High tunnels, greenhouse-like structures which rely primarily on solar heating, allow farmers to extend the growing season. However, the intense crop rotation and agricultural practices that accompany growing cash crops year-round in these tunnels can cause problems for soil health and fertility and potentially affect cash crop yield. Cover crops may represent a sustainable solution to help maintain soil health and crop yield within these agricultural systems. In our high tunnel, cover crops were planted in late May followed by the cash crop, spinach, in Fall.

The neutrino experiment NOvA compares Monte Carlo (MC) generated events from the program GENIE to data found experimentally from the detector located at Fermilab. Since the default values of GENIE don’t adequately describe the data, weights are added to certain neutrino interactions to improve agreement with data. One of these interactions are called resonant interactions, and in this study we evaluate the use of different weights to resonant interactions to improve data-MC agreement.

Medical bracelets can save lives, but often lack the information for appropriate medical care in emergency scenarios. The focus of this research was to determine whether a dynamic QR code medical bracelet connected to a Bluetooth carrying case allowed participants to react faster to a staged medical emergency when compared to standard medical bracelets, static QR code medical bracelets, or non-Bluetooth dynamic QR code medical bracelets, where all QR bracelets were made by the researcher.

Every year on average natural disasters affects around 218 million people worldwide, which has led to the creation of carefully constructed simulation resources, and action plans for such events. One of the biggest factors in determining the likelihood of resolving these natural disasters is the distributions of authorized personnel, agents, that are able to assist in preventing further damage. Along with the allocation of the resources, secondary agents, provided to them. Resolving in this instance means to minimize damage, and maximizing civilians kept alive.

In this paper, conic-sector-based control methods are applied to a small-scale two-dimensional simulated airfoil to introduce new methods of suppressing aircraft flutter. Flutter occurs when external aerodynamic forces and vibrations match the natural frequency of the aircraft wing's structure forcing the wing's angle of attack to increase uncontrollably. If not damped quickly and properly, the wing's angle of attack will increase in oscillations causing catastrophic structure failure.

Efficient energy storage is extremely necessary in today’s world. The use of an open accumulator and liquid piston isothermal air compressor can be put to use for this purpose. They increase power density and efficiency, and liquid compressor provides a tight seal for compressed air. But implementing isothermal energy storage is difficult as the compressor expanders are not very efficient in keeping the temperature constant and thus some of the energy is spent increasing the temperature when the pressure increases.

Maladaptive personality traits have been found to be generally associated with interpersonal dysfunction in romantic relationships. However, more specific aspects of the nature of this dysfunction in other important relationship domains, such as parent-child and larger family relationships, have yet to be examined.

Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) covers a wide spectrum of liver pathology ranging from fatty liver to non-alcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH), which is characterized by steatosis, inflammation, hepatocellular injury, and fibrosis. Notably, immune cell-driven inflammation is a significant mechanism in the transition from fatty liver to the more serious NASH. In humans and animal models, physical exercise ameliorates the progression of NAFLD, independently of changes in body-weight.

This research addresses how I intend to create a website interface that is specifically structured for minority children interested in the design making space program. The user experience design process that typically follows something similar to a design thinking approach, with a focus on social design, will be implemented to further engage the primary users who will be interacting with the website. Working along with Dr.

One of the current solutions to help those suffering from Parkinson’s Disease is by using neuromodulation, a technique that involves electrically stimulating a group of neurons. In particular, deep brain stimulation (DBS) is a type of neuromodulation in which electrical pulses are sent to one or more implanted electrodes in the patient’s brain. One recent development in DBS technology is in the DBS leads themselves; rather than stimulate an area of neurons with four ring electrodes, newer technology is able to stimulate with a greater distribution of electrodes across its surface.