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A Study of Harmonic Distortion Limit Change During the Reconfiguration Process of the Smart Grid 

Yang, Wenyue (2014-07-11)
On the purpose to find out if harmonic distortion limits of customer installations will change during a smart grid reconfiguration process, the thesis was completed. The smart grid concept has been widely accepted to ...

Study of Ice Jam Events on Missouri River During the Winter Seasons 

Bhattarai, Nikit (2022-08-05)
Rivers are hugely affected by river ice processes for a significant portion of the year causing river ice jams in Northern rivers such as the Missouri River in Montana. Ice jamming is an accumulation of ice in a river, ...

Study of interactions and stability of pyrethroids and cellulose allomorphs for controlled release applications 

Brake, Sydney (2022-11-29)  ETD File Embargoed
The study of controlled release materials is a growing field for applications like agricultural, biomedical, and insecticidal fibers. Cellulose, because of its abundance and ability to be modified and regenerated into many ...

A Study of Lateral and Longitudinal Tire Forces Produced on a Deformable Surface with Applied Traction and Braking 

McIntyre, David Michael (2015-05-11)
An investigation into the effects that changing tire characteristics have on the production of lateral and longitudinal tire forces was conducted on a test wheel that was subjected to external traction and braking forces. ...

A Study of Methyl-coenzyme M Reductase Maturation: Coenzyme F430 Biosynthesis and Post-translational Modifications 

Zheng, Kaiyuan (2018-10-03)
This dissertation seeks to investigate the coenzyme F430 biosynthetic pathway and post-translational modification (PTM) enzymes of methyl-coenzyme M reductase (MCR), which will have applications in natural gas-to-liquid ...

A study of mixed-mode dynamic fracture in advanced particulate composites by optical interferometry, digital image correlation and finite element methods 

Kirugulige, Madhusudhana (2007-08-15)
Understanding the fracture mechanics of materials under stress wave loading is essential for impact resistant design of structures. In this context, mixed-mode dynamic fracture behavior of two-phase composites - a ...

Study of Morphology Effect on Polydopamine-based Adsorbents for Dye Removal 

Wu, Haotian (2022-12-05)
Dyes are one of the most hazardous materials in industrial wastewater, which pose severe problems to humans and the ecosystem. Adsorption is a promising dye removal technique due to its low cost, high efficiency, and facile ...

A Study of Native and Introduced Clupeids in Mobile River Basin Reservoirs 

Bart, Ryan (2018-06-05)
In 2010, Blueback Herring Alosa aestivalis, a nonnative species were first found in Lewis Smith Lake, Alabama. Since this initial discovery, Blueback Herring have been found in several other waters in Alabama including ...

Study of onset of frost and crystals growth on hydrophilic and hydrophobic flat surfaces 

Ren, Fuqiang (2023-05-02)
Air-source heat pump systems extract heat directly from the cold outdoor ambient and reject heat to the warm indoor environments of residential and commercial buildings. During their winter operation, the outdoor coil often ...

A Study of Polya's Enumeration Theorem 

Williams, Elizabeth (2005-08-15)
The controversial lemma, known most commonly as Burnside's Lemma, is stated and proven. The influential Polya's Enumeration Theorem is stated and proven. Computations using Polya's Enumeration Theorem are discussed and ...

A Study of Regularity and Normality 

Jaeger, Mitchell (2009-04-15)
This paper is a broad overview of the separation axioms, commonly known as the Hausdorff, Regular, and Normal axioms. After a review of basic definitions and lemmas, we proceed to certain examples and theorems dealing ...

Study of Sb surface doping and borosilicate glass gate dielectric for 4H-SiC MOSFETs 

Zheng, Yongju (2017-11-28)
Silicon carbide (SiC) is a compound material with a wide bandgap, high critical electric field strength, high saturation drift velocity and high thermal conductivity, which makes it an outstanding material among wide ...

A Study of School Counseling Services Provision to Children of Deployed Military Parents 

Keim, Michael (2009-11-20)
Considering the impact of deployment on the children of military parents as evidenced by a review of the literature, school counselors are in a unique position to assist these students during long-term or repeated deployments. ...

A Study of Space-time Fractional SPDE in Bounded Domains 

Negash, Alemayehu (2023-07-24)  ETD File Embargoed
This dissertation considers space-time fractional stochastic heat equation on a regular bounded domain B in R^d, d ⩾ 1 with Dirichlet boundary condition: ∂βt ut(x) = −(−Δ)α2 ut(x) + I1−βt [λσ(ut(x)) ˙W (t, x)] for x ∈ B ...

Study of Stochastic Differential Equation Driven by Time-Changed Levy Noise 

Ni, Yinan (2020-03-24)
This dissertation is composed of two parts. The first part studies stabilities of the solution of stochastic differential equation (SDE) driven by time-changed L´evy noise in probability, moment, and path sense. This ...

A Study of the Adoption of Digital Government Technology as Public Policy Innovation in the American States 

Akers, Eugene (2006-08-15)
The diffusion of information technology in the public sector presents the opportunity to evaluate the appropriateness of diffusion theory in a combined context of information technology and public policy innovation by ...

Study of the Ballistic Capabilities of a Tethered Satellite System 

Grant, Jennifer (2012-05-04)
This thesis is an investigation into the ballistic capabilities of a Tethered Satellite System (TSS) when the sub-satellite is released from the system. This topic is of particular interest because TSS could be potentially ...

A Study of the Differences Between the Expressive Writing Approach and a Writer's Workshop Approach for Writing Instruction for Secondary School Students with Disabilities 

Conniff, Alexandra (2007-12-15)
A comprehensive review of research of instructional approaches investigated descriptive and intervention writing studies, both short-term and longitudinal, that has been conducted to examine the writing skills of students ...

Study of the Effect of Mechanical Cycling on the Constitutive Behavior of Lead-Free Solders 

Hoque, Mohd Aminul (2021-08-05)  ETD File Embargoed
Solder joints in electronic assemblies are often subjected to cyclic (positive/negative) mechanical strains and stresses. Such exposures can occur in variable temperature application environments or during accelerated life ...

A Study of the Effect of Various Material Combinations on the Bolted Contacts of Busbars 

Gatherer, James (2013-07-11)
The reliability of bolted joints is a concern for high-powered devices as the generated heat and thermal expansion could loosen the connections over many actuation cycles. There currently appears to be relatively little ...