Abstracts
Below, you will find a list of presentations at GRID, starting with 2009. The presentations are only shown after they are organized into sessions. Clicking on the titles will show the abstracts along with detailed session information.
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Presentations for GRID 2009
A1: Advances in Technology 1
| Name | Title |
|---|---|
| Shenqiang Ren | Multiferroic Nanostructures through Block Copolymer Self-Assembly |
| Eric Montgomery | Dispenser Photocathodes for Free Electron Lasers: Let's Get Fresh! |
| Aaron Gerratt | Silicon and Elastomer Components for Microrobots |
| Daniel Lenski | High-frequency characterization of organic electronic devices |
| Kunal Kothari | Manufacturing and Processing Methods for Gamma Titanium Aluminides with Enhanced Mechanical Properties |
| Alfred Haas | Analog VLSI Circuits for Biosensors, Neural Signal Processing and Prosthetics |
| Boce Zhang | Zein structures affected by pH, surfactant, and zein purity |
| Rakesh Kumar | Methods for Writing and Erasing Patterns in Gels and Films using Light |
A2: Culture, Literature and Society 2
A3: Modeling and Simulation 1
| Name | Title |
|---|---|
| Prashant Athavale | Multiscale image decomposition: From heat equation to a novel integro-differential equation |
| Konstantinos Spiliopoulos | Wave Front Propagation In Narrow Domains |
| Joseph Galante | Experimental Results for a Gyro Bias Adaptive Attitude Observer |
| Jared Grauer | A Multibody Model of an Ornithopter |
| Cammy Peterson | Collaberative Control of Autonomous Vehicles in a Time-Varying Flow Field |
| Hisham Abdalla | Estimation of Elevation and Azimuth in a Neuromorphic VLSI Bat Echolocation System |
| Farhan Choudhary | Dynamics of Free Piston Stirling Engines |
| Chuan-Fu Lin | Kinetic Monte Carlo Simulations of Nanostructure Evolution During Unstable Growth on Patterned Surface |
A4: Globalization
| Name | Title |
|---|---|
| J. Michael Ryan | Exploring Global Alternatives of Socioeconomic Organization: The Case of 21st Century Socialism |
| Jing Song | Global Assimilation and Global Alienation: Lives of Professional Women in Contemporary China |
| Susan D. Allen | Fighting Negative Identity |
| Kevin McClure | Madrasas and Pakistans Education Agenda: Western Media Misrepresentation and Policy Recommendations |
| Jesse Kirkpatrick | Justice After War and Unexploded Ordinance |
| Jaganath Sankaran | International Security Implications of Space Weapons |
A5: Environmental Issues 1
| Name | Title |
|---|---|
| Karen Grubb | Phosphorus Removal from Agricultural Drainage Ditches Using Gypsum Filter Structures |
| Jennifer Wallace | Building Peace through Sustainable Forest Management in Asia: Lessons Learned from USAID Initiatives |
| Justin Donnelly | Blue Crab Farming in Eastern Maryland |
| Irene Nguekam | Antimicrobial properties of essential oils against Salmonella in organic soil |
| Carmen Shank | Geosynthetic Filters for Water Quality Improvement of Urban Stormwater Runoff |
A6: Education
B1: Behavior and the Mind 2
| Name | Title |
|---|---|
| Laura Evans | Individual Perceptions of Couple Relationships: Implications for the Experience of Positive Behaviors |
| Serin Atiani | Effect of Task Difficulty on Cortical Receptive Field Plasticity |
| Alexia Nunez-Parra | Adult neurogenesis in the accessory olfactory bulb is regulated by odor exposure |
| Shiti Malhotra | Towards a unified account of Wh-movement |
| Sarah Friedman | Recognition of Rapid Speech by Blind and Sighted Older Adults |
| Rodolphe Gentili | Decoding of Non-Invasive Functional Brain Biomarkers for Sensorimotor Adaptation Assessed by Magnetoencephalography. |
B2: Culture, Literature and Society 1
B3: Exploring Identities and Popular Culture
| Name | Title |
|---|---|
| Roxanna Pebdani | Sex? Disability? Are Rehabilitation Counselors Talking? |
