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Adaptive Expertise and Contextualized Activities in Computer Aided Design
(2015-05-04)
In today’s highly competitive market with economic, environmental, and social challenges, it is imperative that engineers are educated to adapt to the new challenges. Engineering education could play a critical role to ...
Expression Analysis and Mapping of the Semigamy Gene in Cotton (Gossypium barbadense L.)
(2015-04-24)
Several naturally occurring apomicts rely on various forms of semigamous reproduction, where female and male nuclei fail to fuse after fertilization. Heritably high frequencies of haploids among monoembryonic seed were ...
Rapidly Sheared Compressible Turbulence: Characterization of Different Pressure Regimes and Effect of Thermodynamic Fluctuations
(2011-10-21)
Rapid distortion theory (RDT) is applied to compressible ideal-gas turbulence subjected to homogeneous shear flow. The study examines the linear or rapid processes present in turbulence evolution. Specific areas of ...
‘Sharing’ the Catholic Faith: How Priests Establish/Maintain Religious Authority on Facebook
(2016-05-03)
Understanding how religious leaders use the internet to maintain their religious authority has been an area of study in media studies for the past twenty years. Little consensus has been reached as to what religious authority ...
Nondestructive Level III Damage Evaluation and System Identification in Structures Based on the Rate of the Total Energy
(2015-04-16)
Nondestructive damage detection methods provide beneficiary bases for planning an economical maintenance program for structures. Economically, detecting and repairing structural damages in their initial stage is desirable, ...
Optimized Design of Statically Equivalent Mooring and Catenary Ryser Systems
(2015-03-03)
Due to size limitations of wave basins worldwide it is necessary to employ statically equivalent truncated mooring and riser systems to test floating systems to be deployed in deep and ultra-deep waters. A procedure for ...
Zeros of Eigenfunctions of the Schrodinger Operator on Graphs and Their Relation to the Spectrum of the Magnetic Schrodinger Operator
(2014-07-07)
In this dissertation, we analyze characteristics of eigenfunctions of the Schrödinger operator on graphs. In particular, we are interested in the zeros of the eigenfunctions and their relation to the spectrum of the magnetic ...
Modeling Endemic Bark Beetle Populations in Southwestern Ponderosa Pine Forests
(2015-02-20)
Bark beetle populations phase between epidemic, outbreak levels, and low population density, endemic levels. The majority of scientific research is focused on outbreak populations because of the associated economic, ...
Routing Vehicles with Motion, Resource and Mission Constraints: Algorithms and Bounds
(2015-04-20)
Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) are used for several military and civil applications such as reconnaissance, surveillance etc. The UAVs, due to their design and size limitations, have inherent kinematic constraints, ...
Diagnosis of Fracture Flow Conditions with Acoustic Sensing
(2014-07-10)
Distributed acoustic sensing (DAS) is an emerging technology in hydraulic fracture diagnosis. Current uses of DAS systems have been limited to qualitative analysis that pinpoint noise sources, such as injection into formation ...