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A CULTURAL CONSENSUS ANALYSIS OF TYPE II DIABETES AND HYPERTENSION
There has been a dearth of information that explains group beliefs about chronic diseases. The overall aim of this study was to use both qualitative and quantitative methods to understand consensus in illness beliefs among ... -
A Cultural Landscape Assessment of Glen Garden Country Club in Fort Worth, Texas
In 2014, having just been sold, Glen Garden Country Club in Fort Worth, Texas closed for the final time having been open for over 100 years also producing two of the top ten golfers in PGA history, Ben Hogan and Byron ... -
A DATA DRIVEN, HOSPITAL QUALITY OF CARE PORTAL FOR THE PATIENT COMMUNITY
(2016-05-10)With the recent changes in health services provision, patients are members of a consumer driven health care system. However, the health care consumers are not presented with adequate opportunities to enhance their position ... -
A DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEM FOR SUCCESS OF POST-HURRICANE RECONSTRUCTION OF TRANSPORTATION INFRASTRUCTURES
(2020-09-03)In the aftermath of hurricanes, when reliable transportation systems are vital, the chaotic and complex environment creates multiple uncertainties and risks in the reconstruction of transportation infrastructures. Damaged ... -
A DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEM FOR TRAFFIC DIVERSION AROUND CONSTRUCTION CLOSURES
(2016-08-12)As highway infrastructure ages and road congestion increases, roads need to be expanded and reconstructed. It results in creating many construction sites and work zones on highways, which leads to an unavoidable interruption ... -
A Decision Support System Tool for Dynamic Pricing of Managed Lanes
(2016-09-16)Congestion pricing and managed lanes (ML) have been recently gaining interest around the country as a congestion management tool and as a means of revenue generation for facility maintenance and expansion as well repayment ... -
A Deep Chandra Study of Galactic Type Ia Supernova Remnant G299.2-2.9
(2017-12-07)In this thesis we perform a comprehensive analysis of Galactic Type Ia supernova remnant G299.2-2.9. For this study we analyze our deep 628 ks Chandra observation data of G299.2-2.9. G299.2-2.9 has a complex multiple ... -
A DEEP LEARNING BASED PIPELINE FOR METASTATIC BREAST CANCER CLASSIFICATION FROM WHOLE SLIDE IMAGES (WSI)
Pathology is a 150-year-old medical specialty that has seen a paradigm shift over the past few years with the advent of Digital Pathology. Digital Pathology is a very promising approach to diagnostic medicine to accomplish ... -
A Density Functional Theory Guide To High Quality Modification Of Mixed Metal Oxides Used For Photocatalytic Water Splitting
(Physics, 2015)Phase stability and charge transport of pristine and transition metal alloyed bismuth titanate (Bi2Ti2O7, a.k.a. BTO), a photocatalytic water splitter, has been studied using the generalized gradient approximated density ... -
A design and analysis of computer experiments approach for green building
(2016-12-07)The coming shortage of energy sources and critical environmental impacts are two major factors that have forced a change in product design processes. The shortage of energy sources is related to the limitation on non-renewable ... -
A DESIGN METHODOLOGY FOR CONTINUOUS FIBER ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING USING ADVANCED COMPUTER AIDED ENGINEERING TECHNIQUES
(2018-01-19)A design methodology for Continuous Carbon Fiber Additive Manufacturing (CCFAM) developed using Computer Aided Engineering (CAE) techniques takes advantage of both the mechanical strength of composite materials and the ... -
A DETAILED CHANDRA X-RAY STUDY OF THE GALACTIC CORE-COLLAPSE SUPERNOVA REMNANT G292.0+1.8
(2018-09-10)In this thesis, we describe our detailed analysis of the core-collapse supernova remnant (CCSNR) G292.0+1.8 (G292 hereafter) using data collected by NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory (Chandra). In the first part of this ... -
A DROUGHT-TOLERANT NITROGEN-FIXING SYMBIONT FOR SUSTAINABLE SOYBEAN PRODUCTION
(2023-01-02)Bradyrhizobia are an ideal model organism to study plant-microbe interactions due to dual lifestyles as free-living soil organisms and as endosymbionts for valuable cropping systems in agriculture. Farmers have been utilizing ... -
A Dynamic Multi-Threaded Queuing Mechnism for Reducing the Inter-Process Communication Latency on Multi-Core Chips
(2019-08-12)Reducing latency in Inter-Process Communication (IPC) is one of the key challenges in multi-threaded applications in multi-core environments. High latencies can have serious impact on the performance of an application when ... -
A Dynamic Policing Simulation Framework
(2018-12-11)Crime is a serious problem to a society, and its costs are an economic burden. With the help of technology and developed tools, law enforcement agencies are making significant efforts to combat crime, so as to create a ... -
A FIRST PRINCIPLES BASED APPROACH TO STABILIZE Cu2S FOR EFFICIENT SOLAR ABSORBER MATERIAL
(2019-05-14)Cu2S is an important low-cost, earth-abundant and non-toxic material which has shown its potential in the field of photovoltaics. Experimentally known band gaps of this material vary between 1.1-1.2 eV, which are suitable ... -
A FRAMEWORK FOR EMPLOYING FEMTOSATELLITES IN PLANETARY SCIENCE MISSIONS, INCLUDING A PROPOSED MISSION CONCEPT FOR TITAN
(2017-01-02)Over the past 15 years, there has been a growing interest in femtosatellites, a class of tiny satellites having mass less than 100 grams. Research groups from Peru, Spain, England, Canada, and the United States have proposed ... -
A Framework for Optimal Path Planning and Nonlinear Guidance for Autonomous Mobile Robots
(2018-08-15)The purpose of this research is to investigate methods and technology for enhancing autonomous capabilities for mobile robots. The measures of autonomy which are specifically covered in this dissertation pertain to a mobile ... -
A Game Theoretic Framework for Temporal and Agent Abstractions in Multiagent Learning
(2016-05-10)A major challenge in the area of multiagent reinforcement learning is addressing the issue of scale as systems get more and more complex. Systems with multiple agents attempting to explore and learn about the world they ... -
A Geomechanical Approach To Evaluate Brittleness Using Well Logs: Mississippian Limestone, Northern Oklahoma
Fracture density, or brittleness, of a rock is an important factor in understanding the characteristics of a reservoir and the reservoir's predisposition to fracturing. This becomes particularly critical when exploring ...