This thesis addresses the research question: How do different
physical layouts of high-rise college dormitories affect residents'
perceptions of satisfaction and crowding? The purpose of the research
was to outline some design strategies that could be used to provide
designers with information which can help them to design better high...
It is hypothesized that the circulation of the tropical Pacific Ocean and atmosphere satisfies the equations of a simple coupled model to within errors having specified covariances, and that the Tropical Atmosphere–Ocean array (TAO) measures the circulation to within errors also having specified covariances. This hypothesis is tested by finding...
The investigation of the consequences of trying to blend tropical Pacific observations from the Tropical Atmosphere–Ocean (TAO) array into the dynamical framework of an intermediate coupled ocean–atmosphere model is continued. In a previous study it was found that the model dynamics, the prior estimates of uncertainty in the observations, and...
A nonlinear 2½-layer reduced gravity primitive equations (PE) ocean model is used to assimilate sea surface
temperature (SST) data from the Tropical Atmosphere–Ocean (TAO) moored buoys in the tropical Pacific. The
aim of this project is to hindcast cool and warm events of this part of the ocean, on seasonal...
Solar thermal energy can be stored and later converted to electrical energy using a combination of thermochemical energy storage (TCES) and a thermoelectric generator (TEG). This TEG and TCES combination illustrates a potential route for clean electricity storage from renewable energy. TCES allows for thermal energy from the sun to...
Low-power millimeter-wave (mm-wave) transceivers are of interest for achieving energy-efficient high data rate short-reach wireless and guided-wave links.
Spatial modulation or space-shift keying (SSK) can provide energy efficiency improvements by using antenna-switching or transmission direction switching for data modulation. Such links are particularly attractive at millimeter-wave frequencies due to small...
Background: Little is known about the potential of Brachypodium distachyon as a model for low temperature stress
responses in Pooideae. The ice recrystallization inhibition protein (IRIP) genes, fructosyltransferase (FST) genes, and
many C-repeat binding factor (CBF) genes are Pooideae specific and important in low temperature responses. Here
we used comparative...
Myc is a pleiotropic transcription factor that is involved in many cellular activities relevant to carcinogenesis, including hepatocarcinogenesis. The zebrafish has been increasingly used to model human diseases and it is particularly valuable in helping to identify common and conserved molecular mechanisms in vertebrates. Here we generated a liver tumor...
We present field data and data from the literature to highlight the effects of low-tide rainfall on particulate organic carbon (POC) redistribution in intertidal landscapes. The POC exchanges reported from disparate but related studies were standardized to a storm-induced exchange rate (gPOC m⁻² mmRain⁻¹) and compared. Results show that these...