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Showing 1 to 20 of 37 for “"Long Beach"”.
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A History and Socio-Cultural Examination of the Long Beach Municipal Band
… instrumental music organizations that existed in Long Beach, California between 1890 and 1980, and specifically focuses upon the social, political, economic, and educational relationships that evolved between the Long Beach Municipal Band and the community at large. The Long Beach Municipal Band …
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Fulfilling the college promise: moving from access to completion for second-year promise students at Long Beach City College
… student persistence, success, and completions at Long Beach City College (LBCC) through a Completion by Design framework. Participants for this study included college promise program students from cohort years 2013, 2014, and 2015 with a control group identified using propensity score matching. …
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Orizaba Urban Design Plan
… Orizaba Design District is located in central Long Beach, California. Historically the physical development of the area has been heavily influenced by the existence of the Pacific Electric Railroad, which has a right-of-way running diagonally through the site. With the existence of the …
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Military downsizing in the United States: A study of military base closures in California from the late 1980's to early 1990's
… California. The case studies are Fort Ord, the Long Beach Naval Complex, and Norton Air Force Base. The goal of these evaluations is to determine whether interest group or elite politics is controlling the base closure process.
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Building resiliency or holding off the inevitable? climate adaptation on a dense barrier island in New York
… adaptation planning on the barrier island of Long Beach, NY five years after Hurricane Sandy left the island devastated. Relying on theories of ecological resiliency that call to mind a 'safe-to-fail' approach rather than engineering resiliency's 'fail-safe' mentality, I look at climate …
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Vanished in Silver
… than 2,500 years old who runs an apothecary in Long Beach, California. The seemingly mundane setting falls away to reveal physics-bending, trans-planar realm systems where every magical tale and creation myth is real. With the help of new friends and old, Lyra must save the entirety of Southern …
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A Parametric Model for Predicting Submarine Dynamic Stability in Early Stage Design
… partially at University of California State at Long Beach and at the Carderock Division of the Naval Surface Warfare Center (NSWCCD) and is in use at NSWCCD in Bethesda, MD. Both programs require the hull offsets and geometry of the control surfaces as input. The hull offsets were determined by …
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Prediction of the Outcome in Cardiac Arrest Patients Undergoing Hypothermia Using EEG Wavelet Entropy
… from CA patients undergoing hypothermia at Long Beach Memorial Medical Center was used to test the hypothesis. Following preprocessing of the signals and implementation of the wavelet transform, the wavelet sub-band entropies were calculated for different frequency bands and EEG channels. …
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The Educational Dimensions of Filipina Migrant Workers’ Activist Identities
… members of the Filipino Migrant Center (FMC), Long Beach in Southern California. FMC engages in organizing low-income members of the Filipino community around issues and concerns affecting them, provides services, and conducts research and educational work. This study investigates the …
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Population structure and recruitment patterns of the indigenous Mussel Perna perna and the Alien Mussel Mytilus galloprovincialis on the central coast of Namibia
… place during spring tide, once every season along Dolphin Beach, Long Beach, and Shipwreck, near Swakopmund during 2014. At regular intervals of 2 m one 10 x 10 cm quadrat was placed along a line transect from the spring low water level to the spring high water level. Everything was removed …
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Family Support Factors in African American Families That Promote Academic Achievement for Male Middle-School Students
… grade attending Middle Schools in the North Long Beach area of Southern California. It employed a mixed methods approach in using both questionnaires and surveys for collecting data. Thirty two parents were selected at random and completed questionnaires about attitudes and behaviors related …
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Black-box printer models and their applications
… Epson Expression 10000XL (Epson America, Inc., Long Beach, CA, USA) flatbed scanner operated at 2400 dpi under different analysis resolutions. The experiment results show that the larger neighborhood models yield a significant improvement in the accuracy of the prediction of the pixel values of …
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An Examination of Post-Pandemic Enrollment Declines in California’s Public Education System
… were sent home and families navigated prolonged school closures, the federal government responded with unprecedented funding to public schools, aimed at reengaging students safely, addressing academic losses, and mitigating socio-emotional impacts. While this temporary relief funding …
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Cargo Shipping Demand Modeling, Infrastructure Mapping, And Emission Impacts Of Selected U.S. Ports
… selected areas of the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach, the port of Gulfport, and Oxford, MS shothat the calibrated surface classification using multispectral satellite imagery would be more efficient than the manual planimetrics for mapping current infrastructure features and landuse. Global …
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Analysis and Optimization of Chassis Movements in Transportation Networks with Centralized Chassis Processing Facilities
… with CPFs is developed, and a case study in the Long Beach/Los Angeles (LB/LA) port area is performed. Comparisons between current practices at ports, in which chassis exchanges occur at marine terminals, and proposed practices, in which the exchanges happen at CPFs, are performed. The results of …
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Trim Angle of Attack of Flexible Wings Using Non-Linear Aerodynamics
… wing, High Speed Civil transport, High-Altitude Long Endurance aircraft and future military aircraft). Also, the availability of supercomputers has made it now possible to employ high-fidelity models (Computational Fluid Dynamics for fluids and detailed finite element models for structures) at …
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Optimization in Engineering Applications
<p>Optimization can be found in all aspects of engineering. From digital signal processing (DSP) to antenna analysis, optimization is used to design digital filter and antenna beamforming. In this research, we have applied optimization to engineering technologies that have great impact to society …
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Model Predictive Energy Management for Building Microgrids with IoT-based Controllable Loads
<p>This thesis develops an economic scheduling framework for a building microgrid with internet of things (IoT) based flexible loads to synchronize the buildings’ controllable components, with occupant behavior and environmental conditions. We employ model predictive control (MPC) methods to …
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Polarization Reconfigurable Non-Orthogonal Multiple Access (PR-NOMA) for Next Generation Communication Systems
<p>The non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) method for wireless communication systems has seen ever-increasing implementations for the existing wireless communication system design due to its superiority when compared to its counterpart, the traditional orthogonal multiple access (OMA). However, a …
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