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Big Storage, Little Budget
(2015-09-23)
Kansas State University's HPC cluster was running out of storage space last year. Vendors of traditional HPC storage solutions were either too expensive to be feasible or too little capacity to be of long-term use. The ...
Encapsulated thrombolytic microspheres to prevent reocclusion after thrombolysis and triggered release microspheres to deliver therapeutic drugs
(2015)
Cardiovascular diseases, including acute myocardial infarction, stroke, peripheral arterial diseases, and pulmonary embolism, are the most common and growing cause of morbidity and mortality in the United States. Early ...
PORE CONNECTIVITY AND HYDROCARBON STORAGE IN SHALE RESERVOIRS
(2015-12)
Considerable advances have been made in the science of shale characterization during the past two decades. However, the evaluation of the production potential of shale reservoirs is still hindered by the lack of understanding ...
Roles of Unique Membrane Fusion Proteins
(2015-11)
One of the primary mechanisms of antibiotic resistance in bacteria stems from the expression of multicomponent efflux transporters, located in the membranes of both Gram-positive and Gram-negative bacteria. Although these ...
An automatic approach to weighted subject indexing – An empirical study in the biomedical domain
(2015)
Subject indexing is an intellectually intensive process that has many inherent uncertainties. Existing manual subject indexing systems generally produce binary outcomes for whether or not to assign an indexing term. This ...
The Therapeutic Efficacy of Domestic Violence Victim Interventions
(Trauma, Violence, & Abuse, 2015-01-22)
Racial diversity in University of Oklahoma student organizations: the case for increasing informal interactional diversity within siloed institutions
(2015)
Literature suggests racial diversity is a common good for in groups and out groups and further suggests a particular type of diversity, informal interactional diversity, has the greatest benefits. This research explores ...
ADAPTIVE GRID BASED FINITE DIFFERENCE METHODS FOR SOLUTION OF HYPERBOLIC PDES: APPLICATION TO COMPUTATIONAL MECHANICS AND UNCERTAINTY QUANTIFICATION
(2015-05-08)
Novel finite-difference based numerical methods for solution of linear and nonlinear hyperbolic partial differential equations (PDEs) using adaptive grids are proposed in this dissertation. The overall goal of this research ...
Naturalness in Supersymmetry
(2015-06)
Weak scale supersymmetry solves the Big Hierarchy problem of the Standard Model. But recent severe sparticle mass limits from the LHC accentuate the Little Hierarchy Problem: Why are the W , Z and h masses so small (∼ 100 ...
CONSERVATION, ECOLOGY, AND EVOLUTION OF MIGRATORY BEHAVIOR IN THE PAINTED BUNTING (Passerina ciris)
(2015)
In animal migration studies, determining the migratory connectivity of different species is a crucial step to understand the ecology and evolution of complex behavioral traits as well as to implement effective conservation ...