# Browse Graduate Dissertations and Theses at Illinois by Title

• (1988)
The site of ultrasonic absorption in suspensions of negatively-charged large unilamellar vesicles (LUVs) was investigated. The ultrasonic absorption per wavelength, $\alpha\lambda$, was determined for suspensions of LUVs ...

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• (1993)
We have used fluorescence energy transfer distance measurements to study the trajectory of linker DNA as it enters and exits the histone octamer in a nucleosome core particle. Measurement of the DNA-to-protein distances ...

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• (1958)

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• (1975)

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• (2014-01-16)
The mechanical response of UO2 to irradiation is becoming increasingly important due to the shift to higher burn-up rates in the next generation of reactors. In the current study, thin films of UO2 were deposited on YSZ ...

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• (1969)

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• (1977)

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• (2014-09-16)
This is a descriptive-correlational study of the motivations in the college choice process of high school juniors and seniors enrolled in agriculture classes at three central Illinois schools. A total of 78 students ...

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• (1987)
The nature of borderline disturbance is currently one of the most controversial topics in clinical research. In the last decade, research has focused on clarifying the definition of this disorder, and alternative diagnostic ...

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• (2012-05-22)
In recent years, communities around the U.S. have been faced with an intractable problem of rising homelessness, dwindling resources, and increasing numbers of tent cities within municipal limits. In this moment of U.S. ...

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• (2015-04-29)
Automated regression testing is widely used in modern software development. Whenever a developer pushes some changes to a repository, tests are run to check whether the changes broke some functionality. When previously ...

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• (2011-05-25)
Gas temperature is a driving factor in the performance of electric oxygen-iodine lasers. Due to the importance of temperature, the gas temperature must be measured at different locations throughout the laser system. Problems ...

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• (1995)
The Secretary of Labor's Commission (SCANS), made up of business, labor, and education leaders, was charged with the mission of producing national competency guidelines for workers that reflect work readiness for world-class ...

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• (2015-04-29)
Bacterial spot, caused by Xanthomonas cucurbitae, is an important disease on pumpkin and squash in the United States. To assess the occurrence of bacterial spot in pumpkin and winter squash fields in the North Central ...

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• (2008)
Emerging leaves of white oak and to a lesser extent northern red oak can develop abnormally. This abnormality is referred to as leaf tatters. The cause of tatters has previously been linked to environmental stress, insect ...

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• (2015-07-22)
Over the past 15 to 40 years, genetic improvements have been made to obtain higher egg production for commercial laying hens. In addition to genetic progress, there have been substantial changes in environmental management, ...

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• (2010-05-14)
We report evidence for a complex low-temperature superconducting phase in UPt3 that breaks time-reversal symmetry and exhibits a phase shift of Pi in the superconducting order parameter between the a- and b-axes. We also ...

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• (1984)
The problem is the determination of the 3D motion and structure of a 3D object, using central projections of 3D points and 3D straight lines over a sequence of images. Over 2 frames, the 3D motion parameters to be determined ...

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