Dale E. Yeatts, Major Professor Rudy Ray Seward, Minor Professor Cynthia M. Cready, Committee Member George A. Yancey, Committee Member Sandra L. Terrell, Interim Chair of the Department of Sociology Thomas L. Evenson, Dean of the College of Public Affairs and Community Service Michael Monticino, Dean of the Robert B. Toulouse School of Graduate Studies GEOGRAPHIC DISTANCE, CONTACT, AND FAMILY ...

Abstract: Non-isothermal flow through a rotating curved duct with square cross section is studied numerically by using the spectral method, and covering a wide range of the Taylor number, Tr, 2000 0   Tr and Dean number, , Dn 0Dn 2000. A temperature difference is applied across the vertical sidewalls for Grashof number Gr = 500, where the outer wall is heated and the inner one cooled. The r...

A novel parallel laminar micromixer with a two-dimensional staggered Dean Vortex micromixer is optimized and fabricated in our study. Dean vortices induced by centrifugal forces in curved rectangular channels cause fluids to produce secondary flows. The split-and-recombination (SAR) structures of the flow channels and the impinging effects result in the reduction of the diffusion distance of tw...

In this chapter I consider what recent work on background independent physics can do for structuralism, and what structuralism can do for background independent physics. I focus on the problems of time and observables in gravitational physics. The ‘frozen’ character of the observables of general relativity is usually considered to constitute a serious problem for the theory. I argue that by inv...

Xinrong Li, Major Professor Murali R. Varanasi, Committee Member and Chair of the Department of Electrical Engineering Shengli Fu, Committee Member and Graduate Program Coordinator Kamesh Namuduri, Committee Member Costas Tsatsoulis, Dean of College of Engineering Michael Monticino, Dean of the Robert B. Toulouse School of Graduate Studies A STUDY OF ANTI-COLLISION MULTI-TAG IDENTIFICATION ALGO...

Using Telemedicine in the Provision of Dermatology Lanis Hicks1, Keith Boles1, Stan Hudson1, Richard Madsen2, Barry Kling3, Joe Tracy4, Joyce Mitchell5, Weldon Webb6 1Department of Health Management and Informatics, 2Department of Statistics and BioStatistics Group, 3Associate Dean for External Affairs, 4Director of Telehealth, 5Associate Dean for Information Services, 6Associate Vice Chancello...

The purpose of this research is to: describe and reveal the readiness UPT PPL to manage micro teaching Field Experience Practices (PPL) in preparing professional teachers at Private Islamic Religious Universities Padang City. type used field with a descriptive qualitative approach. results showed that: In (PTAIS) City, which prepares management not Technical Implementation Unit Program (UPT PPL...