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Showing 1 to 20 of 1508 for “"Rice University"”.
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The design and development of Prometheus 1: Rice University's coded aperture faint object gamma ray telescope
Rice University has been developing a gamma ray telescope to be used for the detection of spectral gamma ray lines from Type I supernovae within one megaparsec in the energy range from 100 keV to 10 MeV. The detector is an actively shielded array of 121 0.5$\sp{\prime\prime}$ x …
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The development of a question set to evaluate the effectiveness of buildings
… by students in the School of Architecture, Rice University, and other interested friends.
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Violence : An Attempt at Control
… and entered a program of literature at Syracuse University. After graduating as valedictorian of her undergraduate class, she completed her master's degree at the University of Wisconsin in 1961. Then, she entered a Ph. D. program at Rice University in Houston. She left this study in 1967 to move …
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A polarized ≥He ion source: Measuring the polarization
An ion source has been assembled at Rice University which uses the principle of optical pumping to produce polarized He ions for extraction and acceleration. The design of an experiment to measure the degree of polarization of the ions is described. 3He+ ions are accelerated to an energy of …
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Advanced fluid-structure interaction techniques for modeling ringsail parachutes
… Flow Simulation and Modeling (T☆FSM) at Rice University specializes in developing fluid-structure interaction (FSI) modeling techniques for several classes of challenging problems including geometrically complex parachutes. Current modeling technologies are expanded upon with emphasis …
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Exploiting channel symmetry in two-way channels
… based transceiver scheme of this class on the Rice University Wireless Open Access Research Platform (WARP).
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An experimental investigation of the variation with water depth of lift or drag coefficients of a body on or near the bottom of a flowing stream
… investigation made use of the facilities of the Rice University wave tank. Two types of models were employed in this study, an upright flat plate attached to the bottom and a cylinder with a clearance of ,12 diameters above the bottom. The results of the tests indicate that the drag coefficient …
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The dynamic stresses generated in a finite elastic body of revolution by longitudinal impact with a rigid wall
… programming this numerical procedure for the Rice University digital computer and using this program to evaluate the transient stress states in elastic bodies of nine distinct boundary configurations.
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The recovery of substance and intimacy : material and character in architectural design
… undertaken in an architectural design studio at Rice University, in the spring of 1979. In its structure and sequence, the thesis illustrates a way of designing, with the purpose of making that more conscious and explicit. The incremental process of recognizing appropriate images or …
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Environmental complement to Rice and its School of Architecture
… values and identity. The perceptions of a university and, in some cases, of the school of architecture, as microcosms of the world gives economic, social and political issues an immediacy invaluable to a clear study of methods and values.(UNFORMATTED TABLE OR EQUATION …
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Soft exchanges for interaction design
… Tabor, Assistant Professor of Bioengineering at Rice University. Of the many advances in Synthetic Biology, a notable one has been that of Jeffrey Tabor and his laboratory in creating a new capability for Escherichia coli to detect light and produce high resolution chemical images as bacterial …
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Second law analysis of a natural gas-fired steam boiler and cogeneration plant
… gas-fired steam boiler and cogeneration plant at Rice University was conducted. The analysis included many components of the plant including piping, valves, boilers, turbines, piping specialties and various other pieces of equipment. Typical steady state plant operating conditions were determined …
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Visual simulation in time
… This paper describes a tool developed at Rice University which enables the architect to study, represent and communicate his designs in terms of movement.
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LONG-TERM OVERSTORY VEGETATION RESPONSES TO PRESCRIBED FIRE MANAGEMENT FOR LONGLEAF PINE AT BIG THICKET NATIONAL PRESERVE
… early 1990’s, a four year study was conducted by Rice University, and the National Park Service continued monitoring the study’s fire ecology research plots. After two decades of data collection, ordination was applied to species abundance data to examine changes in vegetation communities from a …
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Through a glass darkly: Factors influencing the perception of bias
… survey via a postage paid envelope (n = 108) or Rice University undergraduates (n = 49) participating in exchange for course credit. Investigation of the target characteristics showed that the target's deservedness (the extent to which the target's qualifications matched the target's selection …
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A Platform for Microbial Evolution and Characterization
… Technology, California Institute of Technology, Rice, University of California San Diego, and three companies, DuPont, Bolt Threads, and Arzeda
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Toward a compact underwater structured light 3-D imaging system
… based on research by the Hackengineer team at Rice University. The system is comprised of a low-power, open-source hardware single-board computer running a modified Linux distribution with OpenCV libraries, a DLP pico projector, camera board, and battery module with advanced power management. …
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Performance Analysis of Program Executions on Modern Parallel Architectures
… a state-of-the-art profiler developed at Rice University. I used the extended HPCToolkit to study several parallel programs. Guided by the performance insights provided by the new techniques introduced in this dissertation, I optimized all of these programs and was able to obtain …
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Athlete and Coach Knowledge, Attitudes, and Perceptions of Sickle Cell Trait and National Collegiate Athletic Association Mandated Testing: Recommendations for Intervention
… those deaths, Dale Lloyd, a football player at Rice University, prompted a change in the National Collegiate Athletic Association's (NCAA) Sports Medicine Handbook Guideline 3c: The Student Athlete with Sickle Cell Trait. Effective August 2010, the NCAA Division I Proposal No. 2009-75-B mandated …
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Quasi-elastic resonant x-ray scattering
… Hamrick, M.A. Thesis, Physics Department, Rice University, 1991.
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