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Plan of Cairo before 1200.
(Electronic version published by Rice University, Houston, Tx, c.1894)A map of early Cairo. Map. -
Gateway of Sultan Hasan's Mosque.
(Electronic version published by Rice University, Houston, Tx, c.1830)Entrance to Mosque from street. Line Drawing. -
Mosque of Sultan Hasan.
(Electronic version published by Rice University, Houston, Tx, c.1830)Mosque with dome and minaret. Line Drawing. -
Mosque of El-Guyushy.
(Electronic version published by Rice University, Houston, Tx, c.1830)A mosque on top of a rocky hill. . Line Drawing. -
Tower of the Mosque of Ibn-Tulun.
(Electronic version published by Rice University, Houston, Tx, c.1830)Tower of the mosque. . Line Drawing. -
Minarets over Gate of Zuweyla.
(Electronic version published by Rice University, Houston, Tx, c.1830)People standing in a street under minarets. Line Drawing. -
Street near Bab-el-Khark
(Electronic version published by Rice University, Houston, Tx, c.1830)People in a narrow street, including a man sitting against a wall and smoking. Line Drawing. -
Lake of the Elephant: Birkat-el-Fil.
(Electronic version published by Rice University, Houston, Tx, c.1830)Buildings and people around the lake. Line Drawing. -
Gate of Kasr-esh-Shema' (Babylon)
(Electronic version published by Rice University, Houston, Tx, c.1830)Two men gazing at the tower; one is sketching. Line Drawing. -
Plan of Medresa
(Electronic version published by Rice University, Houston, Tx, c.1830)Plan of a school. Map. -
Castle of the Ram: Kal'at-el-Kebsh
(Electronic version published by Rice University, Houston, Tx, c.1830)Castle set into a wall; people standing in front. Line Drawing. -
Gate of Succour: Bab-en-Nasr.
(Electronic version published by Rice University, Houston, Tx, c.1830)General view of the gate. Line Drawing. -
Slave Market.
(Electronic version published by Rice University, Houston, Tx, c.1830)People sitting in the courtyard of a building. Line Drawing. -
"Joseph's Hall": Palace of en-Nasir in Citadel, with his Mosque in background.
(Electronic version published by Rice University, Houston, Tx, c.1830)Ruins of a palace. Line Drawing. -
Island of er-Roda.
(Electronic version published by Rice University, Houston, Tx, c.1830)Boats on the Nile. Line Drawing. -
Aqueduct and House of the Seven Watermills.
(Electronic version published by Rice University, Houston, Tx, c.1830)River with structures on far shore. Line Drawing. -
Climate warming increases biological control agent impact on a non-target species
(2015)Climate change may shift interactions of invasive plants, herbivorous insects and native plants, potentially affecting biological control efficacy and non-target effects on native species. Here, we show how climate warming ... -
Lg attenuation in northeast China using NECESSArray data
(2015)The 127 station NorthEast China Extended SeiSmic Array (NECESSArray) provides large quantities of high quality seismic data in northeast China that allow us to resolve lateral variations of Lg Q or crustal attenuation at ... -
The Atlastin C-terminal Tail is an Amphipathic Helix that Perturbs Bilayer Structure during Endoplasmic Reticulum Homotypic Fusion
(2015)Fusion of tubular membranes is required to form three-way junctions found in reticular subdomains of the endoplasmic reticulum (ER). The large GTPase Atlastin has recently been shown to drive ER membrane fusion and three-way ... -
Nonlinear elastic buckling and postbuckling analysis of cylindrical panels
(2015)This paper revisits the buckling analysis of a benchmark cylindrical panel undergoing snap-through when subjected to transverse loads. We show that previous studies either overestimated the buckling load and identified a ... -
The Unexpected Isolation of Bismuth Tris(carboxylate) Hydrates: Syntheses and Structures of [Bi(Hsal)3(H2O)] and [Bi(Hanth)3(H2O)] (H2sal = 2-OH-C6H4CO2H, Hanth = 2-NH2-C6H4CO2H)
(2015)A complex of the composition [Bi(2-OH-C6H4CO2)3(H2O)] (1) was isolated from the 1:3 reaction of BiPh3 with H2sal (H2sal = salicylic acid = 2-OH-C6H4CO2H) in wet xylene, and the analogous anthranilate compound [Bi(2-NH2-C ... -
Respecting all the evidence
(2015)Plausibly, you should believe what your total evidence supports. But cases of misleading higher-order evidence—evidence about what your evidence supports—present a challenge to this thought. In such cases, taking both ... -
Assessing the impacts of nonrandom seed dispersal by multiple frugivore partners on plant recruitment
(2015)Directed dispersal is defined as enhanced dispersal of seeds into suitable microhabitats, resulting in higher recruitment than if seeds were dispersed randomly. While this constitutes one of the main explanations for the ... -
Metabolic transistor strategy for controlling electron transfer chain activity in Escherichia coli
(2015)A novel strategy to finely control a large metabolic flux by using a “metabolic transistor” approach was established. In this approach a small change in the level or availability of an essential component for the process ... -
Discovery of optimal zeolites for challenging separations and chemical transformations using predictive materials modeling
(2015)Zeolites play numerous important roles in modern petroleum refineries and have the potential to advance the production of fuels and chemical feedstocks from renewable resources. The performance of a zeolite as separation ... -
In Silico Discovery of High Deliverable Capacity Metal-Organic Frameworks
