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Filamentation and Formation of Imposed Patterns in Low-Pressure Magnetized Electric Discharges: A Numerical Approach
(2020-08-03)
Presence of strong magnetic fields (B ≥ 1.0 T) in magnetized dusty plasma experiments can result in a variety of phenomena in the background plasma and in the dust cloud. In the background plasma, the magnetic field induces ...
Financial Derivatives and Bank Performance
(2013-07-19)
Recent financial regulation changes have brought many challenges to community banks. In particular, the Volcker Rule, section 619 of the Dodd-Frank Financial Reform Act of 2010, prohibits banks from engaging in proprietary ...
A Financial Literacy Tool: Utilizing a Content Management System to Develop Online Learning Communities Focusing on K-12 Education
(2012-07-25)
Learning environments have become more popular with the extensive usage of the Internet. Researchers are working diligently to design and develop more effective online learning environments, which can be used in teaching ...
Financial Management of Medical Care Expenses of Student-Athletes in Institutions of Higher Education
(2019-04-18)
Within institutions of higher education, the call for cost containment and accountability extended to all departments, including intercollegiate athletic departments. Intercollegiate athletic departments’ spending continued ...
Financial Trends in Intercollegiate Athletics Mirror Financial Trends in Higher Education
(2015-12-10)
This study compared the financial trends that occurred in intercollegiate athletics with the financial trends that occurred at institutions of higher education. The study focused on the 86 public institutions in the ...
Financing Constraints and Microfinance in Eastern Europeand Central Asia
(2009-05-15)
Microfinance institutions are a growing tool used to alleviate poverty throughout the world. This thesis estimates how much the impact, if any, that microfinance institutions in 19 countries have throughout Eastern Europe ...
Finding Fault in Dyer County, Tennessee: Exploring the Relationships of Earthquake-Induced Liquefaction Features to Subsurface Faults
(2018-12-17)
The New Madrid Seismic Zone (NMSZ) is located within the northern Mississippi Embayment, a northeast-striking graben that formed as a part of a failed rift system and later filled with sediments. Although this intracontinental ...
Finding High Achievement in the Alabama Black-Belt
(2018-12-15)
The history of the United States is steeped with evidence of educational inequities based on race. From the time of slavery, a time in which slaves were forbade to learn to read, to the most recent education legislations, ...
Finding Optimum Clock Frequencies for Aperiodic Test
(2014-04-29)
With scale down in technology, size and complexity of integrated circuits increase. The
scan method is the most popular technique of testing sequential circuits today. In this
method,
ip-
ops functionally form one or ...
Finding the Others Like Me: Facebook Use and Invisible Minorities' Satisfaction With Social Support
(2016-07-08)
In the face of oppression, stigmatized minority individuals demonstrate strategies of resilience such as affiliation with a group of similar others for support and connection. Invisible minorities, however, may have ...
A Fine Line Between Dispersion and Retention: Oil-Sediment Interactions in Nearshore Marine Environments
(2017-04-12)
When crude oil that is spilled in a marine environment approaches the shoreline, it can interact with suspended sediment to form either microscopic oil-mineral aggregates (OMAs), or macroscopic surface residual balls (SRBs) ...
Fine Tuning the Environmental Benefits Index to Achieve Cost Savings for the Conservation Reserve Program
(2018-04-24)
The Conservation Reserve Program (CRP) is the largest conservation program in the United States and was established in 1985. Over time, the conservation objectives of the program have broadened to include wildlife habitat, ...
'A Fine View of the Delectable Mountains': The Religious Vision of Mary Virginia Terhune (Marion Harland) and Augusta Jane Evans Wilson
(2007-08-15)
In the past twenty-five years, there has been a growing scholarly interest in the popular domestic fiction of the nineteenth century. Cultural historians have studied this literature, largely created by women, for the ...
Fine-scale movements and home ranges of red snapper Lutjanus campechanus around artificial reefs in the northern Gulf of Mexico
(2011-11-14)
Few studies have examined fine-scale movement patterns of continental shelf marine fishes. For example, little is known about an important marine species, red snapper Lutjanus campechanus, and its fine-scale movement ...
Fingerprinting-based Indoor Localization with Deep Neural Networks
(2022-11-18)
In recent years, more capabilities and applications have been added to existing wireless communication systems due to the rapid development of the Internet of Things(IoT). WiFi and RFID exhibits tremendous potential in ...
Finite Element Analysis and Life Estimation of a Permanent Cylindrical Mold with ANSYS and Coffin-Manson Approach
(2005-08-15)
Thermal fatigue is the most severe problem encountered by a permanent mold, leading to heat checking and cracking which affects the dimensional stability of the mold. Developing a methodology to determine the optimal ...
Finite Element Analysis of the Mesosphere's Electromagnetic Response to Large Scale Lightning Associated with Sprites and other Transient Luminous Events
(2008-05-15)
In this research, a numerical investigation of high altitude sprites and other mesospheric Transient Luminous Events induced by lightning is presented. A Finite Element Model is created using equations based on a modified ...
Finite Element Analysis of Three-Dimensional Elasto-Plastic Sinusoidal Contact and Inclusion in a Multi-Scale Rough Surface Contact Model
(2008-05-15)
Researchers have developed many models to simulate the elasto-plastic contact of spheres. However, there does not appear to exist a closed-form analytical model for elasto-plastic three dimensional sinusoidal contact. This ...
Finite Element Modeling of Skewed Reinforced Concrete Bridges and the Bond-slip Relationship Between Concrete and Reinforcement
(2007-12-15)
A bridge deck on US 331 near Montgomery, AL developed transverse and longitudinal cracking a few months after construction was completed. A refined finite element model of this continuous, skewed, composite bridge was ...
Finite Element Modelling of Large Area Maintenance Shelters and Comparison to Experimental Results
(2021-08-16)
Large area maintenance shelters (LAMS) are used as temporary structures by the United States Air Force to provide shelter for helicopters, tanks, wheeled vehicles, and aircraft. There are several different brands of LAMS ...