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Thermal, Mechanical and Flammability Studies of Flame-retardant Polymer Nanocomposites
(2018-03-23)
Polymers are widely used in our day-to-day lives and we are often oblivious to the fire hazard imposed by these hydrocarbon-based materials. The current study introduces the application of fire retardant nanofillers for ...
Changes in Gene Expression of Goat Developing Testes and Sperm During Breeding and Non-breeding Season
(2012-07-16)
Testicular function is fundamental to male fertility, since testicular cells act in collaboration with each other to signal sex differentiation, the initiation of puberty and spermatogenesis. Complications that can be ...
Satellite-based Cloud Remote Sensing: Fast Radiative Transfer Modeling and Inter-Comparison of Single-/Multi-Layer Cloud Retrievals with VIIRS
(2017-07-27)
This dissertation consists of three parts, each of them, progressively, contributing to the problem of great importance that satellite-based remote sensing of clouds.
In the first section, we develop a fast radiative ...
Application of the Smart Material on the Overtopping Type Wave Energy Converter
(2017-12-08)
This thesis presents a method of applying “Shape Memory Alloy” (SMA) on an overtopping wave energy converter (OWEC). A control system which can fit all sea states is necessary for OWEC to adapt to a mutative wave condition ...
Successful Hispanic Male First-Time-In-College Students at a Community College in South Texas: Experiences That Facilitate Fall First-Term Student Persistence Through Official Reporting Date
(2011-02-22)
The Hispanic population continues to rapidly increase within the state of Texas
as well as the nation. However, the Hispanic population educational attainment level
lags behind that of the general population. Hispanic males ...
IN-SITU PRESERVATION OF DEEP-SEA SHIPWRECKS: UNDERSTANDING BIOLOGICAL INTERACTIONS AND ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACTS
(2020-03-25)
Lack of research currently limits our understanding factors for preservation of shipwrecks along with the impact of these wrecks on the deep environment. Technology capable of assisting archaeologists in the study of these ...
Model for Fracturing Fluid Flowback and Characterization of Flowback Mechanisms
(2014-08-28)
A large volume of fracturing fluid that may include slick water and various sorts of additives is injected into shale formations along with proppant to create hydraulic fractures which define a stimulated shale volume a ...
A Comparison of Least-Squares Finite Element Models with the Conventional Finite Element Models of Problems in Heat Transfer and Fluid Mechanics
(2010-07-14)
In this thesis, least-squares based finite element models (LSFEM) for the Poisson equation and Navier-Stokes equation are presented. The least-squares method is simple, general and reliable. Least-squares formulations offer ...
New Techniques to Characterize and Remove Water-Based Drilling Fluids Filter Cake
(2013-03-29)
Filter cake characterization is very important in drilling and completion operations. Heterogeneity of the filter cake plays a key role in the design of chemical treatments needed to remove the filter cake.
The objectives ...
Develop New NMR-Based Methods for Characterization of Pore Structure and Quantification of Cation Exchange Capacity of Complex Formations
(2019-01-03)
Nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) measurements have been applied successfully for characterizing porosity, pore-size distribution, and permeability of conventional formations. Interpreting NMR measurements in reservoirs ...