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Investigating Rainwater Harvesting as a Stormwater Best Management Practice and as a Function of Irrigation Water Use
(2012-02-14)
Stormwater runoff has negative impacts on water resources, human health and environment. In this research the effectiveness of Rain Water Harvesting (RWH) systems is examined as a stormwater Best Management Practice (BMP). ...
Second Level Cluster Dependencies: A Comparison of Modeling Software and Missing Data Techniques
(2011-10-21)
Dependencies in multilevel models at the second level have never been thoroughly examined. For certain designs first-level subjects are independent over time, but the second level subjects may exhibit nonzero covariances ...
Simulation and Validation of Vapor Compression System Faults and Start-up/Shut-down Transients
(2012-10-19)
The statistics from the US Department of Energy show that about one-third of the total consumption of electricity in the households and industries is due to the Air Conditioning and Refrigeration (AC & R) systems. This ...
Simulation and Optimization Models for Scheduling Multi-step Sequential Procedures in Nuclear Medicine
(2011-08-08)
The rise in demand for specialized medical services in the U.S has been recognized
as one of the contributors to increased health care costs. Nuclear medicine is a specialized
service that uses relatively new technologies ...
The Impact of Product Contamination in a Multi-Stage Food Supply Chain
(2012-07-16)
Food product contamination leading to a food borne illness is real and has potentially devastating impact on supply chain operations and cost. However, it is not well understood from the quantitative perspective. This ...
Multibody Dynamics Using Conservation of Momentum with Application to Compliant Offshore Floating Wind Turbines
(2012-10-19)
Environmental, aesthetic and political pressures continue to push for siting off-shore wind turbines beyond sight of land, where waters tend to be deeper, and use of floating structures is likely to be considered. Savings ...
Three Essays on Energy Economics and Forecasting
(2012-02-14)
This dissertation contains three independent essays relating energy economics. The first essay investigates price asymmetry of diesel in South Korea by using the error correction model. Analyzing weekly market prices in ...
Border Crossing Modeling and Analysis: A Non-Stationary Dynamic Reallocation Methodology For Terminating Queueing Systems
(2012-10-19)
The United States international land boundary is a volatile, security intense area. In 2010, the combined trade was $918 billion within North American nations, with 80% transported by commercial trucks. Over 50 million ...
An Energy Analysis Of A Large, Multipurpose Educational Building In A Hot Climate
(2012-02-14)
In this project a steady-state building load for Constant Volume Terminal Reheat (CVTR), Dual Duct Constant Volume (DDCV) and Dual Duct Variable Air Volume (DDVAV) systems for the Zachry Engineering Building has been ...
A Quasi-Dynamic HVAC and Building Simulation Methodology
(2012-07-16)
This thesis introduces a quasi-dynamic building simulation methodology which complements existing building simulators by allowing transient models of HVAC (heating, ventilating and air-conditioning) systems to be created ...