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Title: "I was shot in the left arm by a friend": Transgression and the possibility of communication
Author: Humphries, Matthew
Date Created: 2014
Subjects--Topical: Literature, History--Religious aspects
Description: For my paper I will look at contemporary communities built on violence, looking specifically at how the philosophy of Georges Bataille may allow for these groups to be interpreted in the context of sacrifice. Though I will look at some issues rela...

Title: A METHODOLOGY FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF PERFORMANCE AND DISTRESS MODELS FOR A PMS USING AUTOMATED DATA
Author: Dye, Michael
Date Created: 2014
Subjects--Topical: Civil engineering
Description: Automated pavement data collection technologies have gained momentum due to the fact that the automated data have more detail, greater quantity, better quality, and better repeatability. A systematic method of developing performance and distress m...

Title: ADAPTIVE DUTY CYCLING FOR RECHARGEABLE WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORKS
Author: Nimkar, Sayali
Date Created: 2014
Subjects--Topical: Electrical engineering
Description: ABSTRACTSAYALI SHRIRANG NIMKAR. Adaptive duty cycling for rechargeable wireless sensor networks. (Under the direction of DR. ASIS NASIPURI) The proposed research addresses development of an adaptive duty cycling scheme to extend the lifetime of wi...

Title: APPRAISAL OF CRANE SAFETY PREPAREDNESS FOLLOWING THE INTRODUCTION OF THE NEW OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY AND HEALTH ADMINISTRATION (OSHA) CRANE RULES
Author: Boafo, Francis
Date Created: 2014
Subjects--Topical: Engineering
Description: This research investigates the impact of the new Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) Crane and Derrick Regulations 29CFR 1926 Subpart CC on the frequencies of the causes of crane related accidents and fatalities. The old and new c...

Title: Accelerated aging and health monitoring of IGBT(s) switches in motor drives
Author: O'Connor, Paul
Date Created: 2014
Subjects--Topical: Electrical engineering, Engineering
Description: ABSTRACTPAUL RICHARD VALENTINE O'CONNOR. Accelerated aging and health monitoring of IGBT(s) in Motor Drives. (Under the direction of DR. ROBERT W. COX) There has been a proliferation in the use of power electronic drives in applications such as sh...

Title: COGNITIVE IMPAIRMENT AND FALLS IN THE OLDER ADULT POPULATION: INCIDENCE AND OUTCOMES IN A LEVEL ONE TRAUMA CENTER
Author: Churchill, Christine
Date Created: 2014
Subjects--Topical: Gerontology
Description: Cognitive impairment has been found to be associated with an increased risk of falls among older adults. The aim of this study was to compare in-hospital outcomes such as time-to-surgery, complications, length of stay, intensive care utilization, ...

Title: CONTROL STRATEGIES FOR SOLAR PANEL COMPANION INVERTERS
Author: Sahu, Prasanth
Date Created: 2014
Subjects--Topical: Electrical engineering
Description: This thesis investigates a unique methodology that converts the conventional dc voltage output of a photovoltaic solar panel to switched quasi-square wave voltages with variable pulse width, which when aggregated realize a superior quality multile...

Title: CORE TEMPERATURE AWARE THREAD SCHEDULING IN HETEROGENEOUS MULTI-CORE ARCHITECTURE
Author: Jadhav, Pratik
Date Created: 2014
Subjects--Topical: Electrical engineering
Description: Along with the evolution of heterogeneous multi-core architectures, advanced thread scheduling algorithms for maximizing system efficiency are needed. As power density increases with technology, core temperature variations can cause bottlenecks in...

Title: CRONBACH'S COEFFICIENT AS A PERFORMANCE MEASURE TO ASSESS LINK-LEVEL RELIABILITY
Author: Puvvala, Ravi Kiran
Date Created: 2014
Subjects--Topical: Civil engineering
Description: Travel time reliability is commonly used in reference to the level of consistency in transportation service for a trip, corridor, mode or route in terms of its travel time. Typically, reliability is viewed by motorists in relation to their past ex...

Title: Cache-Aware Implementation of Compressed Sensing Reconstruction using Walsh-Hadamard Transform on a Multicore Architecture
Author: Ramgopal, Aneesh
Date Created: 2014
Subjects--Topical: Electrical engineering, Computer engineering
Description: The recent development of the compressed sensing (CS) theory has given rise to several algorithms being proposed for signal acquisition and reconstruction. Implementing these algorithms are computationally demanding and pose several challenges for...

