Browsing ETDs: Virginia Tech Electronic Theses and Dissertations by Title
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T'ao Yüan-ming as reflected in his poetry
(Virginia Tech, 1990)T’ao Yüan-ming (365-427 A.D.) remains China's greatest medieval poet. While no adequate biographical sources exist, the poet’s own work presents the most intimate picture of T’ao Yüan-ming himself, in addition to reflecting ... -
T-F-A patterns, coping strategies, and personality characteristics associated with type A/B behavior
(Virginia Tech, 1990)This study used Hutchins’ T-F-A System as a conceptual framework to determine whether relationships exist among thinking-feeling-acting (T-F-A) behavior patterns, selected personality characteristics, coping strategies, ... -
TAAF Stopping Rules for Maximizing the Utility of One-Shot Systems
(Virginia Tech, 1997-04-25)Test-analyze-and-fix (TAAF) is the most commonly recognized method of improving system reliability. The work presented here addresses the question of when to stop testing during TAAF programs involving one-shot systems ... -
Table Understanding for Information Retrieval
(Virginia Tech, 2002-08-19)This thesis proposes a novel approach for finding tables in text files containing a mixture of unstructured and structured text. Tables may be arbitrarily complex because the data in the tables may themselves be tables and ... -
Table-driven quadtree traversal algorithms
(Virginia Tech, 1989-05-15)Two quadtree algorithms are presented that use table driven traversals to reduce the time complexity required to achieve their respective goals. The first algorithm is a two step process that converts a boundary representation ... -
Tabletop Role-Playing Games and the Actual Play Show: Author, Audience, and Adaptation
(Virginia Tech, 2021-06-15)Though tabletop role-playing games, or TRPGs, have received some scholarly attention since the creation of Dungeons and Dragons in the 1970s, very few scholars have considered how TRPGs function as a vehicle for long-form ... -
Tacit Culture and Change: A Model of Change Constructed From Institutional Assumptions and Beliefs
(Virginia Tech, 1997-04-14)Higher education today faces a conflict between increasing societal demands and decreasing budgets. Innovation and change in higher education occur in the face of limited institutional resources. Meeting the challenges ... -
Tackling the current limitations of bacterial taxonomy with genome-based classification and identification on a crowdsourcing Web service
(Virginia Tech, 2019-10-25)Bacterial taxonomy is the science of classifying, naming, and identifying bacteria. The scope and practice of taxonomy has evolved through history with our understanding of life and our growing and changing needs in research, ... -
Tactical Network Flow and Discrete Optimization Models and Algorithms for the Empty Railcar Transportation Problem
(Virginia Tech, 1997-12-05)Prior to 1980, the practice in multilevel autorack management was to load the railcars at various origin points, ship them to the destination ramps, unload them, and then return each car to the loading point where it ... -
Tactile and Visual Sound: A Music Cooperative for the Adams Morgan Community
(Virginia Tech, 2005-02-14)Tactile and visual sound:Experiencing the aural through the use of material and form to direct, create and control sound. -
Tactile Sensing System Integrated to Compliant Foot of Humanoid Robot for Contact Force Measurement
(Virginia Tech, 2018-12-12)Human beings have a touch and force estimation mechanism beneath their feet. They use this feeling of touch and force to maintain balance, walk, run and perform various agile motions. This paper presents a new sensor ... -
Tailored Architectures of Ammonium Ionenes
(Virginia Tech, 2009-08-11)The synthesis and characterization of a variety of ammonium ionenes from water-soluble coatings to high-performance elastomers are discussed. Water-soluble random copolymer ionenes were synthesized using the Menshutkin ... -
Tailored Chain Sequences of Brominated Syndiotactic Polystyrene Copolymers via Post-Polymerization Functionalization in the Heterogeneous Gel State
(Virginia Tech, 2019-09-09)This dissertation demonstrates the preparation of blocky brominated syndiotactic polystyrene (sPS-co-sPS-Br) copolymers with tailored chain sequences using a simple, post-polymerization functionalization method conducted ... -
Tailored influenza virus vaccines for both the young and old: Vaccine Efficacy of Whole Inactivated Vaccines bearing Immunomodulatory Adjuvants or Multimeric peptides
(Virginia Tech, 2012-06-05)Influenza epidemics and pandemics remain a significant burden to world health and economy. Low efficacy of current inactivated influenza vaccines in the elderly and immunocompromized and the inability to protect against ... -
Tailored Precision Building: DC Fashion Incubator/Epicenter
(Virginia Tech, 2008-05-08)This thesis is a flirtation with architectural materials and tailoring techniques that questions industry solutions and standards. Searching with tailoring precision to create architectural seams, edges, darts, and ... -
Tailoring an Airworthiness Document to Unmanned Aircraft Systems: A Case Study of MIL-HDBK-516C
(Virginia Tech, 2020-03-17)With the popularity of unmanned aircraft systems (UAS), there is a growing need to assess airworthiness for safe operations in shared airspace. In the context of this thesis, shared airspace implies the introduction of UAS ... -
Tailoring Intermolecular Interactions for High-Performance Nanocomposites
(Virginia Tech, 2014-07-14)Acid oxidation of multi-walled carbon nanotubes (MWCNTs) introduced carboxylic acid sites onto the MWCNT surface, which permitted further functionalization. Derivatization of carboxylic acid sites yielded amide-amine and ... -
Tailoring Messages within the Stages of Change
(Virginia Tech, 2002-12-10)Tailored communications have been effective in increasing both recall and readership of health information. However, there is no clear evidence that tailoring is necessary or beneficial in creating behavior change. There ... -
Tailoring Siloxane Functionality for Lithography-based 3D Printing
(Virginia Tech, 2018-09-11)Polymer synthesis and functionalization enabled the tailoring of polymer functionality for additive manufacturing (AM), elastomer, and biological applications. Inspiration from academic and patent literature prompted an ... -
Tailoring Structure and Function of Imidazole-Containing Block Copolymers for Emerging Applications from Gene Delivery to Electromechanical Devices
(Virginia Tech, 2011-11-04)The imidazole ring offers great potential for a variety of applications including gene delivery vectors, ionic liquids, electromechanical actuators, and novel monomers and polymers. The imidazole ring provides a unique ...
