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Title: A Contactless Non-Intrusive Approach for Machine Learning-Based Personalized Thermal Comfort Prediction
Author: Ashrafi, Roshanak
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: Civil engineering, Sustainability, Building
Description: Indoor thermal environmental conditions play a significant role in protecting occupants’ well-being. In this regard, schedule-based and predefined environmental control is one of the main reasons for the current discomfort and dissatisfaction with...

Title: An Examination of the Impact of Urbanization on Stream Biodiversity and Ecosystem Function
Author: ROUX, ANTHONY
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: Ecology, Human ecology--Study and teaching, Entomology
Description: The "Urban Stream Syndrome" is a term that refers to a group of predictable negative impacts to stream ecosystems due to the alteration of the natural hydrologic regime that is associated with urbanization. These negative impacts include increases...

Title: Bridge Scour Detection Using Terrestrial LiDAR and Advanced Quantification Techniques
Author: Shanmugam, Navanit Sri
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: Civil engineering
Description: Scour is an important factor affecting the hydraulic structures of a bridge. Remote sensing techniques such as terrestrial LiDAR (Light Detection And Ranging) can help speed up the inspection process and provide high-resolution records of the exte...

Title: Energetic Theory and Hadley Cells at a Seasonal Scale: How Will ITCZ respond to a Warming Climate
Author: Bai, Xiaoyu
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: Atmospheric science
Description: The Intertropical Convergence Zone (ITCZ), a belt of convective systems around the equator with showers and thunderstorms, is an important feature not only to the tropical societies whose water budget depends on it, but also to the atmospheric sci...

Title: Evaluating the Efficacy of Whole-Watershed Stream Restoration: Implications for Groundwater Storage, Water Quality, and Suspended Solids in a Piedmont Urban Forest Watershed
Author: Petitt, Destini
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: Hydrology, Geochemistry, Ecology
Description: The quality and quantity of water in degraded watersheds (i.e.: watersheds undergoing changing land-use, urbanization, agricultural use) may be impaired compared to undisturbed forested watersheds. To enhance the ecosystem function of impaired wat...

Title: How the Brewing Industry Can Support a Circular Economy in Mecklenburg County, North Carolina
Author: Hendren, Heather
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: Environmental engineering, Civil engineering, Economics
Description: This research investigates beer production in Mecklenburg County and its impact on water demand, and waste production, with a specific focus on how beer production fits into Charlotte’s public strategy of a Circular Economy. Charlotte adopted a Ci...

Title: Investigating the Determinants of Autonomous Vehicles and Their Potential Impacts on Travel Behaviors and Land Use Distribution
Author: Rahman, Md. Mokhlesur
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: Transportation, City planning, Land use--Planning
Description: Autonomous Vehicles (AVs) are imminent and they are not in people’s dreams now. Now the burning questions the research community is interested in include how quickly AVs would be implemented for public use, whether people would accept them, and ho...

Title: Modeling and Evaluating the Safety Effectiveness of Mini-Roundabouts
Author: Mishra, Raunak
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: Civil engineering, Transportation, Sustainability
Description: Mini-roundabouts are a type of roundabout characterized by a small diameter, and fully traversable central island and splitter islands. They are an alternative intersection design option in areas with constraints requiring additional land acquisit...

Title: Modeling the Effects of Advanced Driver Assistance Systems on Driver Behavior
Author: Gouribhatla, Raghuveer
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: Transportation
Description: About 38,000 fatalities are reported every year in the United States and traffic crashes (referred to as crashes) are the leading cause of deaths among people up to 54 years. Additionally, economic loss due to crashes is estimated equal to $380 mi...

Title: Short Term Ex-ante Load Forecasting
Author: Li, Yike
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: Statistics
Description: Short-term load forecasting (STLF) is a conventional process at power companies to serve for better decision-making in their daily operations. Weather factors play a key role in STLF. In practice, an online STLF system typically requires the use o...

Title: The impact of connected and autonomous vehicles on the performance of superstreets
Author: Liu, Shaojie
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: Transportation, Human ecology--Study and teaching
Description: Connected and autonomous vehicles (CAVs) are a type of emerging technology that has promising potentials in improving many aspects of the existing transportation infrastructure, including operations, safety, and the environment. With the capabilit...

Title: The impact of connected and autonomous vehicles on the performance of superstreets
Author: Liu, Shaojie
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: Transportation, Human ecology--Study and teaching
Description: Connected and autonomous vehicles (CAVs) are a type of emerging technology that has promising potentials in improving many aspects of the existing transportation infrastructure, including operations, safety, and the environment. With the capabilit...