Title: Comparative evaluation of link travel time from different technologies and sources
Author: Pinnamaneni, Rahul Chowdary
Date Created: 2014
Subjects--Topical: Civil engineering, Transportation--Planning
Description: Accurate travel time information is required to efficiently plan and effectively manage transportation network. Technologies and data sources such as Bluetooth detectors and INRIX offer the potential to continuously collect the data and use it for...

Title: DATA REPLICATION FOR COPING WITH UNCERTAINTY IN SCHEDULING
Author: Chaubey, Manmohan
Date Created: 2014
Subjects--Topical: Computer science
Description: 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...

Title: DESIGN OF LEAN SIX SIGMA SIMULATION GAMES FOR ONLINE LEARNING
Author: Kottayil, Arun
Date Created: 2014
Subjects--Topical: Industrial engineering, System theory
Description: While simulation games are widely applied in a face-to-face classroom setting, there is a lack of adequate collection of simulation games for online learning. Hence, the purpose of this research is two-fold: 1) to identify the gap for Lean Six Sig...

Title: DEVELOPING A BRAIN COMPUTER INTERFACE CONTROL SYSTEM FOR ROBOTIC MOVEMENT IN TWO DIMENSIONS
Author: Major, Tyler
Date Created: 2014
Subjects--Topical: Electrical engineering
Description: This paper concerns the theory behind developing a brain computer interface (BCI) and the applications of such a system. Signal acquisition methods such as Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI), Near-Infrared Spectroscopy (NIRS), Magnetoenc...

Title: DYNAMIC WATER SORPTION IN TREHALOSE-SALT MIXTURES: EFFECT OF COMPOSITION ON RETENTION OF THE AMORPHOUS STATE
Author: Bagheri, Babak
Date Created: 2014
Subjects--Topical: Mechanical engineering, Biomechanics
Description: The disaccharide trehalose has received considerable attention in the bio-preservation field due to its outstanding properties as a glass former, and it is widely used in the pharmaceutical and food industries to stabilize dried products. In part,...

Title: De natura religionis Romanum: A Re-appraisal of the Role of Roman Private Cult and Practice
Author: Young, Thomas
Date Created: 2014
Subjects--Topical: History--Religious aspects, Religion, Civilization, Classical--Study and teaching
Description: This study questions the contemporary privilege afforded Roman civic cult and its relationship with the divine over the private cult of the individual or group. Exploring the historical underpinnings of the civic cult theory as exemplified by such...

Title: EXAMINING THE EFFECTS OF VALENCE AND AROUSAL ON PAIN PERCEPTION USING VIRTUAL REALITY MOOD INDUCTION
Author: Porter, Anne
Date Created: 2014
Subjects--Topical: Computer science, Psychology
Description: Virtual reality (VR) distraction has successfully decreased chronic and acute pain perception in clinical and experimental settings, but the precise elements of VR that optimize distraction have not been fully explored. Research has suggested that...

Title: EXPERIMENTAL ASSESSMENT OF THE EFFECT OF SODIUM CHLORIDE DEICING AND ANTI-ICING SOLUTIONS ON EXPOSED, COATED, AND REINFORCING STEEL IN HIGHWAY BRIDGES
Author: Diep, Thanh-tu
Date Created: 2014
Subjects--Topical: Engineering
Description: In North Carolina, winter roadway maintenance strategies vary across the state, with some areas using brine for anti-icing pre-treatment, some using granular salts for deicing, and some using a mix of granular salts with traction enhancing materia...

Title: Evaluating Kubernetes at the Edge for Fault Tolerant Multi Camera Computer Vision Applications
Author: Heckmann, Owen
Date Created: 2014
Subjects--Topical: Computer engineering
Description: The rise of AI powered computer vision algorithms offers the possibility of intelligent data processing, and decision making based on streaming data from video cameras. Applications such as Smart Cities could potentially use these video cameras fo...

Title: FEASIBILITY OF ELECTRIC FIELD SENSOR FOR EXTERNAL BALLISTICS ANALYSIS
Author: Benfield, Christopher
Date Created: 2014
Subjects--Topical: Mechanical engineering, Engineering
Description: 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 ...