Browsing by Title
Now showing items 3911-3930 of 9098
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 ...
Finite Element Simulation and Assessment of Single-Degree-of-Freedom Prediction Methodology for Insulated Concrete Sandwich Panels Subjected to Blast Loads
(2011-01-05)
This report discusses simulation methodologies used to analyze large deflection static and dynamic behavior of foam-insulated concrete sandwich wall panels. Both conventionally reinforced cast-on-site panels and ...
Finite Element Simulation of Metal Cutting using LS Dyna
(2011-07-29)
The current study focuses on building a 2-Dimensional finite element model to simulate the orthogonal machining process under a dry machining environment in a commercially available FEA solver LS Dyna. One of the key ...
Finite Element Simulation of Precast/Prestressed Insulated Sandwich Panels Optimized for Construction of Government Facilities
(2014-05-02)
This report discusses the development of finite element modeling methodologies for the static and dynamic response of insulated sandwich panels to uniform pressure loads. Experimental testing, which included solid panel ...
A Finite Element Study of an Elastic- Plastic Axisymmetric Sinusoidal Surface Asperity in Contact Against a Rigid Flat with Strain Hardening
(2018-04-17)
With the advancement in science and the introduction of new technology, computational modelling of contact between rough surfaces has attracted a great deal of attention. Researchers have developed many rough surface contact ...
A Finite Volume Implementation of the Shallow Water Equations for Boussinesq Gravity Currents
(2012-07-16)
The shallow water equations (SWE) are a powerful tool for modeling the propagation of gravity currents (GC) because of their relative simplicity, computational efficiency and accuracy. Finite difference solutions, either ...
Finite-Element Modeling of a Damaged Prestressed Concrete Bridge
(2007-05-15)
Spans 10 and 11 of the Interstate Highway 565 bridge structure in Huntsville, Alabama were noticed to be cracked shortly after their construction. Alabama Department of Transportation (ALDOT) employees investigated and ...
Finite-Element Modeling of Early-Age Concrete Behavior
(2018-07-24)
Early-age cracking of concrete may influence the long-term durability of a structure. Cracking occurs when the tensile stress in concrete exceeds its tensile strength. Early-age stress development in concrete is influenced ...
Finitely Generated Modules Over Noncommutative Chain Rings
(2011-10-26)
The notion of a right chain ring, a ring whose lattice of right ideals is linearly ordered by inclusion, is a generalization of a valuation ring. In this work we investigate properties of right chain rings and the structure ...
Firm Hedging Decision and Its Value Implication
(2022-07-21)
In Chapter 1, we study the impact of increased transparency in the reporting of OCI on firms’ foreign currency cash flow hedging practice and the value relevance of this change. We find a reduced level of foreign currency ...