Grid computing is evolving as a service based, flexible and secure resource sharing environment. Currently, with the help of Grid middleware toolkits, Grids are exposing their services through programming models and command line interfaces,...
The Combinatorial Nullstellensatz can be used to solve certain problems in combinatorics. However, one of the major complications in using the Combinatorial Nullstellensatz is ensuring that there exists a nonzero monomial. This dissertation looks...
Star Wars films--History and criticism; Myth in motion pictures; Lucas, George, 1944-
The Star Wars franchise is one of the most successful film series of all time. The original three
movies, along with the more recent three prequels, serve as the foundation to a vast empire of
Star Wars television shows, action figures, comic...
Protective coatings; Microelectromechanical systems
PARYLENE (poly-para-xylylene) is mostly used as a conformal protective polymer pin-hole free coating material to uniformly protect any component configuration on diverse substrates. This thesis describes in detail how the unique properties of...
Nanoparticles; Imaging systems in medicine; Imaging systems in biology
Gold nanoparticles (GNPs) have shown beneficial properties for biomedical use, e.g., their non-toxic nature and surface properties for easy modification. Upon receiving light, they generate a strong surface plasmon field, which can alter the...
Legal and illegal gambling opportunities are readily available to students on college campuses and surrounding areas (Saum, 1999). College students are at an age that is highly impressionable, experimental, and prime to taking risks while ignoring...
Display of Easy Wash laundry appliances at Bensinger Furniture, plus a demonstration of a machine by a man, and a group photo of men and women with the machines.
Baseball cards; Athletes; Baseball players; Chicago Cubs (Baseball team)
Frank Schulte or Frank M. Schulte (1882-1949) also known as Wildfire. Color portrait of Frank Schulte with the Chicago Cubs. A bear is in the top left corner and 'Cubs' is in the top right. Verso: Frank M. Schulte. Frank M. Schulte, one of the...
Exhibit booths; Department stores; Appliances; Washing machines
Display of washing machines in Herman Straus & Sons Co. booth in exhibit hall. Sign on backdrop reads "EASY Safe Breaks No Buttons Strains No Fabrics Damp-Dries Evenly Wringerless." Title supplied by cataloger.
Indian Gas Station, located on Bardstown Road at Midland Avenue in Louisville, Kentucky. Four women stand beside their cars, while a man looks under the hood of one (watched by three of the women), and another attendant fills up the car's tank....
Train on the center tracks in a row of four sets of railroad tracks beneath a metal railroad sign that crosses the tracks. In the background the tracks curve around a tree-covered mountain. There are trees to the left below a drop-off. Two people...
Large, four-story building with a two-story front porch and balcony and a tower in the center. Surrounded by manicured lawns and trees with hills in the background. Title: Glen Park Hotel, The Tourist's Home, Ten minutes walk from Depot, convenient...
"Gala-Leda rendered 'in accordance with the modern "nothing touches" theory of intra-atomic physica' (Dali)." (Caption); Dali himself was only too happy to admit his debt to Gala. In the early 1930s he had begun to sign his...
"For their palace walls the Assyrian kings commissioned extensive series of narrative reliefs exalting royal power and piety. The sculptures record not only battlefield victories but also the slaying of wild animals. […] The degree of...
