Browsing ETDs: Virginia Tech Electronic Theses and Dissertations by Title
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G.W. Pabst and the New Objectivity: Social Criticism and the Loss of Idealism in the Weimar Republic
(Virginia Tech, 2002-02-07)Between the years of 1919 and 1933, the Weimar Republic was a world leader in art and entertainment. However, it was also torn apart by severe economic depressions and political violence. This intense atmosphere provided ... -
Gadolinium Endohedral Metallofullerenes for Future Magnetic Resonance Imaging Contrast Agents
(Virginia Tech, 2014-04-29)Gadolinium endohedral metallofullerenes (EMFs) have shown the potential to become next generation magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) contrast agents due to their significantly improved efficiency and safety, as well as ... -
Gaining Gold Medals and Gowns: Equilibrating the Dual Career of Student-Athletes with Online Education
(Virginia Tech, 2008-03-20)Student-athletes must constantly balance their athletic, academic, and social roles. Their dual career can easily be overwhelming. Missing classes because of intense travel can be disruptive to the flow of classes and ... -
Gaining New Insights into Spatiotemporal Chaos with Numerics
(Virginia Tech, 2012-04-05)An important phenomenon of systems driven far-from-equilibrium is spatiotemporal chaos where the dynamics are aperiodic in both time and space. We explored this numerically for three systems: the Lorenz-96 model, the ... -
GaInN/GaN Schottky Barrier Solar Cells
(Virginia Tech, 2015-06-02)GaInN has the potential to revolutionize the solar cell industry, enabling higher efficiency solar cells with its wide bandgap range spanning the entire solar spectrum. However, material quality issues stemming from the ... -
Gainsboro structure
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Gait and Morphology Optimization for Articulated Bodies in Fluids
(Virginia Tech, 2016-08-16)The contributions of this dissertation can be divided into three primary foci: input waveform optimization, the modeling and optimization of fish-like robots, and experiments on a flapping wing robot. Novel contributions ... -
Gait Variability for Predicting Individual Performance in Military-Relevant Tasks
(Virginia Tech, 2019-10-03)Human movement is inherently complex, requiring the control and coordination of many neurophysiological and biomechanical degrees-of-freedom, and the extent to which individuals exhibit variation in their movement patterns ... -
A Galerkin Approach to Define Measured Terrain Surfaces with Analytic Basis Vectors to Produce a Compact Representation
(Virginia Tech, 2010-11-01)The concept of simulation-based engineering has been embraced by virtually every research and industry sector (Sinha, Liang et al. 2001; Mocko and Fenves 2003). Engineering and science communities have become increasingly ... -
Galerkin Approximations of General Delay Differential Equations with Multiple Discrete or Distributed Delays
(Virginia Tech, 2018-06-29)Delay differential equations (DDEs) are often used to model systems with time-delayed effects, and they have found applications in fields such as climate dynamics, biosciences, engineering, and control theory. In contrast ... -
Galerkin Projections Between Finite Element Spaces
(Virginia Tech, 2015-06-17)Adaptive mesh refinement schemes are used to find accurate low-dimensional approximating spaces when solving elliptic PDEs with Galerkin finite element methods. For nonlinear PDEs, solving the nonlinear problem with Newton's ... -
Gallery design focused on contrast & dynamism
(Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, 1996)The purpose of this study is, first of all, to establish contrast and dynamism as a method to figure out the static and uniform experience through space. Second, through a study of books and an analysis of previous works ... -
Gallery For Art
(Virginia Tech, 2005-06-06)For my thesis I explored the idea of the mask in relation to architecture. For my project I designed an art gallery located in Georgetown Washington DC which is composed of three layers: a structural layer, an environmental ... -
Galvanic Lead Corrosion in Potable Water: Mechanisms, Water Quality Impacts, and Practical Implications
(Virginia Tech, 2010-08-27)As stagnant water contacts copper pipe and lead solder (simulated soldered joints), a corrosion cell is formed between the metals in solder (Pb, Sn) and copper. If the resulting galvanic current exceeds about 2 µA/cm², a ... -
A Galveston Beach House
(Virginia Tech, 2014-06-19)this house began as a desire to place a single floating mass on the horizon, but became an exploration of proportion, material, and volume, and how they relate to each other. -
Game Based Improvement of Learning Fractions Using iOS Mobile Devices
(Virginia Tech, 2011-04-25)Education plays a pivotal role in shaping the future of any nation. Researchers, pedagogists, and teachers all over the world are constantly working towards improving the process of teaching at all levels of education in ... -
Game conservation for the high school boy and girl
(Virginia Agricultural and Mechanical College and Polytechnic Institute, 1941)For several years teachers in the public schools have attempted to teach game conservation, but have been confronted with the problem of having available sufficient information on the subject. They have found an abundance ... -
A Game That Cannot Be Won: Media Framing of the Duke Lacrosse Rape Scandal
(Virginia Tech, 2010-05-04)On March 13, 2006 in Durham, North Carolina, some of the Duke lacrosse players decided to throw a party. For this particular party, a group of Duke players decided to hire some strippers. Although the night started out ... -
Game Theoretic and Analytical Approaches to International Cooperation and Investment Problems
(Virginia Tech, 2001-05-04)International cooperation and foreign investment issues are two important components of an international economy. The various aspects of research related to such international cooperation and foreign investment decisions ... -
Game Theoretic Models of Connectivity Among Internet Access Providers
(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 ...
