Index Catalog // Digital WPI

1. Feasibility of the SIMSUPER Simulation Model in the Renovation of Building Projects

Keyword:: building renovation, simsuper, building renovation projects, and renovation projects
Creator:: Jimenez, Jose Manuel
Advisor:: Salazar, Guillermo F., Fitzgerald, Robert W., Pietroforte, Roberto, and Albano, Leonard D.
Publisher:: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:: 1999-05-26
Resource Type:: Thesis
Degree:: MS
Unit:: Civil & Environmental Engineering

2. Risk-Based Fire Research Decision Methodology

Keyword:: Expert Panel, Analytical Hierarchy Process, Decision, Methodology, and Risk
Creator:: Hansen, Richard L.
Advisor:: Noonan, Francis
Publisher:: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:: 1999-05-13
Resource Type:: Thesis
Degree:: MS
Unit:: Fire Protection Engineering

3. An Information Theoretic Hierarchical Classifier for Machine Vision

Keyword:: information theory, pattern recognition, and machine vision
Creator:: Andrews, Michael J.
Advisor:: Cyganski, David
Publisher:: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:: 1999-05-11
Resource Type:: Thesis
Degree:: MS
Unit:: Electrical & Computer Engineering

4. The Effect of Superheat on Liquid Droplets in a Supersonic Freestream

Keyword:: supersonic crossflow, droplet disruption, superheat, and droplet injection
Creator:: Newman, Aaron W.
Advisor:: Hermanson, James C.
Publisher:: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:: 1999-05-11
Resource Type:: Thesis
Degree:: MS
Unit:: Mechanical Engineering

5. A Feasibility Study of Bioremediation in a Highly Organic Contaminated Soil

Keyword:: Petroleum Hydrocarbons, Bioremediation, and Biodegradation
Creator:: Walsh, Jami Beth
Advisor:: O'Shaughnessy, James C.
Publisher:: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:: 1999-05-25
Resource Type:: Thesis
Degree:: MS
Unit:: Civil & Environmental Engineering

6. Elliptic Curve Cryptosystems on Reconfigurable Hardware

Keyword:: FPGA, Cryptography, and elliptic curves
Creator:: Rosner, Martin Christopher
Advisor:: Paar, Christof
Publisher:: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:: 1999-06-04
Resource Type:: Thesis
Degree:: MS
Unit:: Electrical & Computer Engineering

7. Generation and Propagation of Optical Vortices

Keyword:: optical vortices, phase singularities, optical vortex solitons, singular optics, fluid-like motion, nonlinear optics, and optical vortex filaments
Creator:: Rozas, David
Advisor:: Swartzlander, Grover A., Jr.
Publisher:: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:: 1999-08-16
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Degree:: PhD
Unit:: Physics

8. Modular Exponentiation on Reconfigurable Hardware

Keyword:: Montgomery multiplication, RSA, Public-Key Cryptography, FPGA, Reconfigurable Hardware, and Modular Exponentiation
Creator:: Blum, Thomas
Advisor:: Paar, Christof
Publisher:: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:: 1999-09-03
Resource Type:: Thesis
Degree:: MS
Unit:: Electrical & Computer Engineering

9. Langmuir Probe Measurements in the Plume of a Pulsed Plasma Thruster

Keyword:: Langmuir probe, satellite propulsion systems, and Pulsed Plasma Thruster
Creator:: Eckman, Robert Francis
Advisor:: Gatsonis, Nikolaos A.
Publisher:: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:: 1999-10-04
Resource Type:: Thesis
Degree:: MS
Unit:: Mechanical Engineering

10. Use of Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) to Model Flow at Pump Intakes

Keyword:: pump intakes, CFD, and flow
Creator:: Roberge, Jennifer Anne
Advisor:: Mathisen, Paul P.
Publisher:: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:: 1999-09-30
Resource Type:: Thesis
Degree:: MS
Unit:: Civil & Environmental Engineering

11. Verification and Adaptation of an Infiltration Model for Water at Various Isothermal Temperature Conditions

Keyword:: isothermal temperatures, soil infiltration, capillarity, and soils
Creator:: Schaffer, Joseph F.
Advisor:: Kao, Cindy Sue-Shih
Publisher:: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:: 1999-10-12
Resource Type:: Thesis
Degree:: MS
Unit:: Civil & Environmental Engineering

12. Discovery of Design Methodologies for the Integration of Multi-disciplinary Design Problems

Keyword:: Artificial Intelligence, methodology discovery, Design, multi-agent, and interdisciplinary
Creator:: Shakeri, Cirrus
Advisor:: Brown, David C.
Publisher:: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:: 1999-10-13
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Degree:: PhD
Unit:: Mechanical Engineering

