The economics of implementing bagasse-based charcoal manufacturing in Haiti was investigated. From these main inputs, three different manufacturing economic scenarios were modeled using a simple, dynamic excel spreadsheet. ...

Autonomous robots are becoming a part of everyday life. One difficulty in the creation of autonomous robots is having the robots avoid objects. In particular once one has chosen an algorithm difficulty arises in perfecting ...

In many biological systems, small rigid parts are embedded in deformable tissues to perform different biological functions. This study examines the effects of adding rigid filler particles inside deformable material. More ...

This research sought to create an animal model of secondary hyperparathyroidism through continuous infusion of parathyroid hormone (PTH) in adult female mice, and to subsequently study the catabolic effects of PTH. Osmotic ...

The design of an extruder-based continuous tablet forming process of a sample active pharmaceutical ingredient (API) and ethyl acetate requires a device to form and compress the tablets. The flow of the wet extrusion is ...

Treatment of U20S cells with the chemotherapeutic drug Doxorubicin results in either apoptosis or cellular senescence. The pathway the cell takes is dependent upon the dosage of Doxorubicin administered to the cells. When ...

This thesis studies the varying degrees in a performer' s perception of the difference in the adjustable acoustics of a specific performance hall, namely, what is the difference between the opinions of instrumentalists and ...

The effect of probe tilt angle on the quality of Scanning Tunneling Microscopy (STM) measurements was explored. A small but consistent improvement in slope accuracy was documented lending some support to the effort to ...