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Title: A Chronosequence of Cracking in Mill Creek, California
Author: Berberich, Samantha
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: Geomorphology
Description: Mechanical weathering –aka physical weathering; the process by which rock is broken down into smaller pieces --is one of the first modifications rock undergoes once it approaches Earth’s surface. Essentially, almost all processes that shape the la...

Title: A Cut-Cell Based Ghost Fluid Method for Multi-Component Compressible Flows
Author: Liu, Chen
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: Fluid mechanics
Description: Multi-material compressible flows are observed in several applications of practical relevance including combustion, cavitation and shock lithotripsy. To solve such flows numerically with improved efficiency and accuracy, the use of the Ghost Fluid...

Title: A STRUCTURAL AND FUNCTIONAL ANALYSIS OF NEMATOSTELLA VECTENSIS MAJOR INTRINSIC PROTEINS
Author: Taylor, Jonathon
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: Biology, Cytology, Evolutionary developmental biology
Description: There is currently a major gap in understanding the physiological processes of tissue grade animals from early diverging phyla, particularly within the context of the molecular mechanisms in response to osmotic variation. A key protein family esse...

Title: A finite element approach for analysis of damping properties of polymer composites.
Author: Shukla, Satyam
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: Engineering
Description: Mechanical vibrations are a part of several industrial equipment,machinery, systems and vehicles being used in our day to day life. Damping of such unwanted vibrations have been of utmost importance for several industrial operations.Polymer compos...

Title: ADDITIVE MANUFACTURABLE METASURFACES FOR RF APPLICATION
Author: Hecht, Kristy
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: Electromagnetism
Description: Materials found in nature exhibit behaviors with certain properties such as mass density, permeability, and permittivity. Unfortunately, there are limitations and restrictions to the behaviors of these materials that can be overcome with the use o...

Title: AN INVESTIGATION OF STRUCTURED LIGHT SCANNER CALIBRATION DEGRADATION
Author: Turnbull, Robert
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: Mechanical engineering
Description: ROBERT DAVID TURNBULL. An Investigation of Structured Light Scanner Calibration Degradation (Under the direction of DR. ED MORSE)Structured light scanning is a measurement technique using two images taken at a well-known angle to each other. Using...

Title: ANALYSIS OF NEGATIVE-SEQUENCE DIRECTIONAL ELEMENT FOR TYPE-IV WIND POWER PLANTS UNDER VARIOUS CONTROL METHODOLOGIES
Author: MUTHA, SATHISH KUMAR
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: Electrical engineering
Description: Negative-sequence directional element operation depends on the magnitude and thephase angle of the negative-sequence current with respect to negative-sequence voltage.The directional element’s operation and simplicity of settings lies in the repre...

Title: ANALYSIS ON EMPLOYMENT IN THE CHARLOTTE METRO AREA BEFORE AND AFTER THE OPENING OF THE CHARLOTTE BOBCATS ARENA
Author: Lopez, Benito
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: Economics
Description: BENITO LOPEZ. Analysis on employment in the Charlotte metro area before and after the opening of the Charlotte Bobcats Arena. (Under the direction ofDR. CRAIG DEPKEN II)This paper uses nonfarm employment data from the Charlotte-Concord-Gastonia, N...

Title: ASSESSING COMPARATIVE FUNCTIONS FOR THE BZIP TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR NFE2 IN NEMATOSTELLA VECTENSIS
Author: Clegg, Devin
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: Biology
Description: The bZIP gene superfamily is a family of transcription factors that have gone through multiple duplication events within bilaterians, specifically in vertebrates. This has led to multiple paralogs in each bZIP family while early diverging phyla ha...

Title: Analysis of a Low Enriched Uranium Centrifugal Gas Core Reactor
Author: Leer, Darrin
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: Fluid mechanics, Physics, Radiation, Nuclear physics
Description: With the new NASA directive of returning to the Moon in 2024 as a stepping stone to missions to Mars and beyond, there is a renewed interest in developing nuclear thermal rockets (NTR) to reduce trip times. This thesis will focus on the analysis o...

Title: Analytics for Fault Detection and Energy Management in Large Retail Portfolios
Author: Raju, Suhas
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: Power resources, Mathematics, Artificial intelligence
Description: Energy managers responsible for large real-estate portfolios typically review Energy Star scores and Energy Use Intensity (EUI) to determine which facilities to target for retrofit or audit. In the case of a large portfolio of small retail facilit...

Title: Assessing the impact of temperature on population-specific gene expression of a model estuarine cnidarian, Nematostella vectensis
Author: Klock, Amy
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: Biology
Description: Temperature is a critical environmental factor that affects all living organisms. Climate change is resulting in rising global temperatures with marine environments being especially vulnerable. My study aimed to elucidate the temperature-dependent...

Title: Assistive technologies for individuals with alzheimer and investigating main challenges of adopting the technologies
Author: qu, yun
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: Information technology
Description: The number of individuals with Alzheimer's Disease (AD) is rising dramatically in the United States. Assistive technologies serve to assist with the care recipients' independence. However, while many technological systems for individuals with AD h...

Title: CHARACTERIZING WATER QUALITY AND HYDROLOGY IN FLOW FROM OUTLETS
Author: Thergaonkar, Pranay
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: Engineering, Environmental engineering
Description: During a storm event, stormwater runoff is generated, and some discharge enters outlet pipes that lead to flow in outlet channels. With the increase in flow of discharge, the volume of stormwater entering the channel increases. These discharges fr...

Title: Calibrating Short Rate Models in Negative Interest Rate Environments: An Application to Bermudan Swaptions
Author: De Bles, Jasper
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: Finance
Description: AbstractCalibrating Short Rate Models in Negative Interest Rate Environments: An Application to Bermudan SwaptionsThe evolution of the interest rate has been modelled for a long time by a lognormal distribution. Similar to stock prices, it was gen...

Title: Chemical Characterization of Recycled Concrete Aggregates Using a Handheld X-Ray Fluorescence Device
Author: Dey, Arindam
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: Civil engineering
Description: Recycled concrete aggregates (RCA) are an important source of material that can be used in construction to mitigate the problems associated with use of virgin aggregates. The volume of waste generated by the construction industry is increasing at ...

Title: Cluster-based Composite Pavement Deterioration Modeling: A Framework for Incorporating Flooding
Author: Neema, Ishan
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: Engineering
Description: Pavement networks are among the most valuable highway assets for a nation asbillions of dollars have been invested every year in construction, maintenance, and rehabilitation. These networks undergo deterioration over time due to traffic loading, ...

Title: Combined Word and Network Embeddings: An Analysis Framework of User Opinions on Social Media
Author: Singh, Tannu
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: Computer science
Description: Online social media like Twitter, Facebook, and Gab is often used as the stage to deliver one's opinion for a particular group of people, a political party, etc. Sometimes, the opinions shared are considered as controversial by some audience, appl...

Title: Community-based Rehabilitation Effects on Juvenile Crime Rates at the Local Level
Author: Byrne, Molly
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: Criminology
Description: Studies often focus on individual effects and outcomes to analyze whether rehabilitation programs are effective at reducing recidivism. This is an important area of study; however, research has not focused on analyzing how rehabilitation programs ...

Title: Comparison between statistical and deep learning approaches for anomaly detection applications in a microgrid
Author: Bhure, Chaitanya
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: Electrical engineering
Description: A microgrid is a localized group of electricity sources and loads that normally operates connected to and synchronous with traditional wide area synchronous grid(macrogrid), but can also disconnect to island mode and then function autonomouslyas p...