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(2011-12-10)Department: Civil EngineeringThis dissertation develops a general methodology for probabilistic prediction of railroad wheel failure life considering uncertainties from several possible sources. The two most dominant failure types, shattered rim and ...
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(2015-11-25)Department: Civil EngineeringFiber reinforced polymer (FRP) composites present a significant opportunity for increas- ing performance and energy efficiency in a number of technology sectors, most notably the automotive and aerospace industries. In ...
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(2011-08-05)Department: ReligionIn this dissertation, I endeavor to bring to life Kathryn Tanner’s way of framing theology as a cultural practice within which ad hoc, context specific modes of Christian discourse (everyday theologies) and more specialized, ...
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Faith in the World Community: Sue Bailey Thurman and Black Women's World Reconstruction, 1920-1950 (2023-07-19)Department: HistoryScholars have demonstrated that during the first half of the twentieth century, African American women were at the vanguard of the international struggle for Black liberation. Through their international travel, political ...
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(2018-04-11)Department: GermanGERMAN False Dichotomies: Echoes and Foresight in Works by Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach and Hugo Wolf Andrea Weatherman Kikkert Dissertation under the direction of Professor Barbara Hahn Inspired by the Apollonian and ...
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(2014-04-16)Department: Political ScienceWithin liberal societies victims of gender-based violence have access to institutions of justice but these do not always guarantee them access to justice. There is a misfit between the assumptions of liberal institutions, ...
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(2008-01-02)Department: Special EducationThis study examines how family background impacts the comprehension of struggling readers in grades 2-6. Background surveys were administered to parents (N = 51), who also completed cognitive and psychosocial measures. ...
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(2012-07-30)Department: Community Research and ActionSince the mid-1980’s families have been the fastest growing segment of the homeless population in the United States. Homeless programs were not designed for families, but rather as rehabilitative institutions for individuals. ...
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(2022-03-24)Department: SociologyModern agriculture, as a foundational component of contemporary society and major extractive interface with the natural environment, has come to symbolize humanity’s struggle for continued existence. On the one hand, modern ...
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(2019-07-11)Department: HistoryIn 1600, literate Venetian society witnessed the publication of two subversive tracts on gender and marriage by Moderata Fonte and Lucrezia Marinella. Both women belonged to Venice’s elect citizen class and both combined ...
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(2016-11-30)Department: HistoryThis paper investigates the Venetian radicalization of the European querelle des femmes or debate on women in the tracts Il merito delle donne and La nobiltà e eccellenza delle donne by cittadini authors Moderata Fonte and ...
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(2008-05-14)Department: HistoryDespite their prominence in early modern English culture, fasts have remained virtually unstudied. This omission is unfortunate. Study of fast days provides a valuable window onto one of the most important stories of ...
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(2011-03-08)Department: Electrical EngineeringThe majority of modeling and simulation of single event transients (SETs) and their effects is normally done at a transistor level, known as micro-modeling. These simulations give insight into how a transistor will behave ...
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(2023-06-30)Department: Electrical EngineeringCyber-physical systems (CPS) involve the integration of physical hardware with computational processes, requiring the cyber components to align with the underlying physics for system correctness. To improve efficiency and ...
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(2006-07-28)Department: Mechanical EngineeringThe objective of this work is to detect failures in a vibration control system and adapt the control system in order to maintain optimal performance. Fault detection and isolation (FDI) filters, which are a subset of state ...
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(2013-07-29)Department: Biological SciencesDissertation under the direction of Professor Bruce H. Appel Oligodendrocytes are specialized glial cells in the vertebrate central nervous system (CNS) that extend processes to wrap axons in myelin sheaths. Their number ...
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(2016-04-04)Department: Medicine, Health, and SocietyIn response to the growing desires of American women to reclaim childbirth from the pathologized and technocratic grips of Western medicine, the social media based organization, Birth Without Fear, provides positive birth ...
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(2022-05-09)Department: Mechanical EngineeringThis dissertation explores the viability of two prospective wearable mechatronic devices. The first is a swing-assist knee prosthesis for individuals with transfemoral amputation, and the second is a backpack-wearable ...
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(2006-07-12)Department: Biomedical EngineeringA notable complication of applying current image-guided surgery techniques of soft tissue to kidney resections (nephrectomies) is the limited field of view of the intraoperative kidney surface. This limited view constrains ...
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Feature-level information fusion methods for urban surveillance using heterogeneous sensor networks (2010-03-17)Department: Computer ScienceWireless Sensor Networks (WSNs), with low-power wireless devices integrated with sensors and actuators, are emerging as a new computing paradigm that promise to seamlessly integrate cyberand physical-worlds. WSNs have great ...