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Some Problems in the Mathematics of Fracture: Paths From Front Kinetics and a Level Set Method
Keyword:
variational fracture crack fronts level set
Creator:
Richardson, Casey Lyndale
Advisor:
Larsen, Christopher J.
Publisher:
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:
2008-04-25
Resource Type:
Dissertation
Degree:
PhD
Unit (Department):
Mathematical Sciences
Evaluation and Improvement of Heat Treat Furnace Model
Keyword:
Furnace Model
,
Computerized Heat treament planning
,
Heat treatmet
, and
Process Optimization
Creator:
Purushothaman, Radhakrishnan
Advisor:
Rong, Yiming
Publisher:
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:
2008-08-22
Resource Type:
Dissertation
Degree:
PhD
Unit (Department):
Manufacturing Engineering
DESIGN OF PORPHYRIN SOLIDS ZN···NO2 RECOGNITION, MULTI-STEP SINGLE CRYSTAL TO SINGLE CRYSTAL TRANSFORMATIONS AND COFACIAL DIMERS
Keyword:
coordination polymers
,
porphyrin
,
phase transitions
, and
Supramolecular Chemistry
Creator:
Adilov, Salimgrey
Advisor:
Thalladi, Venkat R.
Publisher:
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:
2008-07-16
Resource Type:
Dissertation
Degree:
PhD
Unit (Department):
Chemistry & Biochemistry
Fundamental Investigation of Biological Interactions for Applications in Infection Prevention and Biomaterial Development
Keyword:
urinary tract infection
,
Bacterial adhesion
,
biological interactions
,
fimbriae
,
cranberry
,
Atomic Force Microscopy
,
Staphylococcus epidermidis
, and
biomaterial development
Creator:
Liu, Yatao
Advisor:
Camesano, Terri Anne
Publisher:
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:
2008-09-12
Resource Type:
Dissertation
Degree:
PhD
Unit (Department):
Chemical Engineering
Development of a substrate with photo-modulatable rigidity for probing spatial and temporal responses of cells to mechanical signals
Keyword:
photo-modulation
,
myosin
,
microsphere indentation
,
focal adhesion kinase
,
stiffness
,
mechanosensing
, and
topography
Creator:
Frey, Margo Tilley
Advisor:
Wang, Yu-Li
Publisher:
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:
2008-08-04
Resource Type:
Dissertation
Degree:
PhD
Unit (Department):
Biomedical Engineering
Ubiquitous Scalable Graphics: An End-to-End Framework using Wavelets
Keyword:
Perceptual Error Metric
,
Wavelets
,
Multi-Resolution
,
Mobile Graphics
, and
Energy Consumption
Creator:
Wu, Fan
Advisor:
Agu, Emmanuel O.
Publisher:
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:
2008-11-19
Resource Type:
Dissertation
Degree:
PhD
Unit (Department):
Computer Science
Capture Solar Energy and Reduce Heat-Island Effect from Asphalt Pavement
Keyword:
Temperature
,
Thermal Conductivity
,
Heat Transfer
, and
Asphalt Pavement
Creator:
Chen, Bao-Liang
Advisor:
Mallick, Rajib B.
