Browsing Electronic Theses, Dissertations, and Records of Study (2002– ) by Title
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(Texas A&M University, 2008-10-10)The objective of this research is to demonstrate a robotic wheelchair moving in an unknown environment with collision-avoidance navigation. A real-time path-planning algorithm was implemented by detecting the range to ...
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(2020-05-19)Autonomous navigation capabilities for spacecraft are useful for decreasing operational costs, increasing the scope of missions, and increasing the robustness of spacecraft. This dissertation aims to present and fully ...
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(2020-07-29)The advent of autonomous vehicles presents both opportunities and challenges to planners who might see the potential of new technologies in supporting more compact cities but worry about the potential downsides of ...
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(2017-12-06)Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is the most common type of human liver cancer and it is now the second leading cause of cancer death worldwide. In the United States, its incidence has tripled since 1980 and the death rates ...
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(2017-04-21)The mechanisms by which the immune system distinguishes self from non-self are essential in providing protection from pathogenic invaders and to prevent autoimmunity. Over the last few decades, the discovery of regulatory ...
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(2022-06-21)Recommender systems are highly specialized to handle specific data and tasks. For example, Neural Collaborative Filtering [1] takes the implicit interaction between user and item IDs as the input data for the rating ...
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(2016-08-09)Biosynthetic alternatives for high-density petroleum derived tactical fuels, like JP-8 and JP-10, remain elusive given their tremendously high energy densities, low temperature viscosity and cloud point. Limonene, a bicyclic ...
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(2019-04-08)The major focus of this research is on sensor fusion. Sensor fusion means to combine multiple sensory input or data from different source such that the performance is better than the best performance would be when those ...
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(2018-01-18)Wireless communication systems in recent years have aimed at increasing data rates by ensuring flexible and efficient use of the radio spectrum. The dernier cri in this field has been in the area of carrier aggregation and ...
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(2009-05-15)Obesity is an increasingly prevalent problem and many chronic diseases are associated with excess body fat. Understanding factors which contribute to excess body fat is a primary step in curtailing the obesity epidemic. ...
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(2017-10-17)Proventricular dilatation disease (PDD) is a fatal viral disease that affects mainly psittacine birds, although some non-psittacine species can be affected. Gastrointestinal and/or neurological signs can be seen in ...
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Avian Haemosporidians: Detection, Host, and Climate Association Across Contrasting Regions of Africa (2018-01-23)Avian haemosporidians make up one of the most widely distributed and diverse vector borne parasite systems, found nearly worldwide. While there has been growth in the use of avian haemosporidians as a model system for ...
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(2011-08-08)Noise pollution can mask or distort bird songs, which inhibits mating success, predator detection, and parental response to begging calls. Road noise can cause lowered density and reproductive success in songbirds. I ...
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(2018-07-17)Aviation archaeology as a field of study has struggled with competing academic, professional, and public definitions and priorities since its establishment. In some ways, this sub-discipline of historical or underwater ...
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(Texas A&M University, 2004-09-30)I here present a combined AVO analysis of P-P and P-S reflection data whose objective is to improve the identification of lithology by estimating the specific values of Poisson's ratio, [sigma], for each rock formation in ...
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(2013-11-05)With attention to parenting, mothering, and fathering in the academy and attention to pediatric nutrition in the sciences, this study meets at their intersection. Using a critical approach to study narrative, this inquiry ...
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(2011-08-08)Current orbital solutions for 99942 Apophis predict a close approach to the Earth in April 2029. The parameters of that approach affect the future trajectory of Apophis, potentially leading to an impact in 2036, 2056, 2068, ...
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(2009-06-02)In this thesis, a list of aspects or characteristics of sustainable development awareness in a society was made from a literature review of the history of sustainable development, theories and practices on sustainable ...
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(2010-10-12)The primary purpose of the study was tri-fold. The study was conducted to (1) determine differences between faculty users and faculty non-users awareness, perceptions and attitudes about the role and processes of the IRB ...
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(2020-05-13)Numerical methods are often used to approximate the solutions to partial differential equations. Each problem may warrant the use of multiple numerical methods to solve for each domain over which the problem is posed. For ...