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Modeling the Effects of Intelligent Driver Assistance on Driver Behaviors

Deo, Ganesh (2010-06-01)

Many studies have concluded that activities like answering a cell phone call and entering an address while driving could potentially distract the driver. This thesis presents the design and experimental evaluation by ...

Modeling the Effects of Projected Sea Level Rise on Water Quality in Coastal Bangladesh

Shuman, Morgan (2015-05-04)

Climate models show that Bangladesh will experience high rates of change in temperature, precipitation, runoff, and local sea level rise rates by 2100. Sea level rise will result in the degradation of groundwater quality ...

Modeling the Risk of Wrong-Way Driving at Freeway Exit Ramp Terminals

Atiquzzaman, Md (2019-07-23)

Wrong-way driving (WWD) crashes are a critical safety issue on freeways. Although these crashes are rare in nature, they often result in severe injuries and/or fatalities. Typically, exit ramp terminals are the initial ...

Modeling Water Quality Impacts of Off-Road Vehicles in Forested Watersheds

Brodbeck, Christian (2005-08-15)

Erosion from off-road vehicles can cause negative effects on water quality by impairing fish habitat and shortening reservoir life. Due to an increasing level of off-road vehicle use throughout the country, this impact ...

Modeling, Analysis, and Validation of Temperature Dependent Vibration Induced Fretting Corrosion

Ibrahim, Rebecca (2010-04-27)

Connector reliability is an extremely important factor in electronic packaging, especially with regard to vehicle electronics. Two of the major drivers for fretting corrosion are vibration and thermal cycling. Most previous ...

Modeling, Machine Vision Sensing and Material Flow System Definition of Braiding Point Motion

Ma, Guangli (2011-02-03)

This dissertation is focused on the modeling of one kind of braiding machine and its key part, the carrier. The carrier is a small mass-spring-damping tensioning system, which defines the characteristics and response of ...

Modeling, Validation and Analysis of Degradation Processes of Lithium Ion Polymer Batteries

Fu, Rujian (2014-07-29)

The lithium ion polymer battery (LiPB) has become one of the most widely used energy storage devices because of its high energy and power densities. However, its performance and life span are limited by the degradation ...

Modelling, Control and Estimation Techniques For Micromachined Electrostatic Actuators Using Macro Magnetic Actuators

Li, Chong (2016-07-29)

Parallel plate actuators (PPAs) are fundamental devices in micro-electro-mechanical systems. PPAs' main drawback is their limited open loop stable traveling range which is caused by their nonlinear electrostatic force. ...

Models and Solution Approaches for Large-scale Multistage Stochastic Programs with Endogenous or/and Exogenous Uncertainty

Zuo, Zeng (2020-12-01)

This dissertation aims to develop both models and solution approaches of multistage stochastic programs (MSSP) with endogenous and/or exogenous uncertainty. My work first develops two discrete-time large-scale nonconvex ...

Models Based Practice in Chinese College Physical Education

Liu, Hairui (2021-05-24) ETD File Embargoed

Research has supported that Sport Education (Siedentop, 1994; Siedentop, Hastie, Van der Mars, 2020) and Play Practice (Launder, 2001, 2013) in physical education can efficiently promote teaching and learning for both ...

Models for Thermo-Mechanical Reliability Trade-offs for Ball Grid Array and Flip Chip Packages in Extreme Environments

Hariharan, Ganesh (2007-05-15)

In the current work, decision-support models for deployment of various ball grid array devices and flip chip electronics under various harsh thermal environments have been presented. The current work is targeted towards ...

Models of Moral Treatment: British Lunatic Asylums in the Mid-Nineteenth Century

Spain, Austin (2018-04-19)

Samuel Tuke established a model of moral treatment for British insane asylums in the first half of the nineteenth century with his Description of the Retreat (1813). The West Riding Pauper Lunatic Asylum at Wakefield—under ...

The Moderating Effect of Attachment Styles on the Relationship between the Ability to Identify Criteria and Interview Performance

Stuhlman, Melissa (2016-12-12)

The ability to identify criteria (ATIC), which is an individual’s aptitude to correctly gauge performance criteria in a selection context, is an emerging topic of interest in the field of personnel selection. While research ...

Modification and characterization of liquefied biomass-based epoxy resin

Nan, Wei (2013-07-18)

With the increasing requirement of biomass composites, people have paid more attention to the increasing use of synthetic adhesives, which require petroleum-based resources. Talking about petroleum-based resources, the ...

Modification and Evaluation of an Evidence-based, Universal, Mental Health Promotion Program in Title I schools in rural Alabama: Advocates for All Youth (ALLY)

DadeMatthews, Adefunke (2022-08-03)

In the US, the presence of a lifetime diagnosis of either depression or anxiety rose from 5.4% in 2003 to 8.4% in 2012 in children aged 6-17 years (Bitsko et al., 2018) and by 2016, 16.5% had at least one mental health ...

The Modification and Role of a Methyl-Arginine Post-Translational Modification in the Active Site of the Enzyme Methyl-Coenzyme M Reductase

Clohan Gasaway, Katherine (2022-12-02) ETD File Embargoed

The enzyme methyl-coenzyme M reductase (Mcr) is used in methanogenic archaea to produce methane and in anaerobic methanotrophs to oxidize methane. A significant portion of the methane produced by methanogens is released ...