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“When You Want Something So Bad, You Can Always Do It:” Mexican Women Journeying from the GED to Community College Graduate in a Southwestern State
(2014-07-09)
The Hispanic population is the fastest growing population in the United States. Mexicans, who represent the largest Hispanic ethnicity, are also the most undereducated. Mexican women struggle between their roles as housewives ...
Development of a Laboratory Verified Single-Duct VAV System Model with Fan Powered Terminal Units Optimized Using Computational Fluid Dynamics
(2011-10-21)
Single Duct Variable Air Volume (SDVAV) systems use series and parallel Fan
Powered Terminal Units to control the air flow in conditioned spaces. This research
developed a laboratory verified model of SDVAV systems that ...
Probabilistic Calibration of a Discrete Particle Model
(2011-10-21)
A discrete element model (DEM) capable of reproducing the mechanistic behavior of a triaxial compressive test performed on a Vosges sandstone specimen is presented considering similar experimental testing conditions and ...
Laser Scattering as a Tool to Determine the Effect of Temperature on Diatom Aggregation
(2011-10-21)
Diatoms are estimated to contribute 25 percent of the primary production on Earth and therefore they play a significant role in the global carbon cycle. Diatom blooms often terminate with the formation of aggregates that ...
Maneuvering of Distributed Space-Borne Sensors for Optimal Interferometric Imaging Performance
(2011-10-21)
The need for high resolution, continuously sustained imaging drives the interest
in space-borne, distributed aperture, interferometric (amplitude, heterodyne, or
intensity correlation) systems. This paper will discuss ...
Multiscale Solution Techniques For High-Contrast Anisotropic Problems
(2015-11-06)
Anisotropy occurs in a wide range of applications. Examples include porous media, composite materials, heat transfer, and other fields in science and engineering. Due to the anisotropy, the physical property could vary ...
Topics in Functional Analysis
(2016-03-10)
I give a geometric characterization of mean ergodic convergence in the Calkin algebras for Banach spaces that have the bounded compact approximation property; I obtain (i) a new, coordinate free, characterization of ...
A Genetic Analysis of the Lysine Demethylase KDM2 Mutations in Drosophila Melanogaster
(2015-10-09)
Post-translational modification of histones play essential roles in the transcriptional regulation of genes in eukaryotes. Methylation on basic residues of histones is regulated by histone methyltransferases and histone ...
Simulation Methodologies for Satellite Solar Array Dynamics
(2010-07-16)
The purpose of the present thesis is to furnish diverse studies on the dynamic
response of satellite solar arrays. The term flexible structure or, briefly, structure has
different interpretations and definitions, depending ...
Regulation of Zinc Transport in the Choroid Plexus
(2014-07-21)
The choroid plexus epithelium forms the blood-cerebrospinal fluid barrier, but also accumulates and transports nutritive minerals, such as zinc, into and out of the cerebrospinal fluid. The goal of this thesis was to analyze ...