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Development Of Optical Fiber Sensors For Distance, Refractive Index And Strain Measurement
(Mechanical Engineering, 2009-09-16)
This thesis is focused on the development of optical fiber based sensors for the measurement of distance, refractive index, and strain. The fabrication, implementation, analysis, and evaluation of the sensors are presented. ...
A New Method For Non-rigid Registration Of 3d Images
(Mathematics, 2009-09-16)
In this dissertation we present a novel method for the nonrigid registration of 3D images using a well-established mathematical framework mostly known as the deformation based grid generation method. The deformation based ...
Peforming Under Pressure: An Examination Of Performance, Workload, And Measures Of Acute Stress
(Psychology, 2009-09-16)
Although many organizations use in-basket simulations as a means of selection and development, empirical guidance regarding the design of in-baskets is lacking. This study sought to fill that gap by examining the relationships ...
The Verbs Of Esther: A Discourse Analysis Of A Post-exilic Text
(Linguistics, 2009-09-16)
The Verbs of Esther: A Discourse Analysis of a Post-Exilic Text seeks to describe the narrative main clause verbs, the quotation formula verbs, and the verbs in quotations found in the text of Esther. These verbs provide ...
Combined Scalability Coding Based On The Scalable Extension Of H.264/avc
(Electrical Engineering, 2009-09-16)
Fine-grain scalability (FGS) based on significant and refinement coding is one of the ways to achieve quality scalability by providing a graceful quality degradation through truncations of the FGS enhancement layer. This ...
Autonomic Trust Management In Dynamic Systems
(Computer Science & Engineering, 2009-09-16)
Research in pervasive computing is aimed at creating environments where users can seamlessly benefit from ubiquitous computing resources despite the complexity of the environment. Providing security in such systems is a ...
A Diachronic Perspective Of Marine Shell Use From Structure B1 At Blackman Eddy, Belize
(Anthropology, 2009-09-16)
This thesis examines the marine shell artifacts recovered from Structure B1 at the site of Blackman Eddy, Belize. Typological and taxonomic analyses provided useful information on the types of artifacts used and the species ...
A Study Of Ejection Times Of Terrestrial Planets From The Habitable Zones Of The Solar Twins Hd 20782 And Hd 188015
(Physics, 2009-09-16)
We provide a detailed statistical study of the ejection of Earth-mass planets from the habitable zones of the solar twins HD 20782 and HD 188015. These systems possess a giant planet that crosses into the stellar habitable ...
Objective Image And Video Quality Assessment With Applications
(Electrical Engineering, 2009-09-16)
Objective Image and Video Quality Assessment (IQA/VQA) aims to automatically measure the quality degradation perceived by the human eyes. It is of fundamental importance to address a wide variety of problems in image and ...
Reconceptualizing Technology Use And Information System Success: Developing And Testing A Theoretically Integrated Model
(Information Systems & Operations Management, 2009-09-16)
Technology Acceptance Model (TAM) research, which pertains to how an information system can be initially adopted by members of an organization, was born two decades ago and grows into one of the pivotal theoretical foundations ...