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QUANTITATIVE NON-DESTRUCTIVE EVALUATION (NDE) OF FRP LAMINATE-CONCRETE BOND STRENGTH
(2017-12-06)Repair and rehabilitation methods for civil infrastructure have become a topic of great interest to engineers. Fiber Reinforced Polymer (FRP) is considered as one of the most popular and practical solutions for strengthening ... -
Quantitative Non-Destructive Evaluation of Rebar Corrosion in Concrete
(2022-05-17)**Please note that the full text is embargoed until 5/16/2024** ABSTRACT: Corrosion of rebar is considered the leading cause of deterioration in concrete structures. When steel rust, it occupies larger volume and creates ... -
Quantitative Non-destructive Evaluation Of Rebar Diameter And Corrosion Damage In Concrete Using Ground Penetrating Radar
The purpose of this study is to develop new methods for quantitative estimation of rebar diameter and loss of area of rebar due to corrosion using Ground Penetrating Radar (GPR). The existing methods of determining the ... -
Quantitative Variation Of Blood Pressure Dynamics During Sleep Apnea
(Biomedical Engineering, 2010-11-01)Sleep Apnea is one of the major sleep disorders characterized by complete cessation or decline in breathing for about 10s or more during sleep, thereby adversely affecting the quality of sleep. Studies show that about 6 % ... -
Quantized Enveloping Superalgebra of Type P
(2022-05-09)We introduce a new quantized enveloping superalgebra $\mathfrak{U}_q\mathfrak{p}_n$ attached to the Lie superalgebra $\mathfrak{p}_n$ of type P. The superalgebra $\mathfrak{U}_q\mathfrak{p}_n$ is a quantization of a Lie ... -
Quantum Modeling Of Dark Matter In Galactic Halos
(Physics, 2013-03-20)Eighty years after its initial discovery, the nature of dark matter remains a mystery. Contrary to observational evidence, simulations of dark matter halos predict cuspy density profiles and an abundant population of dwarf ... -
Quartic: An Ultra-fast Time-of-flight Counter
(Physics, 2007-09-17)Fast time-of-flight counters are planned to dramatically decrease backgrounds to events with a massive central system and forward/backward protons at the LHC. By using timing to confirm that the protons originated from the ... -
A Quasi-experimental Design: Multisystemic Therapy As An Alternative Community-based Treatment For Youth With Severe Emotional Disturbance
(Social Work, 2007-09-17)This study compared multisystemic therapy to usual services in a community mental health setting for emotionally disturbed youth with externalizing disorders. Usual services included the combination of case management with ... -
QUASI-ONE-DIMENSIONAL SCRAMJET COMBUSTOR FLOW SOLVER USING THE NUMERICAL PROPULSION SYSTEM SIMULATION
(2018-05-16)The flow field inside a scramjet engine combustor involves complex phenomena such as fuel-air mixing, combustion chemistry, and flow separation. In order to determine the properties of the flow along the length of the ... -
Queering the Aftermath: Rethinking the Queer in Postcolonial and the (Post)colonial in Queer
(2016-05-13)“Queering the Aftermath: Rethinking the Queer in Postcolonial and the (Post)colonial in Queer,” argues the necessity for a sustained dialogue between the fields of postcolonial studies and queer studies. The paucity of ... -
Query Auditing Against Partial Disclosure
(Computer Science & Engineering, 2009-09-16)Many government agencies, businesses, and nonprofit organizations need to collect, analyze, and report data about individuals in order to support their short-term and long-term planning activities. Statistical Databases ... -
Querying Entity-relationship Graphs By Example Tuples: Experimental Evaluation And User Study
(Computer Science & Engineering, 2013-03-20)The World Wide Web today has evolved into a rich repository of entities where many knowledge bases containing entity-related information are directly available. Such knowledge bases are often in the form of entity-relationship ... -
Querying Microarray Databases
(Computer Science & Engineering, 2007-08-23)Microarray technology has rapidly taken a key position among bioinformatics research tools. After the completion of the Human Genome Project, microarray databases have become particularly important to the management and ... -
Questions In American Sign Language: A Quantitative Analysis Of Raised And Lowered Eyebrows
(Linguistics, 2008-08-08)Although much of linguistic information in American Sign Language (ASL) is conveyed through nonmanual signals, the majority of more than 40 years of research focuses on manual signs. As a result, we are just beginning to ... -
Quick Decisions Involving Threatening And Non-threatening Images
The purpose of this research was to investigate the role of facial expressions with respect to quick decisions involving threatening and non-threatening images, to understand better the theoretical perspectives involving ... -
Race And Cricket: The West Indies And England At Lord's, 1963
(History, 2011-10-11)Cricket became a sport in which there was a clear separation based on race and class; and these distinctions initially determined function within the sport. In England, where the distinction was based mostly on class, the ... -
RACE AND SOCIAL INJUSTICE: THE REPRESENTATIONS IN CHILDREN'S PICTURE BOOKS, 2016-2020
(2021-05-18)This project is an examination of race and representations of social injustice in children’s picture books from 2016-2020 and is informed by black feminist theory and children’s literary criticism. The objective is to ... -
RACE, CLASS AND ATTITUDES TOWARDS USE OF FORCE BY POLICE
(2018-05-01)Another unarmed victim of police violence. Another acquitted officer. In recent years, this tragic course of events has repeated itself on multiple occasions in courtrooms, living rooms and social media spaces throughout ... -
Race/ethnicity And The Attitudes Of College Students Toward Women In Policing
(Criminology & Criminal Justice, 2007-09-17)The attitudes toward women in policing were compared among college students from the three racial/ethnic groups of African American, Hispanic, and White. Because of the limited literature available, this research explored ... -
Racial Disparities And Capital Sentencing As Perceived By Criminology And Criminal Justice Students
(Criminology & Criminal Justice, 2011-07-14)The purpose of this study is to examine the difference of perceptions of criminology and criminal justice (CRCJ) male students in comparison with their female counterparts on possible race factor in death penalty sentencing. ...