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Settlement House Scenes: Migrants and the Performing Arts in Transatlantic Perspective
(2016-05-10)
This dissertation examines the transatlantic history of the settlement house movement in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It has two foci. The first is the origin of the settlement movement, in Britain; ...
THE ROLE OF TIME HORIZONS IN SHAPING THE ANTECEDENTS AND CONSEQUENCES OF HEDGE FUND ACTIVISM
(2019-07-09)
While the general stream of shareholder activism literature examines the antecedents and consequences of hedge fund activism, this dissertation investigates this phenomenon from a different angle. I examine the impact of ...
COMPARISON OF METHANE PRODUCTION FROM HOUSEHOLD WASTE
(2016-05-11)
Anaerobic digestion is a biochemical process in which various microorganisms transform complex organic compounds to methane, along with carbon dioxide, water vapor and a small amount of other trace gases in absence of ...
FOIL THRUST BEARING WITH POCKET GROOVES AND TAILORED BUMP STIFFNESS DISTRIBUTION FOR IMPROVED STATIC PERFORMANCE
(2018-12-19)
Gas foil thrust bearing is one of few axial bearing options for high speed turbomachinery systems. Its advantages include low cost, light weight, generous allowance for component mis-alignment and runout. However, the ...
IDENTIFICATION OF PHASE-BASED KEY PERFORMANCE FACTORS AND THEIR BEST PRACTICES IN CONSTRUCTION PROJECTS
(2018-08-09)
Delay and cost overrun in construction projects are two widespread problems arousing practitioners’ and scholars’ concerns as poor time and cost performance lead construction projects to failure. It is estimated that more ...
DEDUPLICATION-AWARE PAGE CACHE IN LINUX KERNEL FOR IMPROVED READ PERFORMANCE
(2019-12-16)
The amount of data being produced and consumed is increasing every day. As a result, there can be a large amount of redundant data in the storage system. Storing and accessing these duplicate data unnecessarily consumes ...
Data Fusion for Non-motorized Volume Estimation: A Machine Learning Approach
(2022-07-14)
**Please note that the full text is embargoed until 7/11/2024** ABSTRACT: Despite increased awareness at the state and federal levels of the design and policy concerns associated with nonmotorized infrastructure, communities ...
Studies of the Performance, Stability and Reliability of Various Configurations of the Activated Sludge Process at Full-Scale Municipal Wastewater Treatment Plants
(Engineering, Environmental, 2009-05-15)
This research presents a performance, stability and reliability analysis of five configurations of activated sludge process, viz., conventional, contact stabilization, complete mix, extended aeration and sequencing batch ...