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A New Feature Descriptor For LiDARStrip Matching
(Electrical Engineering, 2014-07-14)Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR) data has been getting a lot of attention these days because of its applicability in various fields - city planning, disaster response & precaution, soil conservation, infrastructure or ... -
NEW FLEXIBLE MOLDABLE ION-EXCHANGE POLYMERS AND THEIR ANALYTICAL APPLICATIONS
(2021-08-03)This dissertation aims to improve the functionality of open tubular capillary ion chromatography (OTIC) in terms of the lower limit of detection (LOD) and higher sensitivity by fabricating a microchannel suppressor and ... -
New GC Separation Approaches And Analysis Of Antioxidants From Rosemary (Rosmarinus officinalis L.) And Their Stabilities By HPLC
(Chemistry & Biochemistry, 2012-04-11)Enantiomeric separations are of great interest in the pharmaceutical, biotechnology and agrochemical industries due to the different therapeutic effects of enantiomers. Because of the high efficiency, sensitivity and ... -
New Graduate Nurses and Transition to Practice
A widely acknowledged transition to practice gap exists for nursing students who have recently graduated and are starting their first job as a registered nurse (RN). In an attempt to bridge this gap, new graduate nurses ... -
A New Integrative Data Mining Framework For Analyzing The Cancer Genome Atlas Data
(Computer Science & Engineering, 2014-03-10)Besides accuracy and efficiency, understandability is another key issue of predictive modeling in real-world applications, especially in biomedical and healthcare data analysis. We develop a new integrative framework to ... -
New Macrocyclic Glycopeptide Antibiotic For Chiral HPLC Stationary Phases And Ionic Liquids In Analytical Chemistry
(Chemistry & Biochemistry, 2011-07-14)The main focus of this dissertation is on the development of new chiral stationary phases for HPLC and GC and the application of ionic liquids in analytical chemistry. They will be discussed separately in two parts. ... -
New Matrix Completion Models For Social Information Retrieval Application
(Computer Science & Engineering, 2014-03-12)Many popular social web sites have emerged during the past decade and completely changed many users' everyday live. Recently, social information retrieval models, where conventional information retrieval meets the social ... -
A New Method For Non-rigid Registration Of 3d Images
(Mathematics, 2009-09-16)In this dissertation we present a novel method for the nonrigid registration of 3D images using a well-established mathematical framework mostly known as the deformation based grid generation method. The deformation based ... -
NEW METHODS FOR DISCOVERY, FINGERPRINTING, AND ANALYSIS OF CANNABIS SATIVA NATURAL PRODUCTS
(2018-08-27)Cannabis sativa is an herbaceous annual that has always been of great interest due to its uses in the manufacturing of textiles and cordage, as well as for its medicinal properties. The two main bioactive components of C. ... -
New Methods For Trace Analysis Of Iodine And Perchlorate In Biological Fluids
Iodine is an essential element necessary for the production of the thyroid hormones T3 and T4. These hormones are necessary for metabolism and are especially important for brain development in infants and young children. ... -
A New Multiscale Approach For Dynamic Modeling And Simulation Of Micro-nano Biomolecular Systems Characterized By A Low Reynolds Number
(Mechanical Engineering, 2014-07-14)In this dissertation, a new multiscale computational framework was developed in order to model and simulate motility of micro-nano-sized objects in fluid environments, characterized with a low Reynolds number. Especially, ... -
A New Paradigm In User Equilibrium - Application In Managed Lane Pricing
(Civil & Environmental Engineering, 2010-03-03)Ineffective use of the High-Occupancy-Vehicle (HOV) lanes has the potential to decrease the overall roadway capacity during peak periods. Excess capacity in HOV lanes during peak periods can be made available to other ... -
NEW PUBLIC SERVICE: GRAY MATTERS IN THE DELIVERY OF PUBLIC ADDED VALUE THROUGH CREATIVE GOVERNANCE PRACTICES – A SILVER LINING TO MANAGING THE EFFECTS OF A CHANGING DEMOGRAPHIC
(2019-08-02)The baby boomer generation, those people born worldwide between 1946 and 1964 are now making their mass exodus from the workforce and are on the imminent road to retirement. Or maybe they are not. The road to retirement ... -
New Results In Finite Geometries Pertaining To Albert-like Semifields
(Mathematics, 2012-07-25)One of the most widely studied class of semifields are the generalized twisted fields defined by Albert in the 50s and 60s. The collineation groups of generalized twisted field planes have been completely described. In a ... -
NEW STRATEGIES FOR CATALYTIC C-H AND OLEFIN HYDROSILYLATION
(2018-08-23)In the works described here, new catalytic hydrosilylation strategies were explored. First, a highly selective, bond functionalization strategy, achieved via relay of two transition metal catalysts and use of traceless ... -
NEW STRATEGIES FOR HYDROSILYLATION OF PROPARGYL ALCOHOLS, OLEFIN POLYMERIZATION AND ON-CHIP ORGANIC SYNTHESIS
(2020-08-11)The research described in this dissertation is on three different projects namely i) design and synthesis of traceless hydrosilyl acetal-directed, exo-syn hydrosilylation of propargyl alcohols to produce α-hydroxy ... -
A New System Of Power: The Franks And The Catholic Church in post-Roman Gaul
(History, 2014-03-10)The Franks developed a new system of power in post-Roman Gaul with the help of the Catholic Church. From the sixth through the ninth century three Frankish kings played crucial roles in the development of this new ... -
A New Technique For The Estimation Of The Elastic Moduli Of Pavement Layers From Light Weight Deflectometer Data
This study developed a method to estimate the elastic moduli of a flexible pavement system from Light Weight Deflectometer deflection data. The forward method (simple equations) can be easily programmed into the data ... -
NEWS NARRATIVES ABOUT THE HPV VACCINE FOR ADOLESCENT MALES
(2016-12-08)The goal of this research was to examine portrayals of gender roles and expectations related to the human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine for men and boys in U.S. newspapers within the theoretical framework of feminist theory, ... -
The News We Use: A Mixed Methods Analysis Of Cable News Media Polarization
(Sociology, 2014-03-12)The 2012 election is done and the dust has settled, but one cannot overlook the fact that the ever-widening gap between our two main political parties' ideologies and platforms has made it substantially harder for independents ...