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"I am not a decorator": Florence Knoll, the Knoll Planning Unit, and the making of the modern office

Tigerman, Bobbye (University of Delaware, 2005)

The Knoll Planning Unit (1943-1965), the interior design service of Knoll Associates, was responsible for some of the most pioneering corporate interior designs of the postwar period. It was one of the first interior design ...

Design to enable the body: Thomas Lamb's "wedge-lock" handle, 1941-1962

Delphia, Rachel Elizabeth (University of Delaware, 2005)

Ergonomic design is now commonplace, but the idea of shaping a product based on aggregated measurements of the human body was once revolutionary. In 1941, New York City industrial designer Thomas Lamb began an ambitious ...

The paradox of good intentions: John Needles, cabinetmaker in antebellum Baltimore

Byrd, Dana Ellen (University of Delaware, 2005)

For nearly forty years, craftsman John Needles (1786–1878, fl. 1810–1848) operated a thriving cabinetmaking business in antebellum Baltimore, Maryland. His shop executed appealing, sophisticated furniture for customers ...

"Fairy habitations of the mimic city": sacred victorian cottages at Chester Heights Camp Meeting

Buchanan, Melissa D. (University of Delaware, 2005)

To walk among the grove of cottages at Chester Heights Camp Meeting is to experience the surroundings of a Victorian religious resort. Its sixty-five cottages, imposing tabernacle, and wooded landscape comprise the ...

Entertainment of the most beautiful kind: the house of William and Harriet Aiken, 1833-1860

Garrett, Elizabeth W. (University of Delaware, 2005)

The Aiken house in Charleston, South Carolina is one of the best-preserved nineteenth-century domestic dwellings in the city. It offers scholars unparalleled opportunities to interpret multiple facets of antebellum life. ...

Top down and bottom up: a comparison of nannofossil strontium/calcium and benthic foraminiferal accumulation rates as paleoproductivity indicators

Waite, Amanda J. (University of Delaware, 2005)

This study compares productivity records from two different proxies, nannofossil Sr/Ca as an indicator of surface ocean primary productivity and benthic foraminiferal accumulation rates (BFAR) as an indicator of consumption ...

Transparent TCP-to-SCTP translation shim layer

Bickhart, Ryan W. (University of Delaware, 2005)

Stream Control Transmission Protocol (SCTP) is a connection-oriented, reliable, messaged-based, general purpose transport protocol with congestion control similar to that used by TCP, supporting advanced features not ...

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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, ...

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