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Constraining The Near Tip Stresses Around Propagating Earthquake Ruptures: Frictional Response And Off Fault Tensile Crack Development
The near-tip stress, strain, and displacement fields around propagating ruptures are complicated, transient, and depend heavily on the evolution of the shear traction along the advancing rupture. This shear traction evolution ... -
Constraining The Provenance Of Middle Cenozoic Fluvial Sandstone In The Central Rocky Mountains Using Detrital Zircon U-pb Geochronology And Sandstone Petrography
(Geology, 2014-09-17)Detrital zircon U-Pb geochronology and sandstone petrography are studied to constrain the provenance of middle Cenozoic fluvial sandstone in the Central Rocky Mountains. Petrographic point counting of 12 sandstone samples ... -
Constraint Optimal Selection Techniques (COSTs) For A Class Of Linear Programming Problems
(Industrial & Manufacturing Engineering, 2007-09-17)This dissertation describes two classes of Constraint Optimal Selection Techniques (COSTs). An algorithm of each type is developed for solving nonnegative linear programming problems. In addition, geometric interpretations ... -
Constraint Optimal Selection Techniques (COSTs) For Linear Programming
(Industrial & Manufacturing Engineering, 2012-07-25)Simplex pivoting algorithms remain the dominant approach to solve linear programming (LP) because they have advantages over interior-point methods. However, current simplex algorithms are often inadequate for solving a ... -
Constructing Large Open-Source Corpora and Leveraging Language Models for Simulink Toolchain Testing and Analysis
(2023-12-06)In several safety-critical industries such as automotive, aerospace, healthcare, and industrial automation, MATLAB/Simulink has emerged as the de-facto standard tool for system modeling and analysis, model compilation into ... -
Constructing Mothering Performances: The Motherhood Ideal In Caldecott And Newbery Winners, 1980-2014
This project examines representations of motherhood in Caldecott and Newbery winners from 1980-2014 and is informed by feminist literary theory, juvenile literary theory, and motherhood studies. While motherhood studies ... -
Construction Cost Of Underground Infrastructure
(Civil & Environmental Engineering, 2009-09-16)Renewal of aging underground infrastructure is a major challenge that municipalities inNorth America face every day. Traditional replacement or renewal of these underground utilitiesuses open-cut excavation methods that ... -
CONSTRUCTION OF WEIGHTED UPWIND COMPACT SCHEME
(University of Texas at Arlington Libraries, 2015-05)Enormous endeavor has been devoted in spatial high order high resolution schemes in more than twenty five years previously, like total variation diminishing (TVD), essentially non-oscillatory scheme, weighted essentially ... -
Consumer Perceptions Of Rebranding: The Case Of Logo Changes
(Business Administration, 2007-09-17)This dissertation explores the topic of rebranding, an important topic that has mostly been covered by practitioner journals and the business press. The focus of this research is on a specific type of rebranding - logo ... -
Content, Values, And Environment: Applicant Reactions To Job Descriptions
(Psychology, 2011-03-03)The research on job descriptions is limited and information regarding applicant reactions to job descriptions is even scarcer. The current research hypothesized that after reading job content information, an applicant's ... -
Context Aware Energy Conservation In Pervasive Computing Environments
(Computer Science & Engineering, 2007-08-23)Extending battery lifetime is one of the most critical and challenging problems in mobile systems. When the mobile device sounds a low battery alarm, the user is given an ultimatum to quickly find a power source or suspend ... -
Context Reasoning Under Uncertainty Based On Evidential Fusion Networks In Home-based Care
(Computer Science & Engineering, 2011-03-03)Pervasive computing technologies use embedded intelligent systems to enable various real-time applications. Some of these applications are: continuous healthcare monitoring, autonomous diagnosis and treatment, and remote ... -
Context-Aware Gaze-Based Interface for Smart Wheelchair
(2023-05-22)Human-Computer Interfaces (HCI) is an essential aspect of modern technology that has revolutionized the way we interact with machines. With the revolution of computers and smart devices and the advent of autonomous vehicles ... -
Context-aware Inference System To Capture Design Rationale From Legacy MCAD
(Mechanical Engineering, 2008-04-22)There exist numerous design rationale systems that convert captured information into structured design rationale while providing rationale representation and retrieval. These systems woefully neglect the design rationale ... -
A Context-aware Learning, Prediction And Mediation Framework For Resource Management In Smart Pervasive Environments
(Computer Science & Engineering, 2008-09-17)Advances in smart devices, mobile wireless communications, sensor networks, pervasive computing, machine learning, middleware and agent technologies, and human computer interfaces have made the dream of smart environments ... -
A Contextual Analysis Of A Preclassic Problematic Deposit At Blackman Eddy, Belize
(Anthropology, 2008-09-17)This thesis examines Problematic Deposit #3 from two operations in Plaza B at Blackman Eddy, Belize through a detailed contextual analysis. Due to the ambiguous nature of problematic deposits, several methods of analysis ... -
Continuing Narratives Of The Pharmakos: Trans-ethical Perspectives Through The Liminal Performativity Of Material Agencies In Drug Genre Film
(English, 2014-12)In American film and television, the drug user or producer is often associated with narratives of the pharmakos, or "scapegoat," seemingly serving to expel the contamination of American identity and ethics. By analyzing ... -
CONTINUITY AND GIVEN-NEW STATUS OF DISCOURSE REFERENTS IN ADZERA ORAL NARRATIVE
(University of Texas at Arlington, 2002-12)This thesis analyzes the encoding of discourse referents in oral narratives in Adzera, an SVO Austronesian language of Papua New Guinea. First, it classifies overt referents on a given-new continuum according to Prince's ... -
CONTINUOUS AMERICAN SIGN LANGUAGE TRANSLATION WITH ENGLISH SPEECH SYNTHESIS USING ENCODER-DECODER APPROACH
(2021-05-09)Interaction between human beings brings about improvements in science and technology. However, the interaction is limited for people who are deaf or hard-of-hearing, as they can only communicate with others who also know ... -
CONTINUOUSLY RENEWED COPPER ELECTRODE FOR AMPEROMETRIC MEASUREMENT OF CARBOHYDRATES
(2021-08-05)Currently the benchmark method for carbohydrate analysis in a variety of application areas involves anion exchange chromatography followed by electrochemical detection at a gold electrode. The gold electrode surfaces foul ...