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Managing Supply Chain Disruptions

Skipper, Joseph (2008-08-15)

Supply Chain Management has become an important part of the business environment and the U.S. economy. The move towards improved efficiency and effectiveness for businesses, organizations, and process owners has forced ...

Managing the Effects of Heat, Dust, and Vibration on a GPS Receiver in a Desert Environment

Thornton, Stephen (2016-04-22)

Applications for personal handheld electronic devices, such as GPS receivers, have significantly increased in recent years. It is now necessary for such devices to be able to operate in a wide variety of harsh environmental ...

Managing the New Deal: Administration of the Civilian Conservation Corps, 1933-1942

McDaniel, Hayden (2012-05-16)

This thesis explores the management and organization of the CCC, the relationship between the participating federal departments, and the development of the administration in the Fourth Corps Area, defined as the geographical ...

The Mangalica Pig is a Novel Biomedical Model for Human Obesity and its Metabolic Complications

Roberts, Morgan (2015-05-29)

The Mangalica pig is a genetic model of excessive adiposity; therefore, this European heritage breed may serve as an applied model to improve pork quality in modern commercial lean breeds and as a biomedical model to ...

Manganese and Iron Coordination Complexes for Biological Imaging and Oxidative Catalysis

Zhang, Qiao (2014-04-23)

The ligand N,N’-bis(2-pyridylmethyl)-bis(ethylacetate)-1,2-ethanediamine (debpn) coordinates divalent transition metal ions in either a pentadentate or hexadentate fashion. The coordination number correlates with the ionic ...

A Manifesto of Impossibilities? Workers, Politics, and the History of the Luxembourg Commission, February-May 1848

Hewer, Jason (2019-05-02)

The Luxembourg Commission was the response of the provisional government of France during the Revolution of 1848 to demands by workers of Paris that the government do something to help alleviate the harsh conditions under ...

Manipulating Reflexive Establishing Operations in Young Children with Pervasive Developmental Disabilities

Shillingsburg, Miriam (2006-08-15)

Previous research has demonstrated the effects of manipulating establishing operations (EO) on problem behavior, task compliance, and the effectiveness of items as reinforcers. Much research on EO focuses on deprivation ...

Manufacturing and Heat Transfer Analysis of Nano-Micro Fiber Composites

Ascioglu, Birgul (2005-08-15)

Nano-micro composites are widely used in many areas, such as sensors, flame retardant materials, batteries, and filtration. In this work, thermal properties of the filler fiber composites are studied experimentally, ...

Manufacturing Cost Prediction in the Presence of Categorical and Numeric Design Attributes

Sakinc, Eren (2016-07-27)

Manufacturing processes require not only physical operation capabilities but also non-physical management policies. When designing a new product or manufacturing a customer’s new unique design, the focal point is to establish ...

Many-Body Dipole Interactions

Hernandez, Jesus (2008-08-15)

This dissertation presents the study of controllable but strong long-range interaction between dipoles. In particular, we investigate the excitation and interaction between atoms in a cold gas where the collisional time ...

Map Coverage for Mobile Robot Implemented with Reinforcement Learning

Xia, Xue (2020-06-22)

This dissertation introduces a measure of navigation complexity for complete coverage path planning (CCPP). It also introduces a novel approach to CCPP using reinforcement learning (RL) to enable a mobile robot to cover ...

Mapped Adjoint Control Transformation for Low-Thrust Space Mission Design

Jawaharlal Ayyanathan, Praveen (2023-07-27)

Spacecraft trajectory optimization is an essential task in space mission design. The propulsion system of the spacecraft can affect the type of trajectories that can be realized by a spacecraft. In the past few decades, ...

Mapping for Path Planning using Maximal Empty Rectangles

Park, Jinyoung (2013-05-14)

This study applies a new map representation, named R-map, to the path-planning problem. The R-map is calculated as a reduced-element representation of a grid map. Grid maps express obstacles and free space with a binary ...

Mapping Loblolly Pine Decline Hazard and Risk across the Southeastern United States

Meyerpeter, Matthew (2012-07-25)

Loblolly Pine Decline was first noted in 1959 in the Oakmulgee and Tuscaloosa Ranger Districts in the Talladega National Forest, located in the southeastern United States. This slow mortality is not new to the area, but ...

Mapping of Urban Tree Canopy Using LiDAR, Oblique Image Viewers and Geographic Object Based Image Analysis (GeOBIA): a Multi-Scale Approach

Jones, Tyler (2018-07-20)

The benefits of an urban forest canopy have become more readily understood in recent years. They provide a wealth of environmental, social, and economic benefits such as improved water quality, air temperature regulation, ...