The Mechanical Engineering Department is pleased to offer the following research project(s) for the summer of 2003. Interested students are urged to contact the faculty member(s) directing the project(s) that most interest them. By contacting the faculty member, you can discover more about the project, learn what your responsibilities will be, and if possible, develop a timetable for the twelve...

During the summer of 2005, the Big Three U.S. automobile manufacturers offered a customer promotion that allowed customers to buy new cars at the discounted price formerly offered only to employees. The initial months of the promotion were record sales months for each of the Big Three firms, suggesting that customers thought that the prices offered during the promotions were particularly attrac...

ystematic study of local politics in the Russian Federation has just begun. As a result, relatively little attention has been devoted to the legislative/representative bodies elected in many Russian cities during the 1990s.1 The following study of these institutions in Novosibirsk, an old industrial city in the geographic center of the Russian Federation, is based on the author’s direct observa...

at Spelman College, worked with Pankaj Agarwal and Yusu Wang, who just completed her PhD, at Duke. Hillary’s summer project was about analyzing the performance of the algorithm developed at Duke to generate features on a molecular surface. The features are then used to predict good configurations for protein docking. For efficiency reasons, we would like to use as few features as possible. The ...

Growth factors have long been viewed as having the potential to revolutionize our ability to accelerate the healing process and enhance clinical outcomes in a multitude of procedures. Platelet-derived growth factor (PDGF) recently has received particular attention because of its broad wound-healing activities in both bone and soft tissue regenerative procedures. Over the past several years, stu...

People with metabolic syndrome and obesity are at an increased risk of mortality from cardiovascular disease. Over the past decade, there has been intensive research into new ways to stimulate weight loss to lower this risk. One of the key tissues is the metabolically active brown adipose tissue (BAT). Given that this is a thermogenic tissue, it can be stimulated by cold and is suggested by som...

Fires have raged across southern Europe during the exceptional heat of this summer but in Greece, where they have been particularly severe and widespread, they caught the authorities by surprise. They have been occurring over weeks from late June in the forests of the north to Crete in the south. They are doubly troubling because of Greece's dramatic biodiversity — more than 25 per cent of an e...

The brain continually organizes itself from birth, during learning and development and during skill acquisition in adulthood. The brain can recruit adjacent undamaged areas, supplementary and association areas and ipsilateral pathways to varying degrees in response to brain injury. This occurs throughout life but is more evident when injury occurs at an earlier age and is highly variable among ...

CANADIAN GERIATRICS JOURNAL, VOLUME 18, ISSUE 2, JUNE 2015 Hello! The editorial board of the Canadian Geriatrics Journal would like to introduce our second issue of 2015. In this issue we present the abstracts from the recent Technology Evaluation in the Elderly Network meeting in Toronto. This group is part of the Canadian Networks of Centres of Excellence (NCE) program, whose mandate is to de...

The atomic surface structure of compound semiconductors plays a large role in the growth of semiconductor films and the final microstructure of the film. During growth of InxGa1−xAs films, a mixed-termination surface consisting of a (4x3) reconstruction with common binary InAs or GaAs reconstructions, such as the α2(2x4), has been observed. We have used Density Functional Theory (DFT) to determ...