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(Virginia Tech, 2004-05-07)In recent years, game theory has emerged as a promising approach to solving the power control problem in wireless networks. This thesis extends the reach of game-theoretic analysis to embrace link adaptation, thereby ...
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(Virginia Tech, 2004-06-09)The Internet has a loosely hierarchical structure. At the top of the hierarchy are the backbones, also called Internet Access Providers (hereafter IAPs). The second layer of the hierarchy is comprised of Internet Service ...
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(Virginia Tech, 2004-05-13)We live in an increasingly urbanized world as people migrate to cities for employment and cultural benefits. Growing and dense urban populations contribute heavily to water pollution and energy waste contributing to global ...
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(Virginia Tech, 2003-12-19)The Grid environments are inherently unstable. Resources join and leave the environment without any prior notification. Application fault detection, checkpointing and restart is of foremost importance in the Grid environments. ...
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(Virginia Tech, 2004-02-05)Abstract Immigration policy and tradition dovetail in their impact on the social organization of immigrant communities, linking the material and non-material aspects of gender. I focus on Asian Indian Patels, who dominate ...
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(Virginia Tech, 1997-04-22)A generalized analysis of multiple-clad cylindrical dielectric structures with step-index profiles is presented. This analysis yields unified expressions for fields, dispersion equation and cutoff conditions for weakly ...
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(Virginia Tech, 2004-08-24)The DNA microarray is a powerful tool to study expression levels of thousands of genes simultaneously. Often, cDNA libraries representing expressed genes of an organism are available, along with expressed sequence tags ...
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(Virginia Tech, 2004-04-30)Genetical and molecular systematic study on the genus Montagnea Fr., a desert adapted Gasteromycete by Chang Chen Committee Chairman: Orson K. Miller Jr. Biology (ABSTRACT) Montagnea arenaria [Hymenogastrales, ...
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(Virginia Tech, 1998-03-16)Soybean (Glycine max L. Merr.) is one of the most important crops of the world. Among the various viruses infecting soybean, peanut mottle virus is most commonly found on soybeans in areas where they are grown in close ...
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(Virginia Tech, 2004-03-24)Conversations among scholars in the study of Chaucer have been essential in constructing the foundations on which we now stand. However, in light of recent pressures in the very competitive and practical aspects of academic ...
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(Virginia Tech, 2004-09-15)To succeed in today's globalized world, it is important to understand the places and cultures outside our own. Yet despite the acknowledged need for and importance of a greater understanding of the world, various surveys ...
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(Virginia Tech, 2000-01-27)Thesis explores a theory of proportion, its application within a design-build experiment, while establishing essential elements of design language.
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(Virginia Tech, 2004-07-19)From clinical studies it is well known that atherosclerosis has preferred locations in the vascular system, primarily sited in the carotid arteries, coronary arteries, and in vessels supplying the lower extremities in the ...
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(Virginia Tech, 2003-12-05)The tremendous advancement in VLSI technologies in the past decade has fueled the need for intricate tradeoffs among speed, power dissipation and area. With gigahertz range microprocessors becoming commonplace, it is a ...
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(Virginia Tech, 2003-09-17)This dissertation examines aspects of both the consumer (the "give") and the server (the "take") sides of restaurant tipping. On the consumer side, I address both why, and how much, people tip in restaurants. I also ...
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(Virginia Tech, 2003-10-31)This research examined the validity of the 2-factor (e.g., Button, Mathieu, and Zajac, 1996) and 3-factor (e.g., VandeWalle, 1997) models of goal orientation. These models differ in specifying the dimensionality, measurement, ...
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(Virginia Tech, 2004-02-11)In most parts of the country, swimming pools are objects of recreation and entertainment - symbols of luxury, affluence. In Texas, they hold a similar position, but the water is viewed with a great amount of subconscious ...
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(Virginia Tech, 2003-05-15)The mountainous western Virginia is the source of the headwater streams for the New, the Roanoke, and the James rivers. The region is prone to flash flooding, typically the result of localized precipitation. Fortunately, ...
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(Virginia Tech, 2004-04-21)Research has indicated that the frontal and temporal lobes are involved in the mediation of heart rate and blood pressure. However, whereas these regions of the brain have been identified in the mediation of heart rate ...
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(Virginia Tech, 2004-06-04)Let K be a field and Q a finite directed multi-graph. In this paper I classify all path algebras KQ and admissible orders with the property that all of their finitely generated ideals have finite Groebner bases.
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