Browsing Rice University Electronic Theses and Dissertations by Title
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1, 4-Dioxane biodegradation at low temperatures in Arctic groundwater samples
(2010)1,4-Dioxane is an emerging groundwater contaminant and a probable human carcinogen. Its biodegradation was investigated in microcosms prepared with groundwater and soil from an impacted site in Alaska. In addition to natural ... -
14-18 MeV total neutron cross sections of hydrogen atom, hydrogen, lithium-7, beryllium-9, boron-10, boron-11, carbon-12, carbon-16, magnesium, aluminum-27, and sulfur-32
(1953)Measurements of total neutron cross sections for nuclei using fast neutrons of various energies have been previously reported. Several of these used neutrons which were not monoenergetic. However, with the advent of ... -
1D and 2D Methods for Modeling Floodplains under Storm Surge Conditions
(2011)This study evaluates a 1D and a 2D method for analyzing the combined effect of inland rainfall and hurricane-induced storm surge on a coastal floodplain. Horsepen Bayou near Clear Lake, southeast of Houston, Texas is ... -
2,4,6-trinitrotoluene reduction by hydrogenase in Clostridium acetobutylicum
(2003)Unique genetic modifications to C. acetobutylicum altered the level of hydrogenase expression, allowing study of the resulting effects on the 2,4,6-trinitrotoluene (TNT) reduction rates to be possible. A strain designed ... -
2D timelapse and 3D fluorescence microscopy with applications to vascular tissue engineering
(1998)Part of the definition given to the new emerging science discipline of tissue engineering is the understanding of the structure-function relationships at the cellular level. In this context it is important for vascular ... -
3-D segmentation and volume estimation of radiologic images by a novel, feature driven, region growing technique
(1992)Magnetic Resonance (MR) imaging is a 3-D, multi-slice, radiological technique that acquires multiple intensities corresponding to each voxel. The transverse relaxation time, T$\sb1$, and the axial relaxation time, T$\sb2$, ... -
3D optical lattice system for ultra-cold Lithium 6
(2014-04-25)Optical lattice experiments have proved to be a versatile tool for studying strongly correlated quantum systems. The motivation behind these experiments is to use the cold atoms to emulate a solid state system for which ... -
4-Field Galerkin/least-squares method for polymer flows
(2004)In this thesis, a new finite element method, 4-field Galerkin/Least-Squares method, is presented to solve viscoelastic flow problems. The 4-field GLS naturally includes the SUPG and PSPG terms to stabilize the oscillations ... -
422 nm laser
(2005)A 422 nm laser was constructed for the purpose of studying a strontium ultra-cold neutral plasma. Since strontium ions have atomic lines in the visible, we can optically image the plasma via the 88 Sr+ 2S1/2 → 2 P1/2 ... -
461nm laser for studies in ultracold neutral strontium
(2005)A 461 nm laser was constructed for the purposes of studying ultracold neutral strontium. The dipole-allowed 1 S0 → 1P1 transition at 460.862 nm can be used in laser cooling and trapping; optical imaging, Zeeman slowing, ... -
5/2 state in high election density gallium arsenide/aluminum gallium arsenide quantum well
(2010)This Master of Science Thesis is concerned with electronic transport in the higher Landau levels (LL) in a two-dimensional electron system, where novel many-body electronic phases have been observed. Particular attention ... -
5alpha-cholest-8(14)-en-3beta-ol-15-one. Studies on its metabolism in cultured cells and male baboons. (Volumes I and II)
(1989)5$\alpha$-Cholest-8(14)-en-3$\beta$-ol-15-one is a potent inhibitor of cholesterol biosynthesis which has been found to have significant hypocholesterolemic action upon oral administration to rodents and nonhuman primates. ... -
66°N
(2007)'66°N' is the design for a large-scale ecotourism hotel that takes advantage of dynamic and shifting environmental conditions of Greenland to visually and physically register the changes in the fragile arctic environment. ... -
A 3.0 meter liquid mirror telescope
(2000)We constructed a 3.0 meter diameter f/1.5 Liquid Mirror Telescope (LMT) between 1990 and 1994 at the NASA Johnson Space Center, Houston, Texas. We have subsequently operated it since 1995 at the NASA Orbital Debris Observatory ... -
'A Almshouse Ting Dat': Developments in Poor Relief and Child Welfare in Jamaica during the Interwar Years
(2013-07-24)This dissertation examines the development of poor relief and child welfare policy in Jamaica during the interwar years. It establishes the paradigms for accessing relief and how this influenced broader discussions of ... -
A Bayesian hierarchical model for detecting associations between haplotypes and disease using unphased SNPs
