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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (UIUC)"”.
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Towards autonomous lunar navigation for in-situ resource utilization
Work from the student team Illinois Kingfishers participating in the Lunar Autonomy Challenge (LAC) is presented. The team was formed by students in the Human-Centered Autonomy Lab (HCAL) at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (UIUC). Teams in the LAC created an autonomous system to guide a …
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Sickle cell disease awareness amongst college students
… if college students attending a midwestern university are aware of the clinical manifestations, treatments, and genetic counseling methods for sickle cell disease. This study was also devised to determine whether or not students, who are more likely to be genetically affected by sickle cell …
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Cyclical narratives and the power of three: Institutional histories and pedagogical practices of gamelan ensembles at the University of Illinois
This project builds upon the scholarship of gamelan ensembles in the United States, particularly the work of Brent Talbot and Elizabeth Clendinning, by focusing on discourses of music transmission, pedagogical lineages, and the Balinese concept of air mengalir (“water flows”). In this thesis, I …
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Hydrologic and hydraulic modeling of the Lawrence Avenue Underflow Sewer System
… deep tunnel system located in the Northwest part of the city of Chicago. This tunnel system connects to the Main Stream Des Plaines Tunnel and Reservoir Plan (TARP) system. This tunnel was constructed to convey and store combine sewage in an effort to prevent combine sewer overflows (CSOs) and …
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Three-dimensional field-effect transistors with top-down and bottom-up nanowire-array channels
… planar GaAs NW assembly discovered at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (UIUC). The top-down NW research approach involves plasma etching of an emerging wide-bandgap material, Gallium Oxide (Ga2O3), to make arrays of NW channels (or fins) for high-power electronics. Bottom-up …
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Utilizing an ExB probe for obtaining ion velocity distribution function for an electric propulsion system
… necessitating advanced diagnostics capable of resolving ion-specific velocity distributions with high fidelity. This dissertation presents a comprehensive theoretical and experimental investigation of the ExB probe as a quantitative diagnostic for obtaining ion velocity distribution …
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Avian leukosis virus as a risk factor for ovarian adenocarcinoma in layer hens
… : Ovarian cancer has the highest mortality of all the gynecological cancers in women. It is the fifth leading cause of cancer death among women due to late stage clinical diagnosis when treatment options are less effective. An important limiting factor in the development of new and effective …
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Taxonomy, phylogeny and resource use of Glyptapanteles (Hymenoptera: Braconidae, Microgastrinae), genus highly diversified in the Neotropics
… parasitoid wasps, Ichneumonoidea is one of the superfamilies with the highest number of species and includes the highly diverse Microgastrinae subfamily. Microgastrinae wasps are very abundant and can be collected in many different terrestrial habitats. A considerable number of species …
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Harnessing curiosity, interest, and empathy in the college chemistry classroom
… sophomores in college are historically at risk of disengaging with general and organic chemistry courses, performing poorly and not continuing in STEM. Utility value (UV) interventions, though, have increased the achievement and retention of low-performing students in psychology and introductory …
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Quantum mechanical analysis of donor-acceptor interactions in organometallic complexes and comparative analysis of class size and teacher experience on student satisfaction and learning
The first five chapters of this thesis uses modern density functional and ab initio methods to analyze donor-acceptor complexes of transition metals. Chapter 1 gives background for the theories used in this work. In chapter 2, density functional theory (DFT) is used to investigate the geometries …
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Experimental wind tunnel study of airfoils with large flap deflections at low Reynolds numbers
… flaps in an attempt to understand the effects of Reynolds number, percent thickness (t/c), percent chord of flap (flap-chord ratio), and flap deflection on airfoil performance. The four airfoils used in this research were the AG40d-02r, AG455ct-02r, W1011, and W1015. The W1011 and W1015 are …