| Angel Miles | Homeownership Issues Affecting African American Women with Physical Disabilities |
| Randolph Baden | Persona: An Online Social Network with User-Defined Privacy |
| Jose-Luis Riera | Using Autoethnography to Construct Identities at the Intersections |
| Janet Awokoya | "I'm not enough of anything!": The racial and ethnic identity constructions and negotiations of one-point-five and second generation Nigerians |
| David Colón-Cabrera | Stress, Coping and Risk: Women Drug Users |
B4: Economy and Business
| Name | Title |
|---|---|
| Sungwoo Park | PORTFOLIO SELECTION USING TIKHONOV FILTERING TO ESTIMATE THE COVARIANCE MATRIX |
| Riccardo Vecchio | Farmers markets as a source of local foods for U.S. consumers |
| Takahiko Kiso | Technological Progress in Automobile Fuel Efficiency: An International Comparison |
| Kumar Pratap | What drives private sector to exit from infrastructure projects? An analysis of the cancellation of private infrastructure projects |
| Monica Garcia-Perez | Does it Matter who I work for and who I work with? The impact of owners and coworkers on wages and hiring |
| Mahdi Zanddizari | Channel Coordination under Random Selling Season: Quantity Buy-back and Price Protection |
| Yaron Shlomi | Cognitive integration of experience- and description-based information about probabilistic outcomes |
B5: Advances in Technology 2
| Name | Title |
|---|---|
| Adedayo Adeniran | Curing of Polymer Composite for Processing of HTPB-PAPI |
| Ashis Banerjee | Real-Time Path Planning for Automating Optical Tweezers based Particle Transport Operations |
| Jessica Rajkowski | A Multi-Material Milli-Robot Prototyping Process |
| Poorani Subramanian | A Boundary Value Problem in Genomics |
| Deepa Subramanian | Impurity Interfacial Profiles in Dilute Near-critical Fluids |
| Dominic Britti | Evidence for Surface Plasmon Standing Waves in Ag Nanostructure Arrays and Enhancement of Fluorescence |
B6: Urban Issues
C1: Health 2
C2: History and Sociology
C3: Physical Environment and Beyond
| Name | Title |
|---|---|
| Catherine Philpott | Three-Body Capture of Irregular Satellites |
| Ashley Choiniere | Post-Bottleneck Inbreeding Accumulation Reduces Fitness in Laboratory Populations of Tribolium castaneum under Environmental Stress |
| Donna Pahl | Risk Management for Field-Grown Tomatoes: Comparing Source of Spray Water on the Potential for Food-borne Human Pathogens |
| Kevin Barry | The role of phenology in competitive interactions between native and invasive herbaceous species |
| Nathan Jud | Recognizing subgenera in fossil Alnus: Implications for the Asian-North American Disjunct Distributions |
| Avani Sanghvi | Characterization of physico-chemical properties of algal biomeal and its potential as a value-added ingredient |
| Lynette Boswell | The Intersectional Discussion of Smart Growth and Place |
| Xiaoming Liu | Lithium as a Stable Tracer for Fluid-Rock Interactions in the Continental Crust |
C4: Smart Computers and Computer Science
| Name | Title |
|---|---|
| Dana Rotman | Are you looking at me? Social media and privacy literacy |
| Joseph Conroy | Biologically Inspired Micro Air Vehicle Visual Navigation |
| Cristian Lumezanu | Don't Love Thy Nearest Neighbor |
| Vidyu Challa | Effect of Joule Heating on the Reliability of Stamped Metal Sockets |
| Jeanne Kramer-Smyth | ArchivesZ: Visualizing Archival Collections |
| Darya Filippova | Interactive exploration of multivariate categorical data with CateRank |
| Kathryn Linehan | Information Retrieval through Various Approximate Matrix Decompositions |
| Dave Levin | TrInc: Small Trusted Hardware for Large Distributed Systems |
C5: Behavior and the Mind 1
C6: Health 1
D1: Pushing the Boundaries of Science 1
| Name | Title |
|---|---|
| Anand Ramanathan | Superflow and Persistent Currents in a Bose-Einstein Condensate |
