In this study, microwave energy was introduced simultaneously with electrostatic field to investigate the efficiency of the coalescence process in crude oil emulsions as a hybridized technique for oil/water dehydration. ...

A library of 2-nitrobenzenesulfonyl (Ns) derivatives incorporating isotopic labels and a range of structural variations was prepared and characterized to investigate mass spectrometric fragmentation processes. Deprotonated ...

β-N-methylamino-L-alanine (BMAA) is a neurotoxin first discovered in cycads and implicated as a possible cause of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis/parkinsonism dementia complex (ALS/PDC) in Guam’s Chamorro population. Due to ...

Teleoperation of robotic manipulators has been one of the popular research areas in the robotics research community for last couple of decades. A variety of control methods have been proposed for bilateral and multilateral ...

Indoor localization systems attract great attention from both academia and industry. However, most existing indoor localization technologies have their own limitations. Either they require user to stay within the line-of-sight ...

Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) are ad-hoc networks consisting of tiny battery- operated wireless sensors. The sensor nodes are lightweight in terms of memory, computation, energy and communication. These networks are ...

In this thesis, a novel plasmonic waveguide, with an insulator-superconductor (SC)-insulator (ISCI) configuration, was proposed and numerically investigated at telecommunication (TC) wavelength range. By optimizing the key ...

Photon-induced electronic excitation of organic chromophores in molecular crystals has received much attention due to potential applications in organic electronics, optics, and biomedicine. Theoretical modeling can aid our ...