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A metabolic approach to assessing interactions between climate change, agrochemicals, and freshwater mussel reproduction
(2019-04-16)
Unionid mussels are a fundamental part of stream ecology yet are one of the most threatened aquatic organisms due in part to habitat loss, stream fragmentation, and deterioration. The increasingly relevant effects of climate ...
A Metaheuristic for Autonomous and Self-Organizing Consensus Formation Inspired by Honey Bee Nest Site Selection Behavior
(2014-12-04)
This research presents a self-organizing system for engineering consensus among cooperating, distributed processes and studying consensus negotiation in natural systems that use the quorum sensing mechanism. The presented ...
Metal Complexation and Extraction Studies of bis-dithiophosphinite Ligands
(2011-12-06)
Five bis(dithiophosphonite) ligands OR1a-OR3b were synthesized using Lawesson’s Reagent and analogs of Lawesson’s Reagent. Two of the ligands OR2a and OR3a, were used in extraction studies with uranyl nitrate. UV-Vis ...
Metallic Nanoparticle Synthesis within Reverse Micellar Microemulsion Systems
(2004-12-15)
The synthesis of metallic nanoparticles is integral for the advancement of the field of nanotechnology. Solution based nanomaterial synthesis is an effective method for the production of nanomaterials, particularly with ...
Metamaterial Filters on LCP Substrate Using MEMS Technology
(2011-07-26)
Metamaterials have a wide range of potential uses in areas such as optics, transmission lines, and RF design. The simplest metamaterial structures are Split-Ring Resonators (SRR) and Complementary Split-Ring Resonators ...
The Metamorphosis of 2-fold Triple Systems into Maximum Packings of 2Kn with 4-cycles
(2011-04-27)
The graph is called a hinge. A hinge system of order n is a pair (X, H) where H is a collection of edge disjoint hinges which partition the edge set of 2Kn with vertex set X. Let (X, H) be a hinge system and D the collection ...
The Metamorphosis of Maximum Packings of 2Kn with Triples into Maximum Packings of 2Kn with 4-cycles
(2012-05-07)
In this work, the problem of constructing a maximum packing of 2Kn with triples having a metamorphosis into a maximum packing of 2Kn with 4-cycles is concluded by solving the problem for every n ≥ 11 such that n ≡ 2, 5, ...
Methane Exchanges between Terrestrial Ecosystems and the Atmosphere in Response to Multiple Environmental Changes - A Process-Based Modeling Study
(2016-07-29)
Methane (CH4), the most abundant non-carbon dioxide (CO2) greenhouse gas, has a relatively shorter lifetime (approx. 9 years) and higher global warming potential (approx. 28 times) than CO2 at a 100-year time horizon. The ...
Methiozolin Effects on Annual Bluegrass Control at Various Seasonal Timings and Creeping Bentgrass Injury in Shade
(2019-01-03)
Methiozolin is a new herbicide with efficacy against annual bluegrass (Poa annua L.; ABG) and is being investigated as a selective herbicide in creeping bentgrass (Agrostis stolonifera L.; CBG) golf course greens, tees and ...
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 ...