OF THE DISSERTATION Biomimetic Catalysts of Graphene Conjugates and Palladium Nanoparticles

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Applications of Integer Programming Methods to Solve Statistical Problems by Michael James Higgins Doctor of Philosophy in Statistics University of California, Berkeley Jasjeet Sekhon, Co-chair Deborah Nolan, Co-chair Many problems in statistics are inherently discrete. When one of these problems also contains an optimization component, integer programming may be used to facilitate a solution t...

BACKGROUND: Idiopathic normal pressure hydrocephalus (INPH) is still a syndrome generating more questions than answers. Research today focuses mainly on two areas: understanding the pathophysiology and finding better methods to select patients benefiting from a shunt operation. Even though the background of the disease remains unclear, there is wide agreement that there are two pillars of the d...

Damp building materials are subjected to degradation processes due to moisture and also microbial growth, with both of these giving rise to emissions of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) that may contribute to indoor air health problems. The overall aim of this thesis was to investigate emissions of reactive and non-reactive VOCs from damp building materials and from the microorganisms growing ...

and ArborText. VT funded the development of a Document Type Definition (DTD) for dissertations and theses. The project continued at VT, with collaboration from the Coalition for Networked Information, the Council of Graduate Schools, and UMI, among others. Since 1994, many VT students have submitted their dissertations and theses in Adobe's Portable Document Format (PDF). As of January 1997, VT...

This descriptive, retrospective documental study was performed with the objective to analyze the dissertations produced in the Graduate and Master's in Nursing Program at Universidade Federal do Paraná, considering the adjustment of its lines of research. To do this, a critical reading was performed of the abstracts and thematic analysis was used to look at the dissertations and their inclusion...