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Factors Influencing Nurses' Turnover Intentions during the COVID-19 Pandemic in The Bahamas
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Background: Nurses in The Bahamas like their colleagues across the globe have had to navigate the varied effects of the protracted COVID-19 pandemic on their work environments. One of the effects was the exacerbation of already low/limited availability of job resources (e.g., staff and...
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Spring 2023
In this thesis, novel battery-less wireless sensor architectures and sensing elements are proposed and demonstrated. The proposed passive wireless sensor architectures integrate a UHF RFID chip, and a UHF sensing element to enable the reading of environmental conditions wirelessly, without...
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Spring 2023
Cooling towers are utilized in a wide variety of industrial applications for dissipating waste heat into the atmosphere. The design of effective, economical, and environment-friendly cooling towers is paramount for industrial applications. In this thesis, a numerical optimization framework for...
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Assessment of empirically-derived parameters and their transferability in mountain glacier modeling and application for regional melt projections under climate change scenarios
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Mountain glaciers, key sources of freshwater to downstream ecosystems and users, are responsive and vulnerable to changes in climate. Understanding their current influence, their potential future changes, and consequences of those changes are all important research goals, so many modeling...
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Spring 2023
From the earliest miniature narratives in English literature, there has been an insistence on miniature people’s inferiority to and dependence on big people and the big world, and the conclusion that big people will always be dangerous and destructive to miniature people because of this innate...
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Spring 2024
This dissertation develops simple and practical learning algorithms from first principles for long-lived agents. Formally, the algorithms are developed within the reinforcement learning framework for continuing (non-episodic) problems, in which the agent-environment interaction goes on ad...
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Integrated analysis of anomalous microseismic behavior in a Montney treatment: Engineering parameters, locations, moment tensors, and geomechanics
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Microseismic monitoring is crucial for evaluating hydraulic fracturing operations and understanding the subsurface. Processing and analyzing microseismic signals induced by fracturing fluid injection provides insights into pore pressure and in-situ stress changes. However, the large volume of...
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Spring 2024
17-4PH is a precipitation hardenable stainless steel alloy with good corrosion resistance and excellent mechanical properties. Due to this combination of properties, 17-4PH is used in a range of industries including marine, nuclear, aerospace, and paper. These wide industrial applications make...
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Spring 2024
This research was focused on the development of wildland firefighters’ protective clothing with improved thermal protection properties. Specifically, a new shirt design was developed, and garments were constructed which incorporated a three-dimensional warp-knitted fabric in specific areas. These...
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Spring 2024
Komaragiri, Lalitha Ganesh Prabhu
This thesis delves into the intricate dynamics of water droplet freezing, a phenomenon with profound implications across a spectrum of fields including climate science, anti-icing technologies, and cryogenic 3D printing. The influence of heat transfer on the wettability and freezing processes of...