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How Bad Will Climate Change Get?: Factors And Mechanisms Of Global Warming, Joseph F. White
How Bad Will Climate Change Get?: Factors And Mechanisms Of Global Warming, Joseph F. White
Grace Allen Scholars Theses
This report attempted to answer the question, “How Bad Will Climate Change Get?”. This was accomplished by, first, presenting a current assessment on the science of Global Warming. Factors and causes were analyzed with heavy emphasis on the paleoclimate record and the IPCC Fourth Assessment Report. The report, which released in 2007, is considered by many scientists to be too optimistic and conservative as it neglects to account for various feedback mechanisms and other drivers that can impact climate. Thus, the next part of this report does a thorough and complete review of all mechanisms that can drive future climates. …
James Joyce, Samuel Beckett, And The Confines Of Autonomous Language, David M. Vassalotti
James Joyce, Samuel Beckett, And The Confines Of Autonomous Language, David M. Vassalotti
Grace Allen Scholars Theses
The act of communication is one contingent upon successful translation. Drawings, gestures, and speech are all approximations used in order to convey ideas and information. For the most part, these methods of communication serve their purpose, but there are certain ‘things’ (for lack of a better word) which cannot be communicated through any conceivable language. Each person has their own unique set of experiences and memories. Each individual mind is unique in how it interprets a word, an action, a color, a smell, etc. If a hundred people hear the word ‘dog,’ each one will envision a different image in …
The Sustainability Of The Roman Forum, David Gargiulo
The Sustainability Of The Roman Forum, David Gargiulo
Grace Allen Scholars Theses
If walls could talk, what would the crumbling walls of the Curia Hostilia, the Temple of Venus and Roma, or any other structure in the Roman Forum tell us? Surely, tales of the glory of the Roman Empire that erected them would be told in their deserved splendor. However, the Forum Romanum tells the tales of thousands of others as well, the saga of the people who lived around those walls for more than 2000 years. For instance, the Forum’s loss of many of its marble and other stone taken by those in desperate need of building materials in the …
The Design Of An Autonomous Recycling Robot, Eric Davidson
The Design Of An Autonomous Recycling Robot, Eric Davidson
Grace Allen Scholars Theses
For my thesis project, I worked in a team with five electrical and a mechanical engineer, to design and build an autonomous robot. This robot needs to be able to locate, collect, sort, and store to recycle beverage containers to be able to compete in the 2009 IEEE Southeast Conference Hardware Competition. The robot consists of a U-shaped base, with a robotic arm with a front-loaded shovel connected to the arm. Ultrasonic pings are then used to find and position the robot towards the container. Then front sweepers are used to sweep the container into the shovel. To realize that …