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The Real Estate Market in China:Features, Opportunities and Barriers to U.S. Investors
Keyword:
Real Estate Market in China
Creator:
Wang, Qiansi
Advisor:
Pietroforte, Roberto
Publisher:
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:
2012-05-01
Resource Type:
Thesis
Degree:
MS
Unit (Department):
Civil & Environmental Engineering
Numerical modeling of induction assisted subsurface heating technology
Keyword:
Induction heating; subsurface heating layer; model
Creator:
Zhang, Lei
Advisor:
Rong, Yiming
Publisher:
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:
2012-04-30
Resource Type:
Thesis
Degree:
MS
Unit (Department):
Manufacturing Engineering
Development of Motion Artifact Rejection Algorithms for Ambulatory Heart Rate and Arterial Oxygen Measurement By A Wearable Pulse Oximeter
Keyword:
Kurtosis
,
Motion Artifacts
,
Adaptive Noise Cancellation
, and
Pulse Oximeters
Creator:
Marwah, Kunal
Advisor:
Mendelson, Yitzhak
Publisher:
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:
2012-07-06
Resource Type:
Thesis
Degree:
MS
Unit (Department):
Biomedical Engineering
Validating the Veracity of User Data Collected and Disclosed by Ad Networks
Keyword:
Web privacy
,
behavioral targeting
, and
ad networks
Creator:
Tatar, Can
Advisor:
Wills, Craig E.
Publisher:
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:
2012-05-31
Resource Type:
Thesis
Degree:
MS
Unit (Department):
Computer Science
Electrospun, Proton-Conducting Nanofiber Mats for use in Advanced Direct Methanol Fuel Cell Electrodes
Keyword:
Electrospinning
,
Electrospin
,
PEMFC
,
DMFC
,
Chemical Engineering
,
Nafion
,
Fuel Cells
, and
Chemistry
Creator:
Perrone, Matthew Scott
Advisor:
Datta, Ravindra
Publisher:
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:
2012-04-26
Resource Type:
Thesis
Degree:
MS
Unit (Department):
Chemical Engineering
Development of a multi-wavelength lensless digital holography system for 3D deformations and shape measurements of tympanic membranes
Keyword:
Tympanic membrane
,
Shape measurements
,
multi-wavelength metrology
,
lensless digital holography
, and
3D deformations
Creator:
Lu, Weina
Advisor:
Furlong-Vazquez, Cosme
Publisher:
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:
2012-04-23
Resource Type:
Thesis
Degree:
MS
Unit (Department):
Mechanical Engineering
Interferometric Optical Readout System for a MEMS Infrared Imaging Detector
Keyword:
Interferometry
,
IR Imaging
, and
MEMS
Creator:
Tripp, Everett
Advisor:
Furlong-Vazquez, Cosme
Publisher:
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:
2012-04-19
Resource Type:
Thesis
Degree:
MS
Unit (Department):
Mechanical Engineering
GPU Based Real-Time Trinocular Stereovision
Keyword:
CUDA
,
OpenCV
,
Computer Vision
,
Trinocular
,
GPGPU
, and
Stereovision
Creator:
Yao, Yuanbin
Advisor:
Padir, Taskin
Publisher:
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:
2012-08-24
Resource Type:
Thesis
Degree:
MS
Unit (Department):
Electrical & Computer Engineering
CFD Flame Spread Model Validation: Multi-Component Data Set Framework
Keyword:
fire modeling
,
turbulent buoyant fluid flow
,
Pyrolysis
,
condensed-phase pyrolysis
,
CFD
,
heat flux
,
Flame spread
,
fiber reinforced plastic
,
inert wall
,
combustible wall panel
,
dataset
,
2-D flame spread
,
plume velocity
,
flame heat transfer
,
free plume
,
experimental data
,
plume temperature
,
gas phase kinetics
,
FRP
, and
flame spread rate
Creator:
Wong, William Chiu-Kit
Advisor:
Dembsey, Nicholas A.
