of Law Making: A Study Of Legislative Redistricting In Illinois, Michael C. Herron, Alan E. Wiseman Jan 2008

Gerrymanders And Theories Of Law Making: A Study Of Legislative Redistricting In Illinois, Michael C. Herron, Alan E. Wiseman

Dartmouth Scholarship

Redistricting politics in Illinois provide a novel opportunity for testing competing theories of law making. With this in mind, we demonstrate that the post-2000 Census redistricters in Illinois, dominated by Democrats, strategically reshuffled district demographic profiles in an attempt to convert relatively liberal Republican districts to conservative Democratic districts in the state Senate while decreasing and increasing the ideological diversity of the Democrats and Republicans, respectively, in the House. Such reshufflings suggest that legislative politics in Illinois are conducted in a manner consistent with vote-buying theories of coalition formation.


Neuroethics Of Neuromarketing, Emily Murphy, Judy Iles, Peter B. Reiner Jan 2008

Neuroethics Of Neuromarketing, Emily Murphy, Judy Iles, Peter B. Reiner

Faculty Scholarship

No abstract provided.


Neuroimaging And Disorders Of Consciousness: Envisioning An Ethical Research Agenda, Emily Murphy, Joseph J. Fins, Judy Iles, James L. Bernat, Joy Hirsch, Steven Laureys Jan 2008

Neuroimaging And Disorders Of Consciousness: Envisioning An Ethical Research Agenda, Emily Murphy, Joseph J. Fins, Judy Iles, James L. Bernat, Joy Hirsch, Steven Laureys

Faculty Scholarship

No abstract provided.


Staying Within The Margins: The Educational Stories Of First-Generation, Low-Income College Students, Diane Lyn Cole Jan 2008

Staying Within The Margins: The Educational Stories Of First-Generation, Low-Income College Students, Diane Lyn Cole

Dissertations and Theses

his research addressed educational persistence among first-generation, low-income college students. The educational paths of 22 first-generation, low-income undergraduate students attending a large, urban university in the Northwest region of the United States were examined through a narrative framework. Half of the participants had persisted from year one to year two, and the other half left the university after their first year. Analytic procedures consisted of thematic qualitative coding, an analysis of student trajectories over educational histories, and the reconstruction of narrative stories. Data were used to examine: (1) How first-generation, low-income students understood and described their journey through their first …


The Architecture Of Charities’ Commercial Activities - Structural Reactions: Basic Structures, Stephen Schwarz Jan 2008

The Architecture Of Charities’ Commercial Activities - Structural Reactions: Basic Structures, Stephen Schwarz

Faculty Scholarship

No abstract provided.


The Implementation Of The One-Year Bar To Asylum, Karen Musalo, Marcelle Rice Jan 2008

The Implementation Of The One-Year Bar To Asylum, Karen Musalo, Marcelle Rice

Faculty Scholarship

No abstract provided.


Impeachment With Evidence Of Prior Convictions, Roger C. Park Jan 2008

Impeachment With Evidence Of Prior Convictions, Roger C. Park

Faculty Scholarship

No abstract provided.


Signature Identification In The Light Of Science And Experience, Roger C. Park Jan 2008

Signature Identification In The Light Of Science And Experience, Roger C. Park

Faculty Scholarship

No abstract provided.


Equal Liberty: Assisted Reproductive Technology And Reproductive Equality, Radhika Rao Jan 2008

Equal Liberty: Assisted Reproductive Technology And Reproductive Equality, Radhika Rao

Faculty Scholarship

No abstract provided.


The Administrative State, Front And Center: Studying Law And Administration In Postwar America, Reuel E. Schiller Jan 2008

The Administrative State, Front And Center: Studying Law And Administration In Postwar America, Reuel E. Schiller

Faculty Scholarship

No abstract provided.


The Public Trust Doctrine, Environmental Human Rights, And The Future Of Private Property, David Takacs Jan 2008

The Public Trust Doctrine, Environmental Human Rights, And The Future Of Private Property, David Takacs

Faculty Scholarship

No abstract provided.


Conceptual Hurdles To The Application Of Atkins V. Virginia, Lois A. Weithorn Jan 2008

Conceptual Hurdles To The Application Of Atkins V. Virginia, Lois A. Weithorn

Faculty Scholarship

No abstract provided.


