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Poster Abstract: ConStory: Automatic story investigator of public perception on the mega urban infrastructure project
(ACM, 2022-11-10)We evaluate the North Houston Highway Improvement Project (NHHIP) in Texas by analyzing social media data (Twitter) to determine the public perception on a series of issues in the project. We analyze the pertinent tweets ... -
POSTERIOR NORMAL APPROXIMATION OF REAL-TIME DEGRADATION MODELING USING LAPLACE APPROXIMATION
(2018-09-05)Preventing failure that can cause delays or catastrophe, has been the focus and motivation for engineers, and other establishments that deals with heavy and light machinery, equipment, and devices. One of the biggest ... -
POSTHUMAN NURTURING IN AMERICAN LITERARY FUTURITIES
(2021-08-16)This dissertation applies posthuman theories to the concept of nurture in American literatures of 1880-1920 and 1980-2020 to explore how writers construct and imagine futurities that increasingly critique the liberal ... -
Postpartum Depression and COVID-19: A Special Emphasis on Military Women
(2022-12-20)The purpose of this study is to explore the possible factors that contribute to postpartum depression in military women during the COVID-19 pandemic. The study had a total of 10 participants who were recruited by snowball ... -
POSTSECONDARY PARTICIPATION AND COLLEGE CHOICE FOR STUDENTS WITH DISABILITIES: DOES HIGH SCHOOL MATTER?
(2023-05-04)**Please note that the full text is embargoed until 05/04/2025** ABSTRACT: Students with disabilities (SWDs) face unique challenges when it comes to the transition from high school to college. There is a lack of research ... -
Posttraumatic Growth And Positive Macro-level Outcomes
(Social Work, 2012-07-25)Common patterns and themes emerge from the unique experiences of individuals who have managed to turn personal tragedies into positive macro-level outcomes, such as societal change or agency creation. A number of research ... -
Potential Applicability Of Stress Wave Velocity Method On Pavement Base Materials As A Non-destructive Testing Technique
(Civil & Environmental Engineering, 2015)Aggregates derived from natural sources have been used traditionally as the pavement base materials. But in recent times, the extraction of these natural aggregates has be-come more labor intensive and costly due to resource ... -
POTENTIAL APPLICATION OF ULTRA-HIGH PERFORMANCE FIBER-REINFORCED CONCRETE WITH WET-MIX SHOTCRETE SYSTEM IN TUNNELING
(2016-05-31)In the tunneling industry, shotcrete has been used for several decades. The use of shotcrete or wet-mix spray-on methods allows the application of this method in complex underground profiles and shapes. The need for time ... -
A Potential Field Approach For Distributed Control Of Discrete Actuator And Sensor Arrays
(Electrical Engineering, 2008-04-22)This dissertation presents new methods of distributed sensing, classification and actuation using potential field and neural network approaches. Human look-a-like robot serves as an excellent tool to implement the strategies ... -
A Potential Field Approach To Multiple Robot Formation Control
(Electrical Engineering, 2007-09-17)A special case of cooperative control for mobile robots is considered - formation control. A potential field based algorithm is developed in which geometric, communication and information centric influences are considered ... -
The Potential Of Posthumanism: Reimagining Utopia Through Bellamy, Atwood, And Slonczewski
(English, 2014-12)In this thesis, I focus on posthumanist theory, utopia, and the evolving portrayal of technology in the novels of Edward Bellamy, Margaret Atwood, and Joan Slonczewski. The main argument of this thesis is that there is a ... -
POWER ALLOCATION AND MASSIVE MIMO CHANNEL MODELING FOR 5G WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS
(2022-05-11)To meet the demand for wireless communication transmission rate to reach a thousand times of the existing system in 2021, the fifth-generation (5G) mobile communication system was developed. Compared with Long-Term Evolution ... -
Power And Distortion Optimized Video Coding For Pervasive Computing Applications
(Computer Science & Engineering, 2007-08-23)This dissertation investigates video encoding schemes for pervasive computing applications that must ensure low power consumption in addition to high compression efficiency. The contribution of the dissertation is the ... -
Power Control And Multi-target Identification In Cognitive Wireless Networks
(Electrical Engineering, 2007-09-17)Recent research results have shown that cognitive wireless networks (CWN) have the potential to alleviate spectrum scarcity problem resulting from current policies for radio resource allocation management and dramatically ... -
Power Management Integrated Circuits Design, Functionality Analysis And Applications
(Electrical Engineering, 2007-08-23)Power management is playing a significant role in modern electronics. Good power management is especially important for portable devices that rely on batteries. By smartly managing how the power is directed to different ... -
The Power of Collaboration: Creative Opportunities with Faculty
(2014-04-28)Digital humanities, e-science and other web-based initiatives are rapidly developing, resulting in many new and exciting opportunities for librarians to collaborate with faculty and the community. This poster outlines two ... -
The Power Of Ostracism: Can Personality Influence Reactions To Social Exclusion?
(Psychology, 2007-08-23)Ostracism, also labeled social exclusion, is seen by researchers and lay persons alike as one of the more socially painful events that is an inevitable part of life. Moreover, many theorists (e.g., Zadro, Williams, and ... -
Power-Derived Thermal Characterization of SiGe HBTs and Design of Timing Circuit using a Phase Locked-Loop
(2016-05-24)Silicon Germanium (SiGe) hetero-junction bipolar transistors (HBTs) have been designed to cater the demand of high speed circuits having speed applications in wireless, optical communication and space electronics. Due to ... -
Practical Efficient Microservice Autoscaling with QoS Assurance
(ACM, 2022-06-27)Cloud applications are increasingly moving away from monolithic services to agile microservices-based deployments. However, efficient resource management for microservices poses a significant hurdle due to the sheer number ... -
Practical End-To-End Performance Evaluation Of Backend Software Applications
This dissertation makes contributions to four areas of performance testing - the test process itself, monitoring, automation and end-to-end performance evaluation of backend applications. The first contribution deals with ...