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Dynamic Fracture Toughness of Polymer Composites
(2012-02-14)
Polymer composites are engineered materials widely being used and yet not completely understood for their dynamic response. It is important to fully characterize material properties before using them for applications in ...
Patterns of Identification: The Children of Latino/Non-Latino White Families
(2012-02-14)
This thesis examines the various factors that influence how children in
Latino/non-Latino white households are racially and ethnically identified. The question
of multiracial/ethnic identity has come to prominence following ...
Phenotype Analysis of Tobacco Lines Expressing a Deregulated Arabidopsis Ca-ATPase (ACA2)
(2012-02-14)
Functional foods go beyond simply supplying nutrients and are increasingly
becoming a focus in the prevention and treatment of disease; however, the benefits of
biofortified crops to human nutrition have not been well ...
Ship Rolling Motion Subjected to Colored Noise Excitation
(2012-02-14)
In this research the stochastic nonlinear dynamic behaviors and probability density function of ship rolling are studied by nonlinear dynamic method and probability theory. The probability density function of rolling ...
Prisoners of War-Cold War Allies: The Anglo-American Relationship with Wehrmacht Generals
(2012-02-14)
This study examines the relationship between British and American officials and
the fifty-five Wehrmacht general officers who were held as prisoners of war in the
United States during World War II. This relationship ...
Genome-wide Transcriptome Analysis of Laminar Tissue During the Early Stages of Experimentally Induced Equine Laminitis
(2012-02-14)
Equine laminitis is a debilitating disease that causes extreme sufferring in afflicted horses and often results in a lifetime of chronic pain. The exact sequence of pathophysiological events culminating in laminitis has ...
The Discourse of Human Dignity and Techniques of Disempowerment: Giorgio Agamben, J. M. Coetzee, and Kazuo Ishiguro
(2012-02-14)
A multidisciplinary approach is needed to critique the frequently invoked but seldom questioned notion of "human dignity," a discursive tool that is subtly serving abusive power structures while seemingly promoting human ...
Charmonium in Hot Medium
(2012-02-14)
We investigate charmonium production in the hot medium created by heavy-ion collisions by setting up a framework in which in-medium charmonium properties are constrained by thermal lattice QCD (lQCD) and subsequently ...
Parallel VLSI Circuit Analysis and Optimization
(2012-02-14)
The prevalence of multi-core processors in recent years has introduced new
opportunities and challenges to Electronic Design Automation (EDA) research and
development. In this dissertation, a few parallel Very Large Scale ...
Three Dimensional Simulation of Rayleigh-Bénard Convection for Rapid Microscale Polymerase Chain Reaction
(2012-02-14)
Rayleigh-Bénard convection has been extensively studied in literature owing to its ubiquitous nature. However, most of the studies have been confined to geometries where the aspect ratio of the cylinder was less than 1. ...