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Spring 2011
Human Cytomegalovirus (HCMV) is the most common cause of congenital infection in newborns. One mechanism for this virus to reach the fetus is to cross the placenta through the syncytiotrophoblast layer. Accumulation and protection of pathogens in the syncytiotrophoblast could affect the systemic...
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Fall 2011
In many cloud computing environments (e.g., Amazon’s public Elastic Computing Cloud and Openstack for private clouds), virtual machine (VM) instances are the unit of resource allocation. When possible, VM instances can be allocated on the same physical server and many techniques (e.g., using...
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Fall 2011
Chronic wasting disease (CWD) is a fatal transmissible spongiform encephalopathy affecting North American cervids. I assessed the feasibility of association mapping for CWD genetic risk factors in wild white-tailed deer and mule deer using a high density microsatellite map of cattle. I chose a...
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Spring 2011
A series of experiments were conducted to explore factors affecting transfer of value-added ingredients from the diet to table eggs, with the goal of contributing to improvements in the enrichment process. Flaxseed-based ω-3 PUFA enrichment did not reduce lutein enrichment. The combine...
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Spring 2011
Balakrishnapillai Chitralekha, Saneej
The development of fast and efficient computer hardware technology has resulted in the rapid development of numerous computational software tools for making statistical inferences. The computational algorithms, which are the backbone of these tools, originate from distinct areas in science,...
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Fall 2011
The objective of this thesis was to biomechanically examine the potential usage and limitations of a suspended aid for practicing circles on a pommel horse. The first study examined the influence of a suspended aid on the pommel reaction forces. Twenty gymnasts performed three sets of 10 circles...
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Fall 2011
Real-time digital simulation of electrical machines and drives is an efficient approach to evaluate the true behavior of newly designed machines and controllers before applying them in a real system. State-of-the-art real-time digital simulators aim to offer a precise replica for different parts...
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Fall 2011
Oil sands industry, with the collaboration of its research partners, has been striving to come up with cost effective and environmentally friendly technology for de-watering of mature fine tailings (MFT). Overall objective of present study was to determine the optimum dosage of suitable polymer...
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Numerical simulation of Ricci flow on a class of manifolds with non-essential minimal surfaces
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In the last three decades, the Ricci flow has proved to be an extremely useful tool in mathematics and physics. We explore numerically the long time existence of the Ricci-DeTurck flow and the List flow for a one-parameter family of Riemannian manifolds with non-essential minimal surfaces. This...