Sociology, Urban--California--Los Angeles; Urbanization--California--Los Angeles; Ontology--Social aspects; Social epistemology
Noir Ontology: Existing in the Fragmented Urban Spaces of Los Angeles explores the role of decentered urban geography within the body of noir texts set within Los Angeles. By focusing on the development of the idea of Los Angeles in early to...
Star Wars films--History and criticism; Myth in motion pictures; Lucas, George, 1944-
The Star Wars franchise is one of the most successful film series of all time. The original three
movies, along with the more recent three prequels, serve as the foundation to a vast empire of
Star Wars television shows, action figures, comic...
Woodblock prints of, clockwise from top left: Kirtland's Clothing House and neighboring buildings and street (Fourth & Jefferson Street); illustrated title page for "The Fourth School Reader" by Noble Butler (with picture of two older...
Stores & shops; Department stores; Window displays
Window display with a female mannequin standing next to the flag of Honduras and a selection of maps of North, Central, and South America. A banner reads ""Cooperation-Keynote of the Americas."" Address: Kaufman-Straus Company,...
Channel modification has played a vital part in shaping the rivers and streams as
they are seen today. Channel modifications range from the construction of dams and levees
for flood control purposes to channelization of an existing meandering...
Within the Appalachian hills of eastern Kentucky, large-scale coal mining operations are directly altering the headwater landscape through the construction of hollow fills. These man-made landforms and their associated in-stream structures alter a...
This dissertation addresses two different problems: 1) coronal loop detection from solar images: and 2) salient contour group extraction from cluttered images. In the first part, we propose two different solutions to the coronal loop detection...
Supervisory control systems--Security measures; Automatic data collection systems--Security measures
This thesis describes the development of a prototype security hardened field device (such as a remote terminal unit) based on commodity hardware and implementing a previously developed security architecture. This security architecture has not been...
Swarm Intelligence (SI) techniques were inspired by bee swarms, ant colonies, and most
recently, bird flocks. Flock-based Swarm Intelligence (FSI) has several unique features, namely
decentralized control, collaborative learning, high exploration...
Temple of Zeus (Olympia, Greece); Sculpture, Greek--Greece; Olympia (Greece : Ancient sanctuary)
Built during the Early Classical period, the Temple of Zeus at Olympia and its sculptural program presented many new ideas in Greek society. I will argue that the Temple, in particular its metopes depicting the twelve Labors of Herakles,...
Three-dimensional imaging in medicine; Lungs--Cancer--Diagnosis
Many lung diseases or injuries can cause biomechanical or material property changes that can alter
lung function. While the mechanical changes associated with the change of the material properties
originate at a regional level, they remain largely...
Tick-borne diseases; Health behavior; Health attitudes; Health education--Social aspects
Human monocytic ehrlichiosis (HME), a tick-borne disease that has recently surfaced in
the United States, exists in regions where the tick vector population is established. This
study utilizes methods that look beyond identifying high-risk regions,...
A system for analysis of the traffic flow on public streets and highways through the use of Floating Car Data (FCD) relies completely on the number of simultaneously contributing vehicles, a fact that is no barrier for the phases of conception and...
Trees in cities--Kentucky--Louisville; Urban forestry--Kentucky--Louisville; Louisville (Ky.)--Environmental conditions
Trees in urban residential neighborhoods provide valuable ecosystem services. Urban trees also face threats from disturbances, such as storms. In 2008, the Urban Forest Effects model was used to estimate abundance and species composition of...
United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865; Belmont, Battle of, Belmont, Mo., 1861; Battlefields
Map of battlefield near Belmont, Missouri--the Mississippi River curving up and down at the center; Kentucky, a Confederate Camp, and Columbus above; and cornfields, another Confederate Camp, and Belmont below. Below image: "Map of the...
United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865; Foote, Andrew H. (Andrew Hull), 1806-1863
Map of region of Admiral Foote's operation during the Civil War. Kentucky and Tennessee are at the center of the map, although the states are not drawn in outline. Below image: "Map of Region of Foote's Operations."
University of Louisville--Presidents; Maps; Flags--United States; College presidents;
University of Louisville president Philip Davidson poses in front of a map of the Belknap Campus. There is a United States flag standing beside the map and a bookcase behind Davidson.
University of Louisville--Students; College students;
Stairs leading down to bookstore on the lower level of the University Center which became known as the Miller Information Technology Center (MITC). Students appear to be in a line that snakes across the length of the building and into the...
Urbanization disrupts natural soil profiles and as watersheds are
urbanized, their surfaces become impervious and this will result in
reduction of infiltration. For this reason, many cities are facing problems
with treating runoff water. Best...
The performance of pediatric circulatory support devices depends on the properties of pediatric blood. This study reports the measurement of the viscoelastic properties of pediatric blood at 37°C [body temperature]. The results were compared with...
