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Human Fatigue Predictions In Complex Aviation Crew Operational Impact Conditions, Suresh Rangan
Human Fatigue Predictions In Complex Aviation Crew Operational Impact Conditions, Suresh Rangan
Doctoral Dissertations
In this last decade, several regulatory frameworks across the world in all modes of transportation had brought fatigue and its risk management in operations to the forefront. Of all transportation modes air travel has been the safest means of transportation. Still as part of continuous improvement efforts, regulators are insisting the operators to adopt strong fatigue science and its foundational principles to reinforce safety risk assessment and management. Fatigue risk management is a data driven system that finds a realistic balance between safety and productivity in an organization. This work discusses the effects of mathematical modeling of fatigue and its …
Synthetic Heterosynaptic Plasticity Enhances The Versatility Of Memristive Systems Emulating Bio-Synapse Structure And Function, William T. Mcclintic
Synthetic Heterosynaptic Plasticity Enhances The Versatility Of Memristive Systems Emulating Bio-Synapse Structure And Function, William T. Mcclintic
Doctoral Dissertations
Memristive systems occur in nature and are hallmarked via pinched hysteresis, the difference in the forward and reverse pathways for a given phenomenon. For example, neurons of the human brain are composed of synapses which apply the properties of memristance for neuronal communication, learning, and memory consolidation. Modern technology has much to gain from the characteristics of memristive systems, including lower power operation, on-chip memory, and bio-inspired computing. What is more, a relationship between memristive systems and synaptic plasticity exists and can be investigated focusing on homosynaptic and heterosynaptic plasticity. Where homosynaptic plasticity applies to interactions between neurons at a …
Study Of 134in Beta-Delayed Neutron Emission And Development Of A New Generation Neutron Detector, Joseph Heideman
Study Of 134in Beta-Delayed Neutron Emission And Development Of A New Generation Neutron Detector, Joseph Heideman
Doctoral Dissertations
Beta-delayed neutron emission in very neutron-rich nuclei plays an essential role in nuclear structure and the understanding of the astrophysical r-process. A complete description of this process requires knowledge of both steps, beta decay and neutron emission. A leading theory poses the intermediate daughter nucleus to behave as a compound nucleus. The conditions for beta-delayed neutron emission of 134In are not well described by the assumptions in the neutron pandemonium hypothesis, therein providing a unique case to this process due to the proximity to 132Sn. Single-particle states in 133Sn obvserved after neutron emission have dissimilar shell occupancy compared to neutron-hole …
Machine Learning With Topological Data Analysis, Ephraim Robert Love
Machine Learning With Topological Data Analysis, Ephraim Robert Love
Doctoral Dissertations
Topological Data Analysis (TDA) is a relatively new focus in the fields of statistics and machine learning. Methods of exploiting the geometry of data, such as clustering, have proven theoretically and empirically invaluable. TDA provides a general framework within which to study topological invariants (shapes) of data, which are more robust to noise and can recover information on higher dimensional features than immediately apparent in the data. A common tool for conducting TDA is persistence homology, which measures the significance of these invariants. Persistence homology has prominent realizations in methods of data visualization, statistics and machine learning. Extending ML with …
Exploration Of N-Heterocyclic Carbenes For The Functionalization Of Gold Surfaces And Their Metal Complexes, Shelby L. Strausser
Exploration Of N-Heterocyclic Carbenes For The Functionalization Of Gold Surfaces And Their Metal Complexes, Shelby L. Strausser
Doctoral Dissertations
Gold surface chemistry has progressed considerably towards many applications in medicine. Due to the non-toxic nature of gold in the human body, gold surfaces have been investigated for biometric sensors and targeted drug therapy agents. While gold is relatively unreactive in its elemental form, gold surfaces (such as films or nanoparticles) require a ligand for stability and improved functionality. The typical ligand is thiols for self-assembled monolayers on gold surfaces. While thiol self-assembly on surfaces is well understood, thiols are known to degrade or leach under a wide variety of conditions, including both thermal and chemical, which is toxic in …
Architectural-Element Analysis And Depositional Models For Pre-Vegetation Braidplain And Braid-Delta Environments, With Modern Analogues, Jason Gerhard Muhlbauer
Architectural-Element Analysis And Depositional Models For Pre-Vegetation Braidplain And Braid-Delta Environments, With Modern Analogues, Jason Gerhard Muhlbauer
Doctoral Dissertations
Pre-vegetation landscapes that blanketed the continents before the emergence vascular plants in the late-Silurian are proposed habitats for the earliest terrestrial biota and are analogous to martian setting thought to have potentially hosted life. Analysis of the middle member of the Wood Canyon Formation, a Cambrian age sandstone, reveal new details about terrestrial pre-vegetation environments. In fluvial middle-member stratigraphy, units are defined by stacking patterns of three facies associations (FA1-3). In FA1, stacked cosets, interpreted as braidplain barforms and channel fills, preserve vertical- and downstream-accretion elements under unimodal paleoflow. Floodplains, represented by FA2, include red-orange intervals of fine- to medium-grained …
Thorium Dioxide Extraction From Monazite Ore, Jason Pan, Niall Phelan Terry, Katherine Glass, Eli Jenkins, Connor High
Thorium Dioxide Extraction From Monazite Ore, Jason Pan, Niall Phelan Terry, Katherine Glass, Eli Jenkins, Connor High
Chancellor’s Honors Program Projects
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Attendio: Attendance Tracking Made Simple, Benjamin L. Greenberg, Spencer L. Howell, Tucker R. Miles, Vicki Tang, Daniel N. Troutman
Attendio: Attendance Tracking Made Simple, Benjamin L. Greenberg, Spencer L. Howell, Tucker R. Miles, Vicki Tang, Daniel N. Troutman
Chancellor’s Honors Program Projects
No abstract provided.
