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Faculty Senate Degree Candidates, Spring 2006, Vol 36, P 1439-1509, Unm Faculty Senate

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Viscoplastic Finite-Element Simulation To Predict The Solder Joint Fatigue Life Of Different Flash Memory Die Stacking Architectures, Yong Je Lee

Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Theses - Archive

This thesis focuses on the viscoplastic finite-element simulation to predict the solder joint fatigue life of different die stacking architectures for flash memory products. Four different stacked package architectures were evaluated as follows: pyramid, rotated, and spacer stacking, while interconnection (solder joint) was held constant. Number of dies for all four stacking configurations were varied from three, five and seven. To keep the package height constant, the die and die attach thickness were varied and the resulting effects on the stresses were investigated. A quarter and half symmetry model of stacked flash package are generated using ANSYS APDL script. The …

The Booster Network: A Framework For Analyzing State Policy Formation In An Era Of Resurgent Private Power, Patrick Embry

Public Affairs Theses - Archive

The continuing shift toward privatization has created new opportunities for private participation in transportation policy formation, infrastructure development, and service provision. The resulting high stakes have drawn a variety of traditionally powerful private players to overtly participate in Texas state policy making. Understanding policy formation in this era of resurgent private power is imperative because the outcomes will affect urban development, population distribution, and subsequent politics and policy. With this paper, I analyze Trans Texas Corridor policy formation using a new framework, the booster network. The framework is based in policy studies and urban development literatures, conceptualizes policy formation in …

Statistical Analysis Of Compressive Strength Of Clay Brick Masonry Prisms, Saman Afqahi Aryana

Civil Engineering Theses - Archive

The Specification for Masonry Structures section of the current governing masonry design document in the U.S., reported by the Masonry Standards Joint Committee (MSJC), contains tables that can be used to determine the compressive strength of masonry, f'm, as a function of the mortar type and the compressive strength of the unit employed to construct the masonry. The majority of the data gathered to create the current values in the MSJC Specification were generated in studies done prior to 1970. There have been significant changes in materials and procedures since this time frame, and there is a need to gather …

Power And Distortion Optimized Video Coding For Pervasive Computing Applications, Yongfang Liang

Computer Science and Engineering Dissertations - Archive

This dissertation investigates video encoding schemes for pervasive computing applications that must ensure low power consumption in addition to high compression efficiency. The contribution of the dissertation is the formulation of a theoretical problem that captures the joint optimization of power and distortion in video coding. The study of the complexity distribution of typical video encoders helps to develop a complexity-scalable video encoding architecture that includes several control parameters to adjust the power consumption of the major modules of the encoder. An analytic framework to model, control and optimize the power-rate-distortion is developed, which facilitates the development of optimization schemes …

Comparison Of The Ingestion And Digestion Rates Of Ochromonas Danica Grazing On Pseudomonas Fluorescens Of Varying Food Quality, Stephen Paul Shannon

Biology Dissertations - Archive

Flagellate prey selection appears to depend on morphological characteristics of prey such as cell size and motility, as well as on physiochemical characteristics such as digestibility and cell surface characteristics. Pseudomonas fluorescens was grown in chemostats at four dilution rates (0.03, 0.06, 0.10, 0.13 h-1) and three temperatures (14, 20, 28°C) to produce cells of varying morphological characteristics (cell size) and physiochemical characteristics or food quality (as determined by the C:N:P ratio). Heat-killed bacteria of a given food quality were prepared and used to grow the flagellate Ochromonas danica. Ingestion and digestion rates were determined using fluorescently labeled bacteria of …

New Developments Of The Deformation Method, Jie Liu

Mathematics Dissertations - Archive

New developments of deformation method for grid generation are presented in this work. Theorems for three different cases and different methods for implementing deformation method are presented. One of the new developments is a 3D multi-block moving grid method. In this version, a Poisson equation is solved by finite difference method to get the vector field for moving grid. Special treatment applies to the common boundary of different blocks. Another new development is a numerical method for reconstructing a given differentiable transformations by solving a system of div-curl equation directly formed from each point of the graph. The determinacy and …

Information Processing In A Structured Interview: Identifying Use Of Heuristics And Heuristic-Based Bias, Dian Cuellar Ruud

Social Work Dissertations - Archive

The survey interview has been recognized as the most frequently used data collection procedure in the social sciences (Dijkstra & van der Zouwen, l987). Although the survey interview is an essential methodological tool in social science research, it is fraught with problems of validity and reliability. Cognitive psychology offers a perspective to further explore the methodological facets of the survey interview. Research in the underlying cognitive processes involved in information processing over the past two decades has enhanced the understanding and utility of the survey interview in survey methodology (Tourangeau, Couper, & Conrad, 2004; Tourangeau, Rips, & Rasinski, 2000; Sudman, …

