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Dispersion Engineering With Leaky-mode Resonance Structures
(Electrical Engineering, 2010-07-19)
In the thesis, a numerical method for the analysis of optical pulses propagation through leaky-mode/guided-mode resonance (GMR) structures is implemented by integrating a Fourier decomposition technique and the rigorous ...
Richtmyer-Meshkov Instability In Reactive Mixtures.
(Aerospace Engineering, 2010-07-19)
This research analyzes the effect of reactivity on the Richtmyer-Meshkov instability with particular emphasis on the velocity and wave number scaling and on the effect of free detonation instability modes on the interface ...
Corporate Environmental Performance Rating Methodology
(Industrial & Manufacturing Engineering, 2010-07-19)
Environmental issues are becoming increasingly important to all kinds of stakeholders and companies themselves, not only for cost avoidance due to regulations, laws, cleanup costs, litigations, controversies, etc, but to ...
Enhancing Personalized Search And Improving Accuracy And Performance For Keyword-based XML Queries
(Computer Science & Engineering, 2010-07-19)
This dissertation research focuses on three aspects related to querying of XML data. The three focus areas are: (1) Improving accuracy of XML keyword queries by modeling the contexts of XML elements; (2) Enhancing XML-based ...
Role Of Repetitive DNA In Apicomplexan Genome Evolution
(Biology, 2010-07-19)
The Apicomplexa represent a phylum of obligate intracellular parasites that impart significant medical, veterinary, and socioeconomic burdens worldwide. The opportunistic, AIDS-associated, pathogen Toxoplasma gondii for ...
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 ...
Towards Modeling The Behavior Of Physical Intruders In A Region Monitored By A Wireless Sensor Network
(Computer Science & Engineering, 2010-07-19)
A priority task for homeland security is the coverage of large spans of open border that cannot be continuously physically monitored for intrusion. Low-cost monitoring solutions based on wireless sensor networks have been ...
Anti-terrorism Site Design Guidelines For U.S. Military Installations: An evaluation of the implementation process at U.S. Army forts in Texas and Louisiana
(Landscape Architecture, 2010-07-19)
is of vital importance to accommodate the need for security in site plans and designs on all military installations. Terrorism prevention, referred to as force protection by the United States Department of Defense, is ...
Total Synthesis Of 2-aminoimidazole Alkaloids From Leucetta And Clathrina Sponges
(Chemistry & Biochemistry, 2010-07-19)
Sponges of the major class, Calcarea can be found in nearly all marine habitats. Two Calcarea genera, Leucetta and Clathrina have found be rich with 2-aminoimidazole alkaloids. The first alkaloid of these groups was isolated ...
True Barbarians?: The Role Of Visigothic Iberia In Medieval Persecutory Discourse
(History, 2010-07-19)
During the last twenty-five years, there has been wide-spread debate about the extent of the notion of persecution in medieval Europe. Those who believe that persecution existed deliberate to what extent, as well as when ...