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Enhanced Acquisition Techniques for GPS L1C Receivers
Keyword:
GPS
,
GPS L1C
,
GPS Acquisition
, and
GNSS
Creator:
Seals, Kelly Charles
Advisor:
Michalson, William R.
Publisher:
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:
2014-03-13
Resource Type:
Dissertation
Degree:
PhD
Unit (Department):
Electrical & Computer Engineering
Catalysis and Photocatalysis over TiO2 Surfaces Detailed from First Principles
Keyword:
Catalysis
,
computational chemistry
, and
metal oxides
Creator:
Garcia, Juan C
Advisor:
Deskins, N Aaron
Publisher:
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:
2014-08-28
Resource Type:
Dissertation
Degree:
PhD
Unit (Department):
Chemical Engineering
Application of Computational Thermodynamic and Solidification Kinetics to Cold Sprayable Powder Alloy Design
Keyword:
Mechanical Properties
,
powder
,
atomization
,
equilibrium calculations
,
newtonian heat flow
,
TTT diagram
,
Thermodynamics
,
Cold spray
,
CCT diagram
,
Kinetics
,
Solidification
,
elemental impact factor
,
through process modeling
,
powder production
, and
Modeling
Creator:
Belsito, Danielle L
Advisor:
Sisson, Richard D.
Publisher:
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:
2014-01-14
Resource Type:
Dissertation
Degree:
PhD
Unit (Department):
Materials Science & Engineering
Calorimetric and Dielectric Studies of Self-assembled Bio-molecules in an Aqueous Environment
Keyword:
bio-physics
,
calorimetry measurements
,
protein dynamics
, and
dielectric spectroscopy
Creator:
Kashuri, Klaida
Advisor:
Iannacchione, Germano S.
Publisher:
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:
2014-01-29
Resource Type:
Dissertation
Degree:
PhD
Unit (Department):
Physics
Security in Voice Authentication
Keyword:
Mel Frequency Cepstral Coefficients
,
Entropy
,
Gaussian Mixture Model
, and
Voice
Creator:
Yang, Chenguang
Advisor:
Sunar, Berk
Publisher:
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:
2014-03-27
Resource Type:
Dissertation
Degree:
PhD
Unit (Department):
Electrical & Computer Engineering
A Methodology to Transform Small and Medium Companies to Lean Manufacturing Enterprises in Ecuador
Keyword:
documentation management system
,
Methodology
,
lean manufacturing
,
waste elimination
, and
business process reeengineering
Creator:
Gonzalez Jaramillo, Victor Hugo
Advisor:
Rong, Yiming
Publisher:
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:
2014-04-08
Resource Type:
Dissertation
Degree:
PhD
Unit (Department):
Manufacturing Engineering
Oscillatory wall strain reduction precedes arterial intimal hyperplasia in a murine model
Keyword:
Ultrasound
,
intimal hyperplasia
,
biomechanics
,
peripheral artery disease
,
medical imaging
, and
coronary artery disease
Creator:
Favreau, John T
Advisor:
Gaudette, Glenn R.
Publisher:
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:
2014-04-25
Resource Type:
Dissertation
Degree:
PhD
Unit (Department):
Biomedical Engineering
Characterization and Compensation of Hysteretic Cardiac Respiratory Motion in Myocardial Perfusion Studies Through MRI Investigations
Keyword:
Emission tomography
,
Cardiac Imaging
,
Respiratory Motion
,
Modeling Hysteresis
, and
MRI
Creator:
Dasari, Paul Krupaker Reddy
Advisor:
King, Michael A
and
Mendelson, Yitzhak
Publisher:
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:
2014-04-24
Resource Type:
Dissertation
Degree:
PhD
Unit (Department):
Biomedical Engineering
Metal Recovery via Automated Sortation
Keyword:
Critical Metals
,
DEM Simulation
,
Feeding Technique
, and
Scrap Recovery
Creator:
Yu, Hao
Advisor:
Apelian, Diran
Publisher:
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:
2014-04-17
Resource Type:
Dissertation
Degree:
PhD
Unit (Department):
Materials Science & Engineering
Experimental Investigations of EMG-Torque Modeling for the Human Upper Limb
Keyword:
EMG-torque modeling
and
EMG
Creator:
Liu, Pu
Advisor:
Clancy, Edward A.
