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Wafer-Level Testing and Test Planning for Integrated Circuits
(2008-05-07)The relentless scaling of semiconductor devices and high integration levels have lead to a steady increase in the cost of manufacturing test for integrated circuits (ICs). The higher test cost leads to an increase in the ... -
Wages of Righteousness: The Economy of Heaven in the Gospel According to Matthew
(2012)In comparison to Mark and Luke, Matthew's Gospel contains a striking preponderance of economic imagery, especially in passages dealing with sin, righteousness, and divine recompense. This cluster of economic terms is found ... -
Wages, Work Hours, and Work Effort: How Tax Rates Affect Taxpayers' Occupational Choice
(2021)While labor studies of the effects of income taxation have often focused on labor force participation and work hour decisions, Feldstein (1995) argued that taxpayers ultimately want to adjust their taxable income in response ... -
Wake Turbulence of the 2017 Qatar-GCC Diplomatic Crisis
(2019)The international linkages between autocratic regimes have gained increasing attention in recent years but remain poorly understood. This literature is often limited by a selective focus on a specific set of international ... -
Wal-Mart's Supply Chain Greenhouse Gas Analysis
(2007-12-07)As part of Wal-Mart’s Sustainability 360 initiative, the company seeks to find and eliminate greenhouse gases (GHGs) in its products. Wal-Mart plans to engage its supply chain in a product-level analysis of GHGs. Ultimately, ... -
Walking a Fine Line
(2006-12)In this essay, I examine the social disparity between the genders at Duke University, focusing on two critical time periods – the first decades of the founding of The Woman’s College and Trinity College from the mid 1920’s ... -
Walking the Wexner: Experiencing Deconstruction
(2008-04-28)As an example of deconstructivist architecture, Peter Eisenman’s Wexner Center revolves around a particularly nuanced question of meaning. Specifically, the building’s significance is not static but lies in an ever-changing ... -
Wanderers in Contradiction. The Italian Road to Modernism (1903-1922)
(2015)My dissertation, Wanderers in Contradiction. The Italian Road to Modernism (1903-1922), analyzes how a generation of intellectuals approach the cultural revolution brought by Modernism. In Chapter One, dedicated to Pirandello’s ... -
Wandering Whale Watches: The Effectiveness of Whale Watches as a Platform of Opportunity for Data Collection
(2008-04-25)Most data used to assess the distribution and abundance of whales are derived from scientific surveys that are designed carefully to minimize sources of variation and reduce the potential for bias. Gathering data in this ... -
Wannier Functions and Their Role in Improving Density Functional Approximations
(2021)Density functional theory has proven to be an invaluable tool for modeling matter and chemistry . This can be seen from the fact that density functional theory papers are far and away the most cited theory from the physical ... -
War and Pestilence: Conflict, Refugees, and the Human Immunodeficiency Virus in Sub-Saharan Africa
(2014)Leaders of international institutions and African states, as well as observers of international politics, have argued that conflict and HIV/AIDS are intertwined. In order to better understand this relationship, I test whether ... -
War in Iraqi Feminist Writings
(2016-05-05)This study focuses on a selection of writings of three prominent Iraqi women about the war in Iraq and its aftermath using an analytical and descriptive method. The writers studied in this thesis are well known in the Arab ... -
War Worlds: Violence, Sociality, and the Forms of Twentieth-Century Transatlantic Literature
(2016)“War Worlds” reads twentieth-century British and Anglophone literature to examine the social practices of marginal groups (pacifists, strangers, traitors, anticolonial rebels, queer soldiers) during the world wars. This ... -
War, Photography, and Visual Citizens: Territorial and Visual Expansion in the Construction of Chile and Argentina (1860s-1880s)
(2018)This dissertation explores the development of war photography in crucial decades of the construction of Chile and Argentina as nation-states (1860s-1880s). This was a moment of intense change and expansion of visual media, ... -
Waste Heat Recovery in Bicycle Manufacturing Process for Specialized Bicycle Components
(2017-04-28)Specialized Bicycle Components, the third largest bicycle brand in the United States, wants to reduce the energy intensity and increase the efficiency of its bicycle manufacturing process. One way to increase efficiency ... -
Waste Intensity Improvements in Operations
(2020-04-21)In 2016, cities around the world generated over two billion tons of solid waste, and this amount is only expected to increase. In response, many businesses have created initiatives and policies ... -
Waste Not: Criminalizing Wastefulness in Early Modern Germany
(2017)This dissertation analyzes the development of legal strategies to restrict “wastefulness” or “prodigality” during the economic crises of the long sixteenth century in Southwest Germany, as the state, community and small ... -
Waste or Resource: A Policy Perspective on the Environmental Uses of Recycled Water
(2010-04-29)Amidst emerging water shortages and conflicts in the United States, the advancement of technology and the redevelopment of resource management policies are changing the way that we look at water resources. Water use efficiency ... -
WASTED ENERGY: RE-DIRECTING INVESTMENT INTO RENEWABLES THROUGH ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY
(2020-11)The Clean Power Plan (CPP) was the first ever regulation to limit carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions from both new and existing power plants under the Clean Air Act (CAA) and is recognized as one of the most monumental steps ... -
Wasted Visits? Ecotourism in Theory vs. Practice, at Tortuguero, Costa Rica
(2007-12-14)In this thesis, I contemplate the ecotourism in theory and in practice. I use the case study of a solid waste crisis (2002-2004) in Tortuguero, Costa Rica, a turtle tourism destination, to explore: the consumptive nature ...
