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Showing 1 to 20 of 133 for “"fueling"”.
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Dual fueling agricultural size diesel engines
Call number: LD2668 .T4 1969 L43
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Fueling Conflict: A Global Dataset of Energy Protests
How do popular grievances about (the lack of) access to energy lead to political violence and instability? I use a mixed-methods approach to answer this question, based on a qualitative case study in Sri Lanka and a quantitative framework for tracking energy protests worldwide. Specifically, …
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Fueling innovation and growth strategies with corporate venturing
This thesis covers the broad topic of Corporate Venturing as used by large, established firms and focuses mainly on U.S. institutions. A comprehensive review of corporate R&D is presented, evaluating recent industry trends as contrasted with the use of corporate venturing as an R&D resource. The …
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Carburetion system for biomass gas fueling of spark ignition engines
Call number: LD2668 .T4 1984 G666
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Neutral Beam Fueling Requirements for a Steady-State Field-Reversed Mirror
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Extinguishing or Fueling the Fire: Resilience in Clinical and Counseling Psychology Graduate Students
Resilience in clinical and counseling graduate students was examined as a tripartite construct consisting of personality, coping, and psychological functioning in a structural equation model. Specifically, five personality traits were included as predictors of coping and psychological functioning, …
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Fueling an Energy Transition: Designing an Optimal Portfolio of Competing Fuels Under Uncertainty
To facilitate the energy transition, firms must allocate their investment between incumbent and emerging fuel capacity. Understanding how to pace investment between competing energy options during this transition is crucial for energy companies and policymakers. Allocating investments among …
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Investigating the heritability of resistance fueling copy number variation in glyphosate resistant Amaranthus palmeri
Gene copy number variation (CNV) can arise as a response to selection pressure from the environment. Herbicide is one selective agent targeting and promoting the evolution of resistance in agricultural weed populations. In Amaranthus palmeri, CNV of the EPSPS gene, the target of glyphosate …
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Fueling the Dragon: energy security in China; is there a role for US policy?
Many authors talk about the rising power of China and the "China threat." One area where conflict has frequently been predicted is in China's pursuit of energy security. This thesis explores China's energy situation, options available to meet rising demand, environmental impact of these options, …
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Effects Of E85 Fueling Stations And State Incentives On Private Flex Fuel Vehicle Demand
… was to examine the single directional impact of fueling stations that offer E85 on vehicles that carry the fuel - flex fuel vehicles (FFVs). Another objective was to evaluate the effectiveness of state incentives aiming at promoting private FFV adoption. The study explored a panel data of FFVs …
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Environmentally Influenced Duplication Patterns Followed by Functional Shifts Fueling the Evolution of Metazoan Sensory Systems
In this thesis, some of the methods by which animals use their sensory systems to interact with their environment have been extensively studied. How gene duplications have played an important role in sensory evolution by duplication followed by functional shifts resulting in neofunctionalisation …
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Engineering Options Analysis of Dual Hydrogen - Natural Gas Fueling: A Texas Power Plant under Carbon Price
… the flexible design option of dual hydrogen fueling. The approach uses the real options analysis, the Net Present Value method (NPV), and the Monte Carlo simulation together with the novel system scale SESAME tool. A 438MW natural gas power plant located in West Texas, USA, is taken as a case …
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Emissions reduction benefits of adapting electronic closed loop fueling control on a mechanically controlled spark-ignited engine
Recent government gaseous exhaust emissions regulations have been expanded to include a variety of mobile air pollution sources. Exhaust emissions from non-road engines have recently become a focus of Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) regulations. The term "non-road engines" covers many …
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A hydrogen fueling station in 2005?-- will it happen : how do we get from here to there?
… gas emissions. Experience with hydrogen fueling and infrastructure will be important to the long-term success of fuel cell technology. This thesis examines the first steps, barriers and opportunities, and the various strategies to transport hydrogen from the source to the fuel cell. The …
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Fueling the innovation process : an experiment and field study on the relationship between explication and the noticing of new variables
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Management, 1995.
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Cold start fuel management of port-fuel-injected internal combustion engines
… of this study is to investigate how changes in fueling strategy in the second cycle of engine operation influence the delivered charge fuel mass and engine out hydrocarbon (EOHC) emissions in that and subsequent cycles. Close attention will be paid to cycle-to-cycle interaction of the fueling …
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Fueling Physical Activity with a Hybrid Motivational System: How Multiple Sources of Motivation and Experiences Promote Physical Activity Across Contexts and Time
… examined the sustainability of each outcome as fueling sources of intentions over time. Findings provided evidence for distinct affective and instrumental feedback loops, but their implications for sustaining intentions over time are unclear. Recommendations for refining my model based on …
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Pre-exercise Fueling and Endurance: Effect of a Pre-exercise Almond-raisin Beverage versus a Commercial Sports Beverage on Performance in Trained Male Runners
<p>Aside from genetics and training, no factor plays as important a role in exercise performance as nutrition. What athletes consume before exercise longer than 60 min influences fuel use, perceived exertion (RPE), heart rate (HR) and time-to-exhaustion (TE). Ingesting carbohydrates (CHO) before …
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Working towards a future on alternative fuels : the role of the automotive industry
… fuel vehicle (AFV) users or alternative fueling stations are needed for the diffusion of both. This research examines the incentive of the automotive industry, in particular automobile companies focusing on AFVs, to create a positive number of AFV users by demand-side promotion which …
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The catalytic reduction of emissions from a natural gas fueled spark ignited engine
… gasoline engine, which was designed for gasoline fueling, is effective when the engine is being fueled by natural gas. One possible emissions reduction strategy is the catalytic aftertreatment of the engine-out exhaust for stoichiometric operation. The focus of this work was to develop a catalytic …
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