This project describes two Martian meteorites, paired olivine-phyric shergottites LAR 12240 and LAR 12095, in order to decipher their petrological context, and place constraints on the geological history of Mars. This ...

The importance of beginner books in the lives of nascent readers cannot be understated. In an effort to recognize these critical tools for early reading, the American Library Association created the Theodor Geisel Award ...

Development of a natural alternative to cardiac assist devices (CADs) will pave the way to a heart failure therapy which overcomes the disadvantages of current mechanical devices. Through implementation of the three ...

The Fortran 2008 language standard added a feature called "coarrays" to allow parallel programming in Fortran with only minimal changes to existing sequential Fortran programs. Coarrays turn Fortran into a Partitioned ...

Organizational turnaround has been an important facet of management research for decades. It has been examined from a variety of perspectives; however, findings remain equivocal as to which actions are associated with ...

In this dissertation, we start by studying the operator system maximal tensor product, called max, in [17] from different perspectives. One approach is by the factorization technique used in Banach spaces [11] and operator ...

This thesis is a study of voluntarily childless individuals who write discourses on weblogs. This research addresses the bloggers’ narratives on who the voluntarily childless bloggers are, what their perceptions are of the ...

Brain cells such as microglial, neurons, and astrocytes, undergo varieties of morphological and functional changes during their life cycle, or responding to micro environmental perturbation. To better understand the functions ...

Non-thermal atmospheric pressure plasmas are increasingly attracting more attention from the scientific community for their potential use in surface treatment and biomedical applications. Even though considerable progress ...

Diblock copolymers are amphiphilic molecules, which spontaneously form micelles in a selective solvent. Through careful selection of polymer composition, solvent, temperature, and pH, the physical characteristics of the ...