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Carbon Nanotube Based Microbattery
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2009-02-09)The inspiration for the presented work was an investigation by Madou and Wang of UC-Irvine using amorphous carbon pillars as electrodes for a microbattery. These pillars were fabricated in alternating rows of anodes and ... -
Comedy in the Commons: Question & Answer Session with Dad’s Garage
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Conversations with a Killer Bacterium
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2009-02-09)Bacteria communicate with each other by releasing signal molecules into the environment that travel between cells. When the molecules accumulate, surface receptors detect the signals and trigger pathways that alter gene ... -
Correlations Between Company’s Investment in IT and Other Business Factors
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Experimental Plasmatron Heat Flux Measuring Techniques Study
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2009-11-09)Ground testing for hypersonic re-entry vehicles is an invaluable methodology to vehicle conception. The Von Karman Institute plasmatron is a facility that can duplicate the localized aerothermodynamic properties and ... -
Haunting Histories of the Female Body Symposium [Panel discussion]
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2007-02-01) -
Hemodynamic Assessment of Bicuspid Aortic Valves as a Clinical Diagnostic Tool
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2010-11-18)Bicuspid Aortic Valves (BAV) is the most common congenital cardiac defect occurring in approximately 1-2% of the newborn population in the USA. This defect results from the presence of two leaflets, typically unequal-sized, ... -
How We Think: The Transforming Power of Digital Technologies
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2009-01-15)The emerging field of the Digital Humanities challenges many of the assumptions and practices of the Traditional Humanities. For those who are developing digital tools, resources, archives, and text and data mining ... -
IDEA: Improvisation for Design of Engineering Alternatives
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2010-02-24)Improvisation for Design of Engineering Alternatives (IDEA) is a group of Georgia Tech researchers who apply the techniques of improvisational humor to catalyze technical innovation. While this approach has been used in ... -
Improv Comedy in Cyberspace: Multimedia Improvisation
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Improvisation and Technical Innovation
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2009-11-09) -
Inducing a thermogenic response to cold shock in Escherichia coli
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2010-11-18)Microorganisms respond to environmental stress through several means for survival. This research project aims to engineer Escherichia coli cells to generate heat in response to a cold-shock. Altering a cell’s reaction to ... -
Local Food: Sustainability is Participation
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2008-03-03)Eating local is more than a consumer experience. It means rebuilding a whole web of relations and demands not only interactions with farmers, but more of us becoming food producers directly involved with the sources of our ... -
Mad Houser Pecha Kucha
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2008-02-28) -
The mechanism of proteoglycan membrane anchorage affects the endocytic pathway of cellular cargo
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2009-02-09)Endocytosis is the process by which the cell is able to take up materials from the extracellular space into the cytosol by enclosing it within its cell membrane. Mechanistically, this is often accomplished by a receptor ... -
Molecular midwives: The solution to strand cyclization in the pre-RNA world
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2009-11-09)In recent years, the RNA-world hypothesis has become the leading theory for the origins of life. Few researchers, though, believe RNA could have spontaneously appeared out of the primordial soup. Regardless of the speculation ... -
Privacy Please! Part I: A Constitutional History of Wiretapping
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2007-09-18) -
Privacy Please! Part II: Who's Listening Now?
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2007-09-20) -
Q & A on the LEC showing of Fanya Kaplan
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2007-04-11) -
Remembrance and Reconciliation
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2006-09-28)This event was one of a wide range of activities that took place at local universities and at other venues around the city under the general auspices of the citywide Coalition to Remember the 1906 Atlanta Race Riot. Panel ...