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  • A Rapid β-/γ Autoradiographic Imaging Method for Post-detonation Nuclear Forensics and Radiological Emergency Response

    Creator:
    Foley, Ari A. R.
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    In a radiological emergency scenario, the capability to rapidly visualize radiation emitted from debris, contamination, or absorbed in biological samples, while visualizing the non-radioactive (or “conventional” image) features within a field of view, will provide critical information to support optimization of further analysis, sample collection, and decision making. This research...
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    AN ABSTRACT OF THE DISSERTATION OF Ari A. R. Foley for the

  • A remotely operated, autonomous wave energy converter system

    Creator:
    Lewis, Timothy M.
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    The potential for electric energy generation from ocean waves is substantial and much research is being conducted on the conversion process as a renewable, grid-connected, power source. Some of the same attributes that make wave energy harvesting attractive as a grid-connected source also make it attractive as a remote, or...
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    Electrical and Computer Engineering presented on March 18, 2014. Title: A Remotely Operated

  • New Families of pseudo-Anosov Homeomorphisms with Vanishing Sah-Arnoux-Fathi Invariant

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    Do, Hieu Trung
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    Translation surfaces can be viewed as polygons with parallel and equal sides identified. An affine homeomorphism φ from a translation surface to itself is called pseudo-Anosov when its derivative is a constant matrix in SL₂(R) whose trace is larger than 2 in absolute value. In this setting, the eigendirections of...
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    v is the map Fv ∶ R ×R2 → R2 given by Fv(t, P ) = P + tv Definition 2.3.4. The linear flow on a

  • Advances in Modeling Natural Resource Management under Uncertainty : Forest Mortality, Policy Design, and the Value of Information

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    Sloggy, Matthew R.
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    Advancing the understanding of natural resource management is an important step in mitigating the effects of human activity on the environment, and ensuring efficient outcomes for many sectors of the economy. As humanity’s role in the natural world becomes better understood, the importance of interdisciplinary modeling has grown in leaps...
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    by Matthew R. Sloggy A DISSERTATION submitted to Oregon State

  • Adiabatic and stable adiabatic times

    Creator:
    Bradford, Kyle B.
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    While the stability of time-homogeneous Markov chains have been extensively studied through the concept of mixing times, the stability of time-inhomogeneous Markov chains has not been studied as in depth. In this manuscript we will introduce special types of time-inhomogeneous Markov chains that are defined through an adiabatic transition. After...
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    space of all matrices of this form Mn(R) form a noncommutative ring with identity. A subset of this

  • The dynamic speculation and performance prediction of parallel loops

    Creator:
    Zier, David A.
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    General purpose computer systems have seen increased performance potential through the parallel processing capabilities of multicore processors. Yet this potential performance can only be attained through parallel applications, thus forcing software developers to rethink how everyday applications are designed. The most readily form of Thread Level Parallelism (TLP) within any...
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    Parallel Loops AN ABSTRACT OF THE DISSERTATION OF David A. Zier for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy

  • Applications of Holographic Optical Tweezers: Multiplexed Fluorescence Spectroscopy and the Micromechanics of Type-I Collagen

    Creator:
    Cibula, Matthew A.
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    The development and some applications of holographic optical tweezers (HOT) are presented. Our HOT system uses a spatial light modulator (SLM) to control the location and properties of the optical trap. We have developed a method for optimizing the diffraction efficiency of a SLM that can be applied in situ...
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    Eq. 2.18. a) Intensity along the transverse direction, r. b) Intensity along the propagation axis, z

  • An inner product on adelic measures

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    Oberly, Peter J.
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    We define an inner product on a vector space of adelic measures over a number field $K$. We find that the norm induced by this inner product governs weak convergence at each place of $K$. The canonical adelic measure associated to a rational map is in this vector space, and...
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    set of (z16)2 − 1 11 2 Collapse of Berkovich Lines. 67 3 The Closed Berkovich Disk D̄(a, r) 73 4

  • Representations of fractional Brownian motion

    Creator:
    Wichitsongkram, Noppadon
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    Integral representations provide a useful framework of study and simulation of fractional Browian motion, which has been used in modeling of many natural situations. In this thesis we extend an integral representation of fractional Brownian motion that is supported on a bounded interval of ℝ to integral representation that is...
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    on R with index H ∈ (0, 1) to be a mean zero real-valued Gaussian process with Cov(BH (s), BH (t

  • Classifying seven dimensional manifolds of fixed cohomology type

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    Montagantirud, Pongdate
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    Finding new examples of compact simply connected spaces admitting a Riemannian metric of positive sectional curvature is a fundamental problem in differential geometry. Likewise, studying topological properties of families of manifolds is very interesting to topologists. The Eschenburg spaces combine both of those interests: they are positively curved Riemannian manifolds...
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    cohomology ring. This common ring structure motivates the definition of a manifold of type r, where r is the