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Pulses play a significant health role in the human population, specifically some pulses contribute to low postprandial glycemic response. Although the commercial utilization of pulse protein is rapidly growing due to the demand for...
A path integral Monte Carlo investigation of the role of defects in ordered 4He systems has been conducted. We find that interstitial defects in two- and three-dimensional solid 4He can lead to a small but non-zero superfluid fraction, ...
The neuroendocrine system presents a diversity of patterns in hormone secretion across a large range of temporal scales. These patterns of secretion are crucial to many aspects of animal survival and behavior. This offers a wealth of...
Researchers and scientists regularly work on solving complex real-world problems in medical science, environmental science, astrophysics, etc., to achieve mission-critical research goals through scientific campaigns. These campaigns are...
Understanding Type Ia Supernovae provides an opportunity to study a wide range of modern physics as well as develop a key tool in cosmology. Here, we identify and investigate new observational signatures of underlying physical processes...
Interferon (IFN)-mediated innate immune response is the first line of defense against viral infections. And interferon regulatory factor 7 (IRF7) is a potent transcription factor of type I IFNs and IFN stimulated genes (ISGs) and is...
The dissertation presents the recent development of the 3rd generation femtosecond electron diffractometer in Professor Jim Cao's group. Two techniques, femtosecond electron shadow imaging and deflectometry (FESID) and femtosecond...
Oxidoreductase enzyme complexes are one of the known biomolecular machines, which play a crucial role in cellular biochemistry including metabolic, signaling, and electron transport pathways. In these complexes, individual subunits can...
Type II supernovae (SNe II) are excellent tools for studying stellar evolution, mass loss, cosmology, and to probe possible explosion mechanisms. By examining the spectroscopic diversity of SNe II, this thesis aims to improve the...
The identities of the progenitors of type Ia supernova (SN Ia) has long been under study and remains an unsolved problem of astrophysics. The answer to this question will impact cosmology and subfields such as galactic evolution. To help...
Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) are rather homogeneous astrophysical objects and can be used as cosmological distance ladders. Despite that, significant diversity among SNe Ia luminosity (by a factor of ~ 10) and spectral properties have...
Angular Distributions, Polarization Observables, Spin Density Matrices and Statistical Tensors in Photoproduction of Two Pseudoscalar Mesons off a Nucleon
In two meson photoproduction off a nucleon, for the case in which two of the three final state hadrons are products of the decay of an intermediate resonance, general expressions for its decay distribution and for polarization...
This dissertation presents the recent developments and experiments performed using the third generation femtosecond electron diffractometer in Professor Jianming Cao's group as well as experiments performed using the previous second...
Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) mark the beginning and the end of stellar evolution. They are one of the most powerful cosmological probes in our universe thanks to their high intrinsic luminosities and standardizable properties. In the...
The dissertation presents the recent development of the third-generation femtosecond electron diffractometer in Professor Jim Cao's group. Two techniques, femtosecond electron shadow imaging and deflectometry (FESID) and femtosecond...
The nervous system of a human being is formed gradually during embryonic development. On a microscopic level, neuronal development involves (1) differentiation, polarization and migration of nerve and glial cells, (2) the growth and...
A Novel Model for Precipitation Reactions in Microfluidic Devices or, a Unified Framework for Coupling Phase-Change Chemistry and Fluid-Structure Interaction in Low Reynolds Number Flows
Chemical processes within flows are ubiquitous. There exists an important class of reactions that result in a phase change from liquid to solid: precipitation reactions. Inspired by recent microfluidic experiments, this dissertation...
This thesis presents the new development of the 3rd generation femtosecond diffractometer (FED) in Professor Jim Cao's group and its application to study ultrafast structural dynamics of solid state materials. The 3rd generation FED...
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