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Mathematical Modeling of Wormhole Propagation during Matrix Acidizing of Carbonate Reservoirs
(2015-11-28)
This study demonstrates the application of an alternative formulation to effectively describe the flow field in a two-scale carbonate matrix-acidizing model. The model is further modified and extended to alternative acidizing ...
The Biological and Molecular Analysis of a Tick-Encoded Serine Protease Inhibitor (S6) and its Role in the Feeding Cycle of the Lone Star Tick, Amblyomma americanum (L) (Acari: ixodidae)
(2011-10-21)
Serine protease inhibitors (serpins) are a large superfamily of proteins that regulate critical proteolytic pathways by inhibiting serine proteases. Tick-encoded serpins are thought to play a vital role in the feeding ...
Using Niched Co-Evolution Strategies to Address Non-Uniqueness in Characterizing Sources of Contamination in a Water Distribution System
(2011-10-21)
Threat management of water distribution systems is essential for protecting consumers. In a contamination event, different strategies may be implemented to protect public health, including flushing the system through opening ...
Risky Business: The Discourse of Credit and Early Modern Female Playwrights Before Defoe
(2011-10-21)
This dissertation shows that early modern female playwrights were shaped by and helped to shape commercial literary marketplaces that were increasingly affected by the rise of credit, shifting exchange values, and unstable ...
Transverse Collective Flow and Emission Order of Mid-Rapidity Fragments in Fermi Energy Heavy Ion Collisions
(2011-10-21)
The Equation of State (EoS) of asymmetric nuclear matter has been explored through the study of mid-rapidity fragment dynamics from the 35 MeV/u $^{70}$Zn $^{70}$Zn, $^{64}$Zn $^{64}$Zn, and $^{64}$Ni $^{64}$Ni systems. ...
'Talk about Conflict': Understanding Interpretive Repertoires in Community Mediation
(2011-10-21)
While many studies investigate the mediation styles enacted during conflict resolution, relatively few of them discuss the communicative processes through which discursive structures are reproduced. This dissertation is a ...
Coding for Cooperative Communications
(2011-10-21)
The area of cooperative communications has received tremendous research interest
in recent years. This interest is not unwarranted, since cooperative communications
promises the ever-so-sought after diversity and ...
Modeling Hot Mix Asphalt Compaction Using a Thermodynamics Based Compressible Viscoelastic Model within the Framework of Multiple Natural Configurations
(2011-10-21)
Hot mix asphalt (HMA) is a composite material that exhibits a nonlinear response that is dependent on temperature, type of loading and strain level. The properties of HMA are highly influenced by the type and amount of the ...
Development of Advanced Nanomanufacturing: 3D Integration and High Speed Directed Self-assembly
(2011-10-21)
Development of nanoscience and nanotechnology requires rapid and robust nanomanufacturing processes to produce nanoscale materials, structures and devices. The dissertation aims to contribute to two major challenging and ...
Generic Properties of Actions of F_n
(2011-10-21)
We investigate the genericity of measure-preserving actions of the free group Fn,
on possibly countably infinitely many generators, acting on a standard probability
space. Specifically, we endow the space of all ...