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Analysis of nitric oxide transfer and release rate for a cysteine modified polymer
(2010-05)
Scope and Method of Study: In order to improve the haemocompatibility of biomaterials so that platelet adhesion on the surface can be minimized, a cysteine (CySH) modified polymer was developed previously and preliminary ...
Relationship of Climate Change to Seawater Intrusion in Coastal Aquifers
(Oklahoma State University, 2014-07-01)
Scientific consensus has established that climate change over the next century will cause a significant rise in global mean sea level. a confluence of factors places this rise to be between 0.25 meters and 0.95 Meters, ...
Incorporating the interfacial friction angle concept into the PDC single cutter and full bit modeling
(2019-12)
Over the past century, oil and gas served an important role in the US energy sector. The oil industry continually has worked to reduce the drilling cost by increasing drilling efficiency. Drilling is a time-consuming and ...
Evaluating the Impacts of Variable Irrigation Management Strategies on the Performance of Cotton and Grain Sorghum Using Monitoring and Modeling Techniques
(2019-05-01)
Diminishing water resources have threatened irrigated agriculture in many semi-arid and arid regions across the globe. In these regions, both surface and groundwater resources have declined due to persistent droughts and ...
Robust Shortest Paths under Uncertainty Using Conditional Value-at-Risk
(Oklahoma State University, 2011-12-01)
Finding a shortest path in a network is a classical problem in discrete optimization. The systems underlying the network models are subjects to a variety of sources of uncertainty. The purpose of this thesis is to model ...
Sparse data-driven modeling framework for non-linear fluid flows
(2017-12)
Although fluid flows have been successfully modeled using the Navier-stokes equations, there exists only a limited class of flows for which exact analytical or numerical solutions are feasible at this time. For many practical ...
Accelerating convergence of leapfrogging optimization - Applications to nonlinear process modeling and nonlinear model predictive control
(2014-07)
Conventionally used optimization methods in chemical engineering applications such as linear programming (LP), Levenberg-Marquardt and sequential quadratic programming (SQP) handle nonlinear objective function (OF) surfaces ...
Evaluating Environmental Influences on Grassland Soil Organic Carbon Temporal and Spatial Distribution
(2019-07)
The soil is the largest terrestrial carbon sink, and soil organic carbon (SOC) accounts for twice as much carbon as is stored in the atmosphere. A large portion of recent atmospheric carbon increases is due to the loss of ...
From Tobacco Road to Tinsel Town: Assessing the Context of Smoking in Movies in Terms of Social Modeling Implications
(Oklahoma State University, 2011-07-01)
This study examines the social modeling implications of smoking portrayals in movies as they relate to influencing whether adolescents begin smoking or not. Drawing on the work of Bandura and others, the study identifies ...
Design of an Axial Flow Bioreactor for Tissue Regeneration
(Oklahoma State University, 2012-05-01)
Modeling of bioreactors using Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) tools have been adapted for several bioreactor configurations such as flow-through, parallel-flow, and rotary. In this study, modeling was mainly performed ...