Theses and Dissertations

This thesis analyses the sequential production process. It reviews and comments on the work that has been done in this area

With the Geneva Agreements, a precarious peace came to Indo-China, a peace which meant no more than a respite from conditions of actual warfare. The peace which came to Indo-China was not a "conqueror's peace" but a "forced peace". It was born out of neither vi ctory nor ordinary diplomatic compromise, but out of a combination of balckmail, threats, and military defeats.

In recent years, the dominant discourses on child-centered individualistic pedagogy representing Eurocentric models and grounded in developmental psychology have been increasingly challenged. Critics pointing to the diverse contexts of childhood, and the impact of globalization and technological advancement, have questioned the universal application of the developmental paradigms.

An investigation of the sample sizes required in order to find average queue lengths with specified accuracy is presented in this thesis. The queuing systems studied are single server models with infinite queues and no priorities.

Of all Jeffers' major narrative poems, The Woman at Point Sur has met with the most critical disfavor; yet it is acknowledge as perhaps the most important to the study of Jeffers.

The mid-infrared (λ ∼ 3 – 30 μm) and terahertz (THz) or far-infrared (λ ∼ 30 – 300 μm) regions of the electromagnetic spectrum offer unique applications in spectroscopy, sensing, and imaging. However, these longer wavelengths (photon energies ≤ 0.4 eV) are difficult to generate with compact solid-state devices owing to the lack of naturally occurring materials with small bandgaps. Quantum-cascade lasers (QCLs) are unipolar devices based on semiconductor superlattices, in which radiation occurs due to intersubband (rather than interband) optical transitions.

The purpose of this thesis is to study the function of the technique of frame-and-narrator in four short works of Joseph Conrad: The Lagoon, Youth, Amy Foster, and Heart of Darkness.

In this thesis, multiple structural systems are investigated by utilizing the Harmony Search optimization algorithm for least weight optimization. An analytical overview of structural optimization, matrix analysis, damage tolerance, steel connections and structural reliability analysis and methodology are presented. To support the methodology, three example problems have been provided. The first example demonstrates damage tolerant optimization of a simple truss structure.

Impurity concentration in epixtaxial layers frequently vary with distance from the substrate. It is important to be able to measure these profiles with precision though out the entire epitaxial layer.

Passive damping systems can improve the seismic performance of buildings by reducing drift and inelastic deformation demands on the primary lateral load resisting system, in addition to reducing the velocity and acceleration demands on non-structural components.

One of Virgil's stories which was most frequently retold in the Middle Ages was the love story of Dido and Aeneas. The popularity of this story and the rhetorical tradition within which the Aeneid was placed makes Chaucer's choice of the Dido-Aeneas for the first part of the House of Fame significant; and his return to this story in the Legend of Good Women emphaizes his facination with the tale's potential.

The focal point of this thesis will be the production-distribution cost component of Long-Range Capacity Planning Model. This component is dependent upon the production level at the plants, the demand requirements at the demand centers, and the level of outside purchases required by the demand centers to fulfill their needs.

This thesis presents a close reading of Flannery O'Connor's short story "The Artificial Nigger." I have attempted to demonstrate that the redemption which is claimed for the major character, Mr. Head, is ironic and therefore false.

An experimental investigation of the perfomances of some highway drainage inlets is presented.

Superiority comparison tests are used to demonstrate, with some predetermined confidence, that a modified lot is superior to the original rejected lot. This paper describes a modified test which is directed to the problem of reducing total expected cost while making the superiority comparison.