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Poliheuristic Theory and Alliance Dependence: Understanding Military Coalitions
(2012-07-16)
This dissertation examines an increasingly common phenomenon in the post-Cold War context, the military coalition. At the heart of the dissertation is thus the question: what explains political leaders’ participation and ...
The Bootstrap in Supervised Learning and its Applications in Genomics/Proteomics
(2012-07-16)
The small-sample size issue is a prevalent problem in Genomics and Proteomics today.
Bootstrap, a resampling method which aims at increasing the efficiency of data usage,
is considered to be an effort to overcome the problem ...
Rock Physics-Based Carbonate Reservoir Pore Type Evaluation by Combining Geological, Petrophysical and Seismic Data
(2012-07-16)
Pore type variations account for complex velocity-porosity relationship and intensive permeability heterogeneity and consequently low oil and gas recovery in carbonate reservoir. However, it is a challenge for geologist ...
Thin Film Solar Cells with Light Trapping Transparent Conducting Oxide Layer
(2012-07-16)
Thin film solar cells, if film thickness is thinner than the optical absorption length, typically give lower cell performance. For the thinner structure, electric current loss due to light penetration can offset the electric ...
Micro Joining of Aluminum Graphite Composites
(2012-07-16)
Advanced aluminum graphite composites have unique thermal properties due to opposing coefficients of thermal expansion of aluminum and graphite. The thermal and mechanical properties of such composites are anisotropic due ...
Thermoregulation of the testicle in response to exercise and subsequent effects on seminal characteristics in stallions
(2012-07-16)
Studies performed on stallions have characterized detrimental effects on semen quality resulting from thermal stress by testicular insulation, but few have investigated the effects of exercise-induced increases in core ...
Diagnosis and Isolation of Air Gap Eccentricities in Closed-loop Controlled Doubly-Fed Induction Generators
(2012-07-16)
With the widespread use of doubly-fed induction generators (DFIG) in wind energy conversion systems, condition monitoring is being given importance. Non-intrusive techniques like motor current signature analysis (MCSA), ...
Simulated Fatigue Damage Index on Mooring Lines of a Gulf of Mexico Truss Spar Determined from Recorded Field Data
(2012-07-16)
The Constitution Truss Spar, operated by Anadarko Petroleum Corporation (APC), is located in Green Canyon Block 679 and 680 in a water depth of 1,500 m. It was installed in October of 2006 and has since weathered multiple ...
Performance of Early Retransmission Scheme and Delay Based Protocol in Video Streaming
(2012-07-16)
In this paper, we propose an early retransmission scheme to improve TCP's performance in delivering time-sensitive media. Our extensive ns2 simulations show significant improvement. When integrated into a traditional TCP ...
Optimal Distributed Beamforming for MISO Interference Channels
(2012-07-16)
In this thesis, the problem of quantifying the Pareto optimal boundary of the achievable rate region is considered over multiple-input single-output(MISO)interference channels, where the problem boils down to solving a ...