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Contributions of Vimentin to Skeletal Muscle Hypertrophy
(2024-04-19)
Our laboratory has performed various experiments examining the proteomic alterations that coincide with mechanical overload (MOV)-induced skeletal muscle hypertrophy. With this same intent we first sought to determine how ...
Contriving Establishing Operations: Responses of Individuals With Developmental Disabilities During Learning Task
(2005-12-15)
The field of applied behavior analysis has utilized the ability to capture and contrive establishing operations in treating aberrant behavior in individuals with developmental disabilities. However, research on the use of ...
Control and Analysis of Air, Water, and Thermal Systems for a Polymer Electrolyte Membrane Fuel Cell
(2011-07-27)
The polymer electrolyte membrane (PEM) fuel cell is a power source that can potentially replace the internal combustion engine in vehicles of the future. When hydrogen stored in a tank and oxygen from the air chemically ...
Control Engineering Perspective on Genome-Scale Metabolic Modeling
(2015-12-10)
Fossil fuels impart major problems on the global economy and have detrimental effects to the environment, which has caused a world-wide initiative of producing renewable fuels. Lignocellulosic bioethanol for renewable ...
Control of a Fuel Delivery System for Polymer Electrolyte Membrane Fuel Cells based on a Two-Phase Transient Model
(2011-07-27)
Polymer electrolyte membrane fuel cells (PEMFCs) are a type of fuel cell that converts the chemical energy released by the reaction of hydrogen (fuel) and oxygen into electrical energy and generates water and heat. The ...
Control of a Three-phase Shunt Active Power Filter for Unbalanced Conditions
(2018-11-15)
The awareness of the quality and reliability of the power system has been increased in recent years due to several reasons. The excessive increasing of the applications of power electronics devices on the grid causes power ...
Control of Sawtooth Oscillation Dynamics using Externally Applied Stellarator Transform
(2016-12-09)
The control of sawtooth oscillations is an active area of tokamak research. The sawtooth oscillation is driven by ohmic heating of the core plasma until the safety factor drops below one triggering the growth of an m=n=1 ...
Control System Development for Autonomous Aerobatic Maneuvering with a Fixed-Wing Aircraft
(2014-12-04)
The increasing popularity of unmanned aircraft today has led to the development of more sophisticated vehicles with greater operating capabilities. The multirole nature of many civil and military unmanned aircraft along ...
Control Volume Analysis of Rectangular Ducts with Arbitrary Mean-Flow, Transverse Wall Impedances, and Temperature Discontinuity
(2020-04-20)
Combustion instabilities (CIs) are a consistent and ubiquitous problem for industrial burners, rockets, and gas turbines. Reduced order acoustic models are often used to analyze combustion instabilities. Typically, reduced ...
Control, Modeling, and Analysis of Inverter-Based Resources
(2021-11-23)
The increased penetration level of Inverter-Based Resources (IBR) presents new challenges to the planning and operation of electric grids traditionally designed, protected, and operated based on the inherent characteristics ...
Controlled Spawning of White Catfish, Ictalurus catus, and Brown Bullhead Catfish, Ameiurus nebulosus, Using Carp Pituitary Extract and LHRHa
(2013-01-03)
If successful artificial spawning techniques can be developed, white catfish, Ictalurus catus, and brown bullhead, Ameiurus nebulosus, may have the potential to become model organisms for accelerated catfish genetics ...
Controlled Transition Density Based Power Constrained Scan-BIST with Reduced Test Time
(2012-03-08)
Controlling power dissipation in large circuits during test sessions is one of the major concerns in VLSI testing. The reason behind the high power dissipation during test is because unlike normal mode operation of the ...
Controlling dust charge in complex plasmas
(2022-07-21)
A dusty plasma is a four-component plasma consisting of electrons, ions, neutral gas, and microparticles (dust) which collect charge from the surrounding plasma environment. They can be found in every regime of plasma ...
Controlling Foodborne Microorganisms in Alfalfa Sprouts
(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
(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
(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)
(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
(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
(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
(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, ...