The piecewise-constant Walsh, Paley, and Haar systems are defined as examples of first-order basis functions. The orthogonal second-order basis functions are produced by integrating the first-order functions, then ...

This dissertation confirms war as the zenith of aesthetic experience and demonstrates the pragmatic nature of war through explication of John Dewey’s aesthetic philosophy. Likewise, the coherency of Carl von Clausewitz’s ...

The Vietnam antiwar movement developed in the American Southwest out of a coalition of Chicanos, GI's, and students who agreed that the Vietnam War was racist, imperialist, costly, and negatively affected them and their ...

Motivated by the need for strong female depictions in our culture, as well as the desire to research and pay tribute to the women workers of World War II, the author initiated the War Women project as the focus of this ...

Climatic change has been the subject of investigation and spirited debate for more than three centuries. One important element of this debate has been the search for and definition of unique, impermanent climatic regimes ...

A construction site is a risky workplace with constant movement of heavy vehicles on ground and cranes overhead, and simultaneous construction work at multiple levels along with significantly high noise levels. Over the ...

This dissertation focuses on Bayesian sampling, Bayesian evidence estimation and supervised functional principle component analysis (PCA) and the corresponding theoretical, computational and application challenges. In ...

Warwick was an English galleon that sank in 1619 off the coast of Bermuda while transporting colonists and goods. The wreck was excavated in 2010-2012 under the direction of Dr. Piotr Bojakowski and Dr. Katie Custer-Bojakowski, ...

This study examines households’ knowledge, attitudes and adjustments toward volcanic threat through an investigation of the population at risk from Mt. Rainier. To bridge the gaps of previous volcano research, I first ...

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