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- 1Akgun, Burcin
- 1Anderson, Shammawi A A
- 1Berendt, Kimberley D.
- 1Bie, Wenjun.
- 1Campos Ruiz, Rodrigo T.
- 5Department of Agricultural, Food, and Nutritional Science
- 5Department of Chemistry
- 4Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
- 3Department of Chemical and Materials Engineering
- 2Department of Agricultural, Food and Nutritional Science
- 1Department of Agricultural Engineering
- 2Kurgan, Lukasz (Electrical and Computer Engineering)
- 1Ball, Ron (Agricultural, Food and Nutritional Science)
- 1Ball, Ronald O. (Department of Agricultural, Food and Nutritional Science)
- 1Ballermann, Barbara (Medicine)
- 1Boekhoven, Job (Chemistry, Technical University of Munich)
- 1D. Jed Harrison (Chemistry)
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Spring 2018
Intrinsically disordered regions (IDRs) in proteins lack stable three dimensional structure under physiological conditions. IDRs are prevalent in nature, functionally important, and difficult to characterize experimentally due to their unstructuredness. As a result, many computational methods...
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Spring 2014
Adipose tissue plays an important role in the energetic balance, but it is also an important aspect of meat quality and animal productivity. However, the understanding on how fat metabolism is regulated in beef cattle is not clear. This research aimed at exploring how bovine adipose tissue is...
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Fall 2011
A calorimeter for the deposition of metal during free-flight GMAW was developed for the purpose of measuring droplet heat content in Ni/WC tubular wires. By approximating the thermal gradients within the calorimeter to be second order polynomials the energy transferred to the calorimeter by the...
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Fall 2011
Proteins, which participate in virtually every process within cells, implement many of their functions through interactions with various ligands. Although a substantial effort in characterization and prediction of protein-ligand interactions was observed in the past two decades, these subjects...
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Interfacing Silicon-Based Quantum Dots with Proteins for Biological and Sensing Applications
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This dissertation presents the preparation of functional bioinorganic hybrids from silicon-based quantum dots (SiQDs) and enzymes and the use of SiQDs and green fluorescent protein as ratiometric photoluminescent sensors for nerve agents. Chapter 2 discusses the preparation of water-soluble...
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Fall 2015
The nature and structure of asphaltene nanoaggregates are frequently the subject of debate and speculation in the literature. The continental asphaltene nano-aggregate model, characterized by the presence of alkyl chains on their surface, and the archipelago nano-aggregate model, characterized...
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Spring 2016
A robust heat flux sensor was developed in order to quantify the energy release from high heat load scenarios, such as wildland fires. In order to reduce the high errors in the heat flux data, the sensor was modified to measure the differential temperature so as to mitigate the propagation of...