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Most reactions in organic chemistry do not proceed in a single step but rather take several steps to yield the desired product. In the course of these multi-step reaction sequences, short-lived intermediates can be generated that quickly convert into other intermediates, reactants, products or side products....

American Ajja tells the story of Shankar Hegde’s focused, thoughtful, sometimes rough and sometimes tender blending of two cultures into one well-lived life. This book should appeal to all Americans and especially to immigrants who are trying to make America their new home....

The core objective of this research is to provide a methodology for obtaining guidance based on empirical evidences on pavement marking replacement times. This dissertation investigates the degradation process of pavement marking visibility over time in the United States using semi-parametric family of duration models....

Empirical application of state-contingent approach has proved difficult, not because this approach is intractable, but because in the state-contingent framework it is difficult to estimate the production technology in the face of endogenous producers responding to uncertainty....

The original contribution of this thesis is two-fold: a) it addresses a gap in the published literature on the accommodation of potential information from segments that are observed to have not crashes, which as a result can affect the estimated severity distributions; and b) by accounting for such selection effects, the thesis also makes original ...

The short-channel and hot-carrier effects that arise when MOSFET devices are scaled down to very short channel lengths is a major topic of research in the area of VLSI technology. Grooved gate MOSFETS alleviate many of these. Here a systematic study of the major electrical characteristics of grooved gate device is done at gate lengths of 100 nm....