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The work presented in this thesis is dedicated to the study of vehicle rollover and the tyre and suspension characteristics influencing it. Recent data shows that 35.4% of recorded fatal crashes in Sports Utility Vehicles (SUVs) included vehicle rollover. The effect of rollover …

Flow-induced vibrations arise in many engineering applications. This class of problems is commonly tackled by investigating the flow field around the obstruction as well as the influence of the aerodynamic excitations on the oscillations of the obstruction. The problem of flow-s…

This work describes the modeling, control design, and experimental verification of an electromagnetic suspension system with position feedback using infrared sensors. A nonlinear model is obtained by fitting a first principle analytical model of the system to experimental data. …

All those involved in the ecclesiastical tribunals are called "ministers of justice." Each minister of justice holds an ecclesiastical office that is properly defined in the Code of Canon Law. As a minister of justice, he or she is entrusted with the great responsibility of bein…

The purpose of this study was to examine student- and school-level factors associated with risk of suspension. Using a dataset that included a cohort of students (n = 3,167) who were followed from first grade through eighth grade, this study utilized multilevel modeling to exami…