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Browsing by Type "dissertation or thesis"
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A Procedure of Solving Transit Network Design Problem Based on a Non-Dominated Sorting Algorithm of NSGA II
(2017-05-30)This thesis focuses on the transit network design problem, where the focus is on understanding the trade-off between user costs and system owner cost. Given the focus on understanding this trade-off, a solution procedure ... -
A Quantitative Analysis Of Stone Buildings And Assessment Of The Masonry Labor Market In New York State
(2016-05-29)This thesis demonstrates how quantitative analysis can be applied to the existing building stock and construction industry to provide detailed information about building condition and maintenance needs as well as the ability ... -
A Review Of Invasion Ecology And Argument For Using Trait-Based Approaches To Explain Mechanisms Of Invasion Impacts
(2015-08-17)The establishment and range expansion of non-indigenous invasive species is occurring at an increasingly rapid pace. Extensive work has already been done to assess the impacts of invaders on local biota. However, results ... -
A Seismic Study Of The Andean And Taiwanese Lithosphere Using Depth-Phase Precursors And S-Wave Receiver Functions
(2016-02-01)Identification of depth phase precursors has allowed the illumination of the lithospheric structure of the Andes. Such precursors are here interpreted as being underside reflections from the Lithosphere Asthenosphere ... -
A Simple Methodology For Design Tradeoff Analysis In Asynchronous Circuits
(2016-02-01)Engineering design will continue to grow in complexity. The traditional tool of ion, while still very functional, has become more nuanced as design considerations have begun to frequently cross levels of abstraction. As ... -
A Spatial Econometric Analysis Of Crop Insurance, Climate Change, And Us Corn Acreage
(2015-08-17)A spatial econometric approach is employed to investigate the impact of insurance subsidies and expected growing season weather on corn acreage in the United States. Increases in insurance subsidies and expected returns ... -
A Spatiotemporal Examination Of The Mechanisms Involved In Long-Term Memory For Incrementally Acquired Information
(2016-02-01)The existing literature examining the activity of plasticity-related molecular mechanisms suggests that early, post-learning activity of these mechanisms plays a role in later long-term memory (LTM) behavior. However, much ... -
A Stable Isotopic (Carbon And Nitrogen) Evaluation Of Regional Differences In Herded Animal Diet And Pastoral Risk Management Practices During The Xiongnu Period Of Mongolia.
(2016-05-29)During the Xiongnu Period (c. 300 BC- AD 100) of Mongolia, mobile agropastoralism constituted the primary form of subsistence. While this fact is supported by the recovery of animal and plant remains from mortuary contexts, ... -
A STUDY OF ENGINEERING THE CATHODE STRUCTURES FOR IMPROVED PERFORMANCE IN LITHIUM BATTERIES
(2017-05-30)Lithium batteries are receiving a worldwide attention for applications such as electric vehicles, renewable energy grids for their extraordinarily high energy density. Despite high energy density of lithium-air or ... -
A Study On Synthesis And Characterization Of Thin Polymer/Ceramic Hybrid Film Separators And Metal Oxide Coated Electrodes For Lithium Ion Batteries
(2016-05-29)The search for new electrode and membrane materials for lithium-ion batteries (LIBs) has been under investigation to satisfy the ever-growing demands for better performance with higher energy density, improved safety and ... -
A Study On The Surface Chemistry Of Lead Chalcogenides Nanocrystals And Patchy Colloidal Particles
(2016-05-29)We present an implicit-solvent density functional theory study of lead selenide (PbSe) and lead sulfide (PbS) nanocrystal surfaces and investigate the effect of solvation on the adsorption of ligands and the surface energies ... -
A Supercooled Magnetic Liquid State In The Frustrated Pyrochlore Dy2Ti2O7
(2015-05-24)A "supercooled" liquid forms when a liquid is cooled below its ordering temperature while avoiding a phase transition to a global ordered ground state. Upon further cooling its microscopic relaxation times diverge rapidly, ... -
A Surface Runoff Model For Central New York Agricultural Fields
(2015-05-24)Nonpoint source (NPS) pollution continues to be the leading cause of US surface water degradation, especially in agricultural areas. In humid regions where variable source area (VSA) hydrology dominates storm runoff, NPS ... -
A Systems Approach to Development and Evaluation of Geothermal Energy Utilization Systems
(2017-01-30)A successful design and operation of geothermal energy systems require a multidisciplinary approach combining engineering, geoscience and economics. The complex interactions between individual geothermal system components ... -
A Time-Shared Dual Optical Trap with Sub-Nanometer Image-Based Position Resolution for Hybrid Instruments
(2017-01-30)Optical trapping is a powerful and sensitive technique that enables the direct measurement and manipulation of biological samples on the piconewton and nanometer scales. In examining the evolution and maturation of optical ... -
A Unified Approach To The Nonlinearities Of Visual Neurons: The Curved Geometry Of Neural Response Surfaces
(2015-08-17)The responses of visual cortical neurons are highly nonlinear functions of image stimuli. I present a geometric view of these nonlinear responses and classify them as forms of selectivity or invariance, building on a body ... -
Aav-Mediated Dual-Axis Gene Therapy To Enhance Cartilage Repair
(2014-08-18)The aim of this thesis project was to investigate the use of a recombinant adenoassociated virus (rAAV) as a gene therapy vector to target both the anabolic and catabolic axes of cartilage homeostasis in order to enhance ... -
Ab Initio Density Matrix Renormalization Group Methodology And Computational Transition Metal Chemistry
(2010-04-09)This thesis is concerned with two topics from the field of computational electronic structure theory. In the first part we will describe our contributions to the ab initio density matrix renormalization group (DMRG) methodology ...