Application Of Titrations For Verification Of Small Molecule Interaction In Relation To Amidoximated Fibers For Uranium Extraction From Seawater, Kc Michael Mote
Application Of Titrations For Verification Of Small Molecule Interaction In Relation To Amidoximated Fibers For Uranium Extraction From Seawater, Kc Michael Mote
Masters Theses
Nuclear energy is a promising substitute for fossil fuels due to possessing low carbon emissions and providing scalable base-load power. However, one major drawback of using nuclear fuel as an energy source is that it needs a steady source of uranium. While the most economical method of obtaining uranium is through conventional terrestrial mining of the ore uranite, mining uranium ores is both harmful to the environment and limited by the terrestrial uranium supply, which is estimated at only 100 more years. However, more than 1000× more uranium is dissolved in seawater than is reasonably inferred and assured in terrestrial …
Spatio-Temporal Modeling Of Crime In Chicago, Illinois, Shelby Scott
Spatio-Temporal Modeling Of Crime In Chicago, Illinois, Shelby Scott
Doctoral Dissertations
Gun crime is a major public health concern in the United States. In Chicago, Illinois, gun crime incurs a significant cost of life along with monetary costs and community unrest. Due to past legislation, there is limited research applying quantitative methods to gun crime in Chicago. The overall purpose of this work is to create a cellular automata model to observe and project the epidemic spread of gun crime in Chicago. To create that model, t-test analyses of temporal patterns, a Bayesian point process model, a negative binomial Bayesian subset selection, and a k-selection algorithm are used. The cellular automata …
Expanding Band Parameter Analysis Methods For Hed Meteorites And V-Type Asteroids, Noah Adm Haverkamp Frere
Expanding Band Parameter Analysis Methods For Hed Meteorites And V-Type Asteroids, Noah Adm Haverkamp Frere
Masters Theses
Vesta and Vesta-like asteroids have been convincingly linked, through visible and near-infrared (VNIR; 0.7 - 2.5 µm [micron]) spectral analysis, to a clan of basaltic achondritic meteorites – howardites, eucrites, and diogenites (HEDs). VNIR reflectance spectra of V-type asteroids and HED meteorites have two absorption features centered near 1 µm (Band I) and 2 µm (Band II) caused primarily by Fe2+ [iron] and Ca2+ [calcium] cations in pyroxene. Previous studies have shown a correlation between the mol% Fs and Wo with the central wavelengths of Band I and Band II, hereafter called Band I Center (BIC) and Band …
Association Between Stream Impairment By Mercury And Superfund Sites In The Conterminous Usa, Karessa L. Manning
Association Between Stream Impairment By Mercury And Superfund Sites In The Conterminous Usa, Karessa L. Manning
Masters Theses
Mercury is a natural element that can cause harm to the brain, heart, kidneys, lungs, and immune system, especially to fetuses developing in the womb. Many natural and anthropogenic factors contribute to mercury in the environment, such as geologic deposits, landfills, gold and silver mining operations, cement production, and atmospheric deposition. Mercury has been identified as a contaminant of concern at many National Priority List (NPL) sites, however, studies on contamination at NPL sites are often only conducted on a local level. This study was to analyze the potential connection between mercury-contaminated NPL sites and the presence of mercury impaired …
Data Driven Models Of Hemlock Woolly Adelgid Impacts And Biological Control, Hannah M. Thompson
Data Driven Models Of Hemlock Woolly Adelgid Impacts And Biological Control, Hannah M. Thompson
Doctoral Dissertations
We present two models of the Adelges tsugae, the hemlock woolly adelgid, an invasive insect pest of Tsuga canadensis, eastern hemlock, in the eastern United States. An A. tsugae infestation often results in the death of T. canadensis within years, and has caused significant changes to hemlock forests. We construct two models composed of systems of ordinary differential equations with time dependent parameters to represent seasonality. The first model captures the coupled cycles in T. canadensis health and A. tsugae density. We use field data from Virginia to develop the model and to perform parameter estimation. The mechanisms …
Mathematical Models In Medicine: The Immune Response Of Celiac Disease And The Environmental Transmission Of Clostridioides Difficile In Healthcare Settings, Cara Jill Sulyok
Mathematical Models In Medicine: The Immune Response Of Celiac Disease And The Environmental Transmission Of Clostridioides Difficile In Healthcare Settings, Cara Jill Sulyok
Doctoral Dissertations
Mathematical modeling is a useful technique to describe dynamics happening within events and allows one to address questions and test hypotheses that may be not be feasible to study in reality. This work uses mathematical models to describe two such phenomena, one relating to immunology and the other to the spread of infectious diseases.
Celiac disease is a hereditary autoimmune disease that affects approximately 1 in 133 Americans. It is caused by a reaction to the protein gluten found in wheat, rye, and barley. After ingesting gluten, a patient with celiac disease may experience a range of unpleasant symptoms while …