The mass of the W vector boson has been measured from an analysis of $W \to\ \mu\ \nu$ decays in the CDF detector at the Fermilab Tevatron $\bar p p$ collider. The mass is 79.90 $\pm$ 0.53(stat.) $\pm$ 0.31(sys.) $\pm$ ...

This thesis is motivated by the W-operators introduced by Mironov et al. We prove that the W-operators are generalizations of the cut-and-join operator studied by Goulden and Jackson. We give a new description of the ...

Finally, I developed two methods to transfer a GaAs-based device layer on a transparent GaP substrate (for emission wavelength longer than 560 nm), which involve multiple processing techniques. One approach also includes ...

Guatemala is one of only three countries in America which urban population is smaller than the rural one. United Nations estimates that in the coming years the economic structure of the country will change to an urban ...

In recent history much of the Western World has been plagued with high rates of unemployment and high rates of inflation. These simultaneous disruptions are particularly puzzling because they are either unaffected by normal ...

States spend years and tremendous diplomatic capital negotiating treaties. Yet, despite the best efforts of skilled negotiators, some states wait for months, years, and even decades, to ratify the treaties they took part ...

High-lift aerodynamic flowfields are complex, and the potentially-adverse wake development associated with these high-lift systems is not fully understood. Thus, an exhaustive investigation including both experimental and ...

This dissertation for the first time analyzed the turbulence effect on the simplified Jones' equation with measurements using a Pitot probe, and found that this method includes a portion of the turbulence effect into account ...