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Local Public Sector Allocation of Scarce Emergency Assets: An Evaluation of the Fire Service
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Author
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Boyd, Jr., Robert
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Date Created
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2009
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Subjects--Topical
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Political science, Public administration
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Description
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The methodology utilized by public sector managers to allocate scarce resources determines the level, efficiency, and effectiveness of service delivery. These decisions are influenced by a myriad of factors, not the least of which is the ideal goa...
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MICROSTRUCTURAL MODELING DURING MULTI-PASS ROLLING OF A NICKEL-BASE SUPERALLOY
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Author
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Subramanian, Kannan
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Date Created
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2009
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Subjects--Topical
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Mechanical engineering, Materials science
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Description
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Microstructure present at the end of rolling and cooling operations controls the product properties. Therefore, control of grain size is an important characteristic in any hot-working. The narrow temperature range for hot working of Alloy 718 make...
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Modeling the Creep behavior of Torsional Springs
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Author
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Ramesh, Ajith
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Date Created
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2009
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Subjects--Topical
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Mechanical engineering
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Description
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ABSTRACTAJITH RAMESH: Modeling the creep behavior of torsional springs This dissertation presents a detailed model of the `overall' behavior of Torsional springs. Torsional springs (also called `Clock' springs) are a kind of spiral springs which a...
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Modeling the durability of structural components in aerospace and medical industries
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Author
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Shaik, Sameer
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Date Created
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2009
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Subjects--Topical
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Mechanical engineering
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Description
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This dissertation presents applications of the finite element method in studying the durability of components used in aerospace (composites) and medical (hip implants) industries. In the first part of the dissertation the response of a fiber-reinf...
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Optimal purchasing strategy for bandwidth: A buyer's perspective
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Author
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Vergara, Frances
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Date Created
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2009
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Subjects--Topical
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Computer science, Business
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Description
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In today's burgeoning business environments, data frenetically pulses through massive interconnected networks as firms create, compile, and disseminate vast amounts of information. Organizations need to acquire the bandwidth that allows them to ef...
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POLYPHONIC MUSIC INFORMATION RETRIEVAL BASED ON MULTI-LABEL CASCADE CLASSIFICATION SYSTEM
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Author
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Jiang, Wenxin
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Date Created
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2009
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Subjects--Topical
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Computer science, Information science, Interactive multimedia
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Description
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Recognition and separation of sounds played by various instruments is very useful in labeling audio files with semantic information. This is a non-trivial task requiring sound analysis, but the results can aid automatic indexing and browsing music...
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Performing Student, Teacher, and Tutor of Writing: Negotiating Ideas of Writing in a First-year Writing Course and Writing Center Tutorials
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Author
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Courtney, Jennifer
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Date Created
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2009
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Subjects--Topical
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Language arts, Rhetoric
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Description
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Based upon the sociocultural theories of Vygotsky, Bakhtin, Bourdieu, Holland et al. and the work of composition scholars such as Welch, Brannon et al., and Bousquet et al., who oppose neoliberal privatization, this qualitative study explores how ...
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Regulation of Myosin IIIa Motor/Kinase Activity
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Author
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Moore, Judy
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Date Created
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2009
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Subjects--Topical
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Biochemistry, Neurosciences, Cytology
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Description
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Myosin IIIa, a motor protein that localizes to actin-rich regions of photoreceptors and to stereocilia of inner ear hair cells, is associated with the hearing process in vertebrates and with phototransduction for invertebrates. It contains a large...
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Risk Minimizing Portfolio Optimization and Hedging with Conditional Value-at-Risk
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Author
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Li, Jing
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Date Created
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2009
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Subjects--Topical
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Mathematics
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Description
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This thesis looks at the problem of finding the optimal investment strategy of a self-financing portfolio in a dynamic complete market setting so that the risk measured by Conditional Value-at-Risk (CVaR) is minimized under the condition that the ...
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Role of Nonmuscle Myosin II in Hepatic Stellate Cell Activation
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Author
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Moore, Cathy
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Date Created
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2009
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Subjects--Topical
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Molecular biology
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Description
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The hepatic stellate cell (HSC) plays a pivotal role in the development of hepatic fibrosis. Regulation of liver microcirculation is a complex system where blood flow is under systemic and sinusoidal control. Upon a fibrogenic stimulus, quiescent ...
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SEVERAL STATISTICAL RESULTS UNDER MULTINOMIAL DISTRIBUTION WITH INFINITE CATEGORIES
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Author
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Zhou, Jun
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Date Created
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2009
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Subjects--Topical
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Statistics, Mathematics
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Description
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This dissertation discusses several statistical results under multinomial distribution with infinite categories. Firstly, the discussion focuses on Simpson's diversity index and Turing's formula. We established an unbiased estimate for the newly p...