Constructing Power Architecturally

Constructing divisions into power groups

The result, due to Henckell, Margolis, Pin and Rhodes modulo Ash’s solution to the pointlike conjecture, that every finite block group divides a power group, has long been considered to be one of the deepest results in finite semigroup theory. However, the proof is not constructive. Solving a long-standing problem, we provide in this paper an explicit construction of such a division. We also ge...

Architecturally Sensitive Usability Patterns

The work presented in this paper is motivated by the increasing realization in the software engineering community of the importance of software architecture for fulfilling quality requirements. Practice shows that for current software systems, most usability issues are still only detected during testing and deployment. Some changes that affect usability, for instance changes to the appearance o...

Mamluk Jerusalem: Architecturally Challenging Narratives

Narratives abound concerning the religious and political positioning of Jerusalem in the past as well as the present and have been used in a variety of ways to serve various ideologies or political ends. One such narrative (which can be found even in some academic treatises of the history of Jerusalem) states that following the Muslim re-conquest of the city after the Crusades Muslim rulers neg...

Constructing Rotation Matrices using Power Series

Architecturally Controlled Bimetallic Nanoparticles for Heterogeneous Catalysis

Title of Dissertation/Thesis: Architecturally Controlled Bimetallic Nanoparticles for Heterogeneous Catalysis Shenghu Zhou, Doctor of Philosophy, 2007 Thesis Directed By: Professor Bryan W. Eichhorn Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry This work develops synthetic methods for architecturally controlled AuPt and CuPt bimetallic nanomaterials. The AuPt heteroaggregate, AuPt alloy spherical na...