This work investigates a series of phenomena that shed light on the analysis of attitudes de se. We adopt Lewis' (1979) proposal that attitudes de se involve self-ascription of a property, and investigate how this view of mental content is reflected in natural language. The impl…
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Energy trends along with plant life expectancies have fostered the need for research surrounding the optimization of energy plants in the U.S. energy sector. The research presented here is focused on producing efficient performance by identifying high fidelity parameters of a no…
This thesis introduces a new approach for the control of air pollutant emissions. This technique uses electron beam radiation and ammonia (NH 3) injection to simultaneously oxidize organic pollutants and reduce nitrogen oxide (NO). The objective of this research is to develop a …
Congestion control is the most important part of ATM's ABR service since it has to fully utilize the available bandwidth without causing cell losses. The congestion control for high speed networks like ATM require a local flow controller at bottleneck nodes. In this thesis, we a…
With the objectives of designing a solar cooling system with cold storage unit for the Iraqi climate, solar energy resources were assessed and methods were proposed to enhance harvesting the solar energy in the Iraqi climate. Where the results showed that adopting monthly averag…
The research offers an elaboration of genealogy as an approach to knowledge from Friedrich Nietzsche's original work on method (1887) processed by Michel Foucault (1971). It provides an interdisciplinary version that integrates theoretical and analytical contributions from the p…
This research examines problematic and taken for granted issues in Scottish Secondary Education, from a critical community psychological perspective. Young people are positioned as central to the research, in particular young people experiencing exclusion being the most disempow…
The current generation of Airbus long-range civil transport aircraft actively control the centre of gravity of the aircraft by adjusting the fuel distribution between the horizontal tail surface and the forward tanks in order to minimise cruise drag. Here, it is proposed that th…
Selective robustness is a key feature of biochemical networks, conferring a fitness benefit to organisms living in dynamic environments. The (in-)sensitivity of a network to external perturbations results from the interaction between network dynamics, design, and enzyme kinetics…
The High Redundancy Actuator (HRA) project investigates a novel approach to fault tolerant actuation, which uses a high number of small actuation elements, assembled in series and parallel in order to form a single intrinsically fault tolerant actuator. Element faults affect the…
The safety and functionality of engineering systems can be affected adversely by faults or wear in system components. Therefore, methods for detecting such faults/wear and ameliorating their effects to avoid system failure are important. Designing schemes for the detection and d…
Brushless permanent magnet (PM) drive systems offer a high efficiency over a wide power/torque-speed operating envelope, however, there are a number of problems that may limit, or complicate, their operation particularly in automotive and aerospace vehicular applications, i.e. t…
Grasping is a useful ability that allows manipulators to restrain objects to a desired location or trajectory. Whole arm grasps are grasps that use the entire surface of the manipulator to apply contacts to an object. The problem of determining the shape of an object and plannin…
In this work, control techniques for the autonomous navigation and landing of an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) are developed and compared. Controllers were developed and implemented on two different aircraft models: the Lockheed-Martin F-16 and AAI Corporation/Israel Aircraft In…
The multivariate domains of God concepts, motivation, religious coping, and locus of control were examined for the prediction of Spiritual Well-Being via a path-analytic model. Questionnaires were completed by 151 Christian undergraduates. A traditional benevolent conceptualizat…
This study argues that surveillance over migrant workers and immigrants from Turkey in Germany is a means of inclusion and exclusion in order to portray them as "(un)suitable" foreign subjects. However, this surveillance is slowly but surely changing its character. The changing …
This work details the design, simulation, and experimental testing of a mechanically actuated smart hospital bed for the prevention of pressure ulcers in hospital patients. The smart hospital bed, or Smartbed, is designed to improve the “turning&lrquo; process currently performe…
The goal of this thesis is to create the experimental setup and the necessary instrumentation for the temperature control of a double-pipe heat exchanger. The heat exchanger, located at the Chemical Engineering Control Laboratory at the California State University, Long Beach, h…
Nigerian banks and financial institutions have reflected a chronic inability to prevent financial fraud. This descriptive study helped to explore management's and government's roles in preventing fraud and other criminal behaviors within Nigerian banks, which have resulted in lo…