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Title: BULLWHIP EFFECT IN PRICING IN VARYING SUPPLY CHAIN STRUCTURES AND CONTRACTS USING A GAME THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK
Author: Adnan, Ziaul Haq
Date Created: 2017
Subjects--Topical: Industrial engineering, Operations research, Commerce
Description: Bullwhip effect in Pricing (BP) refers to the amplified variability of prices in a supply chain. When the amplification takes place from the upstream (i.e. supplier’s side) towards the downstream (i.e. retail side) of a supply chain, this is refer...

Title: ANOTHER BATTLE, ANOTHER HURDLE: HOW PARENTS CREATE MEANING FROM RAISING A CHILD WITH AUTISM
Author: Basalik, Debra
Date Created: 2017
Subjects--Topical: Communication, Psychology
Description: The prevalence of autism spectrum disorders (ASD) is increasing (CDC, 2016). Research studies have focused on either medical treatments and therapeutic interventions for this disorder, or the trauma of the diagnostic process. Scholarship, however,...

Title: PARALLEL COMPUTING FOR MARKOV CHAINS WITH ISLANDS AND PORTS
Author: Basnet, Amod
Date Created: 2017
Subjects--Topical: Mathematics
Description: We present recursive algorithms to calculate invariant distributions and fundamental matrices of Markov chains specified by the "Islands & Ports'" (IP) model. The state space of the IP model can be partitioned into "islands'" and "ports". An islan...

Title: Capital Structure Issues in Real Estate Corporate Finance
Author: Blazevich, Brett
Date Created: 2017
Subjects--Topical: Finance
Description: Capital structure issues are of great importance within the corporate finance literature. Exploration of these issues within the Real Estate Investment Trust (REIT) industry provides the opportunity to examine these issues within a unique and homo...

Title: CORTICAL ACTIVITY OF THE SENSORIMOTOR SYSTEM IN PARTICIPANTS WITH CHRONIC ANKLE INSTABILITY
Author: Burcal, Christopher
Date Created: 2017
Subjects--Topical: Biology, Kinesiology, Neurosciences
Description: Patients with chronic ankle instability (CAI) exhibit a wide variety of sensorimotor deficits. These include impairments in feed-forward sensorimotor control (i.e. motor planning) as well as feed-back sensorimotor control, which pertains to refini...

Title: A SELECTIVE SENSOR FRAMEWORK USING SENSOR FUSION AND SENSOR MAPS TO ACHIEVE COMPLETE COVERAGE PLANNING OF A SEMI-AUTONOMOUS ROBOTIC VEHICLE
Author: CHANDRASEKARAN, BALASUBRAMANIYAN
Date Created: 2017
Subjects--Topical: Electrical engineering, Computer engineering, Robotics
Description: Autonomous vehicles are increasingly used in many applications, such as elderly care, medical care, military, schools, and space exploration. In this research, we introduce the use of a framework for achieving the autonomy in a vehicle and describ...

Title: SUBSURFACE THERMAL COAGULATION OF TISSUES USING NEAR INFRARED LASERS
Author: Chang, Chun-Hung
Date Created: 2017
Subjects--Topical: Optics, Biophysics, Biomedical engineering
Description: Noninvasive laser therapy is currently limited primarily to cosmetic dermatological applications such as skin resurfacing, hair removal, tattoo removal and treatment of vascular birthmarks. In order to expand applications of noninvasive laser ther...

Title: MECHANICAL BUCKLING OF INDIVIDUAL SILICON NANORIBBONS ON A COMPLIANT SUBSTRATE
Author: Chang, Siang Yee
Date Created: 2017
Subjects--Topical: Materials science
Description: About a decade ago, mechanical buckling evolves as a promising metrology to rapidly measure the elastic moduli of thin films and one-dimensional (1D) nanostructures. This form of metrology translates the geometrical measurements of the buckling pr...

Title: DESIGN, MODELING, FABRICATION & CHARACTERIZATION OF INDUSTRIAL Si SOLAR CELLS
Author: Chowdhury, Ahrar Ahmed
Date Created: 2017
Subjects--Topical: Electrical engineering
Description: Photovoltaic is a viable solution towards meeting the energy demand in an ecofriendly environment. To ensure the mass access in photovoltaic electricity, cost effective approach needs to be adapted. This thesis aims towards substrate independent f...

