DESIGN OF A VIRTUAL LABORATORY FOR AUTOMATION CONTROL Zelin Zhu Old Dominion University, 2017 Director: Yuzhong Shen In the past, only students who studied on campus were able to access laboratory equipment in traditional lab courses; distance learning students, enrolled in online courses, were at a disadvantage for they could learn basic lab experiment principles but could never experience han...

CONSTRUCTION OF EFFECTIVE ELECTROMAGNETIC CURRENTS FOR TWO BODY QUASIPOTENTIAL EQUATIONS Dmitri Krioukov Old Dominion University Director Dr J W Van Orden A systematic algebraic approach for the construction of e ective electro magnetic currents consistent with relativistic two body quasipotential equa tions is presented This approach generalizes the Mandelstam formalism and applies it to a gen...

To whom do sperm and ova belong? Few tissues are produced by the human body with more waste than the germ cells. Yet dominion over the germ cells, and over the early embryo that results from their union in vitro, is behind much of the emotion that modern reproductive intervention can engender. The germ cells differ from other human tissues that can be donated or transplanted because they carry ...

Subsurface horizontal flow experimental wetlands (reed beds), were designed and built based on a combination of two design methodologies, that of the WRc and Severn Trent Water plc (1996) and that of the USA, EPA (1988). Four different growing media were used with a combination of top soil, gravel, river sand, and mature sewage sludge compost, to determine the best substrate for total suspended...