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Stochastic Programming Models: Community Health Pathways Scheduling and Optimal Vaccine Allocation
(2022-02-25)
The World Health Organization (WHO) designated the novel COrona VIrus (COVID-19) a global pandemic. This pandemic combined with the growing and aging population has created a crisis of unprecedented dimension regarding ...
Incorporating Process Safety into Heat Exchanger Network Synthesis
(2022-05-24)
Process safety of inter-connected equipment, such as heat exchanger networks (HEN), is paramount to the operation of chemical plants. While there exists considerable research on further improving HEN, little attention has ...
Design, Analysis, and Control of a Cable-Suspended Robot for Large-Scale Additive Manufacturing
(2022-04-14)
Additive manufacturing (AM) and cable-suspended robots (CSRs) are two areas of technology that evolved rapidly in the last decades. This dissertation explores combining the two ideas to create a cable-suspended robot for ...
Competition and the Institutional Choices of Rebel Governance
(2022-04-04)
Why do rebel groups establish governance institutions? What motivates their institutional choices of governance? This dissertation advances an institutional choice theory to explain why rebel groups establish governance ...
Synthesis and Leachate Analysis of Dry Synthesized Substituted Fluorapatite Nuclear Surrogate Waste Forms for Molten Salt Reactors
(2022-04-20)
The development of commercialized molten salt reactors nuclear reactors (MSR), a nuclear reactor where the fuel is in a liquid state dissolved in carrier salt, is underway throughout the nuclear power community. With this ...
Simulation of Unconventional Reservoirs with Complex Fracture Conditions
(2022-05-12)
The unconventional reservoirs have been a major source of the modern oil and gas industry. However, simulation of unconventional reservoirs with complex fracture conditions remains to be a difficult problem. The nano-scale ...
Minimum Resolution Requirements for Gamma Identification Algorithms
(2022-04-11)
Each year, millions are spent to improve detector resolution. This research indicates that higher resolution detectors are not always necessary. The Gamma Detector Response and Analysis Software (GADRAS), Gamma Acquisition ...
Laboratory Analysis of CO2 Storage in Depleted Organic-Rich Source Rocks for Carbon Sequestration
(2022-04-19)
Carbon capture and sequestration processes can use the infrastructure of unconventional EOR projects targeting organic-rich source rocks and use the existing fluids separation and injection technologies. Accordingly, source ...
Functional Characterization of Metalloenzymes in Lumichrome Catabolism and Chuangxinmycin Biosynthesis
(2022-01-06)
Cofactors play vital roles in augmenting the limited functionality available on proteins for catalysis. Little is known about cofactor breakdown in contrast to the extensive literature on cofactor biosynthesis and enzymology. ...
Ultimate Load Capacity of Caisson Foundations and Anchors in Sand
(2022-04-25)
Caisson foundation is a promising alternative and a primary anchoring candidate for offshore floating wind turbine. Although suction caisson is a common foundation solution that has been used in the oil and gas industry, ...