The majority of vehicles over the near term will rely on petroleum, with electric vehicles poised to take over a significant market share of new light duty vehicles in the near future. The proposed Auxiliary Drive Device (ADD) instantly provides hybridization and electrification of an existing fossil fuel vehicle. The purpose is to contribute torque to increase fuel economy and to compensate for the load born by a towing vehicle to reduce the engine size. The ADD is simulated, built and tested for the first time in a towing vehicle configuration. A sensor integrated mechanism is used to measure the force of the trailer load onto the towing vehicle. A test bench platform verifies controls on a push plate in a force sensor feedback control loop configuration. In addition, a scaled prototype provides experimental data to verify mathematical models developed for the ADD. It is found that this new concept provides performance gains and fuel economy savings in a towing configuration.

The majority of vehicles over the near term will rely on petroleum, with electric vehicles poised to take over a significant market share of new light duty vehicles in the near future. The proposed Auxiliary Drive Device (ADD) instantly provides hybridization and electrification of an existing fossil fuel vehicle. The purpose is to contribute torque to increase fuel economy and to compensate for the load born by a towing vehicle to reduce the engine size. The ADD is simulated, built and tested for the first time in a towing vehicle configuration. A sensor integrated mechanism is used to measure the force of the trailer load onto the towing vehicle. A test bench platform verifies controls on a push plate in a force sensor feedback control loop configuration. In addition, a scaled prototype provides experimental data to verify mathematical models developed for the ADD. It is found that this new concept provides performance gains and fuel economy savings in a towing configuration.

My thesis investigates automation and optimizations for occlusion filling, a problem resulting from the generation of new viewpoints in the 3D video conversion process. Image inpainting is a popular topic in image processing research. The ability to fill a region of an image in a manner that is visually pleasing is a difficult and computationally expensive task. Recently, the most successful methods have been exemplar-based, copying patches of the image from a specified source region into the region to be filled. These algorithms are designed to propagate both structure and texture into the fill region. They are brute force algorithms however, and are generally implemented as sequential algorithms to be run on the CPU. In this research, I have effectively mapped the costly portions of an exemplar-based image inpainting algorithm to the GPU. I produce equivalent inpainting results in less time by parallelizing the brute force patch searching portion of the algorithm. Furthermore, I compare the results with another recent, optimized inpainting algorithm, and apply both algorithms to the real world problem of occlusion filling in a 3D video conversion pipeline. / Graduate / 10000-01-01

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The McCulloch Manuscripts are an important primary source of eighteenth-century historical documentation that to date have never been put into print in their original form.  This thesis is a critical edition and analysis of the 1,269-page, two-volume text originally entitled <i>Examinations of Persons Under Spiritual Concern at Cambuslang, during the Revival, in 17-41-42</i>, along with its accompanying documents and marginal annotations.  Compiled by the Reverend William McCulloch during the period of 1742-1749, and considered to be Scotland’s first oral history project, this collection of personal conversion narratives from subjects of the revival provides a unique perspective from which to understand the spiritually of both laity and clergy in eighteenth-century Scotland. Chapter One sets the Cambuslang Revival within its historical and local context, and chronicles the treatment given to the revival in prominent scholarly literature over the past two centuries. Chapter Two provides a description and analysis of the physical properties of the manuscripts, and of their distinctive nature and arrangement. Chapter Three details the editorial process utilized by William McCulloch in soliciting and interviewing narrative respondents, and in editing and compiling their narrative accounts in preparation for publication.  This chapter also proposes an interview framework utilized by McCulloch with the narrative respondents, and the distinctive role he played in framing and reporting the respondents’ experiences. Chapter Four definitively establishes the identity, role, and succession of each of the four clerical redactors who assisted McCulloch in preparing the Volume One for publication, analyzing their distinctive theological concerns - both individually and collectively - and their subsequent marginal annotations and revisions of the text.

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A liquid-extraction procedure for the concentration of zinc in sea water was developed. The metal ion in sea water was chelated with sodium diethyldithiocarbamate and extracted into an organic solvent, methylisobutylketone, at the normal pH of sea water. A back-extraction into HCl followed, providing a concentration of 30X for the entire procedure. Filtration was introduced into the procedure to insure that only dissolved forms were extracted and that no influence from particulate matter would be detected. Problems of loss of zinc and/or contamination arose. These were overcome to a great extent by washing all glassware, including the sinterred-glass filter holder, in nitric acid and by following the filtration through the glass holder with an acid rinse. Purification of reagents was found necessary. With replicate analyses on a given sea water source, the recovery was 97 ± 2%. Upon making varying standard additions to subsamples of sea water, the calculated recovery was 97 ± 5.4%. The contamination figure for the extraction process ranged from zero to 0.8 ppb in the original sea water sample. With filtration, an overall median contamination of 1.4 ± 1 ppb was determined. / Graduation date: 1967

Thesis (M.T.S.)--Catholic Theological Union at Chicago, 1988. / Vita. Bibliography: leaves 103-105.

Thesis (M.S. - Hydrology and Water Resources)--University of Arizona. / Includes bibliographical references.