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Title
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SOLUTION OF A 1-D INVERSE PROBLEM BY THE CONVEXIFICATION METHOD
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Author
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Abney, Ray
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Date Created
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2019
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Subjects--Topical
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Mathematics, Physics
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Description
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In this thesis, we demonstrate a method outlined by Dr. Mikhail Klibanov for solving a 1-D coefficient inverse problem by the convexification method. Our inverse problem in question concerns finding buried bombs, where the dielectric constants of ...
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Force and Moment Tire Data Modelling and Test Report Generation
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Author
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Agalgaonkar, Sudeep
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Date Created
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2019
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Subjects--Topical
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Mechanical engineering
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Description
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For optimizing the performance of vehicles, tire force and moment data generated by a tire testing machine is crucial to automotive manufacturers. The data representation should involve more than the transmittal of raw data. Conceivable representa...
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Electrical Behavior During Cooling of Conductive Concrete
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Author
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Alhakim, MHD ALi
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Date Created
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2019
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Subjects--Topical
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Civil engineering
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Description
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Self-sensing concrete consists of embedded conductive materials allowing enhanced electric conductivity for assessing mechanical properties. This thesis describes the design of a self-sensing concrete with steel fabrication waste and the detection...
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Title
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Exploring an Intelligent Responsive Architecture through Gesture-based Interaction
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Author
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An, Yijing
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Date Created
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2019
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Subjects--Topical
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Information technology, Architecture, Building
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Description
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Architects are increasingly adopting gesture-based interaction to create responsive, engaging and inspiring spaces. However, there is no established theories providing guidelines to link gestures and spatial movement. This thesis critiques the pre...
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POLYDYNE DISPLACEMENT INTERFEROMETER USING FREQUENCY-MODULATED LIGHT
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Author
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Arablu, Masoud
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Date Created
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2019
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Subjects--Topical
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Mechanical engineering, Electrical engineering, Optics
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Description
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A novel multi-frequency (polydyne) optical interferometry method is introduced and a prototype developed to evaluate its performance in a Michelson displacement interferometer configuration. The polydyne interferometer contains three main parts of...
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Title
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DISFLUENT SPEECH SEGMENTS DETECTION AND REMEDIATION
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Author
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Arbajian, Pierre
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Date Created
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2019
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Subjects--Topical
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Information science, Linguistics
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Description
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Speech remediation by identifying those segments which compromise the quality of speech content can be performed by correctly identifying portions of a recording which can be deleted without diminishing from the overall quality of the speech, but ...
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PERFORMANCE AND SPECIFICATION OF OPTICAL COMPONENTS WITH MID-SPATIAL FREQUENCY SURFACE ERRORS
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Author
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Aryan, Hamidreza
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Date Created
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2019
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Subjects--Topical
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Mechanical engineering, Optics, Engineering
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Description
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The advent of sub-aperture computer-numerically controlled (CNC) manufacturing techniques has enabled new opportunities for high-performance optical components and systems. Freeform and other challenging designs are now possible like never before....
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Title
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CROSS-PLATFORM INDOOR NAVIGATION USING MIXED-REALITY
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Author
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Ayyanchira, Akshay Murari
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Date Created
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2019
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Subjects--Topical
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Computer science
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Description
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Indoor navigation and localization are challenging due to the limits of available devices. A number of devices, such as GPS [3], beacons [5], infrared positioning system, ultrasonic positioning system and RF positioning system [21] have been explo...
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IMPACT OF DELIRIUM EDUCATION ON A POST-SURGICAL UNIT
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Author
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BYRNES, TRU
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Date Created
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2019
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Subjects--Topical
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Nursing
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Description
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Background: Delirium is a common issue experienced by many geriatric patients. However, it is often under-recognized and misdiagnosed by nurses resulting in the delay of treatment. The literature indicates that staff education is vital in delirium...
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A Recurrent Neural Network Based Patch Recommender for Linux Kernel Bugs
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Author
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Bableshwar, Anusha
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Date Created
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2019
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Subjects--Topical
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Computer engineering
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Description
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Software bugs result in a variety of issues including system crashes, loss of system performance, incorrect output and security vulnerabilities. In this thesis, we explore the design of a patch recommender system for the Linux kernel. Software too...
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UNDERSTANDING SOCIAL MOVEMENTS THROUGH SIMULATIONS OF ANGER CONTAGION IN SOCIAL MEDIA
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Author
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Bacaksizlar, Nazmiye
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Date Created
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2019
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Subjects--Topical
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Sociology, Information technology, System theory
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Description
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This dissertation investigates emotional contagion in social movements within social media platforms, such as Twitter. The main research question is: How does a protest behavior spread in social networks? The following sub-questions are: (a) What ...
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Title
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Distributed Actionable Pattern Mining
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Author
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Bagavathi, Arunkumar
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Date Created
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2019
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Subjects--Topical
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Computer science
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Description
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In recent years, the internet has become faster, computer storage has become larger, data collected by organizations as well as web and social media has grown tremendously. Data Mining tools require adaptations to cope with analyzing massive amoun...