(2008)This thesis addresses using haplotypes to detect disease predisposing chromosomal regions based on a Bayesian hierarchical model for case-control data. By utilizing the Stochastic Search Variable Selection (SSVS) procedure ... -
A behavioral approach to positive interpolation
(2005)We study interpolation by positive functions from a behavioural point of view. In particular, by considering the notion of mirror image data, the interpolation problem with passivity constraint is transformed into an ... -
A calculation of the mean age of interstellar dust particles
(1989)This thesis aims to compute the mean age of interstellar dust particles using a sputtering and recycling model originally formulated by Liffman and Clayton. The ages of the particles are evaluated after a period of 6 ... -
A case study of collaborative writing with the computer
(1990)This study addresses the need for research which examines collaborative writing using computers. Its purpose was to identify, through observation and description, distinctive features of collaborative composing with a ... -
A case study of the June 4--5, 1991 magnetic storm using the Rice Convection Model
(2000)This dissertation presents one of the most comprehensive computer simulations to date of a geomagnetic storm. During the geomagnetic storm of June 4--5, 1991, five spacecraft took measurements of conditions within the inner ... -
A cash-in-advance model of production
(1996)The concept of period length in the empirical application of cash-in-advance (CIA) models is introduced. CIA models posit that individuals and firms hold cash to purchase goods over a period. However, there has been no ... -
A CAUSAL THEORY OF 'ABOUT'
(1987)Whenever we make a claim about a fictional entity, we seem to embroil ourselves in familiar problems of reference. This appearance is misleading, because what a sentence is about bears a greater resemblance to a Fregean ... -
A cell number-counting factor regulates group size in Dictyostelium discoideum
(2002)Little is known about how a morphogenetic rearrangement of a tissue is effected by the individual cells. Starving Dictyostelium discoideum cells aggregate to form dendritic streams which then break up into groups of ∼2 ... -
A class of continuous functions and convergence criteria for their Fourier series
(1940)The present paper has a two-fold purpose. First, to define a class of functions wider than the class of functions of ecart fini and to obtain sufficient conditions for the existence of functions of this class. Second, to ... -
A class of symmetric two dimensional logarithmic potentials
(1993)This thesis discusses the solution of an elliptical conductor problem in two dimensions. This problem can be easily solved in higher dimensions, but in two dimensions, the potential function is logarithmic near infinity. ... -
A closed-loop model of the ovine cardiovascular system
(2003)The conscious sheep is an important large animal model for the study of human cardiovascular and cardiopulmonary system. In this study we develop a closed-loop mathematical model of its cardiovascular system. A distributed ... -
A cloud-chamber study of the disintegration of oxygen and nitrogen
(1951)A study of the disintegration of nitrogen and oxygen when bombarded by neutrons has been made by means of a cloud chamber. By observing the particles produced in the disintegration of the oxygen and nitrogen nuclei, data ... -
A cluster model of the light nuclei
(1961)This thesis is divided into two major parts. In the first, "A Cluster Model of the Light Nuclei," a nuclear model is developed which is based on the premise that the light nuclei may be described in terms of two-body ... -
A clustering algorithm for university admissions
(2007)In 2003 The Supreme Court declared that all government funded universities, which choose to consider race in their admissions processes, must utilize a holistic process. A holistic process includes a thorough evaluation ... -
A coding theoretic approach to image segmentation
(2001)Using a coding theoretic approach, we achieve unsupervised image segmentation by implementing Rissanen's concept of Minimum Description Length (MDL) for estimating piecewise homogeneous regions in images. MDL offers a ... -
A cognitive semantic analysis of manipulative motion verbs in Korean with reference to English
(1999)In this thesis I adopt the framework of Cognitive Grammar developed by Langacker (1987a and 1991a) in order to provide a unified account of a cluster of senses of certain force-dynamic motion verbs, namely the Korean verbs ... -
A communications and interaction model for intelligent cooperating robots
(1993)In complex robotic operating environments in which robots must cooperate in a flexible and event-driven manner, a cooperative distributed environment for intelligent control is required. We develop a realistic technique ... -
A comparative examination of the Reagan and Thatcher administrations' approaches toward reforming the welfare state
