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Methodology To Forecast Product Returns For The Consumer Electronics Industry
(Industrial & Manufacturing Engineering, 2010-03-03)Reverse logistics has gained much attention in recent years. It is becoming a value added area of a supply chain network day by day. For enterprises, it has therefore become essential to manage the reverse flow of materials ... -
Methods For Human Motion Analysis For American Sign Language Recognition And Assistive Environments
The broad application domain of the work presented in this thesis is human motion analysis with a focus on hand detection for American Sign Language recognition and fall detection for assistive environments.One of the ... -
Methods For Large-scale Machine Learning And Computer Vision
(Computer Science & Engineering, 2015)With the advance of the Internet and information technology, nowadays people can easily collect and store tremendous amounts of data such as images and videos. Developing machine learning and computer vision to analysis ... -
Methylene Blue Degradation with Sodium Bismuth Oxide Nanoparticles
The effectiveness of Sodium Bismuth Oxide nanoparticles as a photocatalyst was tested by applying it to the degradation of methylene blue. The nanoparticles had increased effectiveness with increased concentration and ... -
Mexico's Break Up: Mexico City's Misconceptions And Mismanagement Of Its Peripheries: Central America And Texas, 1821-1836
(History, 2013-07-22)In 1822, Mexico's boundaries held the territories of what is now Central America and Texas. Just after independence from Spain, it seemed Mexico would emerge as a powerful nation to challenge the United States in North ... -
¿MI TIERRA, TAMBIÉN? MEXICAN AMERICAN CIVIL RIGHTS IN FORT WORTH, 1940-1990s
(2016-09-15)This thesis focuses on the city of Fort Worth during the second half of the twentieth-century and provides an analysis for how the struggles of the Mexican American population were shaped by the long history of discrimination ... -
Micro-device For Selective Isolation And Cytology Of Cancer Cells
(Biomedical Engineering, 2012-07-25)Early detection and isolation of circulating tumor cells (CTCs) can enable early cancer diagnosis and more effective therapeutics. Aptamers have emerged as probe molecules that have binding affinities comparable to antibodies ... -
Micro/Nanoencapsulated Phase Change Materials (PCMs) toward High Temperature Thermal Energy Storage Applications
(2017-08-25)Thermal energy is one of the most important renewable energy sources because of its abundancy. However, despite the long history of people practically trying to harvest thermal energy, the efficiency of thermal energy ... -
Microarray Image Denoising Using Complex Gaussian Scale Mixtures Of Complex Wavelets
(Electrical Engineering, 2011-07-14)The scientific world has witnessed an explosion in the development of comprehensive and high-throughput methods for molecular biology experimentation. High density DNA microarray technology, allows researchers to monitor ... -
Microbial Diversity and Immunogenetics of Whiptail Lizards (Aspidoscelis)
(2022-08-10)Whiptail lizards of the genus Aspidoscelis are a complex of both sexual and asexual species with distributions in the United States, Mexico, and Central America. The parthenogenetic lineages arose through hybridization ... -
Microbiomes: Health and the Environment
(Mavs Open Press, 2022)Microbiomes: Health and the Environment takes a look into the world of polymicrobial communities and how they affect aspects of human health and environmental interaction. This book attempts to bridge the gap between the ... -
Microblog Analyzer Aggregate Estimation Over A Micro Blog Platform
Microblogging is a new mode of communication in which users can share their current status in brief and agile way in the form of text, image, video etc over smart phones, email or web. Recently, Microblogs such as Twitter, ... -
Microchannel technology in cancer cell confined-migration study and its application in drug screening
(2020-08-10)PDMS-based microchannel device has been explored to extend the basic platform for three-dimensional (3D) culture models of cell motility study because of its relevant stiffness and designable shape. Moreover, it is easy ... -
Microfacies Analysis Of The Jacksboro Limestone Member (Graham Formation, Virgilian, Pennsylvanian) In Jack County, Texas
(Geology, 2011-07-14)The Jacksboro Limestone is a member of the Graham Formation of the Virgilian (Upper Pennsylvanian) and is exposed only in and around the city of Jacksboro in central Jack County, Texas. The purposes of this investigation ... -
Microfaunal Assemblages Of The Placid Shale (Missourian, Upper Pennsylvanian), Brazos River Valley, North-Central Texas
(Geology, 2012-07-25)The Pennsylvanian and lowermost part of the Permian strata in North-Central Texas is assigned to the Strawn, Canyon, and Cisco Groups. The Canyon Group is approximately equivalent to the middle-upper part of the Missourian ... -
Microfluidic Chip-based Fabrication Of Hollow Alginate Microfiber For Enzyme Entrapment And Reaction
(Biomedical Engineering, 2014-09-17)This thesis demonstrates a simple process to generate alginate hollow microfibers by using a non-lithographic PDMS microfluidic device. The microfluidic device was fabricated by a novel template method in a wet lab without ... -
Microfluidic Device For Determining Preferential Cell Migration Toward Extracellular Matrix Proteins
(Biomedical Engineering, 2013-07-22)Extracellular matrix (ECM) proteins interact with cells in bodily microenvironments by influencing their essential cellular processes in growth, survival, migration and repair after injury. In this study, a novel microfluidic ... -
Microfluidic Flow Cytometer For High Throughput Label Free Cell Analysis
(Biomedical Engineering, 2008-09-17)Microfluidic flow cytometer for high throughput label free cell analysis is proposed. Detection of cell morphology plays an important role in determination of state of health and diagnosis of many diseases such as sickle ... -
Microfluidic flow focusing platforms for optofluidic droplet laser development
(2022-05-18)**Please note that the full text is embargoed until 5/17/2024** ABSTRACT: Optofluidic droplet lasers have been developed for different applications in biomedical sciences, such as biosensing, cell tracking, tissue imaging, ... -
A Microfluidic Platform To Study Cell Migration
(Electrical Engineering, 2012-04-11)Migration of cancer cells from the primary organ to distant sites is critical to the development of malignant metastasis. This is partly dependant on the various chemical factors present in the blood serum. Cell motility ...