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Data Usage Optimization for Cost Estimating in Asphalt Paving Projects Using a Cost Indexing System
(2018-04-30)
During the last decade, the transportation construction industry has seen an increase in the implementation of historical bid-based cost estimating practices by various state transportation agencies (STAs). The American ...
Data-Driven Agroclimate Modeling and Forecasting Based on Earth Observations and Predictions: A Study of Evapotranspiration, Precipitation, and Crop Yields
(2020-04-17)
Meeting the growing food demand in a sustainable manner is the main challenge faced by agriculture, at a time when the climate changes increasingly threaten food security. Innovative agro-climate approaches are needed to ...
A Data-Driven Lithium-Ion Concentration Estimator for Electrode Solid Phase in Battery Models.
(2023-08-09)
This thesis introduces a data-driven approach for lithium-ion concentration estimation in
battery cells, leveraging a deep learning model based on Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM)
networks. As lithium-ion batteries gain ...
Data-driven semiconducting nanomaterials design for energy applications
(2022-08-04)
Silicon nitrides and hydrogenated silicon nitrides attract widespread scientific interest across multiple application fields due to their superior combination of optical, mechanical, thermal and optoelectronic properties. ...
Data-Driven Systems Engineering Techniques for Advanced Manufacturing
(2021-07-19)
This dissertation presents research performed in the area of data-driven systems engineering to address some challenges of existing sensing and modeling technologies when applied in the emerging field of advanced manufacturing. ...
A Data-Mining Framework for Uncertainty Analysis in Pipeline Erosion Modeling
(2018-07-24)
The transport of solids in multiphase flows is common practice in energy industries due to the unavoidable extraction of solids from oil and gas bearing reservoirs either from onshore or offshore sites. The safe and efficient ...
Database Indexing for Skyline Computation, Hierarchical Relational Database, and Spatially-Aware SPARQL Evaluation Engine
(2015-12-10)
Computerized databases are ubiquitous and play an important role in many software projects. The efficiency of these systems are crucial in applications they support. Data indexing is the key to efficient data retrieval in ...
Daughter-to-Father Attachment, Daughter-to-Mother Attachment and Emotion Regulation in College Females
(2009-07-15)
Attachment theory (Bowlby, 1982/1969, 1973) and its relation to affect regulation has become an important area of research over the last several decades. This area of research is important due to the fact that fathers are ...
Dauphin Island Birders: An examination of specialization, place attachment, satisfaction, and amenity migration
(2012-08-02)
Dauphin Island is a small barrier island off the coast of Alabama. The island sets in a major migratory flyway and annually hundreds of species descend upon the island during the spring and fall migrations. This has caused ...
David Schenck and the Contours of a Confederate Identity
(2007-08-15)
The purpose of this dissertation is twofold. First, it serves to shed light on the life of North Carolinian David Schenck (1835-1902), whose extensive diaries have been a wellspring of information for historians for ...
DC Parametric Test and IDDQ Test Using Advantest T2000 ATE
(2015-07-24)
For purpose of improving quality of devices before shipping to customers, VLSI
testing methods have been developed to detect defective devices effectively by using
automatic test equipment (ATE). To test a chip properly, ...
Dead Reckoning in a Desktop Virtual Environment
(2008-05-15)
Dead reckoning, knowing where one is in relation to a particular location without reference to external landmarks, is a widely cited phenomenon that has been observed in a wide variety of animals. A common test for dead ...
Deadland: A Cemetery Design in Columbus Georgia
(2014-05-02)
Cemeteries are sacred spaces that have the ability to evoke awareness, fear, awe, reverence,
memory and other high emotions that transcend the spatial. When one thinks about a cemetery,
it is often a mystifying space ...
The Debate between Federal and State Agencies on Recreational Red Snapper Fisheries Management in the Gulf of Mexico
(2015-07-27)
Red snapper is a pelagic species and one of the most popular recreational species in the GOM (Gulf of Mexico). The population of red snapper in the GOM has been in an overfished condition since 1988. In recent years, the ...
Decadencia, desigualdad y degeneración: El Madrid médico-social en La prostituta de López Bago
(2015-11-18)
La Prostituta (1884) es una novela médico social de Eduardo López Bago que nos presenta, sin tapujos, el Madrid de finales del siglo XIX. Los males de la época son introducidos a través de la crítica anticlerical y por ...
Decentralized Collaborative Navigation in Limited Observability Environments with Low Earth Orbit Satellite Signals of Opportunity between Aerial and Ground Vehicles
(2023-07-28)
A decentralized collaborative navigation algorithm known as inverse covariance intersection (ICI) is studied in the context of a group of vehicles navigating using opportunistic Doppler measurements. Signals of opportunity ...
Deception of Phishing: Studying the Techniques of Social Engineering by Analyzing Modern-day Phishing Attacks on Universities.
(2016-05-05)
Techniques applying manipulation, persuasion, and influence have been used for centuries to conduct malicious acts of crime against others. Social engineering is the act of using various manipulation techniques to get other ...
Decision Making Consequences of the Paradoxical Flip
(2010-07-19)
The hard-easy manipulation (i.e., manipulation of item difficulty) has been used to demonstrate that participants are sometimes overconfident while believing they are worse than average. This finding is often referred to ...
Decision Making Models for Power Systems Operations Under Uncertainty
(2023-08-02)
As the power grids worldwide transition from fossil fuel-based power plants to an era dominated by renewable energy sources (RESs), new operational challenges and uncertainties emerge, particularly for Independent System ...
Decision Models for a Two-Stage Supply Chain Planning under Uncertainty with Time-sensitive Shortages and Real Option Approach
(2010-03-23)
The primary objective of this research is to develop analytical models for typical supply
chain situations to help inventory decision-makers. We also derive closed form solutions
for each model and reveal several ...