Mechanochemically active systems experience chemical reactions when subjected to critical levels of mechanical force and have applications in self-healing and early warning systems. One approach towards developing such ...

Biomass is a sustainable and renewable energy source with a huge potential to provide different types of gaseous and liquid biofuels as well as other specialty chemicals. Among several existing techniques to convert biomass ...

Modeling solidification in the micro-scale is computationally intensive. To overcome this difficulty, a method combining features of front-tracking methods and fixed-domain methods is developed. To explicitly track the ...

In this dissertation, we introduce a novel accelerated-stochastic simulation method, known as the ‘partitioned-leaping algorithm’ (PLA), for efficiently simulating chemical reaction networks. The technique is multiscale in ...

Currently, there are over 5.3 million people in the United States diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease, with the disease being the sixth leading cause of death in the country. Current drugs on the market for the treatment ...

This dissertation interrogates the political force of silence in the fictional and philosophical writings of Montesquieu, Diderot, Rousseau, and Staël around the profound moment of change of the Enlightenment, revealing a ...

MutSγ is a highly conserved heterodimer comprised of MSH4 (MutS homolog 4) and MSH5 (MutS homolog 5). MutSγ complex is widely conserved across many lineages of eukaryotes with few exceptions. Unlike other MutS complexes, ...

Supervisors are usually older, more educated, and of longer tenure than their subordinates, a situation known as status congruence. However, increasingly subordinates experience status incongruence, in which their supervisors ...

Mysis diluviana are small, shrimp-like crustaceans native to the Laurentian Great Lakes, where they are important as planktivores and as prey for fish. Therefore, our understanding of offshore Great Lakes food webs requires ...