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POST-DISASTER INVESTIGATION OF STRUCTURES IN EASTERN INDIA AT VISAKHAPATNAM AFTER VERY SEVERE CYCLONE HUDHUD
Title
POST-DISASTER INVESTIGATION OF STRUCTURES IN EASTERN INDIA AT VISAKHAPATNAM AFTER VERY SEVERE CYCLONE HUDHUD
Author
ALHAIDER, IBRAHEEM
Date Created
2018
Subjects--Topical
Civil engineering
Description
This thesis reports a systematic post-disaster assessment of structures after the Very Severe Cyclone (VSC) Hudhud in eastern India during October 2014, which is the strongest storm event to hit any Indian city. Started as a tropical storm in the ...
Evaluating Risk Appeal Approaches Based on PMT Towards Making Secure Decisions
Title
Evaluating Risk Appeal Approaches Based on PMT Towards Making Secure Decisions
Author
AL Qahtani, Elham
Date Created
2023
Subjects--Topical
Computer science
Description
To explain changes in users' security behaviors and behavioral intentions, we investigated the different messaging approaches that followed the Protection Motivation Theory (PMT) design guidelines. These messaging approaches were used in different...
EXCHANGE RATE REGIMES, FX LIQUIDITY RISK, AND CARRY TRADE RETURNS
Title
EXCHANGE RATE REGIMES, FX LIQUIDITY RISK, AND CARRY TRADE RETURNS
Author
Abankwa, Samuel
Date Created
2016
Subjects--Topical
Finance, Industrial management, Economics
Description
The dissertation consists of three related topics: FX market-wide liquidity measure and individual currency-pair liquidity co-movements, FX liquidity risk and carry trade returns, and the forward premium puzzle in foreign exchange markets. This is...
Improving Diversity in Conversational Recipe Recommender through Dynamic Critiquing
Title
Improving Diversity in Conversational Recipe Recommender through Dynamic Critiquing
Author
Abbas, Fakhri
Date Created
2022
Subjects--Topical
Information science
Description
Diet diversification has been shown both to improve nutritional health outcomes and to promote greater enjoyment in food consumption. Conversational Recommender Systems (CRS) have a rich history in direct recommendation of recipes and meal plannin...
Realizing combined value streams from customer-side resources
Title
Realizing combined value streams from customer-side resources
Author
Abbas, Akintonde
Date Created
2022
Subjects--Topical
Electrical engineering
Description
The importance of flexible customer-side resources in transitioning to a clean energy future is becoming increasingly apparent. Flexible customer-side resources can resolve most issues associated with intelligent and low-carbon power grids and, in...
Applying the Energy Justice Framework to Resiliency Studies in Power Systems
Title
Applying the Energy Justice Framework to Resiliency Studies in Power Systems
Author
Abbate, Emily
Date Created
2022
Subjects--Topical
Electrical engineering
Description
In the power system design process, engineers account for three topics outside of the technical feasibility. Those principles are economic feasibility, environmental impacts, and safety. This thesis argues that socioeconomic factors should also be...
SIGNALING CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY: AN INVESTIGATION OF RECRUITMENT INITIATIVES
Title
SIGNALING CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY: AN INVESTIGATION OF RECRUITMENT INITIATIVES
Author
Abberger, Claire
Date Created
2020
Subjects--Topical
Psychology, Industrial management
Description
This study addresses gaps in the recruitment literature by drawing on signaling theory to explore how Fortune 500 firms (n = 91) signal CSR initiatives to attract applicants. A mixed-methods design incorporating topic modeling and qualitative inte...
Aviatar- An Augmented Reality System to Improve Pilot Performance for Unmanned Aerial Systems
Title
Aviatar- An Augmented Reality System to Improve Pilot Performance for Unmanned Aerial Systems
Author
Abbott, Robert
Date Created
2021
Subjects--Topical
Computer science, Aerospace engineering, Cognitive psychology
Description
In the modern airspace, small unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) such as drones are becoming increasingly popular with both amateur enthusiasts as well as professional pilots. In the three years following the initiation of the small drone registratio...
Arny: An Interaction Model Based On Emotional Feedback For An AI_Based Co-creative Design System
Title
Arny: An Interaction Model Based On Emotional Feedback For An AI_Based Co-creative Design System
Author
Abdellahi, Sarah
Date Created
2021
Subjects--Topical
Artificial intelligence, Information technology, Computer science
Description
Co-creative collaboration is a creative collaboration of two or more agents working together on a shared creative product. Effective co-creative collaboration is a combination of interactions and contributions of the task collaborators. In human-h...
INVESTIGATION OF TURBULENCE IN GRANULAR FLOW
Title
INVESTIGATION OF TURBULENCE IN GRANULAR FLOW
Author
Abdelrahman, Mohamed
Date Created
2017
Subjects--Topical
Mechanical engineering, Mechanics, Engineering
Description
Granular flow poses interesting questions in terms of both theoretical and applied mechanics. The increased utilization of vibrational finishing processes in the manufacturing of high precision components has resulted in an increased need to under...
