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The Control Of Gene Expression By High Light Stress In Cyanobacteria Through The Apparent Two-component NblS-RpaB Signal Transduction Pair
(Biology, 2008-09-17)In nature photosynthetic organisms including cyanobacteria are dependent upon their ability to acclimate to changes in environmental conditions including light and nutrient levels. The NblS sensor kinase of the cyanobacterium ... -
CONTROL STRATEGIES FOR AIR-SIDE ECONOMIZATION, DIRECT AND INDIRECT EVAPORATIVE COOLING AND ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORKS APPLICATIONS FOR ENERGY EFFICIENT DATA CENTERS
(2016-05-12)The skyrocketing growth in data centers, facilities that house information technology (IT) equipment for storage, management and distribution of data while striving for 24/7/365 operation with 100% up-time, has accounted ... -
Control System For Real Time Jitter Reduction And 3D Reconstruction Of Road Profile
(Electrical Engineering, 2011-10-11)A large number of bridges, overpasses and other similar structures fail due to deterioration caused by factors such as vehicle loads, impact loads, severe weather conditions, etc. Routine monitoring of such structures ... -
Controlled Hydrosilylations of Carbonyl Compounds and Computational Investigations of a Hydride Shuttle Mechanism for Alkene Hydrosilylation
(2015-11-30)Chapter 1 describes tandem dual hydrosilylations of α,β-unsaturated enals. Hydrosilylations of both carbonyl compounds and alkenes have been utilized to create chiral alcohols. Tandem dual hydrosilylations (TDH) of ... -
Controlled Vascular Cellular Growth By Microstructured Patterned Surfaces On Implantable Biodegradable Polymer Scaffold.
(Biomedical Engineering, 2010-03-03)The technological advances in the field of MEMS and biodegradable polymers with elastomeric properties have opened new areas of application for engineering of soft tissues such as blood vessel, heart valves, cartilage, ... -
Controlling factors of river water stable isotope compositions and middle to late Cenozoic deposition and surface uplift history of the southern Rocky Mountains, U.S.A.
(2019-09-03)The Cenozoic topographic evolution of the Rocky Mountains (Rockies) and Great Plains in the western U.S.A. reflect a combination of mantle geodynamic, crustal deformation and surface erosional processes. This region was ... -
CONVERGING AND DIVERGING OUTCOMES OF POSTTRAUMATIC GROWTH (PTG) AND POSTTRAUMATIC DEPRECIATION (PTD) IN COMBAT VETERANS: A CASE STUDY
(2023-05-19)Upon examining combat veterans’ psychological responses to combat-related trauma, two emerged for consideration: posttraumatic growth (PTG) through making meaning out of a traumatic experience and a positive outcome or ... -
CONVERSATION AND THE SPEECH SITUATION: A TAGMEMIC ANALYSIS
(University of Texas at Arlington, 1983-12)Until recently, conversation, considered even now by some to be outside the scope of linguistics, has been neglected in linguistic research. Chapter One of this dissertation argues that the popular distinction between ... -
Conversations In Private Spheres: Reconstructing Habermas's Universal Pragmatics And Ideal Speech Situation In Private Spheres
(Sociology, 2007-08-23)The author makes the argument that "public spheres" do not exist and demonstrates how Habermas's communicative actions, specifically Habermas's concepts of universal pragmatics and the ideal speech situation, can be ... -
Convert UHF RFID Tag From Passive To Semi-passive Tag Using External Power Sources
(Electrical Engineering, 2011-03-03)In this thesis, I present novel circuit designs that convert a passive radio frequency identification (RFID) tag into a semi-passive RFID tag. Passive RFID tags are relatively inexpensive to purchase and to integrate into ... -
Convex and Non-convex Optimization Methods for Machine Learning
(2019-08-01)This dissertation is concerned with modeling fundamental and challenging machine learning tasks as convex/non-convex optimization problems and designing a mechanism that could solve them in a cost and time-effective manner. ... -
Convex Versions Of Multivariate Adaptive Regression Splines And Implementations For Complex Optimization Problems
(Industrial & Manufacturing Engineering, 2007-08-23)Multivariate Adaptive Regression Splines (MARS) provide a flexible statistical modeling method that employs forward and backward search algorithms to identify the combination of basis functions that best fits the data. In ... -
CONVOLUTIONAL AND RECURRENT NEURAL NETWORKS FOR PEDESTRIAN DETECTION
(2016-12-06)Pedestrian Detection in real time has become an interesting and a challenging problem lately. With the advent of autonomous vehicles and intelligent traffic monitoring systems, more time and money are being invested into ... -
COOLING AND PACKAGING OF ACCUMULATORS FOR FORMULA SAE ELECTRIC CAR
(2016-05-10)Electric car is the future of automotive industry. The performance of the batteries is vital for that of electric cars. Overheating will compromise the performance of batteries, shorten the life span and even damage the ... -
COOLING EFFICIENCY IMPROVEMENT OF A DATA CENTER USING OPTIMIZED CABINET DESIGN AND HYBRID COOLING WITH HIGH INLET CONDITIONS OF SINGLE-PHASE COOLANT AND AIR
(2021-05-15)The objective of this study is to improve and optimize the cooling efficiency of liquid and air cooling from server to room level while applying best practices in the industry. The effect of increased air and coolant ... -
Cooperative Control Of Multi-agent Systems; Stability, Optimality And Robustness
(Electrical Engineering, 2013-10-22)In this work design methods are given for distributed synchronization control of multi-agent systems on directed communication graphs. Conditions are derived based on the relation of the graph eigenvalues to a region in a ... -
COOPERATIVE CONTROL OF MULTIPLE UNTETHERED MAGNETIC MICROROBOTS FOR PRECISION MICROMANIPULATION
(2016-05-16)The field of untethered microrobotics has emerged within the last two decades for its applications potential in military surveillance, micro and nano manufacturing, as well as in health care for minimal invasive surgery ... -
Cooperative Manipulation and Formation Control using Multiple Aerial Vehicles
(2023-12-15)Recent advancements in autonomous systems have significantly impacted both academia and industry, opening new research avenues. One of them is the collaboration of multiple systems to achieve a common goal, which is known ... -
Cooperative Rendezvous in Multi-vehicle systems
(2023-12-18)The field of cooperative, multi-vehicle systems has witnessed a significant expansion and evolution, yielding considerable opportunities for improved autonomy, resilience, and robustness. Despite these promising developments, ... -
COPPER(I) AND SILVER(I) COMPLEXES OF OLEFINS, ALKYNES, AND CYCLOPROPENES AND THEIR APPLICATIONS
(2022-05-17)**Please note that the full text is embargoed until 5/9/2024** ABSTRACT: Poly(pyrazolyl)borates are very popular ligands in organometallic chemistry due to their attractive properties. It is easy to modify the steric and ...