Publisher:
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:
2012-07-30
Resource Type:
Thesis
Degree:
ME
Unit (Department):
Fire Protection Engineering
Extraordinary Magnetoresistance in Two and Three Dimensions: Geometrical Optimization
Keyword:
extraordinary magnetoresistance
,
Conductivity
,
metal-semiconductor structure
, and
nanoscale magnetic sensor
Creator:
Pugsley, Lisa M
Advisor:
Ram-Mohan, L. Ramdas
Publisher:
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:
2012-04-26
Resource Type:
Thesis
Degree:
MS
Unit (Department):
Physics
Cell sensing on strain-stiffening substrates is not fully explained by the nonlinear mechanical property
Keyword:
effective stiffness
,
Non-linear
,
extracellular matrix
,
Fibroblasts
,
mechanosensing
,
linear
,
strain-stiffening
, and
cell spreading
Creator:
Rudnicki, Mathilda Sophia
Advisor:
Billiar, Kristen
Publisher:
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:
2012-04-17
Resource Type:
Thesis
Degree:
MS
Unit (Department):
Biomedical Engineering
Management Planning for Combined Sewer Systems in Urban Areas under Climate Change
Keyword:
stormwater modeling
,
Climate change adaptation
, and
CSO management
Creator:
Renaud, Thomas
Advisor:
Mathisen, Paul P.
Publisher:
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:
2012-04-30
Resource Type:
Thesis
Degree:
MS
Unit (Department):
Civil & Environmental Engineering
Empirical RF Propagation Modeling of Human Body Motions for Activity Classification
Keyword:
Activity Classification
,
Body Area Networks
,
Energy
,
Level Crossing Rate
,
Support Vector Machine
,
Entropy
,
Averaged Fade Duration
,
Statistical Characterization
,
Coherence Time
,
k-Nearest Neighbor
,
Probabilistic Neural Network
,
Doppler Spread
,
RF Propagation
,
Doppler Spread Spectrum
, and
Backpropagation
Creator:
Fu, Ruijun
Advisor:
Pahlavan, Kaveh
Publisher:
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:
2012-12-19
Resource Type:
Thesis
Degree:
MS
Unit (Department):
Electrical & Computer Engineering
Evaluation of Canine Fracture Fixation Bone Plates
Keyword:
fixation
,
evaluation
,
fracture
,
Mechanical
,
bone
, and
plate
Creator:
Tacvorian, Edward
Advisor:
Gaudette, Glenn R.
Publisher:
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:
2012-11-05
Resource Type:
Thesis
Degree:
MS
Unit (Department):
Biomedical Engineering
Increasing Cell Attachment and Adhesion on Fibrin Micorthread Sutures for Cell Delivery
Keyword:
Fibrin Micorthread
,
Cellular Delivery
, and
Mesenchymal Stem Cells
Creator:
Kowaleski, Mark C
Advisor:
Gaudette, Glenn R.
Publisher:
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:
2012-11-30
Resource Type:
Thesis
Degree:
MS
Unit (Department):
Biomedical Engineering
Parameter Estimation of a High Frequency Cascode Low Noise Amplifier Model
Keyword:
Optimization
,
parameters estimation
,
small signal model
, and
Cascode LNA
Creator:
Wang, Kefei
Advisor:
Ludwig, Reinhold
Publisher:
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:
2012-10-05
Resource Type:
Thesis
Degree:
MS
Unit (Department):
Electrical & Computer Engineering
NEEL+: Supporting Predicates for Nested Complex Event Processing
Keyword:
Optimization
,
CEP
,
Predicate
,
Processing
, and
NEEL+
Creator:
Zhang, Dazhi
Advisor:
Rundensteiner, Elke A.
