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NON-INTRUSIVE SENSING SITE SELCECTION AND START OF COMBUSTION IDENTIFICATION IN MULTI-CYLINDER COMPRESSION-IGNITION ENGINES
(2026-01-15)This study investigates the impact of sensor location on accelerometer-based sensing of combustion phasing for compression-ignition engines. Ten accelerometer locations were studied on a light-duty compression-ignition ... -
PRESERVATION OF ORIGINAL SEDIMENTARY SULFUR ISOTOPE RECORDS UNDER POST-DEPOSITIONAL THERMAL ALTERATION
(2025-12-19)The sedimentary sulfur record is critical for interpreting how marine environments have evolved throughout Earth’s history because the burial of reduced sulfur species (i.e. in pyrite and kerogen) impacts global climate ... -
Techno-Economic Optimization of Liquid Hydrogen Refueling Station for Heavy-Duty Transportation
(2025-12-19)The decarbonization of heavy-duty transportation remains a critical challenge in achieving global net-zero targets due to high energy demands and limited zero-emission alternatives. Hydrogen fuel cell vehicles (FCEVs) offer ... -
A SINGLE-FIELD SWAT MODEL APPROACH TO EVALUATE IMPROVEMENTS IN PROCESS REPRESENTATION FOR PERCHED WATER TABLE DEPTH SIMULATION AND SOIL TEMPERATURE DYNAMICS
(2025-12-19)While the Midwest has fertile soil ideal for agricultural production, in many cases these soils were historically wetlands that have been artificially drained. A soil profile with a seasonally high perched water table is ... -
OPTIMIZATION OF A GEN3 CONCENTRATING SOLAR POWER SYSTEM WITH A SILICON CARBIDE PRIMARY HEAT EXCHANGER
(2025-12-19)This study evaluates the technical and economic impact of a topology-optimized silicon carbide (SiC) primary heat exchanger on the energy-specific cost and optimized design of Gen3 concentrated solar power (CSP) plants. ... -
Factors Affecting Solvent Retention due to Gel Formation during Dissolution-Based Plastic Recycling
(2025-12-19)Dissolution-based recycling provides a way to recover polymers from mixed plastic waste, but a large amount of energy is required to remove residual solvent after precipitation.1,2 In this study, we measured the solvent ... -
Endolysosomal Pathways and Exosome Secretion in Pancreatic Acinar Cells: Mechanisms of Secretory Polarity and Vesicle Trafficking
(2025-12-18)Pancreatic acinar cells are essential for digestive processes, synthesizing and secreting enzyme-rich zymogen granules (ZGs) via highly regulated exocytosis. Maintaining apical-basolateral polarity is essential to prevent ... -
INVESTIGATING PSEUDOMONAS KILLING OF GENETICALLY IDENTICAL BACTERIA
(2025-12-16)Pseudomonas syringae pv. tomato (Pst) is a plant pathogenic bacteria and causal agent of bacterial speck, which can have serious impacts on the yield and quality in tomato. Previous work has shown that Pst grown in planta ... -
A PYTHON-BASED FRAMEWORK FOR CAD-INTEGRATED 3D TOPOLOGY OPTIMIZATION
(2025-12-15)Topology optimization (TO) is a powerful and widely used design methodology in structural engineering and product design. While numerous academic software tools exist for 2D and 3D TO, they often focus on relatively simple ... -
EVALUATION OF CR-COATED ZR-ALLOY CLADDINGS DURING A LOSS OF COOLANT ACCIDENT SCENARIO IN LIGHT WATER REACTORS
(2025-12-12)Zirconium-alloys (Zr-alloys) have been used successfully as the materials for fuel cladding (tubes that contain the uranium-dioxide pellets) in light water reactors (LWR) on account of their good hydrothermal corrosion ... -
Non-antibiotic alternative strategies in poultry: Evaluating organic farming systems and integrated vaccination-nutrition strategies
(2025-12-10)Poultry health, human health and economic losses caused by pathogenic zoonotic bacteria including Salmonella remain a major concern, despite ongoing prevention and control efforts. The use of antibiotics for prophylaxis, ... -
HIGH PROSPERITY, HIGH INEQUALITY: HOW NEIGHBORHOOD CONDITIONS ACTIVATE CLASS VOTING
(2025-12-05)This study investigates how neighborhood economic contexts condition the link between social class and electoral choice. Merging five waves of the Korean General Social Survey (2010–2014) with administrative housing records, ... -
THE ROLE OF PROMOTERS IN THE ACTIVATION OF TS-1 CATALYST
(2025-12-19)The use of promoters in industrially relevant reactions is important to obtain higher catalytic activities and yields. However, the mechanism of promotion in reaction pathways is often unknown. Prominent industrial examples ... -
Rabies vaccine vehicle optimization for orotopical administration to wild vampire bats (Desmodus rotundus)
(2025-12-18)Rabies vaccination of vampire bats (Desmodus rotundus) has been proposed as a superior control method to culling but has yet to be implemented. Success of rabies vaccination depends on a topical vehicle that spreads through ... -
A Performance and Model Complexity Study of a Phase Change Material Thermal Energy Storage Heat Exchanger
(2025-12-15)Phase change material (PCM) thermal energy storage (TES) heat exchangers (HXs) have the potential to shave and shift loads behind the meter if integrated into heat pumps as a substitute for the outdoor coil during discharge. ... -
INFORMAL WORK AND OCCUPATIONAL STRUCTURE BLURRING
(2025-12-11)How does the growth of informal work reshape the long-standing organization of labor markets and social hierarchies? Using Hughes's distinction between the functional and moral aspects of occupational differentiation, this ... -
Bigger data, Greater Lakes? Monitoring technology, data infrastructures, and the changing science-policy interface for water quality in lower Green Bay, Wisconsin
(2025-12-08)This thesis examines how scientific knowledge, environmental monitoring practices, and data infrastructures have shaped water quality governance in the Lower Fox River and Green Bay region from 1972 to 2024. During this ... -
SNOWSHOE HARE DYNAMICS AT THEIR SOUTHERN RANGE BOUNDARY: CYCLIC EROSION AND ISLAND PERSISTENCE
(2026-01-27)Global climate change has shifted seasonality, influencing species across multiple scales, from individual traits to community dynamics. I examined these effects on a winter-adapted mammal snowshoe hare (Lepus americanus) ... -
CHARACTERIZING AND DIAGNOSING SUBCLINICAL MASTITIS IN DAIRY SHEEP
(2026-01-16)Subclinical mastitis, defined as intramammary inflammation in the absence of observable clinical signs, is a major health, welfare, and production challenge in dairy sheep. Yet, its detection and management remain limited ... -
ECOLOGICAL RELEASE AND NAÏVETÉ SHAPE PREY CONSUMPTION IN A RAPIDLY EXPANDING INVASIVE PREDATOR
(2026-01-15)Invasive predators face novel eco-evolutionary pressures yet processes governing shifts in prey consumption and associated trophic benefits that promote invasion success remain poorly understood. Ecological release from ...
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