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Showing 1 to 4 of 4 for “"perimeter-to-area ratio"”.
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Bat Activity Across Urban Forest Plantings in Lexington, Kentucky
Urbanization has led to major forest loss and negatively impacts ecosystem services. Urban reforestation efforts, such as Reforest the Bluegrass (RTB) in the Lexington-Fayette metropolitan area of Kentucky, have been implemented to address these negative effects, and to create habitat for …
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Enhanced Heat Transfer Performance by Shape Optimization of a Non-axisymmetric Droplet Evaporating on a Heated Micropillar
… Engineering and Materials Science</p> <p>Washington University in St. Louis, 2019</p> <p>Research Advisor: Professor Damena Agonafer</p> <p>The stacked multilayer 3D IC structure used in next generation high-powered electronics poses great challenges in dissipating their large heat flux, which …
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Energy and Data Conversion Circuits for Low Power Sensory Systems
… compression. Energy harvesting enables a sensor to extract energy from its environment and use it to power itself or recharge its batteries. Data compression, on the other hand, allows a sensor to save energy by reducing the radio transmission bandwidth. This dissertation proposes a fractal-based …
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The effects of habitat disturbance, host traits, and host physiology on patterns of gastrointestinal parasite infection in black howler monkeys (Alouatta pigra)
… associated with the conversion of forest into monocultures for agricultural production or cattle ranching, and the increased human presence linked to wood extraction and selective logging, can alter host-parasite dynamics and increase the risk of infectious diseases in wild primates. …