Publisher:
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:
2012-08-27
Resource Type:
Thesis
Degree:
MS
Unit (Department):
Computer Science
A Computational Model for Building Relationships Between Humans and Virtual Agents
Keyword:
Artificial Intelligence
,
relationship modeling
,
relationships
, and
virtual agents
Creator:
Coon, William MacDowell
Advisor:
Sidner, Candace
and
Rich, Charles
Publisher:
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:
2012-08-20
Resource Type:
Thesis
Degree:
MS
Unit (Department):
Computer Science
A Real-Time Architecture for Conversational Agents
Keyword:
conversational agens
,
fuzzy systems
, and
behavior-based robotics
Creator:
Nooraei Beidokht, Bahador
Advisor:
Rich, Charles
Publisher:
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:
2012-08-24
Resource Type:
Thesis
Degree:
MS
Unit (Department):
Computer Science
Development of a Model and Simulation Framework for a Modular Robotic Leg
Keyword:
SimMechanics
,
reconfigurable
,
robots
,
modular
, and
MATLAB
Creator:
Youngsma, Katiegrace
Advisor:
Padir, Taskin
Publisher:
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:
2012-06-13
Resource Type:
Thesis
Degree:
MS
Unit (Department):
Robotics Engineering
On the Performance of In-Body RF Localization Techniques
Keyword:
RF localization
,
Body Area Network
,
Time of Arrival
,
Received Signal Strength
,
CR Bound
, and
Finite Difference Time Domain
Creator:
Swar, Pranay P
Advisor:
Pahlavan, Kaveh
Publisher:
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:
2012-06-01
Resource Type:
Thesis
Degree:
MS
Unit (Department):
Electrical & Computer Engineering
A Hardware Platform for Communication and Localization Performance Evaluation of Devices inside the Human Body
Keyword:
Communication
,
hardware platform
,
body area network (BAN)
, and
Localization
Creator:
Li, Shen
Advisor:
Pahlavan, Kaveh
Publisher:
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:
2012-05-31
Resource Type:
Thesis
Degree:
MS
Unit (Department):
Electrical & Computer Engineering
Scale Model Experiments on Floating Offshore Wind Turbines
Keyword:
wind energy
,
renewable energy
,
floating wind turbines
,
wind turbines
, and
scale model
Creator:
Naqvi, Syed Kazim
Advisor:
Olinger, David J.
Publisher:
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:
2012-05-23
Resource Type:
Thesis
Degree:
MS
Unit (Department):
Mechanical Engineering
Identifying the Molecular Mechanism of Indole-3-Acetic Acid Detection in the Fungi Saccharomyces cerevisiae and Candida albicans
Keyword:
S. cerevisiae
,
C. albicans
,
IAA
, and
Indole-3-acetic acid
Creator:
Perelta, Alisha Nicole
Advisor:
Rao, Reeta Prusty
Publisher:
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:
2012-05-03
Resource Type:
Thesis
Degree:
MS
Unit (Department):
Biology & Biotechnology
A Comprehensive Method for the Selection of Sustainable Materials for Building Construction
Keyword:
sustainable material selection
,
LEED
, and
LCA
Creator:
Zhang, Yuxin
Advisor:
Salazar, Guillermo F.
Publisher:
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:
2012-05-01
Resource Type:
Thesis
Degree:
MS
Unit (Department):
Civil & Environmental Engineering
Measurement and Method for Receiver Buffer Sizing in Video Streaming
Keyword:
YouTube
,
Video streaming
, and
buffer sizing
Creator:
Mastoureshgh, Sahel
Advisor:
Claypool, Mark L.
Publisher:
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:
2012-05-01
Resource Type:
Thesis
Degree:
MS
Unit (Department):
Computer Science
A Graph Theoretic Clustering Algorithm based on the Regularity Lemma and Strategies to Exploit Clustering for Prediction
Keyword:
Unsupervised learning
,
Graph Mining
,
Machine Learning
,
Semi-Supervised Learning
,
Ensemble Learning
,
Graph Partitioning
, and
Regularity Lemma
Creator:
Trivedi, Shubhendu
Advisor:
Sarkozy, Gabor N
and
Heffernan, Neil
Publisher:
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:
2012-04-30
Resource Type:
Thesis
Degree:
MS
Unit (Department):
Computer Science
Biology Microworld to Assess Students' Content Knowledge and Inquiry Skills and Leveraging Student Modeling to Prescribe Design Features for Scaffolding Learning
Keyword:
Assistments
,
Biology
,
Computer Science
,
User modeling
, and
Science Assistments
Creator:
Bachmann, Matthew Knapp
Advisor:
Beck, Joseph E.
and
Gobert, Janice
Publisher:
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:
2012-04-30
Resource Type:
Thesis
Degree:
MS
Unit (Department):
Computer Science
Test First Model-Driven Development
Keyword:
TDD
,
Model Driven Development
,
Test First Development
,
Test Generation
, and
MDD
Creator:
Shappee, Bartlett A
Advisor:
Pollice, Gary F.
Publisher:
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:
2012-04-26
Resource Type:
Thesis
Degree:
MS
Unit (Department):
Computer Science
A Study of Spreading and In Situ Burning of Oil in an Ice Channel
Keyword:
oil
,
ice
,
mass loss rate
,
in situ
, and
spread rate
Creator:
Bellino, Peter William
Advisor:
Rangwala, Ali S.
