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Controlling Foodborne Microorganisms in Alfalfa Sprouts

McPherson, Kizmik (2016-07-22)

Raw sprouts are consistently found as the source of produce related foodborne illness outbreaks. Research and past experiences illustrate that intervention methods currently used in the sprout industry are occasionally ...

Controlling the Speed of a Magnetically-Suspended Rotor with Compressed Air

Jantz, Robert (2011-04-08)

Magnetic bearing research is generally concerned with the development of the automatic control systems required to levitate a rotor, driven by either an electric motor or air turbine. The regulation of rotor speed in ...

Convergence Analysis and Numerical Simulation of Particle Swarm Optimization

Weerasinghe, Kariyawasam Ganesha (2017-04-21)

Nature, including mankind, loves to optimize and the world is far from being deterministic. Thus, stochastic optimization is an important and active area of research in applied mathematics. Inspired by the social behavior ...

Conversations in Story(ality)

Morris, Amanda (2010-07-22)

In this dissertation, I introduce and define my new term, story(ality), which requires refocused attention on the truths available through nonfiction stories told, written, and performed in a contact zone, which is a social ...

Conversion of biomass derived carbohydrate to value added chemicals by liquid-phase thermochemical and biochemical processing

Acharjee, Tapas (2017-07-26)

Levulinic and lactic acid are considered as highly versatile chemicals with a potential to be building-block for the synthesis of various upgraded chemicals. The main objective of this study is to develop novel strategies ...

Conversion of Carbon Dioxide and Biomass for Fuels and Chemicals Precursor through Gasification: Experimental and Modeling Approach

Sadhwani, Narendra (2017-03-13)

Recycling carbon dioxide is of prime importance due to the harmful effects on the atmosphere. Using CO2 for gasification serves a dual purpose i.e. reducing pollution and generating syngas and is beneficial both environmentally ...

Conversion of Lignocellulosic Biomass into Monomeric Sugars and Levulinic Acid: Alkaline Pretreatment, Enzymatic Hydrolysis, and Decrystallization

Pallapolu, Venkata Ramesh (2016-08-05)

The technical feasibility of applying uniform pretreatment conditions across the different switchgrass varieties to achieve similar sugar yields was investigated. Four different types of switchgrass species including, ...

Conversion of Methane Using Two and Three Dimensional Metal Carbide Catalysts

Thakur, Raj (2020-04-22)

After various decades of research aiming to discover desirable catalysts for the direct conversion of methane into valuable products, the modern chemical industry is calling forth finding alternative materials to on-purpose ...

Conversion of Methanol to Hydrocarbons in a Supercritical Fluid Reaction Medium

Stewart, Charlotte (2015-05-06)

This thesis work explores the effects of a supercritical fluid reaction medium on the catalytic performance of the methanol-to-hydrocarbons (MTH) reaction. The MTH reaction allows for the conversion of cheap and readily ...

Conversion of Paper and Oil Industry Byproducts to Graphitic Material

Hinkle, John III (2023-07-17) ETD File Embargoed

Many different graphitic materials have become integral in modern society for the past couple of decades. Advances in developing carbon fibers, graphene, and graphene oxide have improved the amount of the material that can ...

Convexity of Generalized Numerical Ranges Associated with SU(n) and SO(n)

Tadesse, Dawit Gezahegn (2010-05-20)

We give a new proof of a result of Tam on the convexity of the generalized numerical range associated with the classical Lie groups SO(n). We also provide a connection between the result and the convexity of the classical ...

Cooling Hadoop: Temperature Aware Schedulers in Data Centers

Kulkarni, Sanjay (2013-01-07)

The amount of unstructured data, also known as “Big Data” in Internet is growing every day. Because the Big data is unstructured, a large-scale distributed batch processing infrastructure like Hadoop is used instead of ...

Cooperative Extension and Propagation for Caño Negro, Costa Rica

Meriwether, Rachel (2010-12-10)

A research relationship was established with colleagues in Costa Rica. These included not only members of academia but also non-profit organization workers, government officials, community members, and private research ...

Cooperative Map-Building for Autonomous Mobile Robots

Wagh, Rajish (2017-04-20)

A novel algorithm for multi-robot simultaneous localization and mapping is investigated through simulation. Although cooperative-SLAM has been studied by other researchers, the algorithm presented here offers a simpler, ...

Cooperative Robotics Using Wireless Communication

Ray, Adam (2005-12-15)

Cooperative Robotics has to do with the use of multiple robotic agents assisting each other to perform a task that is either too difficult or impossible for one robot to perform alone. It is a multi-disciplinary field ...

Coordination Complexes with Redox-Active Macrocyclic Ligands as Redox-Responsive 1H and 19F MRI Contrast Agent Sensors and Catalysts for the Degradation of Hydrogen Peroxide

Karbalaei, Sana Jr (2023-05-02) ETD File Embargoed

Abstract Reactive oxygen species (ROS), including hydroxyl radicals (·OH), superoxide anions (O2-), and hydrogen peroxide (H2O2), play vital roles in cell signaling and cellular signal transduction; however, the ...

Coping Mechanisms Moderate the Association between Stressful Life Experiences and Sub-Threshold PTSD Symptoms in College Students

Veal, Kelly (2015-06-16)

Abstract The purpose of this study is to determine whether or not stressful life events cause sub-threshold or full Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) in college populations, and whether or not that relationship ...