Ghassemi, Majid, "Effects of gasket heat gain and an alternative refrigerant on refrigerator/freezer performance " (1993). Retrospective Theses and Dissertations. Paper 10431. INFORMATION TO USERS This manuscript has been reproduced from the microfilm master. UMI films the text directly from the original or copy submitted. Thus, some thesis and dissertation copies are in typewriter face, while ...

In order to use power splitter for communication and real world applications (e.g., telephony performances, antenna designs, wireless communications, digital communications, optical communications, CATV transmission systems, airborne systems), studying the nature and characteristics of the splitter is important. The purpose of this paper is to review and discuss various techniques aimed to deve...

The Map Task (Anderson et al., 1991) and Tangram (Clark & Wilkes-Gibbs, 1986) are traditional referential communication tasks that used in psycholinguistics research to demonstrate how conversational partners mutually agree on descriptions (or referring expressions) for landmarks or unusual target objects. These highly-controlled, laboratory-based take place under conditions relatively natu...

Reconfigurable antennas have attracted a lot of attention especially in future wireless communication systems. Superior features such as reconfigurable capability, low cost, multi-purpose functions and size miniaturization have given reconfigurable antennas advantage to be integrated into a wireless systems. In this chapter, two types of reconfigurable antennas are discussed. First, frequency r...

Background As the evidence based practice (EBP) movement expands, there is a need for health leaders and educators in each country to assess the extent to which health professional students and practitioners are prepared to locate, evaluate, and apply evidence to guide their practice. Objective The study objective was to explore nurses' and nursing students' perceptions and attitudes towards EB...

Singular integral equation that has enormous applications in applied problems including fluid mechanics, biomechanics, electromagnetic theory and chemistry applications such as heat conduction, crystal growth and electrochemistry. An integral equation is called a singular integral equation if one or both limits of integration become infinite, or if the kernel of the equation becomes infinite at...

The Aim of this project is to produce a fully comprehensive software library which implements previous work by David G. Lowe on the subject of the Scale Invariant Feature Transform (SIFT). As background knowledge, this dissertation presents a brief introduction of image matching and a thorough review of image feature detectors and descriptors. Furthermore, documents produced in every stage of s...

For any finite Coxeter system (W,S) we construct a certain noncommutative algebra, the so-called bracket algebra, together with a family of commuting elements, the so-called Dunkl elements. The Dunkl elements conjecturally generate an algebra which is canonically isomorphic to the coinvariant algebra of the Coxeter group W. We prove this conjecture for classical Coxeter groups and I2(m). We def...

The first verb (V1) of the verb compound, na2 ‘take’, encodes the general action of removing, the second verb (V2), xia4 ‘descend’, encodes the Path of motion, and the third verb (V3), lai2 ‘come’, indicates Deictic information (i.e. towards the Agent in [1]). Verb compounds like na2-xia4-lai2 are known as directional verb compounds, which typically describe motion events and involve a verb ind...

Entwined structures (A,C, ψ) were introduced by Brzeziński and Majid to study the interdependence of an R-algebra A and an R-coalgebra C, R a commutative ring. It turned out that this relationship can also be expressed by the fact that A⊗R C has a canonical A-coring structure. More generally weak entwined structures and their modules were studied by Caenepeel and Groot and it was suggested by C...