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System Reliability Model for Long Span Arch Bridges
(2018-05-17)
Every structural system consists of elements with certain dependencies between each other. Current design codes do not account for these interactions and they provide provisions only for particular components. Thus, the ...
System Safety Analysis of the Opelika Fire Department's Crawling Simulator
(2015-12-04)
Firefighters have among the most physically and psychologically challenging jobs in the world, incurring more than 80,000 injuries each year. Firefighter training is crucial, as higher knowledge and experience levels are ...
A Systematic and Data-Driven Approach for Improving Survival Analysis of Heart Transplantation
(2019-07-26)
This dissertation is developed to improve survival analysis of heart transplant surgeries by first, investigating factors that are associated with the performance of predictive machine learning algorithms, then creating ...
A Systematic Approach and Design Guidelines for the Development of Smart Bathrooms Considering the Senior Population
(2019-04-18)
Around the world, populations are aging, and the life expectancy of the senior population is also increasing. At the same time, a large portion of the elderly prefer to stay at home, which is known as aging in place. ...
A Systematic Approach For Developing Modular Rehabilitation Products For Facilitating Better Strength Recovery With Focus On Stroke Patients
(2016-04-22)
According advanced medical technologies have enabled ruptured brain vessels to be saved by related procedures for stroke patients. However, most patients will suffer various kinds of sequela, such as muscle atrophy, ...
A Systematic Approach to the Classification of Physical Connections in Product Design
(2016-04-27)
Physical connection plays an important part in product design. This thesis focuses on
discussing physical connection in product design. Physical connection is the junction area of two or multiple parts. This thesis aims ...
Systematic Characterization and Modeling of Small and Large Signal Performance Of 50 - 200 Ghz SiGe HBTs
(2005-08-15)
Over the last ten years, SiGe BiCMOS technology has become the leading technology in analog circuit design for both wired and wireless telecommunication applications. However, the endless pursuit for high performance is ...
Systematic Characterization of Catalytic Active Sites and Complete Catalytic Cycles for Methane to Methanol Transformation
(2021-11-19)
Methane to methanol (MTM) transformation is a very significant chemical transformation for its scientific, industrial, and commercial importance. Currently, MTM transformation is done by following a high energy procedure ...
A Systematic Evaluation of Variables Underlying Response Effort Manipulations
(2008-12-15)
A number of studies have investigated the effects of manipulating the physical effort required for an individual to emit a response. This research overwhelmingly shows that as force requirements increase, response rates ...
A Systematic Property Based Approach for Molecular Synthesis Using Higher Order Molecular Groups and Molecular Descriptors
(2010-12-03)
In this work, algorithms have been developed for the design of molecules corresponding to the optimum performance of a process. The concept of property clustering has been extended into molecular design based on second and ...
A Systematic Review of Assessment Protocols for the Discrimination between Mild Cognitive Impairment and Normal Cognitive Ability in the Aging Population
(2008-05-15)
Mild cognitive impairment (MCI) is a concept that an aging individual has reached a point of cognitive decline that is not yet severe enough to be termed dementia, but is not considered normal. Subtle declines in cognitive ...
A Systematic Review of Inclusion and Exclusion Criteria in Healthy Occupational Voice Users in Human Research
(2024-04-12)
Background: The purpose of this systematic review was to examine the literature and ascertain the inclusion and exclusion criteria used for participant selection when conducting occupational vocal function research. ...
Systematics and evolutionary history of sea catfishes (Siluriformes: Ariidae)
(2009-04-28)
Ariids or sea catfishes are one of the two otophysan fish families (out of 67 families in four orders) that inhabit primarily marine and brackish waters, although some ariid species occur strictly in fresh waters. The ...
Systemic Inflammatory Response To Consecutive Days of Exercise In The Heat
(2013-04-23)
PURPOSE: The purpose of this study was to determine the LPS-mediated SIR to acute bouts of exercise in the heat and any adaptive response that occurs during consecutive days of exercise in the heat. METHODS: 8 healthy males ...
Tableware Design according to the Physical Environment
(2019-07-16)
Food and water are the most essential things in our daily life. We eat and drink several times a day, which means we use tableware several times through the day. People either eat at home or dine out with friends or families. ...
Tabular Priority Control Design: An Automated Transcription Comparison Framework for Phonetics
(2021-04-28)
Phonetics is the study and systematic classification of speech sounds. It is a discipline of linguistics that deals with the science of sound production, transmission, and reception by humans. Phonetic transcription is the ...
Tackling disease and denials: The image repair strategies of the National Football League’s response to CTE and concussions
(2020-04-17)
This study discusses the National Football League’s (NFL) response campaign to concussions and chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) primarily focusing on the response during the tenure of NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell. ...
Tag line tracking and Cardiac Motion Modeling from Tagged MRI
(2006-12-15)
Magnetic resonance (MR) tagging magnetically labels specified regions of the myocardium, which appear in the MR images with a spatially encoded pattern of dark stripes called tag lines. The deformation of these tag lines ...
Taking the Stand: Theodore Bilbo's 1946 Senate Hearing and the Complexities of Mississippi's Post-War Civil Rights Struggle
(2012-04-19)
In the spring of 1946 Theodore Bilbo, campaigning for his second term as United
States Senator, called on every “Red-blooded Anglo–Saxon male” in Mississippi to use
whatever means necessary to keep African Americans from ...
A Tale of Two Anemone Shrimps: Predation Pressure and Mimicry in a Marine Cleaning Mutualism
(2016-12-10)
For mutualistic relationships between different organisms, coloration and behavior can be used to indicate the ability to provide a service. These visual signals allow other organisms to mimic them to gain their benefits ...