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Structural Health Monitoring and Seismic Response Assessment of Civil Infrastructure using Target-Tracking Digital Image Correlation
(2019)The deployment of wireless or non-contact sensing emerges as an innovativemonitoring alternative in structural health monitoring (SHM) which facilitates monitoringof remote areas such as under bridges crossing waterways, ... -
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Naming, Remembering, and Experiencing We’ lmelt’ iʔ [northern Washoe] Cultural Spaces in Wa she shu It Deh [Washoe Land]
(2019)Few anthropological investigations have involved or characterized the northern Washoe area, and Washoe families residing in these places experienced effects of European settlement and development first, and they moved or ... -
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Great is our Sin: Neuroprivilege in Modern Autism Discourse
(2019)Disability and Neurorhetorics have taken significant strides in unpacking disabling language and discourse within modern autism studies. The rhetoric of science has determined multiple useful strategies for isolating the ... -
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Adaptive Path Following of the Biomorphic Hyper-Redundant Snake Robot in Unconstructed Environment
(2019)The efficient movement of biological snakes in various environments is the result of a long evolution. It is a challenge for researchers to make snake robots gain high efficiency, athletic agility, and environmental ... -
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Understanding Patterns of Resistance to Spider Venom in Lizards: Ecology and Phylogeny Matter
(2019)Lizards and spiders often engage in predator-prey interactions, and many spiders can be dangerous as both predator and prey. However, we know little about how lizards tackle dangerous spider prey. And yet, some species ... -
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An Evaluation of Mirror Training and Modeling: Teaching Sign Language to Children with Developmental Disabilities
(2019)Previous research studies have indicated that the use of mirrors can facilitate the acquisition of motor imitation skills in individuals diagnosed with developmental disabilities, though the generality of these findings ... -
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Construction and Inspection Guidelines for Pavement Preservation and Cost Analysis of Chip Seal Projects
(2019)Practical construction and inspection guidelines for selected NDOT maintenance treatments were developed. Separate documents were developed for NDOT Maintenance and Asset Management Division and Construction Division ... -
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Family, Peers, Role Models and Resilience: Prominent Elements in the Success of Low-income High School Students
(2019)This study examined the experiences of high school students from low-income households and what they believe contributed to their persistence to their senior year. The intent of this research was to garner an understanding ... -
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Butterfly colors and global change: anthropogenic influence on a sexually selected wing trait in the cabbage white butterfly
(2019)Habitat changes (e.g. deforestation, urbanization, etc.), the introduction of exotic species, human harvesting (e.g. fisheries), climate change, and pollution are creating novel environments at an unprecedented rate, ... -
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Biofuels from Liquefaction of Marine Microalgae: Production, Upgrading, and Environmental Impacts
(2019)Algal biomass is an attractive source for liquid fuel production as it grows rapidly even in adverse conditions, and fixes carbon dioxide from the atmosphere by photosynthesis. Hydrothermal liquefaction (HTL) of microalgae ... -
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Characterization Emissions from Open Combustion of Cheatgrass (Bromus Tectorum)
(2019)Cheatgrass (Bromus Tectorum) is a highly invasive species dominant in the Great Basin of the Western United States. Early spring growth combined with early summer drying supplies large amounts of highly flammable fuel to ... -
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Return of the Pre-Colonial Environment? Land Questions and the Environmental Imagination of Nationhood in Southern African Literature
(2019)As historical and sociological studies of land questions multiply across Southern Africa, the possibilities for thinking about the literary imagination of Southern African environments expand. Thinking about changing ... -
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An Exploratory Study of the Process of Coaching Early Head Start Home Visitors
(2019)The home visiting field has made calls for coaching home visitors. It is not fully understood what processes occur during coaching sessions with home visitors as the coachees (i.e. participants). This study is undergirded ... -
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Inflammatory mediators in the response to myometrial strain and the transition into labor
(2019)Preterm birth is one of the most costly, negative pregnancy outcomes that affects all populations worldwide. While the mechanisms that drive the transition into labor are not fully known, abnormal uterine distension is ... -
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Energetics Calculation of {10-12} Twin Nucleation and Growth in Magnesium and Alloys using Density Functional Theory and Atomistic Simulation
(2019)Deformation twinning strongly affects the mechanical properties of magnesium (Mg) and its alloys, as well as other alloys with hexagonal close-packed (HCP) structures. The influence of solute atoms such as aluminum (Al), ... -
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Hyperbolic Property of Earthquake Networks
(2019)Advanced statistical research on robust quantification of seismicity patterns is required for mitigating the devastating impacts of earthquakes. The need for such research is highlighted by increasing population density ... -
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PATIENT CLASSIFICATION USING DEEP LEARNING
(2019)With diseases like Alzheimer's and Influenza still claiming lives, there have been a lot of methods developed in order to combat these diseases. There is a possibility that the key to finding susceptibility towards a disease ... -
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The Public Health Implications of Nicotine Containing Products
(2019)Background: Tobacco has been embedded into the history of the Americas since before European colonization. Throughout American history, the plant has been used for a culmination of reasons, mainly being what is commonly ... -
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On the Application of Low Wavenumber Fourier Filtering To the Estimation of System Predictability in Northern Winter
(2019)In this dissertation’s second chapter, a brief survey is made of the history of long-range weather forecasting (LRF), or forecasting on the seasonal timescale. The contrast between empirical/statistical and physical/theoretical ... -
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Effect of Geometry Variation on Temperature Prediction in the TN-32 Used Nuclear Fuel Storage Cask
(2019)During vacuum drying, low pressures in combination with the relatively high heat generation rate may cause the temperatures of the fuel cladding to exceed the limit of roughly 400°C set by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. ...
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