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Design of high fidelity pulse width modulation inverter
(2004-12-18)Pulse-width modulation (PWM) is well established in power electronics as a basis for inverters with sinusoidal output voltages. It provides two crucial advantages: high power delivery efficiency and easy digital-to-analog ... -
Geotechnical properties, one-dimensional consolidation behavior and liquefaction susceptibility of the glaciolacustrine clay samples from the Oso landslide
(2019-05-20)Involving a wide range of ground movements, such as rock falls, deep slope failures, and shallow flows of debris, landslides may cause damage to property, injury, and death. Such a landslide occurred in Washington state, ... -
Planning for autonomous vehicles : effects and optimal placement of reservation-based intersections in urban networks
(2019-05-09)Connected and autonomous vehicle (CAV) technologies can revolutionize the way we transport people and goods and may soon be publicly available, however proper planning for these technologies is crucial to their successful ... -
A simulation framework to characterize the effect of ventilation control on airborne infectious disease transmission in schools
This study provides a detailed methodology for assessing the impact of ventilation control strategies on airborne infectious disease, specifically influenza, in schools. The probability of influenza infection in a classroom ... -
Definitions, frameworks, modeling techniques, current practices of and promising technologies for community and infrastructure system resiliency
(2019-06-20)Resiliency research and implementation has become a topic of importance to academia, the US government and industry in the light of the increased number, type and frequency of natural and manmade disasters faced by communities ... -
A scenario management platform that incorporates statistic and simulation for unconventional field development
Producing from shale formations has been made profitable because of technological advancements. However, the complexity and uncertainties of the unconventional reservoir make it hard to estimate the assets and maximize the ... -
Approaches to digital preservation : re-examining the recovery of the Chora of Metaponto, The Necropoleis
In 1998, the Institute of Classical Archeology published the Chora of Metaponto: The Necropoleis, a two volume book that represented over twenty years of archeological research and scholarship. This paper describes how ... -
Assisted history matching workflow for unconventional reservoirs
(2019-05-13)The information of fractures geometry and reservoir properties can be retrieved from the production data, which is always available at no additional cost. However, in unconventional reservoirs, it is insufficient to obtain ... -
Much assembly required : cartoons, comics, and the transmedia quarantining of queer women of color
(2019-07-26)This project analyses the use of transmedia storytelling by two cartoons, The Legend of Korra and Adventure Time. These two cartoons use transmedia comic book expansions to separate the queer aspects of certain characters’ ... -
X-ray monitoring in heterogeneous and fractured porous media : experimental measurement and numerical modeling
The complexity of fluid flow in heterogeneous and fractured media has long been a focus in the energy industry. Models have been developed in an attempt to determine the effects of rock heterogeneity, including fractures ... -
Mediating conflicting values in a community archives setting
(2019-05-15)This report examines conflicts within the user community of the online fanwork repository Archive of Our Own (AO3). The site is a nonprofit venture with the ambitious goal of serving the large heterogeneous community of ... -
A typology of online labor platforms
(2019-06-19)Online labor platforms, such as Uber, Mechanical Turk, and Care.com, hold the potential to transform the nature of employment. As the number of platforms continues to grow, the same term (“platform”) is being used to ... -
Women’s social support in war, displacement, and post-resettlement
(2017-07-18)The impacts of war and displacement on individuals, families and communities are profound and far-reaching. The destruction of social networks is only one among myriad consequences, but one with reverberating implications ... -
Residential electricity access : objective versus subjective measures of energy poverty in Texas
Policymakers in developed countries are increasingly conscious of the pervasiveness of energy poverty, especially in the U.S. where 31% of households experienced energy poverty in 2015. Energy poverty is defined as households ... -
Modeling free-product recovery systems for petroleum hydrocarbon liquids within a heterogeneous aquifer
(2004-12-18)The American Petroleum Institute (API) Publications Numbers 4682 (1999) and 4729 (2003) provide an overview of recovery technologies for petroleum hydrocarbon liquids that are released to the subsurface environment and ... -
Characterization of the High Island 24L Field for modeling and estimating CO₂ storage capacity in the offshore Texas state waters, Gulf of Mexico
(2019-07-25)Carbon, Capture, and Storage (CCS) is considered an essential technology that can contribute to reaching the IPCC’s target to limit global average temperature rise to no more than 2.0°C. The fundamental purpose of CCS is ... -
Emotional capital and the benefits for personal well-being : how positive moments with you might help me too
(2019-09-16)Couples share many different types of experiences together, but recent research has begun to focus on their ordinary shared positive moments. The theory of emotional capital suggests that the accumulation of positive ... -
Contested spaces : culture, faith, and childbirth in Nigeria, 1900-1960
(2017-05-03)Drawing from oral traditions, colonial files, Christian missionary records, and museum artifacts, my dissertation examines the shifts from traditional midwifery to hospital births and faith-based birthing homes in colonial ... -
Speech recognition model compression
(2019-07-09)Speech recognition models are widely deployed in mobile and embedded devices. However, the base architecture with which these models are developed is usually made of neural networks with bigger size and millions of model ... -
Effecting change in the choral setting
(2019-09-23)The acquisition and refinement of complex procedural skills require learners to make ongoing comparisons between what they intend to do and what actually happens, and to adjust their behavior according to those prediction-outcome ...
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