The Yanbu Refinery Laboratory (YR Lab) is committed to providing quality analytical services for Saudi Aramco petroleum facilities in Yanbu. The laboratory analyzes crude oil, gasoline, diesel, kerosene, jet fuel, LPG, water, wastewater and environmental samples. This study exam…
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Recently, scientific research studies focus on renewable energy solutions as well as energy efficiency in managing the upcoming climate crisis which manifests itself in the form of global warming. However, the chaotic nature of renewable energy sources caused energy storage tech…
Mesoporous silica nanoparticles (MSN) are utilized by many applications due to their high surface to volume ratio, tunable pore size, low toxicology, and colloidal stability. These properties make silica nanoparticles good candidates for targeted drug delivery applications. Targ…
The Keban Dam Rescue Project was initiated in 1967 to record and study the history of the Keban region in Eastern Turkey about to be inundated. The project brought scholars of several disciplines together to document, in a relatively limited amount of time, the past and the land…
Silybum marianum L. Gaertn. (commonly referred to as milk thistle) is a weed that has been used medicinally for over 2000 years. The therapeutic qualities of milk thistle are due to the presence of the flavonolignan silymarin. Herbal medicine is becoming increasingly popular in …
Considering molecular interactions within the cell and with the environment can advance our understanding of opportunistic pathogens within a framework of ecology and evolution. For the opportunistic pathogen Proteus mirabilis, self recognition impacts swarming, a collective mot…
Marine fishes and invertebrates are an essential human food resource and are becoming more important as the human population continues to grow. As the climate continues to change, the overall impact of these changes on fisheries is unknown. It is necessary to understand the effe…
Westerners have long imagined, represented, and treated islands around the globe as “natural laboratories” given their perceived geographic isolation. It was on islands that colonizers first conducted “experiments” in imperial expansion via the establishment of plantation econom…
The Mesoproterozoic (1.4–0.9 Ga) Grenville Orogeny led to the formation of the supercontinent Rodinia. One unique characteristic of the Grenville Orogeny is that it produced a volumetrically significant amount of zirconium- (Zr) enriched granitoids, evidently more than any perio…
This dissertation examines how lexical tone can be represented with articulatory gestures, and the ways a gestural perspective can inform synchronic and diachronic analysis of the phonology and phonetics of a language. Tibetan is chosen an example of a language with interacting …
The Truckee Meadows is subjected to significant seismic risk, primarily resultingfrom the regions proximity to Mount Rose Fault system and the urban area's presencewithin a large, thin (< 1Km thick) sedimentary basin. Numerous paleoseismic studieshave shown the system has a h…
Existing methods proposed for estimating the earthquake-induced one-dimensional free-field settlement in saturated soil, focus on the post-liquefaction permanent volumetric strain. These methods rely on undrained cyclic laboratory tests that subject the sandy samples to uniform …
Expanded carrier screening (ECS) is used to determine risk for couples to have a child with an autosomal recessive (AR) or X-linked recessive (XLR) condition prior to or during pregnancy. ECS has increased in popularity over the past several years, and multiple studies have eval…
Characterization of downhole formation properties by interpreting physical responses of logging tools is the basis of petrophysical studies. Amongst the wide array of instruments utilized in these studies, nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) is the only measurement capable of deter…
Aqueous lyotropic liquid crystals (LLCs) comprise a class of ordered morphologies formed by self-assembly of amphiphiles in water. LLCs assume a variety of concentration- and temperature-dependent structures including lamellae (bilayers), bicontinuous networks, hexagonally-packe…
Effective measures for the conservation of biodiversity require an understanding of the extent and distribution of diversity within and among species. Studies focussed on providing such understanding can benefit from increasingly powerful and accessible genome-wide data. Overexp…
Objective(s): To examine the association between isoniazid preventive therapy and incipient tuberculosis (TB) transcriptome-based signatures in persons with HIV (PWH) and to describe the association between non-tuberculous mycobacteria (NTM) and incipient TB signatures in PWH.
Research on current methods of ancestral estimation must reflect on biological heritage to aid in human identification. Using modern craniometrics methods, how do individuals with a varied biological history affect ancestral estimation? Today, the most used and reliable methods …
The work presented in this dissertation is primarily aimed at improving the understanding of the electrical properties of the insulating polymer crosslinked polyethylene (XLPE) in order to support its use as power cable insulation. XLPE has been used for decades as the material …