13. Definition of a Cytotoxic T Lymphocyte Epitope of the Sin Nombre Hantavirus G2 Glycoprotein

Keyword:: Sin Nombre, Hantavirus Pulmonary Syndrome, T-cell lines, and hantavirus
Creator:: Vollaro, Cindy M.
Advisor:: Rulfs, Jill
Publisher:: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:: 1999-10-13
Resource Type:: Thesis
Degree:: MS
Unit:: Biology & Biotechnology

14. Multicast-Based Interactive-Group Object-Replication For Fault Tolerance

Keyword:: Fault Tolerance, commit protocol, multicast, and CORBA
Creator:: Soria-Rodriguez, Pedro
Advisor:: Cyganski, David
Publisher:: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:: 1999-10-25
Resource Type:: Thesis
Degree:: MS
Unit:: Electrical & Computer Engineering

15. Negotiation Between Distributed Agents in a Concurrent Engineering System

Keyword:: negotiation, powder ceramic components design, cooperative multi-agent problem-solving, conflict resolution, and concurrent design
Creator:: Victor, Sundar K.
Advisor:: Brown, David C.
Publisher:: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:: 1999-11-09
Resource Type:: Thesis
Degree:: MS
Unit:: Computer Science

16. Conflicts and Negotiations in Single Function Agent Based Design Systems

Keyword:: conflict management, single function agents, negotiation, routine parametric design, and multi-agent design systems
Creator:: Berker, Ilan
Advisor:: Brown, David C.
Publisher:: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:: 1999-11-04
Resource Type:: Thesis
Degree:: MS
Unit:: Computer Science

17. The Application of Parametric Software into the Undergraduate Computer-Aided Manufacturing Environment

Keyword:: Education, computer-aided manufacturing, manufacturing, Pro/Engineer, Design, CAM, and curriculum
Creator:: Cournoyer, Richard John
Advisor:: Fofana, Mustapha S.
Publisher:: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:: 1999-11-05
Resource Type:: Thesis
Degree:: MS
Unit:: Manufacturing Engineering

18. Single Function Agents and their Negotiation Behavior in Expert Systems

Keyword:: agent communication, negotiation, CLIPS expert system shell, types of agents, single function agents, and multi-agent design systems
Creator:: Dunskus, Bertram V.
Advisor:: Brown, David C.
Publisher:: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:: 1999-11-05
Resource Type:: Thesis
Degree:: MS
Unit:: Computer Science

19. SNEAKERS: A Concurrent Engineering Demonstration System

Keyword:: multi-agent design systems, concurrent engineering, manager education, and tower design
Creator:: Douglas, Robert E., Jr.
Advisor:: Brown, David C. and Zenger, David C.
Publisher:: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:: 1999-11-05
Resource Type:: Thesis
Degree:: MS
Unit:: Computer Science

20. Characterization of Radioactivity in the Environment

Keyword:: quantification of radionuclides, radioactivity, and Environment
Creator:: Borrelli, Robert Angelo
Advisor:: O'Shaughnessy, James C.
Publisher:: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:: 1999-11-10
Resource Type:: Thesis
Degree:: MS
Unit:: Civil & Environmental Engineering

21. Use of Fire Plume Theory in the Design and Analysis of Fire Detector and Sprinkler Response

Keyword:: automatic sprinkler systems, fire detector, and fire plume
Creator:: Schifiliti, Robert P.
Advisor:: Custer, Richard L. and Beyler, Craig L.
Publisher:: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:: 2000-01-18
Resource Type:: Thesis
Degree:: MS
Unit:: Fire Protection Engineering

22. Design Simplification by Analogical Reasoning

Keyword:: simplification, Design, complexity, and model based analogical reasoning
Creator:: Balazs, Marton E.
Advisor:: Brown, David C.
Publisher:: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:: 2000-02-09
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Degree:: PhD
Unit:: Computer Science

23. Efficient Algorithms for Elliptic Curve Cryptosystems

Keyword:: Cryptography, elliptic curves, and Galois Fields
Creator:: Guajardo, Jorge
Advisor:: Paar, Christof
Publisher:: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:: 2000-03-28
Resource Type:: Thesis
Degree:: MS
Unit:: Electrical & Computer Engineering

24. Value Engineering for Small Transportation Projects

Keyword:: value engineering, transportation, highway, and DOT
Creator:: Clark, Jennifer Anne
Advisor:: Salazar, Guillermo F.
Publisher:: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:: 2000-03-28
Resource Type:: Thesis
Degree:: MS
Unit:: Civil & Environmental Engineering

25. Intramolecular Energy Transfer in Polychromophores that Utilize Peptide Bridging Groups

Keyword:: chromophores, peptides, and triplet energy transfer
Creator:: Ferguson, David C
Advisor:: McGimpsey, W. Grant
Publisher:: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:: 2000-05-05
Resource Type:: Thesis
Degree:: MS
Unit:: Chemistry & Biochemistry

