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Evoke a Memory Through Architecture
(Virginia Tech, 2021-01-21)Memories are often triggered by the presence of physical artifacts. When artifacts are replaced, the contemplation of a history attached to the artifacts tends to fade or even disappear. In an urban context, it often means ... -
Principal Leadership in Building a Culture of Disciplinary Literacy
(Virginia Tech, 2021-01-21)This study investigated principal leadership in building a culture of disciplinary literacy. Previous studies investigated and validated the uniqueness of disciplinary literacy (Moje, 2015; Shanahan and Shanahan, 2008; ... -
A Precious View
(Virginia Tech, 2021-01-20)Architecture can be significant in defining a particular place. While architecture typically offers basic shelter, its value and contributions to culture lie beyond these basic needs. The thesis proposes that by specific ... -
Structure and Persistence of Surface Ship Wakes
(Virginia Tech, 2021-01-20)It has long been known that ship wakes are observable by synthetic aperture radar. However, incomplete physical understanding has prevented the development of simulation tools that can predict both the structure and ... -
Addressing Occlusion in Panoptic Segmentation
(Virginia Tech, 2021-01-20)Visual recognition tasks have witnessed vast improvements in performance since the advent of deep learning. Despite the gains in performance, image understanding algorithms are still not completely robust to partial ... -
A Continental-Scale Investigation of Factors Controlling the Vulnerability of Soil Organic Matter in Mineral Horizons to Decomposition
(Virginia Tech, 2019-07-30)Soil organic matter (SOM) is the largest terrestrial pool of organic carbon (C), and potential carbon-climate feedbacks involving SOM decomposition could exacerbate anthropogenic climate change. Despite the importance of ... -
Characterization of Internal Formaldehyde Production within The Pandora Spectrometer Instrument
(Virginia Tech, 2021-01-19)Formaldehyde (HCHO), plays an important role in atmospheric chemistry and is an indicator of atmospheric oxidation capacity and surface ozone photo chemistry. The Pandora Spectrometer Instruments are deployed within the ... -
Balancing the Water Budget: the effect of plant functional type on infiltration to harvest ratios in stormwater bioretention cells
(Virginia Tech, 2021-01-19)Stormwater bioretention cells (BRCs) are a variety of green stormwater infrastructure with the potential to restore pre-urban water balance, provided they can be tailored to infiltrate and evapotranspire (i.e., harvest) ... -
Efficient H2-Based Parametric Model Reduction via Greedy Search
(Virginia Tech, 2021-01-19)Dynamical systems are mathematical models of physical phenomena widely used throughout the world today. When a dynamical system is too large to effectively use, we turn to model reduction to obtain a smaller dynamical ... -
A Synthesis of Geometry and Light
(Virginia Tech, 2021-01-19)The poetics of an architecture of a moment is explored through design of a contemplative room (wherin the geometric transformation of a cubic base to a cone) demonstrates the rhythmn and proportion of the construction of ... -
Technoeconomic Analysis of Textured Surfaces for Improved Condenser Performance in Thermoelectric Power Plants
(Virginia Tech, 2021-01-19)Nonwetting surfaces including superhydrophobic (SHS) and liquid infused surfaces (SLIPS) exhibit diverse exceptional characteristics promoting numerous application opportunities. Engineered textured surfaces demonstrate ... -
Imagining a NeoFreudian Mind Interface: A Normative Model of Medical Humanities Research
(Virginia Tech, 2019-07-29)This thesis argues for a new theory of medical humanities practice and research, known as Mind Interface Theory. It begins with the claim that Sigmund Freud expanded medical metaphysics considerably in "A General Introduction ... -
Explicitly correlated Green's function methods for calculating electron binding energies
(Virginia Tech, 2019-07-29)Single-particle Green's function method is a direct way of calculating electron binding energy, which relies on expanding the Fock subspace in a finite single-particle basis. However, these methods suffer from slow asymptotic ... -
Evaluating the Fracture Potential of Steel Moment Connections with Defects and Repairs
(Virginia Tech, 2020)Steel moment frames are a popular seismic-force resisting system, but it is believed that they are susceptible to early fracture if there is a stress concentration in the plastic hinge region, also known as the protected ... -
Architecture as Living Memory: Building Across Borders
(Virginia Tech, 2021-01-15)Border delineations and walls have been used to protect cities and towns throughout history. In the present age of modern surveillance and advanced military technology however, physical walls have much less significance ... -
Exploring Sibling Relationships in Latino/a/x Immigrant Families
(Virginia Tech, 2021-01-15)Siblings are the longest lasting relationships most individuals may experience in their life. What makes sibling relationships unique is the overlap of both shared and unshared experiences. While there is limited research ... -
Design and Implementation of a Multiphase Buck Converter for Front End 48V-12V Intermediate Bus Converters
(Virginia Tech, 2019-07-25)The trend in isolated DC/DC bus converters is to increase the output power in the same brick form factors that have been used in the past. Traditional intermediate bus converters (IBCs) use silicon power metal oxide ... -
Protection of Falling Conductors into Flammable Vegetation Faults
(Virginia Tech, 2021-01-14)Increasing modernization of the world has brought about a human component to natural disasters, which are exacerbated by the growing threat of climate change. The Western United States and Australia have witnessed some of ... -
Thermoacoustic Analysis and Experimental Validation of Statistically-Based Flame Transfer Function Extracted from Computational Fluid Dynamics
(Virginia Tech, 2019-07-24)Thermoacoustic instabilities arise and sustain due to the coupling of unsteady heat release from the flame and the acoustic field. One potential driving mechanism for these instabilities arise when velocity fluctuations ... -
Ego Depletion-Induced Aberrant Driving in the Post-Work Commute
(Virginia Tech, 2020-12-11)Spillover research has shown that workday stress hampers commuting safety, while ego depletion research has demonstrated that prior self-regulation leads to performance decrements in subsequent tasks. This study sought to ...
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