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Development of Nuclear Reactor remote Monitoring software (NRM) for the Star project
(Texas A&M University, 2002)
As a response to the needs of developing countries to meet their rapidly growing energy requirements, the Safe, Transportable, Autonomous Reactor (STAR) program originated. This concept relies on small, passively safe, and ...
Seasonal variation of upper-level mobile trough development upstream of the Pacific storm track
(Texas A&M University, 2002)
The purpose of this thesis is to investigate seasonal and interannual statistics of troughs associated with the Pacific storm track and quantify the influence of deformation on trough development upstream of the western ...
Evaluating biological control of fire ants using phorid flies: effects on competitive interactions
(Texas A&M University, 2002)
Our first objective was to assess the host specificity of the parasitic phorid fly, Pseudacteon tricuspis Borgmeier, in the laboratory against two ant species native to the United States, Solenopsis geminata (F.) þ S. ...
Design of cooperative mobile robot system: a low-cost test-bed and an example application
(Texas A&M University, 2002)
Implementation of cooperative robot systems in search, exploration, or delivery tasks can potentially provide advantages over a single robot system. For example, better performance, fault tolerance through agent redundancy, ...
Plumbing fixture patterns through audio sampling
(Texas A&M University, 2002)
Pipe sizing criteria, and thus building water utility connections, are currently based upon a very small statistical sampling of plumbing fixtures performed in the late 1930's. This sampling became the basis for the Hunter ...
Genetic relationships of American alligator populations distributed across different ecological and geographic scales
(Texas A&M University, 2002)
Although much work has been conducted on coastal populations of the American alligator (Alligator mississippiensis), less is known about the population dynamics and genetic structure of alligator populations confined to ...
Geologic selection methodology for transportation corridor routing
(Texas A&M University, 2002)
A lack of planning techniques and processes on long, linear, cut and cover-tunneling route transportation systems has resulted because of the advancement of transportation systems into underground corridors. The proposed ...
Use of partner agents in training systems for complex tasks
(Texas A&M University, 2002)
Complex tasks are an important part of the world today, but training people to perform complex tasks is difficult. These kinds of tasks usually have variable cognitive loads on the trainee, and, once trained, different ...
U.S. consumers' acceptance and willingness to buy irradiated food
(Texas A&M University, 2002)
A consumer intercept survey was conducted to evaluate consumers' attitude and awareness, as well as their willingness to accept irradiated food products. The primary data for this analysis were collected in Spring 2001. A ...
Optimizing well-stimulation treatment size using mixed integer linear programming
(Texas A&M University, 2002)
This thesis presents a model for optimum sizing of well stimulation treatments. The optimization scheme is based on a combination of a well stimulation type selection and treatment size, therefore determining the optimum ...