A Qualitative Examination Of Risk Factors Influencing Female Adolescent Delinquency In Dallas County, Texas, Vicki Lynn Tankersley

Social Work Dissertations - Archive

The purpose of this study was to identify the risk factors influencing juvenile delinquency for females in Dallas County, Texas and discuss the implications of the findings for future practice, policy, and research. Qualitative research methods in this study have given a voice to female adolescents housed in the Dallas County Juvenile Detention Center by giving these young women the opportunity to share and convey information about their lives and factors they felt had been influential in their referral to the Dallas County Juvenile Probation Department. The sample included twenty-six female adolescents who were housed at the Dallas County Juvenile …

Feasibility Study Of Options For Aging Hydro-Power Generation Facility, Sandip R. Sharma

Electrical Engineering Theses - Archive

Most of the hydro generation facilities are operating under derated capacity due to various factors. The availability of generation facilities is decreasing, the cost for maintenance is going up and plants are crippled with severe faults leading to outages. The feasibility study for aging hydro-power plant is carried out with an objective to find out the best possible alternative both with respect to reliability of operation and benefit to cost ratio. The multi-criterion weighted average condition evaluation of hydro-electric generator is carried out. A Visual Basic and Microsoft Excel based condition evaluation program is implemented for possible condition decision making …

Evaluating American Correctional Association Accreditation Of Adult Correctional Institutions, David Ralphs

Criminology & Criminal Justice Theses - Archive

This research study focuses on the impact that accreditation by the American Correctional Association has on violence, crowding, and educational and counseling offerings in adult correctional facilities. Data from the American Correctional Association and the 1995 and 2000 Census of State and Federal Correctional Facilities are studied by joining databases and performing statistical analysis on the resulting data. The resulting analysis reveals negative relationships between ACA accreditation and violence and positive relationships between ACA Accreditation and educational and counseling program offerings in adult correctional institutions.

Application Of Software Engineering Best Practices And Principles To Small Development Teams, Miles Phillips

Computer Science and Engineering Theses - Archive

The motivation of this thesis comes from the professional experience of the author. Having worked with very small software development teams in various capacities, he realized that significant improvements could be achieved by the application of modern software engineering practices and principles. This paper is the result of researching how the principles and practices promoted by the leading software development authors can be applied to the small development team as they transition from "programming in the small" to "programming in the medium." This paper investigates the best practices and principles in various case studies with the objective to clearly define …

The Advantages Of Implementing Software Engineering Process Models, Ricky Don Preuninger

Computer Science and Engineering Theses - Archive

The North Atlantic Treaty Organization Science Committee had discussions on the topic concerned the state of Computer Science. There were worldwide issues with the development of software, the crisis being that software projects did not seem ever to complete. The study group coined the term "software engineering" to be provocative and implying need for software manufacturing to be similar to traditional branches of engineering. In the beginning, individual programmers used whatever means worked to build software. Formal methods of design or programming did not exist. Programmers were never able to give a definitive estimate as to how long a project …

Parallel Interference Cancellation Multiuser Detectors For Ds-Cdma Communication Systems, Feng Liu

Electrical Engineering Dissertations - Archive

A non-linear sub-optimal multiuser detector in the form of parallel interference cancellation (PIC) has been studied. The main objective of this thesis is to develop an analytical model for PIC performance analysis and propose new near-optimum approach. Since the exact performance analysis of PIC is difficult to derive due to its nonlinear decision function, previous work tends to adopt computer simulation method or evaluate through Gaussian approximation (GA) method. For PIC detector, the GA method may not apply since there may exist a dominate interference signal. In addition, the central limit theorem is not applicable to model the residual MAI …

A Performance Evaluation Of Alternate Numbering Based Xml Indexing Techniques, Chul Ho Ahn

Computer Science and Engineering Theses - Archive

Since XML became a standard of representing semi-structured data and exchanging format over the web, the sheer volume of XML data has become larger. While relational database represents data as a structured format, XML represents data in a self-describing way as a hierarchical tree structure. For expediting query processing over XML, many different types of indexing techniques have emerged. We will focus on numbering-based indexing techniques in this thesis. We will present performance comparison according to different XPath queries among three distinct numbering based XML indexing named GENE (Generic numbering based), XISS (Range based numbering), and XACC (Dimension based numbering) …

