Browsing Electronic Theses and Dissertations by Title
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(2012-12-20)Department: Interdisciplinary Materials ScienceUltrafast photoinduced phase transitions in quantum materials could revolutionize data-storage and telecommunications technologies by modulating transport in integrated nanocircuits at terahertz speeds. In phase-changing ...
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(2015-04-08)Department: Electrical EngineeringThe ever-growing demand for more powerful computers has led to the emergence of multicore processors. Due to the nature of parallel processing, additional cores significantly improve performance. However, a major roadblock ...
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(2018-03-27)Department: Interdisciplinary Materials ScienceThe integration of optical components with silicon complementary metal–oxide–semiconductor (CMOS) technology may lead to the increase in information carrying capacity and reduction in power consumption necessary to continue ...
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(2005-08-09)Department: Electrical EngineeringHybrid System Based Design for the Coordination and Control of Multiple Autonomous Vehicles Charles A. Clifton Thesis under the direction of Professor Takkuen John Koo In recent years, the use of unmanned aerial vehicles ...
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(2007-12-18)Department: Electrical EngineeringIn order to provide preventative security to a homogeneous device network, techniques in addition to static encryption must be implemented to assure network integrity by identifying possible deviant nodes within the ...
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(2013-03-19)Department: Environmental EngineeringThe long term stability of tidal marshes is related to interactions among the surface slope of the marsh platform, sedimentation, primary productivity, and the relative rate of sea-level rise. Here I simulate the physical ...
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(2011-12-02)Department: Community Research and ActionThis thesis ethnographically documents the politics of hidden waterways in the city of Nashville, Tennessee using multiple methods, including ethnographic observation, photography, mapping, and the collection of documents ...
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(2013-06-28)Department: Environmental EngineeringRiparian top soil layer, rich in organic carbon, act as a source provider of dissolved organic carbon (DOC) to its adjacent stream, but the hydrological factors that control the dynamics of DOC from terrestrial sources to ...
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Hydrophilic Poly(sulfobetaine methacrylate) Films on Tygon Tubing to Reduce Surface Protein Adhesion (2023-03-27)Department: Chemical EngineeringExtracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) machines are used for critically ill patients who are afflicted by respiratory or cardiac complications. During prolonged operation, surface contact between human blood and the ...
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(2021-03-22)Department: Biomedical EngineeringChronic wounds are wounds that have failed to progress through the stages of wound healing properly and become stalled in a prolonged state of inflammation. There is increasing need of treatments that not only help progress ...
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(2017-03-27)Department: Biomedical EngineeringSmall interfering RNA (siRNA) can potently and specifically suppress translation of any gene, including intracellular targets traditionally considered “undruggable”. However, emergence of translational siRNA therapies has ...
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(2018-07-31)Department: ChemistryVanadium dioxide (VO2) is a unique transition metal oxide that undergoes a first-order phase transition at 68°C from a semiconducting monoclinic phase (M) to a metallic rutile phase (R). This has made VO2 of great interest ...
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(2011-12-10)Department: Mechanical EngineeringMECHANICAL ENGINEERING HYDROXYL TAGGING VELOCIMETRY (HTV) IN HIGHLY ACCELERATED FLOWS AMBER PERKINS Thesis under the direction of Professor Robert Pitz Hydroxyl tagging velocimetry (HTV) is applied to evaluate its use ...
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(2010-12-10)Department: Mechanical EngineeringSupersonic air flow over a wall cavity with a rear ramp both with and without an upstream strut was studied with Hydroxyl Tagging Velocimetry (HTV). HTV is a non-intrusive means of measuring gas velocity by producing a ...
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(2005-12-14)Department: Mechanical EngineeringHydroxyl tagging velocimetry (HTV) in supersonic flow over a cavity flameholder is presented in this thesis. HTV is an “unseeded”, non-intrusive method to measure gas velocity that produces a hydroxyl tag from water vapor ...
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(2018-05-30)Department: MathematicsIt is customary in geometric group theory to study groups as metric spaces. The standard way to convert a group G into a geometric object is to fix a generating set X and endow the Cayley graph Ga(G,X) with the corresponding ...
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(2014-04-27)Department: PhilosophyThe present discussion considers how chaos theory might become positioned to subsume modal categories of necessity, determinism, free will and contingency. The strategy is to: (1) propose a theory of transfinite probability ...
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(2014-07-17)Department: PharmacologyPHARMACOLOGY Hypo-osmotic Effects in Cardiovascular Controls: Hepatic and Renal Mechanisms Underlying the Osmopressor Response. Patients with baroreflex impairment experience a robust increase in blood ...
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(2021-09-17)Department: Cancer BiologyHypoxia is a common feature in tumors and induces signaling that promotes tumor cell survival, invasion, and metastasis. Questions remain, however, about the role of HIF signaling in tumor cell dissemination to bone and ...
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(2022-07-11)Department: Electrical EngineeringConventional control methods include voltage-mode and current-mode control for power supply engineers to learn and study. Hysteretic control topologies and their advantages are less well known. A pure hysteretic control ...