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U.S. Public Image: A Study Of The Perceptions Of International Students From Predominantly Muslim Nations
(Communication, 2007-08-23)After the United States-led invasion of Iraq in 2003, anti-Americanism increased among predominantly Muslim nations. This qualitative study used in-depth interviews to explore the perceptions of 11 international students ... -
UAV: Trajectory Generation and Simulation
(2019-05-13)Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) have gained mass popularity in fields such as Defense, Agriculture, Sport and Photography etc. Their wide adoption in such research projects have opened new horizons for opportunities. ... -
UBCA: A Utility Based Clustering Architecture For Peer-to-peer Networks
(Computer Science & Engineering, 2007-08-23)Use of the Peer-to-Peer (P2P) architecture has recently spread in popularity. File sharing and ad hoc networks have contributed to the architecture's usage. P2P generates new challenges in scalability, fairness, and ... -
An Ultra Wide Band CMOS Low Noise Amplifier Design
(Electrical Engineering, 2011-03-03)An RF ultra wide band low noise amplifier designed for the frequency range of 12-18 GHz of operation is presented in this paper. The low noise amplifier is designed using the state-of-the-art complementary metal oxide ... -
ULTRA-CONTEXT: MAXIMIZING THE CONTEXT FOR BETTER IMAGE CAPTION GENERATION
(2019-05-07)Several combinations of visual and semantic attention have been geared towards developing better image captioning architectures. In this work we introduce a novel combination of word-level semantic context with image ... -
ULTRA-SMALL GOLD NANOPARTICLES BY GALVANIC REPLACEMENT OF LARGER SILVER NANOPARTICLES
(2019-05-16)In the last two decades, Au nanoparticles have been extensively explored for their biomedical applications, which is mainly driven by their biocompatibility and special optical properties known as surface plasmon resonance ... -
Ultra-thin Aluminum Nitride Thin Films for Flexible MEMS Sensors
(2016-09-14)Microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) sensors using ultrathin aluminum nitride (AlN) film were developed and fabricated using conventional photolithography techniques in the class 100 clean room with a view to integrate ... -
ULTRASOUND SWITCHABLE FLUORESCENCE IMAGING BASED ON A TIME GATED ICCD CAMERA
(2019-08-08)Ultrasound switchable fluorescence (USF) imaging has been proposed as a novel imaging modality which provides microscopic fluorescence imaging in centimeter-deep tissue. USF is possible to reveal many interesting phenomena ... -
Ultrasound-modulated Fluorescence Techniques
(Biomedical Engineering, 2014-09-17)Ultrasound-modulated fluorescence (UMF) imaging has been proposed as a novel imaging modality by combining ultrasound and optical imaging techniques for early cancer detection. In UMF, a focused ultrasound beam is used to ... -
(UN)HIDDEN WHITENESS: A CRITICAL POLICY ANALYSIS ON RACE-RELATED EDUCATION POLICIES
(2023-04-19)**Please note that the full text is embargoed until 04/12/2024** ABSTRACT: Over the last three years (2020-2023), many state legislatures responded to grassroots campaigns for social justice by enrolling legislation that ... -
UN-MAKING THE GRADE: THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN DISTRICT ACCOUNTABILITY SCORES AND PROPERTY VALUES
(2021-08-02)The relationship between socio-economic status (SES) and achievement is well documented. While federal and state accountability systems have attempted to close achievement gaps for economically disadvantaged students, ... -
UNCERTAIN TIMES IN AN ALREADY UNCERTAIN CONTEXT: FOSTER PARENTING STRESS & RESILIENCE DURING COVID-19
(2022-05-17)**Please note that the full text is embargoed until 5/10/2024** ABSTRACT: This three-article, mixed-methods dissertation looked at the nature of U.S. foster parent stress and resilience both before and during the COVID-19 ... -
Uncertainty Characterization Of Orbital Debris
(Aerospace Engineering, 2007-08-23)The increase of orbital debris in the low Earth orbit is a concern for the space industry. Spacecraft and satellites are at risk of collision with orbital debris. Collisions can damage sensitive components or result in ... -
UNCERTAINTY PROPAGATION, CONTROL, AND ESTIMATION OF STOCHASTIC DYNAMIC SYSTEMS USING GENERALIZED POLYNOMIAL CHAOS EXPANSION
(2021-08-10)In recent years, uncertainty propagation has emerged as an important research area in the field of dynamical systems. The growing interest in this area arises out of the need to develop computationally efficient approaches ... -
UNCOVERING GENOMIC INSIGHTS TO THE DYNAMICS AND MECHANISMS OF SPECIATION USING LIALIS BURTONIS AND HETERONOTIA BINOEI
(2019-05-08)Species are fundamental entities in biology because their existence represents the cohesion that binds populations into a single unit. One facet of evolutionary biology is to identify the processes that cause the origin ... -
Uncovering Underlying Features for State Transition Modeling
(2019-09-06)Modeling of a dynamic system is the representation of the interconnectivity of system state variables and their evolutionary trajectory over time. In this dissertation, the terminology “state transition modeling” refers ... -
UNDERDAMPED MOTION OF A MICROBEAD IN OPTICAL TWEEZER AND ITS RELATIONSHIP WITH THE REYNOLDS NUMBER
(2018-12-06)Optical tweezers can hold and manipulate microscopic objects with the use of a highly focused laser beam. The radiation pressure acting on the object is generally in the range of piconewtons and can be attractive or repulsive ... -
Underlying Causes Of Forced Displacement
(Social Work, 2009-09-16)Conflict and violence have displaced many people around the world. Therefore, this paper explores the broader underlying risk factors that bring population to a vulnerable state of conflict related internal displacement. ... -
UNDERSTANDING AGING WELL FROM THE PERSPECTIVES OF HOMEBOUND OLDER ADULTS
(2017-06-08)With the population becoming “grayer” the United States has begun to question what it means to be aging well. Previous research has examined what it means to age well how to diminish age-related losses, although there is ... -
Understanding and Optimizing Parallel Performance in Multi-tenant Cloud
(2019-08-12)As a critical component of resource management in multicore systems, fair schedulers in hypervisors and operating systems (OSes) must follow a simple invariant: guarantee that the computing resources such as CPU cycles ...