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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"thermal change"”.
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The design of personal ambient displays
… solely through tactile modalities such as thermal change (heating and cooling), movement (shifting and vibration), and change of shape (expanding, contracting, and deformation). Using a tactile display allows information to be kept private and reduces the chance of overloading primary …
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Biologically-inspired high-performance envelope design in tropical climates
… climates can be used to power discernable thermal change in unconditioned spaces. Using environmental cues to trigger non-linear events, plants can change observable characteristics in response to even small changes in external stimuli. This research questions how extreme differentials at …
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The Thermal Performance and Tolerance of Tropical cleaner shrimp (Lysmata amboinensis)
… traded organisms. Chapter two investigates the thermal performance and tolerance of the tropical cleaner shrimp (Lysmata amboinensis) under thermal warming and cooling scenarios, providing insight into how a tropical species of shrimp responds to thermal change. Overall, this species showed a …
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Processing and Properties of New Anisotropic and Mechanically Active Polymeric Composites
… the stiffness in different directions. Through changes of the composite variables like polymer fiber diameter, and the percentage of the elastic polymer in the laminate, an optimization of anisotropy was determined.</p> <p>Shape memory induced optical change in a new sensing materials was …
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Design, fabrication, and application of stimuli-responsive hydrogel actuators
… a corresponding stimuli, swell-deswell changes were triggered within the hydrogels, and certain mechanical movements can be created and controlled by manipulating the patterns and structures of the hydrogels. With these projects, we are targeting improvement of the fabrication of …
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Thermal Pollution in Urban Streams of the North Carolina Piedmont
… infrastructure to streams.</p><p> The systematic changes seen in many urban streams have been described as the "Urban Stream Syndrome" (USS) and serve as an organizing conceptual framework for urban stream research (Walsh et al. 2005b). A primary symptom of USS is increased flashiness in …