Masters Theses: Recent submissions
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Characterizing Interfacial and Bulk Interactions Between Cellulose Ethers and Bile Salts: Impact on In Vitro Lipid Digestion
(Virginia Tech, 2019-01-14)Elevated levels of lipids and LDL-cholesterol in the blood are significant risk factors associated with developing cardiovascular diseases (CVDs). A potential strategy to combat these risk factors is decreasing lipid ... -
Lyme Disease and Forest Fragmentation in the Peridomestic Environment
(Virginia Tech, 2020-05-14)Over the last 20 years, Lyme disease has grown to become the most common vector-borne disease affecting Americans. Spread in the eastern U.S. primarily by the bite of Ixodes scapularis, the black-legged tick, the disease ... -
Potential Downstream Immunological Effects of Evolved Disease Tolerance in House Finches
(Virginia Tech, 2020-07-06)Emerging infectious diseases can exert strong selection on hosts to evolve resistance or tolerance to infection. However, it remains unknown whether the evolution of specific defense strategies against a novel pathogen ... -
Emission of Insoluble Mineral Particles from Ultrasonic Humidifiers
(Virginia Tech, 2018-01-10)Ultrasonic humidifier use is a potential source of human exposure to inhalable particulates. This paper focused on the behavior of insoluble iron oxides particles, and aluminum oxide particles in ultrasonic humidifiers. ... -
The Colonizers and Their Colonized
(Virginia Tech, 2019-01-09)This study is concerned with the Self/Other dichotomy, originally formulated by scholars of South Asian history in the context of European imperialistic treatments of the peoples whom they colonized for centuries, as applied ... -
Performance Analysis and Tank Test Validation of a Hybrid Wave-Current Energy Converter with a Single Power Takeoff
(Virginia Tech, 2020-07-01)Marine and hydrokinetic (MHK) energy, including ocean waves, tidal current, ocean current and river current, has been recognized as a promising power source due to its full-day availability and high energy potential. At ... -
Muted Blue
(Virginia Tech, 2020-07-01)Muted Blue (Whale Level) is a Virtual Reality educational experience that explores the possibility of creating an alternative learning method in an informal learning setting such as a museum. This project seeks to merge ... -
Healing and Reintegrating in the City: Urban Infill as a Sanctuary for Jane Doe
(Virginia Tech, 2020-07-01)The sex trafficking industry is not only a social justice issue, but also an architectural issue. In the same urban fabric where people live, work, and socialize, victims of commercial sex trafficking live in the shadows, ... -
The anthelmintic effect of Bacillus thuringiensis Cry5B on Haemonchus contortus in sheep
(Virginia Tech, 2020-06-30)Widespread anthelmintic resistance in trichostrongyle nematodes of ruminants has created an urgent need for alternatives to commercial anthelmintics. The bacterium Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt) can produce crystal proteins ... -
When the News is the News: A Textual Analysis of NBC and CBS networks' Response to Sexual Harassment Allegations in the Wake of the #MeToo Movement
(Virginia Tech, 2020-06-30)As the #MeToo movement swept the nation from Hollywood to Washington, within less than a week's time in November of 2017, longstanding news anchors, Matt Lauer and Charlie Rose were fired from their respective news networks ... -
Public Oasis for Nomads
(Virginia Tech, 2020-06-30)As our technologies evolve, the world gets smaller, and it becomes easier for people to travel and mix. Some people travel, some move permanently, creating an exchange of cultures and knowledge. I believe our architecture ... -
Ecology of the Brown Marmorated Stink Bug (Hemiptera: Pentitomidae): Oviposition on Different Trees, Nymphal Development on Various Vegetable Hosts, and Assessment of a Bacterial Pathogen
(Virginia Tech, 2019-01-07)The brown marmorated stink bug, Halyomorpha halys (Stål), is an invasive species that has spread throughout the United States and become a serious agricultural pest. Studies were conducted in Virginia on the survival of ... -
Groundwater Modeling and Hydrogeological Parameter Estimation: Potomac Aquifer System, SWIFT Research Center
(Virginia Tech, 2020-06-29)The Sustainable Water Interactive for Tomorrow (SWIFT) project in eastern Virginia is a Managed Aquifer Recharge project designed to alleviate the depletion of the Potomac Aquifer System due to unsustainable groundwater ... -
Modeling, Analysis, and Experimental Validation of an Electric Linear Series Elastic Actuator for an Exoskeleton
(Virginia Tech, 2020-06-26)Exoskeletons and humanoid robots require high-power, low-weight, and back-driveable actuators. This paper describes the design and analysis of a high-force linear series elastic actuator for a lower body exoskeleton. The ... -
Reading in Zion: Book Cultures of Mormon Youth, 1869–1890
(Virginia Tech, 2020-06-26)This thesis examines the feelings of generational anxiety in the Mormon community from 1869 to 1890 and how those feelings intersected with ideas about reading. During this time, older members of the Mormon community in ... -
Abundance Trends and Drivers of Change in Freshwater Fish Communities of the New River Basin
(Virginia Tech, 2020-06-25)Habitat destruction/alteration and non-native species are widely considered the two most serious threats to biodiversity within freshwater ecosystems, which are among the most threatened in the world. I examined the effects ... -
Phase-field Modeling of Phase Change Phenomena
(Virginia Tech, 2020-06-25)The phase-field method has become a popular numerical tool for moving boundary problems in recent years. In this method, the interface is intrinsically diffuse and stores a mixing energy that is equivalent to surface ... -
Spectra of Periodic Schrödinger Operators on the Octagonal Lattice
(Virginia Tech, 2020-06-25)We consider the spectrum of the Schrödinger operator on an octagonal lattice using the Floquet-Bloch transform of the Laplacian. We will first consider the spectrum of the Laplacian in detail and prove various properties ... -
Impediments to Effective Safety Risk Assessment of Safety Critical Systems: An Insight into SRM Processes and Expert Aggregation
(Virginia Tech, 2020-06-25)Safety risk assessment forms an integral part of the design and development of Safety Critical Systems. Conventionally in these systems, standards and policies have been developed to prescribe processes for safety risk ... -
Experimental and Numerical Study of Ductile Metal Auxetic Tubular Structures
(Virginia Tech, 2020-06-25)Methods to mitigate the risk posed by seismic and blast loads to structures are of high interest to researchers. Auxetic structures are a new class of metamaterials that exhibit counterintuitive negative Poisson's ratio ...
