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Mapping and Analyzing Urban Growth: A Study to Identify Drivers of Urban Growth in West Africa
(2016-05)
Urban area expansion is one of the most powerful anthropogenic forces changing the earth‘s surface. Such changes are happening at much faster rates in African and Asian cities. Several interconnected but distinct processes ...
VIRUS-SELECTED OSTEOGENESIS-INDUCING PEPTIDES FOR ENHANCED BONE REGENERATION IN 3D PRINTED TITANIUM ALLOY IMPLANTS
(2018-12-14)
Bone morphogenetic proteins (BMPs) are part of the transforming growth factor-β superfamily and function as key regulators of cellular growth, differentiation, and tissue formation. While recombinant BMPs can be used to ...
ANISOTROPIC POROCHEMOELECTROELASTIC SOLUTIONS FOR APPLICATIONS IN FIELD OPERATIONS AND LABORATORY CHARACTERIZATION OF SHALE
(2013)
In this study, the porochemoelectroelastic formulation is explained in details and fully expanded to capture the well known anisotropic nature of shale. The formulation is then applied to derive the analytical solutions ...
INTERPRETATION OF PRESSURE TRANSIENT TESTS OF HORIZONTAL WELLS WITH
(2012)
The oil and gas industry has long recognized the importance of understanding the behaviors and trends of pressure and fluid flow dynamics for damaged and stimulated horizontal wells. It has also been recognized that the ...
Homogeneous Vessels as Active Elements for Measuring Pressure
(2018-05-11)
This work investigates an approach to pressure sensor design in which a homogeneous vessel is used as the active element to sense pressure. The goal of this project was to synthesize a standard model for the design and ...
Interaction of Metal Ions with the Polyanionic Gram-Positive Cell Wall and the Effect of Antimicrobial Cationic Branched Polyethyleneimine on Metal Binding
(2014-12)
Metal binding is a known characteristic of the bacterial cell wall. Yet, the binding mechanisms and affinity constants are not fully understood. The cell wall of Gram-positive bacteria is characterized by a thick layer of ...
Exploiting Heterogeneous Multicore Processors Through Fine-Grained Scheduling and Low-Overhead Thread Migration
(2012)
Heterogeneous (also known as asymmetric) multicore processors (HMPs) offer significant advantages over homogeneous multicores in terms of both power and performance. Power-efficient cores can be paired with higher-performance ...
Tolerance and Intolerance in Political Discourse on Twitter during the U.S. 2016 Presidential Election
(2017-08-26)
This study explored tolerance and intolerance in political discourse on Twitter during the U.S. 2016 election. It was a combination of social network analysis of four Twitter networks the day before the election, the day ...
Mispricing of Initial Public Offerings (IPOs): The Role of Accounting Information
(2011)
I examine the role of accounting information in the end-of-first day overpricing of IPO stocks. Sloan (1996) and Teoh et al. (1998) suggest earnings-based explanations for the mispricing while Healy and Palepu (1990) suggest ...
A LABORATORY INVESTIGATION AND MODELING OF DYNAMIC MODULUS OF ASPHALT MIXES FOR PAVEMENT APPLICATIONS
(2011)
Traditionally, stiffness of hot mix asphalt (HMA) has been used as a measure of the pavement's ability to carry vehicular traffic loads without undergoing excessive deformation. Early deterioration of pavements due to ...