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Showing 1 to 14 of 14 for “"Bio-engineering"”.
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Mathematical modelling studies of human locomotion
… conducted in the confines of the Department of Bio-engineering and Medical Physics, University of Cape Town and the Bio-engineering Unit, Princess Alice Orthopaedic Hospital, Cape Town. It is an interdisciplinary thesis in that an effort has been made to bridge and thus unify the different …
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Placement of Severely Disabled Persons : Multi-Discipline Team Compared to Rehabilitation Counselors
… the need for a rehabilitation worker skilled in engineering was identified. The Problem. The purpose of this study was to determine if the utilization of a multi-discipline team utilizing bio-engineering techniques was efficient as well as cost-effective in placing severely disabled persons when …
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Mechanistic modeling of bacterial nutrient uptake strategies
… processes and for the additional biomass needed to replicate. A greater understanding of the diversity and regulation of these strategies can provide us with a number of insights relevant for a variety of applications, from predicting bacterial population dynamics and thus …
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Bodies of information : reinventing bodies and practice in medical education
… from disciplinary cultures in medicine, engineering, and computer programming come together to build these technologies, bringing with them values and assumptions about bodies from each of their disciplines, values and assumptions that must be negotiated and that often are made material …
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Characterization of Mechanical Properties of Gamma Irradiated Additively Manufactured Articles for In-Space Manufacturing
… across various industries, such as medical, bio-engineering, automotive and recently, aerospace. In an effort to contribute to the development of AM in aerospace industry, a series of experiments were designed to help understand the behavior of 3D printed parts and extend its capabilities and …
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Finite deformation of particulate geomaterials: frictional and anisotropic Critical State elasto-plasticity
… to other areas, such as metal forming and bio-engineering. Initially the concepts of material and geometric non-linearity are reviewed. A general implicit backward Euler stress integration algorithm is detailed, including the derivation of the algorithmic consistent tangent. A framework for …
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A Unified Framework for Parallel Anisotropic Mesh Adaptation
… of the design and analysis procedures of many (bio-)engineering applications. Mesh adaptation is one of the most crucial components since it discretizes the physics of the application at a relatively low cost to the solver. Highly scalable parallel mesh adaptation methods for High-Performance …
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Enhancing Chondrocyte Biosynthetic Activities: Harnessing the Power of Loading-Induced Evolved Temperature
… mechanical deformation of this tissue, and their biological consequences are still poorly studied. This thesis aims to comprehensively investigate the impact of a transient temperature increase on chondrocyte functionality in knee cartilage. Drawing on an original in vitro investigation of …
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Roles and Interplay of Flavonoids, Reactive Oxygen Species, and Cytokinin in the Early Infection of Medicago truncatula by Sinorhizobium meliloti
… mechanisms by which legumes are infected by symbiotic, nitrogen-fixing bacteria (rhizobia) may prove crucial in the pursuit of bio-engineering nitrogen-fixation in current food crops, and as a result, reducing reliance on nitrogen fertilisers. In this thesis, I have examined the roles and …
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Novel clinical and etiopathogenetic findings in Pseudoxanthoma elasticum
… Being an example of technological wit and superb bio-engineering second to none, even the decay of this corpus can hardly be considered a random or passive event. On the contrary, calcium precipitation is regulated quite tightly by an intruiging interplay between stimulatory proteins and …
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Application of a substrate-tolerant lanthipeptide synthetase in bioengineering peptide natural products
Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2024-03-01 without embargo terms
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Becoming Good Europeans? Globality, the EU and the Potential to Realize Nietzsche's Idea of Europe
… use of human rights, artificial intelligence and bio-engineering to hasten our enervated epoch to its expiration. Efforts to challenge the reigning ascetic-consumerist ideals are conditioning the possibility for the appearance of <em>Übermenschlich</em> individuals to (nomothetically) legislate an …
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Epistemic extensions of answer set programming
but due to the non-monotonic nature of ASP; the weight can reflect the certainty that the rule itself is correct. ASP programs with incorrect rules may have erroneous conclusions; omitting a correct rule may also lead to errors. To derive the most certain conclusions from an uncertain ASP program; …
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New methods for <i>in situ </i>measurement of mechanical root-reinforcement on slopes
Vegetation can increase the resistance of slopes against landsliding. The mechanical contribution of roots to the shear strength of the soil is however difficult to measure in situ. Existing methodologies are time-consuming and therefore not suitable to quantify spatial variability on the slope. …