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(Virginia Tech, 1999-05-07)This research develops a discrete-event simulation model of the Queston Physician Network using the Visual Simulation Environment (VSE), an object-oriented simulation software program. The Queston Physician Network, a ...
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(Virginia Tech, 2013-05-08)Though some research exists related to career choices among Appalachian youth, and literature exists which broadly examines choices to pursue engineering degrees, information specifically related to Appalachian students\' ...
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(Virginia Tech, 2004-04-12)We compare an internal state method and a direct Runge-Kutta method for solving Volterra integro-differential equations and Volterra delay differential equations. The internal state method requires the kernel of the ...
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(Virginia Tech, 2013-05-14)The ubiquitous use of mobile devices and smartphones in the United States presents an interesting opportunity for application developers with respect to emergency management. Software engineers from the federal government ...
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(Virginia Tech, 2013-01-07)Severe disturbances in a large electrical interconnection cause a large mismatch in generation and load in the network, leading to frequency instability. If the mismatch is not rectified quickly, the system may disintegrate ...
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(Virginia Tech, 2004-06-05)Wavlet analysis and its advantages in determining time-varying characteristics are discussed. The Morlet wavelet is defined and procedures for choosing its parameters are described. The recovery of modulation characteristics ...
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(Virginia Tech, 2004-01-20)In many applications, it is necessary to simulate wave scattering from surfaces that have small radii of curvature relative to the incident wavelength. Surface features smaller than an electromagnetic wavelength are known ...
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(Virginia Tech, 2013-01-24)The purpose of this project is to investigate the correlation between wealth and religion, particularly focusing on how financial prosperity influences African American religiosity. Wealth (specifically in the form of ...
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(Virginia Tech, 2003-09-29)In 1902, in an effort to reestablish what they saw as whites' natural right to control government rule over blacks, the delegates to Virginia's Constitutional Convention of 1901-1902 declared the new constitution law that ...
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(Virginia Tech, 2004-04-16)WHAT MAKES A SUCCESSFUL COLLEGE OR UNIVERSITY PROGRAMMING BOARD?: STANDARDS OF PRACTICE FOR PROGRAMMING BOARDS by Megan Alene Page Dr. Joan B. Hirt, Chair Educational Leadership and Policy Studies ABSTRACT The purpose ...
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(Virginia Tech, 2013-04-23)This study brings together the scattered body of criteria contemporary scholars have used to identify divine communications (a sub-category of religious and spiritual experiences), presented as a new Model of Academic ...
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(Virginia Tech, 2013-03-29)Departure among student affairs administrators in higher education has been an issue for decades (Evans, 1988; Lorden, 1998; Tull, 2006). Rates of departure from student affairs within the first five years of experience ...
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(Virginia Tech, 2013-01-21)The increasing demand for electricity over the last few decades has not been followed by adequate growth in electric infrastructure. As a result, the reliability and safety of the electric grids are facing tremendously ...
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(Virginia Tech, 2013-03-12)An islanded power system indicates a geographical and logical detach between a portion<br />of a power system and the major grid, and often accompanies with the loss of system<br />observability. A power system islanding ...
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(Virginia Tech, 2004-01-19)Land is a composite good, the price of which varies with its characteristics, including proximity to amenities. Analysis of data from sales of land near Green Mountain National Forest wilderness areas in a hedonic price ...
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(Virginia Tech, 1999-12-10)Traditional call button networks that control elevator systems utilize a wired connection for communication. The communication cables are run through the elevator shaft from one call button to another and finally to the ...
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(Virginia Tech, 2004-04-13)Four case studies were developed of women who were promoted to high school principalships in a public school district in Virginia, 1970 __ 2000. Using qualitative research methods, data were obtained through interviews, ...
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(Virginia Tech, 2004-05-06)The rise of ubiquitous computing devices has provided the catalyst for the next generation World Wide Web, one that shifts the focus from the desktop computer to mobile devices such as cell phones and PDAs, in an ever ...
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(Virginia Tech, 2004-05-07)We present a methodology of an agile formal method named eXtreme Formal Modeling (XFM) recently developed by us, based on Extreme Programming concepts to construct abstract models from a natural language specification of ...
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(Virginia Tech, 2003-09-11)Beef cattle producers in the southeastern US often stockpile forage in late summer to extend the grazing season and reduce feeding costs. Three stockpiled grass-legume mixtures were evaluated for winter grazing. In ...
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