Publisher:
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:
2012-04-25
Resource Type:
Thesis
Degree:
MS
Unit (Department):
Fire Protection Engineering
LES Modeling of Flow through Vegetation with Applications to Wildland Fires
Keyword:
drag force
,
wildland fires
,
les
,
vegetation
,
wind
, and
cfd
Creator:
Mueller, Eric Victor
Advisor:
Simeoni, Albert
Publisher:
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:
2012-04-26
Resource Type:
Thesis
Degree:
MS
Unit (Department):
Fire Protection Engineering
Atomic Force Microscopy: Lateral-Force Calibration and Force-Curve Analysis
Keyword:
analysis
,
Calibration
,
curve fitting
,
Atomic Force Microscopy
,
friction
,
force curves
, and
lateral force microscopy
Creator:
Anderson, Evan V
Advisor:
Burnham, Nancy A.
and
Camesano, Terri Anne
Publisher:
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:
2012-04-26
Resource Type:
Thesis
Degree:
MS
Unit (Department):
Physics
Simulation of the diffusion of endocrine disrupting compounds in silicalite by molecular dynamics
Keyword:
benzene
,
nonylphenol
,
Zeolite
,
BPA
,
diffusion
,
Simulation
,
water
,
phenol
,
toluene
,
Molecular Dynamics
,
bisphenol-A
, and
neopentane
Creator:
Gabry, Thomas Jacques Andre
Advisor:
Deskins, N Aaron
Publisher:
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:
2012-04-26
Resource Type:
Thesis
Degree:
MS
Unit (Department):
Chemical Engineering
Cell Printing: A novel method to seed cells onto biological scaffolds
Keyword:
stem cell therapy
,
Bioprinting
,
Fibrin
,
cell therapy
, and
Cell printing
Creator:
Kanani, Chirantan
Advisor:
Gaudette, Glenn R.
Publisher:
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:
2012-04-26
Resource Type:
Thesis
Degree:
MS
Unit (Department):
Biomedical Engineering
Reaching More Students: A Web-based Intelligent Tutoring System with support for Offline Access
Keyword:
Intelligent tutoring systems
and
Educational data mining
Creator:
Kehrer, Paul H
Advisor:
Heffernan, Neil
Publisher:
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:
2012-04-26
Resource Type:
Thesis
Degree:
MS
Unit (Department):
Computer Science
Indicator Systems for Assessing Public Health Risk in Waters
Keyword:
indicators
,
public health
,
drinking water
, and
coliphages
Creator:
Roop, Daniel Oliver
Advisor:
Plummer, Jeanine D.
Publisher:
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:
2012-04-26
Resource Type:
Thesis
Degree:
MS
Unit (Department):
Civil & Environmental Engineering
Predicting Network Performance for Internet Activities Using a Web Browser
Keyword:
home network measurements
and
online activities
Creator:
Zeljkovic, Mihajlo
Advisor:
Wills, Craig E.
Publisher:
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:
2012-04-26
Resource Type:
Thesis
Degree:
MS
Unit (Department):
Computer Science
On Quasi-Volume-Filling Surfaces
Keyword:
Quasi-filling surface
,
Fractal
, and
filling surface
Creator:
Liu, Pan
Advisor:
Mosco, Umberto
Publisher:
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:
2012-04-24
Resource Type:
Thesis
Degree:
MS
Unit (Department):
Mathematical Sciences
Numerical Analysis of Transient Teflon Ablation with a Domain Decomposition Finite Volume Implicit Method on Unstructured Grids
Keyword:
Transient Ablation
,
Finite Volume Method
,
Teflon
,
Unstructured Grid
,
Crank-Nicolson Method
, and
Domain Decomposition
Creator:
Wang, Mianzhi
Advisor:
Gatsonis, Nikolaos A.
