Browsing ETDs: Virginia Tech Electronic Theses and Dissertations by Title
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O Captain, My Captain! U.S Newspaper Framing of the Death of Captain America
(Virginia Tech, 2009-05-05)This thesis explores how U.S. newspapers framed the death of Captain America. Specifically, the presence of various frames and their classifications was determined via a content analysis of 139 newspaper articles. ... -
O*NET or NOT? Adequacy of the O*NET system's rater and format choices
(Virginia Tech, 2001-10-11)The O*NET was built to replace the Dictionary of Occupational Titles (DOT) and form a highly accessible, on-line (through the World Wide Web), common language occupational information center (Dye & Silver, 1999). This study ... -
O-H activation in phosphates: oxidative addition to an iridium(I) center and reactivity of the resulting iridium(III) species
(Virginia Tech, 1995)The oxidative addition of E-H bonds to [Ir(1,5-COD)(PMe₃)₃]Cl (1,5-COD = 1,5- cyclooctadiene) has been previously studied (E = B, C, N, O, S). Some of the resulting species have shown activity as catalysts for hydrogenation ... -
Oak regeneration after clearcutting on steep slopes in the ridge and valley province of southwest Virginia
(Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, 1982)The development of oak stems of advance regeneration and stump sprout origin was studied during a two-year period following clearcutting and whole-tree removal in eight midslope stands in the Ridge and Valley Province of ... -
Oasis in the Desert
(Virginia Tech, 2016-08-18)Downtown districts of cities are usually the first areas to be developed and can inform one of how and why growth occurred in a particular instance. Las Vegas, an oasis within the Mojave desert, originated due to its ... -
Obesity and the Technological Fix: Weight Loss Surgery in American Women
(Virginia Tech, 2003-05-05)This thesis is an analysis of how societal values shape our ideas of health and disease, the designs and marketing of weight loss surgery technologies, and the ways in which obesity reducing-operations are accepted and ... -
Obesity Relapse in Women
(Virginia Tech, 2001-04-05)Obesity and relapse after dieting pose a significant threat to an increasing number of adults in this country. Resistance to treatment and high relapse rates make this problem frustrating for patients and practitioners. ... -
Obituary and Other Poems
(Virginia Tech, 2017-05-12)A collection of poems that explore the imagined possible deaths of a father and ultimately the concepts of absence and lack through a contemplation of spaces like fields and cemeteries -
An Object Model Framework for Interface Management in Building Information Models
(Virginia Tech, 2007-07-13)The construction industry's overall project performance is significantly reduced by numerous interface issues that also hinder its industrialization. Interface Management (IM) is becoming critical to the success of ... -
An object oriented curve and surface framework
(Virginia Tech, 1993-05-04)Each year, thousands of custom CAD/CAM/CAE applications are being created to meet the needs of industry, education and research. To facilitate this process, programmers should have available to them high-level tools which ... -
Object oriented programming for reinforced concrete design
(Virginia Tech, 1993-05-05)The use of the object oriented programming approach in developing applications for the analysis and design of reinforced concrete structures is discussed. Two object oriented programming languages, Actor and Borland C++ ... -
Object oriented programming for reinforced concrete T-beam bridge design
(Virginia Tech, 1995-06-05)This study considers the application of object oriented programming approach to develop a Windows based program for the design of reinforced concrete T -beam bridges in accordance with the newly adopted AASHTO LRFD Bridge ... -
An Object Oriented Simulator for Conceptual Graphs
(Virginia Tech, 2001-05-10)This thesis deals with the design and implementation of an object-oriented simulator for conceptual graphs. Conceptual graphs are a means of representing information and knowledge. In particular, they may be used to represent ... -
Object Proposals in Computer Vision
(Virginia Tech, 2015-09-09)Object recognition is a central problem in computer vision which deals with both localizing and identifying objects in images. Object proposals have recently become an important part of the object recognition process. ... -
An object-oriented analysis and optimization control environment for the conceptual design of aircraft
(Virginia Tech, 1996)This dissertation presents a new software environment for performing design activities utilizing numerical optimization algorithms. Specifically, the research focuses on new techniques for interacting with optimization ... -
An Object-Oriented Approach to Forest Volume and Aboveground Biomass Modeling using Small-Footprint Lidar Data for Segmentation, Estimation, and Classification
(Virginia Tech, 2004-08-18)This study assessed the utility of an object-oriented approach to deciduous and coniferous forest volume and above ground biomass estimation, based solely on small-footprint, multiple return lidar data. The study area is ... -
An object-oriented class library for the creation of engineering graphs
(Virginia Tech, 1993)Since the availability of the first PHIGS (Programmers Hierarchical Interactive Graphics System) implementation in the mid 1980’s, interest in the use of PHIGS has been steadily growing among the CAD applications developer’s ... -
An object-oriented database system for efficient information retrieval applications
(Virginia Tech, 1992-03-16)This dissertation deals with the application of object-oriented database techniques to the problem of storage and access of information retrieval (IR) data, especially data that can be organized as a graph, such as a ... -
An object-oriented design intent externalization and representation model for cost estimating applications
(Virginia Tech, 1991)The multidisciplinary nature of the Architecture-Engineering-Construction industry, the involvement of parties with different professional backgrounds and the use of incompatible software at different phases of project ... -
An object-oriented framework for the creation of customized expert system for CAD
(Virginia Tech, 1993)With the advancements in the fields of Computer Aided Design (CAD) and Artificial Intelligence (AI), a number of CAD systems that are developed have built-in expert systems to aid the designer in the design process. Recently ...
