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  • Diversity combining ARQ over the m(> 2)-ary unidirectional channel

    Creator:
    Elarief, Noha
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    In diversity combining automatic repeat request (ARQ), erroneous packets are combined together forming a single, more reliable, packet. In this thesis, we give a diversity combining scheme for the m-ary unidirectional channel. A system using the given scheme with a t-unidirectional error detecting code is able to correct up to...
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    Masters Thesis
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    . (1) Code design with r = 2 check digits: let b = (∑k−1 i=0 (m− 1− xi) ) mod m2. The check digits

  • 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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    Dissertation
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    AN ABSTRACT OF THE DISSERTATION OF Timothy M. Lewis for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in

  • Classifying seven dimensional manifolds of fixed cohomology type

    Creator:
    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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    Dissertation
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    order of the fourth cohomology group. In 1991, M. Kreck and S. Stolz classified manifolds M of type r

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

  • On edge disjoint Hamiltonian cycles in torus and Gaussian networks

    Creator:
    Alazemi, Fawaz M.
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    Many algorithms in parallel systems can be easily solved if we can generate a Hamiltonian cycle on the underly network. Finding Hamiltonian cycle is a well known NP-complete problem. For specific instances of regular graphs, such as Torus and Gaussian network, one can easily find Hamiltonian cycles. In this thesis,...
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    Masters Thesis
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    AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF Fawaz M. Alazemi for the degree

  • 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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    by M. Born and V.A. Fock [9], and have been subsequently studied in [15] among others. Recently, the

  • Redundant information in a spin system beyond pure decoherence

    Creator:
    Svesko, Andrew M.
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    Quantum physics in the Copenhagen interpretation places an unsatisfying divide between the quantum and classical worlds. Decoherence -- the destruction of superposition states of the system -- helps us understand how the quantum transitions to the classical. Quantum Darwinism builds on decoherence to understand how information about the system is...
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    Masters Thesis
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    AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF Andrew M. Svesko for the degree

  • Power reduction of MPEG video decoding for mobile multimedia systems

    Creator:
    Lewis, James M.
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    The purpose of this thesis is to explore methods which can reduce the power dissipation of a mobile system while decoding MPEG video. MPEG decoding is a microprocessor intensive process that makes heavy use of both the L1 and L2 caches as well as main memory. The heavy load placed...
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    Masters Thesis
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    AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF James M. Lewis for the degree of Master of Science in Electrical and

  • 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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    Dissertation
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    AN ABSTRACT OF THE DISSERTATION OF Ari A. R. Foley for the

  • An inner product on adelic measures

    Creator:
    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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    Dissertation
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    absolute values of K: M∞K cor- responds to the embeddings of K into R or C, andM0K corresponds to the