Publisher:
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:
2012-04-25
Resource Type:
Thesis
Degree:
MS
Unit (Department):
Mechanical Engineering
Development of a Recycling Process for Li-Ion Batteries
Keyword:
recyle lithium ion batteries
,
coprecipitate
,
lithium recovery
, and
LiNi1/3Mn1/3Co1/3O2
Creator:
Zou, Haiyang
Advisor:
Wang, Yan
and
Apelian, Diran
Publisher:
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:
2012-04-24
Resource Type:
Thesis
Degree:
MS
Unit (Department):
Materials Science & Engineering
The Design and Realization of a Sensitive Walking Platform
Keyword:
legged robotics
,
tactile feedback
, and
bipedal motion
Creator:
Chernyak, Vadim
Advisor:
Torres-Jara, Eduardo
and
Nestinger, Stephen
Publisher:
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:
2012-04-24
Resource Type:
Thesis
Degree:
MS
Unit (Department):
Mechanical Engineering
Precipitation Strengthening of Aluminum by Transition Metal Aluminides
Keyword:
Precipitation hardening
,
Aluminum alloys
, and
high temperature strength
Creator:
Fan, Yangyang
Advisor:
Makhlouf, Makhlouf M.
Publisher:
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:
2012-04-20
Resource Type:
Thesis
Degree:
MS
Unit (Department):
Materials Science & Engineering
A WANFIS Model for Use in System Identification and Structural Control of Civil Engineering Structures
Keyword:
Earthquake
,
System Identification
,
Neural network
,
Wavelet Transform
,
Fuzzy Logic
, and
Structural Control
Creator:
Mitchell, Ryan
Advisor:
Kim, Yeesock
Publisher:
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:
2012-04-18
Resource Type:
Thesis
Degree:
MS
Unit (Department):
Civil & Environmental Engineering
Multi-Decision Policy and Policy Combinator Specifications
Keyword:
Margrave
,
Access Control
,
specifications
,
policies
,
policy combinators
, and
formal methods
Creator:
Giannakopoulos, Theophilos John
Advisor:
Dougherty, Daniel J.
Publisher:
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:
2012-02-21
Resource Type:
Thesis
Degree:
MS
Unit (Department):
Computer Science
Structural Health Monitoring and Fault Diagnosis based on Artificial Immune System
Keyword:
Damage Detection/Fault Diagnosis
,
Artificial Immune System
, and
Structural Health Monitoring
Creator:
Xiao, Wenchang
Advisor:
Hou, Zhikun
Publisher:
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:
2012-02-29
Resource Type:
Thesis
Degree:
MS
Unit (Department):
Mechanical Engineering
Investigation of Effects of Moisture Susceptibility of Warm Mix Asphalt (WMA) Mixes on Dynamic Modulus and Field Performance
Keyword:
Moisture
,
Dynamic Modulus
, and
WMA
Creator:
Xu, Yichao
Advisor:
Mallick, Rajib B.
Publisher:
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:
2012-01-17
Resource Type:
Thesis
Degree:
MS
Unit (Department):
Civil & Environmental Engineering
Comparison of Alternative Rigid Sternal Fixation Techniques
Keyword:
Osteoporosis
,
malunion
,
Sternum
, and
Rigid Fixation
Creator:
Dieselman, John Conrad
Advisor:
Billiar, Kristen
Publisher:
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:
2012-01-12
Resource Type:
Thesis
Degree:
MS
Unit (Department):
Biomedical Engineering
Adaptive Spectral Mapping for Real-Time Dispersive Refraction
Keyword:
screen-space
,
spectral rendering
,
dispersion
,
graphics
, and
real-time
Creator:
Blanchette, Damon Arthur
Advisor:
Agu, Emmanuel O.
Publisher:
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:
2012-01-17
Resource Type:
Thesis
Degree:
MS
Unit (Department):
Computer Science
Predicting Performance for Reading News Online from within a Web Browser Sandbox
Keyword:
Measurements in Home Networks
,
New Measurement Initiatives
,
Online News
, and
Passive and Active Measurement Tools
Creator:
Kaplan, Murad
Advisor:
Claypool, Mark L.
Publisher:
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:
2012-01-06
Resource Type:
Thesis
Degree:
MS
Unit (Department):
Computer Science
synthesis and characterization of nanostructured carbon supported Pt-based electrocatalysts
Keyword:
CNTs
,
Fuel cell
, and
Electrocatalyst
Creator:
geng, xi
Advisor:
Liang, Jianyu
Publisher:
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:
2012-01-13
Resource Type:
Thesis
Degree:
MS
Unit (Department):
Materials Science & Engineering
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