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Households’ Evacuation Decision in Response to Hurricanes Katrina and Rita
(2014-08-07)
Although evacuation has been recognized as an effective protective action in responding to a hurricane emergency, it is still not clear why some people leave but others do not. In order to better understand this issue, ...
The Past, Present, and Future of the U.S. Electric Power Sector: Examining Regulatory Changes Using Multivariate Time Series Approaches
(2016-04-08)
The U.S. energy sector has undergone continuous change in the regulatory, technological, and market environments. These developments show no signs of slowing. Accordingly, it is imperative that energy market regulators and ...
Active and Knowledge-based Process Safety Incident Retrieval System
(2011-10-21)
The sustainability and continued development of the chemical industry is to a large extent dependent on learning from past incidents. The failure to learn from past mistakes is rather not deliberate but due to unawareness ...
Characterization of Feeding Behavior Traits and Associations with Performance and Feed Efficiency in Finishing Beef Cattle
(2011-10-21)
The first objective of this study was to validate the feeding behavior measurements from a radio frequency electronic system (GrowSafe (TM) System Ltd., Airdrie, AB, Canada) and examine the software sensitivity to different ...
Characterization of Microexplosion Phenomena of Methanol-Glycerol Mixtures
(2014-07-17)
Due to the fast growth of biodiesel production capacity, the amount of glycerol has increased rapidly. Furthermore, the supply of glycerol has exceeded the demand needs in the market. In addition, there is a great demand ...
Automated Neurovascular Tracing and Analysis of the Knife-Edge Scanning Microscope Rat Nissl Data Set Using a Computing Cluster
(2015-12-12)
3D reconstruction of the neurovascular networks in the brain is a first step toward the analysis of their function. However, existing three dimensional imaging techniques have not been able to image tissues on a large scale ...
At-Speed Path Delay Test
(2015-04-27)
This research describes an approach to test metastability of flip-flops with help of multiple at-speed capture cycles during delay test. K longest paths per flip-flop test patterns are generated, such that a long path on ...
Motion Processing and From-from-Apparent-Motion in Infancy
(2014-08-05)
Motion-carried information is a salient visual cue used in object perception to parse form in the optical array. The present research examined infants’ ability to extract form shapes in apparent motion stimuli, controlling ...
Digitally Assisted Multi-Channel Receivers
(2011-10-21)
This work presents a data estimation scheme for wide band multi-channel charge
sampling receivers with sinc filter banks together with a complete system calibration and
synchronization algorithm for the receiver. A unified ...
Essays on Voluntary Contribution with Private Information and Threshold Uncertainty
(2014-07-08)
This dissertation concerns individual voluntary contributions in the subscription game with three important model considerations: private information on public good valuations, threshold uncertainty and the timing of the ...