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Finite element simulation of atherosclerotic plaque through morphoelasticity

Mohammad Mirzaei, Navid (University of Delaware, 2020)

Atherosclerosis is a disease which can cause a narrowing of the blood vessels therefore reducing the blood flow. It is one of the leading causes of death in the world. Under-standing the behavior and dynamics of the vessel ...

Kinetic studies of ethane dehydrogenation using carbon dioxide as mild oxidant over gallium aluminum mixed oxide

Wang, Hsuan-Lan (University of Delaware, 2020)

The development of a stable catalyst with high reactivity and selectivity for ethane dehydrogenation has been a long-studied topic in the field of energy research. The synergetic effect of the mixed gallium and aluminum ...

AI4IO: a suite of AI-based tools for IO-aware HPC resource management

Wyatt, Michael R., II (University of Delaware, 2020)

Users submit their simulations to High Performance Computing (HPC) clusters through batch systems which allocate cluster resources to user jobs. While some resource managers and job schedulers, such as Slurm, have a ...

Synthesis of imidazolidinones and indolines via aza-Heck cyclizations & phosphonate-directed C-H borylation

Xu, Feiyang (University of Delaware, 2020)

Nitrogen-containing heterocycles are prevalent in bioactive natural products and synthetic molecules. For this reason, the discovery of new methods to prepare those fragments is an important research field in organic ...

Maryland wind energy area site characterization assessment using cluster analysis with bathymetry and chirp sub-bottom profiling data

Diaz, Katherine R. (University of Delaware, 2020)

There has been a significant rise in the construction and development of large-scale offshore wind farms as the global need for renewable energy increases. Each project includes a procedure of leasing, permitting, planning, ...

Modular tightly coupled antenna array

Stacy, Brandon J. (University of Delaware, 2020)

As demand for high speed, uninterrupted wireless data access increases, re-search has increased in millimeter wave (mmw) and radio frequency (RF) photonic devices and systems as solutions. Higher frequencies increase data ...

Negotiating technological engagement: resident care, identity construction, and interactive use among older adults in assisted living

Snyder, Jennifer L. (University of Delaware, 2020)

The primary purpose of this dissertation is to explore the complex relationship between technology and aging. Guided by the theoretical foundations of digital inequalities and narrative gerontology, the findings from this ...

Understanding and defending vulnerabilities of web-based information systems

Zhang, Yubao (University of Delaware, 2020)

Web-based information systems support the gathering, representation, processing, and dissemination of information on the web, and can provide value-added functions such as recommender systems and online review systems. ...

Multi-model based reinforcement learning and application

Wei, Haoran (University of Delaware, 2020)

Reinforcement learning (RL) as a category of machine learning methods learns sequential decision-making policies by interacting with the environment and maximizing a cumulative reward. The biggest challenges are 1) it ...

Crime in micro-places: beyond urban areas

Wagner, Jascha (University of Delaware, 2020)

Several evaluations support that police can be efficient and effective in preventing disorder and crime when focusing on micro-places with high rates of crime. However, which specific policing techniques work in crime hot ...

Mindfulness and relapse prevention

Musau, Sylvia (University of Delaware, 2020)

Background: The relapse rate for substance use disorders (SUD) is estimated to be between 40% to 60%. With this high rate, adjunctive interventions, such as mindfulness, that compliment pharmacological interventions to ...

Fossil fuel subsidy reform for sustainable development in Nigeria: the role of renewable energy diffusion

Idrisu, Babatunde (University of Delaware, 2020)

One of the indicators of the Sustainable Development Goal 12 (“Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns”) is the phasing out of fossil fuel subsidies “in a manner that protects the poor and the affected ...

Investigation of the Christiansen effect in indium tin oxide bulk materials

Sufian, Md Abu (University of Delaware, 2020)

The Christiansen Effect occurs when the refractive index (n) of a given material matches that of its surrounding medium at a particular wavelength, leading to a transmission window. When air is chosen as the medium, the ...

Nutrient intake and meal-time behavior of children with autism spectrum disorder

Lafferty, Jaimie Lillian (University of Delaware, 2020)

Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is a neurodevelopmental disorder characterized by challenges in social communication and relationships, as well as restricted, repetitive patterns of behavior, interests and/or activities ...

Multivariate classification treatment of reflectance data for the non-destructive analysis of historical textiles

Speed, Amelia (University of Delaware, 2020)

Displaying, storing, and handling objects of cultural value is ideally accompanied by scientific analysis, which is almost never performed due to the limited analytical resources of most cultural institutions. If testing ...

Drawing for an audience of one: art in Muriel Draper's archives

Armandroff, Olivia (University of Delaware, 2020)

Muriel Draper, a much-overlooked author and tastemaker in early-twentieth-century New York, was a cosmopolitan woman with eclectic interests, including mysticism, the Soviet Union, and the Harlem Renaissance. Today, Draper ...

The diffusion of civic technology: how technology and devolution are reshaping civic life in urban America

Turkel, Eli (University of Delaware, 2020)

Over the last decade, urban communities in the United States and around the world have seen the diffusion of civic technology. Civic technology, or “technology for the public good”, takes various forms. In this case, civic ...

Evaluation of poultry house heat treatment as an alternative to post outbreak wet cleaning and disinfection

Burton, Laura (University of Delaware, 2020)

Management and control of fast-moving poultry diseases such as highly pathogenic avian influenza virus (HPAIV) infections require a combination of steps including biosecurity, surveillance, quarantine, depopulation, disposal, ...

Controlling chemical modification of chlorinated silicon surfaces via wet-chemistry approaches and morphology-preserving functionalization of metal oxide nanomaterials through two-step click reaction

He, Chuan (University of Delaware, 2020)

Functionalization of semiconductor surfaces has a wide range of applications in numerous fields including sensing, catalysis, photo-electro chemistry, and energy conversion. The controlled and tunable covalent bonding is ...

Estimating crop evapotranspiration using a satellite remote sensing based energy balance model

Scarborough, Charles (University of Delaware, 2020)

Evapotranspiration (ET) is the combination of transpiration from plants and evaporation from land surface sources of water. Accurate accounting of actual crop ET is critical in agricultural water management, especially in ...

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