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Application of the Fictitious Domain Method to Flow Problems with Complex Geometries
(2017-05-03)In this study, in order to address the immersed boundary condition, which was the critical issue regarding the fictitious domain method, two new strategies for addressing the numerical integral related to the immersed ... -
Novel Hybrid Rice Seed Production Method Incorporating Herbicide Tolerance
(2017-05-10)The study relates to a hybrid rice seed production method to efficiently incorporate new herbicide tolerance into a systems using existing elite three-line hybrid rice parental lines, a WACMS female line, a maintainer line, ... -
CFD Analysis of Effect of Viscosity and RPM on an Electrical Submersible Pump
(2017-05-03)Computational fluid dynamics analysis (CFD) has been employed to study the flow behavior, and dependency of pump efficiency and head on the operating conditions of the pump and fluids pumped. Commercially available ANSYS ... -
Endocytic Recycling Pathways in Aspergillus nidulans
(2017-02-21)ungi, which dominate many ecosystems as major decomposers and pathogens, generally colonize through the formation of long, tubular cells called hyphae. Understanding hyphal growth has been of interest to cell biologists ... -
Power Management Circuits for Energy Harvesting Applications
(2015-05-01)Energy harvesting is the process of converting ambient available energy into usable electrical energy. Multiple types of sources are can be used to harness environmental energy: solar cells, kinetic transducers, thermal ... -
An Investigation of Soft Skill Development of California Agricultural Education Students Particpating in an FFA Career Development Event
(2017-05-22)This research project is a descriptive study of Santa Barbara Section Future Farmers of America (FFA) members. The findings in this study determined: 1) soft skills are included in the Foundation Standards for the California ... -
Black Start Restoration for Electric Distribution Systems and Microgrids
(2017-05-04)Modern power systems face increased risk of wide area blackouts caused by extreme weather events, man-made errors, cyber-attacks, and other threats. In order to promptly restore power after a blackout, an efficient black ... -
Recognition of Everyday Activities through Wearable Sensors and Machine Learning
(2017-05-08)Over the past several years, the use of wearable devices has increased dramatically, primarily for fitness monitoring, largely due to their greater sensor reliability, increased functionality, smaller size, increased ease ... -
Numerical Analysis of the Film Cooling Effectiveness on a Highly Loaded Low Pressure Turbine Blade in Conjunction with Endwall Effects
(2017-05-09)This thesis is a numerical investigation of the flow development of film coolant injected from a turbine blade with considerations to the effects of the passage vortex. By studying the film cooling effectiveness of a low ... -
A Morphing-based Technique for the Verification of Deterministic and Ensemble Precipitation Forecasts
(2017-05-02)A new morphing based technique is proposed for the verification of deterministic precipitation forecasts. It provides accurate estimates of the components of the precipitation forecast error for a significantly longer range ... -
Exploring Online Communication Strategies to Propagate Meat Consumption Ideologies
(2017-05-10)Animals are raised for human consumption. This practice has become an increasingly divisive issue in America. On one side of this issue are those who believe that eating animals and using their byproducts is natural, normal, ... -
Experimental and Theoretical Analysis of Safety-Degradation Interaction in Lithium-Ion Cells
(2017-05-03)Lithium ion batteries are quite ubiquitous in terms of their market spread. They represent an extremely compact energy storage device. In addition to making them a lucrative choice for a diverse set of applications, this ... -
Evaluation of Impulse Turbine Performance Under Wet Steam Conditions
(2017-05-03)After the Great East Tohoku Earthquake of 2011, operations at three critical reactors at the Fukushima Daiichi site were disrupted. All three reactor plants had automatic shutdowns. After a reactor is shutdown from power, ... -
Microwave Characterization of GaN-on-Si Heterostructure Loss and 2DEG as a Conductor
(2017-05-09)GaN devices have been dubbed ‘the future of high frequency, high power applications’ due to the material properties of GaN that promises a clear advantage over competing technologies. Heteroepitaxial growth of AlGaN/GaN ... -
Historicidad y Escritura: Problemas de la Poetica del Ensayo. El Caso de Salvador Elizondo
(2017-05-10)This dissertation belongs to the territory of the undefinition: the essay, as a literary gender with no limits, is the core of the analysis though their sub-gender “periodical essay”, a theoretical complex literary form ... -
Sketchography - Automatic Grading of Map Sketches for Geography Education
(2017-05-09)Geography is a vital classroom subject that teaches students about the physical features of the planet we live on. Despite the importance of geographic knowledge, almost 75% of 8th graders scored below proficient in geography ... -
A Model Reification Approach to Fusing Information from Multifidelity Information Sources
(2017-05-09)While the growing number of computational models available to designers can solve a lot of problems, it complicates the process of properly utilizing the information provided by each simulator. It may seem intuitive to ... -
Geomorphic and Stratigraphic Signatures of Protodunes
(2017-05-10)Protodunes are precursors to the development of sand dunes and, all else being equal, protodune stratification should occur in the stratigraphic record associated with dune stratification. However, the internal stratification ... -
Phytoplankton Dynamics in Galveston Bay: Assessing Responses to Freshwater Inflows
(2017-05-09)Increased freshwater use in estuarine watersheds is a concern for productivity downstream in ecologically and economically important estuaries worldwide. In Galveston Bay (TX), the seventh largest estuary in the United ... -
Optimizing Chondrogenesis of Canine Mesenchymal Stem Cells for Future Use in Treatment of Osteochondral Defects
(2017-05-05)Osteochondrosis and traumatic osteochondral defects are debilitating disorders affecting articular cartilage of millions of human and veterinary species. As articular cartilage is highly specialized and lacks reparative ...
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