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  • Location Privacy-Preserving Strategies for Secondary Spectrum Use

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    Grissa, Mohamed
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    The scarcity of wireless spectrum resources and the overwhelming demand for wireless broadband resources have prompted industry, government agencies and academia within the wireless communities to develop and come up with effective solutions that can make additional spectrum available for broadband data. As part of these ongoing efforts, cognitive radio...
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    emerged as an essential technology for enabling and promoting dynamic spectrum access and sharing, a

  • Information foraging in debugging

    Creator:
    Lawrance, Joseph A.
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    Programmers spend a substantial fraction of their debugging time by navigating through source code, yet little is known about how programmers navigate. With the continuing growth in size and complexity of software, this fraction of time is likely to increase, which presents challenges to those seeking both to understand and...
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    spend a substantial fraction of their debugging time by navigating through source code, yet little is

  • The choice calculus : a formal language of variation

    Creator:
    Walkingshaw, Eric
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    In this thesis I present the choice calculus, a formal language for representing variation in software and other structured artifacts. The choice calculus is intended to support variation research in a way similar to the lambda calculus in programming language research. Specifically, it provides a simple formal basis for presenting,...
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    Calculus: A Formal Language of Variation Abstract approved: Martin Erwig In this thesis I present the

  • A study of the relationship between living environment press and retention of freshman pledges in fraternities at Oregon State University

    Creator:
    Smith, Clayton Nowlin
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    The purposes of this study were first to determine if there were significant differences in living environment press, i.e., the pressure on an individual to behave in a certain way, between those fraternity chapters that had the highest freshman pledge retention rates and those that had the lowest. If significant...
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    A study of the relationship between living environment