26. Computation in Optimal Extension Fields

Keyword:: finite fields, Implementation, and Cryptography
Creator:: Bailey, Daniel V
Advisor:: Paar, Christof
Publisher:: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:: 2000-04-28
Resource Type:: Thesis
Degree:: MS
Unit:: Computer Science

27. The Exploration of Tissue pH and its Relationship to Bacterial Contamination

Keyword:: infection, tissue pH, and wound care
Creator:: Shorrock, Susan M.
Advisor:: Kun, Stevan
Publisher:: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:: 2000-04-26
Resource Type:: Thesis
Degree:: MS
Unit:: Biomedical Engineering

28. Verification Studies of Computational Fluid Dynamics in Fixed Bed Heat Transfer

Keyword:: CFD, Heat Transfer, packed bed, Computational Fluid Dynamics, and Fixed bed
Creator:: Nijemeisland, Michiel
Advisor:: Dixon, Anthony G.
Publisher:: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:: 2000-04-26
Resource Type:: Thesis
Degree:: MS
Unit:: Chemical Engineering

29. Bayesian Analysis of Cancer Mortality Rates from Different Types and their Relative Occurrences

Keyword:: mapping and Bayesian method
Creator:: Delcroix, Sophie M.
Advisor:: Nandram, Balgobin
Publisher:: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:: 1999-12-14
Resource Type:: Thesis
Degree:: MS
Unit:: Mathematical Sciences

30. Scalable Visual Hierarchy Exploration

Keyword:: visual exploration, hierarchical structures, database backend, prefetching, Semantic Caching, and recursive queries
Creator:: Stroe, Ionel Daniel
Advisor:: Rundensteiner, Elke A. and Ward, Matthew O.
Publisher:: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:: 2000-05-10
Resource Type:: Thesis
Degree:: MS
Unit:: Computer Science

31. A 12-b 50Msample/s Pipeline Analog to Digital Converter

Keyword:: ADC, Flash, analog, Digital, folding, and Converter
Creator:: Carter, Nathan R
Advisor:: McNeill, John A.
Publisher:: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:: 2000-05-05
Resource Type:: Thesis
Degree:: MS
Unit:: Electrical & Computer Engineering

32. A Method for Optical Measurement of Urea in Effluent Hemodialysate

Keyword:: optical, urea, and hemodialysate
Creator:: Kupcinskas, Rebecca A
Advisor:: Peura, Robert A.
Publisher:: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:: 2000-05-11
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Degree:: PhD
Unit:: Biomedical Engineering

33. Analysis of Various Bioreactor Configurations for Heavy Metal Removal Using the Fungus Penicillium ochro-chloron

Keyword:: Penicillium ochro-chloron, fungus, and bioreactor
Creator:: Andersson, Eva Lotta
Advisor:: Iorio, Alexander A. Di and Crusberg, Theodore C.
Publisher:: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:: 2000-05-12
Resource Type:: Thesis
Degree:: MS
Unit:: Biology & Biotechnology

34. Association Rule Mining for Collaborative Recommender Systems

Keyword:: Association Rules, Collaborative Recommender Systems, Data Mining, and Electronic Commerce
Creator:: Lin, Weiyang
Advisor:: Ruiz, Carolina
Publisher:: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:: 2000-05-15
Resource Type:: Thesis
Degree:: MS
Unit:: Computer Science

35. A Molecular and Immunological Investigation of Cellular Responses to Dengue Virus: Identification of Potentially Upregulated Host Genes and the Construction of a Vaccinia Virus Expressing the Dengue 1 Hawaii NS3 Protein

Keyword:: CTL and dengue
Creator:: Brown, Jennifer L.
Advisor:: Rothman, Alan
Publisher:: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:: 2000-03-30
Resource Type:: Thesis
Degree:: MS
Unit:: Biology & Biotechnology

36. Alternate Computer Models of Fire Convection Phenomena for the Harvard Computer Fire Code

Keyword:: computer fire modeling, computer, fire code, and Fire
Creator:: Beller, Douglas K.
Advisor:: Beyler, Craig L.
Publisher:: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:: 2000-06-15
Resource Type:: Thesis
Degree:: MS
Unit:: Fire Protection Engineering

37. Improvements to the weak-post W-beam guardrail

Keyword:: post-rail connection, splice connection, guardrail system, and Finite Element Analysis
Creator:: Engstrand, Klas E
Advisor:: Ray, Malcolm H.
Publisher:: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:: 2000-06-23
Resource Type:: Thesis
Degree:: MS
Unit:: Civil & Environmental Engineering

38. Design of a non-snagging guardrail post

Keyword:: Finite Element Analysis, snagging, and guardrail post
Creator:: Karlsson, Jessica E
Advisor:: Ray, Malcolm H.
Publisher:: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:: 2000-06-23
Resource Type:: Thesis
Degree:: MS
Unit:: Civil & Environmental Engineering