(2015)Metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) are actively being explored as potential adsorbed natural gas storage materials for small vehicles. Experimental exploration of potential materials is limited by the throughput of synthetic ... -
Theoretical analysis of selectivity mechanisms in molecular transport through channels and nanopores
(2015)Selectivity is one of the most fundamental concepts in natural sciences, and it is also critically important in various technological, industrial, and medical applications. Although there are many experimental methods that ... -
Lithospheric expression of cenozoic subduction, mesozoic rifting and the Precambrian Shield in Venezuela
(2015)We have combined surface wave tomography with Ps and Sp receiver-function images based on common-conversion-point (CCP) stacking to study the upper mantle velocity structure, particularly the lithosphere–asthenosphere ... -
Constraints on the depth and thermal vigor of melting in the Martian mantle
(2015)Studies of rocks in Gale Crater and clasts within the Martian meteorite breccia Northwest Africa (NWA) 7034 (and paired stones) have expanded our knowledge of the diversity of igneous rocks that make up the Martian crust ... -
Semi-nonparametric spline modifications to the Cornwell–Schmidt–Sickles estimator: an analysis of US banking productivity
(2015)This paper modifies the Cornwell, Schmidt and Sickles [CSS (J Econom 46:185–200, 1990)] time-varying specification of technical efficiency to allow for switching patterns in temporal changes, which may occur more than once ... -
Multi-endpoint, High-Throughput Study of Nanomaterial Toxicity in Caenorhabditis elegans
(2015)The booming nanotechnology industry has raised public concerns about the environmental health and safety impact of engineered nanomaterials (ENMs). High-throughput assays are needed to obtain toxicity data for the rapidly ... -
In situ vascularization of injectable fibrin/poly(ethylene glycol) hydrogels by human amniotic fluid-derived stem cells
(2015)One of the greatest challenges in regenerative medicine is generating clinically relevant engineered tissues with functional blood vessels. Vascularization is a key hurdle faced in designing tissue constructs larger than ... -
Synergy between pair coupled cluster doubles and pair density functional theory
(2015)Pair coupled cluster doubles (pCCD) has been recently studied as a method capable of accounting for static correlation with low polynomial cost. We present three combinations of pCCD with Kohn–Sham functionals of the density ... -
The Jesuits and the Japanese: A Musical Journey to Renaissance Europe
(2014-12-17)This paper investigates the significance that music and musical ability held for the Japanese-Jesuit ambassadors who toured Portugal, Spain and Italy from 1584-1586. Specifically, I will demonstrate how the Jesuits used ... -
News From Fondren
(Rice University, 2014-11)A Library newsletter to the Rice University community. Published twice a year (spring and fall) -
Preferential Location of Germanium in the UTL and IPC-2a Zeolites
(2014-10-28)The preferential location of Ge in the double four-membered rings (D4R) of zeolite UTL has been examined with periodic density functional theory calculations. In silicate UTL, Ge atoms are preferentially sited at the T1 ... -
Biochar-Induced Changes in Soil Hydraulic Conductivity and Dissolved Nutrient Fluxes Constrained by Laboratory Experiments
(2014-09-24)The addition of charcoal (or biochar) to soil has significant carbon sequestration and agronomic potential, making it important to determine how this potentially large anthropogenic carbon influx will alter ecosystem ... -
The three-way switch operation of Rac1/RhoA GTPase-based circuit controlling amoeboid-hybrid-mesenchymal transition
(2014-09-23)Metastatic carcinoma cells exhibit at least two different phenotypes of motility and invasion - amoeboid and mesenchymal. This plasticity poses a major clinical challenge for treating metastasis, while its underlying ... -
Electrically Driven Terahertz Metamaterial Diffractive Modulator
(2014-09-19)This thesis describes a method for terahertz (THz) modulation using active metamaterials. At optical and telecom frequencies, modulation of freely propagating and guided signals is an important concept that is fundamental ... -
Biocompatible Carbon Nanotube-Chitosan Scaffold Matching the Electrical Conductivity of the Heart
(2014-09-18)The major limitation of current engineered myocardial patches for the repair of heart defects is that insulating polymeric scaffold walls hinder the transfer of electrical signals between cardiomyocytes. This loss in signal ... -
NanoJapan-International research experience for undergraduates program: Fostering U.S.-Japan research collaborations in terahertz science and technology of nanostructures
(2014-09-15)The international nature of science and engineering research demands that students have the skillsets necessary to collaborate internationally. However, limited options exist for science and engineering undergraduates who ... -
Radiofrequency-induced Cellular Hyperthermia: Water-soluble Fullerene as a New Cancer Therapeutic Agent
(2014-09-08)Due to the susceptibility of cancer to hyperthermia, abundant biomedical research is being conducted for the development of therapies using nanotechnology for noninvasive cancer hyperthermia. In this work, the water-soluble ... -
Can Gap Tuning Schemes of Long-Range Corrected Hybrid Functionals Improve the Description of Hyperpolarizabilities?
