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Title: Automated Meta-Actions Discovery for Personalized Medical Treatments
Author: Touati, Hakim
Date Created: 2014
Subjects--Topical: Computer science, Health services administration
Description: Healthcare, among other domains, provides an attractive ground of work for knowledge discovery researchers. There exist several branches of health informatics and health data-mining from which we find actionable knowledge discovery is underserved....

Title: Characterization of Geometric Surface Features Using Statistically Based Analytical Tools
Author: Azimi, Farzad
Date Created: 2019
Subjects--Topical: Mechanical engineering
Description: The nature and quality of a surface’s topography can play an important role in a part’s performance and expected longevity. The complexity of a surface topography means that while commonly used ISO 25178-2 height based statistical metrics are capa...

Title: Displacement Scale Based on Speckles
Author: Farsad, Mahsa
Date Created: 2015
Subjects--Topical: Mechanical engineering, Optics
Description: Speckle patterns are complex intensity distributions, which occur when an optically rough surface is illuminated with a coherent light. The speckle phenomenon was known to be troublesome when the laser was first introduced, but later it was discov...

Title: ESSAYS ON INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY GOVERNANCE: MEASUREMENT AND IMPACTS
Author: Zhang, Peiqin
Date Created: 2014
Subjects--Topical: Information technology
Description: Information Technology (IT) governance, defined as "the organizational capacity exercised by the Board, executive management and IT management to control the formulation and implementation of IT strategy and in this way ensure the fusion of busine...

Title: FIBER BASED TOOLS FOR POLISHING OPTICAL MATERIALS
Author: Shahinian, Hossein
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Mechanical engineering, Optics
Description: In this dissertation, the development of alternative fiber based polishing tools for the finishing of precision freeform and aspherical optics is introduced. Freeform and aspherical optics, i.e. optics with varying radius of curvatures (ROC), are ...

Title: GENERATION AND CHARACTERIZATION OF FIREBRANDS FROM SELECTED STRUCTURAL FUELS
Author: Hedayati, Faraz
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Mechanical engineering
Description: Spotting by firebrands is the only mechanism that is capable of initiating fires miles from a fire line. The firebrand phenomenon can be understood in three major sequential phases: production, transportation, and ignition of the recipient fuel. A...

Title: IN-SITU MEASUREMENT OF DIMENSIONS AND SURFACE PROFILE OF AXISYMMETRIC OBJECTS USING FRINGE PROJECTION TECHNIQUE
Author: Farahi, Navid
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Optics, Physics
Description: Fringe projection technique has been a powerful tool for 3D metrology and surface profilometry with high repeatability. However, for in-situ measurement of objects with highly specular surfaces, large dimensions, and large varying slopes, acquirin...

Title: INVESTIGATION OF WEATHERING EFFECTS ON PERFORMANCE OF INTUMESCENT COATINGS USED IN FIRE PROTECTION OF WOOD STRUCTURES
Author: Hemmati, Vahid
Date Created: 2017
Subjects--Topical: Engineering
Description: Intumescent coating is one of many passive methods to protect wood structures in the Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI) from fire. \iffalse The mechanism of such coating can be explained in three stages. First, acid release reaction is triggered by th...

Title: OPTION VALUATION UNDER A REGIME-SWITCHING MODEL USING THE FAST FOURIER TRANSFORM
Author: Sohrabi, Elham
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Finance, Mathematics
Description: In this dissertation, we consider European-style commodity options and futures options where the logarithm of the underlying commodity price dynamics is governed by the regime-switching Ornstein-Uhlenbeck model. A semi-analytical approach to value...

Title: PERFORMANCE COMPARISON OF UNSCENTED AND EXTENDED KALMAN FILTER IMPLEMENTATION ON A CONTINIOUS STIRRED TANK REACTOR
Author: Mostafavi, Saman
Date Created: 2014
Subjects--Topical: Electrical engineering
Description: In this thesis work, it is intended to investigate not only the Extended Kalman Filter (EKF) but to further study the more recent nonlinear Kalman Filters for their application to the nonlinear problem of a continuous stirred tank reactor. The var...

Title: QUANTIFYING LIGHT RAIL’S EFFECT ON INTRAURBAN DISTRIBUTION OF ECONOMIC ACTIVITY AND COMMUTING PATTERNS
Author: Khabazi, Maryam
Date Created: 2019
Subjects--Topical: Transportation, Geography, Economics
Description: This dissertation consists of two consecutive parts. The first part examines the impact of light rail transit (LRT) investment on the type of jobs (i.e., industrial and wage composition) in neighborhoods adjacent to rail transit stations using Cha...

Title: THE TURBULENT REACTING RICHTMYER-MESHKOV INSTABILITY: A NEW CANONICAL PROBLEM IN NON-PREMIXED COMBUSTION
Author: Varshochi, Hilda
Date Created: 2016
Subjects--Topical: Mechanical engineering
Description: We describe detailed high-resolution numerical simulations of a class of shock-induced reactive turbulent mixing layers, where the scalar mixing, flow dynamics and combustion properties are driven by the Richtmyer-Meshkov (RM) instability. The 3D ...