Browsing NDLTD Theses and Dissertations by Title
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Radio over fiber for 3G cellular System
(Kolhapur Institute of Technology College of Engineering, 2010)The demand for bandwidth is increasing vigorously. Thus wired network is using fiber optic telephone line instead of coaxial cable. The concept of Fiber to the Home (FTTH) is really coming into picture. Few countries like ... -
Recommender Systems based on Personality Traits
(Université Montpellier 2 - LIRMM, 2008-12-12)The World Wide Web is a great source of products and services available to people. Scientists have made a huge effort to create effective strategies to personalize those products/services for anyone willing to use them. ... -
Recycled Waste Paper- An Inexpensive Carbon Material for Supercapacitor Applications
The present study presents the current status of research into the production of active carbons from environmental applications using waste newspaper. A number of studies have been performed to investigate the pyrolysis ... -
Reduction of Biomechanical Models for Subject Specific Real-Time Simulation of Surgical Trocar Insertion
(University at Buffalo, State University of New York, 2010-09-01)Trocar insertion is the first step in Laparoscopy, Thoracoscopy and most other micro surgery procedures. It is a difficult procedure to learn and practice because procedure is carried out almost entirely without any visual ... -
Reflecting the Outside World in Everyday Consumption: Material Culture and Identity in Late Nineteenth-Century Urban Latin America
(University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2008-12)Following the end of the colonial period, Latin America became a thriving market for goods from the industrializing world, particularly the United States, Great Britain, and France. This thesis explores the sociocultural ... -
The Regional Organization of the Eastern Roman Empire in the Early Byzantine Period (4th-6th Century A.D.)
(Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, 2009-05)The purpose of this doctoral dissertation is to contribute to the investigation of the regional organization of the system of settlements in the regions of the ‘Eastern Ro-man Empire’ (ERE) during the Early Byzantine period ... -
Relação entre o Nível de Isolamento Térmico da Envolvente dos Edifícios e o Potencial de Sobreaquecimento no Verão
(Universidade do Porto, 2007-04)Há uma tendência para a prescrição de restrições cada vez mais severas para o isolamento da envolvente nos edifícios nas regulamentações europeias, particularmente devido à recente Directiva sobre o Desempenho Energético ... -
Relationship between the Emotional Intelligence of the Lead Clergy and Church Growth in North America
(Piedmont International University, 2018-02-23)Followers expect leaders to provide clarity and assurance in uncertain times. These expectations apply to church leaders as well. American churches are in crisis regarding growth in worship attendance. According to Eymann ... -
A representação social de perfeição na memória das personalidades do espiritismo
Este trabalho aproxima as contribuições da teoria das representações sociais e dos estudos em memória social para a compreensão do campo religioso, especificamente o Espiritismo, reconhecendo a importância da recordação ... -
Representing Gothic: A Description of a Gothic Edifice in Geoffrey Chaucer's "House of Fame"
(Columbia University, 2005-05-01)This paper proposes to approach the representation of the House of Fame with a close re-reading and a synthesis of previous historiography and literary theory in an attempt to address the problem of representation and ... -
Retaining Prison Staff: The Influence of Leader Emotional Intelligence on Employee Job Satisfaction
(Piedmont International University, 2017-07-20)Correctional leadership faces staffing challenges that potentially compromise safety and security and cause stress for remaining prison staff. Leadership is especially crucial in prisons due to threats of danger and stress. ... -
Retrieving Definitions from Scientific Text in the Salmon Fish Domain by Lexical Pattern Matching
(University of Limerick, 2004-01)While an information retrieval system takes as input a user query and returns a list of relevant documents chosen from a large collection, a question answering system attempts to produce an exact answer. Recent research, ... -
Returning Science to the Scientists. Der Umbruch im STM-Fachzeitschriftenmarkt durch Electronic Publishing
(Ludwig-Maximilinas-Universität München, 2002-05)This disseratition copes with a actual and controversly discussed topic. It is a compilation and knowledgable discussion of central analyses concerning the journals crisis with special regard to electronic publishing as ... -
Reverberation Chamber Modeling Using Finite-Difference Time-Domain Method
(University of Marne la Vallée, 2002-12)Since the last few years, the unprecedented growth of communication systems involving the propagation of electromagnetic waves is particularly due to developments in mobile phone technology. The reverberation chamber is a ... -
The Rhetorical Making of the Asian/Asian American Face: Reading and Writing Asian Eyelids
(ProQuest, UMI Dissertations Publishing, 2013-05-01)In The Rhetorical Making of the Asian/Asian American Face: Reading and Writing Asian Eyelids, I examine representations of East Asian blepharoplasty in online video in order to gain a sense of how cultural values change ... -
The Role of Open Access in Fostering Knowledge Sharing and Collaboration in Ethiopia: a case study
(Tallinn University, 2009)This study adopts a qualitative approach and uses the case study method. Fourteen researchers and librarians were interviewed in four organizations in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.The responses based on the semi-structured ... -
Security By Design
Securing a computer from unwanted intrusion requires astute planning and effort to effectively minimize the security invasions computers are plagued with today. While all of the efforts to secure a computer are needed, it ... -
Semantique Et Grammaticalisation De 'Do' En Anglais: Approche Contrastive (The Semantax And Grammaticalization Of 'Do' In English: A Contrastive Study)
(Université Paris III - Sorbonne Nouvelle, 2004-03)The subject of this contrastive study is fourfold: (a) it takes into account the inference of languages in contact in the diachronic development of English language; and it builds up a hypothesis on the origin of periphrastic ... -
Software-Based Extraction of Objective Parameters from Music Performances
(Technischen Universität Berlin, 2008-11-17)Different music performances of the same score may significantly differ from each other. It is obvious that not only the composer’s work, the score, defines the listener’s music experience, but that the music performance ...