Monitorexplorer: A State-Space Exploration Based Tool To Test Java Monitors Implementations, Vidur Gupta

Computer Science and Engineering Theses - Archive

A monitor is a concurrency construct that encapsulates data. There are many application classes which are written using the Java Monitors and these are difficult to test due to the inherent complexities of the concurrent programs. The key challenge is to be able to trace all possible execution paths and then able to reproduce them for regression testing. Our work explores the state-space of the monitor application. The state space is explored in the depth first fashion. At each state the next possible transition is executed. This process is repeated till a duplicate or invalid state is detected. The key …

Multi-Area Unit Commitment And Economic Dispatch With Market Operation Components, Chitra Yingvivatanapong

Electrical Engineering Dissertations - Archive

Unit commitment and economic dispatch, when combined together, is a useful tool to find the most economical generation schedule with which demand and spinning reserve requirement are supplied and all generating unit constraints, such as unit ramp rates, unit minimum and maximum generation capabilities, and unit minimum up-time and down-time, are satisfied over a time horizon. For systems consisting of multiple areas, area import/export capabilities and tie line capacity constraints also need to be taken into account. Enhanced Lagrangian relaxation, unit decommitment and lambda-iteration methods are applied in this dissertation to determine the optimal unit commitment and economic dispatch schedule …

Bridging Two Grids: The Sam-Grid/Lcg Integration Project, Tummalapalli Sudhamsh Reddy

Computer Science and Engineering Theses - Archive

SAM-Grid is an integrated data, job, and information management system. SAM-Grid addresses the distributed computing needs of the Dzero experiment at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, Batavia, IL. The system typically relies on SAM-Grid specific services deployed at the remote sites in order to manage the computing and storage resources. Such deployment requires special agreements with each resource provider, and it is a labor intensive process. Some members of the Dzero VO also have access to computing resources through the Large Hydron Collider Computing Grid (LCG) infrastructure. Therefore, Dzero users can enter into resource sharing agreements and deployment of standard middleware …

Maxim-Izing Profit: New Men's Magazines And The Rise Of Consumer Masculinity, Joshua Edward Olsberg

Sociology & Anthropology Theses - Archive

This is content analysis of Maxim magazine, published by Dennis Publications, and first appearing in American newsstands in 1997. Maxim is the most widely circulated men's magazine in the United States, with an estimated paid readership of around 2.5-3 million, and an estimated total readership of around 13 million. When combined with other magazines of the genre, which I distinguish as new men's magazines, the estimated total readership is around 26 million regular readers. This project is an exploratory study dedicated to finding out exactly what the magazine offers which allows it to attract and maintain such a large audience. …

A Comparison Of The Violin Pedagogy Of Auer, Flesch, And Galamian: Improving Accessibility And Use Through Characterization And Indexing, Kelley M. Arney

Music Theses - Archive

The development of the index and characterization tools allows pedagogical texts to be used as resource texts. The common index allows any researcher to access applicable and significant information of a text quickly without destroying the continuity of the original text. The characterization charts aid the researcher in using the information in historical and philosophical ways. Thus, the index and characterizations of the Auer, Flesch, and Galamian texts gives string educators of advanced students (especially conservatory and university violin teachers) and performers access to three important pedagogical texts by an accessible, applicable, and scholarly approach.

A Spatial Analysis Of Stone Circles In Southwestern Ireland, David L. Flanagan

Sociology & Anthropology Theses - Archive

There is a tendency for the stone circles of southwest Ireland to be categorized by archaeologists based on the number of stones used to define their circumferences. This categorization does not adequately describe the associations that exist between the size and location of stone circles and their elevation, nearest neighbor distance, nearest coastal distance and intervisibility. This research demonstrates that the area of a stone circle is often more closely associated with these variables than is the number of stones used to define their circumference. Intervisibility is shown to be a significant factor in the location of Five-stone circles. Five-stone …

Women In The Twentieth Century : Modernity, Feminism, And Islam In Turkey, Aysu Gelgec Gurpinar

Sociology & Anthropology Theses - Archive

Presenting the effects of religion especially upon the family, gender roles, and the workforce is important. Islam's compatibility or incompatibility with modernization and feminism is one of the most important issues shaping the lives of Turkish women. The aim of this research is to show the obstacles that modernity and feminism face in the secular Islamic country of Turkey from a gender perspective.

