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Utilization of Vehicle-Specific Power as a Powertrain Independent Platoon Controller Performance Metric 

Snitzer, Richard Philip (2022-12-05)
Heavy-Duty hauling faces challenges regarding the efficiency of transportation, which opens the door to new pathways to saving money while refueling via platooning. Platooning vehicles travel together intending to reduce ...

Utilizing Aquaculture Effluent Efficiently in Cucumber Production through Substrate Choice and Fertigation Management 

Ayipio, Emmanuel (2021-07-22)
De-coupled aquaponics offers several benefits over coupled aquaponics due to ability to manipulate each sub-unit independently. Fine-tuning plant production practices to make the best of the low-nutrient laden aquaculture ...

Utilizing Cast Antlers for Profiling Quality and Annual Repeatability of Antler Characteristics in a Nutritionally Stable Environment for White-tailed Deer 

Deig, Nicholas (2020-07-14)
Antlers are often used as indicators of management effectiveness in deer populations, and increasing antler size is frequently a management objective. Thus, managers are interested in assessing antler characteristics and ...

Utilizing cultural elements to enhance the sustainability of product 

Li, Yu (2020-03-04)
In the early nineteenth century, the most important environmental issues were not a widespread concern. Humans believed that resources in the planet seemed immeasurably vast, and that nature itself would digest everything ...

Utilizing Dual Neural Networks as a Tool for Training, Optimization, and Architecture Conversion 

Hunter, David Shawn (2013-04-23)
Very little time has been devoted to the application of Dual Neural Networks and advances that they might produce by utilizing them for conversion between network architectures. By leveraging the efficiencies of the various ...

Utilizing Facial Recognition Software to Record Classroom Attendance 

Miller, William E. (2018-04-25)
Facial recognition software offers many opportunities for educators, especially in regards to recording classroom attendance. With so much time lost in the classroom each day, utilizing facial recognition software allows ...

Utilizing Feed Effectors and Passive Acoustic Monitoring for Semi-Intensive Pacific White Shrimp (Litopenaeus vannamei) Production 

Walsh, Samuel (2022-05-02)
The efficiency and sustainability of shrimp farming have been improved through developments in farm management and technology such as passive acoustic monitoring (PAM), and fishmeal-free diets. To further improve the ...

Utilizing Hidden Markov Models to Classify Maneuvers and Improve Estimates of an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle During High Dynamic Flight 

Strong, Amy (2021-07-28)
Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) are an increasing presence around the world; however, they can pose a threat to secure facilities. Many UAV mitigation techniques require accurate knowledge of UAV states to successfully ...

Utilizing Microfibrous Entrapped Catalyst Mixtures as a Means to Overcome Transport and Equilibrium Limitations of Dimethyl Ether Synthesis via a Methanol Intermediate 

Yantz, William Jr. (2017-11-17)
Due to the highly exothermic nature of single-step dimethyl ether synthesis, a highly conductive catalyst support known as microfibrous entrapped catalyst (MFEC) was utilized in order to mitigate the heat generation within ...

Utilizing Microprocessor Based Relays as Predictive Tools to Mitigate Voltage Instability Problems That Stem from the Fast Voltage Collapse and Delayed Voltage Recovery Phenomena 

Olajubutu, Michael (2007-12-15)
Fast voltage collapse and delayed voltage recovery are a growing concern in the power industry. Although there are several well-known methods to combat fast voltage collapse and delayed voltage recovery, additional methods ...

The Utopian Aestheticism of Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray and Gertrude Stein's Three Lives 

Gordon, Linda (2012-04-30)
This study reads Oscar Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray (1890, 1891) and Gertrude Stein’s Three Lives (written 1905, published 1909) through Paul Cézanne’s radical aesthetics of surface, and is grounded in H. G. Wells’ ...

Vacuum Magnetic Flux Surface Measurements Made on the Compact Toroidal Hybrid 

Peterson, Joshua (2008-08-15)
Understanding the behavior of plasmas in magnetic confinement fusion devices typically requires accurate knowledge of the magnetic field structure. In stellarator-type confinement devices, the helical magnetic field is ...

Validation of candidate genes associated with leaf spot resistance in cultivated peanut 

Nthupisang, Boipelo (2018-07-25)
Peanut is an important oil crop that is grown in several parts of the world including the US, Asia and Africa. Early and Late leaf spot caused by Cercospora arachidicola and Cercosporidium personatum respectively are the ...

Validation of Cooking Methods Using Shell Eggs Inoculated with Salmonella Serotypes Enteritidis and Heidelberg 

Davis, Alexis (2007-08-15)
Salmonella Enteritidis has been associated with eggs and egg products for a long time. However, Salmonella Heidelberg is now also being associated with eggs and egg products. Experiments were therefore done to determine ...

Validation of Laboratory Cracking Tests for Field Top-down Cracking Performance 

Chen, Chen (2020-04-20)
Top-down cracking (TDC) has been widely reported as a primary mode of distress in asphalt pavements. Currently, there is no consensus on a practical laboratory cracking test that can reliably predict an asphalt mixture’s ...

Validation of MRI-Derived Morphometric Estimations of Biomechanical Inputs to Improve Low Back Pain Risk Assessment 

Salar, Menekse (2017-11-30)
Low back pain (LBP) is one of the most common musculoskeletal disorders facing the working world. Previous LBP studies have focused on exposure to physical risk factors in the workplace such as lifting, pushing, pulling ...

Validation of novel secondary therapies in relapsed/refractory cancers using Pharmacogenomics and Single-Cell transcriptomics 

Ahmed, Salsabil (2023-12-05)
Multiple myeloma is the second-most common hematopoietic malignancy in the United States. Although several drugs have so far been approved by the FDA to treat myeloma and other plasm cell neoplasms, myeloma remains an ...

Validation of the Behavioral Assessment of Social Interaction in Young Children (BASYC) as a Measure of Early Social Behavior in Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders 

Beights, Rebecca (2010-07-06)
Early social behaviors in children with Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD) represent an area of core symptom deficits that reflect chronic and pervasive impairment (Gillis & Romanczyk, 2008). Although the specific and ...

Validation of the Pediatric Quality of Life Inventory™ (PedsQL™) Food Allergy Module- Parent Report 

Resmini, Alana (2016-07-08)
Food allergy has been shown to affect approximately 8% of children in North America and Europe, with peanut allergy being the most common and severe allergen. A diagnosis of food allergy has been shown to affect emotional, ...

A valine to leucine mutation in hypomorphic Wolbachia CidB reduces both deubiquitylation and cytoplasmic incompatibility 

Akwa, Daniel (2021-07-23)
Cytoplasmic incompatibility (CI) remains one of the most highly researched and applied phenotype conferred by the bacterium, Wolbachia on the host organisms it infects. For programs that rely on the CI phenomenon, the ...