ENERGY STORAGE SYSTEM OPERATION AND CONTROL FOR GRID RESILIENCY AND ENHANCING RENEWABLE ENERGY PENETRATION
Title
ENERGY STORAGE SYSTEM OPERATION AND CONTROL FOR GRID RESILIENCY AND ENHANCING RENEWABLE ENERGY PENETRATION
Author
Abdelrazek, Sherif
Date Created
2015
Subjects--Topical
Electrical engineering, Engineering, Power resources
Description
This research aims to examine the potential value of Energy Storage Systems (ESSs) to different sects of the electrical power system through the various applications in which it could be utilized. The different storage technologies are reviewed in...
Deep Learning for Sentiment and Emotion Detection in Multilingual Contexts
Title
Deep Learning for Sentiment and Emotion Detection in Multilingual Contexts
Author
Abdullah, Malak
Date Created
2018
Subjects--Topical
Computer science
Description
Social media is growing as a communication medium where people can express online their feelings and opinions on a variety of topics in ways they rarely do in person. Detecting sentiments and emotions in texts have gained a considerable amount of ...
Engineered Water Repellency for Frost Heave Mitigation: Decoupling the Relative Influence Of Matric and Osmotic Suction
Title
Engineered Water Repellency for Frost Heave Mitigation: Decoupling the Relative Influence Of Matric and Osmotic Suction
Author
Abiodun, Uduebor
Date Created
2023
Subjects--Topical
Civil engineering, Geotechnical engineering, Materials science
Description
This dissertation, stemming from a substantial research endeavor funded by the U.S. National Science Foundation (Award #1928813), stands as an essential exploration of Engineered Water Repellency (EWR) in mitigating frost heave. Combining laborato...
SOLUTION OF A 1-D INVERSE PROBLEM BY THE CONVEXIFICATION METHOD
Title
SOLUTION OF A 1-D INVERSE PROBLEM BY THE CONVEXIFICATION METHOD
Author
Abney, Ray
Date Created
2019
Subjects--Topical
Mathematics, Physics
Description
In this thesis, we demonstrate a method outlined by Dr. Mikhail Klibanov for solving a 1-D coefficient inverse problem by the convexification method. Our inverse problem in question concerns finding buried bombs, where the dielectric constants of ...
NONPROPAGATING EXCITATIONS IN 2-D
Title
NONPROPAGATING EXCITATIONS IN 2-D
Author
Abney, Ray
Date Created
2020
Subjects--Topical
Physics
Description
Nonpropagating excitations have been studied in 1-D and in 3-D, but not so much in 2-D. So, this thesis concerns 2-D nonpropagating excitations. In particular, we construct nonpropagating excitations confined to an annulus under a time-independent...
COMPRESSIVE IMAGING AND DUAL MOIRÉ LASER INTERFEROMETER AS METROLOGY TOOLS
Title
COMPRESSIVE IMAGING AND DUAL MOIRÉ LASER INTERFEROMETER AS METROLOGY TOOLS
Author
Abolbashari, Mehrdad
Date Created
2013
Subjects--Topical
Optics, Engineering
Description
Metrology is the science of measurement and deals with measuring different physical aspects of objects. In this research the focus has been on two basic problems that metrologists encounter. The first problem is the trade-off between the range of ...
FOCUSING, IMAGING AND RESONACE PROPERTIES OF MICROPHOTONICS STRUCTURES AND DEVICES
Title
FOCUSING, IMAGING AND RESONACE PROPERTIES OF MICROPHOTONICS STRUCTURES AND DEVICES
Author
Abolmaali, Farzaneh
Date Created
2018
Subjects--Topical
Optics
Description
Structures and devices built using microspherical building blocks attract significant attention in recent years due to an extraordinary high-quality factor (Q>106) of whispering gallery modes in dielectric microspheres and due to their ability to ...
Analysis of Respiratory Viral Material from Negative COVID-19 PCR Tests to Observe Effects of 2022-2023 "Twindemic" on University Campus
Title
Analysis of Respiratory Viral Material from Negative COVID-19 PCR Tests to Observe Effects of 2022-2023 "Twindemic" on University Campus
Author
Aboufoul, Lolo
Date Created
2023
Subjects--Topical
Computer science
Description
Tracking COVID-19 cases has been one of the most important aspects of controlling the pandemic and observing how the virus causing COVID-19 spreads between populations. Tracking cases of the disease helps epidemiologists understand the reason for ...
FREE BODIES IN UNSTEADY VISCOUS FLOWS AND SIMPLE MECHANICAL ANALOGS: NONLINEAR DYNAMICS AND UNDERACTUATED CONTROL
Title
FREE BODIES IN UNSTEADY VISCOUS FLOWS AND SIMPLE MECHANICAL ANALOGS: NONLINEAR DYNAMICS AND UNDERACTUATED CONTROL
Author
Abrajan Guerrero, Rodrigo
Date Created
2018
Subjects--Topical
Mechanical engineering, Mechanics, Robotics
Description
In this dissertation we study the interactions between free bodies and unsteady viscous flows, with particular interest in locomotion and in particle transport in streaming flows.For self-propelling bodies, we present systems with two different me...
A Post-Processing Approach for Solar Power Combined Forecasts of Ramp Events
Title
A Post-Processing Approach for Solar Power Combined Forecasts of Ramp Events
Author
Abuella, Mohamed
Date Created
2018
Subjects--Topical
Electrical engineering
Description
The growing integration level of wind and solar energy resources introduces new regulating and operating challenges in the electric grid. Ramp-rate limits of conventional power plants in the generation mix impose an operating constraint on renewab...