39. Singlet-Singlet and Triplet-Triplet Energy Transfer in Polychromophoric Peptides

Keyword:: peptides and energy transfer
Creator:: Benco, John S
Advisor:: McGimpsey, W. Grant
Publisher:: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:: 2000-08-03
Resource Type:: Thesis
Degree:: MS
Unit:: Chemistry & Biochemistry

40. Determination of Average Lift of a Rapidly Pitching Airfoil

Keyword:: stall, dynamic, and pitching
Creator:: Linn, Anthony Blane
Advisor:: Durgin, William W.
Publisher:: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:: 2000-05-12
Resource Type:: Thesis
Degree:: MS
Unit:: Mechanical Engineering

41. Ultrasound Characterization of Structure and Density of Coral as a Model for Trabecular Bone

Keyword:: BMD, Ultrasound, coral, BUA, impulse response, Osteoporosis, trabecular bone, and angular decorrelation function
Creator:: Sun, Yurong
Advisor:: Pedersen, Peder C.
Publisher:: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:: 2000-08-08
Resource Type:: Thesis
Degree:: MS
Unit:: Electrical & Computer Engineering

42. The design and development of a direct and continuous sensor for the measurement of inhaled nitric oxide concentrations

Keyword:: optical, Sensor, nitric oxide, and inhaled
Creator:: Parikh, Bhairavi Rajiv
Advisor:: Soller, Babs R. and Peura, Robert A.
Publisher:: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:: 2000-08-30
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Degree:: PhD
Unit:: Biomedical Engineering

43. Spreading of Initially Spherical Viscous Droplets

Keyword:: viscosity, unstable, microgravity, crown, Stability, map, droplets, gravity, solid, viscous, stable, spreading, surface tension, Surface, oscillatory, and splash
Creator:: Kotikalapudi, Sivaramakrishna
Advisor:: Hermanson, James C.
Publisher:: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:: 2000-09-30
Resource Type:: Thesis
Degree:: MS
Unit:: Mechanical Engineering

44. Synthesis Effects on Grain Size and Phase Content in the Anatase-Rutile TiO2 System

Keyword:: grain size, rutile, and titania
Creator:: Farrell, Kimberly A.
Advisor:: Demetry, Chrysanthe
Publisher:: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:: 1999-08-16
Resource Type:: Thesis
Degree:: MS
Unit:: Materials Science & Engineering

45. FEM Mesh Mapping to a SIMD Machine Using Genetic Algorithms

Keyword:: FEM mesh elements, Genetic Algorithm, and mapping
Creator:: Dunkelberg, Jr., John S.
Advisor:: Becker, Lee A.
Publisher:: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:: 2001-01-04
Resource Type:: Thesis
Degree:: MS
Unit:: Computer Science

46. VIL: A Visual Inter Lingua

Keyword:: icons, interlingua, pidgins, visual language, iconic communication, and pictorial
Creator:: Leemans, Neil Edwin Michael
Advisor:: Becker, Lee A.
Publisher:: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:: 2001-04-24
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Degree:: PhD
Unit:: Computer Science

47. The Application of the Mordell-Weil Group to Cryptographic Systems

Keyword:: Frobenius map, point multiplication, elliptic curves, and Mordell-Weil group
Creator:: Weimerskirch, Andre
Advisor:: Paar, Christof
Publisher:: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:: 2001-04-26
Resource Type:: Thesis
Degree:: MS
Unit:: Computer Science

48. Automated Discovery of Numerical Approximation Formulae Via Genetic Programming

Keyword:: Machine Learning, Genetic Programming, approximations, and Artificial Intelligence
Creator:: Streeter, Matthew J
Advisor:: Becker, Lee A.
Publisher:: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:: 2001-04-26
Resource Type:: Thesis
Degree:: MS
Unit:: Computer Science

49. Reconstructing specular objects with Image Based Rendering using Color Caching

Keyword:: graphics, scene reconstruction, image based rendering, specular, color consistency, and vision
Creator:: Chhabra, Vikram
Advisor:: Stevens, Mark R.
Publisher:: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:: 2001-04-27
Resource Type:: Thesis
Degree:: MS
Unit:: Computer Science

50. An Experimental Study of Flame Lengths and Emissions of fully-Modulated Diffusion Flames

Keyword:: Flame Lengths, Emissions, Pulsed, Diffusion Flames, and Fully-Modulated
Creator:: Usowicz, James E
Advisor:: Hermanson, James C.
Publisher:: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:: 2001-05-02
Resource Type:: Thesis
Degree:: MS
Unit:: Mechanical Engineering

51. Characterization of the Mechanosensitivity of Tactile Receptors using Multivariate Logistical Regression

Keyword:: logistical regression and cutaneous mechanoreceptors
Creator:: Bradshaw, Sam
Advisor:: Looft, Fred J.
Publisher:: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:: 2001-04-30
Resource Type:: Thesis
Degree:: MS
Unit:: Electrical & Computer Engineering

