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  • Evaluation of Cycling Behavior: Factors that Influence Bicyclists’ Comprehension, Comfort, and Stress

    Creator:
    Cobb, Douglas P.
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    Travel demand has increased due to population growth, increase of vehicle ownership, and development patterns resulting in greater levels of congestion, pollution, and crash frequency. One approach to demand management is to increase the share of trips made by bicycles. With the increase in bicycling rates, there is a critical...
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    David Hurwitz Travel demand has increased due to population growth, increase of vehicle ownership

  • A Text-based Simulation Framework for the Automated Simulation and Analysis of Manufacturing Assembly Systems

    Creator:
    Fields, Benjamin G.
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    The rapid advancement of manufacturing has led to the creation of a myriad of technologies that facilitate the analysis and simulation of manufacturing processes. These technologies have become a pivotal component in maintaining and improving processes in today’s complex manufacturing environments. Discrete Event Simulation (DES) is one such technology that...
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    Masters Thesis
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    J. David Porter The rapid advancement of manufacturing has led to the creation of a myriad

  • Exploratory Study to Uncover Student Mental Models of Singly Linked Lists in the C Programming Language

    Creator:
    Almadhoun, Eman
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    In computer science, learning abstract fundamental programming concepts requiring students to understand memory management can be very difficult and lead to misunderstandings that carry on into advanced topics. This is especially true in data structures with abstract data types. Understanding how novice students think and reason about data structures is...
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    incomplete [59, 43]. Henderson and Tallman [49, p. 36] argue that “Errors can occur because we do not

  • How do Programmers Forage through Variants? Modeling Hierarchical Foraging and Changelogs

    Creator:
    Pandya, Bhargav Chandravadan
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    Complex information environments are often organized as hierarchies. However, computational models of Information Foraging Theory (IFT) have almost entirely ignored this fact. Models and tools for predicting programmer navigations have ignored people’s foraging behavior across hierarchies —called hierarchical foraging. Without modeling hierarchical foraging, our ability to build tools to support...
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    between-patch foraging. 21 Definitions: • Patch set P: set of all patches in the

  • Branched Covering Space Construction and Visualization

    Creator:
    Golbabaei, Sanaz
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    Branched covering spaces are a mathematical concept which originates from complex analysis and topology and has found applications in tensor field topology and geometry re-meshing. Given a manifold surface and an N-way rotational symmetry field, a branched covering space is a manifold surface that has an N-to-1 map to the...
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    to the users for BCS construction and also visualization. 40 5.2 4-Fold Branched Covering for David

  • Communication-Efficient Secure Two-Party Computation From Minicrypt and OT

    Creator:
    Roy, Lawrence
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    Secure two-party computation (2PC) is the task of performing arbitrary calculations on secret inputs provided by two parties, while maintaining secrecy if at least one party is honest. 2PC has been applied to privacy-preserving record linkage and machine learning, in areas such as medicine where maintaining privacy is crucial. One...
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    Dissertation
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    Protocol for ( q q−1 ) -OT based on ( p p−1 ) -OT, using a punctured PRF. . . . . . 110 4.14

  • Understanding the Similarities and Differences Between Academia and the Engineering Workplace through Barriers to Adoption, Epistemic Beliefs, and Problem-Solving Behavior

    Creator:
    Gestson, Sean Lyle
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    Engineering education research has led to a greater understanding of the gap in preparedness of students for the engineering industry. Multiple studies comparing the workplace and academic contexts and the participants in those contexts (i.e., students, faculty, and engineering practitioners) have emphasized similarities and differences between the two contexts by...
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    Dissertation
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    Chapters 2 and 3. Dr. Annana Ahmed, Dr. David Hurwitz, and Dr. Floraliza Bornasal assisted in the

  • Fluid flow on interacting, deformable surfaces

    Creator:
    Neill, Patrick
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    Fluid simulation is an interesting research problem with a wide range of applications including mechanical engineering, special effects in movies and games, and scientific simulation. Due to the complex nature of typical fluid flow equations, there are circumstances where a full volumetric fluid simulation may not be necessary to generate...
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    ). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28 4.1 Velocities, u, are stored on vertices while pressure values, p, are stored on the barycenter

  • Guided Translation of Algorithmic Notation into Functional Programs

    Creator:
    Fedorin, Danila
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    The use of board games for teaching introductory computer science is a promising recent avenue of research. The goal is to introduce computing concepts through their use in the implementations of simple games, thereby keeping students engaged through their learning process. However, there is a gap between students' algorithmic descriptions...
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    also differ from assignments in the source lan- guage in their use of patterns, represented by the p

  • Fluid-structure interaction analysis with the particle finite element method

    Creator:
    Zhu, Minjie
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    To facilitate the evaluation and design of structures subjected to fluid loading, a study of fluid-structure interaction (FSI) using the particle finite element method (PFEM) is presented to approximate the responses and sensitivities of structures which interact with fluid. A wide range of structural types are permissible by making no...
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    inviscid fluids are also shown in [55], ∂2x ∂ x ∂2y ∂ y ∂2z ∂ z 1 ∂ p − X + − Y + − Z + = 0 (1.16a) ∂ t2