Publisher:
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:
2008-12-15
Resource Type:
Dissertation
Degree:
PhD
Unit (Department):
Civil & Environmental Engineering
Castability Control in Metal Casting via Fluidity Measures: Application of Error Analysis to Variations in Fluidity Testing
Keyword:
metal casting
,
castability
,
fluidity
,
solidification processing
,
casting fluidity
,
error analysis
, and
A356
Creator:
Dewhirst, Brian A
Advisor:
Apelian, Diran
Publisher:
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:
2008-12-16
Resource Type:
Dissertation
Degree:
PhD
Unit (Department):
Materials Science & Engineering
Opportunistic Routing in Multihop Wireless Networks: Capacity, Energy Efficiency, and Security
Keyword:
medium access control
,
throughput
,
Security
,
capacity
,
energy efficiency
, and
opportunistic routing
Creator:
Zeng, Kai
Advisor:
Lou, Wenjing
Publisher:
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:
2008-07-24
Resource Type:
Dissertation
Degree:
PhD
Unit (Department):
Electrical & Computer Engineering
Identification and Modeling of the Dynamic Behavior of the Direct Path Component in ToA-Based Indoor Localization Systems
Keyword:
Wideband Measurement
,
NLoS Identification
,
Ray Tracing
,
ToA-Based Indoor Localization
, and
Dynamic Modeling of Ranging Error
Creator:
Heidari, Mohammad
Advisor:
Pahlavan, Kaveh
Publisher:
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:
2008-07-15
Resource Type:
Dissertation
Degree:
PhD
Unit (Department):
Electrical & Computer Engineering
Predicting the Response of Powder Metallurgy Steel Components to Heat Treatment.
Keyword:
Powder Metallurgy
,
Finite Element Modeling
,
Phase Transformations
, and
Heat treatment
Creator:
Warke, Virendra S
Advisor:
Makhlouf, Makhlouf M.
Publisher:
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:
2008-07-28
Resource Type:
Dissertation
Degree:
PhD
Unit (Department):
Materials Science & Engineering
Frequency Domain Finite Field Arithmetic for Elliptic Curve Cryptography
Keyword:
NTT
,
multiplication
,
number theoretic transform
,
elliptic curve cryptography
,
discrete Fourier transform
,
DFT
,
inversion
,
ECC
, and
finite fields
Creator:
baktir, selcuk
Advisor:
Sunar, Berk
Publisher:
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:
2008-05-05
Resource Type:
Dissertation
Degree:
PhD
Unit (Department):
Electrical & Computer Engineering
Modeling and Evaluating Feedback-Based Error Control for Video Transfer
Keyword:
Error Control
,
Retransmission
,
RPS
,
PSNR
,
VQM
, and
H.264
Creator:
wang, yubing
Advisor:
Claypool, Mark L.
Publisher:
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:
2008-10-24
Resource Type:
Dissertation
Degree:
PhD
Unit (Department):
Computer Science
A Method Of Moments Approach for the Design Of RF Coils for MRI
Keyword:
RF COILS
,
Method of Moments
, and
MRI
Creator:
Obi, Aghogho A
Advisor:
Ludwig, Reinhold
Publisher:
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:
2008-05-12
Resource Type:
Dissertation
Degree:
PhD
Unit (Department):
Electrical & Computer Engineering
Optimal sensor/actuator placement and switching schemes for control of flexible structures
Keyword:
actuator placement
,
PZT actuators
,
performance enhancement
,
hybrid system
, and
actuator switching
Creator:
Potami, Raffaele
Advisor:
Demetriou, Michael A.
Publisher:
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:
2008-04-28
Resource Type:
Dissertation
Degree:
PhD
Unit (Department):
Mechanical Engineering
Development and Validation of a Knee-Thigh-Hip LSDYNA Model of a 50th Percentile Male.
Keyword:
KTH
,
impacts
,
fracture mechanisms
,
dynamic ligament failure model
,
out-of-position
, and
active muscles
Creator:
Silvestri, Chiara
Advisor:
Ray, Malcolm H.
Publisher:
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:
2008-04-29
Resource Type:
Dissertation
Degree:
PhD
Unit (Department):
Civil & Environmental Engineering
Indoor Cooperative Localization for Ultra Wideband Wireless Sensor Networks
Keyword:
Indoor geolocation
,
Time-of-arrival based ranging
,
ultra wideband
,
sensor networks
,
measurement and modeling
,
Cooperative localization
, and
cooperative localization algorithms
Creator:
Alsindi, Nayef
Advisor:
Pahlavan, Kaveh
Publisher:
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:
2008-04-23
Resource Type:
Dissertation
Degree:
PhD
Unit (Department):
Electrical & Computer Engineering
Metadata-Aware Query Processing over Data Streams
Keyword:
constraint
,
data stream
,
metadata
,
Optimization
, and
continuous query
Creator:
Ding, Luping
Advisor:
Rundensteiner, Elke A.
