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Title: The efficiency of reflectors with the use of the globe photometer
Creator: Cohn, James W., Swartz, Charles H.
Date: 2009, 1914
Publisher: Armour Institute of Technology
Description: http://www.archive.org/details/efficiencyofrefl00cohn
Thesis (B.S.)--Armour Institute of Technology

Title: Effects of quality of surface and color upon absorption of light
Creator: Eustice, Alfred L
Date: 2009, 1907
Publisher: Armour Institute of Technology
Description: http://www.archive.org/details/effectsofquality00eust
Thesis (B.S.)--Armour Institute of Technology

Title: Efficiency and capacity tests of a small gasoline-electric set
Creator: Himelblau, Harry
Date: 2009, 1914
Publisher: Armour Institute of Technology
Description: http://www.archive.org/details/efficiencycapaci00hime
Thesis (B.S.)--Armour Institute of Technology, 1914 B.S. in Mechanical Engineering, 1914

Title: Efficiency and capacity tests of a small absorption refrigerating machine
Creator: Sherwood, H. P., Kwun Wong, Jee, Agee, Jess A.
Date: 2009, 1915
Publisher: Armour Institute of Technology
Description: http://www.archive.org/details/efficiencycapaci00sher
Thesis (B.S.)--Armour Institute of Technology; Bibliography: leaf 90

Title: The efficiency of heat transmission in a vacuum evaporator
Creator: Diemecke, Curt W, Yamamoto, I
Date: 2009, 1915
Publisher: Armour Institute of Technology
Description: http://www.archive.org/details/efficiencyofheat00diem
Thesis (B.S.)--Armour Institute of Technology, 1915 B.S. in Chemical Engineering, 1915

Title: Efficiency of heat transmission in a vacuum evaporator
Creator: Agazim, Toly, Shakman, James G.
Date: 2009, 1914
Publisher: Armour Institute of Technology
Description: http://www.archive.org/details/efficiencyofheat00agaz
Thesis (B.S.)--Armour Institute of Technology

Title: Effects of iron conduits on line drop
Creator: Moran, C. E., Mccrackin, Wallace
Date: 2009, 1906
Publisher: Armour Institute of Technology
Description: http://www.archive.org/details/effectsofironcon00mora
Thesis (B.S.)--Armour Institute of Technology, 1906 B.S. in Electrical Engineering, 1906

Title: Efficiency by the retardation method
Creator: Dobbie, Edward C, Drew, Walter W, Williams, Guy E, Williams, Lytle L
Date: 2009, 1911
Publisher: Armour Institute of Technology
Description: http://www.archive.org/details/efficiencybyreta00dobb
Thesis (B.S.)--Armour Institute of Technology, 1911 Includes bibliographical references...
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Thesis (B.S.)--Armour Institute of Technology, 1911 Includes bibliographical references and index B.S. in Electrical Engineering, 1911
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Title: Experimental determination of the properties of the "Gugler Primary Battery"
Creator: Perrine, A. A.
Date: 2009, 1912
Publisher: Armour Institute of Technology
Description: http://www.archive.org/details/experimentaldete00aape
Thesis (B.S.)--Armour Institute of Technology

Title: An engineering study of the coals on the Chicago Market
Creator: Stem, L. H.
Date: 2009, 1905
Publisher: Armour Institute of Technology
Description: http://www.archive.org/details/engineeringstudy00stem
Thesis (B.S.)--Armour Institute of Technology

Title: Estimate cost of a concrete building
Creator: Farrelly, J. L., Anderson, G. A.
Date: 2009, 1913
Publisher: Armour Institute of Technology
Description: http://www.archive.org/details/estimatecostofco00farr
Thesis (B.S.)--Armour Institute of Technology

Title: Engineering analysis of chinese coal
Creator: Tong, Mun Sun.
Date: 2009, 1913
Publisher: Armour Institute of Technology
Description: http://www.archive.org/details/engineeringanaly00tong
Thesis (B.S.)--Armour Institute of Technology, 1913 B.S. in Mechanical Engineering, 1913

