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The bedrock geology of the Gilmanton 15-minute Quadrangle, New Hampshire.
Geology -- New Hampshire -- Gilmanton Quadrangle.
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Brittle failure of columnar S2 ice under triaxial compression.
Ice mechanics. Compressibility. Fracture mechanics. Strains and stresses. Brittleness.
This work describes the effect of triaxial compressive confinement on the strength of columnar S2 ice loaded under conditions leading to brittle failure. Cubes of columnar S2 ice were tested at -10 °C under triaxial (proportional) loading where...
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The effect of stress state on the brittle compressive failure of columnar ice.
Ice mechanics. ; Compressibility. ; Strains and stresses. ; Brittleness. ; Fracture mechanics.
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Operating system support for resilience / by Kathleen McGill.
Robots. ; Reinforcement learning. ; Social interaction. ; Cooperation. ; Biomimetics.
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Quantitative risk analysis of computer networks.
Computer networks -- Security measures. Computer security. Risk assessment. Operating systems (Computers) -- Evaluation.
Quantitative Risk Analysis of Computer Networks (QSRA) addresses the problem of risk opacity of software in networks. It allows risk managers to get a detailed and comprehensive snapshot of the constitutive software on the network, assess its risk...
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Geology and paleomagnetics of three old red sandstone basins: Spitsbergen, Norway and Scotland.
Paleomagnetism -- Norway. ; Paleomagnetism -- Norway -- Spitsbergen Island. ; Paleomagnetism -- Scotland. ; Sandstone -- Norway. ; Sandstone -- Norway -- Spitsbergen Island. ; Sandstone -- Scotland.
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Brittle-ductile transition in intermetallic compounds, Ni[subscript 3]Ga and Ni[subscript 3]A1.
Nickel alloys -- Brittleness. ; Nickel alloys -- Ductility. ; Nickel alloys -- Fracture.
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Synchrotron X-ray topographic studies of polycrystalline ice.
Ice crystals -- Radiography. ; Synchrotron radiation. ; Dislocations in crystals.
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Automatic test pattern generation techniques for built-in self-test of digital circuits.
Digital integrated circuits -- Testing. Digital integrated circuits -- Testing -- Mathematical models. Digital integrated circuits -- Design and construction.
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Stratigraphy, structure, and petrology of the Peterborough 15-minute quadrangle, New Hampshire; and Part II. Graphite textural and isotopic variations in plutonic rocks, south-central New Hampshire.
Geology -- New Hampshire -- Peterborough Quadrangle. Geology Stratigraphic. Geology.
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Chronology of Neogene tectonics in the Central Andes (27°-33° S) of western Argentina based on the magnetic polarity stratigraphy of foreland basin sediments.
Geology, Stratigraphic -- Neogene. ; Plate tectonics -- Argentina. Geology -- Argentina.
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The Plio-Pleistocene structural and stratigraphic evolution of the Eastern Potwar Plateau, Pakistan
Geology, Stratigraphic -- Pliocene. ; Geology, Stratigraphic -- Pleistocene. ; Geology -- Pakistan -- Eastern Potwar Plateau
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Tectonics of the Pacific margin of Northern Central America
Geology, Structural.; Geology -- Central America. ; Plate tectonics -- Pacific Coast (Central America)
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Access control in and for the real world / by Sara Sinclair.
Access control is a core component of any information-security strategy. Researchers have spent tremendous energy over the past forty years defining abstract access-control models and proving various properties about them. However, surprisingly...
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Mesh-Mon: a monitoring and management system for wireless mesh networks.
Wireless communication systems. Computer networks. Routers (Computer networks).
A mesh network is a network of wireless routers that employ multi-hop routing and can be used to provide network access for mobile clients. Mobile mesh networks can be deployed rapidly to provide an alternate communication infrastructure for...
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Structural and compositional aspects of low-grade metamorphic chlorite.
Chlorites. Metamorphism (Geology). ; Clay -- Analysis -- Maine. ; Clay -- Analysis -- Pennsylvania.
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A geologic study of the Chagai Hills, Baluchistan, Pakistan using LANDSAT digital data.
Geology -- Pakistan -- Balochistan -- Chagai Hills.
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The Santo Niño Ag-Pb-Zn Vein, Fresnillo District, Mexico : Geology, Sulphide And Sulphosalt Mineral.
Geology -- Mexico -- Fresnillo Region. ; Sulfide minerals -- Mexico -- Fresnillo Region. ; Sulfosalts. ; Geochemistry -- Mexico -- Fresnillo Region.
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Depositional response to encroachment of Himalayan compressional and transpressional deformation on the northern Pakistan foreland.
Geology, Structural – Pakistan.
