The thesis develops a critique of architectural commodification in terms of common intellectual, technological, and economic developments that have shaped both modem architecture and cuisine since the French Enlightenment. ...

This thesis studies the problem of content distribution in wireless peer-to-peer networks with selfish nodes. In this problem a group of wireless nodes need to exchange a set of files over a lossless broadcast channel. ...

The principal results from an extensive experimental investigation of the steady state characteristics of tilting pad journal bearings are presented. The conditions examined were primarily concerned with operation at high ...

We commonly find plants using padding to transport liquids or light solids short distances from tankers into storage tanks. Padding can wreck havoc in compressed air systems with limited storage, undersized cleanup equipment ...