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Fixed Bed Countercurrent Low Temperature Gasification of Dairy Biomass and Coal-Dairy Biomass Blends Using Air-Steam as Oxidizer
(2010-10-12)
Concentrated animal feeding operations such as cattle feedlots and dairies
produce a large amount of manure, cattle biomass (CB), which may lead to land, water,
and air pollution if waste handling systems and storage and ...
Essays on the Predictability and Volatility of Asset Returns
(2010-10-12)
This dissertation collects two papers regarding the econometric and economic theory
and testing of the predictability of asset returns. It is widely accepted that stock
returns are not only predictable but highly so. This ...
Experimental and Numerical Study of Polymer Scratch Behavior
(2010-10-12)
As part of a larger effort to understand the fundamental knowledge of polymer scratch behavior, this dissertation is focused on both experimental study and numerical analysis of scratch deformation of a broad range of ...
A Study of Strategies for Oil and Gas Auctions
(2010-10-12)
Oil and gas auctions help transact billions of dollars in property sales in the US
each year. Value is lost by participants with ineffective strategies. Federal lease
auctions have been investigated from public data, but ...
Mitigating Flood Loss through Local Comprehensive Planning in Florida
(2010-10-12)
Planning researchers believe that property losses from natural hazards, such as floods can be reduced if governments address this issue and adopt appropriate policies in their plans. However, little empirical research has ...
Bit Resolution Improvement for Continuous Data Acquisition of Electrical Waveforms in Multiphase Energy Measurement Systems
(2010-12-03)
A data acquisition platform has been previously developed that enables extraction of information about an electrical machine’s health and energy conversion efficiency by monitoring its electrical signals. It is desired to ...
Uncertainty Propagation in Hypersonic Flight Dynamics and Comparison of Different Methods
(2010-01-16)
In this work we present a novel computational framework for analyzing evolution
of uncertainty in state trajectories of a hypersonic air vehicle due to uncertainty in
initial conditions and other system parameters. The ...
The Relative Effectiveness of Positive Interdependence and Group Processing on Student Achievement, Interaction, and Attitude in Online Cooperative Learning
(2010-01-14)
The purpose of this study was to investigate the relative effectiveness of positive
interdependence and group processing on student achievement, interaction, and attitude
in online cooperative learning. All of the participants, ...
The Limit of Endurance Has Been Reached: The 7th U.S. Cavalry, Racial Terror and Reconstruction, 1871-1876
(2010-04-26)
The 7th Cavalry Regiment participated in Reconstruction during two of its most critical phases. Companies from the regiment were deployed to South Carolina, from 1871-73, to conduct the federal government's campaign to ...
The Weapons of the "True Warfaring Christian": Right Reason and Free Will in Seventeenth-Century Literature
(2010-01-14)
Milton writes in Areopagitica of the "true warfaring Christian" who can "apprehend and consider vice with all her baits and seeming pleasures, and yet abstain, and yet distinguish, and yet prefer that which is truly better." ...