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Polymeric Textile Stents: Prototyping and Modeling
(2005-08-15)
Although metal stents have been implanted for more than a decade, performance deficiencies still exist. The current study focuses on prototyping and modeling of braided structures to be used as stents, hence called ‘textile ...
Polymorphism in chicken immune response genes and resistance to disease
(2007-12-15)
Genetic resistance to a number of viral pathogens has been linked to polymorphisms in genes of the immune system. Among these are the genes of the major histocompatibility complex (MHC) and those induced by the type I ...
Polynomial-Time Algorithms for Designing Dual-Voltage Energy Efficient Circuits
(2011-11-14)
In this work, we propose a technique to use dual supply voltages in digital designs in
order to get a reduction in energy consumption. Three new algorithms are proposed for nd-
ing and assigning low voltage in dual ...
The Polyphonic “Voice of Society”: A Stylistic Analysis of Our Mutual Friend
(2007-08-15)
My study of Our Mutual Friend is restricted to seven chapters, each with the same short list of characters, which introduce or conclude the four books of the novel. Society is the label under which these chapters come, ...
Polysaccharide beads and films for controlled release of agricultural compounds and water decontamination
(2016-12-07)
Massive amounts of agricultural, industrial, medical and domestic water worldwide are polluted by different types of contaminants that harm the environment and impact human health. Films and beads made from abundant ...
Popular Music and the Myth of Englishness in British Poetry
(2011-04-21)
This dissertation deconstructs the myth of Englishness through a comparative analysis of intersections between popular music and the poetry of the British Isles. In particular, my project explores intersections where popular ...
Popularity-Aware Storage Systems for Big Data Applications
(2022-07-11)
Recommendation algorithms play an increasingly dominant role in big data services like Netflix and YouTube. In streaming applications, it becomes unavoidable that trillion tons of personal and industrial data are flooded ...
Population Dynamic Modeling of the Corkscrew Sea Anemone Bartholomea Annulata on Caribbean Coral Reefs
(2008-12-15)
The corkscrew anemone Bartholomea annulata is a large, common sea anemone on Caribbean coral reefs. The holobiont of B. annulata, endosymbiotic microalgae (zooxanthellae), and ectosymbiotic cleaner shrimps may have positive ...
Population dynamics and viability of the federally listed population of Steller's Eiders
(2016-05-05)
For many species, uncertainty may intervene in accurately estimating population size, trend, and demographic parameters. Bayesian state-space models provide a convenient framework to account for multiple sources of uncertainty ...
Population dynamics of clownfish sea anemones: Patterns of decline, symbiosis with anemonefish, and management for sustainability
(2015-12-10)
Giant sea anemones on Indo-Pacific coral reefs are important ecologically as hosts to obligate clownfish (anemonefish) and cleanershrimp symbionts, and also economically as major components of the global trade in reef ...
Population Ecology of Northern Bobwhites
(2006-05-15)
The longleaf pine (Pinus palustris) ecosystem is an ecologically significant region of North America, yet its geographic extent has been greatly reduced by several factors including anthropogenic fire suppression. There ...
Population genomics and geospatial tools to inform management and research priorities for non-marine molluscs
(2022-03-07)
Non-marine molluscs comprise a large portion of biodiversity on Earth. However, they are among the most understudied and imperiled groups globally. As such, there is a pressing need to fill knowledge gaps regarding fundamental ...
Population Pressure, Land Tenure, Deforestation, and Farming Systems in Haiti: The Case of Foret Des Pins Reserve
(2005-08-15)
Forêt des Pins Reserve, a state-owned natural forest in Haiti, has suffered severe degradation due to a land tenure system that does not guarantee security for farmers, illegal harvesting of trees for the production of ...
Population Regulation of Frogs and Lizards in a Lowland Wet Neotropical Forest: Integrating Alternative Hypotheses
(2017-07-26)
Populations can be regulated in space and time from the “bottom-up” by resources (e.g., food), from the “top-down” by predation, or from parallel factors, such as interactions with conspecifics or heterospecifics. Amphibians ...
Population response of eastern wild turkeys and white-tailed deer to removal of wild pigs
(2023-01-11)
Recently, wild pigs (Sus scrofa) have expanded their range and have the potential to greatly impact ecosystems in North America. Wild pig’s generalist diets and high fecundity make them a strong competitor with native ...
Population Status and Reproductive Biology of Clematis Morefieldii, a Federally Endangered Plant
(2013-12-16)
Clematis morefieldii is a federally endangered, perennial climbing vine. It inhabits limestone drains and outcrops on the Cumberland Plateau escarpments of northeast Alabama and south-central Tennessee. The NatureServe ...
Pore network modeling of reactive permeability
(2019-04-16)
Geochemical reactions, such as those that occur during storage of carbon dioxide in saline aquifers as part of carbon capture and storage (CCS) mitigation techniques or long-term subsurface mineral weathering, can significantly ...
Pore Scale Methods to Enhance Understanding of Geochemical Reaction Rates in Porous Media
(2019-07-23)
Geochemical reactions play an important role in subsurface systems such as in contaminant fate and transport, chemical weathering and geologic carbon sequestration. These reactions, mainly dissolution/precipitation, will ...
Poroelasticity
(2007-08-15)
Poroelasticity is the study of elastic deformation of porous materials saturated with a fluid and the coupling between the fluid pressure and the solid deformation.
Considerable progress has been made in formulating ...
Portable Sawmills – A Small Scale Microenterprise Development
(2011-01-12)
A Cobb-Douglas cost function of portable sawmill industry for United States based sawmill owners was estimated using cross-sectional data with two inputs and capital. The elasticity of the output (bf) to total variable ...