(1991)The first part of the thesis evaluates policy change effected toward the Old Age and Survivors Insurance (OASI) program and the Food Stamp program in the United States during the Reagan years; and the Retirement Pensions ... -
A Comparative Study Based on Patient-Specific Fluid-Structure Interaction Modeling of Cerebral Aneurysms
(2011)The Team for Advanced Flow Simulation and Modeling (T*AFSM) at Rice University has been developing techniques to address the computational challenges involved in fluid-structure interaction (FSI) modeling. The Stabilized ... -
A comparative study of the early terrestrial atmospheres with interactive cloud formation
(1990)Due to their formation at about the same time in the same region of the early solar nebula, it is reasonable to assume that the primitive atmospheres of Earth, Mars and Venus were similar and that present-day differences ... -
A comparative study of the membrane-active beta-sheet peptide protegrin with the alpha-helical peptide alamethicin
(1999)The interactions of the membrane-active peptides alamethicin and protegrin with lipid bilayers are studied. The influence of the bilayer composition on the orientation transition of alamethicin is studied using oriented ... -
A comparative study on the role of religious interest groups in the formulation of educational policies in the Philippines and Malaysia
(1989)Religious interest groups play a significant role in the formulation and/or implementation of educational policies in the Philippines and Malaysia. In the Philippines, the groups are very active in developing ways to affect ... -
A comparison of discrimination for speech and nonspeech and implications for theories of speech perception
(1988)The present paper reviewed the literature supporting and contradicting three theories of categorical perception in speech; the specialized speech processor theory, the cue duration theory, and the acoustic percept theory. ... -
A comparison of finite difference stencils on two forms of the acoustic wave equation
(2000)In practice, two forms of the acoustic wave equation, the velocity-stress and pressure forms, are used to simulate seismic experiments. These equations in their discrete forms lead to two families of finite difference ... -
A COMPARISON OF HOLISTIC TO DECOMPOSED RATING OF POSITION ANALYSIS QUESTIONNAIRE WORK DIMENSIONS
(1987)Several methods for improving the job analysis process were examined using the Position Analysis Questionnaire (PAQ). Holistic ratings of PAQ dimensions for four jobs were obtained from 63 non-experts, nine graduate students ... -
A comparison of linear scaling replacements for diagonalization in electronic structure calculations
(2001)Even when using parametrized semiempirical methods, quantum chemical calculations on molecules containing more than a few hundred atoms become prohibitively expensive due to O (N3) time and memory costs where N is the ... -
A comparison of multivariate data analysis techniques as applied to the identification of electrons and tau leptons
(2001)This thesis compares the performance of Probability Density Estimation and Neural Networks as applied to the identification of tau leptons and electrons at the DO detector for Run II. The theory behind each method of ... -
A comparison of some Eocene and modern sediments by coarse fraction analysis
(1959)Examination of an ancient sedimentary basin can provide only an incomplete geologic picture, because it reveals merely the anatomy of a dead body. Physiology must be learned on a living organism, and likewise the geologist ... -
A comparison of the magnetospheric specification model, the Garrett model and satellite data for the geosynchronous electron fluxes
(1991)The Magnetospheric Specification Model (MSM) calculates electron and ion fluxes that may endanger spacecraft. This thesis is to evaluate the electron flux levels specified by the MSM by comparison with the Garrett model ... -
A comparison of the magnetospheric specification model, the Hardy et al. model, and satellite observations for precipitating auroral electron energy fluxes
(1992)A semi-quantitative comparison has been made of the observed and calculated precipitating electron energy fluxes for the April 1988 magnetic storm. Electron energy fluxes were calculated by the Rice Magnetospheric Specification ... -
A comparison of three methods used to determine functionally important protein residues
(2003)A new method for determining functionally important protein residues is analyzed and compared with two previously existing methods. This thesis presents the analysis of several different protein sequences and shows how the ... -
A compilation and study of twentieth-century double bass solos from the orchestral literature
(2001)The purpose of this document is to identify in the twentieth-century orchestral literature, noteworthy solos written for the double bass. Each solo is examined from a variety of viewpoints, including: its musical context ...
