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  • A moving boundary model of calcium alginate gel formation and the estimation of diffusion and mass transfer coefficients

    Creator:
    Inoue, Shawna K.
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    Calcium alginate gels are widely used in the biotechnology, food, and pharmaceutical industries for cell immobilization, food additives, and controlling the release of therapeutic agents. Different gelation conditions can lead to different gel structures which affects the diffusion of solutes in gels, thus mathematical models were developed to describe diffusion...
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    Coefficients. Abstract approved: Stephen W. Hoag Calcium alginate gels are widely used in the

  • Radiative Acceleration and Emission from Relativistic Outflows

    Creator:
    Chhotray, Atul
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    Outflowing streams of matter or jets are a common phenomenon in the observeduniverse. The most extreme and powerful jets are relativistic, i.e., they travel at speedscomparable to the of speed light. Gamma Ray-Bursts (GRBs) and Active Galactic Nuclei(AGNs) are two sources of these relativistic jets. In this work I will...
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  • A theoretical description of anisotropic chemical association and its application to hydrogen-bonded fluids

    Creator:
    Peery, Travis B.
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    The thermodynamic and structural effects of highly anisotropic, short-ranged attraction are investigated for single- and four-site interaction models using Wertheim's multi-density graph theory of chemical association. Both models consist of associating hard spheres, where the saturable attraction sites are described by conical wells centered in the hard core and evaluated...
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    ............................ 94 4.4 Isotherms defining the excess free-energy-density W(p).......... ill 4.5 Critical packing

  • A thin codimension-one decomposition of the Hilbert Cube

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    Phon-On, Aniruth
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    For cell-like upper semicontinuous(usc) decompositions G of finite dimensional manifolds M, the decomposition space M/G turns out to be an ANR provided M/G is finite dimensional ([Dav07], page 129 ). Furthermore, if M/G is finite dimensional and has the Disjoint Disks Property (DDP), then M/G is homeomorphic to M ([Dav07],...
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    ) where h : R 3 → R3 is the homeomorphism taking T onto W in Figure1.1. Note that Ti ⊂ Ti−1 for all i

  • Optical, electronic, and thermodynamic properties of layered mixed anion compounds

    Creator:
    Vielma, Jason Michael
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    Mixed anion compounds that form ZrCuSiAs-type crystal structures exhibit remarkable properties such as superconductivity at low temperatures, hole conduction with optical transparency in the visible region, and exciton absorption at room temperature. In this thesis, properties of a selected group of materials out of the very large set of mixed...
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