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AFFORDANCES AND GROUNDING WITHIN CONCRETENESS FADING WHEN LEARNING PROOF IN STEM’S GEOMETRY
(2025-05-09)From a learning sciences perspective, this paper explores concreteness fading (Fyfe & Nathan, 2018) as a theory of instruction designed for facilitating cognitive grounding (Glenberg, de Vega, & Graesser, 2008) in academic ... -
Quantifying Estimation Errors in Robust Vision-Based Control: An Extreme Value Theory Approach
(2025-05-09)Modern autonomous systems—from classical state-estimators to deep learning based visual inertial odometry (VIO)—depend on noisy, high- dimensional sensor data to estimate their state. Quantifying and bound- ing these ... -
COMPUTATIONAL INVESTIGATION OF CAMBERED BLADES AND VIRTUAL CAMBER IN CROSS-FLOW TURBINES
(2025-05-09)This research computationally investigates how geometric camber interacts with the virtual camber induced in cross-flow turbine blades. Most cross-flow turbines use uncambered airfoils, likely due to the symmetries in the ... -
THE TEMPORAL AND SPATIAL DYNAMICS OF SURFACE SEDIMENT ON THE PERMANENTLY FROZEN LAKES OF TAYLOR VALLEY, ANTARCTICA
(2025-05-08)The McMurdo Dry Valleys are the largest unglaciated region of Antarctica and are home to some of the only perennially frozen lakes in the world. The ice covers of the Taylor Valley lakes are subject to decadal-length ... -
Modeling and Failure Analysis of Tubular Braided and Filament Winding Composite Structures
(2025-05-08)The central objective of this master’s research is to develop and analyze two types of carbon fiber-reinforced composite structures—Filament Winding and Braided Winding—for the application in hydrogen storage vessels. This ... -
Embryonic development and molecular mechanisms of land snail appendage patterning
(2025-05-06)Mollusks are a deeply divergent and morphologically diverse metazoan clade, offering a valuable yet underutilized framework for studying the evolution of developmental gene networks. While aquatic gastropods have served ... -
PRACTICALITY OF SINGLE-STREAM RECYCLING OF HIGH-DENSITY POLYETHYLENE (HDPE) IN THE UNITED STATES
(2025-04-30)Increasing plastic recycling rates, leading to more products being made from recycled rather than virgin plastic material, is one possible solution to reducing emissions and preventing plastic pollution from entering the ... -
Continuum Modeling of Glycine Biocrystal Crystallization Kinetics
(2025-05-09)Glycine, the simplest amino acid, has garnered significant interest for its potential in sustainable bio-crystal applications spanning eco-friendly electronics, energy devices, and sensor technologies. Glycine, being a ... -
MARINE ENERGY CROSS-FLOW TURBINES IN HIGH CONFINEMENT
(2025-05-09)Marine renewable energy technology has recently garnered significant interest. Among the various technologies that extract usable power from fluid flows, cross-flow turbines (CFTs) are particularly well-suited for use in ... -
A Genome-Wide Association Study Assessing the Genetic Underpinnings for Response to Polyamine Cadaverine in Brachypodium distachyon
(2025-05-09)Polyamines (PAs) are small organic molecules characterized as carbon chains with two or more amine groups, derived from the decarboxylation of amino acids. Plants possessing the requisite decarboxylase genes produce their ... -
Humanized Mouse Model Reveals Distinct Immune Contributions to Cardiac Function and Fibrosis Post-Myocardial Infarction
(2025-05-08)Myocardial infarction (MI) triggers a complex cascade of immune-mediated events that critically influence cardiac repair, fibrosis, and remodeling. Although murine models have significantly advanced our understanding of ... -
From the Fillmore to the Zen-dō: The Trippy History of American Buddhism
(2025-05-07)In this thesis, I consider both why boomers were driven to cultivate that psychedelic soil and what it was about that fertile seedbed that made it so conducive to the sprouts of American Buddhism. In doing so, I hope to ... -
THE IMPACT OF MILKING FREQUENCY IN AUTOMATED MILKING STSYTEMS ON MILK PRODUCTION AND MILK REVENUE
(2025-05-08)This research investigates three novel aspects of Automatic Milking Systems (AMS) to enhance understanding of how their management influences dairy productivity and revenue. The first objective is to identify key determinants ... -
Mapping Urban Coyote Ecology in Los Angeles: Insights from Citizen Science and Human Mobility Data
(2025-05-01)Understanding how urban coyotes (Canis latrans) respond to human activities is a critical challenge in urban ecology, especially in an era of rapid urbanization. As coyotes adapt to urban environments, the list of citizen ... -
Machine Learning for the Isolation of Geochemical Cycles in the Midwestern Cambrian-Ordovician Aquifer System
(2025-05-08)Groundwater is a critical resource supporting millions of domestic and municipal users across the country. As pressures on this resource intensify, concerns about groundwater quality are only increasing. Large-scale ... -
LONG RANGE RADIATIVE HEAT TRANSFER IN MULTILAYERED MEDIA
(2025-05-09)Thermal energy transport is vital to the performance and reliability of engineered systems. In applications like electronic cooling, energy conversion, and material processing, managing heat transfer is key to maintaining ... -
LABORATORY AND THEORETICAL INVESTIGATION INTO WAVE-INDUCED EROSION OF ICE CLIFFS
(2025-05-09)Wave erosion is one of the dominant deterioration mechanisms for icebergs in the open ocean, while also contributing to the ablation of ice shelves and marine-terminating glacier fronts. Oscillatory wave action around the ... -
Design and Development of Structures, Installation Tools, Installation Procedures, and Models for the Vertical Drift Detector of the Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment
(2025-05-09)The Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment’s (DUNE) goal is to measure the oscillation of neutrinos between their three flavor states. The measurement is performed by generating, selecting, and measuring a known flavor of ... -
The Development and Validation of a Simple and Efficient multi-analyte Benzodiazepine and Z-Drug Method by LC-MS/MS
(2025-05-08)The use of central nervous system depressants, benzodiazepines and z-drugs, occur in the daily lives of many Americans. They are widely prescribed which consequently makes them a significant focus in forensic toxicology. ... -
PRECIPITATION HAS VARIABLE EFFECTS ON ALGAL BIOMASS IN URBAN PONDS
(2025-05-05)Stormwater ponds are designed to protect human systems from the consequences of storms by promoting water infiltration and reducing sediment and nutrient loads. Large precipitation events cause abrupt physical changes in ...
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