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The Protective Role of Angiotensin AT2 Receptors in Obesity-Linked Inflammation and Renal Injury
(2017-06-09)Obesity is an independent risk factor for the development of chronic kidney disease (CKD). Non-resolving inflammation is a key mechanism that initiates and amplifies progressive renal injury in the setting of obesity. ... -
Supervisor's Role in Managing Employee Stress and Safety Compliance
(2014-05-21)The current study proposes a moderated mediation model to explain how stressors may affect safety compliance both directly and indirectly through emotional exhaustion while examining the moderating role of supervisor ... -
Electrochemical Pretreatment for Microfiltration of Surface Water: Mechanisms of Fouling and Its Control
(2014-06-09)Aluminum electrochemical pretreatment was evaluated for fouling control during surface water microfiltration (MF) using bench-scale galvanostatic batch electrolysis experiments followed by constant pressure, dead-end MF. ... -
Synthesis of Polycyclic Ring Systems Via C-H Bond Insertion and Enantioselective Conjugate Addition
(2014-04-28)This dissertation presents three main projects. The first discusses synthetic strategies towards the total synthesis of the natural product Maoecrystal V. The second part presents an efficient way to construct complex ... -
Transcriptional Control of Oncogenic Processes in Breast Cancer Cells by the Estrogen Receptors
(2014-04-28)The estrogen receptors are fundamental factors in human biology. As transcriptional factors regulating gene programs controlling many processes in the body, they are key in both development and disease. Also, as nuclear ... -
Selective Catalytic Reduction of NOx by NH3 (NH3-SCR) in Small Pore Cu-exchanged Chabazite (CHA) Catalysts
(2014-06-09)Nitrogen oxides, NOx (NO+NO2), are considered significant air pollutants. Selective catalytic reduction of NOx with NH3 (NH3-SCR) is a leading technology candidate for NOx emissions control for diesel engine vehicles. ... -
Linear Parameter Varying Control of Time-Delayed Systems and an Application to Air-Fuel Ratio Control
(2014-08-28)In this thesis one of the recently developed gain scheduling control methods, the linear parameter varying (LPV) technique is demonstrated. Starting from the basic definitions of an LMI, important derivations of time ... -
Reliability and Maintenance Modeling of Complex Systems Under Multiple Dependent Competing Failure Processes
(2014-06-09)To achieve commercialization and wide acceptance in industrial application, reliability analysis for complex evolving systems with multiple failure processes becomes increasingly important. The common assumption in analyzing ... -
Radiation Therapy Optimization under Uncertainty for Lung Cancer: Interplay Effects and Tumor Shrinkage
(2014-06-09)Radiation therapy is a complex process where a given target volume receives a given dose of radiation divided over one or multiple treatments. Every step in this process can introduce some types of uncertainties into the ... -
Re-Os Geochronology of the Monterey Formation, Union Leroy 51-18 Well, Santa Maria Basin, California
(2015-07-31)The Os isotopic composition of marine Miocene strata records chronological variations in the world’s oceans. These Os- isotope variations exhibit changes in global seawater geochemistry that result from tectonic, paleoclimate ... -
Atomistic Modeling of Nanostructures via Molecular Dynamics and Time-Scaling Methods
(2016-07-26)Nanostructures are emerging as novel materials with revolutionary application in electronics, nuclear reactors, structures, aerospace, and energy. Nanocrystalline structures owe their outstanding mechanical properties to ... -
A Role for the Histone Chaperone Hira in Muscle Hypertrophy, Cellular Stress Responses, and Developmental Gene Expression
(2016-12-07)Chromatin modifications play a pivotal role in regulating gene expression. The deposition of histone variants by histone chaperones into the nucleosome plays a large role in influencing gene expression. Histone incorporation ... -
On Holomorphic Sectional Curvature and Fibrations
(2016-12-12)In this dissertation, we prove the existence of a metric of definite holomorphic sectional curvature on certain compact fibrations. The basic idea for these curvature computations is to use the already available information ... -
Synthesis of Proline-Based N-Heterocyclic Carbene Building Blocks and Their Applications
(2015-04-29)The synthesis of novel proline-based N-heterocyclic carbene ligands has been accomplished. These types of imidazolium salts can be used as building blocks for the synthesis of more sophisticated N-heterocyclic carbene ... -
Inside the Community College Developmental Math Classroom: Understanding Differences between Faculty and Students’ Attitudes and Experiences
(2015-06-30)This study provides a better understanding of how student and faculty perceive the developmental math classroom experience and the impact on students’ ability to successfully complete developmental math courses. A significant ... -
Self-Assembled Monolayers Generated from Cholesterol-Based Thiols
(2012-07-26)Self-assembled monolayers (SAMs) generated from adsorption of the single-chained cholesterol-based and unsymmetrical double-chained cholesterol-based thiols on gold substrates were examined. The single-chained cholesterol-based ... -
Timing Analysis of the Abort-and-Restart Paradigm on a Scratchpad Memory-based Execution Platform
(2015-07-24)Priority-based Functional Reactive Programming (P-FRP) is a new variant of FRP to model reactive applications in real-time systems. In P-FRP, when the currently running task is preempted by an arriving higher-priority task, ... -
High-Order Numerical Methods for Time-Dependent Problems with Applications
(2015-07-24)In this dissertation, several high-order numerical methods for solving time dependent problems are studied. In the first part, a maximum principle preserving (MPP) finite-volume (FV) weighted essentially non-oscillatory ... -
A Fast Clustering Algorithm Merging The Expectation Maximization Algorithm and Markov Chain Monte Carlo
(2015-05-04)Clustering is an important problem in Statistics and Machine Learning that is usually solved using Likelihood Maximization methods, of which the Expectation-Maximization algorithm (EM) is the most common. In this work ... -
Acid Transport in Chemically Amplified Photoresists
(2015-06-02)Chemically amplified resists (CARs) are a class of lithographic materials that enable high-throughput semiconductor patterning. CARs are comprised of a glassy polymer resin (reactant) loaded with a photoacid generator ...
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