Browsing Master's Papers and Projects by Title
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Academic programming for the high school student-athlete
(Virginia Tech, 1990-01-15)An athletic scholarship can assist the parents of high school student-athletes tremendously with the financial burden by allowing their children the opportunity to receive a college education. However, many parents and ... -
Accountability Mechanisms and Mission-Based Activity: A Nonprofit Agency Serving Immigrants and Refugees
(Virginia Tech, 2002-04-16)This paper assesses the relationship between accountability mechanisms and the mission-based services provided by nonprofit organizations serving refugees and immigrants in America. Currently, over 28.4 million immigrants, ... -
ACT++ 3.0: implementation of the actor model using POSIX threads
(Virginia Tech, 1994-07-15)The actor model provides a framework for writing concurrent programs. ACT ++ is an implementation of the actor model in C++, allowing concurrent programs to be written in an object-oriented style. In ACT++, each actor is ... -
Actor systems platform design and implementation of the actor paradigm in a distributed object-oriented environment
(Virginia Tech, 1993-08-05)This project was undertaken as part of an effort to explore the design of object -oriented systems that are distributed, concurrent, real-time and/or embedded in nature. This work seeks to integrate the concurrency features ... -
Addressing Barriers to Brownfield Redevelopment: An Analysis of CERCLA and the Voluntary Cleanup Programs of Ohio, Pennsylvania and Michigan
(Virginia Tech, 2002-04-19)Across America, thousands of old industrial or commercial facilities lay abandoned, idle or under-utilized due to real or perceived environmental contamination. These sites, called brownfields, present an opportunity to ... -
Administration position description update for Virginia Tech athletics
(Virginia Tech, 1994-06-17)The topic of this project is employee job descriptions within an athletic department. This project involves Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University Athletic Department's top eight administrators. The job ... -
An advanced system for quantifying the effects of radiological releases following a major nuclear accident
(Virginia Tech, 1994-04-15)Although the use of nuclear power has several advantages over the burning of fossil fuels, it has several disadvantages also. The inherent danger of a nuclear accident at a power plant is one of these disadvantages. Although ... -
Affordable Housing Policy: Integration of Land Use Tools and the Role of State Growth Management
(Virginia Tech, 2001-06-13)Affordable housing is recognized as a problem in many localities throughout the United States. Local governments have the power to influence housing affordability through land use policies. Land use tools exist to address ... -
Agroforestry opportunities and constraints in the Água de Gato Watershed, Santiago, Cape Verde Islands
(Virginia Tech, 1996-08-23)The objectives of this study were to determine the opportunities, constraints, and willingness of the inhabitants and non-resident landowners to adopt a new land-use system in the Agua de Gato Watershed, to determine the ... -
Aircraft carrier anti-air self defense system design and analysis
(Virginia Tech, 1995-01-05)U.S. Navy ships are highly susceptible to the threat of high-speed cruise missiles. Aircraft carriers are no exception. These ships must be deployed with an effective anti-air self-defense system to ensure the survivability ... -
Airplane dynamic modeling and automatic flight control design
(Virginia Tech, 1990)This Systems Engineering project report discusses the design and implementation of automatic flight controls. The general airplane equations of motion are developed and used to calculate transfer functions for a Cessna 172 ... -
Algae control in bentgrass (Agrostis palustris) with DC5772 and Profile
(Virginia Tech, 1997)Despite efforts at both cultural and chemical control, the growth of surface algae in fine turf has become a problem for golf course managers nationwide. Most turfgrass management problems with algae occur during the summer ... -
Alternative Fuels: Incompletely Addressing the Problems of the Automobile
(Virginia Tech, 2004-05-25)The inordinate reliance of the United States on the automobile for transportation causes a number of problems for the nation. Finite supplies of petroleum imported from volatile parts of the world place the economy at risk ... -
Alternative methods of determining the orientation of a stellar camera
(Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, 1987)Stellar photography has found use in the calibration of mapping cameras and in determining the orientation of the stellar cameras serving as attitude sensors, e.g. the lunar mapping cameras on the NASA Apollo 15, 16, and ... -
AMCROSS message traffic analysis
(Virginia Tech, 1996)The American Red Cross (ARC) provides many valuable services. One such service is to provide 24-hour emergency communications for members of the U.S. Armed Forces and their families worldwide. AMCROSS is the communications ... -
America's Converging Open Space Protection Policies: Evidence from New Hampshire, Virginia and Oregon
(Virginia Tech, 2003-04-22)The nature of open space protection in America is changing. All across the country, states have begun to converge on a common set of tools designed to protect the rural land within their borders from development. Ideas ... -
Analysis and design of a triangular cross section truss for a highway bridge
(Virginia Tech, 1983-12-05)A review of the available literature on past and present uses and advantages of a triangular cross-section truss was made. A span length of 150 feet was selected for study of a truss to carry two-lane traffic over a 30-foot ... -
Analysis and implementation of software reuse measurement
(Virginia Tech, 1993)Software reuse has been shown to increase quality and productivity [Card et al 86] [Browne et al 90] [Frakes 91] [Agresti and Evanco 92]. As researchers and development organizations begin to recognize the potential benefits ... -
Analysis and redesign of a library electronic reference area
(Virginia Tech, 1991)The Electronic Reference Area (ERA) at the Virginia Tech Newman Library is analyzed from a systems engineering perspective. The ERA provides library users with access to computerized bibliographic indices to serial and ... -
An analysis for total productive maintenance implementation
(Virginia Tech, 1990)This report constitutes an evaluation of the effectiveness and cost of a maintenance program for a discrete parts manufacturing company. Total Productive Maintenance (TPM) is an integrated life-cycle approach to factory ...
