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Application of Cellular Microencapsulation to Wastewater Nitrogen Removal
(2013-03-24)
Microencapsulation of cells is a technique in which cells are enclosed in microscopic spheroids of a desired substance, with applications in many fields, such as biomedical engineering. In this study, a microfluidic approach ...
Studying Hydraulic Fracturing through Time-variant Seismic Anisotropy
(2013-10-01)
Hydraulic fracturing is an important modern technique of exploiting natural gas and oil, in which a high-pressure liquid mixture is injected into a wellbore to create small fractures in order to release fluids such as ...
Environmental factors influencing benthic macrofaunal invertebrate community structure in the Flower Gardens East Bank
(2013-09-25)
The Flower Garden Banks consist of two salt domes raised above the continental shelf in the Gulf of Mexico roughly 190 km southeast of Galveston, Texas. With mean annual temperature variations of 18 to 32°C and relatively ...
Strategies for Improved Biosonar Performance in Bat Social Networks
(2013-12-04)
For decades researchers have wondered how echolocating bats avoid interfering with one other’s sonar while flying in dense swarms or in crowded roosts. This thesis explores how groups of bats manage this by applying lessons ...
Improvement of the Track-based Alignment Procedure of the CMS Muon System
(2013-12-02)
The Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) experiment at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is
used to explore subatomic interactions through proton-proton collisions. The resulting out-
burst of particles from these high energy collisions ...
Approaches to Forming a Water-soluble Extracellular Domain From α3 Subunits of Nicotinic Acetylcholine Receptors
(2013-12-16)
Obtaining structural information on the extracellular domain (ECD) of α3 subunits of nicotinic acetylcholine receptors (nAChRs) by x-ray crystallography is desirable for the design of drugs intended to therapeutically ...
Device Association Through Passive Wi-Fi Monitoring
(2013-09-28)
This research initiative is focused on identifying associated devices using a network of wireless sensors. These sensors collect network traffic meta data in monitor mode. Monitor mode allows a receiver to see certain ...
Exploring the circadian outputs and function of HPT-1 in Neurospora crassa
(2013-09-28)
Although many genomes have now been sequenced, genes without a known function still comprise approximately 40% of both the human and Neurospora crassa genomes. The ability to control gene expression by both activation and ...
The Purpose of Party Manifestos: Relating Party Function and Strategy in Party Manifestos
(2013-09-24)
This paper is an effort to determine the purposes of party manifestos (aka platforms), and more specifically how a party’s experience in governance determines the strategies they pursue, through the structure of their ...
Analyzing Aqueous Solution Imbibition into Shale and the Effects of Optimizing Critical Chemical Additives
(2013-09-29)
Two methods of hydraulic fracturing most widely utilized on unconventional shale gas and oil reservoirs are “gelled fracturing” and “slick-water fracturing”. Both methods utilize up to several million gallons of water-based ...