Air compressor systems are inefficient energy transfer devices even under the best of conditions, at full load. When only part load is required, efficiency drops further. This thesis attempts to improve part load efficiency of twin rotor screw air compressors in three ways.
First, a guidebook was written to help...
Traditional approaches to research and management of striped
bass have tended to be mechanistic, numerically oriented, and
based on limited life history information. In the study
presented here, comprehensive conceptual perspective was used
in a multivariate study of life history and evolutionary
adaptation of 10 striped bass populations representing the...
This investigation examined the possible role of musculoskeletal forces in the
human walk-run transition. In order to measure these forces a treadmill was constructed
which allowed the measurement of vertical ground reaction forces while subjects walked
and ran at prescribed speeds. Validation proved the device to be accurate and reliable...
Many different types of distributed batch scheduling systems have been developed in the last decade to take advantage of the decentralization of computers and the enormous investments that many companies and educational institutions have in desktop workstations. Based on the premise that the majority of desktop workstations are significantly underutilized,...
The processes that lead to stable, low-growing plant communities and the characteristics of the species that form them are of great interest to rights-of-way (ROW) managers and others wishing to better understand plant community resistance to tree invasion on managed landscapes. The use of stable, low-growing plant communities as a...
Understanding the drivers of species occurrence is a fundamental goal in basic and applied ecology. Occupancy models have emerged as a popular approach for inferring species occurrence because they account for problems associated with imperfect detection in field surveys. Current models, however, are limited because they assume covariates are independent...
Understanding the drivers of species occurrence is a fundamental goal in basic and applied ecology. Occupancy models have emerged as a popular approach for inferring species occurrence because they account for problems associated with imperfect detection in field surveys. Current models, however, are limited because they assume covariates are independent...
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MaxwellB. Joseph,1,3 Daniel l. preston,2 anD pieter t. J. Johnson1
1Department of Ecology and
Understanding the drivers of species occurrence is a fundamental goal in basic and applied ecology. Occupancy models have emerged as a popular approach for inferring species occurrence because they account for problems associated with imperfect detection in field surveys. Current models, however, are limited because they assume covariates are independent...
Understanding the impact of inter-molecular orientation on the optical proper-ties of organic semiconductors is important for designing next-generation organic (opto)electronic and photonic devices. However, fundamental aspects of how various features of molecular packing in crystalline systems determine the nature and dynamics of excitons have been a subject of debate. Toward...
A key constraint faced by consumers is achieving a positive energy balance in the face of temporal variation in foraging opportunities. Recent work has shown that spatial heterogeneity in resource phenology can buffer mobile consumers from this constraint by allowing them to track changes in resource availability across space. For...
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WILLIAM DEACY, WILLIAM LEACOCK, JONATHANB. ARMSTRONG, AND JACK A. STANFORD.
2016. Kodiak brown bears
