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Assessing The Impacts Of Converted Rail-trails In North Texas Communities: Learning From The Stakeholders' Perspectives
(Landscape Architecture, 2012-04-11)
Converting abandoned rail lines to trails is a strategy to enhance green infrastructure and provide recreational amenities for large metropolitan area dwellers. Literature on rail to trail conversions emphasizes several ...
The Career Of Gary Robinette In The Contemporary History Of Landscape Architecture
(Landscape Architecture, 2012-07-25)
Gary Robinette has practiced landscape architecture since 1963. During that time he has overseen policy and research that affects landscape architects in the United States and those in countries who model their regulatory ...
Evaluating The Design And Planning Services Of The Arlington Urban Design Center: Clients' Perspectives
(Landscape Architecture, 2012-04-11)
In North Texas, recognizing the potential benefits of combining community service and outreach, three design centers, the Arlington Urban Design Center (AUDC), the Dallas City Design Studio (DCDS), and the Oak Cliff ...
CFD Based Aerodynamic Modeling To Study Flight Dynamics Of A Flapping Wing Micro Air Vehicle
(Aerospace Engineering, 2012-07-25)
The demand for small unmanned air vehicles, commonly termed micro air vehicles or MAV's, is rapidly increasing. Driven by applications ranging from civil search-and-rescue missions to military surveillance missions, there ...
Evaluation Of Structural Monitoring Methods For Large Diameter Water Transmission Pipelines
(Civil & Environmental Engineering, 2012-04-11)
The water transmission lines span thousands of miles and form a significant part of the underground infrastructure of United States. The condition of water pipelines deteriorates with time and becomes more vulnerable to ...
Implementation Of Complexity Reduction Algorithm For Intra Mode Selection In H.264/AVC
(Electrical Engineering, 2012-04-11)
For applications with low computational capabilities like handheld devices, it is necessary that the encoding complexity is minimal. But H.264, which is the most widely accepted video platform employs several powerful ...
Complexity Reduction In H.264 Encoder Using Open Multiprocessing
(Electrical Engineering, 2012-07-25)
H.264 video standard developed by Joint Video Team has proven dramatic improvements in bit-rate efficiency, compression ratio, video quality and error resilience. But, all this is achieved at the expense of more than four ...
Fingerprint Enhancement By Directional Filtering
(Electrical Engineering, 2012-04-11)
Although inkless methods for taking fingerprint impressions are now available, these methods still suffer from the positional shifting caused by the skin elasticity. The non cooperative attitude of suspects or criminals ...
Dynamic Bus Lane
(Civil & Environmental Engineering, 2012-07-25)
This dissertation documents the research conducted to investigate the feasibility of implementing a "Dynamic Bus Lane" (DBL) system on Westheimer Road in Houston, Texas, and to determine the particular conditions when the ...
High Speed Edgewise Rotor Computational Analysis And Optimization At High Inflow Velocities Achieved Through Forward Mast Tilt
(Aerospace Engineering, 2012-04-11)
Increased forward flight speed has long been the desire of the rotorcraft industry. Novel designs, such as compounds and tilt rotors have allowed for speed envelope expansion, but not without incurring performance hindrances ...