Office of Graduate and Professional Education: Recent submissions

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Experience and analysis of the real time data acquisition system

Swarnkar, Divya (University of Delaware, 2005)

IceCube is a one cubic kilometer international high-energy neutrino observatory at the South Pole. The IceCube experiment has two main components: InIce and IceTop. InIce located approximately 1500 meters below the surface ...
House rules: the role of structure in women's transitional housing

Mayer, Linda (University of Delaware, 2005)

Homelessness is a growing social problem in America today. The fastest growing segment of the homeless population is families, specifically, single women with children. One solution to the problem of homeless families is ...
An environmental controversy: how newspapers framed coverage of the Bush administration's proposal to drill for oil and gas in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge

Dudo, Anthony David (University of Delaware, 2005)

The goal of this study was to assess how a selection of newspapers framed coverage of the Bush Administration’s first-term proposal to institute drilling for oil and natural gas in Alaska’s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge ...
Clustered multicarrier systems for very wideband wireless communications

Vajipeyajula, Mani Kishore (University of Delaware, 2005)

In this study, clustered multicarrier schemes for very wideband systems are investigated. The salient features of this thesis are: (i) Error probability studies on the different clustered multicarrier schemes as function ...
The economic efficiency of watershed management concerning drinking water supply in the White Clay Creek watershed in Pennsylvania and Delaware

Hesson, Molly D. (University of Delaware, 2005)

The White Clay Creek watershed in northern Delaware and southeastern Pennsylvania is the drinking water supply to the city of Newark, Delaware. This thesis is an analysis of current and future water quality and land use ...
Central hemodynamic responses to an acute sodium load

Paul, Erin E. (University of Delaware, 2005)

Chronically high dietary sodium intake has been associated with elevated blood pressure. Many studies have shown that black adults demonstrate a higher degree of sodium sensitivity and vascular reactivity than white adults. ...
Optimizing school choice: conjoint analysis of parent preferences

Szombathova, Slavka (University of Delaware, 2005)

The market critique of public education maintains that conventional school assignment plans give schools local monopolies over students, so that schools have little incentive to be efficient. A common premise is that a ...
Convective flow through polymer electrolyte fuel cells

Feser, Joseph P. (University of Delaware, 2005)

Hydrogen powered PEM fuel cells have three primary loss mechanisms: activation over-potential, ohmic overpotential, and the mass-transport limited over-potential. It is suggested that convection in the form of channel ...
Determinants of changes in infant mortality of Delaware over the period from 1989 to 2000

Li, Bin (University of Delaware, 2005)

Infant mortality is one of the important health problems in the world. Delaware’s infant mortality rate (IMR) is above the average level of U.S. and after a decrease in the middle of 1990’s, it has increased since 1995. ...
A model of uni-compartmental osteoarthritis and experimental measurements of material properties of cartilage

Turka, Christina M. (University of Delaware, 2005)

Osteoarthritis is a degenerative joint disease that affects more than 20 million people in the United States. It causes pain, loss of function, and costs the economy more than 60 billion dollars per year. The disease is ...
Assessment of integrity of reasoning in large-scale decision systems: application to public transit investment project evaluation

Mangalpally, Sharat C. (University of Delaware, 2005)

This thesis presents an approach to measure the integrity of reasoning process of large-scale public projects, such as civil infrastructure projects, and public transportation projects. Decision-making in public projects ...
Inhibitors in community gardens: variation depending upon mission focus and potential solutions

D'Agostino, Scott Patrick (University of Delaware, 2005)

Community gardening is a nationwide phenomenon with purposes as diverse as the population of community gardeners. Community gardens can provide social/political, physiological, educational, psychological, horticultural, ...
Neuromuscular adaptations associated with the onset of rapid strength gains in the elderly

Marmon, Adam Rubin (University of Delaware, 2005)

Rapid neuromuscular adaptations were evaluated in response to a two-day strength training protocol designed to elicit quick jumps in strength and improved muscular performance in older adults. The protocol produced rapid ...
Adult attachment, conflict style, and relationship satisfaction: a comprehensive model

Steuber, Keli Ryan (University of Delaware, 2005)

The purpose of this study was to create a comprehensive model integrating adult attachment style, conflict style, and relationship satisfaction. The research sought to determine if adult attachment acted as a predictor of ...
H-MIMO: a hybrid of spatial multiplexing and adaptive beamforming

Lim, GuBong (University of Delaware, 2005)

The use of multiple antennas at both ends of a wireless link can provide substantial increases in capacity. In MIMO systems, the multiple antennas could be utilized in different ways to maximize the performance in a ...
Motion extraction, estimation and recognition for people with disabilities utilizing a multi-touch surface

Liu, Ying (University of Delaware, 2005)

Multi-Touch technology provides a successful gesture based Human Computer Interface. The contact and gesture extraction and recognition algorithms of this interface are based on full hand function and, therefor, are not ...
Above bandgap thermo-optic coefficient measurements for direct bandgap materials

Akl, Ramsey (University of Delaware, 2005)

Accurate values of the optical functions of gallium arsenide in the very near infrared region are particularly important for many technological applications. Many different techniques have been used to measure the thermo-optic ...
A study of architecture and performance of IBM Cyclops64 interconnection network

Zhang, Ying Ping (University of Delaware, 2005)

With the increasing needs to support multiple operating systems simultaneously, the designs of high-performance processor architectures are moving toward in integrating a large number of multiple processing cores on a ...
Realistic mobility modeling and simulation for mobile wireless network in urban environments

Kim, Jonghyun (University of Delaware, 2005)

Mobility clearly is an integral issue in mobile wireless networks. However, little research has focused on realistic mobility. Unrealistic mobility models, such as the popular Random Waypoint or Random Walk models, may ...
Measurement of protein-protein interactions applied to protein crystallization in salt and polyethylene glycol solutions

Dumetz, André C. (University of Delaware, 2005)

Crystallization is currently the limiting step in determining the structure of proteins using x-ray diffraction techniques. The second osmotic virial coefficient is related to the crystallization conditions, and thus it ...

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