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Ebb and flow : hybrid narrative filmmaking and collaborative art practice
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Ecotopian architecture : pursuit of a new typology
(Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, 2013-05)Research into the Hudson Valley region led to assembling a list of the closed military bases throughout the state of New York. Plattsburgh Air Force base, closed in 1995, was chosen as the site for a fictional and futuristic ... -
Effect of different colored background lighting on led glare perception
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Effect of soil compressibility on sand response to liquefaction and lateral spreading
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Effect of vanillin on quorum sensing of Aeromonas hydrophila in porous media
(Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, 2013-12)Biological clogging "bioclogging" is the occupation of pore space between soil particles by biological material including microorganisms and their associated structures. Substances, both synthesized and naturally occurring, ... -
Effective dispersion relation and waveaction spectrum for fully nonlinear MMT model
(Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, 2016-08)We investigate a version of the Majda-McLaughlin-Tabak model of dispersive wave turbulence with no linear dispersion. In particular, we make predictions for the waveaction spectrum and the effective dispersion relation, ... -
Effective properties of random composites and fiber networks
(Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, 2015-12)Random fiber networks are assemblies of one-dimensional mechanical elements used to model the mechanics of various natural and man-made materials such as biopolymer gels and synthetic nonwovens. The small-strain mechanics ... -
Effects of agent information behavior on network performance
(Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, 2015-05)In today's information rich society, individuals are often faced with the problem of making decisions in the presence of an overwhelming amount of information. Everyone takes on slightly different strategies. Should they ... -
Effects of aluminum and iron nanoparticle additives on composite AP/HTPB solid propellant regression rate
(Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, 2014-05)The study focused on the addition of nano-scale aluminum and iron in small concentrations to AP/HTPB solid propellants with an average AP particle size of 200 microns. Replacing 1% of the propellant's AP with 40-60 nm ... -
Effects of interfacially-driven flow on the protein expression of Escherichia coli at physiological temperature
(Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, 2018-05)This investigation assessed the effects of interfacially-driven shear flow on the ability of the bacterium Escherichia coli (E. coli) to produce green fluorescent protein (GFP). Shear forces at interfaces have been shown ... -
Effects of ion insertion on the electronic and electrochemical properties of transition metal oxide and nitride nanostructures
(Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, 2019-12)Transition metal oxides (TMOs) are a class of materials that exhibit a large number of interesting properties such as high mobility of lattice oxygen atoms, complex surface chemistry, high thermal and chemical stability. ... -
Effects of past behavior
(Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, 2021-12)How does past behavior affect future choices? Several different answers exist in the decision-making and behavior change domains, but the focus of previous literature is on merely stating that past behavior can influence ... -
Effects of phosphoric acid concentration on platinum catalyst and phosphoric acid hydrogen pump performance
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Efficient coupling algorithms and reduced-order methods for high-fidelity multiphysics simulations of nuclear reactors
(Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, 2018-08)The Residual Balance method and PGD each address parallel challenges of high-fidelity multiphysics simulations. The Residual Balance method is a coupling scheme that helps multiphysics simulations run efficiently. Proper ... -
Efficient reasoning about time in a domain-general automatic inference system: insights from cognitive science can illuminate the path to human-level artificial intelligence
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Elastic cloud computing for QoS-aware data processing
(Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, 2018-05)First, we present two frameworks for elastic batch data processing. The first elastic batch data processing framework supports autonomous VM scaling using application-level migration. It does not require any prior knowledge ... -
Electrochemical and kinetic modeling of traditional and mixed-reactant solid oxide fuel cells
(Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, 2013-08)Solid oxide fuel cells (SOFCs) show great promise for commercialization because of the potential for high system efficiency and reduced cost as long as material failures can be addressed and minimized. Mixed-reactant SOFCs ... -
Electron scattering at surfaces and interfaces of transition metals
(Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, 2015-12)Finally, a transport model for thin films with anisotropic Fermi surfaces is presented, which includes the effect of electron surface scattering. Simulations done using the calculated W Fermi surface show the resistivity ... -
Electrostatic MEMS energy harvesting for sensor powering
(Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, 2021-05)The growing need for small-scale wireless power sources is driving the development of the MEMS energy harvesters. Among various MEMS energy harvesters, the electrostatic energy harvester is attracting much attention due ... -
Elucidating the role of multimodal ligand surfaces in protein chromatography using molecular dynamics simulations
(Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, 2022-08)Over the past several years, protein-based therapeutics have revolutionized the pharmaceutical industry, with applications for treatment of a range of diseases from autoimmune to cancer. This rise has been accompanied by ...