Pulsed N.M.R. techniques are used to study the dynamic behavior of viscous fluids ((eta) > 1 Poise) in the supercooled state. The applicability of the hydrodynamic equations to high viscosity systems is investigated at ...

This dissertation consists of three empirical essays on the distributional effect of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) on regional economic activity, migration and the distribution of wages in Mexico from ...

Nakajima introduced a t-deformation of q-characters, (q,t)-characters for short, and their twisted multiplication through the geometry of quiver varieties. The Nakajima (q, t)-characters of Kirillov-Reshetikhin modules ...

Referencing remote entities by names rather than by addresses is desirable in computer network or a joint-network. In this thesis, the naming and addressing problems in the internetwork environment are studied. Four naming ...

Educators in China use different titles to name the discipline of landscape architecture. They have tried to find a word equivalent to the English term “landscape architecture,” without consensus, since the early 20th ...

Nanjing City Wall is one of the largest city walls in China. As the capital of Ming Dynasty between 1368-1420 CE, the wall was built to protect the city. A four-wall system separated the royal palace in the city from the ...

Also included is the results of a finite element analysis and simulated melting of bismuth films on various kinds of sensors. Temperature distributions are found to be nonuniform for calorimetric sensors with Al metallizations, ...

This thesis describes the modification of the commercial TFC-S nanofiltration membrane with shape-persistent dendritic architectures. Amphiphilic aromatic polyamide dendrimers (G1-G3) are synthesized via a divergent approach ...

There have been large developments in metallic material systems over the past century. The mechanical properties of metals have been manipulated by varying the composition of alloys. In this thesis we characterize two ...