Browsing Electronic Theses, Dissertations, and Records of Study (2002– ) by Title
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(2023-07-30)Today, decarbonization initiatives pose changes to the power grid, involving a shift away from carbon-based sources of energy. From a generation perspective, this means an increase in the prevalence of renewable generation ...
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(2020-11-12)Melons (Cucumis melo) have abundant health-promoting phytochemicals; understanding how these change during postharvest storage provides important information for preserving these phytochemicals. Here, we tested three ...
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(2011-10-21)This dissertation investigates the extraction of knowledge from a known environment. Virtual ontology – the extracted knowledge – is defined as a structure of a virtual environment with semantics. While many existing 3D ...
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(2010-07-14)Since the early 1960s, Abrikosov-Gorkov theory has been used to describe superconductors with paramagnetic impurities. Interestingly, the density of states resulting from the theoretical framework has to date only been ...
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(Texas A&M University, 2006-04-12)This study presents the results of an extraction of the 2nd-order nonlinear responses from model test data. Emphasis is given on the effects of assumptions made for the Gaussian and non-Gaussian input on the estimation of ...
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(2014-08-08)The heavy use of pesticides in agriculture, have encouraged researchers to evaluate their behavior and potential environmental impacts of newer herbicides when applied alone or in combination with other herbicides. Mesotrione ...
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(2013-07-02)The interplay between convective processes and the stabilizing effects of largescale systems remains debated, especially for warmer climates. We study sets of simulations of past and present climates in which carbon dioxide ...
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(2011-08-08)Accurate determination of the tropopause is important for applications such as dynamical analysis and forecasting, radiative transfer calculations, and the diagnosis of chemical transport in the atmosphere. In this paper, ...
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(2012-02-14)This work provides first and second-order expressions to approximate neighboring solutions to the m-point boundary value problem. Multi-point problems arise in optimal control because of interior constraints or switching ...
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(2010-10-12)Since the devastating hurricane seasons of 2004, 2005, and 2008, the stability and serviceability of coastal bridges during and following hurricane events have become a main public concern. Twenty coastal bridges, critical ...
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(2023-05-01)This dissertation investigates extreme temperature events, their drivers, and their impact on society across three main sections. As the climate warms, understanding these events and their consequences becomes increasingly ...
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(2012-07-16)Recent hurricanes in the Gulf of Mexico (e.g., Ivan, Dennis, Katrina, Rita and Ike) were observed to develop wave conditions that were near or exceeded the predicted 100-year conditions. As a result, many offshore facilities, ...
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(2017-12-13)This dissertation presents an experimental investigation of three different scenarios on the interaction between extreme waves and offshore/coastal structures: (1) plunging breaking wave impingement on a tension-leg platform ...
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(2009-06-02)This investigates the velocity fields of a plunging breaking wave impinging on a structure through measurements in a two-dimensional wave tank. As the wave breaks and overtops the structure, so-called green water is ...
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(2019-11-19)This study was designed to understand the seismic interpretation workflows employed by graduate level geoscientists, and to identify behaviors and practices consistent with higher levels of expertise, through the use of ...
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(2016-04-29)Predictive modeling of human visual search behavior and the underlying metacognitive processes is now possible thanks to significant advances in bio-sensing device technology and machine intelligence. Eye tracking bio-sensors, ...
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(2017-07-24)The flipped SU(5) grand unification model with additional vector-like multiplets (FSU(5)) in the framework of General No-scale Supergravity is studied. The highly constrained soft supersymmetry breaking terms of the ...
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(2014-09-24)The mechanisms responsible for aseismic creep along the central section of the San Andreas Fault are not well understood. Evidence for both pressure- and chemical-dependent microprocesses of creep have been reported. Here, ...
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(2012-02-14)Recovered core samples from the San Andreas Fault Observatory at Depth (SAFOD), located near Parkfield, CA, offer a unique opportunity to study the products of faulting and to learn about the mechanisms of slip at 3 km ...
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(2015-11-16)This thesis works deals with the fabrication and characterization of Josephson Junctions. An upgrade over the existing fabricating process with the aim of integrating Josephson Junctions with hetero-structure based HEMT ...