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The Kinematics and X-ray Emission Mechanism of the Large-Scale Jet of 3C 111
(2016-12)Relativistic jets are the most energetic manifestation of the active galactic nucleus (AGN) phenomenon. AGN jets are observed from the radio through gamma rays and carry copious amounts of matter and energy from the ... -
Language Relations on Twitter: A Network Science Approach
(2017-04)Online social networks (e.g., Twitter and Facebook) play a vital role in the spreading of information in today’s world. Interestingly, the spread of information is enabled by the existence of an underlying connectivity ... -
Late Holocene Climate and Vegetation Change in Central Michigan
(2017-05)Understanding the effects of drought and temperature change on eastern North America will be key in the context of future climate change. Perhaps the best method to understand how drought and temperature will impact this ... -
Lateral and Torsional Seismic Vibration Control for Torsionally Irregular Buildings
(2019-05)During strong earthquakes or wind gusts, it is likely that buildings with torsional irregularity in the plan have an can be seriously damaged, partially collapsed or fully collapsed. This is because Torsionally Irregular ... -
Lighting a Path to Biofouling Prevention: Investigating the Effect of Ultraviolet Light on Biofouling
(2018-12)Ultraviolet light (UV) is considered an environmentally friendly antifouling method because it disrupts biological growth without the release of harmful toxins. The application of UV for the marine shipping industry is ... -
Low Complexity Transmission Schemes for Future Wireless Communication Systems
(2017-05)Future of mobile communication technologies is coupled with multi-antenna systems. Recent research results encourage a massive increase in the number of base station antenna elements in order to meet high data rate ... -
Lower Order Perturbations of Critical Fractional Laplacian Equations
(2018-07)We give suffcient conditions for the existence of nontrivial solutions to a class of critical nonlocal problems of the Brezis-Nirenberg type. Our result extends some results in the literature for ... -
Machine Learning for Classifying Malware in Closed-set and Open-set Scenarios
(2018-04)Anti-malware vendors regularly receive large amount of suspected malware files to be examined. However, the sheer number of files makes manual analysis time-consuming. Therefore, it is important to automate this process. ... -
Maintenance and Improvement of the Florida Public Hurricane Loss Model
(2016-12)The Florida Public Hurricane Loss Model (FPHLM) predicts insurance losses due to hurricane events. This thesis describes maintenance tasks of the vulnerability component of the FPHLM. First, it explores the applicability ... -
The Making of the Modern Airport Executive: Causal Connections Among Key Attributes in Career Development, Compromise, and Satisfaction in Airport Management
(2004-05)The purpose of this study was to identify specific career development attributes of contemporary senior-level airport executives and to evaluate the relationship of these attributes to the level of satisfaction airport ... -
Managed Containers for Increased Cyber-Resilience
(2017-12)Traditional defense mechanisms are no longer adequate in protecting critical infrastructure and mission critical systems. These systems require to be always-on-always-connected. High availability and data integrity become ... -
Mapping Tools for Measuring Gross Motor Function in Conductive Education
(2017-03)Cerebral Palsy (CP) is a collection of disorders caused by disturbances in the developing brain before, during, or just after birth that affect the development of movement and posture resulting in limitations in activity. ... -
Mathematical model and experimental verification of spatially multiplexed system using ray theory and modified Laguerre Gaussian beams
(2017-07)Spatial/Space Division Multiplexing (SDM) is based on a channel spacing technique in optical fibers that has the potential to inspire a revolution in optical communications. This patented technique provides a method to ... -
A Maximum Entropy Approach to Identifying Important Statistical Moments to Best-Represent Spray Distribution Data
(2016-10)To obtain accurate spray droplet size and velocity distributions, higher-order statistical moments are needed. The Maximum Entropy formalism has been successfully used to predict the motion of spray flow in different ... -
Measurement based statistical model for path loss prediction for relaying systems operating in 1900 MHz band
(2014-12)Relays play important role in deployment of Long Term Evolution (LTE) and LTE-Advanced systems. They are used to enhance coverage, throughput and system capacity. The impact of the relay deployment on the network planning ... -
Measurement Comparison of RF Receivers in UMTS 1900MHz
(2017-04)In every day engineering practice, drive test systems are used to verify coverage, estimate quality of service and optimize RF network. To accomplish these tasks, drive tests need to be conducted in a systematic and cost ... -
Measurement of the cross section of top quark pairs in association with a photon in lepton+jets events at √s =13 TeV
(2018-12)The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN is the world’s biggest and most powerful accelerator. Colliding protons at the highest centre of mass energy yet, data are being collected by the detectors at an unprecendented rate, ... -
METAMORPHOSIS OF LIMULUS POLYPHEMUS TRILOBITE LARVAE: ROLE OF CHEMICAL AND STRUCTURAL CUES, COMPETENCY, AND THE COST OF DELAYED METAMORPHOSIS
(2014-12)Many marine and estuarine arthropods exhibit complex life cycles that include planktonic larval stages and benthic juvenile and adult phases. Chemical and structural cues associated with juvenile habitats often induce ... -
Metastable-State NH Photoacids and Organic Photo Carbon Monoxide Releasing Materials
(2017-12)The recently discovered metastable-state photoacids (mPAHs) can produce a large proton concentration with high efficiency and good reversibility upon irradiation with visible light with moderate intensity. Therefore, ... -
Metastable-state Photoacids and the Related Photo-Responsive Polymers
(2017-12)Metastable-state photoacid is a type of photo-sensitive compounds that can release large amount of protons reversibly upon visible-light irradiation. Since being developed by our group in 2011, metastable-state photoacid ...