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Broadcasting is an essential and effective data propagation mechanism with several important applications, such as route discovery, address resolution and many other network services. Though data broadcasting has many advantages, it can also cause a high degree of contention, co…

Globally many bird populations are declining at a rapid pace due to direct and indirect anthropogenic disturbances. Bird collisions with buildings are one major source of direct mortality. Chapter 1 examined species- and life-history-related variation and correlates of collision…

The main contribution from the current work is the enhancement of a comprehensive noise prediction system for rotorcraft and a methodology to analyze flight test procedures in the interest of understanding the noise source generation mechanisms and aid development of noise abate…