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Self-Consistent Effects of the Recirculating Plasmapshere on the Development of Storm Time Dynamics in the Inner Magnetosphere.
(2023-06-07)
The near Earth space environment is a highly coupled system. The Interplanetary Magnetic Field (IMF) interacts with the magnetosphere in myriad ways depend on the orientation of the IMF to the magnetosphere. The magnetic ...
GPU-based Monte Carlo Applications in Radiation Medicine
(2021-12-02)
Radiation can be used to image tumor site or kill tumor cells noninvasively, playing an important role in tumor diagnosis and treatment. Because of the increasing burden that cancer brings to the society, there always ...
INVESTIGATION AND DISCOVERY OF NOVEL TRANSITION METAL CYSTEAMINE SYSTEMS WITH HALOGENS FROM THE FIRST PRINCIPLES CALCULATIONS
(2021-12-20)
Cu-cysteamine (Cu-Cy) is a material that has the cysteamine bonded with Cu. It is a molecular photosensitizer which can be activated by visible, ultraviolet light, and X-rays to generate reactive oxygen species (ROS). Cu-Cy ...
DESIGNING REACTIVE OXYGEN SPECIES PRODUCING MATERIALS FOR CANCER AND WASTEWATER TREATMENTS
(2021-08-13)
This dissertation is focused on using nanotechnology to improve conventional photodynamic therapy (PDT) and advanced oxidation processes (AOPs) for cancer and wastewater treatments, respectively. Even though PDT has a great ...
Exploring Numerical Simulations of Localized Geomagnetic Disturbances
(2023-05-08)
One of the prominent effects of space weather is the formation of rapid geomagnetic field variations on Earth’s surface driven by the magnetosphere-ionosphere system. These Geomagnetic Disturbances (GMDs) cause Geomagnetically ...
ANALYSIS OF WAVEFORM DISTORTIONS PRODUCED BY INTERFEROMETER RESPONSE FUNCTIONS FOR FUTURE SEARCHES OF GRAVITATIONAL-WAVE SIGNALS FROM CORE-COLLAPSE SUPERNOVAE
(2021-05-28)
Multi-messenger astronomy recently added a fundamentally new component to its wide array of observational tools: a gravitational-wave detector. A number of binary black holes mergers have already been detected by ...
Electroluminescent Signals and CosmogenicBackgrounds in High Pressure Xenon Gas TimeProjection Detectors
(2022-01-10)
The NEXT collaboration is developing a sequence of high pressure xenon gas time projection chambers with the aim of creating a ton-scale, very low background neutrinoless double beta decay search. Finding evidence of ...
Electronic and Magnetic Properties of Metal Doped Silicon-Carbide Fullerene-type Nanostructures
(2021-12-20)
Silicon carbide (SiC) is a technologically significant material. A recent report on the abundance of C60 fullerenes in interstellar space, along with the presence of SiC precursors, sparked interest in potentially similar ...
MODEL AND OBSERVATION COMPARISONS OF IONOSPHERIC CURRENT SYSTEMS
(2023-05-08)
The interaction between the dynamically changing solar wind and Earth’s magnetosphere results in several different current systems. The most relevant to space weather are the Birkeland currents, a.k.a field-aligned currents ...
Boundaries and Currents of the Dayside Magnetosphere: MHD Simulations and Observations
(2023-05-22)
The solar wind streams through space at supersonic speeds, carrying plasma and the interplanetary magnetic field (IMF) from the sun. Earth’s magnetosphere presents a magnetosonic obstacle to the solar wind flow, which slows ...