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INVESTIGATION OF FUNCTIONAL CONNECTIVITY AND NEUROVASCULAR COUPLING IN DIFFERENT VIGILANCE / BREATH-HOLD STATES OF THE BRAIN FROM SIMULTANEOUS EEG-fNIRS MEASUREMENTS
(2019-07-10)Functional connectivity and neurovascular coupling are important phenomena that occur in the brain. Functional connectivity is the study of functional brain networks and their characteristics. While neurovascular coupling ... -
INVESTIGATION OF GAS- AND LIQUID-PHASE SEWER ENVIRONMENTAL FACTORS LEADING TO MICROBIALLY-INDUCED CONCRETE CORROSION
(2019-05-14)Sewer systems are a principal element of infrastructure in modern cities, accounting for massive amounts of public investments made over many decades and can be considered as an asset of the nation. Many concrete manholes ... -
INVESTIGATION OF HEAT TRANSFER PERFORMANCE OF DOUBLE PIPE COUNTER-FLOW HEAT PIPE USING THREE FLUIDS WATER, DOWTHERM, AND WATER-BASED NANOFLUID
(2021-12-14)Heat pipes are two-phase devices, capable of converting a significant amount of energy with low losses. They have been used in several applications such as systems thermal control and cooling. The purpose of the present ... -
INVESTIGATION OF HIGH-TEMPERATURE OXIDATION RESISTANCE MECHANISM OF CERAMIC COATINGS VIA MICROSTRUCTURE ANALYSIS
(2020-09-03)Recent developments of ceramic coatings deposited using magnetron reactive sputtering show that these films exhibited superior high-temperature oxidation resistance along with other desirable properties such as high hardness, ... -
Investigation Of How Microbes Involved In Anerobic Digestion Of Vinasse Change As Functions Of Temperature, Vinasse Compositions And Time
(Environmental & Earth Science, 2014-09-17)Recent fossil fuel supply crunches and price spikes have prompted increased interest in ethanol as an alternative transportation fuel. However, vinasse, the liquid residue left from the distillation of ethanol, poses serious ... -
Investigation Of Information Processing And Cognitive Performance Capacities With Different Instrumentation Configurations
(Biomedical Engineering, 2007-08-23)The focus of this thesis is the investigation of two new performance capacity tests related to a concept known as "situational awareness": 1) Visual Motor Multitask Performance Capacity (VMMPC) and 2) Visual Auditory ... -
Investigation Of Instabilities Affecting Detonations: Improving The Resolution Using Block-structured Adaptive Mesh Refinement
(Aerospace Engineering, 2012-07-25)The unstable nature of detonation waves is a result of the critical relationship between the hydrodynamic shock and the chemical reactions sustaining the shock. A perturbative analysis of the critical point is quite ... -
Investigation of Microstructure Effects on Hardness and Oxidation Resistance of New Generation Ceramic Coatings
(2017-08-16)This work was motivated by the demand for a new generation of materials capable for harsh environment applications, and focused on developing a better understanding of the effects of elemental composition and microstructure ... -
Investigation Of Minimum Response For Damage Assessment
(Mechanical Engineering, 2007-08-23)Assessment of structural damage based on changes in vibratory response characteristics has been researched for many years, with much attention directed toward the use of modal parameters. Modal responses contribute to ... -
Investigation of models to predict the remaining useful life of prestressed concrete cylinder pipe
(2023-01-17)The water distribution system in the United States consists of 2.2 million miles of pipelines with water main breaks that the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) 2021 Report Card estimated results in six billion ... -
Investigation Of Nanoparticle Delivery To Cancer Cells By Conjugation With Various Targeting Moieties
Recently, mapping and profiling of specific tumor biomarkers characterizing cancer cells, followed by understanding of signal cascades involved in the pathogenesis of tumors (targeted therapy), as well as diagnosis in early ... -
INVESTIGATION OF NANOSTRUCTURES FOR HIGHLY SENSITIVE SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE SENSORS
(2020-08-11)An extensive study of Surface Plasmon Polaritons (SPPs) and their applications has been undertaken in this work. Highly sensitive surface plasmon resonance sensors, made of noble metals, as well as multilayer nanostructures, ... -
Investigation Of Neural Correlates Between Perception Of Pain And Hemodynamic Response Measured In The Pre-frontal Cortex Using Functional Near Infra-red Spectroscopy
(Biomedical Engineering, 2011-10-11)Perception of pain is multi-dimensional, comprising three major psychological dimensions: sensory-discriminative, motivational-affective and cognitive-evaluative. This dissertation study investigates the cognitive evaluation ... -
INVESTIGATION OF OPTICAL AND ELECTRICAL PROPERTIES OF NOBLE METAL AND SUPERCONDUCTING THIN FILMS AND DESIGN AND FABRICATION OF METAMATERIAL SOLAR ABSORBERS
(2023-05-12)**Please note that the full text is embargoed until 05/12/2024** ABSTRACT: An extensive study of light-matter interactions leading to the generation of photon drag voltage under surface plasmon resonance conditions in noble ... -
An Investigation Of Peripheral Blood Volume And Oxygen Saturation Change In Obstructive Sleep Apnea
(Biomedical Engineering, 2010-11-01)Obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) is a type of sleep disordered breathing in which the airway collapse partially or fully and causes arousal to resume breathing. In a 2009 National sleep foundation poll of 1000 people, 63% ... -
Investigation of petrophysical properties and fluid migration in unconventional oil/gas reservoirs
(2019-05-07)Petrophysics deals with the physical and chemical properties of petroleum-bearing rocks and their interactions with associated fluids. The investigation of petrophysical properties of interest, such as porosity, specific ... -
An Investigation Of Pipe Jacking Loads In Trenchless Technology
(Civil & Environmental Engineering, 2012-07-25)Pipe jacking is a trenchless technology method of installing pipes under existing facilities such as roads and railroads. Predicting jacking forces is important for planning, design, and construction phases of these projects. ... -
Investigation Of Pool Boiling Heat Transfer With Nanofluids
(Mechanical Engineering, 2007-08-23)This investigation conducts pool boiling experiments under saturated conditions (Tsat=60°C) using nanofluids as coolants. Four different nanofluids were tested including zinc oxide (ZnO)-water, aluminum oxide (Al2O3)-water, ... -
Investigation Of Potential Virulence Factors In Pathogenic Marine Bacteria
(Biology, 2014-09-17)Coral reefs provide numerous ecological and economic functions and are critical to biodiversity in marine environments. Critical to coral reef health and diversity is the microbial consortium within the coral host along ... -
Investigation Of Power System Blackouts And Reliability Improvement For Power Distribution Systems
(Electrical Engineering, 2008-04-22)Modern power systems often consist of thousands of equipments, each of which may have an affect on the security of the system. The trend toward deregulation has forced utilities to operate their systems closer to security ...