52. Garbage Collection for Java Distributed Objects

Keyword:: weak reference, Java, distributed garbage collection, distributed objects, and reference objects
Creator:: Dancus, Andrei Arthur
Advisor:: Finkel, David
Publisher:: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:: 2001-05-02
Resource Type:: Thesis
Degree:: MS
Unit:: Computer Science

53. InterDraw - An Online, Interactive, Collaborative Art Program

Keyword:: online, computer graphics, drawing, collaborative art, Java, art, and graphics
Creator:: Babic, Kristopher T
Advisor:: Ward, Matthew O.
Publisher:: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:: 2000-05-17
Resource Type:: Thesis
Degree:: MS
Unit:: Computer Science

54. Adaptive Explicit Congestion Notification (AECN) for Heterogeneous Flows

Keyword:: RED, Fairness, ECN, Heterogeneous Flows, Goodput, and AECN
Creator:: Zheng, Zici
Advisor:: Kinicki, Robert
Publisher:: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:: 2001-05-02
Resource Type:: Thesis
Degree:: MS
Unit:: Computer Science

55. Design and Implementation of Belief Propagation Symbol Detectors for Wireless Intersymbol Interference Channels

Keyword:: belief propagation, wireless communication, symbol detector, and intersymbol interference
Creator:: Peng, Yanjie
Advisor:: Huang, Xinming
Publisher:: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:: 2012-12-08
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Degree:: PhD
Unit:: Electrical & Computer Engineering

56. Optimal Bounded Control and Relevant Response Analysis for Random Vibrations

Keyword:: Random Vibration, Dynamic Programming, Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman equation, Stochastic Optimal Control, and Energy Balance method
Creator:: Iourtchenko, Daniil V
Advisor:: Dimentberg, Mikhail F.
Publisher:: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:: 2001-05-25
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Degree:: PhD
Unit:: Mechanical Engineering

57. XEM: XML Evolution Management

Keyword:: Consistency Preservation, Schema Evolution, Taxonomy of Changes, and XML
Creator:: Kramer, Diane S.
Advisor:: Rundensteiner, Elke A.
Publisher:: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:: 2001-07-21
Resource Type:: Thesis
Degree:: MS
Unit:: Computer Science

58. Probing for a Continual Validation Prototype

Keyword:: continual validation, software probes, run-time monitoring, probes, and probing
Creator:: Gill, Peter W.
Advisor:: Heineman, George T.
Publisher:: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:: 2001-08-26
Resource Type:: Thesis
Degree:: MS
Unit:: Computer Science

59. Efficient Algorithms for Elliptic Curve Cryptosystems on Embedded Systems

Keyword:: Implementation, finite fields, and Cryptography
Creator:: Woodbury, Adam D
Advisor:: Paar, Christof
Publisher:: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:: 2001-10-01
Resource Type:: Thesis
Degree:: MS
Unit:: Electrical & Computer Engineering

60. DNA Vaccines Against HIV-1: Augmenting Immunogenicity of gp120

Keyword:: Immunology, Gene Therapy, Vaccine, AIDS, and HIV
Creator:: Farfan Arribas, Diego Jose
Advisor:: Adams, David S.
Publisher:: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:: 2002-01-07
Resource Type:: Thesis
Degree:: MS
Unit:: Biology & Biotechnology

61. Investigation of Measurement Artifacts Introduced By Horizontal Scanning Surface Profiling Instruments

Keyword:: Scanning Instruments, Fractal, Anisotropy, Surface, Scanning, and Surface Metrology
Creator:: Bergstrom, Torbjorn S
Advisor:: Brown, Christopher A.
Publisher:: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:: 2002-01-08
Resource Type:: Thesis
Degree:: MS
Unit:: Manufacturing Engineering

62. Near Field Development of Buoyancy Driven Flows

Keyword:: Unsteady, starting flow, buoyant, and Near Field
Creator:: Bond, Derek P
Advisor:: Johari, Hamid
Publisher:: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:: 2002-01-09
Resource Type:: Thesis
Degree:: MS
Unit:: Mechanical Engineering

63. Visual Hierarchical Dimension Reduction

Keyword:: parallel coordinates, Multi-Dimensional Visualization, scatterplot matrices, high dimensional data set, Dimension Reduction, Hierarchy, Sunburst, and star glyphs
Creator:: Yang, Jing
Advisor:: Ward, Matthew O.
Publisher:: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:: 2002-01-09
Resource Type:: Thesis
Degree:: MS
Unit:: Computer Science

