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Pliocene Kinematic Reorganization, Fault Geometry, Basin Evolution, and Displacement Budget Along the Furnace Creek – Fish Lake Valley Fault Zone, Eastern California and Western Nevada
(2019-05)The active northwest-striking Furnace Creek – Fish Lake Valley fault system of eastern California and western Nevada records a protracted history of displacement that has accumulated 45-50 km of right-lateral offset since ... -
Pneumothorax Segmentation of Chest X-Rays Using a Stacked Generalization Framework with Multiple Convolutional Neural Networks
(2020-04-29)With advances in deep learning research, convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have achieved state-of-the-art results in common computer vision tasks such as image classification and image segmentation. In the past decade, ... -
Polar and Givens Decomposition and Inversion of the Indefinite Double Covering Map
(2020-07-16)Algorithmic methods for the explicit inversion of the indefinite double covering maps are proposed. These based on either the Givens decomposition or the polar decomposition of the given matrix in the proper, indefinite ... -
Policy and Politics: A Case Study on the Rhetoric of Republican Governors on the Affordable Care Act’s Medicaid Expansion
(2019-05)The passage of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) is arguably one of the most significant pieces of health care legislation passed in the United States in the past half-century, with the expansion of Medicaid eligibility ... -
Polythiourethanes for Advanced Applications
(2017-07-24)Photopolymer systems, such as those based on acrylate or thiol-ene chemistries, see widespread use due to the utility and convenience in the ability to rapidly cure the resin via light exposure. These materials are used ... -
Portable Low Cost Amplifier for a Solid State Radiation Detector
(2017-05)Geiger-Mueller Counters filled with 3He have been the standard for detecting neutrons for many years, but the system is expensive, requires high voltage and has limited size scalability. Using solid state radiation detectors ... -
Portable, Configurable Impedance Measurement Device for Sweat Based Glucose Detection
(2017-05)The future of disease diagnostics lies in the development of low-cost sensors that can detect minute traces of pathogens or antigens from body fluids. Developments in nanotechnology and biomedical research have already ... -
Post-Terrona. A Drawing Project About an Imaginative Reconfiguration of the Southern Italian Woman
(2021-05-05)This work is a combination of artistic and scholarly research about the southern Italian woman (terrona). By analyzing a variety of media, I investigate the southern Italian woman’s stereotype and I discuss how she has ... -
Power Decoupling Methods for Reduced Capacitance Switched Reluctance Motor Drive
(2017-08)Limited fossil fuel resources and environmental concerns are driving industries towards more energy efficient and environment friendly solutions. Players in the automotive industry are producing increasing amount of hybrid ... -
Power-Efficiency and Current-Accuracy Enhancement Techniques for High-Voltage Automotive LED Drivers
(2017-05)The light-emitting diodes (LEDs) have been widely used in commercial automotive lighting applications. However, the lighting implementations are still a mixture of both traditional filament-based lamps and LED light sources ... -
Powerline Feature Detection and Extraction Using Photon Lidar Point Clouds
(2019-06-04)Remote sensing technologies are a critical component for managing utility infrastructure. Utility companies rely on GIS data for planning, engineering design, operations, severe weather response, vegetation management, ... -
Predictable GPGPU Computing in DNN-Driven Autonomous Systems
(2018-12)Graphics processing units (GPUs) are being widely used as co-processors in many domains to accelerate general-purpose workloads that are data-parallel and computationally intensive, i.e., GPGPU. An emerging usage domain ... -
Predicting Arrest Trajectories in Micro-Places: A Test of Social Disorganization Theory
(2016-12)Although much has been learned about crime in micro-places, their development and continuity over time remains largely misunderstood. In 2006, Weisburd, Bushway, Lum and Yang were the first to develop trajectories of crime ... -
Predicting Recidivism Through Machine Learning
(2017-05)The current study attempts to explore more precise solutions for the prediction problem in the U.S. criminal justice system. Using data obtained from the Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS), Recidivism of Prisoners Released ... -
Prediction of Individualized Risk of Contralateral Breast Cancer
(2018-05)Women diagnosed with cancer in one breast are increasingly choosing to remove their other unaffected (contralateral) breast through a surgery called contralateral prophylactic mastectomy (CPM) to reduce the risk of ... -
Prediction of Residual Stress Random Fields in Selective Laser Melted Aluminum A357 Components Subjected to Laser Shock Peening
(2019-05)This work aims to develop a procedure to simulate laser shock peening treatments more efficiently, and to characterize the major differences in laser peening effects for cast and additively manufactured (selective-laser-melted) ... -
Preparation of Free Standing Carbon Nanofiber Electrodes for Supercapacitor Applications
(2017-05)Supercapacitors, also known as electrochemical double layer capacitors (EDLCs), are promising energy storage devices that can store more energy per unit volume or unit mass than the conventional capacitor. Supercapacitors ... -
Preventing Bats From Flying Into Turbulent Wind Turbine Wakes Using Quadcopters
(2020-09-08)As the popularity of wind energy continues to grow, the number of unforeseen issues have resulted from the rise in popularity - namely the sharp rise in the number of bat deaths in the vicinity of the wind turbines. Autopsies ... -
Prevention of Physical Aging within Carbon Molecular Sieve Membranes for Gas Separations
(2020-08)Carbon molecular sieve membranes (CMSMs) are a subclass of porous materials with the ability to perform molecular sieving. Controlling the jump lengths from one pore to another allows for enhanced permselectivity of such ... -
Price Dynamics in LNG Spot Markets: An Econometric Analysis
(2018-05)In the last couple of decades, numerous papers have been written on the LNG industry. Nevertheless, only a handful of academic studies has touched upon the dynamics behind the LNG spot price mechanisms. Given the fact that ...