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Calibration of the RapidScat Microwave Brightness Temperature
(2019-05)NASA RapidScat is the first satellite scatterometer that flown in non-Sun-synchronous orbit. Its unique orbit enabled collocated measurements with multiple satellite remote-sensing instruments that usually fly in ... -
The Capacitated Transfer Point Covering Problem (TPCP): Expanding Delivery Network Coverage with Minimal Resources
(2018-05)Retail delivery services have begun using unmanned systems in attempts to reduce the time from a customer’s order to when the product arrives at its intended destination. Utilizing these systems are beneficial to both ... -
Categorizing “Muck” in the Indian River Lagoon, Florida, Based on Chemical, Physical and Biological Characteristics
(2016-12)During the past six decades, the thickness and areal extent of muck sediments have continually increased in the Indian River Lagoon (IRL), Florida. These sediments are anoxic, store and release nutrients, and destroy ... -
CFD Analysis of Resistance Characteristics of High-Speed Displacement Hull Forms fitted with Hull Vane®
(2017-05)Improving the performance and resistance of a high-speed monohull forms has been of interest to Naval Architects for several decades. A considerable amount of research has been carried out in this area by using stern ... -
CFD Analysis of Resistance for Stepless and Stepped Planing Hulls
(2018-05)It is the endeavour of naval architects to design hull forms with the least amount of power consumption. In this respect, Naval Architects have been obsessed with the design of various hull forms optimized for a particular ... -
CFD Investigation of Resistance of High-Speed Trimaran Hull Forms
(2015-07)Although catamarans continue to increase in size and application with bigger and better designs than the present generation, trimaran and multi-hull forms for high-speed operation are a recent phenomenon due to speed of ... -
Characterization of Cataclysmic Variables and White Dwarfs in the Kepler Field
(2015-05)We present long baseline Kepler photometry and ground-based Hale 200" spectroscopy of five known white dwarfs, five newly identified white dwarfs, and a cataclysmic variable, V523 Lyr. Analysis of the photometric and ... -
Characterization of Sinusoidal Vibration Induced Fluid Motion in Spherical Elastomeric Diaphragm Tanks
(2014-07)Elastomeric diaphragm tanks are commonly used in spacecraft applications to incite positive expulsion of hydrazine monopropellant. The diaphragm exhibits low flexural rigidity, causing it to easily fold under its own weight ... -
Chemical Forms of Nitrogen in Runoff from Diverse Florida Watersheds
(2016-12)Watershed use along the Indian River Lagoon (IRL) on the central east coast of Florida has changed drastically during the past century, bringing with it declining water quality, eutrophication, hypoxia and fish kills. ... -
CHLAMYDOMONAS REINHARDTII, A MODEL FOR QUORUM SENSING AT THE INTERKINGDOM INTERFACE
(2017-09)Microbial communities significantly impact the processes of the eukaryotic hosts they colonize. In many cases, symbiotic organisms both pathogenic and mutualistic coordinate their efforts through a process called quorum ... -
Circadian Rhythms in the Retina of the Atlantic Tarpon, Megalops Atlanticus
(2017-05)Light is a critically important environmental variable in the lives of marine organisms, affecting physiology and behavior acutely and dictating daily biological rhythms and seasonal reproduction in the long-term. In ... -
Cloud Based Wireless Sensor Monitoring
(2018-12)Internet of Things (IoT) brought a revolutionary change in embedded systems. It offloads the physical work of managing an equipment, appliance or device to a smart and network connected application. IoT makes it possible ... -
Collection and Analysis of Digital Forensic Data from Devices in the Internet of Things
(2018-12)Despite the abundance articles that have been written about the Internet of Things (IoT), little attention has been given to how digital forensics approaches can be utilized to direct advanced investigations in IoT-based ... -
A Comparative Study of Discovery Learning Scientific Community Laboratories and Traditional Laboratories in Physics at an Independent University, Florida, U. S.
(2017-12)This study investigated the effects of two instructional approaches – Discovery Learning Scientific Community Laboratories (DL-SCL; Treatment) and non-DLSCL laboratories (Control) – on students’ conceptual understanding, ... -
Comparing Specific Excess Power of General Aviation Aircraft
(2018-11)The high number of Loss of Control and Controlled Flight into Terrain Accidents in General Aviation (GA) suggests that there is a lack of understanding and recognition of low energy states by pilots of GA aircraft. As a ... -
Comparing the Effect of Smoothing and N-gram Order : Finding the Best Way to Combine the Smoothing and Order of N-gram
(2015-03)The SRILM is a toolkit for building and applying statistical language models (LMs), designed and developed primarily for use in speech recognition, statistical tagging and segmentation, and machine translation. It has been ... -
Comparison of Reference Signal Received Power Measurements between Cell Phone and Scanning Receiver in LTE
(2017-12)In cellular technology, before giving service to customers, coverage estimation, network optimization, and maintenance rely on RSRP (Received Signal Reference Power) measurements that are collected in a given area. This ... -
A Comparison Study of Disease Spreading Models
(2018-04)Epidemic diseases have become one of the major sources of concern in modern society. Diseases such as HIV and H1N1 have infected millions of people around the world. Many studies have attempted to describe the dynamics ... -
A Comprehensive Data-Driven Characterization of Organ Transplantation
(2018-07)Organ transplantation yearly saves thousands of lives worldwide; yet, 22 people still die each day only in the USA due to the ever-increasing imbalance between the supply and demand of organs. Currently, this organ-allocation ... -
Computational Modeling of Functionalized Carbon Nanotubes
(2012-07)Ab initio self-consistent field (SCF) molecular orbital calculations were performed employing various basis sets to computationally predict methods to functionalize and solubilize carbon nanotubes. The structure and ...