64. Synthesis of Rigidly Linked Polychromophores for Intramolecular Energy Transfer Study

Keyword:: Intramolecular Energy Transfer, Rigidly Linked Polychromophores, and Triplet
Creator:: Zhang, Rong
Advisor:: Weininger, Stephen J.
Publisher:: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:: 2002-01-09
Resource Type:: Thesis
Degree:: MS
Unit:: Chemistry & Biochemistry

65. Artificial Turbulent Bursts

Keyword:: Turbulence and artificial generation of turbulent bursts
Creator:: McIlhenny, Julia F
Advisor:: Durgin, William W.
Publisher:: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:: 2002-01-10
Resource Type:: Thesis
Degree:: MS
Unit:: Mechanical Engineering

66. Automated On-line Diagnosis and Control Configuration in Robotic Systems Using Model Based Analytical Redundancy

Keyword:: robotic system, accommodation, isolation, SCARA robot, Neural Networks, and robust fault detection
Creator:: Kmelnitsky, Vitaly M
Advisor:: Demetriou, Michael A.
Publisher:: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:: 2002-02-22
Resource Type:: Thesis
Degree:: MS
Unit:: Mechanical Engineering

67. Efficient Elliptic Curve Processor Architectures for Field Programmable Logic

Keyword:: Cryptography, computer arithmetic, and elliptic curves
Creator:: Orlando, Gerardo
Advisor:: Paar, Christof
Publisher:: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:: 2002-03-27
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Degree:: PhD
Unit:: Electrical & Computer Engineering

68. Integration of Heterogeneous Databases: Discovery of Meta-Information and Maintenance of Schema-Restructuring Views

Keyword:: data integration, schema restructuring, meta-data discovery, schema changes, and Data Mining
Creator:: Koeller, Andreas
Advisor:: Rundensteiner, Elke A.
Publisher:: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:: 2002-04-15
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Degree:: PhD
Unit:: Computer Science

69. Modeling the Dynamic Composition of Engineered Cartilage

Keyword:: biosynthesis, Tissue Engineering, and chondrocyte
Creator:: Wilson, Christopher G
Advisor:: Kohles, Sean S. and Bonassar, Lawrence J.
Publisher:: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:: 2002-03-26
Resource Type:: Thesis
Degree:: MS
Unit:: Biomedical Engineering

70. NMR Characterization of Changes in the Apparent Diffusion Coefficient of Water Following Transient Cerebral Ischemia

Keyword:: diffusion coefficient, cerebral ischemia, and NMR
Creator:: Silva, Matthew S.
Advisor:: Sotak, Christopher H.
Publisher:: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:: 2002-03-27
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Degree:: PhD
Unit:: Biomedical Engineering

71. Developmentally Interesting Cytokines Upregulated During Human Stem Cell Amplification In Vitro

Keyword:: Stem cells and cytokines
Creator:: Amaral, Lizabeth Pereira
Advisor:: Adams, David S.
Publisher:: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:: 2002-04-22
Resource Type:: Thesis
Degree:: MS
Unit:: Biology & Biotechnology

72. Activation of TNF alpha, IL1-beta and Type-i IFn Pathways in human umbilical vein endothelial cells During Dengue 2 Virus Infection

Keyword:: Type-I IFN, Dengue virus, IL1-beta, and TNF-alpha
Creator:: Warke, Rajas V
Advisor:: Bosch, Irene
Publisher:: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:: 2002-04-24
Resource Type:: Thesis
Degree:: MS
Unit:: Biology & Biotechnology

73. Velocity Field Measurements in the Near Wake of a Parachute Canopy

Keyword:: parachute inflation, fluid structure interaction, canopy breathing, parachute shedding characteristics, near wake evolution, and velocity field measurements
Creator:: Desabrais, Kenneth J.
Advisor:: Johari, Hamid
Publisher:: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:: 2002-04-26
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Degree:: PhD
Unit:: Mechanical Engineering

74. Optimization of a Technique for Phosphorescence Lifetime Imaging of Oxygen Tension in the Mouse Retina

Keyword:: Retina, Imaging, Phosphorescence, and eye
Creator:: Kight, Amanda C.
Advisor:: Shonat, Ross D.
Publisher:: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:: 2002-04-30
Resource Type:: Thesis
Degree:: MS
Unit:: Biomedical Engineering

75. Efficient NTRU Implementations

Keyword:: unified multiplier, Montgomery multiplier, NTRU, scalable multiplier, and Cryptography
Creator:: O'Rourke, Colleen Marie
Advisor:: Sunar, Berk
Publisher:: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:: 2002-04-30
Resource Type:: Thesis
Degree:: MS
Unit:: Electrical & Computer Engineering

76. Methodology for Correlating Experimental and Finite Element Modal Analyses on Valve Trains

Keyword:: correlation, modal analysis, and valve train
Creator:: Giorelli, Massimo
Advisor:: Norton, Robert L.
Publisher:: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:: 2002-04-26
Resource Type:: Thesis
Degree:: MS
Unit:: Mechanical Engineering

