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Title: A Detailed Description of Keldysh's Model of Photoionization
Author: Darden, Kenan
Date Created: 2023
Subjects--Topical: Physics, Optics, Quantum theory
Description: Leonid Keldysh’s 1965 paper "Ionization in the Field of a Strong Electromagnetic Wave" contains useful and simple-to-implement equations predicting the rate of photoionization in both atomic gasses and general crystalline solids. Crucially, his re...

Title: A path dependent quantum approximate optimization algorithm optimized by pairwise correlation of angles
Author: Daniel, Christopher
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: Physics
Description: Given the current promise of quantum computing to increase the efficiency of optimization algorithms, it is important to utilize these quantum algorithms for useful applications. The quantum approximate optimization algorithm was recently develope...

Title: An Evaluation of Teaching Methods in the Introductory Physics Classroom
Author: Savage, Lauren
Date Created: 2015
Subjects--Topical: Education, Physics, Educational evaluation
Description: The introductory physics mechanics course at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte has a history of relatively high DFW rates. In 2011, the course was redesigned from the traditional lecture format to the inverted classroom format (flipped...

Title: Analysis of a Low Enriched Uranium Centrifugal Gas Core Reactor
Author: Leer, Darrin
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: Fluid mechanics, Physics, Radiation, Nuclear physics
Description: With the new NASA directive of returning to the Moon in 2024 as a stepping stone to missions to Mars and beyond, there is a renewed interest in developing nuclear thermal rockets (NTR) to reduce trip times. This thesis will focus on the analysis o...

Title: Bohmian Trajectories of Interacting Particles Trapped in a Two-dimensional Harmonic Well
Author: Keithly, Gregory
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: Physics
Description: Bohmian mechanics is an alternate formalism of quantum mechanics that posits a particle is always existent, and furthermore there is a separate entity describing a wave-like disturbance in space and time, governed by the Schrodinger equation, that...

Title: DO DYNAMIC ALLOSTERIC EFFECTS OCCUR IN IGG4 ANTIBODIES?
Author: Baker, Lonnie
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: Bioinformatics, Biophysics
Description: Antibodies are large, multi-chain proteins which play a critical roll in the func-tioning of vertebrate immune systems. Immune effector cells which are responsiblefor the destruction of foreign antigens do not randomly target molecules but rely on...

Title: Elucidating Dynamic Mechanisms for Extended Spectrum Antibiotic Resistance in Class A Beta-Lactamase through Machine Learning on Molecular Dynamics Simulations
Author: Avery, Christopher
Date Created: 2019
Subjects--Topical: Biophysics, Physics
Description: Beta-lactamase is a protein which is produced in bacteria and is a primary cause of antibiotic resistance to Beta Lactam antibiotics. Beta Lactams are among the most common types of antibiotics (including penicillin) and thus understanding the res...

Title: Experimental Study on Autocorrelated Femtosecond-Laser Ablation of Monolayer Transition Metal Dichalcogenides
Author: Obeid, Joseph
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: Optics, Physics
Description: In this experimental study, we use a pair of 800 nm 180 fs ultrafast laser pulses to explore time-resolved enhanced ablation of two monolayer transitional metal dichalcogenides (TMDs). A 2D crystal structure gives monolayer TMDs their unique prope...

Title: Extending Topological Constraint Theory to Glass Networks with Hydrogen Bonding
Author: Bloom, Austin
Date Created: 2023
Subjects--Topical: Physics, Condensed matter
Description: Topological constraint theory has been successful in providing a simple model forthe liquid-glass transition in covalent bond bending networks. However, it is lim- ited to networks where all bonds are quenched and possess equivalent potential well...

Title: High throughput non-parametric probability density estimation via novel multithreaded stitching method
Author: Merino, Zach
Date Created: 2019
Subjects--Topical: Mathematics, Statistics, Physics
Description: A method of univariant probability density function (pdf) estimation is developed for big data applications. The method employs the use of a non-parametric maximum entropy estimator (NMEM) for a data driven multithreaded probability density estima...

Title: Implementation of Focusing Light through Highly Scattering Media via Sequential Algorithm Based Wavefront Shaping
Author: Williams, Desmond
Date Created: 2019
Subjects--Topical: Physics
Description: Propagation of light in communications, medicine, and science is hindered by the phenomenon of optical scattering. Methods to overcome this physical limitation have and continue to be researched. This work attempts to implement the method of wavef...

