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Showing 1 to 20 of 334 for “"Mechanistic understanding"”.
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Mechanistic understanding of microbial desulfurization
The increasing global levels of sulfur content in crude oil have motivated the development of alternate desulfurization technologies. Microbial desulfurization or biodesulfurization (BDS) has gained interest due to the ability of certain biocatalysts to desulfurize compounds that are recalcitrant …
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Mechanistic understanding of biogenic Mn-oxide mediated bisphenol A degradation
… rates. Combined, these results provide mechanistic understanding of Mn(III) containing Mn-oxides-mediated contaminant transformation that are relevant to natural and engineered environments.
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Mechanistic Understanding of the Role of TRF1 in Telomere Replication
… Altogether, this work provides detailed mechanistic insights into the role of TRF1 during telomere replication and the consequences of the loss of TRF1 functions.</p>
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A mechanistic understanding of the postantibiotic effect and treatment strategies
… heretofore there has not been a definitive mechanistic explanation for this pervasive observation. </p><p>In this work, I use a combination of high-throughput microfluidic experiments and computational modeling to examine the relationship between dosing parameters and the degree of bacterial …
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Towards a mechanistic understanding of the neurobiological mechanisms underlying psychosis
… elucidated. I argue in this thesis that using a mechanistic approach towards understanding psychosis that borrows heavily from the predictive coding framework, can help us understand the relationship between neurobiology and symptomology. In the first results chapter I present new data on a …
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From local explanations to comprehensive mechanistic understanding of deep vision models
… billions of samples. Despite their success, our understanding and control of these models remain limited, hindering safe and robust deployment in critical domains. Regulations such as the EU AI Act further emphasize the need for transparent and accountable AI systems. The field of eXplainable …
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Building A Mechanistic Understanding Of Biodiversity And Ecosystem Functioning In Forests
… socially engaged art to co-create ecological understanding with broader communities. This research highlights the interconnectedness between trees, abiotic factors, and different trophic levels – including people. A deep understanding of how tree diversity and community composition can …
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Toward a mechanistic understanding of poly- and perfluoroalkyl substances and testicular cancer
Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2025-10-19 without embargo terms
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Toward a Mechanistic Understanding of Inactivation of Respiratory Viruses in the Environment
Airborne transmission of most respiratory viruses was not widely acknowledged until the COVID-19 pandemic. For viruses to transmit between infected and healthy individuals, they must remain stable (i.e., "survive") in aerosols and droplets. Their stability is influenced by many factors including …
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Developing a Mechanistic Understanding and Optimization of the Cannibal Process: Phase II
The Cannibal system, comprised of an activated sludge process integrated with a side stream anaerobic bioreactor, is capable of reducing excess sludge up to 60% compared to the conventional activated sludge process. The hydraulic retention time (HRT) in the Cannibal bioreactor and the interchange …
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Using myoglobin models of oxidases for mechanistic understanding of the oxygen reduction reaction
… metal binding sites. These issues complicate mechanistic studies due to replicating native function as transmembrane proteins and spectroscopy techniques because of the interference with the active site. I will show the benefits of using structural analogs of three oxidase active sites – each …
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Mechanistic understanding of biogranulation for continuous flow wastewater treatment and organic waste valorization
… goal of this study is to provide advanced understanding of biogranulation mechanism to enable industrial application of this technology. The lack of long-term stability study in CFRs has restricted its full-scale acceptability. The high settling velocity-based selection pressure has been …
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Radiation biophysical modeling of the FLASH effect: from mechanistic understanding towards clinical endpoint prediction
… study is devoted to the development of a novel mechanistic approach to investigate the biological mechanism behind the FLASH effect. At the core of the mathematical model development is the hypothesis that the FLASH effect is due to a complex interplay of various spatio-temporal scales of the …
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Development and mechanistic understanding of ball milling as a sustainable alternative to traditional synthesis
… in high yields, but also we are interested in understanding the mechanisms and theory of these processes in hopes that we may develop chemistries that have synthetic outcomes that are not attainable under traditional synthetic techniques. As a group, we each target different areas of ‘known’ …
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Mechanistic Understanding and Enhancing Pool Boiling Heat Transfer via Surface Property and Structure Design
… The goal of this thesis is two-fold: fundamental understanding on the mechanisms associated with CHF and significantly enhancing pool boiling heat transfer. First, we addressed the large discrepancy of experimental CHF values on flat surfaces reported in the literature by accounting for …
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Topographic characterization of polymer materials at different length scales and the mechanistic understanding of wetting phenomena
… surfaces towards to physical-chemical and mechanistic understanding of wetting phenomena on rough surfaces. Non-contact chromatic confocal imaging was chosen and justified as the optimal measuring method to study and correlate surface topography and surface properties of Sheet Moulding …
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Towards a mechanistic understanding of contaminant attenuation and greenhouse gas emissions in open-water engineered wetlands
… under all other surveyed conditions. Finally, mechanistic insights were synthesized to construct a series of models which estimate the contributions of benthic metabolisms to greenhouse gas emissions, identifying methane-oxidizing bacteria as important ecological filters of climate forcing. …
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A Mechanistic Understanding of the β to α′′ Transformation in Superelastic Ti-24Nb-4Zr-8Sn (wt%)
… again consistent with a total stress model. This understanding highlighted that both the thermal and mechanical behaviours of the alloy may be mechanistically linked, where both effects could be rationalised by a total stress approach, driven by a changing distribution of dislocation strain …
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Mechanistic Understanding of the NOB Suppression by Free Ammonia Inhibition in Continuous Flow Aerobic Granulation Bioreactors
A partial nitritation-anammox continuous flow reactor (CFR) was operated for eight months demonstrating that a mixture of large anammox-supported aerobic granules (ASAGs) and small conventional aerobic granules (CAGs) can be maintained stably for extended periods of time. The influent NH4+ was kept …
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