Perceived Smoking Environment And Smoking Initiation Among Multi-Ethnic Urban Girls, Tracy R. Nichols, Amanda Birnbaum, Sara Birnel, Gilbert J. Botvin

Department of Public Health Scholarship and Creative Works

Purpose

To examine associations between the perceived smoking environment and smoking initiation among urban multi-ethnic adolescent girls in New York City.

Methods

Self-report surveys completed in grades 7, 8, and 9 assessed girls’ (n = 858) smoking initiation, and perceived smoking environment (family smoking, friends’ smoking, smoking norms, and cigarette availability). Carbon monoxide breath samples were collected from girls using a variation of the bogus pipeline procedure.

Results

Differences were found in smoking prevalence with white girls reporting the highest prevalence of smoking at baseline and the greatest increase in smoking prevalence from seventh to eighth grade. Black girls reported …

Incorporating An Affective Component To A Cognitive Model Of Brand Switching Barriers, Michael Thomas Richarme

Marketing Dissertations - Archive

Customer retention is an important goal of business. It has been shown in a general model of brand switching that consumers utilize internal assessments of satisfaction and brand switching barriers to reach brand selection decisions. Satisfaction is a complex construct, and has been studied extensively for the past several decades. However, this construct only accounts for approximately a quarter of explained variance in the customer retention construct. Brand switching barriers have not been studied extensively, though they have recently been shown to account for up to 30 percent of variance in the same dependent construct. Thus, a better understanding of …

The Booster Network: A Framework For Analyzing State Policy Formation In An Era Of Resurgent Private Power, Patrick Embry

Public Affairs Theses - Archive

The continuing shift toward privatization has created new opportunities for private participation in transportation policy formation, infrastructure development, and service provision. The resulting high stakes have drawn a variety of traditionally powerful private players to overtly participate in Texas state policy making. Understanding policy formation in this era of resurgent private power is imperative because the outcomes will affect urban development, population distribution, and subsequent politics and policy. With this paper, I analyze Trans Texas Corridor policy formation using a new framework, the booster network. The framework is based in policy studies and urban development literatures, conceptualizes policy formation in …

Preparation And Characterization Of Hard Magnetic Nanoparticles, Daren Li

Physics Theses - Archive

Hard-magnetic nanoparticles with uniform size distribution have attracted huge attention in the past several years because of their unique magnetic properties and potential for many applications such as high density recording media, exchange-coupled nanocomposite permanent magnets and biomedical applications. In this thesis, preparation and characterization of hard magnetic nanoparticles with different sizes are reported. Monodisperse FePt nanoparticles with face-centered cubic (fcc) structure were synthesized by chemical solution method and particle diameter was tuned from 2 to 15 nm by varying reaction conditions. Monodisperse hard-magnetic FePt nanoparticles with ordered face-centered tetragonal (fct) structure were prepared by the salt-matrix annealing technique. Morphological, …

Numerical Study On Capillarity- Dominant Free Surface And Interfacial Flows, Zhaoyuan Wang

Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Dissertations - Archive

The continuum surface force (CSF) method has been extensively employed in the volume-of-fluid (VOF), level set (LS) and front tracking methods to model surface tension forces. Its ability is limited for the surface tension dominant free surface and interfacial flows due to the existence of spurious currents. These currents may lead to disastrous interface instabilities and failure of grid convergence, which are present in all the previous versions of the CSF algorithm. In this study, a coupled level set and volume-of-fluid method (CLSVOF) is employed for interface tracking, which offers more accurate computations of the curvature and the normal vector …

Faculty Senate Meeting Minutes, 03/28/2006, P 711-1047, Unm Faculty Senate

Faculty Senate Meeting Minutes, 1920 - 2013

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Faculty Senate Meeting Minutes, 03/28/2006, P 711-1047, Unm Faculty Senate

Faculty Senate Meeting Minutes, 1920 - 2013

No abstract provided.

The Water Vapor Permeability Of Polycrystalline Fat Barrier Films, Silvana Martini, D. A. Kim, M. Ollivon, A. G. Marangoni

Nutrition, Dietetics, and Food Sciences Faculty Publications

The water vapor permeability of fat barrier films has been associated with structural characteristics such as polymorphism, crystal size, and chemical composition, among others. However, no mechanistic models have been proposed to describe this relationship. In this study, we have determined the effects of processing conditions on the structure and physicochemical characteristics of four fats and their relationship to water vapor permeability. Results suggest that the solids' volume fraction and the domain size of the fat crystals seem to be the most important factors controlling water vapor migration. Moreover, materials with relatively large crystalline domains will yield malleable films with …