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Graduate School Experiences And Post-graduation Plans Of International Science And Engineering Doctoral Students At A Public University
(Education, 2014-07-14)
This quantitative study examines the graduate school experiences of international science and engineering doctoral students at a public University and aims at understanding to what extent graduate school experience influences ...
Using Advanced Metering Infrastructure Data For Smart Grid Development
(Electrical Engineering, 2014-07-14)
Identifying and using Advanced Metering Infrastructure (AMI) data to improve customer experience, utility operations, and advanced power management is one of the most important challenges in the smart grid development. ...
Fathers' Experience With Autism Spectrum Disorder
(Nursing, 2014-12)
Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is a lifelong neurodevelopmental disorder that causes very mild to severe impairments in communication skills, social interactions, and unusual behaviors that interfere with the children's ...
Self-efficacy Of Caregiving And Caregiver Stress In Adult Informal Caregivers Of Individuals At The End-of-life
(Nursing, 2014-12)
Researchers have established an association between the stressors of providing informal care and physiological and psychological health risks (Applebaum & Breitbart, 2013; Au et al., 2010; Bainbridge, Krueger, Lohfeld, & ...
Enhancement Of Pool Boiling And Evaporative Heat Transfer Using High Temperature Thermally Conductive Microporous Coatings
(Mechanical Engineering, 2014-12)
The present research is an experimental study of the enhancement of pool boiling and evaporative heat transfer using high temperature thermally conductive microporous coatings. Two major types of coatings were investigated: ...
Using Aerial Range Feature Descriptor (ARFD) For LiDAR Strip Adjustment And Mosaicing
(Electrical Engineering, 2014-12)
Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR) has become the primary surface data extraction mapping technique nowadays. Airborne LiDAR system consists of three major components, which are laser ranging and scanning unit, Global ...
Computer Vision Aided Bridge Monitoring System
(Electrical Engineering, 2014-12)
Supervising Professor: Roger Walker With bridges representing a significant part of the road network in the United States, continual monitoring and early detection of deterioration in these structures is vital to prevent ...
The Impact Of Impoundment And Urbanization On Shallow Groundwater Conditions In The Joe Pool Lake Catchment, Texas
(Environmental & Earth Science, 2014-12)
This dissertation is an assessment of the shallow groundwater (SGW) regime within the drainage area of Joe Pool Lake (JPL), an impoundment on Mountain Creek (MC) located in Grand Prairie, Texas. A thin zone of highly-weathered ...
Numerical and experimental investigation of variable transportation cooling for reusable thermal protection systems
(2014-12)
This research work is focused on the numerical and experimental investigation of the transpiration cooling technique for reusable thermal protection systems. The transpiration cooling has been considered because of its ...
The Moderating Effect Of Perceived Ethical Leadership On Reduced Audit Quality Behaviors
(Accounting, 2014-12)
As auditors perform the audit, they are faced with many decisions that ultimately affect the quality of the audit and can lead to the issuance of an improper audit opinion such as accepting weak management explanations ...