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Huck Finn Rides Again: Reverberations of Mark Twain's 'Adventures of Huckleberry Finn' in The Twentieth-century Novels of Cormac McCarthy
(2007-12-15)
This dissertation examines the intertextual significance of Mark Twain’s Adventures of Huckleberry Finn to the works of a major contemporary American writer: Cormac McCarthy. As many scholars have noted, Twain’s novel ...
Human Behavior Representation in Physical Security Systems Simulation
(2009-05-15)
Physical security systems are designed to prevent access to a facility by intruders, detect the presence of intruders, or facilitate the capture of intruders once they are detected. These systems generally include a ...
Human Coordination of Robot Teams: An Empirical Study of Multimodal Interface Design
(2009-05-04)
Human Robot Interaction is an emerging area of interdisciplinary research that requires contributions from the areas of robotics, human computer interaction, cognitive sciences, multimodal interfaces and others. Due to ...
The Human Dimensions of Whooping Crane Conservation in Alabama
(2017-05-11)
Whooping Cranes (Grus americana) were historically present throughout Alabama, including coastal and interior regions of the state. However, in the early part of the 20th century, habitat alteration and unregulated human ...
Human Glutaminase Interacting Protein (GIP): a Potential Candidate for Anti-Cancer Drug Design
(2011-08-04)
PDZ domains are one of the most ubiquitous protein-protein interaction modules found in living systems. The glutaminase interacting protein (GIP), also known as the Tax interacting protein 1 (TIP-1), is a PDZ domain ...
Human melanocortin-3 receptor: structure-function relationship of DPLIY motif and helix 8 and biased signaling
(2016-05-05)
The melanocortin-3 receptor (MC3R) is a member of family A G protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs). The MC3R remains the most enigmatic of the melanocortin receptors with regard to its physiological functions, especially the ...
Human melanocortin-4 receptor: structure-function relationship of transmembrane domain 3 and biased signaling
(2013-07-15)
The melanocortin-4 receptor (MC4R) is a G protein-coupled receptor critical for maintaining energy homeostasis. Transmembrane domain 3 (TM3) of MC4R contains residues that are suggested to be essential in ligand binding ...
Human Performance in Cyber-Vulnerable Highly Automated Unmanned Aerial Systems
(2020-02-05)
Automation is ever present in today’s complex systems of systems. Originally created to ease workload and burden on the human operator and to increase safety by automating dangerous tasks, automation has become practically ...
Humanizing the Gangster: An Examination into the Character from Hawks’ to DePalma’s Scarface
(2008-08-15)
This thesis determines why the film gangster gained acceptance in American society through an examination of both the 1932 and 1983 versions of Scarface. The gangster depicted in the earlier film was characterized as a ...
Humic Acids Resistant Gene Quantification Assay in Soils
(2011-05-17)
Humic acids are the most commonly reported group of inhibitors in environmental samples. Due to the ubiquity and abundance of humic acids in the environment, they are often co-extracted along with the nucleic acids and ...
Humor in Therapy: Expectations, Sense of Humor, and Perceived Effectiveness
(2010-07-12)
Research has shown that humor holds valuable power to increase psychological well-being. The present study explored: (1) the perceived effectiveness of humor as a therapeutic tool based on the social influence model; and ...
A Hurricane Risk Assessment for Chatham County, Georgia
(2014-07-31)
In 2010, Savannah, GA. was ranked 4th in The Weather Channel’s Top 5 Hurricane Vulnerable and Overdue Cities. Savannah is located in Chatham County, GA., which has not been impacted by a land-falling hurricane since ...
Hybrid Aerial and Ground-based Mobile Robot for Retail Inventory
(2018-05-10)
Radio frequency identification (RFID) technology is increasingly used in retail stores and warehouses because it can help to improve the inventory process, enable automatic checkout, and reduce shoplifting. This dissertation ...
Hybrid Grouping: The Relationship to Student Learning Outcomes, School Leadership and School Climate
(2016-05-11)
This study examined the implementation of Hybrid Grouping at Angel Elementary
School. The Hybrid Grouping model consisted of three elements, achievement grouping,
departmentalization and self-contained classes. The data ...
Hybrid Learning of Feedforward Neural Networks for Regression Problems
(2014-12-12)
Inspired by the structure and functional aspects of the biological neural networks, the Artificial Neural Network (ANN) is a very popular model in the machine learning fields to
learn complex relationships in the data. ...
Hybrid Machine Learning Techniques for Manufacturing and Beyond
(2021-07-19)
This dissertation presents research performed to develop a novel soft sensor, feature space process monitoring, and domain knowledge-based path analysis for manufacturing and healthcare industries.
In recent years, as ...
A Hybrid Retrodirective Array Based on Delay-Locked Loop Hybrid Phase Conjugators
(2020-06-15)
This dissertation discusses the design, construction, and characterization of a new Hybrid Retrodirective Array (HRA) as a possible beamforming technology for 5G wireless communication networks. A Delay-Locked Loop based ...
Hybrid Sampling for Uncertainty Quantification in Systems with High Dimensional Parameter Spaces
(2022-05-01)
Spatial models formulated as partial differential equations, often include space dependent parameters that are not readily estimable and are therefore uncertain.
There are two broad classes of methods for computing ...
Hydraulic Management of SDI Wastewater Dispersal in an Alabama Black Belt Soil
(2009-12-11)
Approximately 52% of the 14000 km2 Alabama Black Belt region is unsuitable for conventional onsite wastewater treatment systems because of low hydraulic permeability, high water table, or other restrictive soil properties. ...
Hydraulic Solenoid Valve Reliability and Modeling Study
(2008-12-15)
The current work has studied the reliability of a solenoid valve (SV) used in automobile transmissions through a joint theoretical and experimental approach. Based on an extensive literature search, the most common failures ...