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  • Voxel based indirect illumination using spherical harmonics

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    Rauwendaal, Randall
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    Realistic (ideally photorealistic) real-time rendering has remained an elusive goal in computer graphics. While photorealistic rendering has certainly been achieved at the expense of tremendous computational resources and corresponding rendering times; real-time rendering typically must accept a great number of compromises to achieve adequate performance, such as aliasing artifacts, the...
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    Harmonics Abstract approved: Michael J. Bailey Realistic (ideally photorealistic) real-time rendering

  • Computational methods for protein-protein interface prediction

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    Tribelhorn, Benjamin
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    Protein-protein interactions underlie all biological processes and are a field of study that has wide implications throughout many other fields including medicine, genetics, biology, and ecology. Proteins are the building blocks and primary actors of life. They work together to accomplish virtually every task within a cell, including, metabolism, signal...
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    Methods for Protein-Protein Interface Prediction Abstract approved: Michael J. Bailey Protein-protein

  • Distributed OpenCL : a platform for distributed, heterogeneous computing for domain scientists

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    Dillon, William H.
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    It is possible to purchase, for as little as $10,000, a cluster of computers with the capability to rival the supercomputers of only a few years ago. Now, users that have little to no experience developing distributed applications or managing a cluster are in a position to do so. To...
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    Abstract approved: __________________________________________ Michael J. Bailey It is possible to

  • The influence of increased base saturation and the chloride ion on Fragaria ananassa, Bailey

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    Lyons, Calvin G.
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    Research was carried out to determine the influence of increasing the percentage base saturation of the soil on the yield of the commercial strawberry. It was found that the effect of increasing the bases in the soils was directly related to the original percentage base saturation. When this original value...
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    ANANASSA, BAILEY Abstract approved (Major professor) Research was carried out to determine the

  • Relationships of clay mineralogy to landscape stability in Western Oregon

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    Taskey, Ronald D. (Ronald David), 1944-
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    Soil erosion by mass wasting is the major problem on forest lands of the Pacific Northwest, The clay fractions of soils from a large number of sites in Oregon's Western Cascades were characterized in order to determine the relationships of various clay materials to mass movements. Each site was either...
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    AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF RONALD DAVID TASKEY for the

  • 3D Voronoi Subdivision for Simulating Destructible and Granular Materials

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    Clothier, Matthew M.
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    In many traditional computer graphics applications, rendered scenes typically utilize 3D meshes to represent objects within an environment. As the demand to further improve the realism of graphics applications increases, such as for movies and games, it is becoming more important to represent the inner volumes of object meshes. In...
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    approved: ______________________________________________________ Mike Bailey In many

  • Divergence Reduction and Dependency Management in GPU Programs using Asynchronous Work Scheduling

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    Cuneo, Braxton
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    With continuing improvements in performance and capability, GPU processing has gained significant and growing interest across science and industry. With this interest, research has increasingly focused upon methods of processing algorithms with stochastic, non-uniform branching while maintaining low divergence. Central among these methods is thread-data remapping (TDR), whereby data is...
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    : Mike Bailey With continuing improvements in performance and capability, GPU processing has gained

  • Restoring Ponderosa Pine: Understanding Individual Tree Defenses, Disturbance Responses, and Resilience

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    Johnson, Christal
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    The aim of this research was to provide forest managers and researchers with a better understanding of individual tree defenses and tree responses to disturbances, within a Collaborative Forest Landscape Restoration Program area. Forest restoration often aims to increase stand-level resistance to uncharacteristic changes, and stand-level resistance begins with tree-level...
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    John D. Bailey The aim of this research was to provide forest managers and researchers with a

  • The potato : composition, non-enzymatic browning and anthocyanins

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    Rodriguez-Saona, Luis Enrique
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    Chipping varieties and model systems were used to determine the role of potato constituents on chip color. Composition was evaluated by HPLC and chip color measured using a ColorQuest colorimeter. Reducing sugar (RS) content did not completely explain color quality when present in low concentrations (<60 mg/lOOg). Levels of ascorbic...
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    Potato: Composition. Non- Enzvmatic Browning and Anthocyanins Abstract approved by: Ronald E

  • Structure and conformation of red radish (Raphanus sativus L.) anthocyanins and their effect on color and pigment stability

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    Giusti Hundskopf, Maria Monica
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    Red radish (Raphanus sativus L.) anthocyanins were extracted from liquid nitrogen powdered epidermal tissue using acetone and chloroform and isolated using C-18 resin. Chemical structure and conformation of major pigments were elucidated by 1-D and 2-D NMR, Mass Spectroscopy, HPLC, and spectral analyses. Two novel di-acylated anthocyanins, pelargonidin 3-0-[2-0-(β-D-glucopyranosyl)-(6-0- trans-p-coumaroyl-...
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    Their Effect on Color and Pigment Stability. Abstract approved : Ronald E. Wrolstad Red radish