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A House for the Families of Abraham: A Multi-Faith Community Center for Interfaith Dialogue
(Virginia Tech, 2020-08-07)Religion has the ability to bring a diversity of people together in a way that crosses political, social, and economic boundaries, but divides them through conflicting worship practices, rituals, and teachings. This is ... -
Simulation and Integration of a 6-DOF Controllable Multirotor Vehicle
(Virginia Tech, 2020-08-07)The purpose of this thesis is to develop an existing design of a fully controllable multi-rotor vehicle toward simulating small satellite dynamics, enabling technology development to be accelerated and component failure ... -
Effects of Trimethylamine N-Oxide on Mouse Embryonic Stem Cell Properties
(Virginia Tech, 2020-08-06)Trimethylamine N-oxide (TMAO) is a metabolite derived from dietary choline, betaine, and carnitine via intestinal microbiota metabolism. In several recent studies, TMAO has been shown to directly induce inflammation and ... -
Meteorological Impacts on Streamflow: Analyzing Anthropogenic Climate Change's Effect on Runoff and Streamflow Magnitudes in Virginia's Chesapeake Bay Watershed
(Virginia Tech, 2020-08-05)Anthropogenic climate change will impact Virginia's hydrologic processes in unforeseen ways in the coming decades. This research describes variability in meteorology (temperature and precipitation) and associated hydrologic ... -
Assessing Structure–Property Relationships of Crystal Materials using Deep Learning
(Virginia Tech, 2020-08-05)In recent years, deep learning technologies have received huge attention and interest in the field of high-performance material design. This is primarily because deep learning algorithms in nature have huge advantages over ... -
DNA Sequence and Haplotype Variation Analysis of Inflammatory Response Genes NLRX1, IL6, and IL8 in the Turkey (Meleagris gallopavo)
(Virginia Tech, 2019-02-08)Genotype-phenotype analyses continue to be the primary goal for genome analyses in livestock and poultry breeding. Essential to accomplish this goal is the need to identify variation at the genomic level. To test the ... -
The Grieving Process of Opioid Overdose Bereaved Parents in Maryland
(Virginia Tech, 2020-07-31)In recent years, the opioid epidemic in the United States has garnered attention on a federal and local level due to the increasing number of fatal overdoses. This study aimed to explore the experiences of parents who have ... -
A Study on Use of Wide-Area Persistent Video Data for Modeling Traffic Characteristics
(Virginia Tech, 2019-02-07)This study explores the potential of vehicle trajectory data obtained from Wide Area Motion Imagery for modeling and analyzing traffic characteristics. The data in question is collected by PV Labs and also known as persistent ... -
Improving the Perception of Depth of Image-Based Objects in a Virtual Environment
(Virginia Tech, 2020-07-29)In appreciation of High-Performance Computing, modern scientific simulations are scaling into millions and even billions of grid points. As we enter the exa-scale, new strategies are required for visualization and analysis. ... -
Kenyan Vegetable Farmers' IPM adoption: barriers and impacts
(Virginia Tech, 2020-07-29)This thesis analyzes factors affecting adoption of integrated pest management (IPM) techniques by Kenyan vegetable farmers, including the role of their risk preferences. It also analyzes factors affecting their pesticide ... -
Understanding the Influence of Banded Mongoose (Mungos mungo) Social Structuring on Disease Transmission Using Molecular Tools
(Virginia Tech, 2019-02-04)Understanding the disease transmission dynamics in wildlife species can be difficult and can prove more complicated if the population structure of a socially living species is shaped by territoriality. Understanding the ... -
Use of Photogrammetry Aided Damage Detection for Residual Strength Estimation of Corrosion Damaged Prestressed Concrete Bridge Girders
(Virginia Tech, 2020-07-27)Corrosion damage reduces the load-carrying capacity of bridges which poses a threat to passenger safety. The objective of this research was to reduce the resources involved in conventional bridge inspections which are an ... -
Spatially Resolved Equivalence Ratio Measurements Using Tomographic Reconstruction of OH*/CH* Chemiluminescence
(Virginia Tech, 2020-07-27)Thermoacoustic instabilities in gas turbine operation arise due to unsteady fluctuations in heat release coupled with acoustic oscillations, often caused by varying equivalence ratio perturbations within the flame field. ... -
A fogging scrubber to treat diesel exhaust: field testing and a mechanistic model
(Virginia Tech, 2020-07-27)Diesel particulate matter (DPM) is comprised of two main fractions, organic carbon (OC) and elemental carbon (EC). DPM is the solid portion of diesel exhaust and particles are submicron in size typically ranging from 10 ... -
Aligned Continuous Cylindrical Pores Derived from Electrospun Polymer Fibers in Titanium Diboride
(Virginia Tech, 2019-02-01)The use of electrospun polystyrene (PS) fibers to create continuous long range ordered multi-scale porous structures in titanium diboride (TiB2) is investigated in this work. The introduction of electrospun PS fibers as a ... -
Evaluation of the Ability of Adhesives to Substitute Nails in Wooden Block Pallets
(Virginia Tech, 2019-02-01)The most common fastening technique that is used to connect the components of wooden pallets together are helically or annularly threaded pallet nails. Pallet nails create a strong durable connection and increase manufacturing ... -
Biological and Membrane Treatment Applications for the Reduction of Specific Conductivity and Total Dissolved Solids in Coal Mine Waters
(Virginia Tech, 2017-01-25)Specific conductivity (SC) and total dissolved solids (TDS) are increasingly being used as a parameter used to judge the aquatic health of streams that are impacted by coal mining operations in the Appalachian region of ... -
Is variability appropriate? Encoding Variability and Transfer-Appropriate Processing
(Virginia Tech, 2020-05-22)Transfer-appropriate processing (TAP) proposes that retrieval success is based on the match between processing at encoding and retrieval. We propose that the processing described by TAP determines the contextual cues that ... -
Linear Parameter Uncertainty Quantification using Surrogate Gaussian Processes
(Virginia Tech, 2020-07-21)We consider uncertainty quantification using surrogate Gaussian processes. We take a previous sampling algorithm and provide a closed form expression of the resulting posterior distribution. We extend the method to weighted ... -
Exploring the Impact of Work-Related Traumatic Stress on Law Enforcement Couples
(Virginia Tech, 2020-07-23)Studies exploring the impact of work-related traumatic stress on law enforcement couples are limited. Such studies suggest that when work-related traumatic stress impacts law enforcement professionals, their spouses may ...
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