Browse Graduate Dissertations and Theses at Illinois by Title

• (2010-08-20)
Understanding the subcellular localization of a protein or protein clusters is helpful to conceive the function of the proteins or the mechanism of the pathway involving these proteins. Bacteria, although small and ...

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• (2014-05-30)
Heterogeneous computing platforms are becoming increasingly important in supercomputing. Many systems now integrate CPUs and GPUs cooperating together on a single node. Much effort is invested in tuning GPU-kernels. However, ...

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• (2011-05-25)
We propose a cost-effective algorithm for the dynamic image reconstruction problem in magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). The proposed imaging method, the ensemble Kalman filter, is a Monte Carlo approximation to the Kalman ...

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• (2016-12-09)
Highway-Rail grade crossings are important locations on a highway network and safety at these locations is a critical issue for both highway and railroad network. Even though safety at grade crossings have improved over ...

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• (2019-07-18)
High-dimensional fluid dynamics systems are central to a variety of modern engineering challenges. Direct numerical simulation of these processes is possible, but the high computational cost of these simulations is always ...

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• (2015-07-24)
Protein domains are three-dimensional arrangements of atomic structure that are recurrent in the proteomes of organisms. Since the three-dimensional structure of a protein determines its function, it is the fold, much more ...

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• (2004)
In this study, we use a discrete choice dynamic model of land-use where the agent's choices are regarded as the solution to a dynamic optimization problem. The first result of using of a dynamic framework is that the ...

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• (2005)
This dissertation makes contributions on both fronts and can be divided into two distinct parts. The first portion of the dissertation presents the development, simulation, and experimental validation of a first principles ...

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• (2018-06-11)
Electrification is an increasing trend among vehicle systems such as aircrafts, heavy machinery, and civilian transportation. Battery electric vehicles (BEVs) are one such development that use a battery pack to generate ...

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• (1986)
The boring operation is a metal cutting process widely used in industry. The inherent properties of the long, slender boring bar make it susceptible to self-excited chatter during machining. The main focus of this thesis ...

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• (2017-04-25)
This thesis presents a framework for hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) testing of chemical plants. HIL testing is a widespread tool used in industry and academia to bridge the gap between computer simulations and physical ...

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• (2015-04-29)
Heating and cooling systems are widely used throughout the world in an array of applications as a means of providing thermal energy transfer. Recent decades have seen economic and environmental awareness come to a forefront ...

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• (1985)
Recent industrial demands on improved quality and productivity have increased the need for analytically sound tools for design, planning, optimization and control of complex manufacturing systems. In this thesis, the ...

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• (2016-12-07)
NASA’s Asteroid Redirect Robotic Mission (ARRM) aims to pick up a boulder from the surface of a large asteroid and transport it to a distant retrograde orbit around the Moon for future exploration by a manned mission. This ...

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• (2007)
Morse theory reveals the topological structure of a shape based on the critical points of a real function over the shape. This thesis solves a relaxed form of Laplace's equation to find a "fair" Morse function with a ...

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• (2013-05-24)
Air Conditioning and Refrigeration (AC&R) systems are ubiquitous in modern society since they perform the key engineering function of transporting thermal energy from one physical location to another. In doing so they are ...

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• (2015-07-20)
This thesis traces the complete process of model-based control design for vapor compression systems (VCSs), from nonlinear model development to linearization and control formulation. Addressing gaps in the previous literature, ...

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• (2001)
In the nervous system, immediate-early gene (IEG) induction is observed following exposure to salient events. Although the function of IEGs is not fully understood, one prominent model suggests that they are needed to ...

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• (1991)
In this thesis, we study multiple decision maker problems where the decision makers are coupled through a small parameter $\epsilon$. The class of systems considered exhibit the common feature that when the weak coupling ...

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