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Evaluating Florida's Coastal Protected Areas: A Model for Coastal Management Plan Evaluation
(2011-02-22)
This research presents the first coastal and marine protected areas specific quantitative management plan evaluation protocol. This critical research gap in the coastal and marine protected area (CMPA) research literature ...
Computational Study of Catalyzed Growth of Single Wall Carbon Nanotubes
(2010-01-14)
A recently developed chemical vapor deposition (CVD) synthesis process called CoMoCAT yields single-wall carbon nanotubes (SWCNT)s of controlled diameter and chirality, making them extremely attractive for technological ...
Evaluation of the Thermal Performance for a Wire Mesh/Hollow Glass Microsphere Composite Structure as a Conduction Barrier
(2010-01-15)
An experimental investigation exploring the use of wire mesh/hollow glass
microsphere combination for use as thermal insulation was conducted with the aim to
conclude whether or not it represents a superior insulation ...
Closed-loop Real-time Control of a Novel Linear Magnetostrictive Actuator
(2010-10-12)
This thesis presents the design of various closed-loop real-time control of a novel
linear magnetostrictive actuator. The novel linear magnetostrictive actuator which uses
Terfenol-D as the magnetostrictive material was ...
Case Studies on Clock Gating and Local Routign for VLSI Clock Mesh
(2010-10-12)
The clock is the important synchronizing element in all synchronous digital systems. The difference in the clock arrival time between sink points is called the clock skew. This uncertainty in arrival times will limit ...
SUPPORTING DOMAIN SPECIFIC WEB-BASED SEARCH USING HEURISTIC KNOWLEDGE EXTRACTION
(2010-01-16)
Modern search engines like Google support domain-independent search over the
vast information contained in web documents. However domain-specific information
access, such as finding less well-known people, locations, and ...
The Development of an Academically-Based Entertainment-Education (ABEE) Model: Co-opting Behavioral Change Efficacy of Entertainment-Education for Academic Learning Targeting the Societal Landscape of U.S. Geographic Illiteracy
(2011-07-22)
Educators and scholars continue to lament United States citizens' geographic illiteracy and are calling on Congress to address the crisis. However, despite recent public attention, a lack of national commitment to teaching ...
Numerical Simulation of Breaking Waves Using Level-Set Navier-Stokes Method
(2010-07-14)
In the present study, a fifth-order weighted essentially non-oscillatory (WENO) scheme was built for solving the surface-capturing level-set equation. Combined with the level-set equation, the three-dimensional Reynolds ...
Computer Simulation and Comparison of Proton and Carbon Ion Treatment of Tumor Cells Using Particle and Heavy Ion Transport Code System
(2011-02-22)
Charged particle beams are an increasingly common method of cancer treatment. Because of their Bragg peak dose distribution, protons are an effective way to deliver a dose to the tumor, while minimizing the dose to surrounding ...
The Method of Manufactured Universes for Testing Uncertainty Quantification Methods
(2011-02-22)
The Method of Manufactured Universes is presented as a validation framework for
uncertainty quantification (UQ) methodologies and as a tool for exploring the effects
of statistical and modeling assumptions embedded in ...