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IDENTIFICATION OF ELEMENTS ESSENTIAL FOR REPLICATION ORIGIN ACTIVITY IN Escherichia coli
(2018-05)The increasing number of drug resistant pathogenic bacteria has created a growing health care crisis. Solving the crisis will require a number of solutions, among them being development of new antibiotics that target ... -
Identifying Student Behavior for Improving Online Course Performance with Machine Learning
(2015-12)In this study we investigate the correlation between student behavior and performance in online courses. Based on the web logs and syllabus of a course, we extract features that characterize student behavior. Using machine ... -
Identifying The Most Relevant Arguments From User Meta-Data
(2018-05)Arguments are essential objects in a debate. In the DirectDemocracyP2P system, they occur in association with signatures for petitions. The arguments of a signer on a given issue are grouped into one single justification, ... -
Impact of Collagen-Incorporation within Electrospun Vascular Conduits on the Inflammatory Response and Conduit Mechanics
(2015-05)Current surgical alternatives for treating coronary artery diseases are limited in patients with systemic vascular diseases due to unavailability of suitable autologous vessels. The overall goal of this research project ... -
Impact of constructing a low crested weir in Cape Canaveral on flushing in the Banana River
(2015-12)The purpose of this study is to determine the extent to which constructing a low crested weir adjacent to Port Canaveral improves ushing in the Banana River. The Banana River is a 50 km long sub-basin of Indian River ... -
The Impact of Different Propagation Environments on the Performance of Wireless Sensor Networks
(2017-05)This dissertation presents a methodology for evaluating the performance of wireless sensor network (WSN) protocols in different propagation environments. To create this methodology, practical RF propagation models that ... -
Impact of Electrospun Conduit Composition and Peritoneal Pre-conditioning on Patency and Remodeling of Tissue Engineered Vascular Grafts
(2017-10)Overall goal of this project was to develop a tissue engineered vascular graft by implanting an electrospun tubular conduit into the peritoneal cavity to recruit autologous cells to it and provide the cells with the ... -
The Impact of Marine Protected Areas on Reef-Wide Population Structure and Fishing-Induced Phenotypes in Coral-Reef Fishes
(2017-05)Overfishing and destructive fishing practices threaten the sustainability of fisheries worldwide. In addition to reducing population sizes, anthropogenic fishing effort is highly size-selective, preferentially removing ... -
Impacts of Sieving and Cultivation on Martian Regolith Simulant
(2018-05)The effect of different size particle fractions of JSC-MARS1A on chemical and mineralogical data was examined in this study. The Powder X-ray Diffraction (PXRD) and Scanning Electron Microscopy (SEM) results showed no ... -
An Improved Fuel Spray Breakup Model for Advanced Internal Combustion Engine Configurations
(2016-12)Lack of oil resources and increasing effects of global warming have emphasized and led to stricter regulation standards. To meet the current demands, the engines need to be highly efficient in terms of fuel efficiency ... -
Improving Crash Safety of Jet Dragsters Through Modeling and Analysis
(2017-07)The objective of this thesis was to analyze how additional foam implementation in a jet dragster driver’s compartment can improve driver safety in the case of an accident. This analysis was divided into two sections: a ... -
Improving STB Devices' Parental Control
(2018-07)In this dissertation, an IPTV system was designed with new viewer parental control authentication method. People deal with traditional IPTV systems that use simple authentication numeric passcodes, and this topic did not ... -
Increasing User Confidence in Privacy-Sensitive Robots
(2019-05)As the deployment and availability of robots grow rapidly, and spreads everywhere to reach places where they can communicate with humans, and they can constantly sense, watch, hear, process, and record all the environment ... -
Influence of NDBC Buoy Design on Sea Surface Temperature Trends in the Coastal United States
(2016-12)The sea surface temperature (SST) record is the one of the oldest climate records, stretching back to 1662. Since that time, voluntary observing ships (VOSs) have been including these data in their ship‘s log. Due to the ... -
Information Densification of Social Constructs via Behavior Analysis of Social Media Users - A Study on Twitter
(2017-12)We live in a digital era where everyday activities are increasingly being replaced by online interactions. In addition, technology advances and data availability are changing the way we expand our knowledge about ourselves, ... -
Infrared Leaky-Wave Antenna Coupled Bolometer
(2014-05)A four-element infrared leaky-wave antenna coupled bolometer was investigated with the goal of characterizing signal extraction as a long wave infrared (LWIR) detector. Simulations were carried out using Ansys HFSS. ... -
Infrared Resonant-Coupled Metamaterial Sensing and Phonon-Polariton-Enhanced Infrared Interconnects
(2018-05)Coupled-mode theory has been applied to various fields of endeavor from waveguide splitters/combiners and molecular sensing to light-matter interactions. Metamaterials, engineered periodic or aperiodic structures, are ... -
Infrastructure-Based Access Policy Enforcement Using Software-Defined Networks
(2018-12)This thesis describes a method to enhance network security using software defined networks. Standard networks use perimeter-based defenses to block attackers from gaining access to internal systems. A key problem with ... -
Initial-Boundary and Nonlocal Boundary Value Problems for Higher Order Nonlinear Hyperbolic Equations with Two Independent Variables
(2017-05)Boundary value problems in a characteristic rectangle for nonlinear hyperbolic equations of higher order are considered. The concept of strong well–posedness of a boundary value problem is introduced. For initial–boundary ... -
Initiation of Streamers from Thundercloud Hydrometeors and Implications to Lightning Initiation
(2015-05)Electric field values measured inside thunderclouds have consistently been reported to be up to an order of magnitude lower than the value required for the conventional electrical breakdown of air. This result has made ...