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A CAD-BASED SOFTWARE FRAMEWORK FOR ESTIMATING ENERGY THROUGH A PRODUCT LIFE CYCLE
(2012)Excessive energy consumption has become a worldwide issue in today's design and manufacturing industry. A framework for estimating energy consumption that could later be used to integrate with CAD/CAM systems is in demand. ... -
A Case Study of a School District: Administrators' Intentions and Teachers' Perceptions of Professional Development
(2015)This study outlines the research problem, reviews relevant literature, describes research methods, and presents findings addressing the research topic: "A Case Study of a School District: Administrators' Intentions and ... -
A Collaborative Defense Framework Against DDoS Attacks in Networks
(2013)Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks pose one of the most serious security threats to the Internet. In this work, we aimed to develop a collaborative defense framework against DDoS attacks in networks. We focus on ... -
A COMBINED CYANEX-923 AND HEH[EHP] PROCESS FOR PARTITIONING USED NUCLEAR FUELS: CHARACTERIZING COMPLEX INTERACTIONS
(2014)The efficient separation of used nuclear fuel into its components remains a significant challenge in the operation of a closed nuclear fuel cycle. Many solvent extraction processes have been either successfully applied or ... -
A Conceptual Model of Consumers Online Tourism Confusion
(2014)The first paper proposed a conceptual model demonstrating the antecedents and outcomes of consumers' online tourism information confusion through the integration of information providers (i.e., online tourism marketers) ... -
A CONTINUUM DISLOCATION DYNAMICS FRAMEWORK FOR PLASTICITY OF POLYCRYSTALLINE MATERIALS
(2014)The objective of this research is to investigate the mechanical response of polycrystals in different settings to identify the mechanisms that give rise to specific response observed in the deformation process. Particularly ... -
A CRITICAL EXPLORATION OF THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN STUDENTS' MATHEMATICS IDENTITIES AND THEIR SOCIAL CAPITAL
(2012)This case study explored how selected students' social capital impacted their mathematical identities inside a seventh-grade classroom. Mathematical identities were measured in terms of participation and alignment to general ... -
A DESCRIPTIVE STUDY OF LATINO AND CAUCASIAN HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS' VALUES ABOUT MATH, PERCEIVED MATH ACHIEVEMENT AND STEM CAREER CHOICE
(2012)The purpose of this study was to examine high school students' math values, perceived math achievement, and STEM career choice. Participants (N=515) were rural high school students from the U.S. Northwest. Data was collected ... -
A DISLOCATION-BASED MULTISCALE MODELING OF PLASTICITY AND CONTROLLING MECHANISMS
(2016)The objective of this research is to investigate the plastic deformation and its controlling mechanisms in order to model and predict the material microstructure either dislocation pileups as a feature of plasticity or ... -
A finite element based macro
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A GIS-BASED PEDESTRIAN NETWORK MODEL FOR ASSESSMENT OF SPATIAL ACCESSIBILITY EQUITY AND IMPROVEMENT PRIORITIZATION AND ITS APPLICATION TO THE SPOKANE PUBLIC TRANSIT BENEFIT AREA
(2014)Access to critical social services is crucial for the welfare and well-being of citizens and is widely considered as a vital goal in the practice of transport and urban planning. Considering that some mobility-disadvantaged ... -
A HAND-HELD MECHANICAL DEVICE FOR TARGETED BLOSSOM THINNING IN SWEET CHERRY
(2013)Managing crop load of commercial tree fruit species, such as sweet cherry (Prunus avium L.), apple (Malus domestica Borkh.), pear (Pyrus communis), by thinning bloom, is a common practice used to produce larger and better ...