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Showing 1 to 20 of 131 for “"VPI"”.
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Neutron radiography with the VPI & SU research reactor
… the feasibility of neutron radiography with the VPI & SU Research Reactor has been completed. Various experimental facilities of the reactor were tested to determine which gave the best beam parameters. The beam parameters considered were: 1) thermal neutron flux; 2) thermal to fast-flux ratio; …
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Access and Inclusion: Women Students at VPI, 1914-1964
… 1914 and 1964 at Virginia Polytechnic Institute (VPI), as it was called during the period of study. The date for women's full-time admission came in 1921, but this thesis argues that, in the process of coeducation, the date for official access represents only one marker for VPI. Since women had …
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Graduate student housing for VPI & SU: a design proposal
Successful architecture responds to user function on one level and its environment on another. A design for graduate student housing that operates on both levels is shown. The potential of curved building masses is explored. The structure for housing is the structure for parking, and the whole …
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Rhamnose metabolism and metronidazole resistance in B. thetaiotaomicron VPI-5482
… at a genetic level. A B. thetaiotaomicron VPI-5482 transposon-generated metronidazole resistant mutant, named B. thetaiotaomicron Tn MetR , that displayed a MIC = 8 μg/ml was isolated and characterized. Southern hybridization was used to identify the insertion of a single copy of the …
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Measurement and validation of rainstorm parameters with the VPI radar
… and rational of the experiment conducted by the VPI Satellite Communications Group under INTELSAT Contract 433. The object of this experiment is to assess the validity of meteorological radar as a predictor of satellite earth-space path fade statistics. To validate the data collected by the VPI …
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Evaluation of the VPI & SU fluid film bearing test rig
The design of advanced, state-of-the-art turbomachinery requires accurate analytical tools for predicting rotor response and evaluating stability. One of the required tools is a reliable analytical code for predicting the performance of fluid-film bearings. This work presents an initial evaluation …
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Development of a Gene Transfer System in Clostridium Scindens VPI 12708
Clostridium scindens VPI 12708 (previously known as Eubacterium sp. VPI 12708) is a bile-acid dehydroxylating bacterium originally isolated from the feces of a colon cancer patient. Many genes required for bile acid 7-a dehydroxylation are found on a large bile acid inducible operon (bai) that has …
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Construction and operation of the VPI & SU high-speed turbomachinery test facility
Work related to the continued development of the VPI&SU highspeed turbomachinery test facility is reported. Fuel, lubrication and hydraulic systems have been designed to meet the requirements of the drive engine (a free power turbine gas turbine engine) and the test compressor. An overspeed system …
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Making a place: an infill proposal at VPI&SU, Blacksburg, Virginia, USA
A pathway to go from the profane to a village of higher aspirations. A House of Visual Arts and an existing school of architecture flank the pathway as the realm of the mundane is received into the world of the sublime. Rows of trees define streams of space flowing into a reservoir of space, …
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A microprocessor-based experiment controller for the VPI & SU satellite tracking station
In many applications the microprocessor can represent an attractive design alternative to hardwired integrated circuitry. Such designs can offer substantial in teras of flexibility, cost and reliability, generally at the expense of operating speed. This paper contains a detailed description of such …
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“Hattak Vpi Homma” mvt Miha Nanta Fehna? What Does “Native American” Really Mean?
… that titles this dissertation: “<em>Hattak Vpi Homma” mvt Miha Nanta Fehna</em>? What does “Native American” really mean? It means we are still here. We were always here, and we always will be.</p>
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A computer-aided fault analysis of the VPI electric service power distribution system
… fault study of the distribution system of the VPI Electric Service, as an example test case. Equations are gathered and a computer program is written to calculate the fault current magnitudes on a distribution system when three phase, phase to phase, phase to phase to ground, or phase to ground …
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A risk management program for the proposed VPI & SU Recreational Sports and Fitness Center
… Polytecilnic Institute and State University (VPI&SU) has embarked upon a project of planning, designing and constructing a Recreational Sports and Fitness Center. Because the center will be a building housing high levels of physical activity, the element of risk or danger is inevitably higher …
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Analysis of water quality problems in the VPI & SU Duck Ponds and suggested management alternatives
… of the major tributaries entering the shallow VPI&SU Duck Ponds. Autochthonous nutrients were monitored for a period of ten months. During these storms, the stormwater runoff contributed large amounts of organic matter and fertilizer nutrients that settled in the ponds and during anoxic …
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Adding Upstream Sequence and a Downstream Reporter to the Bile Acid Inducible Promoter of <I>CLOSTRIDIUM scindens</I> VPI 12708
… operon, for which <i>Clostridium scindens </i>VPI 12708 serves as the model organism. There is a lack of knowledge on how this operon is regulated, so the goal of this project was to create a genetic construct consisting of upstream regulatory elements, a bile acid inducible promoter, and a ϐ- …
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Application of insecticides to control the German cockroach, Blattella germanica (L.)
… mm² and 0.1771 mm² for laboratory susceptible (VPI) and field-collected (RHA) cockroach strains, respectively. There were no significant differences (P > 0.05) in the walking distance in two steps among three legs, or between the two strains. However, the walking movement rate greatly influences …
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Helping neophyte counseling psychologists with intraoccupational choice : the identification of useful information
… assessed by the Vocational Preference Inventory (VPI; Holland, 1985). Gender moderated the relationship between vocational interests and work setting continuum for VPI-Artistic. Higher scores for males on VPI-Artistic were associated with the academic end of continuum. Higher scores for females on …
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Early Veterinary Activities at Virginia Polytechnic Institute, 1870s - 1920s; The Rise and Fall of Virginia's State-Controlled Veterinary Complex
Veterinary activities at VPI between 1872 and 1959 established the Blacksburg institution as the center of Virginia's veterinary education long before the opening of the Virginia-Maryland Regional College of Veterinary Medicine in 1980. This thesis traces the lineage of VPI's veterinary medicine …
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