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  • An Agent-Based Simulation for Emergency Warning Dissemination in a Multiplex Social Network

    Creator:
    Koll, Charles D.
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    The variety of natural disasters provide different sets of characteristics and properties with unique challenges. One significant difference between hazard types is prewarning lead time, the amount of time individuals have from a potential warning to the disaster occurring. Rapid onset disasters may not provide an official warning about a...
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    Masters Thesis
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    Wang The variety of natural disasters provide different sets of characteristics and proper- ties with

  • Performance of a thermally activated cooling system and design of a microchannel heat recovery unit

    Creator:
    Seward, Ryan
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    The performance of a combined vapor-compression cycle/ORC is evaluated using waste-heat from a diesel generator. A flat plate microchannel heat exchanger is employed to provide energy exchange between the diesel exhaust stream and an oil loop, which provides energy to a boiler. This study finds an increased diesel duty corresponds...
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    Masters Thesis
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    Unit Abstract approved: Hailei Wang The performance of a combined vapor-compression cycle/ORC

  • An Interdisciplinary Agent-based Evacuation Modeling Framework: Seeking Convergence of Social, Natural, and Engineered Systems to Improve Life Safety in the Cascadia Subduction Zone

    Creator:
    Chen, Chen
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    Social scientists have studied people's responses to disasters for many decades, and behavioral commonalities and variations are summarized in different mental schemes/models in disaster studies. Integrating those findings from social science into evacuation simulation can improve simulation accuracy and eventually better support decision-making and disaster preparedness. However, this kind of...
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    Dissertation
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    Wang Abstract: Social scientists have studied people’s responses to disasters for many decades, and

  • Stochastic Characterization of Highway Capacity and Its Applications

    Creator:
    Dong, Shangjia
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    Highway capacity has traditionally been treated as deterministic. In reality, however, capacity can vary from time to time and location to location due to inclement weather, various driving behavior, traffic incident, bottleneck and workzone. This thesis aims to characterize the stochastic variations of highway capacity, and explore its applications. The...
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    Masters Thesis
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    Applications Abstract approved: Haizhong Wang Highway capacity has traditionally been treated as

  • Optofluidic Sensing from Inkjet-Printed Droplets on Diatom Biosilica

    Creator:
    Xi, Yuting
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    We explored an optofluidic sensing mechanism from inkjet-printed droplets on diatom biosilica using surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS). Our study revealed a new biosensing strategy that combines the microscopic fluidic flow induced by the droplet evaporation and the photonic crystal effects of diatom frustules, which can provide an ultra-sensitive, cost-effective biosensing...
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    Masters Thesis
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    : ______________________________________________________ Alan X. Wang We explored an optofluidic sensing

  • Investigation of Infrared Absorption of Carbon Dioxide in Metal–Organic Framework Material

    Creator:
    Li, Shiwen
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    Due to the advantages of the high surface area and high porosity, Metal-Organic Framework (MOF) materials are widely used in gas storage. As a typical MOF material, Zeolitic Imidazolate Framework-8 (Zif-8) has high selectivity and adsorption capability of carbon dioxide (CO2). In this thesis, we investigated the infrared absorption of...
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    Masters Thesis
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    : ______________________________________________________ Alan X. Wang Due to the advantages of the high surface area and high porosity, Metal

  • Annual Forages Differ in Response to Partial-Season Irrigation Deficit in Both Spring Seeded and Summer Seeded Cropping Systems

    Creator:
    Fan, Qianqian
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    Water scarcity during summer becomes a serious problem in the Pacific Northwest, threatening forage production provided to livestock. Annual forages show great potential in handling drought because of their flexibility in seeding date and short growing season, and can shift the production to periods of feed shortage and fill the...
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    Masters Thesis
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    : ______________________________________________________ Guojie Wang Water scarcity during summer becomes a serious problem in the Pacific

  • Agent-based Tsunami Evacuation Model : Life Safety and Network Resilience

    Creator:
    Mostafizi, Alireza
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    Natural disasters could result in unnecessary loss of life and disproportionate suffering to families and communities if evacuation plans are not in place or understood by the public. In the Pacific Northwest, a magnitude 9.0 earthquake and tsunami from the Cascadia Subduction Zone (CSZ) represents one of the most pressing...
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    Masters Thesis
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    . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 3.2 (a) Location of cascadia subduction zone; (b) Overview of Seaside, OR (Wang et al., 2015

  • Design and Analysis of Free-space Optical Communications Systems for Next Generation Short-range Wireless Networks

    Creator:
    Liverman, Spencer
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    This dissertation focuses on indoor free-space optical communications systems for use in short range wireless networks. We propose that current radio frequency wireless links be augmented or replaced with optical frequency links due to overcrowding in the radio frequency spectrum. Optical frequencies contain hundreds of terahertz of unregulated bandwidth and...
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    Dissertation
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    approved: ______________________________________________________ Alan X. Wang This dissertation

  • Multi-Modal Biosensing with Diatom Photonic Crystal Biosilica

    Creator:
    Squire, Kenneth J.
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    The need to detect trace amounts of target molecules is great, particularly when it comes to biosensing. With the early detection of a disease, the odds of the successful treatment of an individual increases significantly. To enhance the capability of biomolecular detection, we have created an optical biosensor capable of...
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    Masters Thesis
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    approved: ______________________________________________________ Alan X. Wang The need to