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THE EFFECT OF ANTHROPOGENIC ACTIVITY ON SEA TURTLE NESTING AND HABITAT USAGE IN FLORIDA, USA
(2018-05)Sea turtles have complex life histories that make them difficult to study. Using easily-accessible data, such as nesting and stranding occurrences, can help to efficiently elucidate driving factors in the population ... -
Effect of Bioglass Incorporation into Electrochemically Aligned Collagen Threads on Mechanical Properties and Cell-Mediated Mineralization
(2017-10)Bone related diseases and disorders are a significant socioeconomic burden in the United States. Autografts and allografts are most commonly used for the treatment of bone defects and non-unions; however, they are associated ... -
Effect of Cavitation Regimes on Stepped Diesel Injectors
(2018-05)The objective of this work was to determine the effects of different cavitating flow regimes on a stepped orifice geometry relevant to diesel injectors. Conventional diesel orifice geometries consist of a single tapered ... -
Effect of Film Cooling Hole Size on a Turbine Rotor Blade
(2018-12)The objective of this study was to evaluate the effect of the cooling hole size on the adiabatic film cooling effectiveness over a rotating turbine blade section. The study was conducted using ANSYS FLUENT to determine ... -
Effect of Tannic Acid Crosslinking on the Mechanical Properties of Collagen Scaffolds and Melanoma Cell Proliferation
(2017-07)Metastatic melanoma is responsible for nearly 10,000 deaths in the United States each year. While the prognosis for patients with localized early stage melanoma cancer is good, the chances of survival for patients with ... -
Effect of the Wake Structure on Drag Coefficient for a Thin Flexible Wire
(2017-04)The present research work focuses on investigating the effect of wake structure on the drag coefficient of a thin flexible wire. Previous researchers have investigated the flow characteristics around the cylinder and ... -
Effect of Thermal Treatments on Mechanical Properties and Bioactivity of Third Generation of Bioactive Glass. A step for commercialization success of third Generation Bioactive Glasses
(2014-12)Unavailability of donors for transplanting bone to help people with orthopedic imparities gave rise to the metal implants that could be made in factories. This seemed like a good solution as it was available to all the ... -
The Effects of Elevated pCO₂ and Temperature on the Embryonic Development, Larval Survivorship, Condition, Calcification, Morphology, and Behavior of the Florida Stone Crab, Menippe Mercenaria
(2016-11)The emission of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere over the last century has increased atmospheric and oceanic temperatures, and has led to a decrease in oceanic pH. The increased ocean temperatures and reduced pH have ... -
Effects of Intelligent Computer-Generated Interactive Mathematics Programs on Students' Achievement and Affective Domain
(2016-12)The purpose of this study was to determine the relationship each of the mathematics web-based programs, MyMathLab and Assessments and Learning in Knowledge Spaces (ALEKS), has with students’ mathematics achievement. ... -
Effects of Peer Instruction on State College Student Achievement in an Introductory Biology Unit in Genetics
(2015-05)The purpose of this study was to examine the effects of Peer Instruction (PI) in a state college biology classroom. Students discussed biological concepts in the area of genetics among their peers during class time. ... -
Effects of Spatial Ability and Three-Dimensional Interactive Computer-Assisted Instruction on Functional Anatomy Learning
(2017-12)The purpose of this study was to determine the effects of spatial ability (SA) and three-dimensional (3D) interactive Computer-assisted instruction (CAI) on college student academic achievement (ACH). The study was a ... -
The Effects of Teaching Middle School Students Math Using the Gifted Supplementary Curriculum “Mawhiba” on Students’ Academic Achievement and Attitude Toward Math in Public Schools in Saudi Arabia
(2017-12)The purpose of this study was to investigate whether the use of a supplementary math curriculum, “Mawhiba,” that was designed for gifted students, would be appropriate for regular students in a mixed-abilities classroom. ... -
The Effects of Thunderstorm Static and Quasi-Static Electric Fields on the Lower Ionosphere
(2017-05)Thunderstorms and their lightning discharges are of great interest to many areas of geophysics and atmospheric electricity. A thunderstorm is an electric generator; it can produce both electrostatic and quasi-electrostatic ... -
Effects of Virtualization in Database Benchmarking
(2017-05)Many applications are being deployed on the cloud because virtualization provides inexpensive virtual machines which are easy to create and use. To perform benchmark in scale, one has to rely on virtualization. Virtualization ... -
Efficiency Analysis and Optimization of Light Trapping in Amorphous Silicon Heterojunction Solar Cell with Lumerical FDTD/DEVICE
(2017-12)This study investigated the two-dimensional computer analysis of a tandem solar cell: c-Si/a-Si:H/µc-SiGe, with Lumerical FDTD/DEVICE 4.6. Optical characterization was performed in FDTD and then the total generation rate ... -
Electrochemical Fabrication of Elastin-Containing Bi-Layered Scaffold for Vascular Tissue Engineering Applications
(2019-06)Lack of a viable vascular graft for the replacement of diseased small diameter blood vessels (< 4 mm) has encouraged the development of a self-repairing tissue engineered vascular graft (TEVG) as a promising alternative ... -
An Empirical Examination of Cognitive Chunking and Information Generation in Freehand Sketches during Design Ideation
(2017-05)This thesis proposes a method to measure information content of freehand sketches during design ideation based on the cognitive chunk formation. The research is broken down into two phases. The first is a protocol study ... -
An Empirical Path Loss Model for Wireless Sensor Network Deployment in a Library Environment
(2018-07)Wireless networks are becoming more commonplace which has necessitated the know-how to optimally place the devices. There have been studies using wireless sensor networks inside of libraries and museums. However, extensive ... -
Empirical Study of In-Plane Shrinkage and Bulging of Circular Cylinders Fabricated with the Fused Deposition Modeling Additive Manufacturing Method
(2017-04)This thesis presents a set of empirical studies, leading to three Design for Additive Manufacturing (DfAM) tools for estimating diametric shrinkage and the longitudinal variation of diameter in circular cylinders produced ... -
Encryption Algorithms for Data Security in Local Area Network
(2019-05)Cryptography plays an important part in data and information security. An overview of cryptography is given in the paper. This paper tries to compare most commonly used encryption algorithms RSA and AES, with their ...