Guidelines for using style to improve computer program comprehension
have often been proposed without empirical testing. This thesis reports on the
results of three controlled experiments that investigated ways program style may be
used to aid comprehension of source code listings.
Experiments 1 and 2 were conducted using advanced computer...
The research undertaken in this study deals with three topics related to the prediction of thermodynamic properties of electrolytes in aqueous solutions. In the first, Pitzer ion interaction parameters for 304 single electrolytes were evaluated from recently published osmotic coefficient data at 25°C by using multiple regression analysis to fit...
Emerging adults often encounter obstacles and adversity in pursuit of occupational identity. College counselors are responsible for delivering mental health, wellness, and career services to distressed students facing unprecedented challenges to enter the workplace. The purpose of this study was to investigate how counselors can promote career resilience in emerging...
This dissertation integrates a process-based hydrological investigation with an
ongoing paired-catchment study to better understand how forest harvest impacts
catchment function at multiple scales. We do this by addressing fundamental questions
related to the stocks, flows and transit times of water. Isotope tracers are used within a
top-down catchment intercomparison...
Research Objective: Nearly 60 million people in the United States reside in a rural area. Residents in rural areas have higher rates of chronic disease, risky health behaviors, disability, infant mortality, and age-adjusted mortality than their urban counterparts. Health insurance and access to care mitigate those risks, in part because...
This thesis is composed of four parts: i) system
description, ii) model development, iii) parameter
estimation, and iv) validation. The natural system used
here is an aspect of the immune system, namely, the
distribution of recirculating lymphocytes in various
organs throughout the body. This distribution gains
importance because: i) it...
An observability problem for both deterministic and stochastic
systems is studied here.
Deterministic observability is a determination of whether every
state of the system is connected to the observation mechanism and how
it is connected, if connected. On the other hand, stochastic
observability discusses the "tightness" of the connection in...