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Browsing Electronic Theses and Dissertations by Type "Thesis"
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1-g Shake Table Experimental Evaluation of Building Settlements Founded on Liquefiable Soils
(2016)Post-disaster reconnaissance of areas affected by recent earthquakes in Japan and New Zealand has documented extensive damage to buildings with shallow foundations resulting from liquefaction-induced settlement. Current ... -
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21st Century Hall: Proxemics and Gender Interactions in Contemporary Research
(2010)Nonverbal communication is an everyday occurrence that is unavoidable; such behavior becomes second nature. How we stand, sit, move, gaze and gesture are just a few examples of how messages are sent without uttering a ... -
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3000 years of environmental change at Zaca Lake, California, USA
(2014)This study uses pollen and sediments to generate a 3000 year record of vegetation and climate along the southern California coast, and discusses implications for regional anthropologic models of Native American cultural ... -
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3D Characterization of the Astor Pass Geothermal System, Washoe County, Nevada
(2013)Seismic reflection interpretation, detailed analysis of well cuttings, stress field analysis, and construction of a 3D geologic model have been used in the characterization of the stratigraphic and structural framework of ... -
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3D-Printed Five-Fingered Robotic Hand Actuated by Twisted Strings
(5/1/2020)A robotic hand actuated by twisted strings, servo motors, and DC motors is developed that can mimic nearly every movement of the human hand. The robot has four fingers and one thumb that can be independently controlled by ... -
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5 ns Electric pulses evoke longer-lived calcium responses in adrenal chromaffin cells than the physiological stimulus: an experimental and computational study
(2019)Nanosecond duration electric pulses of high electric field magnitudes (>1 MV/m) are being explored by our group as a novel type of electric stimulus for evoking catecholamine release from neuroendocrine adrenal chromaffin ... -
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5 Year Analysis of Company ESG Ratings Verses Financial Performance
(2019)Environmental Social Governance adds a new dimension to investing by targeting companies that pursue ethical policies and practices outside of normal business operations. However, there is a lack of information regarding ... -
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A Bayesian Multilevel Model for the Psychometric Function using R and Stan
(2020)A common neuroscience topic is to determine the temporal order of two stimuli, and is often studied via a logistic model called a psychometric function. The data arises from repeated sampling of subjects across a variety ... -
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A Bivariate Distribution Connected with Poissonian Maxima of Exponential Variables
(2009)In this work we present a bivariate distribution of X and N, where N has a Poisson distribution and X is the maximum of N independent, identically distributed exponential variables. The joint bivariate distribution is ... -
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A Bivariate Gamma Mixture Discrete Pareto Distribution
(2017)We study a four-parameter generalization of the of bivariate exponential geometric (BEG) law of Kozubowski and Panorska (2005) and bivariate gamma geometric (BGG) law (Barreto-Souza, 2012). The new bivariate distribution ... -
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A carbon-14 calibrated discrete-state compartment model of the groundwater flow system, Yucca Mountain and vicinity, Nevada-California
(University of Nevada, Reno, 1991)A carbon-14 calibrated discrete-state compartment model simulates the regional groundwater flow system in southern Nevada yielding estimates of long term average annual recharge volumes, groundwater ages, volumetric flow, ... -
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A Case for Paleoindian Use of Pinto Projectile Points in the Great Basin: Morphological Analysis from the Old River Bed, Utah
(2012)The chronology and morphology of Pinto series projectile points in the Great Basin and the Mojave Desert have been the subject of much debate. Split-stemmed points have been found in both early and late contexts associated ... -
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A Case Study of FinTech in Banking; A Comparison of the Developing and Developed World
(2019)With advances in financial technology (FinTech), startup firms search for ways to revolutionize all aspects of financial industries especially in the banking sector. New firms attempt to provide more affordable credit or ... -
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A cavity ring-down spectroscopy system for high time resolution measurements of gaseous elemental mercury concentrations
(2012)The global cycling of mercury (Hg), a highly toxic environmental pollutant, currently has many unknowns. There are various sources of Hg to the atmosphere including both anthropogenic and natural sources. Processes involved ... -
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A Centralized Service for Accessing the NCS Brain Simulator Through a Web Interface
(2015)UNR's Neocortical Simulator (NCS) is a large scale brain simulator that allows neuroscientists to run simulations with created brain models and receive output data generated by those simulations. Initially, NCS could only ... -
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A Changing Valley, a Changing People: The Prehistoric Occupation of Northern Warner Valley, Oregon
(2014)Warner Valley, Oregon was occupied as early as the terminal Pleistocene (~11,000 radiocarbon years ago [14C B.P.). Random and non-random pedestrian survey conducted over three field seasons by the Great Basin Paleoindian ... -
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A Climatology of 500 hPa Closed Lows in the Northeast Pacific, 1948-2011
(2012)The Northeast Pacific is a preferential location for the formation of closed low pressure systems. These slow moving, quasi-‐barotropic systems have the potential to produce or affect sustained precipitation episodes ... -
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A Combined Functional Data & Mixture Models Approach for Modeling and Classification of Nanomotions
(2021)Nanoscale motion was shown as a new, nonchemical form of detection of life in Kasas et al. (2015). The applications of this technique span from medicine to detection of life in extreme and possibly extraterrestrial ... -
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A Comparative Study on Support Vector Machines
(2017)In this thesis, we study Support Vector Machines (SVMs) for binary classification. We review literature on SVMs and other classification methods. We perform simulations to compare kernel functions found in selected R ... -
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A Comparison of Effectiveness and Immersion of Different Gait Techniques in Virtual Reality
(2019)In the budding world of virtual reality, immersion is one of the greatest aspirations and challenges for developers. Giving a user the most immersion will allow for them to get the full experience of the application they ...