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• #### Probabilistic analysis in surface water hydrology: Open drainage channels and detention basins ﻿

(1996)
A reliability-based method for analyzing open drainage channels and detention basins using the full marginal distributions of uncertain parameters together with correlation coefficients will be presented in this work. A ...
• #### Probabilistic analysis of the plastic collapse of random media ﻿

(1997)
Two new, efficient probabilistic methods are presented for evaluating the reliability of an elastic/perfectly plastic continuous medium exhibiting randomly varying yield strength. Both the Tresca and Mohr-Coulomb yield ...
• #### Probabilistic analysis of the stability of imperfection sensitive arch and shell structures ﻿

(1996)
The stability of arch and shell structures with random imperfections subjected to random loading is investigated. Arches are analyzed under different types of transverse loads while axial and/or pressure loading are ...
• #### Probabilistic Determination of Thermal Conductivity and Cyclic Behavior of Nanocomposites via Multi-Phase Homogenization ﻿

(2013-09-16)
A novel multiscale approach is introduced for determining the thermal conductivity of polymer nanocomposites (PNCs) reinforced with single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWCNTs), which accounts for their intrinsic uncertainties ...
• #### Probabilistic Fragility of Interdependent Urban Systems Subjected to Seismic Hazards ﻿

(2012)
Urban service networks have come under increased pressure due to expansion of urban population, decrease of capital investment, growing interdependence, and man-made and natural hazards. This thesis introduces a simulation-based ...
• #### Probabilistic Models for Genetic and Genomic Data with Missing Information ﻿

(2013-09-16)
Genetic and genomic data often contain unobservable or missing information. Applications of probabilistic models such as mixture models and hidden Markov models (HMMs) have been widely used since the 1960s to make inference ...
• #### Probabilistic phenomena in random combinatorial problems ﻿

(2003)
This is an experimental investigation of three combinatorial problems. I examined the average-case complexity of random 3-SAT and of 3-Colorability of random graphs, and the satisfiability of random 1-3-HornSAT. All these ...
• #### Probabilistically Bounded Soft Sphere Detection for MIMO-OFDM Receivers: Algorithm and System Architecture ﻿

(2009-10-01)
Iterative soft detection and channel decoding for MIMO OFDM downlink receivers is studied in this work. Proposed inner soft sphere detection employs a variable upper bound for number of candidates per transmit antenna and ...
• #### The Probability of a Gene Tree Topology within a Phylogenetic Network with Applications to Hybridization Detection ﻿

(4/19/2012)
• #### Probing and Manipulating Ultracold Fermi Superfluids ﻿

(2012)
Ultracold Fermi gas is an exciting field benefiting from atomic physics, optical physics and condensed matter physics. It covers many aspects of quantum mechanics. Here I introduce some of my work during my graduate study. ...
• #### Probing color coherence effects in pp collisions at √s = 7TeV ﻿

(2014)
A study of color coherence effects in pp collisions at a center-of-mass energy of 7 TeV is presented. The data used in the analysis were collected in 2010 with the CMS detector at the LHC and correspond to an integrated ...
• #### Probing depths of low energy electrons in metals ﻿

(1992)
Spin-polarized electron energy-loss spectroscopy has been used to investigate the probing depth of low energy ($\sim$30 eV) electrons in metals. A beam of spin-polarized electrons is directed at the surface of the sample ...
• #### Probing lipid membrane electrostatics ﻿

(2009)
The electrostatic properties of lipid bilayer membranes play a significant role in many biological processes. Atomic force microscopy (AFM) is highly sensitive to membrane surface potential in electrolyte solutions. With ...
• #### Probing molecular adsorption and mechanics at the atomic scale: The Nanocar family of molecules ﻿

(2008)
Molecular machines, typically thought to be only the fanciful imaginings of speculative fiction, have taken great strides in recent years towards real-world viability and usefulness. Under variable temperature scanning ...
• #### Probing the Association of Triblock Copolymers with Supported Lipid Membranes using Microcantilevers ﻿

(2014)
Pluronics are a class of amphiphilic triblock copolymers that are known to interact with cellular membranes in interesting ways. The solubility of these triblock copolymers in free lipid membranes can be altered with ...
• #### Probing the Surface-Vacuum Interface with Spin-Sensitive Metastable Atom Deexcitation, Electron Capture and Electron Emission Spectroscopies ﻿

(1993)
Spin-Polarized Metastable Atom Deexcitation (SPMDS) and Electron Capture (ECS) Spectroscopies probe the exponential tails of electronic wavefunctions extending from the surface into the vacuum, and are consequently extremely ...
• #### the problem building an educated community ﻿

(1965-09-16)
• #### Problem generator system in Engineering Design Tutor ﻿

(2002)
The Internet has provided an ideal environment for engineering education. This thesis describes the development of a new problem generator used in the Engineering Design Tutor (EDT) system to provide multi-step problem ...
• #### The Problem of Creation ﻿

(1965-03-04)

(1928-01)