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2003

Monzavi, H., Willard, L., Zhang, H., Boyko, R.F., Ranjan, A., Wishart, D.S., Sykes, B.D.

VADAR (Volume Area Dihedral Angle Reporter) is a comprehensive web server for quantitative protein structure evaluation. It accepts Protein Data Bank (PDB) formatted files or PDB accession numbers as input and calculates, identifies, graphs, reports and/ or evaluates a large number (>30) of key

structural parameters both for individual residues and for the entire protein. These include excluded volume, accessible surface area, backbone and side chain dihedral angles, secondary structure, hydrogen bonding partners, hydrogen bond energies, steric quality, solvation free energy as well as local and

Spring 2024

Alshalalfeh, Mutasem M

complement the commonly reported transfer from the ligands to the metal cores. The second goal is to examine the deficiencies of simplified models in predicting VCD spectra of these clusters, which have been commonly applied in previous pioneering research reports, by using the experimental data and the full

states. Considerable theoretical modelling, coupled with symmetry consideration in vibronic coupling, was carried out to extract structural information and gain further insights into the enhancement mechanisms.

2009

Goebel, Randy, Chen, Jiyang, Yu, Philip S., Zaiane, Osmar R.

Technical report TR09-02. The significant increase in open access digital information has created incredible opportunities for modern database research, especially in exploiting significant computational resources to determine complex relationships within those data. In this paper, we consider the

relationships amongst partial tuples of relational databases that would otherwise be hard to expose. We focus on a shortcoming of the absence of a special kind of relationship, which we call \"returning relationship\". We demonstrate our ideas on the DBLP database, where we exploit structural variations on

relationships between authors, conferences, topics, and co-authorships. We show how a distinction between normal relations and returning relations on objects within that database provides the basis for structuring a random walk algorithm to determine interesting relevance measures. We also show how structural

2022-06-01

Attard, Erica, Antoun, Sylvie, Hatefraad, Pedram, Dworkin, Seth B.

stunted due to high initial costs, longer payback periods, and lesser return on investment. Helical steel piles, mainly used as structural foundations for buildings, have the potential to act as in-ground heat exchangers, producing higher efficiencies than conventional borehole systems at a lower cost

the results of the peak and steady state capacity tests as well as the limitations experienced. Part of Proceedings of the Canadian Society for Mechanical Engineering International Congress 2022.

2023-09-01

Ye, Haoran, Shi, Yang, Xu, Ben Bin, Guo, Zhanhu, Fan, Wei, Zhang, Zhongfeng, Mulvihill, Daniel M., Zhang, Xuehua, Shi, Pengju, He, Ximin, Ge, Shengbo

(470.5 MPa) and flexural strength (539.5 MPa), establishing a robust structural basis for the materials. Meanwhile, BC-CaCl2 shows good water resistance, thermal conductivity, thermal stability, UV resistance, corrosion resistance, and antibacterial properties. BC-CaCl2 represents a viable alternative to

petrochemical-based materials. Its potential application areas include waterproof enclosure structure of buildings, indoor underfloor heating, outdoor UV resistant protective cover, and anti-corrosion materials for installation engineering, and so forth.

Fall 2020

Yin, Xianfei

trees with deep roots or the traffic load above the sewer lines, which collectively can impact the structural integrity of the pipes. As a result, regular preventive maintenance of the drainage system is extremely important since replacement is not only costly, but, more importantly, can disturb the

in recent years and both are used in various engineering areas to improve productivity and the level of automation. In this context, this research proposes a machine learning-based framework to facilitate the preventive maintenance of sewer pipe systems. The ultimate goal of the research is to

Spring 2023

Sanchez Juncal, Abel

material and rock structures such as joints, faults, fractures, veins, bedding planes and folds. Traditionally, rock masses are considered as a continuous, homogeneous, isotropic and linear elastic material in engineering practice. However, they commonly occur as discontinuous, inhomogeneous, anisotropic

Biot effective stress coefficient, disregarded in most numerical coupling methods, is rigorously included in the thermo-poromechanical coupling formulation. The small and large scale structural features present in the reservoir such as joints and major faults are represented by a DFN. The complex fluid

2003

Blanchet, Warren, Schofield, Curtis, Stroulia, Eleni, Liu, Ying, Wong, Ken, Xing, Zhenchang

Technical report TR03-19. In most engineering disciplines, it is assumed that the education of their professionals involves an apprenticeship component, in addition to their formal training. This is why most undegraduate software-engineering programs involve a capstone project course, where

2018-07-30

Xu, Yang, Caldo, Kristian Mark P., Pal‐Nath, Dipasmita, Ozga, Jocelyn, Lemieux, M. Joanne, Weselake, Randall J., Chen, Guanqun

into seed TAG and thus have been considered as the key targets for engineering oil production. Here, we summarize the most recent knowledge on DGAT and PDAT in higher plants and microalgae, with the emphasis on their physiological roles, structural features, and regulation. The development of various

metabolic engineering strategies to enhance the TAG content and alter the fatty‐acid composition of TAG is also discussed.

Fall 2021

Boukouris, Aristeidis

understand the mechanisms and triggers of metastasis. The ability of cancer cells to metastasize is often preceded by a process called epithelial-to-mesenchymal transition (EMT), an extensive cellular rearrangement, which confers structural and molecular features to cells, enabling them to leave their

that the ability of CRMP2A to regulate these important cell fate decisions relies on the remodeling of the cytoskeleton, which in turn regulates several EMT-related processes, such as transcription factor trafficking and ciliogenesis. This is one of the very few reports that a single MAP, like CRMP2A