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Showing 1 to 20 of 505 for “"experimental techniques"”.
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Creative Photography Through the Use of Four Experimental Techniques
The purpose of this study is: (1) to explore new means and tools by which to create and elaborate on a visual image, (2) to experiment with the theory of creating "accidental" photography, or that which has an intended direction, using previous experimentation and knowledge already acquired, and …
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An investigation into stent expansion using numerical and experimental techniques
… restenosis outcome. This study investigates the experimental validation of these numerical stent expansions using compliant mock arteries. The development of this in-vitro validation test has the prospect of providing a fully validated preclinical testing tool which can be used to optimise stent …
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Modeling and Experimental Techniques to Demonstrate Nanomanipulation With Optical Tweezers
… as part of this work we demonstrate new techniques that successfully extend optical trapping to nanoscale manipulation. In order to extend optical trapping to the nanoscale, we must overcome certain challenges. For the same incident beam power, the optical binding forces acting on a …
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Transforming big data into knowledge : experimental techniques in dynamic visualization
Information visualizations, especially those utilizing web-based platforms, are becoming an increasingly common medium for exchanging ideas. This emergent class of tools enabling web-based, interactive platforms for visualizing data should be considered by urban planners and designers as an …
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Development of experimental techniques and studies of spatial structure in turbulent thermal convection
… shadowgraph, and thermochroic liquid crystal techniques are applied to the study of spatial structure of turbulent thermal convection in wide horizontal water layers. A large-aspect-ratio test section for the study of turbulent Rayleigh convection in water has been constructed, instrumented …
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Molecular Design and Mechanistic Characterization of Glycoside Hydrolases using Computational and Experimental Techniques
… in this dissertation, different computational techniques, such as Molecular Dynamics (MD), Molecular Docking, Quantum Mechanics (QM) and hybrid Quantum Mechanics and Molecular Mechanics (QM/MM), along with several site-directed mutagenesis and in vitro assays have been applied to the study and …
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A Series of Original Paintings in Water Soluble Paint Employing Mixed Media and Experimental Techniques
… water soluble paints in order to further develop experimental techniques. Painting was limited to watercolor pigments, tempera, polymer tempera, acrylics, Elmer's glue, water, ink stick, or other materials that relate to water soluble media. The development of the problem helped the candidate to …
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Experimental Techniques For Nonlinear Material Characterization: A Nonlinear Spectrometer Using A White-light Continuum Z-scan
… white-light continuum pump-probe and Z-scan techniques were used to measure the peak 2PA cross-sections for a number of commercially available photoinitiators. In the new method mentioned above, a high energy, broadband femtosecond white-light continuum is used to replace the single …
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Development of computational and experimental techniques to Investigate the effect of biofouling on ship hydrodynamic performance
… this PhD study aims to develop computational and experimental techniques to investigate the effect of biofouling on ship hydrodynamic performance. This aim has been realised by achieving several milestones using Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) and Experimental Fluid Dynamics (EFD).;This PhD …
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Experimental Techniques for Shear Testing of Thin Sheet Metals and Compression Testing at Intermediate Strain Rates
… of this work is to develop methods to generate experimental data that populate material models for numerical simulations. The new simple shear specimen, based on ASTM B831, can be tested in both quasi-static and dynamic conditions using a servo-hydraulic load frame and tension Kolsky bar, …
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Exploring the molecular architecture of proteins: Method developments in structure prediction and design
… incrementally. While computational analysis and experimental techniques have helped scientist view the structural features of proteins, our concepts about protein folding remain at the level of simple hydrophobic interactions packing side-chain at the core of the protein. Furthermore, because the …
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Three Quasi-Experimental and Experimental Papers in Environmental Economics
This dissertation utilizes quasi-experimental and experimental techniques to contribute to the literature on environmental and resource economics in three distinct ways but with the overarching goal of demonstrating the usefulness of experimental techniques to explore topics related to the …
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Combustion Products from Fires - Influence from ventilation conditions
… are presented and compared, from different experimental set-ups. Experimental techniques are presented and discussed.
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Study and Design of an Electro -Optic Frequency Shifter for Dynamic and Continuous Tuning of Short Pulses of Light
Experimental measurements made on these kinds of devices have been performed and compared to the theoretical predictions showing good agreement. Some experimental techniques to improve the device operation and increase the frequency shift obtained with controlled spectrum distortion levels were …
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Calculating Magnetic Properties of Materials Using Density Functional Theory
… science because of their applicability to both experimental techniques such as electron paramagnetic resonance and nuclear magnetic resonance, as well as many technological applications such as storage media. We present the implementation of efficient methods for calculating from first …
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An experimental study of frictional phenomena around the pin joints of plates using moire interferometry
… attention in recent years, analytical as well as experimental limitations have tended to obscure some of their essential features. All the experimental techniques employed in the past lacked either required sensitivity or adequate spatial resolution for local measurements of deformation near the …
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Nuclear magnetic resonance microscopy: New theoretical and technical developments
… resolution limits in NMR microscopy and develop experimental techniques to achieve the highest possible spatial resolution for a variety of biomedical applications.
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Design methodology using empirical and virtual analysis with application to compliant systems
… purpose of existing methods. Numerical and experimental techniques often can determine the feasibility of meeting the specified performance requirements.
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