MINDS@UW: Recent submissions
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Do Seed Traits Mediate Plant Community Changes in Wisconsin's Unburned Prairies?
(2016-05)Historically, both natural and human-induced fires have played a key role in North American prairies, providing a disturbance regime that grassland systems are adapted to. With human activity fragmenting these prairies at ... -
The Role of Cartographic Interface Complexity on Spatial Decision Making: a Case Study in the North American Hazardous Waste Trade
(2017)Digital interactive maps are part of our everyday lives: we use them for navigation on our smartphones, they enhance stories for online news sources, and they populate our social media timelines. The public has a favorable ... -
The Relationship Between Voting and Crime: a Neighborhood-Level Analysis
(2017-05)Why do people vote? Casting a ballot on election day is not just a way to show support for a particular candidate, it also embeds an individual into collective society. Knack argues that voting is a social norm, or a ... -
A General Framework for Predicting the Optimal Computing Configurations for Climate-Driven Ecological Forecasting Models
(2017-04)Rapidly growing databases are swiftly transforming the field of biodiversity modeling into a big-data science, characterized by high volume, heterogeneous datasets with high uncertainty. As climate warming and land use ... -
Spatial Text Mining: an Enhanced Text Mining Framework for Extracting Disaster Relevant Social Media Data
(2017)In the past decade, the rise in social media has led to the development of a vast number of social media services and applications. Disaster management represents one of such applications leveraging massive data generated ... -
Detection of Peri-urban and Agricultural Expansion 1990-2015 in Pakse, Laos, Using Dense Time Stacks of Landsat Imagery
(2016)Built-up areas in Southeast Asia have been expanding rapidly in the export-oriented economies of Vietnam, China, and Thailand, but less attention has been paid to cities in more rural nations such as Laos. The Laotian ... -
Competency Assessment for State Highway Agency Project Managers
(2018)Project Managers (PMs) play a key role in the successful completion and smooth delivery of construction projects. PM competencies have been studied thoroughly over the past few decades to identify the skills, traits, ... -
ACOUSTIC EMISSIONS ANALYSIS AND 2-D P-WAVE TOMOGRAPHY ALONG A ROUGH LABORATORY FAULT UNDERGOING STICK-SLIP CYCLES
(2018)The distributions and magnitudes of seismicity within fault systems could be highly influenced by the heterogeneity of shear stress field according to the geometric structure, fractures and asperities. However, the ... -
IMPACT OF LEVEL 3 HIGHLY AUTOMATED VEHICLE ON WEAVING SEGMENT
(2018)Weaving Segment plays a key role of mobility in the state and county highway systems. It is also discovered that around 10% capacity drop occurs within the weaving segment. The reduced discharged flow rate produces ... -
IMPACT OF LEVEL 3 HIGHLY AUTOMATED HEAVY VEHICLES ON FREEWAY CAPACITY
(2018)Over the last few years, the applications of Autonomous Vehicles in the Freeway network have attracted increased attention both in practice and in the research field. However, the detection of the effect of the Autonomous ... -
TRAVEL SPEED EFFECTS OF 70 MPH SPEED LIMIT CHANGE
(2018)An important purpose of speed limits is to improve traffic safety by reducing the risks imposed by the speed choices of drivers. This purpose is achieved in two ways. On one hand, by setting an upper bound, speed limits ... -
Managing climate risks in agriculture and hydropower by coupling prediction and multi-purpose reservoir models in the Blue Nile Basin, Ethiopia
(2018)The Blue Nile Basin in Ethiopia is a critical water resource for the nation and continent, subject to spatial and temporal variations in climate that adversely impact local communities. Extreme conditions, e.g. drought and ... -
SUBSTRUCTURAL ISOLATION METHOD FOR DAMAGE DETECTION IN CIVIL STRUCTURES
(2018)Structural health monitoring (SHM) is the process of evaluating a structure with the use of sensors to provide an accurate representation of its current condition. Damage is identified, located, and quantified in order ... -
A Modeling Approach to Analyze Performance of a Minimal Aeration Biological Nutrient Removal (BNR) Pilot-Scale Plant
(2018)ABSTRACT The aeration of wastewater in the activated sludge process for biological nutrient removal is energy intensive. For the average wastewater treatment plant (WWTP), aeration contributes 60% of the electrical energy ... -
Novel Substructural Health Monitoring Method without Interface Measurements using State Space Analysis and Extended Kalman Filtering
(2018)Introduction Structural Health Monitoring (SHM) at its core is a process to identify damage, defined as either material or geometric change, of a system that negatively affects the systems performance[7]. SHM seeks to ... -
Commencement May, 1986
(1986-05-25)Programs for commencement, honors day and other related campus events. Also included are addresses to graduating classes; scholarship information; programs for alumni, faculty, senior banquets and senior class plays; and ... -
Commencement November, 1986
(1986-11-16)Programs for commencement, honors day and other related campus events. Also included are addresses to graduating classes; scholarship information; programs for alumni, faculty, senior banquets and senior class plays; and ... -
Commencement November, 1987
(1987-11-15)Programs for commencement, honors day and other related campus events. Also included are addresses to graduating classes; scholarship information; programs for alumni, faculty, senior banquets and senior class plays; and ... -
Commencement May, 1987
(1987-05-24)Programs for commencement, honors day and other related campus events. Also included are addresses to graduating classes; scholarship information; programs for alumni, faculty, senior banquets and senior class plays; and ... -
Increasing organizational value through aftermarket services
(2019-01-04)