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Digital Gradient Sensing (DGS): A Full-Field Optical Technique to Measure Angular Deflections of Light Rays and Its Applications to Failure Mechanics
(2012-07-19)
Optical transparency is an essential characteristic of solids used in many engineering applications such as automotive windshields, electronic displays, aircraft windows and canopies, hurricane resistant windows, bullet ...
Digital Implementation of Current-Mode Control for Power Factor Correction
(2015-12-03)
Presented in this dissertation is the implementation of power factor correction (PFC) preregulators controlled by a single microcontroller. Two microcontroller-based PFC preregulator systems, with input voltage sensing ...
A digital method to determine the transmissibility of a MEMS device
(2015-01-07)
A microcontroller based technique for measuring the transmissibility of a MEMS device is very useful and meaningful. The resulting data can provide feedback to improve the design, modeling and fabrication process. A new ...
Digital Modes of Communication: The Relational Effects between College Students and their Friends, Parents, and Intimate Partners
(2012-02-08)
This study analyzes the nature of relationships between college students and their parents, friends, and intimate partners; specifically relating to primary preferred method of communication, perceived victimization, and ...
Digital Phase Accumulation for Direct Digital Frequency Synthesis
(2013-04-23)
This work explores direct digital frequency synthesis (DDFS) theory and design and its application in radar systems. Though there is nothing particularly novel about DDFS in general, recent designs have been revolutionized ...
Digital Reverse Time Chaos and Matched Filter Decoding
(2015-05-04)
The use of reverse time chaos allows the realization of hardware chaotic systems that can operate at speeds equivalent to existing state of the art while requiring significantly less complex circuitry. Unlike traditional ...
Digital Simulation and Recreation of a Vacuum Tube Guitar Amp
(2020-04-14)
This thesis presents the process of designing, building, and testing a system that will be referred to herein as the Digital Guitar Amplifier. The Digital Guitar Amplifier is a real time digital audio signal processing ...
Digital Testing with Multi-Valued Logic Signals
(2015-04-27)
The integrated circuit scaling has been following the Moore’s Law since 1965 [59, 60, 61]. Within these decades, researchers made great effort to shrink the transistor feature size and maximize the integration level. ...
Dimensional Movement of Rotylenchulus reniformis Through a Silt Loam: Observations of Movement and Population Growth from an Initial Point of Inoculation
(2009-11-20)
Rotylenchulus reniformis was evaluated for total distance moved, rate of movement, and population growth upon initial introduction into a cotton (Gossypium hirsutum) field under irrigated and non-irrigated conditions. The ...
Dimensions of Growth: Examining the Five Factors of the Posttraumatic Growth Inventory
(2015-12-10)
Posttraumatic growth (PTG) is positive transformation following a traumatic experience. PTG, commonly measured with the Posttraumatic Growth Inventory (PTGI; Tedeschi & Calhoun, 1996), is postulated to occur in five distinct ...
Dioxygen reduction and Superoxide dismutase mimicry using first row transition metal complexes with redox active organic ligands.
(2024-04-22)
The efficient activation of small molecules, such as dioxygen (O2) and superoxide (O2-), is key to solving several energy- and health-related challenges. The selective reduction of O2 to water (H2O) is integral to the ...
Direct Instruction Reading: Effects of the Reading Mastery Plus - Level K Program on Preschool Children with Developmental Delays
(2008-08-15)
Despite the success of Direct Instruction (DI) programs in teaching a variety of individuals how to read, there has been little research on the use of DI for young children with developmental delays. The purpose of the ...
Direct-Write and Aerosol Jet Processes with Evaluation for Additively Printed Electronics
(2023-08-04)
Printed electronics, with their eco-friendliness, cost-effectiveness, and scalability, are becoming popular as a replacement for traditional silicon electronics. Flexible batteries, wearable sensors, and screens are just ...
Directed Self-Assembly of Tethered Membranes on Nanoparticles
(2018-04-30)
Nanoparticles have demonstrated success in overcoming many barriers of therapeutic delivery. The advantages of these systems include increased drug loading, an ability to package poorly soluble and/or highly toxic drugs, ...
Disability Documentation Criteria for Students with Learning Disabilities in Higher Education
(2008-08-15)
Students with disabilities are one of the most unemployed and underemployed groups in America today. Postsecondary education is becoming increasingly more important in the workforce. More and more careers are requiring at ...
Disability Identity: The Impact of Disability Type for Individuals with Disabilities
(2018-04-17)
Disability identity development is a fairly recent and unique phenomenon in the academic literature that shapes an individual’s way of seeing him or herself, their bodies, their ways of interacting with the world and the ...
The Discomforts of Empire: Emily Eden's Life in India, 1836-1842
(2012-07-27)
This thesis discusses the physical and psychological discomforts of Emily Eden, an English aristocrat, during her life in India from 1836 to 1842. I argue that the comforts Eden identified during her early life in England ...
Discourses of Race and Disease in British and American Travel Writing about the South Seas 1870-1915
(2009-12-15)
The nineteenth century saw the islands of the South Pacific colonized by the Western powers, including the United States. Because of this relatively late date compared to other colonized regions of the world, the imperializing ...
Discovering Diversity: The Subversive Detective in Late Victorian and Edwardian Detective Fiction
(2023-10-18)
This dissertation examines the ways British detective fiction at the turn of the twentieth century undermined dominant ideological systems through the presentation of culturally, ideologically, and formally subversive ...
Discovering Stereotype Limbo: Exploring the Relationship between Stereotype Threat and the Professional Experiences & Identities of Male K12 Teachers
(2015-12-10)
The number of men teaching in K12 settings is of significant concern. It is even more critical now because the number of men in the field has decreased to a record low of twenty-four percent. It is predicted that the ...