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Tectonic evolution of the NW-Himalayan thrust front: the Trans-Indus Ranges, northern Pakistan.
Geology, Structural -- Pakistan -- Trans-Indus Ranges. ; Geology Stratigraphic. ; Paleomagnetism -- Pakistan -- Trans-Indus Ranges. ; Geology -- Pakistan -- Trans-Indus Ranges.
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Characterization and timing of metamorphism within the Indo-Asian suture zone, Himalayas, northern Pakistan.
Metamorphism (Geology) -- Pakistan. ; Metamorphism (Geology) -- Himalaya Mountains.
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Depositional environments of rifted margin sediments: insights from Neoproterozoic diamictite and cap carbonates and the Silurian Arisaig Group.
Geology, Stratigraphic -- Proterozoic. Geology Stratigraphic -- Silurian. Rocks Sedimentary -- Nova Scotia. Rocks.
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Microstructure and mechanical properties of Fe55Mn19Al26 and Fe30Ni20Mn35Al15 / by Yifeng Liao.
Iron alloys -- Mechanical properties.;""Iron alloys -- Microstructure -- Iron alloys -- Thermomechanical properties -- Intermetallic compounds -- Mechanical properties -- Intermetallic compounds -- Microstructure -- Intermetallic compounds --...
Two alloys, Fe 55 Mn 19 Al 26 and Fe 30 Ni 20 Mn 35 Al 15 , were studied in this research project. The yield stress anomaly (YSA) of Fe 55 Mn 19 Al 26 single crystal was observed with a yield stress peak at 700 K. In situ TEM straining revealed...
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Periodic spectral variation in Cygnus X-2 and Scorpius X-1.
Stars -- Spectra.
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Drift waves in a nonuniformly rotating plasma column.
Drift waves. Rotating plasmas.
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On the implementation of ALGOL 68.
ALGOL (Computer program language);Computer programming.
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A dynamically refocusable sampling infrastructure for 802.11 networks.
Telecommunication -- Traffic -- Measurement -- Statistical methods. IEEE 802.11 (Standard). Universities and colleges -- Computer networks -- New Hampshire -- Hanover -- Case studies.
The edge of the Internet is increasingly wireless. Enterprises large and small, homeowners, and even whole cities have deployed Wi-Fi networks for their users, and many users never need to--or never bother to--use the wired network. With the advent...
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Spectroscopic analyses of type Ia supernovae / by Jerod Parrent.
After decades of searching we have yet to find the progenitor systems for type Ia supernovae. In fact most of what we know about this homogeneous class of supernovae is from spectral features associated with the incinerated remains of the C+O white...
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Group-aware stream filtering.
Streaming technology (Telecommunications). Computer networks -- Monitoring. Multicasting (Computer networks). Electronic data processing -- Distributed processing.
Recent years have witnessed a new class of monitoring applications that need to continuously collect information from remote data sources. Those data sources, such as web click-streams, stock quotes, and sensor data, are often characterized as...
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Statistical methods for gene set annotation optimization unsupervised gene set testing and independent gene set filtering / by Hildreth Robert Frost.
Gene set testing has become a critical tool for interpreting the results of high-throughput genomic experiments. Despite the development of robust statistical methods and extensive gene set collections, however, the results from gene set testing...
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Evaluating mobility predictors in wireless networks for improving handoff and opportunistic routing.
Wireless communication systems. Computer network protocols.
We evaluate mobility predictors in wireless networks. Handoff prediction in wireless networks has long been considered as a mechanism to improve the quality of service provided to mobile wireless users. Most prior studies, however, were based on...
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Development of an apparatus for simultaneous trapping of ⁶Li-⁸⁷Rb Fermi-Bose mixtures.
Trapped ions -- Instruments. Magnetooptical devices -- Design and construction. Atoms -- Cooling. Lithium ions. Rubidium -- Isotopes.
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Nd, Sr and O isotopic study of midcrustal granitoid petrogenesis within the Acadian central Maine terrane.
Petrology -- Maine. Granite -- Maine. Isotope geology -- Maine.
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Origin of epithermal Ag-Au-Cu-Pb-Zn mineralization on the Veta Madre, Guanajuato, Mexico.
Hydrothermal deposits -- Mexico -- Guanajuato (State). Ore deposits -- Mexico -- Guanajuato (State). Las Rayas Mine (Mexico).
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Laser-based oxygen isotopic studies of Acadian metamorphism in eastern Vermont.
Metamorphism (Geology) -- Vermont. Garnet -- Vermont. Laser spectroscopy.
This study presents δ18O analyses of garnets microsampled by laser fluorination from two localities in the deep seated, Barrovian metamorphic terrane of eastern Vermont. The broad goals of the research were to constrain further the amount,...
