Doctoral Dissertations

Recent years have seen exponential increase in memory capacity for computer data storage. Increased bit density has been produced by decreasing feature sizes in microelec[...]

Micropiles are a relatively new deep foundation technology in the United States. As an alternative to driven piles or drilled shafts, micropiles can provide substantial [...]

Kidney stone disease affects approximately 10% of the U.S. population. Conventional Holmium:YAG infrared laser lithotripsy is a standard minimally invasive treatment that[...]

In the face of accelerating sea-level rise, people continue to live near anddevelop the coast. In the United States, we have chosen adaptation andprotection, via coastal [...]

Objectives: This study examined activity planning for residents with dementia in care communities. My principal analysis explored how activity planning relates to reside[...]

Analyzing the price of PV generation systems in different market sectors shows that the portion of inverter cost and Balance of System (BoS) are increased due to advent o[...]

In this dissertation, the classic one dimension orthogonal wavelet construction scheme is discussed and extended to construct Parseval's frame wavelets in high dimension [...]

It is well known in knot theory that any link can be represented by a closed braid and the braid index of a link is the invariant defined as the minimum number of strands[...]

The school counseling profession is governed by national standards to promote the academic, personal, social, and career development of all students. There is an emphasis[...]

We define a class of convex measures of risk whose values depend on the random variables only up to the lambda-quantiles for some given constant lambda in (0,1). For thi[...]