77. Molecular Analysis of Turnip Crinkle Virus Coat Protein Mutations

Keyword:: Turnip crinkle virus, arabidopsis, resistance, protein interaction, and coat protein
Creator:: Zhan, Ye
Advisor:: Wobbe, Kristin K.
Publisher:: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:: 2002-04-30
Resource Type:: Thesis
Degree:: MS
Unit:: Chemistry & Biochemistry

78. Versatile Montgomery Multiplier Architectures

Keyword:: montgomery, public key cryptography, modular multiplication, high radix, computer arithmetic, and VLSI
Creator:: Gaubatz, Gunnar
Advisor:: Sunar, Berk
Publisher:: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:: 2002-04-30
Resource Type:: Thesis
Degree:: MS
Unit:: Electrical & Computer Engineering

79. Formal Analysis of Component Adaptation Techniques

Keyword:: formal analysis, Active Interfaces, EJB, and Z notations
Creator:: Kanetkar, Kavita Vijay
Advisor:: Heineman, George T.
Publisher:: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:: 2002-04-30
Resource Type:: Thesis
Degree:: MS
Unit:: Computer Science

80. Telomerase Activity in Human Umbilical Cord Cell Populations Containing Hematopoietic Stem Cells

Keyword:: Umbilbical cord blood and Hematopoietic Stem Cells
Creator:: Murthy, Vidya
Advisor:: Adams, David S.
Publisher:: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:: 2002-04-30
Resource Type:: Thesis
Degree:: MS
Unit:: Biology & Biotechnology

81. Optimization Strategies for Data Warehouse Maintenance in Distributed Environments

Keyword:: Schema Change, Parallel, Data Warehouse Maintenance, Concurrent, Data Update, and Batch
Creator:: Liu, Bin
Advisor:: Rundensteiner, Elke A.
Publisher:: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:: 2002-04-30
Resource Type:: Thesis
Degree:: MS
Unit:: Computer Science

82. Direct Demonstration of Self-Similarity in a Hydrodynamic Treatment of Polymer Self-Diffusion

Keyword:: polymer self-diffusion, self-similarity, and hydrodynamic
Creator:: Merriam, Susan Carol
Advisor:: Phillies, George D.J.
Publisher:: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:: 2002-05-01
Resource Type:: Thesis
Degree:: MS
Unit:: Physics

83. Evaluation of New Test Methods for Fire Fighting Clothing

Keyword:
Creator:: Gagnon, Brian D.
Advisor:: Keltner, N. R. and Dembsey, Nicholas A.
Publisher:: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:: 2000-04-18
Resource Type:: Thesis
Degree:: MS
Unit:: Fire Protection Engineering

84. Synthesis of Nanometer-size Inorganic Materials for the Examination of Particle Size Effects on Heterogeneous Catalysis

Keyword:: Hydrodynamic cavitation and Titania, Carbon Monoxide Oxidation, Gold, Nanomete
Creator:: Emerson, Sean Christian
Advisor:: Moser, William R.
Publisher:: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:: 2000-05-03
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Degree:: PhD
Unit:: Chemical Engineering

85. Polyhedral Models

Keyword:: animation, Polyhedron, and rigid motion
Creator:: Eshaq, Hassan
Advisor:: Servatius, Brigitte
Publisher:: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:: 2002-05-01
Resource Type:: Thesis
Degree:: MS
Unit:: Mathematical Sciences

86. Circulation Methods in Unsteady and Three-dimensional Flows

Keyword:: Aerodynamics, Vortex, Circulation, Three-dimensional, Unsteady, and Instantaneous Lift
Creator:: Yuan, Jiankun
Advisor:: Olinger, David J.
Publisher:: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:: 2002-05-02
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Degree:: PhD
Unit:: Mechanical Engineering

87. Faster Training of Neural Networks for Recommender Systems

Keyword:: Neural Networks, mixture of experts, and recommender systems
Creator:: Kogel, Wendy E.
Advisor:: Ruiz, Carolina and Alvarez, Sergio A.
Publisher:: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:: 2002-05-01
Resource Type:: Thesis
Degree:: MS
Unit:: Computer Science

88. MASS: A Multi-Axis Storage Structure for Large XML Documents

Keyword:: XML, order, path expression, compression, XPath, axis, inlined, lossless, and indexing
Creator:: Deschler, Kurt W
Advisor:: Rundensteiner, Elke A.
Publisher:: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:: 2002-05-06
Resource Type:: Thesis
Degree:: MS
Unit:: Computer Science

89. Effect of Pixel Size and Scintillator on Image Quality of a CCD-Based Digital X-ray Imaging System.

Keyword:: scintillator, pixel size, and digital x-ray imaging
Creator:: Leal, Michael J.
Advisor:: Sotak, Christopher H., Karellas, Andrew, and Peura, Robert A.
Publisher:: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:: 2001-05-02
Resource Type:: Thesis
Degree:: MS
Unit:: Biomedical Engineering

