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Optimal Facility Location for Interdependent Infrastructure Network Recovery
(2017-05)
Modern communities heavily depend on critical infrastructure networks such as power, water, transportation, telecommunications, gas, etc. Since daily life requires these networks to be operational, it is important that ...
A NOVEL POST-HOC MATCHING PROCEDURE USING STATISTICAL LEARNING METHODS
(2016)
In this thesis, a statistical learning method is leveraged to create a novel measure for conducting post-hoc matching between a treatment group and a candidate set. Post-hoc matching is a necessary element in many non-random ...
Analysis of Resilience in US Stock Markets during Natural Disasters
(2016)
Different studies relating to resilience have been performed on stock markets for disasters around the world. Researchers have tried to figure out if stock markets were resilient or not during a particular disaster.
In ...
Airline Demand Growth and Forecasting Using an Econometric Model: A Comparative Empirical Analysis Among Brazil, China and India
(2016-05-13)
Aviation Industry is growing in an unprecedented pace in the twenty first century. Today, over 1000 commercial airlines operate more than 15,000 aircrafts, carrying 3.1billion people and 51.7m tons of freight every year. ...
New Methodology for Inspecting Ruled and Free-Form Surface in Metrology
(2018-12-14)
A new method is proposed to find the cutter contact (CC) points for both 3- and 5-axis CNC machining, and use this to determine measurement points using CMM. The first part of this research focuses on deriving a mathematical ...
Galling of Stainless Steels in Low Static Contact and High Cycle Applications
(2016)
This study was done to examine the mechanisms involved in the galling of stainless steel surfaces which are subjected to low static contact loads while undergoing a high number of sliding cycles. Presented is a theoretical ...
Quantitative Analysis of Social Media Sensitivity to Natural Disasters
(2015)
The use of social media platforms such as Facebook or Twitter increased exponentially over the last years. They have become a major tool for people to communicate, and for news media to relay their content. In parallel ...
Human-Computer Interface Design in Human Factors: Weapons Drop
(2018-12-14)
In a technologically advanced world, aircraft users tend to get caught up in all of the automation. However, if the automated function stops working, the users are left with analog skills to meet their mission. For the ...
A New Approach to Form Error Determination in Sculptured Surface Metrology
(2018-08-02)
This thesis presents a new approach to the determination of sampling points for CMM inspection of sculptured surfaces, for when the surface equations are not available. It is an implementation-based methodology that relies ...
Robust Resource Allocation to Interdependent Networks under Multiple Disruption Scenarios
(2017-12)
In recent years, the threat of international attacks on critical infrastructure networks has grown; as defined by a 1998 Presidential Decision Directive, these are networks necessary to society’s functionality and include ...