| Bryan Eigenbrodt | In Situ, High Temperature Mapping of Interfacial Electrolyte Oxide Concentration in Operating Solid Oxide Fuel Cells with Vibrational Spectroscopy |
| Anastasia Voulgaraki | Estimation of Death Rates in US States With Small Subpopulations |
| Bevin Zauderer | Improving High Resolution Imaging in Millimeter Astronomy with a Paired Antenna Calibration System |
| Jennifer Johnson | Effects of Static Electric Field on Ultracold Rubidium Rydberg Atoms |
| Imraan Faruque | Insect Flight Dynamics |
D2: Pushing the Boundaries of Science 2
| Name | Title |
|---|---|
| CHANDRADIP PATEL | Temperature Effects on the Performance and Reliability of MEMS Gyroscope Sensors |
| Masoud Rabiei | Structural Health Monitoring Using Acoustic Emission |
| Matthew Beeler | Disordered Crystals of Light |
| Patrick Williams | Effects of pH on the texture stability of xanthan-curdlan hydrogel complex over multiple freeze-thaw cycles |
| Justin Grimes | Weathering the Storm: The Policy Implications of Cloud Computing |
| Krista Cosert | Low temperature Molecular Beam Epitaxy growths on lithographically patterned GaAs(001) |
D3: A Broad View of the Microscopic Cell
| Name | Title |
|---|---|
| Chi Cui | QUANTIFICATION OF F-ACTIN STRUCTURES IN ASTROCYTOMA CELLS IN RESPONSE TO CANDIDATE PHARMACEUTICALS |
| ARUN AMMAYAPPAN | Recombinant Novirhabdovirus made by reverse genetics technology as a virus vector |
| Edra London | Effects of 24 hour and 1 week access to sugar solutions on 11²-hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase and hexose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase |
| Varnika Roy | Metabolically Engineering the Quorum Sensing Circuitry to Modulate Bacterial Communication |
| Caroline Rocourt | The mechanism of seleniums effect on the non-homologous end-joining |
| Caroline Li | The Drosophila insulin receptor |
D4: Modeling and Simulation 2
| Name | Title |
|---|---|
| Massimiliano Di Capua | MINIMUM FUNCTIONALITY LUNAR HABITATION ELEMENT |
| Nicholas Wilson | Performance Robustness of a Magnetorheological Seat Suspension to Temperature Variations using Semi-active Control |
| Ritaja Sur | Time Series based Classification of Eye Movement Data |
| Sachit Butail | Tracking position and pose of multiple underwater vehicles: a probabilistic approach |
| Tamara Singleton | Data Assimilation in a Simplified Coupled Atmosphere-Ocean Model |
D5: Environmental Issues 2
| Name | Title |
|---|---|
| Philip Jones | Characterization of Metal Accumulation in Bioretention Media |
| Xiaofei Ma | Zn Nanocrystal Hydrolysis for Solar Hydrogen Generation |
| Rachel Rosenberg | Irrigation workers' exposures to antimicrobial-resistant bacteria and antimicrobials present in reclaimed wastewater |
| Ryan Richards | Island Prioritization Tool for Invasive Species Management |
| Sean O'Neill | Optimized bioretention soil media for nutrient capture and treatment |
D6: Interpreting Visual Culture and Images
| Name | Title |
|---|---|
| Melissa Browning | Reinventing Shakespeare in the Twentieth-Century African American Novel: Shakespeare's The Tempest in Gloria Naylor's Mama Day |
| Henrike Lehnguth | Islam and the 9/11 Hijackers in Film |
| Theresa Donofrio | Americas Holocaust : Holocaust Survivors Perceptions of Genocide Discourse in Antiabortion Rights Argumentation |
| Arthur Herbig | The Textualization of Pat Tillman: Depictions of Heroism, Masculinity, and the American Dream in Contemporary U.S. Political Culture |
| Mariano Kanamori | The Association of Media Messages and Social Networks with Cigarette Smoking Among Asthmatic Adolescents |
| Thomas Geary | Teaching and Evaluating Visual Rhetoric in Multimodal Wikis, Blogs, and Design-Texts |
| Lyrica Taylor | Modern Venetian Women at Work and Leisure: Interpreting John Singer Sargents Early Genre Paintings of Venice |
| Jean-Francois Savard | Mismatch between male plumage reflectance and female plumage preference in the satin bowerbird |