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Land: Water Surface Area Ratio for Aquaculture Ponds
(2014-03-31)
Aquaculture farms use more land than the pond water surface area because of the necessity for embankments, canals, roads, storage areas, offices, parking lots, and staging areas. Aquaculture farms with different-sized ...
Landscape Disturbance: Using Initial Conditions to Establish Urban Terrain as an Ongoing Negotiation
(2011-11-30)
Rethinking the traditional urban design function of a master plan has become increasingly important in recent years. Not only is there now a recognized need to design in order to accommodate change over time, but there is ...
Landscape Phage-Targeted Drug Delivery to Breast Cancer Cells
(2010-12-08)
The prevalence of breast cancer is still a public health burden worldwide. Recently, there has been significant progress in the management of breast cancer with the two FDA-approved cancer nanomedicines employing the concept ...
Landscapes of the Uglyful
(2014-12-10)
Landscape architects can use new radicalisms to move away from the ingrained and the habitual. There is an opportunity to push the boundaries of aesthetics and abandon inefficient design norms that are fixed in the realm ...
Lane Detection, Calibration, and Attitude Determination with a Multi-Layer Lidar for Vehicle Safety Systems
(2010-11-05)
This thesis develops a lane detection algorithm which extracts lane markings from the road's surface in an effort to ascertain the lateral position of the vehicle in the lane using a lidar, with the goal of being incorporated ...
Lane Level Localization with Camera and Inertial Measurement Unit using an Extended Kalman Filter
(2010-12-07)
This thesis studies a technique for combining vision and inertial measurement unit (IMU) data to increase the reliability of lane departure warning systems. In this technique, 2nd-order polynomials are used to model the ...
Language acquisition of same-sex, multiple-birth siblings: A nature/nurture study
(2006-12-15)
This retrospective study considers the extent to which nature and nurture influence early first language acquisition. Data sets that address rate of grammatical acquisition, acquisition of regional dialect features, and ...
Language Style Matching and Older Adult's Marital Satisfaction
(2017-08-03)
Poor marital communication is a leading reason that couples seek therapy. Because of its importance in marriage, marital communication is one of the most studied aspects of relational functioning. In fact, recent works ...
"Larceny in My Heart": The Abscam Political Scandal, 1978-1983
(2012-11-06)
After the Watergate scandal, the FBI underwent major internal changes. As a result of some of those changes, the organization shifted its focus towards white-collar crime. As Operation Abscam progressed, it seemed as ...
Large Stroke MEMS Linear Actuators and Advanced Interconnects
(2022-07-27)
Linear actuators are used throughout the world in many applications. Microelectromechanical Systems (MEMS) linear actuators use semiconductor fabrication processes that are capable of producing small feature sizes and high ...
Larvae of Sarcophagidae (Insecta: Diptera) and their Relationship with the Pitcher Plants (Sarraceniaceae: Sarracenia) of Southeastern U.S. Bogs
(2009-08-11)
Larvae of diptera of the family Sarcophagidae from bogs in Mississippi, Alabama, and Florida were collected, reared, and identified to species. Additionally, the effect of sarcophagid larvae on nutrient uptake in white-topped ...
Las nuevas feminidades y masculinidades en la literatura infantil española contemporánea
(2019-04-18)
Children’s literature is often ignored by literary criticism. This generates a knowledge gap which should be overcome immediately. The study of children’s literature from theories such as, for example, gender studies or ...
Laser beam shaping and transformation using freeform surface design
(2014-05-02)
Lasers are used in many areas including material processing (lithography, semiconductor manufacturing), welding, cutting, drilling, medical procedures (eye surgery and cosmetic skin treatments), and optical data processing. ...
Laser Beam Shaping Optical System Design Methods and Their Application in Edge-emitting Semiconductor Laser-based LIDAR Systems
(2007-12-15)
LIDAR (Light Detection And Ranging) systems are employed for numerous applications such as remote sensing, military applications, optical data storage, display technology, and material processing. Furthermore, they are ...
Laser Field Interactions with Atoms and Molecules
(2016-12-09)
This dissertation explores multiple areas of laser matter interactions.
It studies four main topics: multi-photon (few photon) double ionization of He, double photoionization of He-like systems
from level resolved ...
Laser-Assisted Synthesis and Time-Resolved Growth Control of Two-Dimensional Quantum Materials
(2022-12-08)
Two-dimensional (2D) layered materials, including transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDCs), have recently been at the heart of quantum materials and information sciences research due to unusual properties associated with ...
Laser-based Micro and Nano Manufacturing of Materials and Devices for Bio and Energy Applications
(2023-12-01)
Micro- and nanostructures have a wide range of applications in electrical, mechanical, biological, and energy fields. The need for micro and nanomanufacturing is driven not only by the requirement of increasingly hybrid ...
Lasso Based Schemes for Solar Energy Forecasting
(2021-05-06)
The smart grid (SG) has emerged as an important form of the Internet of Things (IoT). Despite the high promises of renewable energy in the SG, it brings about great challenges to the existing power grid due to its nature ...
The Late- to Post-Caledonian Extensional History of Northwest Hinnoy, North Norway
(2005-08-15)
This investigation focuses on the lithologies and late- to post-Caledonian, upper crustal structures exposed in westernmost Hinnoy, north Norway, and the information about the timing and kinematics of faults that they may ...