(2014-09-02)Long-range corrected hybrid density functionals (LC-DFT), with range separation parameters optimally tuned to obey Koopmans' theorem, are used to calculate the first-order hyperpolarizabilities of prototypical charge-transfer ... -
Structure of RNA 3'-phosphate cyclase bound to substrate RNA
(2014-08-26)RNA 3′-phosphate cyclase (RtcA) catalyzes the ATP-dependent cyclization of a 3′-phosphate to form a 2′,3′-cyclic phosphate at RNA termini. Cyclization proceeds through RtcA–AMP and RNA(3′)pp(5′)A covalent intermediates, ... -
Structure analysis of free and bound states of an RNA aptamer against ribosomal protein S8 from Bacillus anthracis
(2014-08-19)Several protein-targeted RNA aptamers have been identified for a variety of applications and although the affinities of numerous protein-aptamer complexes have been determined, the structural details of these complexes ... -
Pacific plate deformation from horizontal thermal contraction
(2014-08-15)The central approximation of plate tectonics is that the plates are rigid, which gives the theory its rigor and predictive power. Space geodetic measurements are consistent with the rigidity of stable plate interiors, but ... -
Construction of an Effective Landscape for Multistate Genetic Switches
(2014-08-13)Multistate genetic switches play a crucial role during embryonic development and tumorigenesis. An archetypical example is the three-way switch regulating epithelial-hybrid-mesenchymal transitions. We devise a special ... -
Plasmonic Polymers Unraveled Through Single Particle Spectroscopy
(2014-08-13)Plasmonic polymers are quasi one-dimensional assemblies of nanoparticles whose optical responses are governed by near-field coupling of localized surface plasmons. Through single particle extinction spectroscopy correlated ... -
Imaging molecular adsorption and desorption dynamics on graphene using terahertz emission spectroscopy
(2014-08-13)Being an atomically thin material, graphene is known to be extremely susceptible to its environment, including defects and phonons in the substrate on which it is placed as well as gas molecules that surround it. Thus, any ... -
Intercellular Stress Reconstitution from Traction Force Data
(2014-08-05)Cells migrate collectively during development, wound healing, and cancer metastasis. Recently, a method has been developed to recover intercellular stress in monolayers from measured traction forces upon the substrate. To ... -
Zarine M. Balsara oral history interview and transcript
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Jehanbux Mehta oral history interview and transcript
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Arctic Aerotropolis
(2014-07-15)Arctic Aerotropolis is a proposal for a new airport city in Nuuk, the capital of Greenland. The ambition of the project is to investigate the urban and architectural implications of the aerotropolis (an airport that has ... -
Vispi Rustom Sagar oral history interview and transcript
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Joanna Villarena Po oral history interview
(Rice University, 2014-07-14)No transcript is available for this interview. -
Yasmin Pavri oral history interview and transcript
(Rice University, 2014-07-14) -
Gregoria Smith oral history interview and transcript
(Rice University, 2014-07-09) -
Homi Davier oral history interview and transcript
(Rice University, 2014-07-09) -
Sarosh Jehangir Collector oral history interview and transcript
(Rice University, 2014-07-09) -
Percy Master oral history interview and transcript
(Rice University, 2014-07-07)