A 1 (1): 1 Atmosphere, C. J. Peterson Jan 2008

A 1 (1): 1 Atmosphere, C. J. Peterson

Midsouth Entomologist

In his 1995 novel Microserfs, Douglas Coupland describes what it means to be “one-point-oh”: the first to do something really new and cool. In the book, Coupland’s computer coder characters leave the security of software giant Microsoft to start a new company and launch their own new and cool software; a version 1.0. The same atmosphere of one-point-oh can apply to the launch of a new journal. Perhaps it can be called a Volume 1, Number 1, Page 1 atmosphere, or 1(1):1. How exactly that should be pronounced in a cool one-point-oh way I’ll leave up to you. Either way, …


Mississippi Soybean Insect Losses, F. R. Musser, A. Catchot Jan 2008

Mississippi Soybean Insect Losses, F. R. Musser, A. Catchot

Midsouth Entomologist

soybean, yield loss, pest management


Abstracts Of The 54th Annual Meeting, October 25 - 26, 2007, Scott J. Hutchins Jan 2008

Abstracts Of The 54th Annual Meeting, October 25 - 26, 2007, Scott J. Hutchins

Midsouth Entomologist

No abstract provided.


Cryptic Habits: The Hidden Lives Of Midsouth Entomologists, C. J. Peterson, Joe Macgown Jan 2008

Cryptic Habits: The Hidden Lives Of Midsouth Entomologists, C. J. Peterson, Joe Macgown

Midsouth Entomologist

No abstract provided.


Auditing Standards Board (Asb) Meeting, January 29, 2008, Conference Call, American Institute Of Certified Public Accountants. Auditing Standards Board Jan 2008

Auditing Standards Board (Asb) Meeting, January 29, 2008, Conference Call, American Institute Of Certified Public Accountants. Auditing Standards Board

Association Sections, Divisions, Boards, Teams

No abstract provided.


Auditing Standards Board (Asb) Meeting, January 8-10, 2008, Amelia Island, Fl; Asb Highlights January 2008, American Institute Of Certified Public Accountants. Auditing Standards Board Jan 2008

Auditing Standards Board (Asb) Meeting, January 8-10, 2008, Amelia Island, Fl; Asb Highlights January 2008, American Institute Of Certified Public Accountants. Auditing Standards Board

Association Sections, Divisions, Boards, Teams

No abstract provided.


Auditing Standards Board (Asb) Meeting, May 6-8, 2008, Chicago, Il, Approved Highlights; Asb Highlights May 2008, American Institute Of Certified Public Accountants. Auditing Standards Board Jan 2008

Auditing Standards Board (Asb) Meeting, May 6-8, 2008, Chicago, Il, Approved Highlights; Asb Highlights May 2008, American Institute Of Certified Public Accountants. Auditing Standards Board

Association Sections, Divisions, Boards, Teams

No abstract provided.


Auditing Standards Board (Asb) Meeting, December 11-12, 2008, Washington, Dc, American Institute Of Certified Public Accountants. Auditing Standards Board Jan 2008

Auditing Standards Board (Asb) Meeting, December 11-12, 2008, Washington, Dc, American Institute Of Certified Public Accountants. Auditing Standards Board

Association Sections, Divisions, Boards, Teams

No abstract provided.


Auditing Standards Board (Asb) Meeting, October 27-30, 2008, Phoenix, Az; October 27-30, 2008 Asb Meeting Highlights, American Institute Of Certified Public Accountants. Auditing Standards Board Jan 2008

Auditing Standards Board (Asb) Meeting, October 27-30, 2008, Phoenix, Az; October 27-30, 2008 Asb Meeting Highlights, American Institute Of Certified Public Accountants. Auditing Standards Board

Association Sections, Divisions, Boards, Teams

No abstract provided.


Auditing Standards Board (Asb) Meeting, December 11-12, 2008, Washington, Dc, American Institute Of Certified Public Accountants. Auditing Standards Board Jan 2008

Auditing Standards Board (Asb) Meeting, December 11-12, 2008, Washington, Dc, American Institute Of Certified Public Accountants. Auditing Standards Board

Association Sections, Divisions, Boards, Teams

No abstract provided.


Independence And Integrity And Objectivity In Performing Forensic And Valuation Services, Glenn Newman, Michael Ueltzen, American Institute Of Certified Public Accountants. Forensic And Valuation Services Section Jan 2008

Independence And Integrity And Objectivity In Performing Forensic And Valuation Services, Glenn Newman, Michael Ueltzen, American Institute Of Certified Public Accountants. Forensic And Valuation Services Section

Association Sections, Divisions, Boards, Teams

No abstract provided.


Uniform Accountancy Act, Standards For Regulation Including Substantial Equivalency, American Institute Of Certified Public Accountants (Aicpa), National Association Of State Boards Of Accountancy Jan 2008

Uniform Accountancy Act, Standards For Regulation Including Substantial Equivalency, American Institute Of Certified Public Accountants (Aicpa), National Association Of State Boards Of Accountancy

Association Sections, Divisions, Boards, Teams

No abstract provided.