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A Narrative Examination of the Experience of Early Entrance to College
(2013-07-05)
This study addresses the question “what is it like to be a gifted early college entrant?” Participants were eight college graduates between the ages of 23 and 45 who matriculated to college as full-time, degree-seeking ...
Genetics of Cotton Fiber Elongation
(2013-05-29)
Fiber elongation (ability to stretch before breaking) is one of the key components in determining overall yarn quality. Elongation in U.S. upland cotton (G. hirsutum L.) has remained largely neglected due to: absence of ...
Glow Discharge Characteristics of Non-thermal Microplasmas at above Atmospheric Pressures and their Applications in Microscale Plasma Transistors
(2013-07-25)
A microscale plasma transistor capable of high speed switching was manufactured using microfabrication techniques and operated using microplasma discharges. Such a device has feature sizes on the order of 25 μm, is robust ...
Reverse Auction Bidding - Bid Arrivals Analysis
(2013-08-06)
Reverse Auction Bidding (RAB) is a recently developed procurement method that can be used by the construction industry. The technique is different from a traditional auction system, since RAB system uses a bidding activity ...
Modeling Micro-Damage Healing Mechanism at Micro-Scale
(2013-08-06)
This thesis demonstrates the effect of micro-damage healing on stress and displacement fields in the vicinity of a crack tip in the material that tend to self-heal. The micro-damage healing model is modeled by incorporating ...
The Duffing Oscillator And Linearization Techniques For Its Motion Constants
(2014-01-16)
Analyzing the characteristics of higher order nonlinear dynamic systems is really difficult. This can involve giving solutions with respect to time. Motion constants are another way of studying the behavior of the dynamic ...
Efficacy of Consumer-Available Antimicrobials for the Disinfection of Pathogen Contaminated Green Bell Pepper and Efficacy of Consumer Cleaning Methods for the Decontamination of Knives
(2011-08-08)
Limited information exists regarding the efficacy of consumer-available antimicrobials for the use on produce surfaces. There is a strong focus on eliminating pathogens from produce at a commercial level, but consumers can ...
Tate Cohomology of Finite Dimensional Hopf Algebras
(2014-06-19)
Let A be a finite dimensional Hopf algebra over a field k. In this dissertation, we study the Tate cohomology Ĥ* (A, k) and Tate-Hochschild cohomology (HH) ̂* (A, A) of A, and their properties.
We introduce cup products ...
Assessing the Accuracy of Vertical Profiles of Heating and Vertical Motion in the Tropical Eastern Pacific
(2015-08-19)
Vertical profiles of heating (Q1) are a result of the interaction between radiative heating, eddy sensible heat transport, and latent heating from cloud and precipitation systems. The third component is the largest by an ...
Numerical Investigation of the Effect of Chirality of Carbon Nanotube on the Interfacial Thermal Resistance
(2014-06-05)
Concentrated Solar Power (CSP) systems are used widely as a stable and reliable renewable source of energy. However, intermittency of this power source and the variability in demand for electrical power creates challenges ...