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The Efficiency of Enzymatic L-Cysteine Oxidation in Mammalian Systems Derives from the Optimal Organization of the Active Site of Cysteine Dioxygenase 

Njeri, Catherine (2014-04-22)
Intracellular concentrations of free cysteine in mammalian organisms are maintained within a healthy equilibrium by the mononuclear iron-dependent enzyme, cysteine dioxygenase (CDO). CDO catalyzes the oxidation of L-cysteine ...

The Efficiency of Modified Canola Oil as a Replacement of Menhaden Fish Oil in Practical Diet for Pacific White Shrimp, Litopenaeus vannamei 

Vo, Linh (2019-04-17)
Lipids are an essential component of the diet serving as source of energy and components of cell structures. Marine species require a certain level of specific fatty acids in their diet as they have limited ability to ...

Efficiency of Surveying, Baiting, and Trapping Wild Pigs at Fort Benning, Georgia 

Williams, Brian Lee (2009-12-16)
This study, conducted at Fort Benning, Georgia, sought to develop more efficient ways of surveying for and trapping wild pigs (Sus scrofa), an abundant, destructive invasive species found on Fort Benning. Game cameras set ...

Efficient Acquisition and Reconstruction for Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopic Imaging 

Deng, Wenting (2013-01-08)
Magnetic resonance spectroscopic imaging (MRSI), combining both magnetic resonance spectroscopy (MRS) and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) techniques, has proven to be a powerful approach to reveal information about ...

Efficient Algorithms for Retrospective Motion Correction in MRI 

Bian, Yuan (2019-05-22)
Compared with other medical imaging modalities, MR imaging is time consuming due to the relatively slow sequential data acquisition pattern. Hence, motion is often an unavoidable issue for MRI. Object motion during the ...

Efficient and Robust Classification for Positive Definite Matrices with Wasserstein Metric 

Cui, Jian (2021-04-16)
Riemannian geometry methods are widely used to classify SPD (Symmetric Positives-Definite) matrices, such as covariances matrices of brain-computer interfaces. Common Riemannian geometry classification methods are based ...

Efficient Determination of Copper Electroplating Chemistry Additives using Advanced Neural Network Algorithms 

Ellis, Charles (2015-04-30)
Copper plating is the metallization process of choice for modern semiconductor devices. It has proven to be a relatively inexpensive and simple process and easily adaptable to high volume manufacturing. The development of ...

Efficient Image Restoration Algorithms for Near-Circulant Systems 

Pan, Ruimin (2007-05-15)
The problem of image restoration has been extensively studied for its practical importance as well as its theoretical interest. Restoration problem arises in almost every branch of engineering and applied physics. The ...

An efficient methodology for the partitioning of VLSI circuits using genetic algorithm 

Yaraguti, Sai Pavan (2014-02-12)
In the recent years, with the explosive growth in the density of VLSI circuits, efficient algorithms and methodologies for circuit partitioning have been established as an important area of computer aided design for VLSI. ...

Efficient Movement and Task Management in MapReduce for Fast Analytics of Big Data 

Wang, Yandong (2014-05-12)
MapReduce programming model has achieved great success over the past decade. With its recognized merits such as superior scalability and strong fault tolerance, MapReduce has thrived as a primary processing engine adopted ...

Efficient Numerical Algorithms for Solving Nonlinear Filtering Problems 

Bao, Feng (2014-06-18)
Examples of nonlinear filtering problems arise in biology, mathematical finance, signal processing, image processing, target tracking and many engineering applications. Commonly used numerical simulation methods are the ...

Efficient Rank Regression with Wavelet Estimated Scores 

Kwessi Nyandjou, Eddy Armand (2011-07-07)
Wavelets have been widely used lately in many areas such as physics, astronomy, biological sciences and recently to statistics. The main goal of this dissertation is to provide a new contribution to an important problem ...

Efficient Reliability Verification Testing in Open Source Software Using Priority Prediction 

Pape, Patrick (2015-05-08)
Open source software is becoming a strong alternative to private development for a wide market of applications. There is a stigma against using open source software in the private sector because of licensing restrictions ...

Efficient Storage Design and Query Scheduling for Improving Big Data Retrieval and Analytics 

Liu, Zhuo (2015-05-04)
With the perpetually increasing requirement and generation of digital data, the human being has been stepping into the Big Data era. To efficiently manage, retrieve and exploit such gigantic amount of data continuously ...

An Efficient Transition Detector Exploiting Charge Sharing 

Wang, Yu (2014-12-09)
Transition detectors have been widely employed for online error and metastability detection, including in Better-Than-Worst-Case (BTWC) timing design of microprocessors that are designed to allow occasional timing errors. ...

Effluent Water Characterization of Intensive Tilapia Culture Units and its Application in an Integrated Lettuce Aquaponic Production Facility 

Abdul Rahman, Sami (2010-10-29)
In an intensive aquaculture project, effluent water characterization from three systems were evaluated (biofloc, polygyser and opposing flows). There were no differences in the mineral additions to the water per unit of ...

Effluents from an Aquaculture Research Station and Stream Water Quality 

Soongsawang, Suthira (2010-01-07)
Lower Station of the E. W. Shell Fisheries Center discharges into Saugahatchee Creek. Ponds of the Fish Genetics Research Unit and the Aquaculture Production Research Unit are the main sources of anthropogenic pollution ...

Efforts Toward Design, Development and Implementation of an Integrated and Flexible Support System for Calibration of Air Data Attitude Heading Reference Systems 

Raghuraman, Arvind (2007-05-15)
An Air Data Attitude Heading Reference System is a device that provides a modern day Aircraft with altitude, air-speed, attitude, and magnetic parameters. A typical ADAHRS contains a number of tightly integrated sensors ...

Efforts Towards the Design and Development of an Electromagnetic Induction Sensor Optimized for Detection and Discrimination of Unexploded Ordnance 

Palasagaram, Nagasanjeeva (2006-05-15)
This thesis provides a detailed description of efforts towards the development of a time domain electromagnetic induction (EMI) system optimized for detection and discrimination of Unexploded Ordnance (UXO). A time domain ...

Efforts towards the Detection of Perturbations in the Earth’s Magnetic Field: Design and Development of Solid State Sensor Array 

Yerrabothu, Chandra Shekar Reddy (2011-05-13)
The following thesis provides a detailed description of the design and development of magneto-resistive unexploded ordinance (UXO) sensor array to detect the perturbations in the Earth’s magnetic field due to the presence ...