Publisher:
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:
2014-04-28
Resource Type:
Dissertation
Degree:
PhD
Unit (Department):
Electrical & Computer Engineering
Accelerating Cryptosystems on Hardware Platforms
Keyword:
RSA
,
VLSI
,
GPU
, and
Fully homomorphic encryption
Creator:
Wang, Wei
Advisor:
Huang, Xinming
Publisher:
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:
2014-04-13
Resource Type:
Dissertation
Degree:
PhD
Unit (Department):
Electrical & Computer Engineering
On Simultaneous Localization and Mapping inside the Human Body (Body-SLAM)
Keyword:
motion tracking
,
Localization
,
SLAM
, and
Wireless capsule endoscopy
Creator:
Bao, Guanqun
Advisor:
Pahlavan, Kaveh
Publisher:
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:
2014-04-28
Resource Type:
Dissertation
Degree:
PhD
Unit (Department):
Electrical & Computer Engineering
Evaluation of Multi-sensory Feedback in Virtual and Real Remote Environments in a USAR Robot Teleoperation Scenario
Keyword:
audio feedback
,
urban search-and-rescue
,
robot teleoperation
,
human-robot interaction
,
vibro-tactile feedback
,
multi-sensory feedback
,
visual feedback
, and
smell feedback
Creator:
de Barros, Paulo
Advisor:
Lindeman, Robert W.
Publisher:
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:
2014-04-26
Resource Type:
Dissertation
Degree:
PhD
Unit (Department):
Computer Science
The VHP-F Computational Phantom and its Applications for Electromagnetic Simulations
Keyword:
Computational electromagnetics
,
Numerical modeling
, and
Human body modeling
Creator:
Noetscher, Gregory Michael
Advisor:
Makarov, Sergey N.
Publisher:
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:
2014-04-30
Resource Type:
Dissertation
Degree:
PhD
Unit (Department):
Electrical & Computer Engineering
Numerical and Experimental Study of Heat and Mass Transfer Enhancement using Phase Change Materials
Keyword:
Phase Change Materials
,
Numerical
,
Experimental
,
Evaporation
,
Heat and Mass Transfer
,
Natural Convection
, and
Drying
Creator:
Khakpour, Yasmin
Advisor:
Yagoobi, Jamal
Publisher:
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:
2014-05-01
Resource Type:
Dissertation
Degree:
PhD
Unit (Department):
Mechanical Engineering
Role of Fibroblast Growth Factor 2 in Maintenance of Multipotency in Human Dermal Fibroblasts Treated with Xenopus Laevis Egg Extract Fractions
Keyword:
Cellular reprogramming
,
FGF2
,
Xenopus laevis egg extract
,
Stem cells
,
Pluripotency
, and
Induced pluripotent stem cells
Creator:
Kole, Denis
Advisor:
Dominko, Tanja
Publisher:
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:
2014-04-28
Resource Type:
Dissertation
Degree:
PhD
Unit (Department):
Biology & Biotechnology
Student Modeling in Intelligent Tutoring Systems
Keyword:
User modeling
,
Maching learning
, and
Intelligent tutoring systems
Creator:
Gong, Yue
Advisor:
Beck, Joseph E.
Publisher:
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:
2014-11-23
Resource Type:
Dissertation
Degree:
PhD
Unit (Department):
Computer Science
Treatment-Based Classication in Residential Wireless Access Points
Keyword:
IEEE 802.11 wireless network
,
QoS
,
multimedia networking
, and
flow classification
Creator:
Li, Feng
Advisor:
Claypool, Mark L.
