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Pavement hydroplaning risk evaluation with Inertial Measurement Unit (IMU) and 1mm 3D texture data
(2015-07)
During wet weather automobiles traveling on pavements may experience hydroplaning that would cause out-of-control accidents. Annually 14% of all accidents with fatalities occur on wet pavements. However, not many studies ...
External agency: Redefinition of ex ante value in agency relationships
(2015-05)
In this dissertation, in response to mixed empirical findings and theoretical criticism of Agency Theory, I raise a broader question: are there agency behaviors that are not considered within traditional renderings of ...
Assessment of multiple measures of honey bee (Apis mellifera ligustica) and horse (Equus ferus caballus) responding on fixed interval schedules: An individual versus aggregate analysis
(2015-05)
We compared different measures of temporal control of two species' responding when reinforced on fixed interval schedules of reinforcement. The measures that were evaluated are: cumulative response curves, response bin ...
Novel system of pavement cracking detection algorithms using 1mm 3D surface data
(2015-12)
Pavement cracking is one of the major concerns for pavement design and management. There have been rapid developments of automated pavement cracking detection in recent years. However, none of them has been widely accepted ...
Socio-behavioral response of survivors to campus active shooter events
(2015-05)
This research uses available secondary data from two incidents on college campuses to analyze survivor behavior in response to campus-based active shooter events. The study employs a qualitative inductive design using ...
Interference mitigation effects on synthetic aperture radar coherent data products
(2015-07)
Both radio frequency interference from sources external to the synthetic aperture radar system and techniques to mitigate radio frequency interference can degrade the quality of the image products. Often it is the second ...
Impact of customer expectations on service employees
(2015-12)
This dissertation introduces the concept of customer expectations as a group-level construct impacting employee outcomes such as satisfaction and turnover. In addition, a new construct, Expectation Management Behaviors, ...
Opioid induced differential regulation of toll-like receptor 4
(2015-07)
With the growing recognition that toll-like receptor 4 (TLR4) interacts with opioids, this research aims to characterize these interactions in neuro-immune function. We have used the HEK-Blue-hTLR4 cell line to investigate ...
Efficient schemes to size transistors for optimal delay by solving fanout branches with balancing algorithm
(2015-05)
High performance digital system requires minimal logic and properly sized transistor to operate in all PVT corners. Specifically, high-speed data-path design is mostly about optimizing the system for better timing. In this ...
New physics at the TeV scale
(2015-07)
The Standard Model of particle physics is assumed to be a low-energy effective theory with new physics theoretically motivated to be around TeV scale. The thesis presents theories with new physics beyond the Standard Model ...