Sound Recollections investigates film narratives, spatial acoustics, and software interfaces to ultimately argue that recording studio culture is continually framed through the production and consumption of wide-spread media objects. While there is a wealth of scholarship focusi…
Richards (2006, 2010) suggests that wh-movement is prosodically driven. Based on the position of the Comp(lementizer) and the marking of prosodic phrase edges, he claims that if Comp is on one side and the language marks the opposite side of prosodic phrases, then the wh-phrase …
Traditional methods for measuring the adhesion between fiber and polymers, using single fibers, have problems due to the unknown frictional effects, Poisson's shrinkages or expansions, and uncertainties about failure process. Also environmental studies using these techniques are…
Sabkha soil is widely spread along the Arabian Gulf and Red Sea coasts and is found to be a problematic soil due to its acute water sensitivity and chemical aggressiveness. In many situations, there is a need to improve the load carrying capacity of sabkha and the use of geotext…
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…
The demands for high density, fine pitch interconnections in electronics systems has seen solder-based approaches for such interconnections miniaturized to the scale of tens of micro meters. At such a small scale, such 'micro joints' may contain only one or a few grains and the …
Impersonal, non-face-to-face contact and text-based interfaces, in the e-Learning segment, present major problems that are encountered by learners, since they are out on vital personal interactions and useful feedback messages, as well as on real-time information about their lea…
Polymer materials such as Polycarbonate (PC), Polymethyl methacrylate (PMMA) have numerous applications in transparent armor which includes body and face shield, helmet, windows of the armored vehicle etc. The most challenging part of these applications is to ensure the safety o…
A method for evaluating the integrity of geosynthetic elements of a waste containment system subject to seismic loading is developed using a large strain finite difference numerical computer program. The method accounts for the effect of interaction between the geosynthetic elem…
In the past few years, e-government has been a topic of much interest among those excited about the advent of Web technologies. Due to the growing demand for effective communication to facilitate real-time interaction between users and e-government applications, many governments…
In November 1953, the editor of the Manchester Guardian, AP Wadsworth, responded to Jodrell Bank Director Bernard Lovell regarding a complaint over an article that had appeared on the observatory's radio telescope project. Wadsworth understood there had been much collaboration b…