F. E. (1851-1885) and Oscar (1858-1957) Ruffini worked during a transitional period in the professionalization of achitectural practice in Texas and the United States. Yet scholars know little about the professional ...

Songs by the wayfarer Don Quixote Why do the nations See the raging flames Three poems of Fiona Macloud Op. 82

The textile industry needs a reliable, accurate, affordable, and efficient system to automatically evaluate fabric wrinkles. This thesis is a preliminary attempt to achieve this goal. In this work, one laser-camera system ...

Organic energetic material (OEM) research has attracted a lot of attention due to its wide application in mining, demolition, military weaponry, and aeronautical engineering. OEMs often exhibit a tradeoff between properties, ...

In recent years, satellites, especially micro satellites, uses higher and higher power to achieve advanced mission and complicated thermal management or more power to heater are needed. Then, the concept of the Autonomous ...

New materials for the manufacture of orthopedic devices are needed in order to aid with the alleviation of problems associated with the materials currently in production. The desire for new materials is due to the disparity ...

There has been substantial progress in tissue engineering of biological substitutes for medical applications. One of the major challenges in development of complex tissues is the difficulty of creating vascular networks ...

This dissertation presents an integrated approach to city diagnosis with the help of a computer-drawn human face. The facial image represents multi-dimensional observations of a city. Presented in this dissertation are a ...

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