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Dynamically Tunable Dry Adhesion via Subsurface Stiffness Modulation
(2018)Tunable dry adhesion has different applications, including microtransfer printing, climbing robots, pick and place robots and gripping in manufacturing processes. This study investigates a new type of tunable adhesion ... -
Determining Heat Island Response to Varying Land Cover Changes Between 2004 and 2017 Within the City of Reno, Nevada
(2018)The objective of this research was to investigate the role of land cover changes through time in influencing spatial variability of the surface urban heat island of the metropolitan area of Reno-Sparks, Nevada. Free and ... -
Study of Aerosol-Cloud Interactions for Shallow Warm Clouds
(2018)Cumulus clouds are generally optically thick and shallow, exerting a net cooling impact on the climate system. Changes in atmospheric aerosol conditions, especially aerosol concentration increased by anthropogenic activity, ... -
A Study of Flow and Phase Change in Porous Media: CFD Simulations and Experiment Design
(2018)NASA space systems have continuously experienced evolution in different aspects of the technologies used for the overall mission goal. To keep up with the increased capability and performance of the systems used, there is ... -
Hierarchical causal chaining: The impact of necessity, sufficiency, foreseeability, and choice on attributions
(2018)Undesirable and avoidable outcomes are often the result of several parties acting together with each sharing some of the responsibility, blame. Causal chains occur when one party’s actions are contingent on the actions of ... -
Microservice-Based System for Environmental Science Software Applications
(2018)Often times as an environmental research project grows, technical aspects such as system scalability, data exposure, and third-party application support are overlooked. This is largely due to researchers not possessing the ... -
A Discrete Truncated Power-law Distribution
(2018)This thesis concerns discrete probability distributions with power-law tailbehavior. Discrete power-law distributions are reviewed together withtheir truncated versions. The Zipf distribution (Zipf, 1932) is then focusedon ... -
Exosome Mediated Purinergic Mechanisms in Breast Cancer
(2018)Breast cancer is the most diagnosed cancer and the second leading cause of cancer-related deaths in women. Majority of these deaths are due to metastasis, proving that there is a great demand to understanding the mechanisms ... -
The Effect of Economic Development and Political-Economic Institutions on the Probability of Starting Social Enterprises
(2018)This study explores the impact of institutional factors that facilitate the likelihood of starting social enterprises. Based on the GEM 2009 data set, we investigate the effect of economic development, government effectiveness, ... -
The Tunisian Revolution as a Catalyst to the Arab Spring: A Case Study of Revolution in North Africa and the Middle East
(2018)AbstractThis thesis research project is an attempt to understand the nature, sources, dynamics, and contradictions of the Tunisian Revolution of 2010-11. Contained within the thesis are seven chapters, each outlining ... -
Cross-Section Analysis Of Beams With Advanced Materials: Computational Implementation
(2018)Many advanced construction materials such as ultra-high performance concrete (UHPC), high strength steel rebars, and larger prestressing strands have been developed and their use is ever growing. However, ready and ... -
Seismic Studies of Superstructure and Substructure Connections for Accelerated Bridge Construction
(2018)Accelerated bridge construction (ABC) refers to a bridge construction method that incorporates innovative techniques and materials to efficiently reduce construction time and traffic disruption. Prefabrication of bridge ... -
Design and modeling of a cryogenic system for circuit QED experiments
(2018)This thesis will cover the thermal and electromagnetic design and modeling of a cryogenic system to perform circuit QED measurements. The objective of our research is to grow doped cryogenic crystals and perform quantum ... -
Evolving GPU-Accelerated Capsule Networks
(2018)Capsule Networks exploit a new, vector-based perceptron model, providing feature instantiation parameters on top of feature existence probabilities. With these vectors, simple scalar operations are elaborated to vector-matrix ... -
Narrative Embodiments: Embodied Cognition in the Post 1945 American Novel
(2018)Drawing on ideas from the increasingly influential field of embodied cognition (including work from neuroscientists, psychologists, and philosophers of the mind) and formalist theories of the novel, specifically those of ... -
Developing Novel Non-Natural Amino Acids as Spectroscopic Reporters of Structure for Peptide Systems
(2018)Properly folded proteins are essential to living organisms. Mis-folded proteins can lead to some serious diseases such as Alzheimer’s disease, Lou Gehrig’s disease (ALS), and muscular dystrophy which affect many people. ... -
Detailed Analysis of Geothermal Potential in Crescent Valley, North-Central Nevada
(2018)This study has synthesized geological, geochemical, and geophysical data sets to elucidate the structural architecture and history of the Crescent basin in order to assess its geothermal potential. The Crescent basin is a ... -
The Impact of Emotion on Memory Retrieval in Grievers
(2018)Emotion, thinking, and memory are interconnected. Mood and thinking reciprocally spur each other, while thinking and autobiographical memory (ABM) recall also bi-directionally impact each other, which can lead to a cognitive ... -
Predicting Micro-catchment Ponded Infiltration Dynamics
(2018)Rainfall and concentrated flow experiments were carried out on seven micro-catchments (MCs) that were designed to represent a rangeland restoration strategy using the Vallerani Plow. Prediction of infiltration rates within ... -
Exploring Hands-Free Alternatives for Teleportation in VR
(2018)In recent years, Virtual Reality (VR) technology has reached a point where it is powerful enough to be immersive, yet cheap enough to be commercially available. Both high-end headsets designed for desktop computers and ...
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