Publisher:
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:
2014-05-29
Resource Type:
Dissertation
Degree:
PhD
Unit (Department):
Computer Science
A Post Occupancy Evaluation (POE) Framework for Certified Sustainable Higher Education (HE) Residence Halls
Keyword:
Sustainable Performance Indicators
,
Sustainability Rating Systems
,
Post Occupancy Evaluation
,
Residence Hall Water Consumption Tendencies
,
Occupant Thermal Comfort Parameters
,
LEED
,
Water and Energy Benchmarking
,
Residence Halls
, and
Student Occupant Feedback Techniques
Creator:
Alborz, Nakisa
Advisor:
Berardi, Umberto
Publisher:
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:
2014-07-28
Resource Type:
Dissertation
Degree:
PhD
Unit (Department):
Civil & Environmental Engineering
A Markov Random Field Based Approach to 3D Mosaicing and Registration Applied to Ultrasound Simulation
Keyword:
discrete graph based technique
,
Markov random fields
,
ultrasound mosaicing
, and
Registration
Creator:
Kutarnia, Jason Francis
Advisor:
Pedersen, Peder C.
Publisher:
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:
2014-08-27
Resource Type:
Dissertation
Degree:
PhD
Unit (Department):
Electrical & Computer Engineering
Use of Building Information Modeling technology in the integration of the handover process and facilities management
Keyword:
BIM
,
Space Management
,
Operation and Maintenance
,
Integration
,
IFC
, and
Facilities Management
Creator:
Alvarez-Romero, Sergio Omar
Advisor:
Salazar, Guillermo F.
Publisher:
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:
2014-09-09
Resource Type:
Dissertation
Degree:
PhD
Unit (Department):
Civil & Environmental Engineering
Theoretical and Experimental Development of an Array of Droopy Bowties with Integrated Baluns
Keyword:
bowtie dual-poarized radiators
,
baluns
, and
phased arrays
Creator:
Puzella, Angelo
Advisor:
Makarov, Sergey N.
Publisher:
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:
2014-06-20
Resource Type:
Dissertation
Degree:
PhD
Unit (Department):
Electrical & Computer Engineering
Effects of Temperature, Light Intensity and Quality, Carbon Dioxide, and Culture Medium Nutrients on Growth and Lipid Production of Ettlia oleoabundans
Keyword:
Temperature
,
medium nutrient
,
light quality
,
light intensity
,
Ettlia oleoabundans
,
biodiesel
,
carbon dioxide
, and
algal biomass
Creator:
Yang, Ying
Advisor:
Weathers, Pamela
Publisher:
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:
2014-01-24
Resource Type:
Dissertation
Degree:
PhD
Unit (Department):
Biology & Biotechnology
From Theory to Practice: Evaluating Sparsening Filter designs on a Software-Defined Radio Platform
Keyword:
FMCOMMS
,
software defined radio
,
sparsening filter
, and
belief propagation
Creator:
Machado, Raquel
Advisor:
Wyglinski, Alexander
and
Klein, Andrew G.
