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Model reference adaptive control for nonminimum phase aerospace systems
(2016-08-12)Adaptive control techniques are often avoided in aerospace systems due to stringent plant structural requirements and validation difficulties. This dissertation seeks to broaden the range of aerospace engineering applications ... -
Improving asthma management : patient-pharmacist partnership program in enhancing therapy adherence
(2016-08-16)Adherence to long-term asthma controller medications is an important factor in effective asthma management. Suboptimal adherence to asthma controller medications is prevalent. This three-study dissertation presents a ... -
Transcription factor networks and chromatin remodeler function in gene regulation on the eukaryotic genome
Numerous events – from histone modification and transcription factor binding to gene expression – take place on eukaryotic chromatin, while cells are constantly exposed to dynamic stimuli ranging from spatial and temporal ... -
Differential metal enrichment and dust synthesis in the aftermath of supernova explosions
(2016-08-12)Emerging from the Big Bang, the Universe contained hydrogen, helium, and lithium. Heavier elements were synthesized in stars and stellar explosions. The first stars formed when the Universe was about a hundred million ... -
Reconstruction of tensor product spline surfaces to integrate surface-surface intersection geometry and topology while maintaining inter-surface continuity
(2016-08-12)In the field of Computer-Aided Geometric Modeling (CAGD) stands one critical problem that plagues not only users of Computer-Aided Design (CAD) applications, but all downstream uses of a geometric model, namely, computational ... -
The roots of legislative durability : how information, deliberation, and compromise create laws that last
The central question of this dissertation is “What makes law last?” I argue that when legislators seek out diverse sources of information, engage in deliberation, and reach a substantive compromise, they pass the most ... -
“The most famous Indians in all the Indies are those from Chile, called Araucos. The next in New Spain, called Guachichiles or Chichimecs, who are now conquered.” : pacification projects in two frontiers of the New World’ Spanish Empire : New Galicia and Chile (1529-1626)
This dissertation seeks to unravel some of the most interesting and least known characteristics of the early Spanish Empire in the New World borderlands: the origin and application of the first policy of non-violent ... -
Psychopathology, alcohol use, deployment history and IPV : the mediating effects of adverse childhood experiences and allostatic load
The phenomenon of family violence is complex and multidimensional; to date prevalence rates show a rise in cases of family violence despite significant efforts on behalf of practitioners, researchers, and the criminal ... -
The politics of prioritization
Political agenda-setting research primarily studies how political institutions direct policy attention and gives little consideration to individual decision-making (Baumgartner and Jones 2009; Kingdon 1995; Baumgartner et ... -
People like you : the culture wars and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting
In the half-century since Lyndon Johnson’s creation of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB), no other Great Society program has been so bitterly and perpetually contested. PBS and NPR, the two institutions founded ...
