This paper adds to the existing literature on gentrification by exploring the impact of newly developed light rail transportation systems on neighborhoods surrounding the[...]

Establishing peaceful post-conflict communities requires returning and reintegrating those who left during the violence. With the United Nations and other institutions in[...]

This thesis describes the design and verification of a scanning, optical, displacement measurement instrument, which utilizes digital image correlation (DIC) to measure di[...]

A novel multi-frequency (polydyne) optical interferometry method is introduced and a prototype developed to evaluate its performance in a Michelson displacement interfero[...]

Speckle patterns are complex intensity distributions, which occur when an optically rough surface is illuminated with a coherent light. The speckle phenomenon was known t[...]

The motivation for development of a multi-probe scanning microscope, presented in this dissertation, is to provide a versatile measurement tool mainly targeted for biolog[...]