Publisher:
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:
2014-12-23
Resource Type:
Dissertation
Degree:
PhD
Unit (Department):
Electrical & Computer Engineering
Development of a holistic approach to integrate fire safety performance with building design
Keyword:
Performance Assessment
,
building fire safety
, and
building design
Creator:
Park, Hae-Jun
Advisor:
Meacham, Brian Jay
Publisher:
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:
2014-01-24
Resource Type:
Dissertation
Degree:
PhD
Unit (Department):
Fire Protection Engineering
Digital Pre-distortion for Interference Reduction in Dynamic Spectrum Access Networks
Keyword:
TV ’white space’
,
spectrally agile multicarrier transmission
,
digital predistortion (DPD)
,
dynamic spectrum access (DSA)
,
spurious emission
,
Cognitive radio (CR)
,
carrier aggregation
,
IEEE 802.22
,
software-defined radio (SDR)
, and
LTE-Advanced
Creator:
Fu, Zhu
Advisor:
Wyglinski, Alexander
Publisher:
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:
2014-04-23
Resource Type:
Dissertation
Degree:
PhD
Unit (Department):
Electrical & Computer Engineering
Full-field vibrometry by high-speed digital holography for middle-ear mechanics
Keyword:
Otology
,
Transient response
,
Acoustic-solid interaction
,
High-speed digital holography
,
High-speed cameras
, and
Tympanic membrane
Creator:
Dobrev, Ivo Tsvetanov
Advisor:
Furlong-Vazquez, Cosme
Publisher:
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:
2014-07-21
Resource Type:
Dissertation
Degree:
PhD
Unit (Department):
Mechanical Engineering
Characterizing molecular-scale interactions between antimicrobial peptides and model cell membranes
Keyword:
QCM-D
,
Antimicrobial peptides
,
AFM
, and
Supported lipid bilayer
Creator:
Wang, Kathleen F
Advisor:
Camesano, Terri Anne
Publisher:
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:
2014-04-23
Resource Type:
Dissertation
Degree:
PhD
Unit (Department):
Chemical Engineering
Modeling, Control and Monitoring of Smart Structures under High Impact Loads
Keyword:
Structural Health Monitoring
,
magnetorheological (MR) damper
,
discrete wavelet transform
,
high impact load
,
adaptive neuro-fuzzy inference system (ANFIS)
,
Fuzzy Logic Control
, and
nonlinear system identification
Creator:
Arsava, Kemal Sarp
Advisor:
Kim, Yeesock
Publisher:
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:
2014-04-12
Resource Type:
Dissertation
Degree:
PhD
Unit (Department):
Civil & Environmental Engineering
Regulating Valvular Interstitial Cell Phenotype by Boundary Stiffness
Keyword:
myofibroblast
,
valvular interstitiat cells
,
residual tension
,
TGF-β
,
3
,
stiffness
,
cell-generated force
,
tension reduction
,
Heart valves
,
fibrin gel
, and
contraction
Creator:
Kural, Mehmet Hamdi
Advisor:
Billiar, Kristen
Publisher:
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:
2014-06-01
Resource Type:
Dissertation
Degree:
PhD
Unit (Department):
Biomedical Engineering
100 % Recycled Hot Mix Asphalt and the Use of Rejuvenators
Keyword:
Rejuvenators
,
recycling
,
binder
,
total recycling
, and
Asphalt
Creator:
Zaumanis, Martins
Advisor:
Mallick, Rajib B.
Publisher:
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:
2014-04-30
Resource Type:
Dissertation
Degree:
PhD
Unit (Department):
Civil & Environmental Engineering
Development and Application of an Area Recorded Generalized Optical Scattering Technique
Keyword:
scattering analysis
and
Light scattering
Creator:
Algarni, Saad A
Advisor:
Iannacchione, Germano S.
Publisher:
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:
2014-12-18
Resource Type:
Dissertation
Degree:
PhD
Unit (Department):
Physics
Analyzing the role of lipid elongases in Drosophila development: From barriers to behavior
Keyword:
elongases
,
Behavior
, and
epidermal barrier
Creator:
Gupta, Prachi
Advisor:
Duffy, Joseph B.
Publisher:
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:
2014-01-29
Resource Type:
Dissertation
Degree:
PhD
Unit (Department):
Biology & Biotechnology
Identification and characterization of novel putative virulence factors in Candida albicans
Keyword:
Fungal infections
Creator:
Issi, Luca
Advisor:
Rao, Reeta Prusty
Publisher:
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:
2014-09-18
Resource Type:
Dissertation
Degree:
PhD
Unit (Department):
Biology & Biotechnology
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