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(Virginia Tech, 1997-06-20)The purpose of a geotextile separator beneath a granular base, or subbase in a flexible pavement system is to prevent the road aggregate and the underlying subgrade from intermixing. It has been hypothesized that in the ...
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(Virginia Tech, 2001-04-20)The in-situ synthesis of piezoelectric-reinforced metal matrix composites has been attempted with a variety of target matrix and reinforcement materials using reaction synthesis and high energy ball milling. Zinc oxide ...
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(Virginia Tech, 2003-07-17)This paper applies New Growth Theory (NGT) to the economic development plan of the Institute for Advanced Learning and Research (IALR) for the Dan River region. New Growth Theory is summarized into five concepts: knowledge ...
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(Virginia Tech, 1999-04-09)INSTITUTIONALIZING JUVENILES: AN ANAYSIS BY SOCIAL DISORGANIZATION CONTROLLING FOR ARREST RATES Jeffrey R. Hartman (ABSTRACT) Ecological studies of crime explore how crime and delinquency are distributed within a ...
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(Virginia Tech, 2013-05-04)The unique landscape controls and meltwater contributions associated with glacial landcover along the coast of southeast Alaska were examined to better understand in-stream processing of dissolved organic matter (DOM) and ...
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(Virginia Tech, 2003-12-17)Although suitable CAD tools for thermal and electrical analyses in power electronic systems are available, traditional stand-alone simulation method seldom takes into consideration of the inter-dependency of semiconductor ...
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(Virginia Tech, 2013-01-16)The advent of extreme-scale computing systems, e.g., Petaflop supercomputers, High Performance Computing (HPC) cyber-infrastructure, Enterprise databases, and experimental facilities such as large-scale particle colliders, ...
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(Virginia Tech, 2013-05-04)Ensuring sustainability is important for balancing economic viability, the environment and the social system. Because transportation infrastructure projects have direct and indirect impacts associated with this balance, ...
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(Virginia Tech, 2000-02-15)This thesis describes user interface and visualization components in the problem solving environment "Site-Specific System Simulator for Wireless System Design" (S4W) developed by CS and ECE faculty and students at Virginia ...
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(Virginia Tech, 2003-09-16)This thesis explores the reform of intellectual property regulation policies with respect to computer software within two advanced industrial nations after 1980. A comparative case analysis of the United States and Japan ...
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(Virginia Tech, 2004-04-16)It is a favorite canon of preservation architects that soon 95% of work will deal with an existing construct in some manner. Reasons for this include the public's affinity toward old and historic buildings, and the utter ...
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(Virginia Tech, 2003-12-16)Soybean mosaic virus (SMV; Genus Potyvirus; Family Potyviridae) is one of the most widespread viruses in soybean (Glycine max [L.] Merr.). Hutcheson, a cultivar developed in Virginia, is resistant to the common strains of ...
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(Virginia Tech, 2004-05-12)The popular construct of goal orientation has been widely researched by industrial and organizational psychologists in recent years. Unfortunately there are several issues with the goal orientation framework that have not ...
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(Virginia Tech, 2002-07-19)The main objective of this project is to gain an understanding of the internalization of Escherichia coli in the tissues of apples. This broad statement includes the rate of internalization in young versus mature apples ...
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(Virginia Tech, 2004-06-18)A measurement of solar neutrinos below 1 MeV of energy will further our knowledge of the neutrino's mass and mixing properties and will provide a probe to possible physics beyond the standard model of particle physics, as ...
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(Virginia Tech, 2003-11-14)Active magnetic bearings have several potential applications in spacecraft design. Based on the gyrostat model, we develop equations that describe the internal torques and forces that occur between the body and one of ...
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(Virginia Tech, 2004-05-04)Globalization affects many sectors of society. Higher education is no exception. Universities worldwide respond to challenges presented by globalization in various ways. One response is the internationalization of the ...
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(Virginia Tech, 2013-05-09)A currently burgeoning area of research has demonstrated that interpretation biases play a causal role in the onset of anxiety, and by training interpretation biases towards benign interpretations of ambiguity, experimental ...
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(Virginia Tech, 2013-03-15)By revealing deeper meanings and connecting the visitor to the resource, interpretation strives to accomplish a number of goals. Interpretation can increase knowledge of a program\'s topic, change the visitor\'s attitude ...
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(Virginia Tech, 2003-10-23)Despite the importance of job specifications to much of industrial and organizational psychology, little is known of their reliability or validity. Because job specifications are developed based on input from subject matter ...
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