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Towards Personally Relevant Navigation: Interaction Effects of Cognitive Style and Map Orientation on Spatial Knowledge Development
(2022-04-20)
Under the emergency situations such as floods and fires, or indoor navigation when the local landmarks and GPS is no longer available, the acquisition of comprehensive environmental representation became particularly ...
Preparations for the Irradiation of U-10Zr Alloys to Reveal Microstructure and Behavior Evolution to Enable MARMOT Code Development
(2022-04-28)
An irradiation test using the uranium 10 wt.% zirconium (U-10Zr) alloy has been prepared for insertion in the Advanced Test Reactor (ATR) at Idaho National Laboratory (INL). The overall objective is to demonstrate the ...
Bayesian Models for the Aggregation of Public Opinion Survey Data
(2022-02-10)
Public opinion polling data has unique features that complicate statistical inference. Polling
data is often non-representative of the population it aims to estimate. It is also common for individual polls to have a large ...
Chinese Women's Career Interruptions: A Constructivist Grounded Theory Study
(2022-04-06)
Career interruptions cause severe penalties such as wage decrease, position loss, and self-doubt. The situation is even worse for women, who are still widely perceived as primary caregivers and housekeepers in many cultures. ...
A Non-Intrusive Reduced Order Model for Parametric Reactor Kinetics Simulations
(2022-04-13)
This work develops a non-intrusive, equation-free reduced-order model (ROM) for parametric reactor kinetics simulations. Non-intrusive, equation-free ROMs have many distinctive advantages compared to their intrusive ...
Bayesian Spanning Tree Models for Complex Spatial Data
(2022-04-20)
In many applications, spatial data often display heterogeneous dependence patterns and may be subject to irregular geographic constraints. In light of these challenges, this dissertation develops several novel Bayesian ...
Exploring Identity Formation and Identity Salience Among Sexuality Educators
(2022-03-08)
This dissertation contains three separate studies exploring professional identity formation and identity salience among sexuality educators. First, a scoping literature review is presented (n = 8 studies), summarizing how ...
Cottonseed Shear Strength as Affected by Moisture Content
(2022-04-27)
Cotton gins struggle to process cotton when the cotton is excessively moist. Cotton gins must slow down processing rate and increase dryer temperatures to gin cotton with high moisture contents. The slowdown in the ginning ...
Narrative & Meaning: The Effects of Autobiographical Reasoning vs Memory Reexperiencing in Life Review on Meaning in Life in Young Adults
(2022-04-21)
Despite their many commonalities, there is little research exploring connections between narrative and existential psychology. This experiment aimed to begin to bridge the gap between fields by examining the effects of a ...
Emblematic Legitimacy: Sports, Organizations, and Symbols
(2022-04-19)
Research in this dissertation is a recontextualization of social and cultural theories into the rich world of symbols and their meanings within sports as a totemic phenomenon. The purposes of this dissertation are to ...