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Online Community Response to A Political Corruption Issue: A Study of Sina Weibo in the Lei Zhengfu Affair
(2013-12-04)
This study conducted a content analysis of one of the most popular Chinese microblogging sites, Sina Weibo, to investigate how Chinese Internet users used microblogging in response to a well-known political corruption ...
Online In-Situ Estimation of Network Parameters Under Intermittent Excitation Conditions
(2008-08-15)
Online in-situ estimation of network parameters is potential tool to evaluate electrical network and conductor health. The integration of the physics-based models with stochastic models can provide important diagnostic ...
Online Monitoring of State of Health for AGM Lead Acid Batteries
(2015-07-29)
Prediction of degradation states like power and capacity fade is the most challenging issue for rechargeable batteries, which is called State of Health (SOH). Power and capacity fade is evaluated by predicting Available ...
Online Rotational Self-Calibration of LiDAR Sensors when Mounted on a Ground Vehicle
(2021-08-06)
This thesis presents a method for online extrinsic rotational calibration of a LiDAR sensor
with minimal manual intervention. The approach leverages the expected geometry of structured
environments common to ground ...
Online self-directed learning readiness and learning outcome in online statistics learning environment: The mediating roles of self-efficacy to learn statistics and 2x2 Achievement goal orientations
(2023-07-11)
This study investigated the understanding of the effects of online self-directed learning readiness (OSDLR) on academic achievement. and course satisfaction for online learning statistics through the mediating variables ...
Online State and Parameter Estimation for Lithium-ion Batteries Based on a Reduced-order Electrochemical Life Model
(2020-04-22)
Inaccurate estimation of the state-of-charge (SOC) and the state-of-health (SOH) may lead to safety issues. Currently, estimations of SOC and SOH that based on electric equivalent circuit models (ECMs) have been widely ...
Online vs. Traditional Classroom: An Examination of Public Speaking Anxiety in Community College Students
(2017-12-07)
Most people admit to having some degree of public speaking anxiety (Hickerson, 1998). This study examined the public speaking anxiety levels of students enrolled in an online and traditional public speaking course. This ...
Open Conversations: Finding ways to improve communication between family forest landowners and consulting foresters
(2023-07-26)
Alabama is comprised of 23 million acres of forestland, of which family forest landowners (FFLs) own 56 % of that acreage. Therefore, FFLs are vital to maintaining the quality and diversity of Alabama’s forests. However, ...
Open-Graded Friction Courses Suitable for Suburban Environments
(2023-12-08)
The Florida Department of Transportation (FDOT) utilizes an open-graded friction course
(OGFC), called FC-5, on all multi-lane roadways with a design speed of 50 mph or greater, except
for curb and gutter sections, to ...
Operant Variability: A Behavioral and Pharmacological Analysis
(2011-10-27)
Behavioral variability is often demonstrated in the laboratory setting by imposing a multiple schedule of reinforcement: one component requires the animal to vary sequences of responding and the other component serves as ...
An Operating Model and Economic Analysis for Integrating Wind Electric Power in Manufacturing
(2011-04-21)
Among the renewable sources of generating electricity, wind power costs less to produce and produces fewer CO2 emissions. In addition, the Department of Energy (DOE) has stated that wind power should provide 20% of U.S. ...
Operation ICEBERG: How the Strategic Influenced the Tactics of LTG Simon Bolivar Buckner Jr. at Okinawa
(2015-12-08)
The Okinawan campaign was World War II’s last major offensive operation. Selected as the last position for which to organize the invasion of Japan, the scale and intensity of combat led to critical accounts from journalists ...
Operational and Investment Solutions for Dynamic Line Switching and Rating in Electrical Grid
(2015-07-07)
The electricity generation industry is one of the most expensive infrastructures and one of the major sources of greenhouse gas emissions among other industries. A great deal of short-term and long-term decisions have been ...
Operational and Investment Solutions to Enhance the Transmission and Distribution Systems of the Electrical Grid
(2017-06-28)
An electric power system consists of three major components: generation, transmission and distribution. Electricity is usually generated in remote generation plants and carried through high voltage transmission lines to ...
Ophiostomatoid Fungal Infection and Insect Diversity in a Mature Loblolly Pine Stand
(2019-04-16)
Root-feeding beetles and weevils are known vectors of ophiostomatoid fungi, such as
Leptographium and Grosmannia, that have been associated with a phenomenon called Southern
Pine Decline in the Southeastern United States. ...
Opportunistic Random Access in CSMA/CA-Based Wireless Networks
(2013-10-18)
IEEE 802.11 MAC based CSMA/CA (Carrier Sense Multiple Access with Collision
Avoidance) is the most widely used protocol in wireless networks. In CSMA/CA, every
node listens to the shared wireless medium and transmits ...
The opportunity for alternative reinforcement shortens bout length in BALB/c C57BL/6 mice
(2008-08-15)
A recent mathematical model has been suggested to partition response rate into two independent components that are estimated through a log survivor analysis of inter-response times. One component is thought to tap motivational ...
The Opposition Court of Henry, Prince of Wales, in the Reign of James I, 1610-1612
(2010-04-08)
Henry Frederick Stuart, eldest son of James VI and I and Anne of Denmark, died at the age of eighteen after only two years as Prince of Wales. In his short life he developed a large following and served as the focal point ...
Optical Spectroscopy of Wide-band-gap Semiconductors: Raman and Photoluminescence of Gallium Nitride, Zinc Oxide and Their Nanostructures
(2006-12-15)
Micro-Raman and photoluminescence (PL) were performed to study GaN and ZnO and their nanostructures. Various ZnO nanostructures were successfully synthesized at low temperatures using thermal chemical vapor deposition ...
Optical Waveguide Sensor based on Gratings and Metamaterials for Refractive Index Sensing
(2020-07-14)
Optical waveguide sensors based on gratings and metamaterials for refractive index (RI) sensing are introduced in this Ph.D. dissertation. A waveguide is a structure which can guide light based on total internal reflection. ...