Title: Engineering aspects of the manufacture of edible pastes
Creator: Pirrie, Gustave Peter
Date: 2009, 1917
Publisher: Armour Institute of Technology
Description: http://www.archive.org/details/engineeringaspec00pirr
Thesis (B.S.)--Armour Institute of Technology, 1917 B.S. in Chemical Engineering, 1917

Title: The elimination of a grade crossing at Downers Grove, Ill.
Creator: Newman, Stanley W
Date: 2009, 1917
Publisher: Armour Institute of Technology
Description: http://www.archive.org/details/eliminationofgra00newm
Thesis (B.S.)--Armour Institute of Technology

Title: Elimination of oil from exhaust steam
Creator: Morrison, R. D., Wanner, F. A.
Date: 2009, 1906
Publisher: Armour Institute of Technology
Description: http://www.archive.org/details/eliminationofoil00morr
Thesis (B.S.)--Armour Institute of Technology

Title: Elements of carburetion
Creator: Burley, Elbridge Roger, Kehr, Charles Frederick
Date: 2009, 1913
Publisher: Armour Institute of Technology
Description: http://www.archive.org/details/elementsofcarbur00burl
Thesis (B.S.)--Armour Institute of Technology; Includes index

Title: EFFECTS OF DIFFERENT WRITTEN DISCLOSURE INTERVENTIONS AND THE MECHANISMS OF ACTION RESPONSIBLE FOR REDUCING MALADAPTIVE RUMINATION AMONG BROODERS
Creator: Coyle, Cynthia Weinstein
Date: 2013, 2013-07
Description: Brooding is a maladaptive form of rumination associated with negative bias, emotion dysregulation, ineffective problem solving, and depression...
Show moreBrooding is a maladaptive form of rumination associated with negative bias, emotion dysregulation, ineffective problem solving, and depression (Nolen-Hoeksema, 1991; Treynor, Gonzalez, & Nolen-Hoeksema, 2003). Some data indicate that writing interventions reduce brooding (Gortner, Rude & Pennebaker, 2006). What is less known are the mechanisms whereby writing counteracts brooding. The primary aim of this study was: (1) to examine the effects of writing conditions on functioning in brooders and (2) to provide empirical support for the mechanisms of action for how writing reduces brooding. Those who wrote from specific instructions were hypothesized to increase their cognitive appraisal, emotion regulation, and problem-solving abilities, thereby reducing brooding more than those writing from expressive writing and control group instructions. Writing also was hypothesized to reduce brooding through these mechanisms. Gaining a greater understanding of which writing techniques were most effective in reducing brooding and of how brooding is reduced is important for rumination research and therapeutic practice. Eighty-eight adults recruited from a mid-western university and the general population were divided into two experimental conditions (Expressive Writing (EW) and Self-Regulation/Problem-Solving (SR/PS) and one control group. A 3 X 2 MANOVA was conducted to determine whether improvements after the writing intervention were (a) greater in the EW and SR/PS conditions than in the control condition and (b) greater in the SR/PS condition than in the EW condition. A 3 X 2 MANOVA also was conducted to determine whether there were reductions in negative cognitive word use over time. Participants completed a survey of their subjective experience at the end of the study. ix Contrary to predictions, none of the hypotheses were supported. Improvements were not greater in either experimental group compared to the control group or in the SR/PS condition compared to the EW on any of the outcome variables. Only the use of anger words was significantly reduced over time. Given there were no significant reductions in brooding and no relationship between the predictor and outcome variables, a mediation analyses was not conducted. In contrast, subjective reports indicated that participants in the experimental conditions perceived the study to have greater meaning and felt happier after the study compared to the control group. Participants also reported improved emotion regulation, cognitive processing and problem-solving abilities. The findings suggest considering of an individual’s perception of treatment benefits when determining effectiveness.
PH.D in Psychology, July 2013
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Title: MODELING INDOOR EXPOSURES TO OUTDOOR PARTICULATE MATTER ACROSS THE U.S. RESIDENTIAL BUILDING STOCK
Creator: Elorch, Zeineb
Date: 2013, 2013-07
