Heritabilities (ĥ2) and genetic correlations (rG) were estimated by regression of offspring on sire in two replicate, unselected lines of mice. Traits were associated with growth, feed efficiency, fat deposition and lean tissue. The ĥ2 for growth traits ranged from .34 to .42, except for 3-wk body weight, which was only .05. The ĥ2 for feed efficiency was .28. Ranges in ĥ2 were .45 to .50 for f...

Because of heterogeneity among members of a bacteria population, deposition rates of bacteria may decrease upon the distance bacteria are transported in an aquifer. Such deposition rate decreases may result in retained bacteria concentrations, which decrease hyper-exponentially as a function of transport distance, and may therefore significantly affect the transport of colloids in aquifers. We ...

MODIFICATION OF DEPOSITION PROCESS PARAMETERS FOR UNIFORM INDIUM LAYER DEPOSITION Isaac Butt Old Dominion University, 2017 Director: Dr. Sylvain X. Marsillac The need for more efficient light to energy converting cells has long been a subject of research and development. With abundant availability of solar energy that the earth receives, the photovoltaic industry has sought materials that could...

Arctic haze has a distinct seasonality with peak concentrations in winter but pristine conditions in summer. It is demonstrated that the Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory (GFDL) atmospheric general circulation model AM3 can reproduce the observed seasonality of Arctic black carbon (BC), an important component of Arctic haze. We use the model to study how large-scale circulation and removal ...

In the nearly saturated human respiratory tract, the presence of water-soluble substances in inhaled aerosols can cause change in the size distribution of particles. This consequently alters the lung deposition profiles of the inhaled airborne particles. The magnitude of particle deposition in the lung is affected by the soluble component present in the particle. This is estimated by a numerica...

A number of technologies that increase feed efficiency and lean tissue deposition while decreasing fat deposition have been developed in an effort to improve profitability of animal production. In general, the mode of action of these metabolic modifiers is to increase muscle deposition while often simultaneously reducing fat deposition. However, there have been some concerns that the focus on i...

Rhenium Re –Me alloys where Me = Ni, Fe, or Co were deposited galvanostatically. The plating bath consisted of ammonium perrhenate, nickel or cobalt sulfamate, or iron sulfate, citric acid, and magnesium sulfamate. The effects of bath chemistry and deposition time on faradaic efficiency FE , Re content, and partial deposition currents were determined. Rhenium contents as high as 93 atom % or FE...

Glass films created by vapor-depositing molecules onto a substrate can exhibit properties similar to those of ordinary glasses aged for thousands of years. It is believed that enhanced surface mobility is the mechanism that allows vapor deposition to create such exceptional glasses, but it is unclear how this effect is related to the final state of the film. Here we use molecular dynamics simul...

Electron beam induced deposition EBID and etching EBIE are promising methods for the fabrication of three-dimensional nanodevices, wiring of nanostructures, and repair of photolithographic masks. Here, we study simultaneous EBID and EBIE, and demonstrate an athermal electron flux controlled transition between material deposition and etching. The switching is observed when one of the processes h...

This study focuses on the effect of different flexible liposomes containing sodium cholate, Tween 80, or cineol on skin deposition of carboxyfluorescein (CF). Size distribution, morphology, zeta potential, and stability of the prepared vesicles were evaluated. The influence of these systems on the skin deposition of CF utilizing rat skin as membrane model was investigated. Results showed that a...