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Mid-Cretaceous Palynoflora from Central Mid-Pacific Ocean
(2012-10-19)
Albian (late Early Cretaceous) pollen and spores were used to reconstruct the floral history of Allison Guyot in the Albian period, to better understand pollen and spore distributions on mid-oceanic islands, to investigate ...
Race Appropriate Sports: Is Golf Considered More Appropriate for Whites Compared to Racial Minorities?
(2012-10-19)
For various reasons, certain races tend to play particular sports. Sports with low costs of participation (e.g., basketball and football) have higher percentages of minority participants relative to sports with high costs ...
Painterly Shading Ocean Surface
(2015-10-27)
In this research study we explored the topic of bringing aesthetic characteristics from a seascape oil painting into 3D computer graphics. By applying the idea of barycentric shaders, we proposed a new shading workflow that ...
Behavior and Design of Spread Prestressed Concrete Slab Beam Bridges
(2015-09-18)
The Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT) uses precast prestressed concrete slab beam bridges in a side-by-side configuration for short span bridges in low clearance areas. A new bridge type called a spread slab beam ...
Assessing the Potential of Natural Microbial Communities to Improve a Second-Generation Biofuels Platform
(2012-10-19)
Naturally occurring microbial communities from high-salt and/or high-temperature environments were collected from sites across the United States and Puerto Rico and screened for their efficacy in the MixAlco biofuel ...
Optimal Reservoir Management and Well Placement Under Geologic Uncertainty
(2012-10-19)
Reservoir management, sometimes referred to as asset management in the context of petroleum reservoirs, has become recognized as an important facet of petroleum reservoir development and production operations.
In the ...
Estimation of High Dimensional Factor Models Under General Conditions
(2016-03-02)
High dimensional factor models have drawn attention in both empirical and theoretical studies. Correctly specifying the number of factors (r) is a fundamental issue for the application of factor models. We develop an ...
Modeling Human-Robot Interaction in Three Dimensions
(2015-08-27)
This dissertation answers the question: Can a small autonomous UAV change a person's movements by emulating animal behaviors? Human-robot interaction
(HRI) has generally been limited to engagements with ground robots at ...
Computational Investigation of Sensitivity of the Crossflow Instability to Two-Dimensional Surface Imperfections
(2015-09-18)
The interaction between two-dimensional steps and gaps with stationary crossflow vortices on a swept laminar wing has been investigated using computational methods. Using flow conditions as experienced in complementary ...
Streamline Tracing and Time of Flight Diagnostics for Waterflooding Optimization: Theory and Application
(2015-09-15)
The objective of this work is to demonstrate the power and utility of streamline-based methods for flow diagnostics and waterflooding optimization. The robustness and high efficiency of the new post-simulation streamline ...