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Selective Incarceration And Extraction Of Oxoanion Contaminants From Aqueous Media By Self-Assembled Nanojars, Basil Ahmed

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Selective binding and extraction of anions by artificial receptors is one of the most far‐reaching areas of supramolecular chemistry, with implications in chemical, biological and environmental sciences. The extraction of kosmotropic anions from aqueous media is challenging, due to their large hydration energies (affinity for water). We have recently shown that a class of toroidal copper(II)‐hydroxide/pyrazolate complexes (nanojars), with the formula [Cu(OH)(pz)]_n (n = 27−36), totally incarcerate kosmotropic anions with an unprecedented strength. Lined by H‐bond donors on the inside and hydrophobic on the outside, these ~2 nm sized assemblies selectively extract kosmotropic anions from mixtures with chaotropic anions …

Work Protecting Sensitive Data In Vanets Using Active Data Bundles, Abduljaleel M. Al Hasnawi

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Conclusions

• Integrating ADB with VANETs inaneffective and efficient way shouldsolvemost of the privacyissuesin VANETs
• ADB is extensible -allows adding more security and privacy protection mechanisms
• According to the sensitivity of the carried data

Future Work

• Evaluateusing ADB in VANETs via simulation
• Propose ADB routingprotocolfor VANETs
• Apply the proposed solution to diverseVANETapplications

The Level Of Polyaromatic Hydrocarbon Contamination On The Kalamazoo River Shoreline Remains High Following The 2010 Enbridge Oil Spill, Wisam Abdulabbas Flayyih Al Isawi

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• One of the nation’s worst inland oil spills occurred near Marshall in Michigan in 2010.
• The recent Enbridge Line 6B rupture released over three million liters of diluted bitumen crude oil into the environment.
• The spilled oil entered the Talmadge Creek and flowed into the Kalamazoo River, a Lake Michigan tributary.
• Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons (PAHs) together with other pollutants were released into the environment.
• PAHs represents significant threats to aquatic organisms due to their carcinogenic and mutagenic properties and their persistence in the environment.
• Five years following the oil spill accident, the levels and identities of PAHs were investigated in …

High Performance Bayesian Applications In Medical, Economics And Climate Sciences, Ahmed Almulihi

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We apply high performance numerical integration to problems in Bayesian statistics. These are applied to data arising in the analysis of problems in such areas as medical statistics (birth weight data, heart transplant data, photocarcinogen data, radio therapy data), climate (global weather, tornado data), and general statistics applications (multivariate logistic distribution, multivariate normal, nonlinear regression). We compute Bayesian moment integrals using the ParInt integration software that runs efficiently on computer clusters. We compare our results to those in the literature and show excellent performance with respect to accuracy and execution time.

Does Research On Evaluation Matter? Findings From A Survey Of American Evaluation Association Members And Prominent Evaluation Theorists And Scholars, Satoshi Ozeki

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• Evaluation is a relatively new, practice-based field
• Evaluation scholars lead the field by presenting their theories
• Evaluation theories are not based on empirical evidence
• Empirical investigation is required to establish the field of evaluation
• There were calls for more research on evaluation (RoE)
• The number of studies on RoE has increased in the past decade
• It is unknown whether RoE is important in the evaluation community

The Importance Of Geologic Study For The Application Of Carbon Capture And Storage (Ccs) In Otsego County, Michigan, Matthew Rine

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The most recent Paris climate talks emphasized the importance of reducing carbon dioxide pollution associated with burning fossil fuels. In an attempt to mitigate CO₂ emissions, carbon capture and storage (CCS), which is a process by which CO₂ is pulled from a smokestack before it is released into our atmosphere and buried deep underground, is currently underway in Otsego County, Michigan. In order to safely and effectively store CO₂ into deep geologic formations, it is critical to gain a better understanding for the geologic “storage tank” in which these fluids will be stored. As part of this …