Browsing Theses/Dissertations by Title
Now showing items 469-483 of 483
-
UE Based Performance Evaluation of 4G LTE Network
(2019-05)In the past ten years, we have witnessed an increase in demand for mobile services as we have come to depend more and more on mobile phones as an indispensable part of everyday life. And not merely for making phone calls ... -
Unified Model Combining the Boundary Conditions Encountered at the Input, the Carrier Optical Fiber and the Output in Spatially Multiplexed Optical Communication Channels
(2019-04)Spatial domain multiplexing allows for expansion of optical fiber data rates by utilizing the spatial dimensions within the fiber. One form of this multiplexing method utilizes oblique input angles to generate ring-like ... -
Using a Personalized Machine Learning Approach to Detect Stolen Phones
(2015-12)With the increasing number of smartphone penetration, mining smartphone data that make smartphone smarter became a top research area, there are a lot of event data which we can use to predict behavior or detect anomalies. ... -
Using Dispersive Raman Spectroscopy to Assess Remodeling in Vascular Constructs used in Tissue Engineering
(2018-05)Tissue engineered vascular grafts (TEVGs) are a promising alternative to surgery for the treatment of thrombotic occlusion of small diameter (< 6 mm) arteries. It is important that TEVG composition prevent compliance ... -
Using Variations of Shape and Appearance in Alignment Methods for Classifying Human Actions
(2014-11)In this dissertation, we address the problem of recognizing human-action from videos. The recognition aims at recovering action information from the image sequences using different features such as variations of the human ... -
Validation of an External Bioreactor Filtration Loop Prototype for a Tissue Engineering Test Bed
(2019-05)As a cell line thrives within a culture, some of the cells undergo the natural process of death. Whether it is due to apoptotic or necrotic causes, cell death is a significant hurdle for tissue engineering and cell ... -
Value Based Methodology to Evaluate Sensors for Bridge Structural Health Monitoring Systems
(2016-08-24)Structural health monitoring (SHM) systems have become important tools in the transportation industry to help monitor the behavior and health of civil structures. Today, there is a real concern about the health of bridges ... -
Vegetation Response to Intense Holocene Dry Events in the Andes and Amazon Basin
(2019-05)By using the natural laboratory of past climate change I ask: How resilient are extant tropical forest ecosystems to climatic forcing? Do tropical forests systems show gradualistic or threshold responses to past climate ... -
VISION-BASED NAVIGATION FOR ELECTROMAGNETIC FORMATION FLIGHT
(2018-12)The concept of using Satellite Formation Flight (SFF) reveals various benefits for a space mission. However, relying on a consumable actuation system to maintain a desired relative position and orientation between flying ... -
Vulnerability Model of Residential Structures Subject to Hurricane Induced Wind, Surge and Inundation
(2017-09)Annualized hurricane-related losses to the built environment in the United States are in the billions of dollars. According to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, in 2010 39% of the United States population, ... -
Wavelet-based Functional Data Analysis for Classication and Change Point Detection
(2019-05)Data collection and analysis, performed close to the source and transferred to other devices for different analysis, are the major paradigms of the Internet of Things (IoT). Usually, the raw data comes in the form of a ... -
Weak Turbulence Closures in Incompressible Magnetohydrodynamics
(2019-05)In this work we apply the weak turbulence closure to the governing equation of incompressible homogeneous magnetohydrodynamics (MHD). It was originally thought that the method lacked applicability to linearly dispersive ... -
Weighted Aggregation Methods for Linear and Nonlinear Cluster Analysis with Applications to Cancer Research
(2019-05)Due to advancements in data acquisition, large amount of data are collected on a daily basis. Analysis of the collected data is an important task to discover the patterns, extract the features, and make informed decisions. ... -
Wind-Driven Setup, Roughness, and Drag over a Depth- and Fetch-Limited Coastal Estuary
(2018-12)The understanding of the momentum exchange across the air-sea interface is critical to accurately model and forecast wind speed, wave properties, setup, and circulation. This is particularly true for a restricted estuary, ... -
X-rays from Magnetic B-type Stars
(2018-07)Recent surveys have found that ∼10% of massive stars host strong, mostly dipolar magnetic fields with strengths on the order of a kilogauss. The prominent idea describing the interaction between the stellar winds and the ...