The existence and behavior of ground-state and thermally-activated excitations in helium solids have been extensively examined by a variety of experimental and theoretical studies. Although these excitations are typically ...

Results include an analysis of the water balance components over periods bounded with similar satiated moisture storage conditions. The field site was found to have an excess storage during most periods which is partially ...

The validity of a concept inventory is imperative to its adoption by the education community. In this thesis, we evaluate the validity of the Cybersecurity Concept Inventory for assessing student knowledge of core cybersecurity ...

Analog circuits represent a large percentage of the chips used in mobile computing, communication devices, electric vehicles, and portable medical equipment today. Rapid scaling and shrinking chip geometrics introduce new ...

Accurate representation of ice accretions is important to the study and understanding of aircraft icing. For research and certification purposes, replicas of ice accretions generated from icing wind tunnels are fabricated ...

Among the distinguishing features of molten salt reactors, the possibility of online fuel processing is especially promising. With removal of unfavorable fission products, the molten salt reactor could act as an effective ...

This study investigated the breakdown effect of a listening comprehension test, whether test takers are affected in comprehending lectures by impediments, and collected test takers’ cognitive awareness on test tasks which ...