Models of the Main Wind Force Resisting System and cladding elements of a low-rise structure are investigated under wind load conditions. The spatial variation of wind loads is approximated by employing wind tunnel ...

The objective of this research is to develop tools that would improve understanding of the process of levee failure due to erosion, and reduce the risk of failure. Various overtopping quantities such as durations that ...

Nearly two centuries after the first observations of the thermoelectric effect, efforts toward improving conversion efficiency between thermal and electrical energies are ongoing. The next leap in the development of ...

Therefore, the new knowledge contributed to the field by this dissertation study includes:

This project focuses on the investigation of the effects on binding specificity of mutations in the VEGF promoter sequence that was identified to bind to a few nuclear proteins. The VEGF promoter was previously discovered ...

Certain proteins possess high energy barriers that prevent them from unfolding and are therefore categorized as kinetically stable. Kinetically stable proteins (KSPs) remain trapped in a folded form that imparts resistance ...

This thesis is to discover the influence of Spatial Index on the region of listener envelopment. Audio engineers often realize the perceptual difference between convolution and conventional artificial reverberation techniques. ...