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Role of Topography and Land-Sea Contrast on Precipitation in the Maritime Continent during Madden-Julian Oscillation Propagation
(2021-07)The Maritime Continent (MC) is the largest archipelago located between the Indian and western Pacific Oceans. The MC is surrounded by warm seas surface temperatures that leads to deep convection, which is also modulated ... -
Distinct Spatiotemporal Regulation of the Cytoprotective Heat Shock Response in Caenorhabditis elegans
(2021-07)Every organism studied to-date utilizes the heat shock response (HSR) to maintain protein-folding homeostasis (proteostasis) during temperature or other protein-folding stress. The HSR has been well characterized using ... -
A Glint Contaminated Pixel Correction Algorithm and Potential Application for Estimating Water Visibility
(2021-07-19)Glint in satellite reflectance images contaminates pixels making it difficult to ascertain what lies beneath the water surface. An algorithm was created to correct glint contaminated pixels using a nearest neighbor non-glint ... -
Transcriptomic and proteomic identification of signaling molecules involved in egg activation in the sea star, Patiria miniata
(2021-07)During egg activation in all species, the critical mechanism to restart the zygote metabolism and prevent polyspermy is an intracellular Ca2+ increase. The signaling molecules, including the receptors on the sperm and egg, ... -
Endothelial Response in 2D and 3D to Doses of Photosensitive Carbon Monoxide Releasing Molecules with Improved Activation
(2021-07)Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is the leading cause of death worldwide in large part due to atherosclerotic obstruction of blood vessels. Limitations with current treatment approaches include restenosis in stenting and viable ... -
Late Quaternary Vegetation and Climate History from the Lake Junín Plateau
(2021-07)Whether the Andean ecosystem is resilient against future climate change remains unclear. A 2018 IPCC special report identified that warming more than 1.5ºC above pre-industrial temperatures by the year 2100 would be a major ... -
SPATIAL ECOLOGY AND STABLE ISOTOPE COMPOSITION OF CETACEANS IN THE BOHOL SEA
(2021-07)Studies on Philippine cetaceans (i.e., whales and dolphins) began in the early 1980s, and have resulted in the location and identification of species in Philippine waters. However, the population estimates of most of the ... -
Characterizing the Demographic Effects Relative to Race, Gender, and Skin Tone on the Accuracy of Deep Convolutional Neural Network Based Face Recognition Systems
(2021-05)Automated face recognition (AFR) is an important tool used in national security and public safety operations. Numerous cases exist in which AFR was successfully used to search large repositories containing millions of ... -
Inverse Methods for Near-Real Time Estimation of Surface Heat Flux in Thermal Protection Systems for Space Vehicles
(2021-05)With the increased goal of manned explorations to outer space, safety during the atmospheric entry/reentry process is paramount as the incident heat fluxes on the surface of vehicle can reach critical values. Thermal ... -
Modeling and Energy Simulation of a Zero Energy Building: A Case Study for Florida
(2021-05)The study of energy consumption in buildings is an important area of research given the large share of building sector in the worldwide energy usage. The energy consumption of buildings has a high impact on carbon emissions, ... -
A Comparative Study to Assess the Osteogenic Potential of Competing Bioceramics for Bone Tissue Engineering
(2021-05)Biomimetic composite scaffolds comprising of bioactive ceramic-based materials incorporated within a polymeric framework have shown considerable promise for use in bone tissue engineering (BTE) applications. Although ... -
Effects of Precessional Forcing in the Early Stages of the 100-k World
(2021-05)Much of what we know about the Andes today comes from studying a heavily human-manufactured landscape. However, before the presence of human modification in this system (~13,000 years ago), past interglacial and glacial ... -
Testing and Performance Analysis of a New Wireless Sensors Network (WSN) System for Hurricane Monitoring
(2021-05)Researchers at the Florida Institute of Technology (FIT) have developed the wireless sensor network system for the field measurement of hurricane wind and pressure on residential structures. A new version of the system is ... -
Experimental and Computational Investigations of Type III Deep Eutectic Solvents for BTX Removal from Light Naphtha
(2021-04)Light naphtha is a crucial chemical feedstock that is used to make value-added products from plastic to fuels. Whether it is derived from fossil fuels or renewable resources, naphtha typically contains small fraction of ... -
Dynamic Route Optimization for Waste Collection in Smart City
(2021-05)Waste collection is a critical component of the municipal service to the community within urban set-ups. Increasing levels of waste generation present significant challenges in urban areas due to unprecedented population ... -
Machine Learning Approach To Predict Mortality Rates Based On Hospital Clinical Data
(2021-05)This thesis integrates fundamental concepts from conventional statistics with the more explanatory, algorithmic, and computational techniques offered by machine learning to predict early mortality risk of surgical patients. ... -
Pattern Based Classification of Chronic Kidney Disease Patients
(2021-05)We apply a pattern-based classification method to identify clinical and genomic features associated with the progression of Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD). We analyze the African-American Study of Chronic Kidney Disease with ... -
The Brezis-Nirenberg Problem for the Generalized Kirchhoff Equation
(2021-05)We study a class of critical Kirchhoff problems with a general nonlocal term. The main difficulty here is the absence of a closed-form formula for the compactness threshold. First we obtain a variational ... -
Hydrogen/Diesel Co-Combustion in Compression Ignition Engines Through Hydrogen Ingestion and Direct Hydrogen Injection
(2021-05)This dissertation develops, implements, and validates the computational tools necessary for the computational simulation of hydrogen-enhanced Diesel combustion for premixed hydrogen charges ingested into the intake air and ...
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