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Investigating the Effects of Environmental Factors on the Spread of Antibiotic Resistant Bacteria in a Dairy Facility
(2022-04-22)
Widespread use and availability of antibiotics has led to infectious and pathogenic bacteria developing antibiotic resistance. Various environmental factors, such as temperature, relative humidity, and wind, can also induce ...
Hardware and Software Approaches to Increasing Accessibility of Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Imaging and Spectroscopy
(2022-04-11)
This work presents a number of projects for increasing accessibility to magnetic resonance imaging and magnetic resonance spectroscopy through hardware and software approaches. First, the feasibility of dynamic 31P MR ...
Fitness Effects of a Spontaneously Originating Selfish Mitochondrial Deletion Found in C. elegans
(2022-03-14)
The mitochondrion goes beyond just the “powerhouse of the cell”. As incredibly important as this organelle is, there is still much about its biology that remains unclear. Mitochondrial variation, historically, has often ...
Stochastic Programming Models: Community Health Pathways Scheduling and Optimal Vaccine Allocation
(2022-02-25)
The World Health Organization (WHO) designated the novel COrona VIrus (COVID-19) a global pandemic. This pandemic combined with the growing and aging population has created a crisis of unprecedented dimension regarding ...
Incorporating Process Safety into Heat Exchanger Network Synthesis
(2022-05-24)
Process safety of inter-connected equipment, such as heat exchanger networks (HEN), is paramount to the operation of chemical plants. While there exists considerable research on further improving HEN, little attention has ...
Design, Analysis, and Control of a Cable-Suspended Robot for Large-Scale Additive Manufacturing
(2022-04-14)
Additive manufacturing (AM) and cable-suspended robots (CSRs) are two areas of technology that evolved rapidly in the last decades. This dissertation explores combining the two ideas to create a cable-suspended robot for ...
Competition and the Institutional Choices of Rebel Governance
(2022-04-04)
Why do rebel groups establish governance institutions? What motivates their institutional choices of governance? This dissertation advances an institutional choice theory to explain why rebel groups establish governance ...
Synthesis and Leachate Analysis of Dry Synthesized Substituted Fluorapatite Nuclear Surrogate Waste Forms for Molten Salt Reactors
(2022-04-20)
The development of commercialized molten salt reactors nuclear reactors (MSR), a nuclear reactor where the fuel is in a liquid state dissolved in carrier salt, is underway throughout the nuclear power community. With this ...
Simulation of Unconventional Reservoirs with Complex Fracture Conditions
(2022-05-12)
The unconventional reservoirs have been a major source of the modern oil and gas industry. However, simulation of unconventional reservoirs with complex fracture conditions remains to be a difficult problem. The nano-scale ...
Minimum Resolution Requirements for Gamma Identification Algorithms
(2022-04-11)
Each year, millions are spent to improve detector resolution. This research indicates that higher resolution detectors are not always necessary. The Gamma Detector Response and Analysis Software (GADRAS), Gamma Acquisition ...