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ASSESSMENT OF THE BILATERAL RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN MUSCLE PENNATION AND FORCE PRODUCTION IN THE QUADRICEPS FEMORIS
(2018-05-11)Few studies have investigated the bilateral symmetry of pennation angle (PA). No research has examined the bilateral relationship between PA and force production (FP). Purpose: The purposes of this study were to: 1) determine ... -
Assessment of ultra-high-performance-concrete (UHPC) properties using different fibers
(2022-08)Ultra-high-performance-concrete (UHPC) is a cementitious material with a high compressive strength, densely packed structure resulting in near zero permeability, small crack opening, and significant post-cracking tensile ... -
The Association Between Pregnancy-Specific Stress, Discrimination, and Birth Outcomes for Women of Different Ethnic Backgrounds in the U.S.
(2020-05-08)Objective: The purpose of this study was to explore pregnancy-specific stress and experiences of discrimination as influences for disparities in birth outcomes for women of different racial/ethnic minority groups in the ... -
Astro-nots Bezos, Branson, and Musk Compared to NASA and the ESA: Using Twitter to Assess Public Sentiment Differences Between Commercial and Government Space Programs
(2022-05-13)In recent years, the endeavors of commercial entities in space travel have increased dramatically outside of government contracts. What was traditionally a granted contract system with NASA, has now become the “New Age ... -
Atmospheric Conditions Preceeding Very Rapid Sea Ice Loss Events
(2019)Even though the observed amplified warming trend in the Arctic region is well-established in theory through climate feedbacks and reproduced in global climate model projections, the same global climate models underestimate ... -
ATMOSPHERIC DUST FROM THE UPPER CARBONIFEROUS COPACABANA FORMATION (BOLIVIA): A HIGH-RESOLUTION RECORD OF CLIMATE AND VOLCANISM FROM NORTHWESTERN GONDWANA
(2016-08-19)This study documents the occurrence of atmospheric dust from Pennsylvanian carbonates of the Copacabana Formation, recovered in core (Mobil-Oxy Manuripi X-1) from the Madre de Dios basin (Bolivia), within southern mid-latitudes ... -
ATMOSPHERIC VARIATIONS IN COLUMN INTEGRATED CO2 ON SYNOPTIC AND SEASONAL TIME SCALE OVER THE U.S.
(2018)Past studies have demonstrated that synoptic events play an important role in the spatial and temporal variations of carbon dioxide (CO2). In this study, in order to investigate whether cold fronts have impact on synoptic ... -
Augmenting faceted browsing of the Isis bibliography of the history of science with small multiple time series visualizations
(2021-05)Bibliographic data can be defined as content of a library catalog, union catalog or abstract and indexing service which connects users to the information they need. A bibliographic record helps users find and access the ... -
Autofiction's Interrogation of Neoliberal Subjectivity
(2021-05-14)Recent scholarship has highlighted the affinity between autofiction—a development in the contemporary novel that incorporates a fictionalized version of the author in the work—and the neoliberal economy. Through readings ... -
Automated Algorithm for Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT) Images of 3D Spheroids
(2020-12-18)The application of three-dimensional (3D) tumor spheroids has been expanding due to their ability to closely mimic several features of solid tumors such as their cellular heterogeneity/organization and growth kinetics. ... -
Automated Calibration of an Anisotropic Materials Characterization Instrument
(2019-08-01)The increasingly widespread development and use of inhomogeneous composites and artificial dielectrics/diamagnetics has necessitated the development of methods to characterize these materials over a range of frequencies ... -
Automated Detection of Bird Roosts Using NEXRAD Radar Data and Convolutional Neural Networks
(2017-12-15)NEXRAD radars have proven to be an effective tool for detecting bird roosts for several species or birds, however manually locating these roosts in radar images is a time consuming process. We introduce a Convolutional ... -
Automated Location of Bird Roosts Using NEXRAD Data and Image Segmentation
(2020)Weather surveillance radars can effectively detect flying animals, such as groups of birds, bats, and insects. Further, these radars are demonstrably useful for detecting the existence of certain bird roosting locations, ... -
Automatic Bone Structure Segmentation of Under-Sampled CT/FLT-PET Volumes for HSCT Patients
(2021-08-05)In this thesis I present a pipeline for the instance segmentation of vertebral bodies from joint CT/FLT-PET image volumes that have been purposefully under-sampled along the axial direction to limit radiation exposure to ... -
Automatic Leak Detection in Carbon Sequestration Projects
(2020-05-15)The international commitments for carbon capture will require a rapid increase in carbon capture and storage (CCS) projects. The key to any successful carbon sequestration project lies in the long term storage and ... -
Automatic picking and classification of acoustic emission event arrivals
(2010)Accurate automatic classification and picking of arrival times of events from acoustic emission (AE) signals is of considerable importance for rapid identification and location of seismic events. Due to the large number ... -
AUTOMATION AND INVESTIGATION OF INTELLIGENT DRILLING AND ITS IMPLEMENTATION IN EXPERIMENTAL SETUP
(2019-05-10)On January 9, 1845, Robet Beart in Great Britain was granted a patent on the first of a new style of rig, the rotary rig with continuous circulation [21]. Since then, not many advancements have been made in drilling ... -
Automation of Advanced Scanners for RF Metrology
(2020-05-08)The characterization of the constitutive properties of materials is an important step in the development of modern RF devices, especially at mm-wave frequencies or in systems that incorporate materials whose performance ...