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Middle Permian (Late Guadalupian) back-reef carbonate of Panther Canyon, Apache Mountains, Trans-Pecos Texas
(2018-06-22)In the Apache Mountains of West Texas, Middle Permian (Guadalupian) strata a portion of the Delaware Basin part of the Capitan Reef is well exposed in many canyons that cut through the northern escarpment in the eastern ... -
Military-Related Posttraumatic Emotional Numbing: A Three-Article Dissertation
(2017-05-03)Three papers on military-related posttraumatic stress and emotional numbing symptoms are proposed for this three-paper dissertation. The first paper will be a systematic review of the literature on the psychosocial impact ... -
Millimeter Scale Robots For The Nanofactory
(Electrical Engineering, 2010-03-03)The top down approach is a commonly employed miniaturization pathway into micro and nanomanufacturing. Its popularity is due to the fact that it adapts traditionally engineered macro scale positioning, manipulation and ... -
Mimic: An Active Covert Channel That Evades Regularity-based Detection
(Computer Science & Engineering, 2010-07-19)A covert timing channel is a hidden communication channel based on network timing that an attacker can use to sneak secrets out of a secure system. Active covert channels, in which the attacker uses a program to automatically ... -
Mind Broadening: Cognitive States and Traits Associated with Intrapersonal Creativity and Diverse Cultural Experiences
(2022-08-12)An experience with a different culture (cross-cultural experience; CCE) can provide opportunities to think about new and unfamiliar concepts and to solve problems using cross-cultural knowledge and inspired thinking. This ... -
Mindfulness and Mind-Wandering: The Impact of Brief Interventions on Child Affect, Arousal, and Cognition
(2016-05-10)The ability to self-regulate is critical for healthy development and life success. Recent evidence from the field of contemplative science suggests that mindfulness may enhance self-regulation among children and adolescents. ... -
MINDSET AS IT RELATES TO IMPLEMENTATION OF MOBILE DEVICES FOR INSTRUCTION
(2018-12-10)Teachers who become frustrated with the use of new mobile technology may have a predisposition toward the use for classroom instruction. The teacher’s mindset may be an indicator of whether they choose to implement new ... -
Miniature Optical Coherence Tomography Probe
(Biomedical Engineering, 2007-08-23)A piezo based optical scanner for high speed optical coherence tomography (OCT) has been developed. Design of the miniature probe has been optimized to take advantages of the high speed depth scanning that can be achieved ... -
Miniature Wireless Gastrostimulator
(Electrical Engineering, 2014-03-10)Gastroparesis is a common disorder caused to patients suffering from diabetes, cancer and Parkinson's disease. Gastric electrical stimulation (GES) has attracted significant attention in the treatment for Gastroparesis. ... -
Minimizing Power Consumption At Module, Server And Rack-levels Within A Data Center Through Design And Energy-efficient Operation Of Dynamic Cooling Solutions
Data center energy consumption continues to increase with the proliferation in online services such as social networking, banking, entertainment, cloud computing, etc. Recent estimates show that associated power consumption ... -
MINIMIZING STRUCTURAL JITTER IN OPTICAL SENSOR SYSTEMS USING PARAMETRIC DYNAMIC RESPONSE OPTIMIZATION
(2018-11-26)Deployed in manned and unmanned aircraft, military and commercial ground vehicles, and security and monitoring systems, optical sensor systems are ubiquitous. Developing an optical sensor system includes calculating image ... -
Minimum Clinical Important Differences Of Health Outcomes In A Chronic Pain Population: Are They Predictive Of Poor Outcomes?
(Psychology, 2008-04-22)Psychometric validation of health outcomes measures ensures that the methods utilized to evaluate treatment effects, and aid in individual patient diagnosis are reliable, valid, and meaningful. A relatively new concept ... -
Misreading Justice: The Rhetoric Of Revenge In Feminist Texts About Domestic Violence
(English, 2008-08-08)Feminist legal theories of battering homicides pose a challenge to feminist critics of American literature. Legal theorists argue that many women who are tried for killing their abusive partners should be acquitted on the ... -
Missed Identity: Collective Memory, Adina De Zavala, And The Tejana Heroine Who Wasn't
(History, 2013-07-22)As greater attention is paid to Hispanic and Tejano contributions to Southwest history, many journalists, Tejano activists, and even historians have commandeered Adina De Zavala's life and legacy as an example of Tejano ... -
Mitigating Climate Change At The Municipal Scale: American Urban Planning At A Crossroads
(Urban & Public Affairs, 2011-10-11)The failure of international negotiations toward a successor agreement to the Kyoto Protocol to limit global greenhouse gas emissions has highlighted not only the problematic associated with a global agreement on such a ... -
Mitigating The Urban Heat Island Through A Targeted Look At Reforestation And Preservation Near Vulnerable Populations: An Applied Suitability Model
(Urban & Public Affairs, 2014-12)The urban heat island (UHI) is a pervasive phenomenon that affects city dwellers. There are certain populations who are especially vulnerable to its affects. Studies have shown that the urban tree canopy helps to mitigate ... -
Mitigation Of Hot-spots In High-end Microprocessors Using Bulk And Thin Film Thermoelectric Coolers
(Mechanical Engineering, 2013-03-20)Due to localized high heat fluxes, hot-spots are created in silicon chips. Cooling of the hot-spots is one of the major thermal challenges in today's integrated circuit (IC) industry. Many researches have been conducted ... -
Mitigation Of Vibration In A Permanent Magnet Synchronous Machine Using Field Reconstruction
(Electrical Engineering, 2008-09-17)Permanent magnet synchronous machines (PMSM) are widely used due to their unique characteristics including high efficiency, high power density, simple construction, simple maintenance, and relative ease of control. With ... -
Mitigation Of Window Effects In Inverse Synthetic Aperture Radar (ISAR) Imagery Using Multi-resolution Technique
(Electrical Engineering, 2007-08-23)A method using Multi-Resolution technique for window effect mitigation in ISAR imagery, which occurs due to finite extent data, is presented in this work. Proposed method is supported with quantitative measure using both ... -
Mixed Integer Programming Models For Selecting Ground-level Ozone Control Strategies
(Industrial & Manufacturing Engineering, 2011-07-14)Under the Clean Air Act (CAA) in 1990, the U.S Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) was required to set National Ambient Air Quality Standards (NAAQS) for six common air pollutants that are considered harmful to public ...