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  • Nanoparticle-assisted diffusion brazing of metal microchannel arrays : nanoparticle synthesis, deposition, and characterization

    Creator:
    Eluri, Ravindranadh T.
    Abstract:
    Microchannel process technology (MPT) offers several advantages to the field of nanomanufacturing: 1) improved process control over very short time intervals owing to shorter diffusional distances; and 2) reduced reactor size due to high surface area to volume ratios and enhanced heat and mass transfer. The objective of this thesis...
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    Dissertation
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    : _____________________________________________________________________ Brian K. Paul Microchannel process technology (MPT) offers several advantages to the field

  • High-speed implementation of the RSA cryptosystem

    Creator:
    Peng, Yanqun
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    A public key cryptosystem allows two or more parties to securely communicate over an insecure channel without establishing a physically secure channel for key exchange. The RSA cryptosystem is the most popular public key cryptosystem ever invented. It is based on the difficulty of factoring large composite numbers. Once the...
    Resource Type:
    Masters Thesis
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    , where k is the number of bits in the binary form of e. ii) Multiplications (Step 2b): H (e) 1, where H(e

  • Calibrating the highway safety manual predictive methods for Oregon rural state highways

    Creator:
    Xie, Fei
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    The first edition of the Highway Safety Manual (HSM) provides a quantitative approach to predict the safety of transportation facilities based on the recently developed scientific methods. This approach, known as the predictive method, was developed for several states in the United States. Due to differences in driver population, weather...
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    Masters Thesis
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    : _____________________________________________________________________ Karen K. Dixon The first edition of the Highway Safety Manual (HSM) provides a quantitative

  • Shrunken learning rates do not improve AdaBoost on benchmark datasets

    Creator:
    Forrest, Daniel L. K.
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    Recent work has shown that AdaBoost can be viewed as an algorithm that maximizes the margin on the training data via functional gradient descent. Under this interpretation, the weight computed by AdaBoost, for each hypothesis generated, can be viewed as a step size parameter in a gradient descent search. Friedman...
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    Masters Thesis
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    AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF Daniel L. K. Forrest for the

  • Reaction Pathways of Oxo-Hydroxo Group 5 Clusters to Metal Oxide Thin Films

    Creator:
    Mansergh, Ryan H.
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    Oxo-hydroxo Group 5 metal clusters are an untapped resource to study and advance aqueous solution processing of metal oxide thin films. The tetramethylammonium (TMA) hexatantalate salt (TMA6[H2Ta6O19]) yields dense Ta2O5 films (~95% of the bulk ß-Ta2O5 density) with atomically smooth surfaces (<4 Å root mean square surface roughness). This same...
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    Dissertation
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    beyond. Microelectron. Eng. 2005, 80, 317–320. (6) Kuesters, K. H.; Beug, M. F.; Schroeder, U

  • A General Purpose Agent-Based Blackboard Optimization Method Applied to Sodium Fast Reactor Design and Analysis

    Creator:
    Stewart, Ryan H.
    Abstract:
    We present a novel multi-objective optimization methodology built upon a multi-agent blackboard framework. This multi-agent blackboard system (MABS) synthesizes blackboard architectures, multi-agent environments, and optimization theory. The blackboard architecture creates the framework for initializing, storing, and solving a multi-objective optimization problem. Multiple agents allow for an optimization problem to be...
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    Dissertation
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    AN ABSTRACT OF THE DISSERTATION OF Ryan H. Stewart for the

  • Re-understanding Finite-State Representations of Recurrent Policy Networks

    Creator:
    Danesh, Mohamad H.
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    We propose an approach for understanding control policies represented as recurrent neural networks. Recent work has approached this problem by transforming such recurrent policy networks into finite-state machines (FSM) and then analyzing the equivalent minimized FSM. While this led to interesting insights, the minimization process can obscure a deeper understanding...
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    Masters Thesis
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    H, a distinguished initial state h0 ∈ H, a finite set of observation symbols O, and a transition

  • Scale effects on reinforced concrete beams strengthened for shear with discrete externally bonded carbon fiber-reinforced polymer U-wraps

    Creator:
    Dawson, Matthew Ryan
    Abstract:
    Current ACI design provisions for shear in reinforced concrete (RC) beams strengthened with externally bonded carbon fiber-reinforced polymer (CFRP) U-wraps may not adequately account for the effect of scale. This paper describes tests of 6 geometrically scaled beams to identify possible scale effects of such beams. Results indicated that effective...
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    Masters Thesis
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    cfk ⎛ ⎞= ⎜ ⎟ ⎝ ⎠ (10-8) US [4] 5 2 f e f d L k d ⎛ ⎞− = ⎜ ⎟⎜ ⎟ ⎝ ⎠ (10-9

  • Towards reliable and survivable ocean wave energy converters

    Creator:
    Brown, Adam C.
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    Ocean wave energy is a new and developing field of renewable energy with great potential. The energy contained in one meter of an average wave off the coast of Newport Oregon could supply dozens of homes with electricity. However, ocean waves are usually quite irregular which leads to large bursts...
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    Masters Thesis
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    , 2008; Joseph H Prudell, 2007). The device used a large linear permanent magnet generator driven by a

  • Variant Annotation

    Creator:
    He, Jun
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    With the development of technologies in genome sequencing and variant detection, a huge number of variants are detected. To further analyze the variants, it requires an efficient tool to annotate the functional effect of variants. This project managed to develop an efficient program to annotate the functional effect of variants...
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    Capstone Project
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    algorithm reduces the searching complexity from O(NK) to O(N +K) while the tree-based algorithm reduces to