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Total sulfur amino acid requirement and its application to practical diets for juvenile tilapia (Oreochromis spp.)
(2007-08-15)
Tilapia have become one of the most important fish species for aquaculture and play an increasing role in the international aquatic food trade. Therefore, the development of cost-effective feeds using inexpensive and locally ...
TourBot: A Research and Product Design Study Applying Human Robot Interaction and Universal Design Principles to the Development of a Tour Guide Robot
(2009-05-08)
Robots have intrigued the imagination of society since their introduction in 1921 by Czechoslovakian writer Karel Capek in his play, Rossum’s Universal Robots. Since that time, advances in the field of robotics have increased ...
Toward a Breathable Fabric for Protection Against Airborne Toxic Chemicals, and an Olefin-Forming Cascade Reaction En Route to 2,2’-Bi(glycerol)
(2009-07-31)
Part I. Several compounds that were envisioned to interact strongly with airborne chemical warfare agents, principally organophosphorus nerve agents, were synthesized. This was part of a multi-site, multi-investigator ...
Toward a More Perfect Engine: Natural Science and Optimism in the American Renaissance
(2011-05-04)
This dissertation examines the discourse regarding the perfectibility of American society among four figures associated with the American Renaissance: Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, Margaret Fuller, and Nathaniel ...
Toward a Transparent, Checkpointable Fault-Tolerant Message Passing Interface for HPC Systems
(2019-12-09)
With each successive generation of large-scale high-performance computing (HPC) systems, faults and associated failures are becoming more frequent. Long-running applications in such systems require efficient fault-tolerance ...
Toward Automatic Translation: From OpenACC to OpenMP 4
(2016-12-09)
For the past few years, OpenACC has been the primary directive-based API for programming accelerator devices like GPUs. OpenMP 4.0 is now a competitor in this space, with support from different vendors. In our work, we ...
Toward Improved Understanding of Aquifer Response Time Scales
(2017-07-25)
Several methods are available in the published literature to analyze transient groundwater flow processes. These methods include both numerical and analytical approaches which describe how groundwater heads would transition ...
Toward the Narrow Approach to Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Diagnostic Criteria: An Item Response Theory Analysis
(2018-06-18)
A crucial debate in the field of traumatic stress involves the question of whether posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is better represented by a broad or a narrow approach to establishing the set of symptom criteria ...
Toward Zero Backtracks in Test Pattern Search Algorithms with Machine Learning
(2021-07-19)
A digital circuit with n primary input lines has N = 2^n possible input vectors and a test vector that detects a fault in the circuit may be among those 2^n n-bit combinations. A pure random test generator can generate ...
Towards a better understanding of host-associated genetic markers for identification of fecal pollution sources in environmental waters
(2023-09-06)
Fecal contamination of surface water is a major public health concern and threatens ecosystem health. The water quality of many waterways in the United States has been declining due to pollution from both point and nonpoint ...
Towards a Bistable Nucleic Acid-Directed Switch for Electrochemical Readout of Proximity Ligation Assays
(2017-01-04)
The work presented in this thesis is focused on the development of a bistable DNA-driven assay formatted for biosensor applications in biological research, medical research, and an approach to point-of-care testing. We ...
Towards Efficient 5G Wireless Networks: Cross-Layer Design and Wireless Networking
(2018-07-25)
With the fast growing popularity of smart mobile devices and the explosion of data-intensive services, the 5th generation (5G) wireless system is expected to provide a 1000x mobile data rate in the near future. To provide ...
Towards Environmental Resilience in Pulp and Paper Manufacturing: Water Consumption and Carbon Dioxide Emission Reductions
(2022-07-28)
The objective of this research is to reduce freshwater consumption and carbon dioxide emission from the pulp and paper industry. Specifically, we investigated the feasibility of reducing freshwater consumption in the bleach ...
Towards Improved Application of Super Absorbent Polymers in Agriculture and Hydrology: A Cross-Disciplinary Approach
(2011-11-16)
Fresh water is the essential and key component to support life on this planet. It constitutes about 0.01% of world’s total water. Though freshwater is renewable, it is finite. In recent years, the demand for fresh water ...
Towards improving agricultural and environmental sustainability in the lower Apalachicola-Chattahoochee-Flint River Basin by understanding the agricultural and climate change impacts on the surface- and groundwater resources
(2020-09-23)
Surface- and groundwater resources in the lower Apalachicola-Chattahoochee-Flint (ACF) River Basin play an important role in the economic and ecological vitality of the region. Agriculture, which contributes more than $2 ...
Towards in/Vention in the 21st Century: A Philosophical Case Study
(2010-04-05)
This thesis offers a philosophical treatise on Invention in the 21st century, positing our current oppositional dialectic as problematic. Thus, I move to offer a way out of this dialectical negation in order to really ...
Towards Learning Autonomous Spacecraft Path-Planning from Demonstrations and Environment Interactions
(2022-05-04)
An increasing interest in the robotic exploration of uncharted space environments is warranting a spacecraft path-planning approach that is capable of producing not only autonomous, but also generalized solutions. Though ...
Towards Pharmaceutical Protein Stabilization: Thermodynamic and Kinetic Property Database Generation
(2023-07-31)
Studies on peptide degradation mechanisms are of interest because of the high demand for protein-based therapeutics in the pharmaceutical industry. However, formulation efficiency is limited by the degradation of the desired ...
Towards the Computer-Aided Molecular Design of Reactants and Products
(2017-11-30)
Many chemical processes generate products with properties of interest to businesses and end consumers (B&EC), using reactions. Thus, a need for quantitative modeling of physico-chemical properties and molecular design (MD) ...
Towards the formulation of a new multi–determinant electron propagator for open–shell molecular systems
(2018-07-30)
The efforts of this thesis are focused on extending the capabilities of the current single determinant electron propagator formalism to a formulation in which multiple determinants can be employed, enabling the formulation ...