<p> Some aspects of the nucleon-nucleon interaction are investigated. Phase-equivalent families of rank-two separable potentials are derived by inverting the on- shell phaseshifts. The off-shell properties of these potentials are examined and shown to be well behaved. These and additiona l pairs of phase-equivalent local and separable potentials are included in a proton-proton bremsstrahlung calculation. In particular, the off-shell dependence of the cross sections is shown to be small. </p> / Thesis / Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)

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A Magnetorheological damper is a commonly used component in semi-active suspensions that achieves a high force capacity and better performance than a passive system, without the added expense and power draw of a fully active system, all while maintaining failsafe performance. To fully exploit the capabilities of an MR Damper, a high fidelity controller is required that is simple and easy to implement, yet does not compromise the accuracy or precision needed in many high-performance applications. There is a growing need for this level of operation, and this proposed work addresses these requirements by creating an empirically derived invertible model that enables the development of more accurate command signals by capturing the effect of temperature on a MR Damper's performance capabilities. Furthermore, this solution is specifically tailored for real-time application and does not require force feedback. Thus it requires low computation power and minimizes end-user cost by eliminating the need for additional high cost sensors such as load cells. A notable observation that resulted from the development of this proposed model was the difference in behavior between on and off states. Additionally a unique behavior was recognized with respect to the transition between high speed and low speed damping. For validation, the proposed model was compared against experimental data as well as an industry standard Spencer model; it produced excellent results in both cases with minimal error. / Master of Science

An optical fiber has been developed that can be used as a chemical gas sensor. Fabrication of the optical fiber produces a fiber that has a solid core with a porous cladding. The porous cladding region is made from a spinodally phase separable glass where the secondary phase is removed through dilute acid leaching. A non-phase separable glass composition is used for the core region. The properties of the phase separable glass are dependent on the processing conditions and the thermal history of the glass after the porosity has been achieved. Investigation of how processing conditions affected the pore structure was conducted to determine what pore characteristics are achievable for the glass composition used. Phase separation temperature, removal of silica gel deposited in the pores, and the post fabrication heat treating were used as experimental processing conditions. A maximum useable average pore size of approximately 29 nm was achieved. Maximum pore volume in the experimental groups was 0.4399 cc/g. Most heat treatments of the porous glass caused consolidation of the pore structure, with some conditions producing pore coarsening. / Master of Science

Master of Arts / Department of Modern Languages / Earl K. Brown / How to teach phrasal verbs to L2 learners of English has been the subject of debate in Teaching English as a Foreign Language (TEFL) courses and materials alike. These multi-part verbs, consisting of a verb and one or more particles, convey a new lexical meaning different from their individual parts. Further complicating this is the fact that some transitive phrasal verbs can be separated from their particles to varying degrees by a direct object. Though variables affecting verb-particle separation lie below the level of consciousness for most native speakers, they make the acquisition of particle placement difficult for L2 English language learners. Additionally, the presentation of these verbs in EFL textbooks and university English language programs (ELPs) is inadequate. TEFL textbooks tend to place emphasis on the lexical acquisition of phrasal verbs, ignoring separable versus non-separable distinctions. However, native English speakers separate phrasal verbs from their particles about 66.5% of the time in spoken conversation. In order to determine whether traditional textbook problems associated with phrasal verb presentation persist, I analyzed eleven TEFL textbooks used in Kansas State University’s ELP. I also administered a grammaticality judgment survey in order to find out whether L1 Spanish speakers of L2 English view separation of transitive phrasal verbs and their particles to be grammatical. L1 Spanish Speakers of L2 English are disadvantaged by the fact that their native language is verb-framed, meaning that it does not make use of particles in the same way that English does. It is for this reason that native Spanish-speakers of L2 English constitute the experimental group in this study. The results of the TEFL textbook analysis reveal that none of the eleven textbooks analyzed could stand alone in the classroom to effectively teach phrasal verbs. The results of the grammaticality judgment survey show that L1 Spanish speakers of L2 English differ at a statistically significant level from L1 American English speakers in their acceptability of phrasal verb-particle separation. These findings have pedagogical implications for TEFL instructors, textbook writers, and English language programs, and demonstrate the need for more extensive and authentic phrasal verb instruction.

In this thesis, we are concerned with the modifications of the stochastic processes and the random probability measures. First chapter is devoted to modifications of the stochastic process to the space of continuous functions, modifications of submartingale to the set of right-continuous with finite left-hand limits functions and separable modifications of stochastic process. In the second chapter is the attention on the regularization of random probability measure in Markov kernel focused. In particular, we work with random probability measures on the Borel subset of the Polish space, or Radon separable topological space.

Smoothing filters have been extensively used for noise removal and image restoration. Directional filters are widely used in computer vision and image processing tasks such as motion analysis, edge detection, line parameter estimation and texture analysis. It is practically impossible to tune the filters to all possible positions and orientations in real time due to huge computation requirement. The efficient way is to design a few basis filters, and express the output of a directional filter as a weighted sum of the basis filter outputs. Directional filters having these properties are called "Steerable Filters." This thesis work emphasis is on the implementation of proposed computationally efficient separable and steerable Gaussian smoothers on a Xilinx VirtexII Pro FPGA platform. FPGAs are Field Programmable Gate Arrays which consist of a collection of logic blocks including lookup tables, flip flops and some amount of Random Access Memory. All blocks are wired together using an array of interconnects. The proposed technique [2] is implemented on a FPGA hardware taking the advantage of parallelism and pipelining.

Este trabalho se dedica ao estudo da interação entre princípios de seleção e jogos topológicos. Isto inclui uma abordagem não-topológica destes tópicos, com aplicações à indestrutibilidade de espaços de Lindelöf e a uma versão seletiva de d-separabilidade, dentre outros. Provamos ainda a não-equivalência consistente entre indestrutibilidade e o princípio de seleção naturalmente associado a esta propriedade, o que conduz à investigação da indestrutibilidade de espaços compactos. Finalmente, mostramos que algumas afirmações que limitam a cardinalidade de espaços de Lindelöf indestrutíveis são equiconsistentes com a existência de certos tipos de grandes cardinais. / In the present work we focus on the interplay between selection principles and topological games. This includes a nontopological approach to these topics, with applications to indestructibility of Lindelöf spaces and a selective version of d-separability, among others. We also show the consistent nonequivalence between indestructibility and the selection principle naturally associated to it, which leads to an investigation of indestructibility of compact spaces. We conclude by showing that some constraints on the cardinality of Lindelöf indestructible spaces are equiconsistent with the existence of some kinds of large cardinals.