Description: Elevated ambient concentrations of fine and ultrafine particulate matter are consistently linked with adverse health effects in...
Show moreElevated ambient concentrations of fine and ultrafine particulate matter are consistently linked with adverse health effects in epidemiological studies. However, because people spend most of their time indoors (particularly at home) and outdoor particles can infiltrate into buildings with varying efficiencies, much of human inhalation exposure to outdoor particles actually occurs inside residences. Consequently, relying on ambient measurements of particulate matter can result in a significant exposure misclassification in epidemiological studies. To address the range of this misclassification in U.S. residences, this work predicts the statistical distribution of long-term average size-resolved indoor proportions of outdoor particles (from 0.001 to 10 μm) across the entire U.S. single-family residential building stock by means of Monte Carlo simulations. Best available data was used for distributions of important building-related model inputs (e.g., air exchange rates, penetration factors, deposition rates, and others). Overall, results suggest that infiltration factors (i.e., the indoor-outdoor particle concentration ratio in the absence of indoor sources) vary highly among residences across the U.S. residential building stock. Long-term average size-resolved infiltration factors are estimated to vary by a factor of 20-100+ from the least protective of single-family homes in the U.S. (99th percentile) to the most protective (1st percentile), depending on particle size. Long-term average infiltration factors are predicted to be within a factor of 2-4 in the majority of homes (between the 25th and 75th percentiles of homes). A regression analysis further shows that parameters such as deposition rates, air exchange rates, penetration factors, and filter removal efficiencies are the most influential parameters for predicting infiltration factors. xiii Finally, the predicted distributions of size-resolved infiltration factors were used to map to archetypal outdoor particle size distributions to estimate absolute concentrations and ultimately inhalation doses of both ultrafine particles (UFPs) and PM2.5 in an adult male. Inhalation doses of UFPs and PM2.5 were estimated to be 43-49 and 21-22 times higher, respectively, in the least protective homes (99th percentile) versus the most protective homes (1st percentile). Taken together, these results suggest that a wide variability in size-resolved infiltration factors among U.S. residences leads to large variations in the dose of particles inhaled in indoor environments, which should be accounted for in future epidemiological studies.
M.S. in Civil Engineering, July 2013
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Title: Structural Study of the Complex of the Mutant Cholera Toxin A1 Subunit with Human ADP-Ribosylating Factor 6 Bound to Agmatine
Creator: Chang, Shih-chia
Date: 2012-07-12, 2012-07
Description: Cholera is a severe disease that causes devastating diarrhea when Vibrio cholerae infects the human intestine. Once the bacterium gets the...
Show moreCholera is a severe disease that causes devastating diarrhea when Vibrio cholerae infects the human intestine. Once the bacterium gets the access into the intestinal cell, adenosine diphosphate (ADP)- ribosylation of the human signaling protein Gs!!is catalyzed by the cholera toxin A1 subunit (CTA1). According to the previous researches, this reaction is activated allosterically by a GTP-bound human ADP-ribosylation factor six (ARF6). Arginine is one of the substrates for cholera toxin A1 subunit. In the thesis, the crystal structure of agmatine, a L-arginine analogue, bound to the protein complex of the mutant CTA1 with ARF6-GTP reveals the possibility of how arginine might interact with the complex.
M.S. in Molecular Biochemistry and Biophysics, July 2012
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Title: Fire extinguishing efficiency of chemical fire extinguishers of soda and acid type
Creator: Kimball, Norman F
Date: 2009, 1920
Publisher: Armour Institute of Technology
Description: http://www.archive.org/details/fireextinguishin00kimb
Thesis (B.S.)--Armour Institute of Technology

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