Slope reinforcement and the use of structural pile elements can be an effective slope remediation alternative when conventional remediation practices (e.g., improved drainage) fail to consider the causal factors leading to slope instability (e.g., strength loss due to weathering). An experimental research program was aimed at developing a rapid, cost-effective, and simple remediation system tha...

Most research on F0 has attempted to model the behaviour of an entire linguistic community (e.g of speakers of US or UK English, French, Japanese etc). In this research, we attempt in two analyses to characterize some prosodic aspects of individual differences within the speaker community. For this, the statistical distributions of F0 and intensity parameters were examined. It was found in the ...

We realize a one-dimensional Josephson junction using quantum degenerate Bose gases in a tunable double well potential on an atom chip. Matter wave interferometry gives direct access to the relative phase field, which reflects the interplay of thermally driven fluctuations and phase locking due to tunneling. The thermal equilibrium state is characterized by probing the full statistical distribu...

This thesis investigates using in line simulation the e ect of non deterministic runtime distributions on the performance of SmartNet s schedule execution using the Opportunistic Load Balancing OLB Algorithm the Limited Best Assignment LBA Algorithm an O mn Greedy Algorithm and an O mn Greedy Algorithm Smart Net is a framework for scheduling jobs and machines in a heterogeneous computing enviro...

A high-throughput computing policy attempts to efficiently utilize all of the resources in a cluster to generate faster overall execution. It is acceptable for jobs running on a workstation serving remote pages to execute more slowly, if other jobs benefit by achieving faster execution times through the use of network RAM, as long as throughput is maximized. Further work must be done to fully u...

The primary objective of this study was to examine the quality volunteered geographic information (VGI) data for flood mapping Hurricane Harvey. As a crowdsourcing platform, U-Flood project mapped flooded streets in Houston metro area. This research examines following: (1) If there are any significant differences water depth (WD) among hydraulic and hydrologic (H&H) model, Federal Emergency...

The awkward movements and postures associated with childcare activities can lead to musculoskeletal symptoms in the neck and shoulders. "Dakko" is a method for carrying a child in Japan, and recently it has been reported to cause shoulder stiffness. To our knowledge, the relationship between childcare activities and the physical load on the neck and shoulders is poorly understood. The present s...