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Timing Evaluation of Iridium Satellite Time and Location Signal: Measurement-Level Implementation and Receiver Hardware Time Interval Comparison 

Smith, Austin (2023-12-06)
This thesis assesses the accuracy, stability, and convergence rates of receiver timing solutions with the Iridium Satellite Time and Location (STL) signal through two studies. In the first experiment, an Extended Kalman ...

Tin oxide sensors for insect infestation detection 

Teng, Junpin (2009-10-02)
Agriculture suffers a significant loss every year due to pests. Early detection of insect infestation is important to reduce that kind of loss. Plants emit volatile organic compounds whose composition will change after the ...

TiO2, VO2, and CrO2: Electronic Structure and Role in C-H Bond Activation of Methane 

Paz, Holden (2022-01-12)
Density functional theory and high-level ab initio electronic structure calculations are performed to study the titled transition metal dioxides and their ability to activate the C-H bond of methane. The electronic structure ...

Tire Force Estimation in Off-Road Vehicles Using Suspension Strain and Deflection Measurements 

Hill, Ryan (2012-01-24)
This thesis develops and analyzes the improvement of tire force estimation and analysis using strain gauge sensors and displacement sensors mounted on the suspension of an all-terrain vehicle. Vehicle dynamic models are ...

Tissue Engineered Cancer Models for in vitro Recapitulation of the Native Tumor Microenvironment 

Habbit, Nicole (2018-07-18)
Despite having been first documented over 5000 years ago, cancer remains one of the most prevalent and lethal diseases to plague the human race to date. According to the National Cancer Institute, nearly half of Americans ...

Title: A Theoretical Update and Empirical Analysis of the Multiple Family Group Intervention 

Livingston, Raven (2023-07-31)
The Multiple Family Group Intervention (MFGI) is a family therapy intervention within a larger treatment program (the Accountability Based Sex Offense Prevention (ABSOP) Program) for the treatment of illegal sexual behavior ...

To Act Ethically or Not to Act Ethically: A Whole Person-Situation Interactionist Perspective to Prediction 

Ritterbush, Elizabeth (2018-11-30)
The concept of what it means to be ethical and therefore the types of decisions that comprise ethical decision making had been a widely debated topic for centuries. This may be due in no small part to the proposed contextual ...

TO BE, OR NOT TO BE FUNNY? THE DOUBLE-EDGED NATURE OF ENTREPRENEUR HUMOR EXPRESSION IN EQUITY-BASED CROWDFUNDING 

Waddingham, Jacob (2022-06-21)  ETD File Embargoed
Humor is omnipresent in our daily interactions. However, we know surprisingly little about how potential investors react to entrepreneurs who use humor during fundraising, a critical stage of the entrepreneurial process. ...

To Boldly Go: (Auto)Mobility in 20th Century American Masculine Identity 

Brissey, Robert Jr (2023-08-04)  ETD File Embargoed
Abstract This project explores the relationship between masculinity, automobility, and American culture. Moving from the Gilded Age through the middle 20th century, this dissertation describes the changes to automobility ...

To Comply or Not To Comply? That Is Not The Question: A Multi-Content Analysis of Title IX Policies at Historically Black Land Grant Universities 

Pettaway, Shanita (2019-04-23)  ETD File Embargoed
The Office for Civil Rights (OCR) of the U.S. Department of Education (DOE) enforces, among other statutes, Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972. While Title IX is directed towards the prevention of discrimination ...

To Forgive or to Forget? The Forgiveness Process in Older Adulthood 

Peterson, Amanda (2017-07-10)
The ability to navigate transgressions in romantic relationships is imperative for both their quality and longevity, making forgiveness a critical process for all couples. However, the forgiveness process has the potential ...

To Succeed or Not to Succeed: How Do Political Influences, Culture, And Demographics of a State Affect the Passing of Physician Assisted Suicide Initiatives? 

Crutchfield, Nikki (2008-12-15)
Today, many physicians are concerned with how to properly care for patients with terminal illnesses and unbearable pain. In deciding the best care possible, ethical and moral concerns have become an issue. Many feel ...

Today's "Modern Family": A Textual Analysis of Gender in the Domestic Sitcom 

Staricek, Nicole (2011-08-04)
This thesis utilizes a textual analysis with an emphasis on gender to analyze the Emmy award-winning sitcom, Modern Family. The program’s overwhelming popularity among television audiences and media critics alike gives ...

Toeplitz Matrices are Unitarily Similar to Symmetric Matrices 

Liu, Jianzhen (2017-07-25)
We prove that Toeplitz matrices are unitarily similar to complex symmetric matrices. Moreover, two $n\times n$ unitary matrices that uniformly turn all $n\times n$ Toeplitz matrices via similarity to complex symmetric ...

Tomographic Plenoptic Background Oriented Schlieren Imaging 

Davis, Jenna (2020-12-10)
Within the last decade, tomographic background oriented schlieren has become an advanced flow diagnostic used to reconstruct three-dimensional density and/or refractive index fields. These three-dimensional measurements ...

Too Stressed to Sleep: Autonomic Nervous System Reactivity and Sleep in Adolescents 

Olivia, Martin-Piñón (2019-09-27)
The purpose of the present study was to investigate relations between autonomic nervous system (ANS) reactivity across its parasympathetic and sympathetic branches and multiple sleep parameters in adolescence. Participants ...

Toolpath Static Analysis Testing for Additive Manufacturing 

Searle, Kyle (2020-07-31)
Fused Deposition Modelling (FDM) 3D printers are the most common 3D printers in the world. However, most of the world’s 3D printers have little-to-no security to prevent cyber-attacks. Most small businesses that employ 3D ...

Tools and Insights for Sustainable Management of Plant Pests and Pathogens 

Bevers, Noah (2022-04-25)
Minimizing crop yield losses caused by plant pathogens is one way of increasing agricultural productivity. To that end, I developed an automated classifier of digital images of soybean diseases to assist with early and ...

Topics in Edge Regular Graphs 

Bragan, Kelly (2014-07-24)
A graph, G, is edge-regular with parameters (n,d,lambda) if G is regular of degree d on n vertices and for all u, v in V(G) such that uv is in E(G), the order of the intersection of N(u) and N(v) is lambda, where N(v) ...

Topics in Law and Economics: Three Essays 

Francisco, James (2013-08-01)
In Chapter 1, the impact of proposed patent reform legislation is evaluated. Survival analysis is employed to ascertain what factors influence the length of time for patent grants. The role of these factors in potential ...