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  • 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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    (t) = (1−φ(t))P0 +φ(t)P1 where φ is a Lipschitz continuous functions that is piecewise defined over

  • 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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    : _____________________________________________________ Annette R. von Jouanne The potential for

  • 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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    AN ABSTRACT OF THE DISSERTATION OF Matthew R. Sloggy for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in

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

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    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

  • Deletions and Insertions of the Symbol 0 and Asymmetric/Unidirectional Error Control Codes for the L₁ Metric

    Creator:
    Alqwaifly, Nawaf
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    This work gives some theory and efficient design of binary block codes capable of controlling the deletions of the symbol “0” (referred to as 0-deletions) and/or the insertions of the symbol “0” (referred to as 0-insertions). This problem of controlling 0-deletions and/or 0-insertions (referred to as symmetric 0-errors) is shown...
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    . In particular, it is shown that t 0-insertion correcting codes are actually capable of controlling

  • 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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    -Fathi invari- ant of T is the element in R ∧Q R, the second exterior product of the Q-vector space R

  • Representations of fractional Brownian motion

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    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

  • Limited magnitude error control codes

    Creator:
    Elarief, Noha
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    A relatively new model of error control is the limited magnitude error over high radix channels. In this error model, the error magnitude does not exceed a certain limit known beforehand. In this dissertation, we study systematic error control codes for common channels under the assumption that the maximum error...
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    minimum pos- sible redundancy when kl + l(q r−1 q−1 ) < q r. Then we study the t error detecting prob

  • Some communication algorithms for Gaussian and Eisenstein-Jacobi networks

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    Albader, Bader
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    Interconnection networks play important roles in designing high performance computers. Recently two new classes of interconnection networks based on the concept of Gaussian and Eisenstein-Jacobi integers were introduced. In this research, efficient routing and broadcasting algorithms for these networks are developed. Furthermore, constructing edge disjoint Hamiltonian cycles in Gaussian networks...
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    ),…,(r-2j+1,-2j) Step 2 j=1,2,...,t-1 -(2j+1) (r-2j+1,-(2j+1)),(r-2j+2,-(2j+1)),…,(r-2j-3,-(2j+1