Title: Optimal multiple stopping: theory and applications
Author: Crosby, Gary
Date Created: 2017
Subjects--Topical: Mathematics
Description: The classical secretary problem was an optimal selection thought experiment for a decision process where candidates with independent and identically distributed values to the observer appear in a random order and the observer must attempt to choos...

Title: STRATEGIES, INCENTIVES, AND DECISIONS: ILLICIT CROP CONTROL IN COLOMBIA
Author: Davalos Alvarez, Eleonora
Date Created: 2017
Subjects--Topical: Government policy, Economics
Description: This dissertation examines three aspects of coca cultivation in Colombia. Fist, I evaluate how social investment in conjunction with eradication affects new coca crops. The results suggest that aerial spraying is effective in deterring farmers fro...

Title: There are two sides to every story: The veteran's perspective on socialization
Author: Dunn, Alexandra
Date Created: 2017
Subjects--Topical: Organizational behavior, Psychology, Industrial
Description: Organizational socialization is a two-way interactive process where organizational outsiders become insiders and insiders adjust to working with outsiders. When carried out correctly, socialization is related to better newcomer adjustment (e.g., h...

Title: SCALABLE, SITUATIONALLY AWARE VISUAL ANALYTICS AND APPLICATIONS
Author: Eaglin, Todd
Date Created: 2017
Subjects--Topical: Computer science
Description: There is a need to understand large and complex datasets to provide better situa- tional awareness in-order to make timely well-informed actionable decisions in critical environments. These types of environments include emergency evacuations for l...

Title: Development of Distress and Performance Models of Composite Pavements for Pavement Management
Author: Fang, Xiazhi
Date Created: 2017
Subjects--Topical: Civil engineering, Information science
Description: Roadway systems in the United States have become huge assets that need massive resources to maintain and operate. To meet the long-term performance goal, government agencies developed pavement management systems (PMSs) to help them manage roadway ...

Title: MOLECULAR MECHANISMS OF RESISTANCE OF PANCREATIC DUCTAL ADENOCARCINOMA CELLS TO ONCOLYTIC VESICULAR STOMATITIS VIRUS
Author: Felt, Sebastien
Date Created: 2017
Subjects--Topical: Molecular biology, Virology, Cytology
Description: Oncolytic virus (OV) therapy is an anticancer therapy using replication-competent viruses selectively infecting, replicating in and killing cancer cells. Human pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) cell lines are highly heterogeneous in their pe...

Title: LARGE-SCALE SPATIOTEMPORAL MODELING OF URBAN GROWTH WITH CYBERINFRASTRUCTURE: A SURROGATE-BASED APPROACH
Author: Feng, Wenpeng
Date Created: 2017
Subjects--Topical: Geography
Description: Spatiotemporal simulations can provide critical insights to understand the underlying mechanisms of complex geographic phenomena. Therefore, spatiotemporal simulations play a vitally important role in solving the global geographic problems such as...

Title: American Options Pricing using HJM Approach
Author: Fernando, Wedige
Date Created: 2017
Subjects--Topical: Mathematics
Description: With the development of financial markets and increasing demand for managing risk exposure, researchers and practitioners have developed various financial instruments over the years. Options, Futures, Forwards, Swaps are few examples of such instr...

Title: ENGINEERED WATER REPELLENCY FOR INFILTRATION CONTROL IN COAL FLY ASH
Author: Feyyisa, Jenberu
Date Created: 2017
Subjects--Topical: Civil engineering, Environmental engineering
Description: In 2014 approximately 47% of the 190 million short tons of coal combustion product (CCP) was recycled. As a construction material, coal fly ash (CFA) finds considerable use as a partial replacement for Portland cement, as structural fill, and as a...

Title: Examining how regular meditation practice influences the neural oscillatory activity associated with refocusing attention after a mind wandering episode.
Author: Fix, Spencer
Date Created: 2017
Subjects--Topical: Psychology, Neurosciences
Description: Introduction. Mind wandering (MW) has become a topic of interest in neuroscience research, particularly because of its tendency to interrupt goal directed behavior and negatively impact mental and physical health. Several brain networks have been ...

Title: LOADED AND ELABORATED POLYESTER NANOMATERIALS FOR THE TREATMENT AND DIAGNOSIS OF DISEASE
Author: Fowler, Anthony
Date Created: 2017
Subjects--Topical: Chemistry, Nanotechnology
Description: Cancer is not one disease but many. In fact, cancer is a collection of more than 100 different diseases. Cancer is the second leading cause of death in the United States with an estimated 1.7 million new cases expected in 2017 and approximately 60...