In designing low-rise metal building systems, column-base connections are commonly assumed to be pinned with no rotational stiffness for both serviceability and strength limit states; however, practical experience indicates ...

Increase of postural instability is one of the significant issues related to aging, due to its relevance concerning risk for falls and associated impacts on life quality and health care costs in the U.S. Sub-threshold ...

Educational leaders are faced with the challenge of preparing more students than ever to be college ready. Many school districts in the US have turned to offering the Advanced Placement (AP) program to add rigor to the ...

This dissertation examines the development of Houston’s lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) community from the earliest political organizing in the 1950s through the AIDS crisis of the 1980s. Relying on archival ...

To achieve commercialization and wide acceptance in industrial application, reliability analysis for complex evolving systems with multiple failure processes becomes increasingly important. The common assumption in analyzing ...

Many non-destructive damage detection problems are presented with the challenge where limited sensor sets allow the measurement of fewer degrees of freedom than the analytical model. This study utilized damage residual ...

This study refines regional differences in the cessation of Laramide compressional deformation and the subsequent initiation of episodic slab-asthenosphere influenced ignimbrite-rhyolite volcanism in West Texas by utilizing ...

Subsea gas and fluid emissions point to a variety of geological processes below the seafloor. Geophysical studies of the seafloor have been focused by the climate system modelling and oil and gas communities in particular ...

This thesis describes a hybrid optical/electronic network architecture that overcomes the limitations of using only modified commodity hardware in such networks, and is easy for industry to adopt. Test results show significant ...

Asthma is a chronic inflammatory disorder of the airways that affects over 300 million people worldwide. Inhaled corticosteroids (ICS) and β2 adrenergic receptor (β2AR) agonists are the mainstay of asthma therapy. However, ...