# Browse Graduate Dissertations and Theses at Illinois by Title

• (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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• (2015-04-30)
The deterministic annealing (DA) method, used for the solution of several nonconvex problems, offers the ability to avoid shallow local minima of a given cost surface and the ability to minimize the cost function even when ...

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• (2012-02-06)
Antimicrobial peptides (AMPs) are present in virtually every multi-cellular organism and comprise an important component of the innate host defense system. Collectively, AMPs have broad spectrum and selective microbicidal ...

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• (2003)
We then study the impact of parameter choice of an AQM (active queue management) scheme that can be used at the router. We argue that, depending upon the choice of the parameters of the AQM scheme, one would obtain a ...

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• (1963)

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• (2010-05-19)
High explosives (HE) are used in many fields where the energy liberated by the combustion process is used to perform useful work. High explosives normally burn via a detonation; a supersonic wave consisting of a shock wave ...

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• (2011-01-21)
We investigate the ignition and dynamics of detonation waves in condensed phase explosives using direct numerical simulations and asymptotic analysis. We develop a model to simulate deflagration to detonation transition ...

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• (2009)
The comparison demonstrates that despite the extensive tradition of addressing diversity in the American literature, the horizontal lines of intercultural exchange or the non-hierarchical "ethnorelativism of representation" ...

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• (2001)
The effect of dislocations on deuteride formation in the Pd-D system has also been investigated with SANS measurements. High densities of dislocations were introduced into the deformed sample by cycling across the deuteride ...

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• (1986)
The rearrangement in charge that accompanies formation of N-H...O and N-H...N hydrogen bonds in the solid state was investigated via deuterium and nitrogen-14 nuclear quadrupole resonance (nqr) spectroscopy. The experimental ...

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• (1991)
Nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) has been employed to study the confined geometry effects on reorientational dynamics of molecular liquids in porous media. The relative role of the pure geometrical confinement and the ...

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• (1984)
We have obtained deuterium (('2)H) Fourier transform nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectra for many polycrystalline, deuterium-labelled amino acids in the solid state and where possible, have biosynthetically incorporated ...

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• (1980)
The results of nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) experiments with various phospholipids and glycosphingolipids are used to derive structural and motional information about these molecules within lipid bilayers. Reasonable ...

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• (1984)
The dynamics of the Halobacterium halobium purple membrane protein, bacteriorhodopsin; and the motional order of the fluorescent lipid probe, diphenylhexatriene, in various model membrane systems, have been investigated ...

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• (1999)
The absorption of deuterium from the gas phase into Pd thin films was measured at room temperature with in situ neutron reflectometry. Room temperature solubility isothermal curves, out-of-plane film expansion, and deuterium ...

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• (1988)
A quadrupole echo deuterium NMR lineshape study on polycrystalline samples of perdeuterated pyridine and selectively deuterated d$\sb2$-pyridine intercalated into 2H-TaS$\sb2$ was performed between 280K and 393K. The powder ...

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• (1983)

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• (1961)

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• (2011-01-14)
A series of experiments were performed at the Tagged Photon Facility at MAX-lab in Lund, Sweden to study photon scattering from the deuteron and extract the neutron polarizabilities. The deuteron Compton scattering cross ...

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