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  • Efficacy of lateral heel wedge orthotics for the treatment of patients with knee osteoarthritis

    Creator:
    Wallace, David A.
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    Lateral heel wedge orthotics are designed to reduce medial tibiofemoral joint loading and pain in patients with knee osteoarthritis (OA). To date, the efficacy of long-term lateral heel wedge orthotics use among OA patients has not been determined. This study evaluated the extent to which lateral heel wedge orthotics reduced...
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    edits of both studies. Dr. Wood assisted with statistical interpretation of the data

  • On the Flow-Induced Vibration of Solitary Wire-Wrapped Cylinders in Axial Flow

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    Nixon, Chad A.
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    Vibration of nuclear power plant components can cause fretting wear and fatigue that can eventually lead to component failure. Flexible, high-aspect ratio components under flow, such as the wire-wrapped cylindrical fuel elements in a liquid metal-cooled fast reactor (LMFR) core, are particularly susceptible to vibration due to their low natural...
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    . ............................ 83 Figure 4.38: Single-pin flow test displacement measurements at U̅ = 3.48 m/s. .............. 85

  • Dynamic System Scaling Application to Accelerated Nuclear Fuel Testing

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    Yoshiura, Ramon K.
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    The development of nuclear fuel and materials requires is a continuous effort to investigate the acute and prolonged effects of irradiation, thermal-material stress, chemical change, or other conceivable damage mechanics acquired during normal operation or accident scenarios throughout its lifetime. As in-core fuel property measurement techniques advance to support in...
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  • Fuel Dispersal Under LOCA Conditions

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    Latimer, Griffen D.
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    Most operating power reactors use oxide fuel in the form of uranium oxide (UO2) which is robust against high temperatures but suffers from poor mechanical performance at high levels of burnup. Currently, the maximum average burnup in light water reactors in the US is 62.5 GWd/t, which is partially imposed...
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    significant quantity of fragmented fuel particles were as fine as 5600μm, with some even surpassing the 2000

  • Integrating solute transport, metabolism and processing in stream ecosystems

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    González Pinzón, Ricardo A.
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    After three decades of active research coupling hydrology and stream ecology, the connection among solute transport, metabolism and processing is still unresolved. These knowledge gaps obscure the functioning of stream ecosystems and how those ecosystems interact with other landscape processes. We must resolve these challenges to wisely manage water resources,...
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    thankful to my committee members for their support. Thanks to Eugènia Martí, David M. Myrold and Judson W

  • Trace forms and self-dual normal bases in Galois field extensions

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    Kang, Dong Seung
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    Let G be a finite group, G₂ be a Sylow 2-subgroup of G, and L/K be a G-Galois extension. We study the trace form qL/K of L/K and the question of existence of a self-dual normal basis. Our main results are as follows: (1) If G₂ is not abelian and...
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