This thesis documents the development of an adaptive controller designed to control the elastic aircraft dynamics of a generic general aviation aircraft. The elastic aircraft equations of motion are derived using ...

An adaptive and reconfigurable flight control system is developed for a general aviation aircraft. The flight control system consisting of two neural networks is developed using a two phase procedure called the pre-training ...

To tackle engineering design problems engaging both aleatory and epistemic uncertainties, Reliability-Based Design Optimization (RBDO) has been integrated with Bayes Theorem, referred to as Bayesian RBDO. However, Bayesian ...

What affect do gender specific strategies have on student achievement in math? The question was researched in a fourth grade classroom setting where four classes were taught in a departmentalized situation. Of the four ...

The focus of this research project is on the relationship of student role performance and deviant behavior in adolescents. I use the Education Longitudinal Study of 2002 to analyze the relationship of the given alternative ...

The present study was designed to determine whether significant differences existed in typical adults in the preferences across two symbol sets (Boardmaker® or Overboard®) frequently displayed on the augmentative and ...

Older adults speak 20-30% slower than younger adults. A decline in articulatory speed capacity has often been suggested; however, direct investigations on speech motor performance have rarely been conducted. Therefore, ...

Voice over IP is fast emerging as a strong contender to the traditional circuit-switched PSTN networks. Unlike the PSTN network, which requires dedicated lines, VoIP can share the network that is laid out to carry data ...

The k-means clustering procedure is a statistical method used to derive patterns of spatial clustering. This method is applied here to discern distributional patterns in lithic artifacts recovered from two sites in northwest ...