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Estimation of Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill Effects on Population Dynamics of the Loggerhead Sea Turtle (Caretta caretta)
(2018-04-19)
Deepwater Horizon (DWH) was the largest offshore oil spill in US history. The result was approximately 3.19 million barrels of oil being released into the ocean. Deepwater Horizon significantly affected the Gulf of Mexico ...
Estimation of Anthropogenic and Catastrophic Effects of Florida Manatee (Trichechus manatus latirostris)
(2018-04-23)
One of the most endangered marine mammals in the coastal areas of the United States is the Florida manatee (Trichechus manatus latirostris). The Florida manatee population has been increasing and decreasing since 1991 along ...
Evaluation of Morbillivirus Exposure to Bottlenose Dolphins (Tursiops truncatus) Following the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill
(2018-04-24)
Deepwater Horizon (DWH) was the largest offshore oil spill in the petroleum industry’s history. For a total of 87 days, approximately 3.19 million gallons of oil and natural gas seeped into the Gulf of Mexico. DWH altered ...
Detection and Quantification of Carbon Nanotubes Through Thermal Response to Electromagnetic Radiation
(2018-04-26)
When exposed to an electromagnetic field, the heat generated by CNTs is proportional to the power of the field and the concentration of CNTs exposed. Additionally, the field’s frequency, the sample geometry, heat transfer ...
A Machine Learning Approach to Pitot Static Error Detection and Airspeed Prediction
(2016-08-17)
Aircraft guidance is dependent on various sensors which provide information on speed, altitude and location with respect to both the ground and the surrounding air. The pitot static system, global positioning system (GPS) ...
Overdischarge and External Short Behavior of Lithium-Ion Batteries
(2017-04-27)
Lithium-ion batteries (LIBs) have become increasingly popular for commercial use in recent years, however, the frequency of accidents involving LIBs raises concerns over their safety. A commonly experienced condition for ...
Improving BSFC through Multiple Injections and Varying Cetane Number for a Medium Duty Diesel Engine
(2017-04-28)
Due to their relatively low carbon dioxide emissions and superior fuel efficiency performance, interest in further utilization of diesel engines for commercial and industrial use continues to grow. The concept of multiple ...
Clearance Map for the Application of Workspace Skeleton-biased Motion Planning
(2017-05-10)
Motion planning is the problem of finding a valid path for a moveable object from a start to a goal state. Current state-of-the-art sampling based planners are able to solve a variety of problems. Sometimes, it is difficult ...
Phased Array, Integrated Optical Beam Steering Device
(2017-04-26)
In this paper we demonstrate a phased array integrated optical beam steering device for sensing and analyze the efficiency of using thermo optic heaters to manipulate the phase of the signal in each waveguide to produce a ...
Molecular Detection of Pathogenic Ehrlichia Species in Texas
(2014-05-27)
Ehrlichiosis is becoming one of the increasingly common tick borne illnesses in the US with a steady increase in reported cases from 200 in the year 2000, to 1,549 in 2013 [1]. This study aims to analyze the prevalence of ...