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Method for Isolating Immature Chicken Oocytes
(2009-12-18)
Knowledge of the development of the avian oocyte has been difficult to obtain due to the physical package of the oocyte at ovulation. The ability to isolate and culture avian oocytes, prior to the accumulation of large ...
A Method For Obtaining New Conservation Quantities and a Solution Method For the N-Body Collision
(2019-08-15)
Exact, numerical, and perturbative methods are commonly used to solve dynamical systems of equations. Many systems’ solutions cannot be written in terms of elementary functions thus numerical and perturbative solutions ...
A Method to Discriminate Between Flicker Sources
(2015-07-29)
This work is a discussion on discriminating between multiple flicker producing sources that are connected electrically close together in the power system. IEC 61000-4-15 provides a thorough description on how to build a ...
Methodism, the Middle Class, and the New South, 1866-1894
(2018-07-24)
This dissertation explores the relationship between the Methodist Episcopal Church, South (MECS) and the middle class within the context of the New South. Both the MECS and the southern middle class emerged from the Civil ...
A Methodology for Detecting Pilot Fatigue and Head Tilt Measured Using Flight Simulation of an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle
(2013-04-16)
The objective of this research project was to determine whether the human factors of
fatigue and head tilt can be detected in real time by measuring the head motion of pilots
flying simulated unmanned aircraft missions. ...
A Methodology for Estimating the Parameters of Steam Turbine Generator Shaft Systems for Subsynchronous Resonance Studies
(2012-07-31)
The increase of coal and nuclear power steam turbines over the past few decades combined with transmission line series capacitors creates a potential drawback known as subsynchronous resonance (SSR) by increasing the risk ...
A Methodology for Increasing the Dependability of Open Source Software Components
(2013-04-16)
With the increasing use of open source software components in real world systems, there has arisen a need for increasing the dependability of these components. The dependability of these components can be increased like ...
A Methodology for Integrating Process Design Elements with Laboratory Experiments
(2008-05-15)
This dissertation is the result of a joint project between industry and academia. The research was originally conceived as an industrial process development project based on the manufacture of industrial products from the ...
Methods for Improving Generalization and Convergence in Artificial Neural Classifiers
(2011-08-26)
Artificial neural networks have proven to be quite powerful for solving nonlinear classification problems. However, the complex error surfaces encountered in such problems often contain local minima in which gradient based ...
Methods for Improving Visual Terrain Relative Navigation for Dynamic Aerial Systems
(2021-04-26)
One popular means of aerial localization and navigation in GPS-denied environments is visual terrain relative navigation. Terrain relative navigation involves performing image registration with sensed aerial camera imagery ...
Methods for Isolating Canine Mast Cell Progenitors, Melanocytes, and Keratinocytes
(2020-04-21)
One of the most difficult aspects of employing precision medicine in the treatment of cancer is determining the best targets to treat within the tumor. A trademark of cancers is that, while two patients may present similar ...
Methods for Minimizing Navigation Errors Induced by Ground Vehicle Dynamics
(2006-05-15)
A navigation system was designed using an extended Kalman filter for an autonomous ground vehicle competing in the 2005 DARPA Grand Challenge. An overview of this system is provided, and errors in the navigation solution ...
Methods for monitoring and controlling freshwater harmful algal blooms
(2013-11-08)
Fresh water is critical for our survival, and its responsible use is necessary for the sustainability of our planet. Surface-water ecosystems are important sources of recreation and potable water are threatened by increasing ...
Methods for Optimization of a Launch Vehicle for Pressure Fluctuation Levels and Axial Force
(2008-08-15)
A computational fluid dynamics (CFD) code has been combined with a Genetic Algorithm (GA) to perform a shape optimization study on a two dimensional axisymmetric model of a typical launch vehicle. The objective of this ...
Methods for Scaling and Comparing Adsorption Datasets
(2008-08-15)
The presence of reactive groundwater contaminants are a great concern to many government agencies and private entities. The fate and transport of these contaminants is determined by their interactions with subsurface ...
Methods of Optimal Control for Fuel Efficient Class-8 Vehicle Platoons Over Uneven Terrain
(2022-08-18)
This thesis implements an NMPC control system to facilitate fuel-optimal platooning of
class-8 vehicles over challenging terrain. Prior research has shown that Cooperative Adaptive
Cruise Control (CACC), which allows ...
Methyl-coenzyme M reductase: Elucidating the process of activation and study of the effect of the methanogenesis inhibitor 3-nitrooxypropanol
(2014-12-17)
To use methane as a biocatalyst, it is important to establish a cell free system to convert the inactive form of methane forming enzyme i.e Methyl-coenzyme M reductase (MCR) to the active form. MCR catalyzes the reversible ...
Methyl-coenzyme M reductase: Expressing active recombinant enzyme in M. maripaludis, and investigating the activation process, and the mechanism of inhibition of 3-nitrooxypropanol and Studying the effect of Ionic liquids on the mononuclear rearrangement of heterocycles using QM/MM method
(2019-07-25)
The study of the biosynthesis of methane is appealing from both its potential role in biofuel production and environmental perspectives. Methane is the main component of natural gas, and it is also a potent greenhouse gas ...
Methylmercury Exposure in Adolescence: Effects on Delay Discounting and Sensitivity to d-Amphetamine in Mice
(2016-05-05)
Methylmercury (MeHg) is an environmental neurotoxicant that can be used to study how cortical damage during early development affects behavior later in life. The consequences of MeHg exposure in adolescence, a developmental ...
Metrology and Characterization of Electrically Conductive Filaments (ECF) for Fused Deposition Modeling (FDM).
(2019-12-05)
Current electronics manufacturing is composed of several processes, usually with a high energy, space and knowledge footprint costs to produce a working product. The product is assembled from subcomponents such as the PCB, ...