90. Singlet-Singlet and Triplet-Triplet Energy Transfer in Bichromophoric Cyclic Peptides

Keyword:: energy transfer, molecular electronics, singlet-singlet, and triplet-triplet
Creator:: Guler, Mustafa Ozgur
Advisor:: McGimpsey, W. Grant
Publisher:: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:: 2002-05-13
Resource Type:: Thesis
Degree:: MS
Unit:: Chemistry & Biochemistry

91. Managing Schema Change in an Heterogeneous Environment

Keyword:: Schema Modeling, Schema Heterogeniety, Schema Change, Integration, Meta Modeling, and Frameworks
Creator:: Claypool, Kajal Tilak
Advisor:: Rundensteiner, Elke A.
Publisher:: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:: 2002-06-17
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Degree:: PhD
Unit:: Computer Science

92. Synthesis of Fmoc-3-(N-ethyl-3-carbazolyl)-L-alanine and Its Incorporation into a Cyclic Peptide

Keyword:: cyclization, cyclic peptide, chiral amino acids, chromophore, solid-phase peptide synthesis, enzymatic resolution, N-ethyl-3-carbazolylalanine, and 9-anthrylalanine
Creator:: Pan, Jinhong
Advisor:: Weininger, Stephen J.
Publisher:: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:: 2002-08-14
Resource Type:: Thesis
Degree:: MS
Unit:: Chemistry & Biochemistry

93. Performance Characteristics of PBI-based High Temperature Direct Methanol Fuel Cells

Keyword:: Fuel Cells, DMFC, and PBI
Creator:: Knox, Daniel
Advisor:: Datta, Ravindra
Publisher:: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:: 2012-08-22
Resource Type:: Thesis
Degree:: MS
Unit:: Chemical Engineering

94. Study of Hot Tearing in Cast and Wrought Aluminum Alloys

Keyword:: index, Aluminum, and Hot tearing
Creator:: Wu, Qinxin
Advisor:: Apelian, Diran
Publisher:: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:: 2012-08-20
Resource Type:: Thesis
Degree:: MS
Unit:: Materials Science & Engineering

95. DNA Binding Activities in Cerebellar Granule Cell Neurons Recognizing the Promoter for The GABA(A)-alpha6 Receptor Subunit

Keyword:: NF-1 and granule cell neuron
Creator:: Stock, Rachel E.
Advisor:: Kilpatrick, Daniel L.
Publisher:: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:: 2002-08-22
Resource Type:: Thesis
Degree:: MS
Unit:: Biology & Biotechnology

96. High Strength Bonding of Sapphire

Keyword:: bonding and sapphire
Creator:: Fiore, Daniel F
Advisor:: Katz, R. Nathan
Publisher:: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:: 2002-08-29
Resource Type:: Thesis
Degree:: MS
Unit:: Materials Science & Engineering

97. Ultrasonic Measurement of Thin Condensing Fluid Films

Keyword:: Ultrasound, microgravity, and condensation
Creator:: Shear, Michael A
Advisor:: Pedersen, Peder C.
Publisher:: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:: 2002-09-10
Resource Type:: Thesis
Degree:: MS
Unit:: Electrical & Computer Engineering

98. A Process Based Cost Model for Multi-Layer Ceramic Manufacturing of Solid Oxide Fuel Cells

Keyword:: SOFC, PBCM, mulit-layer ceramics, process based cost model, Cost Model, Solid oxide fuel cell, and Fuel cell
Creator:: Koslowske, Mark T.
Advisor:: Bar-On, Isa
Publisher:: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:: 2003-08-10
Resource Type:: Thesis
Degree:: MS
Unit:: Materials Science & Engineering

99. Kinetics of the Hydrodechlorination Reaction of Chlorinated Compounds on Palladium Catalysts

Keyword:: reaction kinetics, hydrodechlorination, reaction steps, Palladium catalysts, and chlorinated compounds
Creator:: Chen, Nan
Advisor:: Ribeiro, Fabio H.
Publisher:: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:: 2003-08-23
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Degree:: PhD
Unit:: Chemical Engineering

100. Apparatus to Deliver Light to the Tip-sample Interface of an Atomic Force Microscope (AFM)

Keyword:: photoactive, photoinduced, molecular conformation, atomic force microscope, AFM, photoreactive, photoinduced conformation change, tip-sample interface, photocycle, purple membrane, bacteriorhodopsin, photomechanics, PLDS, and bimetallic bending
Creator:: Thoreson, Erik J.
Advisor:: Burnham, Nancy A.
Publisher:: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:: 2002-10-03
Resource Type:: Thesis
Degree:: MS
Unit:: Physics

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