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Characterizing And Planning For Key Logistic Obstacles In Food Banks Operations After Hurricane Events
(2020-05)Food banks are non-profit, charitable organizations that distribute food and products to people in need. Food bank facilities receive donations from public and private agencies and distribute them with the help of city ...
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The Effect of Job Rotation and Single-Piece Flow in Human Based Assembly System
(2020-05)This research aims in comparing the batch versus single-piece flow systems with respect to the impact of the operator’s fatigue variation on the throughput and resource utilization. A predetermined motion study technique, ... -
Analytical Modeling and Simulation of Capacitive Micromachined Ultrasonic Transducer
(2020-05)Ultrasound technology has been studied, developed and widely used in medical imaging. Ultrasonic imaging was invented to substitute the high cost ionizing radiation in magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) system, because ...
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Developing an Internet of Things Protocol Test Bed for Evaluating a Modulation Technique and a Medium Access Control Protocol
(2020-05)Internet of Things is used in a wide range in our day to day life, but there are many potential new IoT applications that cannot be implemented due to power and capacity limits in IoT systems realizable with current ... -
Collision Avoidance and Extending Range and Capacity in ZigBee
(2020-05)ZigBee technology is a low data rate, low power consumption, low cost, wireless networking protocol built on top of the IEEE 802.15.4 short range communications protocol [1]. It is usually targeted towards automation ...
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Correlation of Radio Wave with Photometric Light for Representation of Radio Loss using Transparent Film and its Implementation using MATLAB
(2018-12)The demand for wireless communication has significantly grown in recent years. The number of communicating devices is increasing with the development of new RF circuits design and integrated circuits which makes it possible ... -
A Game Theoretic Framework to Secure Cyber Physical Systems (CPS) against Cyber Attacks
(2018-12)Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) is a term describing a broad range of complex, multi-disciplinary, physically-aware next generation engineered systems that integrate embedded computing technologies (cyber part) into the ...
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Leak Detection, Localization and Size Prediction in Water Pipeline Systems
(2018-12)Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) consist of wireless devices that are either installed above the ground or buried under dense soil or placed in any underground spaces. WSNs have an immense future to impact on diverse ... -
A Victims Detection Approach for Burning Building Sites Using Convolutional Neural Networks
(2019-12)In this work, an approach is proposed to detect people and pets trapped in burning sites. This will be done in a manner that will ensure the safety of firefighters and accelerate the rescue process of victims. The proposed ... -
Application of Cooperative Game Theory in Smart Grids
(2019-12)Nowadays, as the conventional grid cannot handle the technology, the smart grid is introduced to provide two-way communication between utility and customers to meet the energy requirements. In general, prosumers trade ... -
Research of Water Detection in Autonomous Vehicles
(2019-12)An autonomous car is a ground vehicle that navigates without human input. These vehicles are expected to reach $60 billion in sales by 2025. But these autonomous vehicles have many drawbacks: one among them is lack of ... -
Reducing TCP Retransmissions By Using Machine Learning For More Accurate RTT Estimation
(2019-12)When computers communicate via connection-oriented protocols like TCP, upon receipt of a segment of information, the recipient sends an acknowledgment back to the sender. This facilitates two important traits of ... -
Modeling Power Grid Recovery and Resilience Post Extreme Weather Events
(2019-12)The traditional N-1 power grid system is inadequate as it cannot withstand extreme weather events like hurricane, flooding, earthquake etc. Extreme event analysis reports by NERC, BPU, and ERCOT state that failure of ... -
Using CDMA/AIC to Increase Energy Efficiency and Reduce Multipath Effects in Passive RFID Tag Systems
(2019-12)The Radio Frequency Identification [RFID] technology is a novel solution used in supply chain management. A large warehouse consisting of hundreds of objects must be handled effectively and automatically. RFID technology ...
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Pre-Positioning Relief Supplies and Supplier Selection Strategy in Disaster Relief
(2019-12)Natural disasters have a life changing impact on individuals, the effect can be felt at various levels and can even affect an entire country. In the United States, major disasters have seriously affected the country’s ...
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Analysis of Repetitive Motion in Manual Material Handling Systems Using a Digital Twin Framework
(2019-12)Manual material handling accounts for more than 122,000 workplace injuries at U.S. One of the major reasons for injuries in the workplace is due to accidents caused by improper execution of the material handling fundamental ... -
Fatigue Performance of Glass/Epoxy Nanocomposites for Wind Turbine Blades
(2010-05)Wind power is capable of becoming a major contributor to America’s electricity supply over the next three decades (Composite world, 2008). This desire is borne to create a sustainable energy that will be cheap and easily ...
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Low Curing Temperature Ferromagnetic Ink Development and Application in 3D Printed RF Antenna Design and Miniaturization
(2017-08)In recent times, there has been an increasing demand for smaller size electronic and mobile devices because of advances in engineering and nanotechnology. This has pushed further the need for small size RF antenna with ...
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Design and Fabrication of Electrostatically Actuated and Inkjet Printed Micro-Electro-Mechanical-System (MEMS) Switch
(2017-08)This thesis report presents the design and fabrication process of electrostatically actuated and inkjet printed MEMS switch. It introduces a novel design and fabrication process where it combines two different technologies ... -
Hardware Accelerator for Elias Gamma Code
(2017-06)Elias Gamma code, developed by Peter Elias, is a universal lossless compression method applied to unbounded positive integers. Extensive research on this coding technique has led to the development of many derivatives. ...