Publisher:
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:
2008-04-22
Resource Type:
Dissertation
Degree:
PhD
Unit (Department):
Computer Science
Resonance Production and Nuclear Fragmentation for Space Radiation
Keyword:
nuclear physics
,
nuclear fragmentation
,
physics
,
resonance
,
particle physics
,
space radiation
,
radiation shielding
,
heavy-ion physics
, and
nucleon-nucleon interactions
Creator:
Norman, Ryan Bradley
Advisor:
Norbury, John W.
,
Aravind, Padmanabhan K.
, and
Blattnig, Steve R.
Publisher:
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:
2008-04-22
Resource Type:
Dissertation
Degree:
PhD
Unit (Department):
Physics
Magnetic Resonance Imaging of the Rat Retina
Keyword:
Magnetic Resonance Imaging
,
Mn54-autoradiography
,
Manganese Enhanced MRI
,
High-Resolution MRI
,
RCS Rat
,
Retinal Degeneration
,
Rat Retina
, and
Blood Volume Imaging
Creator:
Bhagavatheeshwaran, Govind
Advisor:
Sotak, Christopher H.
Publisher:
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:
2008-04-16
Resource Type:
Dissertation
Degree:
PhD
Unit (Department):
Biomedical Engineering
A theoretical analysis of Bose-Einstein condensate based beamsplitters, interferometers, and transistors
Keyword:
Atom Interferometery
and
Bose-Einstein Condensation
Creator:
Stickney, James Arthur
Advisor:
Zozulya, Alex A.
Publisher:
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:
2008-03-27
Resource Type:
Dissertation
Degree:
PhD
Unit (Department):
Physics
Node Density and Quality of Estimation for Infrastructure-based Indoor Geolocation Using Time of Arrival
Keyword:
Wireless Networks
,
Indoor Positioning
, and
Indoor geolocation
Creator:
Kanaan, Muzaffer
Advisor:
Pahlavan, Kaveh
Publisher:
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:
2008-04-15
Resource Type:
Dissertation
Degree:
PhD
Unit (Department):
Electrical & Computer Engineering
AC-Calorimetry and Dielectric Spectroscopy on Anisotropic Liquid Crystal and Aerosil Dispersions
Keyword:
Liquid Crystals
,
dielectric spectroscopy
,
quenched random disorder
,
phase transitions
, and
calorimetry
Creator:
Cruceanu, Florentin I.
Advisor:
Iannacchione, Germano S.
Publisher:
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:
2008-04-09
Resource Type:
Dissertation
Degree:
PhD
Unit (Department):
Physics
Improving the Productivity of Volunteer Computing
Keyword:
volunteer computing
and
Performance
Creator:
Toth, David M.
Advisor:
Finkel, David
Publisher:
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:
2008-03-15
Resource Type:
Dissertation
Degree:
PhD
Unit (Department):
Computer Science
State-Slice: A New Stream Query Optimization Paradigm for Multi-query and Distributed Processing
Keyword:
database optimization
and
stream query processing
Creator:
Wang, Song
Advisor:
Rundensteiner, Elke A.
Publisher:
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:
2008-03-25
Resource Type:
Dissertation
Degree:
PhD
Unit (Department):
Computer Science
An RF System Design for an Ultra Wideband Indoor Positioning System
Keyword:
Indoor Positioning
and
RF System Design
Creator:
Parikh, Hemish K
Advisor:
Michalson, William R.
Publisher:
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:
2008-03-11
Resource Type:
Dissertation
Degree:
PhD
Unit (Department):
Electrical & Computer Engineering
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