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WAVEGUIDE, PHOTODETECTOR, AND IMAGING APPLICATIONS OF MICROSPHERICAL PHOTONICS
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Author
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Allen, Kenneth
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Date Created
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2014
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Subjects--Topical
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Optics, Engineering, Physics
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Description
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Dielectric microspheres with diameters (D) on the order of several wavelengths of light have attracted increasing attention from the photonics community due to their ability to produce extraordinarily tightly focused beams termed "photonic nanojet...
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Tea culture and the British Empire, 1600-1900
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Author
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Ashby, Brittany
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Date Created
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2014
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Subjects--Topical
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History
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Description
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At the end of the fifteenth century, the consumption of tea remained predominantly in the East, and only a few wealthy western aristocrats knew of the tea plant. Only one hundred years later, tea sparked the interests of many nations and consumpti...
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ON THE USE OF SMOOTHED PARTICLE HYDRODYNAMICS TO MODEL ORTHOGONAL MACHINING
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Author
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Avachat, Chinmay
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Date Created
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2014
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Subjects--Topical
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Mechanical engineering
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Description
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Modeling machining processes with conventional finite element methods (FEM) is challenging due to the severe deformations that occur during machining, complex frictional conditions that exist between the cutting tool and the workpiece, and the pos...
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STABILITY AND PERFORMANCE OF NETWORKED CONTROL SYSTEMS
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Author
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Bai, Libin
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Date Created
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2014
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Subjects--Topical
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Information technology
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Description
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Network control systems (NCSs), as one of the most active research areas, are arousing comprehensive concerns along with the rapid development of network. This dissertation mainly discusses the stability and performance of NCSs into the following ...
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IMAGE CHARGE SOLVATION MODEL (ICSM) FOR SIMULATING BIOMOLECULES AND KCSA ION-CHANNELS
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Author
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Baker, Katherine
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Date Created
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2014
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Subjects--Topical
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Mathematics
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Description
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We present an order N method for calculating electrostatic interactions that has been integrated into the molecular dynamics portion of the TINKER Molecular Modeling package. This method, termed the Image-Charge Solvation Model (ICSM), and introdu...
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FEASIBILITY OF ELECTRIC FIELD SENSOR FOR EXTERNAL BALLISTICS ANALYSIS
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Author
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Benfield, Christopher
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Date Created
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2014
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Subjects--Topical
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Mechanical engineering, Engineering
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Description
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Accurately modeling the flight path to resemble the actual flight dynamics of a given projectile enables a shooter to engage targets at distances that extend into the transonic and subsonic flight regions. This requires the collection of velocity ...
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IN SEARCH OF GREATER UNDERSTANDING OF ORGANIZATIONAL INCLUSION: AN EXPANDED APPROACH
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Author
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Berka, Gregory
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Date Created
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2014
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Subjects--Topical
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Organizational behavior
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Description
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Organizational inclusion research, which includes assessing how employees experience a sense of feeling included or excluded in their work group, is a young and developing research area. Feelings of inclusion can be based on both formal policies a...
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War in the Shadows: IRA Intimidation and Assassination, 1919-1921
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Author
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Cannady, Michael
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Date Created
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2014
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Subjects--Topical
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Military history, History
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Description
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This work addresses a gap in the historiography of the Irish revolution: the use of intimidation and assassination by the IRA. Although some studies have focused on whether IRA assassinations were justified, little scholarship exists about their e...
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Cross-Stack Predictive Control Framework for Multicore Real-Time Applications
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Author
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Cao, Guangyi
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Date Created
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2014
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Subjects--Topical
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Electrical engineering
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Description
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Many of the next generation applications in entertainment, human computer interaction, infrastructure, security and medical systems are computationally intensive, always-on, and have soft real time (SRT) requirements. While failure to meet deadlin...
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Racial Disparities in Direct-to-Consumer Pharmaceutical Advertising
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Author
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Cavallo, Stephany
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Date Created
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2014
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Subjects--Topical
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Government policy
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Description
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Reducing health disparities by increasing access to health information is a national priority. Research demonstrates that direct-to-consumer advertising (DTCA) is effective in educating consumers about health issues. However, research also identif...
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DATA REPLICATION FOR COPING WITH UNCERTAINTY IN SCHEDULING
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Author
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Chaubey, Manmohan
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Date Created
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2014
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Subjects--Topical
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Computer science
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Description
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Scheduling theory is a common tool to analyze the performance of parallel and distributed computing systems, such as their load balance. How to distribute the input data to be able to execute a set of tasks in a minimum amount of time can be model...
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Three Essays in Corporate Finance
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Author
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Chen, Jun
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Date Created
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2014
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Subjects--Topical
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Finance
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Description
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The economy and market have dramatically developed over the past decades. The corporations try to survive and urge to grow in such erratic circumstance. Two key dimensions are involved in winning a game of the law of the jungle: the management of ...
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Evaluation of Multiple Feedstocks for Codigestion
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Author
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Chouinard, Tracy
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Date Created
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2014
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Subjects--Topical
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Microbiology, Environmental engineering
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Description
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In the U.S., a move toward the use of anaerobic digestion (AD) technologies for solid waste management has been slow. However, recently, a number of factors have coalesced to renew interest in AD because of its potential to produce renewable energ...
