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Title
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Novel Fiber Optic Tip Designs and Devices For Laser Surgery
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Author
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Hutchens, Thomas
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Date Created
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2013
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Subjects--Topical
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Optics
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Description
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Fiber optic delivery of laser energy has been used for years in various types of surgical procedures in the human body. Optical energy provides several benefits over electrical or mechanical surgery, including the ability to selectively target spe...
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Title
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OBJECT-DRIVEN AND TEMPORAL ACTION RULES MINING
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Author
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Hajja, Ayman
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Date Created
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2013
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Subjects--Topical
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Computer science, Public health, Information technology
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Description
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In this thesis, I present my complete research work in the field of action rules, more precisely object-driven and temporal action rules.The drive behind the introduction of object-driven and temporally based action rules is to bring forth an adap...
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Title
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On the Structure and Invariants of Cubical Complexes
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Author
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Birdsong, Sarah
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Date Created
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2013
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Subjects--Topical
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Mathematics
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Description
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This dissertation introduces two new results for cubical complexes. The first is a simple statistic on noncrossing partitions that expresses each coordinate of the toric h-vector of a cubical complex, written in the basis of the Adin h-vector entr...
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Optical super-resolution and periodical focusing effects by dielectric microspheres
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Author
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Darafsheh, Arash
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Date Created
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2013
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Subjects--Topical
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Optics, Physics, Biomedical engineering
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Description
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Optical microscopy is one of the oldest and most important imaging techniques; however, its far-field resolution is diffraction-limited. In this dissertation, we proposed and developed a novel method of optical microscopy with super-resolution by ...
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Title
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Optical surface characterization with the structure function
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Author
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He, Liangyu
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Date Created
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2013
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Subjects--Topical
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Mechanical engineering, Optics
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Description
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It is important to characterize surface and transmitted wavefront errors in terms of the spatial content. The errors are typically analyzed in three spatial domains: figure, ripple (or mid-spatial frequency) and roughness. These errors can affect ...
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PLASMONIC NANOLITHOGRAPHY MACHINE (PLM)
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Author
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Saad, Mohamed
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Date Created
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2013
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Subjects--Topical
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Mechanical engineering
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Description
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The Plasmonic Nanolithography Machine (PLM) is a prototype that adopts near field maskless plasmonic nanolithography to achieve 45 nm line widths at 45 nm half pitch. A plasmonic lens floating on a hydrodynamic air bearing rides on a disc with abo...
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PRICING STRATEGIES FOR ONLINE MULTIPLAYER GAMES
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Author
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Parker, Neal
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Date Created
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2013
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Subjects--Topical
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Information technology, Business
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Description
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This dissertation examines the different pricing strategies available to online multiplayer game publishers. We develop mathematical models of the pricing decision that the publisher engages in and conduct a numerical experiment to identify critic...
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REGIONAL COUNCILS AND THE INFLUENCE OF STATE LAWS ON REGIONAL GOVERNANCE
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Author
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Whisman, Holly
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Date Created
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2013
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Subjects--Topical
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Government policy
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Description
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Regional decision-making, in which multiple local governments seek to address concerns that affect communities across jurisdictional boundaries, has been approached by scholars from two opposing viewpoints. Some argue in favor of consolidated regi...
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RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN EDUCATION, PERSONALITY, CHANGE IN PERSONALITY TRAITS, AND THE USE OF MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES AMONG MIDDLE-AGED WOMEN OVER A 10-YEAR TIME SPAN
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Author
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Berwick, Amy
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Date Created
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2013
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Subjects--Topical
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Continuing education, Personality, Developmental psychology
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Description
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The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship between various levels of education, personality traits (neuroticism, extraversion, conscientiousness, agreeableness, and openness to experience), personality trait changes over time, and u...
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Receptivity in a New Immigrant Gateway: Immigrant Settlement Geography, Public Education, and Immigrant Integration in Charlotte, North Carolina
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Author
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McDaniel, Paul
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Date Created
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2013
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Subjects--Topical
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Geography, Government policy, Education and state
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Description
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Community receptivity expresses the degree of openness within a place to someone or something new. Receptivity is shaped by multiple components, institutions, and structures related to a community's political, economic, social, and cultural sphere...
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Robust Condition Monitoring for Modern Power Conversion
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Author
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Anderson, Jason
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Date Created
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2013
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Subjects--Topical
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Electrical engineering
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Description
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The entire US electrical grid contains assets valued at approximately $800 billion, and many of these assets are nearing the end of their design lifetimes. In addition, there is a growing dependence upon power electronics in mission-critical asset...
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SECURING THE DATA STORAGE AND PROCESSING IN CLOUD COMPUTING ENVIRONMENT
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Author
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Owens, Rodney
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Date Created
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2013
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Subjects--Topical
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Information technology
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Description
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Organizations increasingly utilize cloud computing architectures to reduce costs and energy consumption both in the data warehouse and on mobile devices by better utilizing the computing resources available. However, the security and privacy issue...
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SPECTRAL ANALYSIS OF RICH NETWORK TOPOLOGY IN SOCIAL NETWORKS
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Author
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Wu, Leting
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Date Created
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2013
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Subjects--Topical
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Information technology, Social sciences--Research
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Description
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Social networks have received much attention these days. Researchers have de- veloped different methods to study the structure and characteristics of the network topology. Our focus is on spectral analysis of the adjacency matrix of the underlying...
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STEREOSCOPIC BIMANUAL INTERACTION FOR 3D VISUALIZATION
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Author
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Cho, Isaac
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Date Created
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2013
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Subjects--Topical
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Computer science
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Description
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Virtual Environments (VE) are being widely used in various research fields for several decades such as 3D visualization, education, training and games. VEs have the potential to enhance the visualization and act as a general medium for human-compu...
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Safety Climate and After Action Reviews in the Fire Service
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Author
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Bonilla, Daniel
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Date Created
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2013
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Subjects--Topical
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Organizational behavior
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Description
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Research on safety climate has focused on supervisor attitudes and their relationship to the attitudes of their direct reports. This study examined the relationship of supervisor behaviors on direct report attitudes that in turn affect group level...
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Title
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Social and Location Based Routing in Delay Tolerant Networks
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Author
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Zhu, Ying
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Date Created
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2013
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Subjects--Topical
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Computer science, Communication, Computer engineering
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Description
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Delay tolerant networks (DTNs) are a special type of wireless mobile networks, which may lack continuous network connectivity. Routing in DTNs is very challenging, as it must handle network partitions, long delays, and dynamic topology in such net...
