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  • Engineering an Ex-Vivo System to Study Transport Phenomena in the Human Intervertebral Disc

    Creator:
    Shalash, Ward
    Abstract:
    Back pain is the leading cause of disability worldwide, entailing a significant socioeconomic impact. A primary source of back pain can be attributed to intervertebral disc (IVD) degeneration allowing nerve ingrowth, facet joint arthritis, disc bulging, and osteophyte formations that press on nearby nerve roots or the spinal cord. While...
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    . 2017; Wang et al. 2016b; Zhou et al. 2016; Iatridis and ap Gwynn 2004). However, studies point to

  • Classifying the toxicity of pesticides to honey bees via support vector machines with random walk graph kernels

    Creator:
    Yang, Ping
    Abstract:
    Pesticides benefit agriculture by increasing crop yield, quality, and security. However, pesticides may inadvertently harm bees, which are valuable as pollinators. Thus, candidate pesticides in development pipelines must be assessed for toxicity to bees. Leveraging a data set of 382 molecules with toxicity labels from honey bee exposure experiments, we...
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    Masters Thesis

  • Exploration of Simultaneous Anammox and Denitrification (SAD) Biofilm Processes for Nitrogen Removal

    Creator:
    Hilliard, Richard F.
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    Anammox (anaerobic ammonium oxidation) bacteria are capable of providing low-cost nitrogen removal for numerous types of wastewaters. However, low growth rates cause long startup-times and inhibition by oxygen and metabolic substrates necessitate close process control to maintain performance. Incorporation of Simultaneous Anammox and Denitrification (SAD) into constructed wetlands could provide...
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    identified as anammox bacteria120. Figure 2.8: from Wang et al. 2010. A schematic of the SNAD process

  • Synthesis, surface treatment, and characterization of copper indium sulfide quantum dots

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    Alemu, Yagenetfere A.
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    The need for less toxic quantum dots (QDs) has led to a significant number of investigations related to copper indium sulfide (CIS) QDs. Lower toxicity and broad band absorbance width makes CIS QDs appealing for light emitting diodes (LEDs), lasers, sensors, bio-imaging, solar cells, and computing. The optical and electronic...
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    Masters Thesis

  • Design And Testing Of A Flow Electrolyzer For Selective Seawater Electrolysis

    Creator:
    Chou, Kuan-Hsun
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    Hydrogen is of great interest as a fuel, as its oxidation produces benign water (without CO₂ emissions), its gaseous form can be transported in existing pipe infrastructure, and it can be obtained via renewable electricity from water. However, current hydrogen production is mainly produced from fossil fuels (e.g. methane), exacerbating...
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    – Hsiang-Ying, Chou and Fang-I Chou, who have been unconditional in supporting and encouraging me all the

  • Deep desulfurization of diesel fuel using a single phase photochemical microreactor

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    Jones, Jacob Aaron
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    There is an urgent need to lower the concentration of sulfur in diesel fuels. Growing concern over environmental effects caused by burning sulfur-containing diesel has led the world to higher standards in fuel refinement. Because of these lower standards, many techniques have been researched to remove sulfur containing compounds or...
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    Masters Thesis

  • Probing Structure, Selectivity, and Orientation of Biomolecules to Cell Membranes by Sum Frequency Generation

    Creator:
    Golbek, Thaddeus W.
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    Cell membranes act as barriers against unwanted movement of ions and biomolecules and are complex surfaces littered with protein channels, ion channels, cholesterol, and a myriad of different proteins. While this surface is extremely well studied, there is still much we do not know. The work in this dissertation demonstrates...
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    . Traffic 2012, 13 (2), 185-194. 6. Wang, G.; Mishra, B.; Lau, K.; Lushnikova, T.; Golla, R.; Wang, X

  • Inkjet-Printed Metal Halide Semiconductors for Wearable Electronics

    Creator:
    Li, Shujie
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    There is an emerging interest in developing wearable electronics as a platform, which provides the flexibility of a wearable while maintaining its promising functionality as smart textiles. Metal-halide semiconductors are attractive materials with tunable optical and electrical properties. Researchers have widely studied and applied it for advanced photonics and optoelectronic...
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    years of patience, understanding, and love from my girlfriend, Wenjie Wang – you are the sunshine of

  • Transient Microrheological Characterization of Biogels

    Creator:
    Mao, Yating
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    The Brownian motion of micron-scale particles reflects the viscoelastic response of the local environment of the medium. Tracking the thermal fluctuations of these particles is a measure of the rheology of the material at the microscopic scale. This technique is called passive microrheology. Microrheology has been developed to assess the...
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    Masters Thesis

  • Processing of nanoscale materials

    Creator:
    Hostetler, Eric B.
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    The motivation for undertaking this research was to increase the understanding of processing colloidal semiconductor nanocrystals and thin films metallic glasses to enable their wider application in future devices. This research covered two unique materials, lead selenide (PbSe) nanocrystals and thin film metallic glass alloy of zirconium copper aluminum nickel...
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