In this dissertation, time-based signal processing techniques and their applications in oversampling and noise-shaping data converters are examined. These techniques demonstrate the ability to shift the burden of high performance analog circuits from the compressed voltage-domain to the augmented time-domain. First, the potential of high order noise-shaping and phase-domain feedback...
The study resulted from a desire and interest to include computer
simulation techniques in the design of educational practices.
The purposes of the study were (1) to develop a computer model which
would simulate the service functions of a counseling center by tracing
students through the center and (2) to...
A recently developed statistical model for first-order scattered fields is used to predict
the normalized covariance function of an underwater acoustic signal backscattered by a
hypothetical school of fish. The fish school is configured as an oblate spheroid with the
individual fish Poisson distributed within the school.
Empirical covariance functions...
This thesis is an ethnohistoric study of the water rights of the Yakima Confederated Tribes. The study considers the water rights issues of the Yakimas from the cultural viewpoint at the time of European contact to the present legal and political situation. It traces the many obstacles the Yakimas have...
The structural behavior of pile groups (dolphins) is analyzed
considering two types of boundary conditions. First the individual
piles of the group are assumed to be rigidly embedded in the soil. In
the second analysis the more realistic case is considered where the
soil foundation is allowed to yield. The...