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Interfacial instabilities in reacting flows
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Author
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Attal, Nitesh
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Date Created
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2016
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Subjects--Topical
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Mechanical engineering
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Description
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Fluid instabilities, particularly interfacial instabilities, have proven to be a powerful mechanism in driving and sustaining combustion processes in several devices of practical interest. Modern combustors are in fact designed to exploit the mixi...
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Intermittency for Branching random walks with heavy tails.
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Author
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Getan, Asmaa
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Date Created
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2016
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Subjects--Topical
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Mathematics
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Description
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iic 2016Asmaa GetanALL RIGHTS RESERVEDiiiABSTRACT Branching Markov process models populations in which each individual in gener-ation n produces some random number of individuals in the next generation, n + 1, according to a certain probability di...
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Intersectionality of Identity and HIV-Related Stigma
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Author
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Lovato, Laura
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Date Created
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2016
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Subjects--Topical
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Sociology, Government policy, Psychology
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Description
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The impact of HIV-related stigma on HIV prevention, treatment, and the well-being of people living with HIV (PLWH) is well established within the existing literature. HIV-related stigma experiences are compounded by intersections of identity, in t...
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Intrusion Detection and Deterrence for Critical Infrastructures
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Author
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Ali, Muhammad
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Date Created
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2016
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Subjects--Topical
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Computer science, Information technology
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Description
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Critical infrastructures are the systems and networks that are so vital that their unavailability would have a major impact on national security, economy, safety, or any combination thereof. Examples of critical infrastructure are power systems, f...
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Isogeometric collocation method for elasticity problems containing singularities
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Author
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Rattan, Puja
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Date Created
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2016
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Subjects--Topical
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Mathematics
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Description
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Isogeometric analysis (IGA), introduced by Hughes, et al. [2,3], is a mathematical approach that combines Finite Element analysis (FEA) in conjunction with engineering design tools, such as CAD, which allows analysis, testing and redesign of struc...
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Title
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Joint power control and routing for rechargeable wireless sensor networks
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Author
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Nasipuri, Asis, Pal, Amitangshu
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Date Created
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2016
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Description
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Wireless sensor networks (WSN) that are powered by energy harvested from the environment, also known as rechargeable WSNs, typically experience wide variations of energy availability across the network. Such variations can cause frequent node outa...
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LIMIT THEOREMS FOR ONE CLASS OF ERGODIC MARKOV CHAINS
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Author
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Turhan, Nezihe
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Date Created
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2016
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Subjects--Topical
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Statistics, Mathematics
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Description
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The goal of this dissertation is to develop some classical limit theorems for the additive functionals of the homogeneous Markov chains in the special class of the so-called, Loop Markov Chains. The additive functionals of the Markov chains have t...
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Modeling the Crash Injury Severity in Work Zone Areas on Freeways
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Author
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Miatudila, Sr., Alain
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Date Created
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2016
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Subjects--Topical
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Civil engineering, Transportation, Statistics
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Description
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The rising frequency of crashes in work zones on American freeways is a growing issue inherently linked to the degrading state of our transportation infrastructure. As travel demand increases and our infrastructure continues to age and wear out, w...
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NONPARAMETRIC PREDICTIVE REGRESSION
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Author
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Yu, Xintian
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Date Created
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2016
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Subjects--Topical
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Statistics, Finance, Economics
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Description
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In financial time series nonlinear effects and time-varying effects are observed. In this dissertation we propose a predictive regression model with time varying coefficients and functional coefficients. It allows for nonstationary predictors. We establi...
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Naturalism and despair : George Herbert Mead and evolution in the 1880s
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Author
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Pearce, Trevor
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Date Created
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2016
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Subjects--Topical
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Evolution, Philosophy
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Description
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This chapter examines Mead’s encounter with evolution in the 1880s, demonstrating that evolutionary ideas could have a devastating effect if they were interpreted as threatening life’s meaning. I argue that Mead could not fully embrace the evoluti...