Browsing UW-Madison Open Dissertations and Theses by Title
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PRODUCING PROTEIN FILMS WITH BIOBASED ADDITIVES AS A SUSTAINABLE PLASTIC PACKAGING ALTERNATIVE
(2025-08-21)As an alternative to traditional plastic food packaging, interest has increased in biopolymers because they are more sustainable than conventional plastics. For example, plant-based proteins can be sourced from various ... -
PRODUCING RACIALIZED RISK: SCIENTIFIC DISCOURSE ON LEAD POISONING, 1849-1978
(2024-12-17)Lead poisoning, a racially disparate toxic exposure, is an exemplar of contemporary environmental racism and has been problematized by researchers accordingly. Governmentally, primary prevention – preemptively removing ... -
Public relations information and practices as viewed by women's newspaper editors
(1973)Contents include: scope and conduct of the study, description of women's departments, use of public relations materials in women's sections of newspapers, use of business recipe releases and free product samples, newspaper ... -
PYTHON CODE PACKAGE FOR MEASURING NANO INDENTATION IMAGE
(2025-06-06)I construct an automated method for measuring the areas of nanoindents from atomic force microscope (AFM) and scanning electron microscope (SEM) images. My automated image analysis code involves image segmentation including ... -
A PYTHON-BASED FRAMEWORK FOR CAD-INTEGRATED 3D TOPOLOGY OPTIMIZATION
(2025-12-15)Topology optimization (TO) is a powerful and widely used design methodology in structural engineering and product design. While numerous academic software tools exist for 2D and 3D TO, they often focus on relatively simple ... -
The Quaker influence on Emerson
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A qualitative study exploring financial health literacy, medication cost and shared decision-making in patient provider communication
(2025-06-12)Background: Financial health literacy is at the intersection of both financial literacy and health literacy and is key to patients knowing the right questions to ask healthcare providers about medical care costs. Health ... -
Quantifying a Common Inconsistency in RANS-VoF Modeling of Water and Oil Core Annular Flow
(2024-10-04)Current trends in modeling CAF of oil and water combine the interface capturing method- ology of VoF with the computational savings of a RANS approach. As demonstrated mathematically, this results in an inconsistency in ... -
QUANTIFYING CONNECTIVITY: A RECOVERY NETWORK OF AMERICAN MARTENS (MARTES AMERICANA) IN THE UPPER GREAT LAKES REGION
(2023-12-21)The reintroduction of species back into their former ranges is increasingly occurring in landscapes that differ dramatically from historical conditions. These novel landscapes often feature unknown connectivity, leading ... -
Quantifying Estimation Errors in Robust Vision-Based Control: An Extreme Value Theory Approach
(2025-05-09)Modern autonomous systems—from classical state-estimators to deep learning based visual inertial odometry (VIO)—depend on noisy, high- dimensional sensor data to estimate their state. Quantifying and bound- ing these ... -
QUANTIFYING LEACHABLE PHOSPHORUS FROM COMMON URBAN TREE SPECIES
(2024-08-23)Urban runoff containing high amounts of nutrients like nitrogen (N) and phosphorus (P) has long been established as a driver of surface water eutrophication. In residential areas, a primary source of nutrients is derived ...