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The chronology and stratigraphic evolution of the Kashmir and Peshawar intermontane basins, northwestern Himalaya.
Geology, Stratigraphic. Geology -- India -- Kashmir Vale of. Geology -- Pakistan -- Peshawar.
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Detection of hydrocarbons and hydrocarbon microseepage in the Bighorn Basin, Wyoming using isotopic, biogeochemical, and spectral reflectance techniques.
Hydrocarbons -- Secretion. Petroleum -- Geology -- Bighorn Basin (Mont. and Wyo.). Natural gas -- Geology -- Bighorn Basin (Mont. and Wyo.). Isotope geology -- Bighorn Basin (Mont. and Wyo.). Sagebrush -- Bighorn Basin (Mont. and Wyo.) -- Analysis....
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Efficient I/O for computational grid applications.
Computer input-output equipment. ; Computational grids (Computer systems). ; High performance computing. ; Electronic data processing -- Distributed processing.
High-performance computing increasingly occurs on computational grids composed of heterogeneous and geographically distributed systems of computers, networks, and storage devices that collectively act as a single virtual computer. A key challenge...
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Directional recrystallization of copper and nickel.
Recrystallization (Metallurgy). ; Copper -- Thermomechanical properties. ; Nickel -- Thermomechanical properties. ; Metal crystals -- Growth. ; Microstructure. Annealing of metals. Recrystallization (Metallurgy) -- Computer simulation.
The effects of process parameters on the microstructural and textural evolution during directional recrystallization processing were investigated. Microstructural evolution during primary directional recrystallization of 80% cold-rolled, single...
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Type-safe operating system abstractions.
Operating systems (Computers) -- Security measures. ; Device drivers (Computer programs).
Operating systems and low-level applications are usually written in languages like C and assembly, which provide access to low-level abstractions. These languages have unsafe type systems that allow many bugs to slip by programmers. For example, in...
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Solar: building a context fusion network for pervasive computing.
Solar (Computer architecture). ; Ubiquitous computing. Sensor networks. ; Detectors. ; User interfaces (Computer systems).
The complexity of developing context-aware pervasive-computing applications calls for distributed software infrastructures that assist applications to collect, aggregate, and disseminate contextual data. In this dissertation, we present a Context...
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Nonstigmatized individuals' reactions to the acknowledgment and valuation of a stigma by overweight individuals and physically disabled individuals.
Overweight persons -- Attitudes. ; People with disabilities -- Attitudes. ; Obesity -- Public opinion. ; Stigma (Social psychology). ; Self-presentation.
In the last few years, a new perspective on the management of obesity has emerged. Instead of focusing on dieting and weight loss efforts, the new approach focuses on size acceptance. The concept of positively accepting one's deviant features has...
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Aging minds and twisting attitudes: effects of age-related decline in executive function on older adults' attitudes toward stigmatized individuals.
Stigma (Social psychology). Aging -- Psychological aspects. Cognition -- Age factors. Older people -- Attitudes.
Extensive research on aging has demonstrated that normal aging debilitates executive function, a system that is critical for regulating stereotypes. However, there is a paucity of research on whether age-related declines to executive function...
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Cinder cone distribution described using cluster analysis and two-dimensional Fourier analysis in the central Transmexican Volcanic Belt, Mexico, and in SE Guatemala and NW El Salvador.
Volcanism -- Mexico. ; Volcanism -- Guatemala. ; Volcanism -- El Salvador. ; Cluster analysis.
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Efficient stabilization methods for fast polynomial transforms
Computer algorithms. ; Transformations (Mathematics). ; Matrix derivatives.
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Boundary integral methods and their applications / by Lin Zhao
Boundary integral methods have long been used to solve boundary value problems for elliptic partial differential equations with piecewise constant coefficients, since they have several numerical advantages over conventional volume discretization....
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Generalized Fourier transforms and their applications / by Sarah Wolff
This thesis centers around a generalization of the classical discrete Fourier transform. We first present a general diagrammatic approach to the construction of efficient algorithms for computing the Fourier transform of a function on a finite...
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Anthropogenic changes to mercury and lead biogeochemistry in forest soils across the Northeastern United States / by Justin Byron Richardson
Understanding mercury (Hg) and lead (Pb) accumulation and retention in forest soils is needed to reduce their negative impacts on human and wildlife health. In addition, mercury and lead can be used to characterize the role of soil in terrestrial...
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Sounding-rocket studies of Langmuir-wave microphysics in the auroral ionosphere / by Micah P. Dombrowski
Since their discovery in laboratory plasmas in the 1920s, Langmuir waves have been observed to be ubiquitous in plasma environments, particularly in space plasmas. From the greater solar wind to planetary foreshocks and the auroral ionosphere,...
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