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Using Mineral Equilibria to Estimate H2O Activities in Peridotites from the Western Gneiss Region of Norway
(2015-04-09)
The earth’s mantle is an important reservoir of H2O, and even a small amount of H2O has a significant influence on the physical properties of mantle rocks. Estimating the amount of H2O in rocks from the earth’s mantle ...
Evaluation of Instantaneous Pressure Measurements on a Rod Surface in a 5 x 5 Bundle and Validation Through CFD
(2015-05-12)
Grid-To-Rod-Fretting (GTRF) in PWR fuel assemblies is a major issue of concern to vendors and utilities. Instantaneous pressure fluctuations on a fuel rod surface can help characterize the GTRF potential within a fuel ...
Observation of Liquid Metal Actuation in Microfluidic Channels and Implementation to Tunable RF Inductors
(2014-07-18)
The overreaching goal of this thesis research is to analyze liquid metal plug actuation in microfluidic channels and to exemplify this actuation in a tunable inductor design using liquid metal as a switching material, and ...
Graph Based Representation of Walden’s Paths in Drupal 7
(2015-04-30)
The Walden’s Paths Project is used by different communities in order to create and use linear paths that link to documents available on the web. Walden’s Paths has been implemented as a web application using Drupal where ...
The Influence of Equilibrium Reactions on the Kinetics of Calcite Dissolution in Lactic Acid Solutions
(2014-08-07)
Matrix acidizing has historically been a common means of removing formation damage and increasing the productivity of petroleum wells. Organic acids have been used in an effort to minimize the corrosion problem and the ...
Occupation by “induction”: The American Army of Occupation in Cuba, December 1898-December 1899
(2015-04-30)
Many historians of the first American occupation of Cuba (1898-1902) assert that the military government of the island began and ended with a single strategic objective in mind: annexation. This assertion, however, ignores ...
“Spoiled and Unspoiled”: An Autoethnography and Arts-Based Installation on Violence Against Women and Femicide
(2015-05-13)
This dissertation addresses violence against women and femicide through an autoethnography and arts-based research agenda. Many cases of violence against women go unreported each year. Women often withstand violence until ...
Pyrogeography of the Southeast USA: Exploring the Relationships between Wildfire and Climate
(2014-07-08)
Wildfire plays a contradictory role as both a hazard and a necessary ecological process in certain ecosystems. A variety of factors influence wildfire, including fuel type and quantity, land management policies, and patterns ...
Towards Stunt-Free Lonren Reniform Nematode Resistance by Dissection of an Alien R-Gene Chromosome Segment and Detection of Significant Fungal Interactions
(2014-07-07)
Reniform (Rotylenchulus reniformis) nematodes cost US cotton growers over 130 million dollars per year. Genetic resistance of the wild African species Gossypium longicalyx to reniform nematodes was previously transferred ...
Modeling Wave-Wave Interactions and 3-D Wave-Induced Circulation in the Presence of Reflection-Diffraction
(2015-05-04)
Accurate prediction of wave environment is critical to the design of ports, harbors and coastal structures. In this dissertation, two advancements for existing phase-resolving models based on elliptic mild-slope equation ...