Title: Implementing and Characterizing a Quantum Divide and Conquer Variational Quantum Algorithm
Author: Gray, Alexander
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: Physics, Quantum theory
Description: The current landscape of quantum computing devices consists of Noisy Intermediate-Scale Quantum (NISQ) devices, which contain around 100 or less qubits and are not fault-tolerant or error correcting. Due to the physical limitations of these device...

Title: Molecular clustering characteristics in ternary trehalose and choline dihydrogen phosphate solutions
Author: Nikulsin, Nikita
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Physics
Description: Spatial and temporal characteristics of molecular structure in ternary solutions of trehalose and choline dihydrogen phosphate (CDHP) are studied using molecular dynamics simulations at 300 K for a range of solute concentrations with a 2:1 stoichi...

Title: PREPARATION AND VISUALIZATION OF INDIVIDUAL ACTIN FILAMENTS USING ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY FOR THE STUDY OF ACTIN/DNA HYDROGEL COMPLEXES
Author: Kennedy, Joshua
Date Created: 2019
Subjects--Topical: Physics, Biophysics, Biomedical engineering
Description: A protocol of sample preparation for the visualization of single actin filaments at the nanoscale using atomic force microscopy for use in studies of engineered actin/DNA conjugated hydrogel complexes was developed. Hydrogels are cross-linked netw...

Title: PROTEIN-PROTEIN INTERACTION OF PAI-H19Y MUTANT OF THE SLEEPING BEAUTY TRANSPOSASE
Author: Yan, Chenbo
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: Biophysics, DNA
Description: Due to the substantial interest in developing transposon technology for gene delivery and gene therapy, the Sleeping Beauty (SB) transposon system, the most active transposon in the vertebrate species, has been extensively studied. The SB transpos...

Title: Physics Informed Machine Learning Models for PDEs with Applications to Laser Bioeffects
Author: Seman, Matthew
Date Created: 2023
Subjects--Topical: Artificial intelligence, Physics
Description: Recently, advances in the efficiency of gradient calculation algorithms have sparked anexpansion of neural network applications, particularly in the field of approximating partial differential equation (PDE) solutions. Among the most novel and eff...

Title: RED FLUORESCENCE IN BOVINE SERUM ALBUMIN – GOLD COMPLEXES
Author: Dixon, Jacob
Date Created: 2019
Subjects--Topical: Optics, Physics
Description: Bovine serum albumin (BSA)-gold (Au) complexes have been studied in great detail due to their unique red fluorescent (λem = 640 nm) properties, since being initially described by Xie et al. (J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2009, 131, 888-889) as a Au25 nanoclus...

Title: STRUCTURAL AND FUNCTIONAL ANALYSIS OF THE H19Y MUTATED PRIMARY DNA RECOGNITION SUBDOMAIN OF SLEEPING BEAUTY TRANSPOSASE
Author: Leighton, Gage
Date Created: 2017
Subjects--Topical: Physics, Chemistry, Physical and theoretical, Biophysics
Description: The Sleeping Beauty transposon system, consisting of the transposon DNA and the transposase enzyme, is a member of the Tc1/mariner family of DNA transposons. Although it is an important tool in genetic applications and has been adapted for human g...

Title: Single-shot Quantitative Phase Microscopy in a Common-path Configuration
Author: Norton, Brandon
Date Created: 2023
Subjects--Topical: Optics, Physics
Description: Quantitative Phase Microscopy (QPM) is a technique frequently used in microscopy togather information about transparent objects that provide a phase shift relative to their background. We propose a technique that employs a liquid crystal in a comm...

Title: Spatially Resolved Photoluminescence Lifetime Mapping in the Vicinity of Extended Defects in Semiconductors Using a Time Correlated Single Photon Counting System and Confocal Photoluminescence Microscopy
Author: Mode, Timothy
Date Created: 2016
Subjects--Topical: Optics, Physics
Description: Photoluminescence mapping and time resolved photoluminescence imaging have previously been used to study charge carrier dynamics in bulk semiconductors. Recently, our research group has used spatially resolved PL mapping to examine and model carri...