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Improving Receiver Station-keeping In Aerial Refueling By Formulating Tanker Motion As Disturbance
(Aerospace Engineering, 2010-03-03)
During aerial refueling operations, the receiver aircraft should hold position within a “refueling box” to maintain the boom-receptacle connection while the tanker aircraft flies in a racetrack maneuver. Prior research ...
Battery Identification Methods Based On Equivalent Circuit Model
(Electrical Engineering, 2010-03-03)
Development of an intelligent battery diagnostic system is a necessity for future transportation industry. These technologies will have the potential to create profound impact in other industries such as portable electronics. ...
A Hybrid Method For Identifying And Estimating Key Dynamic Parameters For Exciters, Pss And Governors Based On Event-recorded Measurements On-line Measurements
(Electrical Engineering, 2010-03-03)
Following the power market deregulation, power systems have become more complex and are found to be consistently operating closer to their stability limits. Power system dynamic modeling and studies which provide significant ...
A Micromechanics Model Of Thermal Expansion Coefficient In Fiber Reinforced Composites
(Aerospace Engineering, 2011-03-03)
Fiber reinforced composites are widely used for the various applications in the aerospace, automotive, infrastructures and sporting goods industries. The evaluations of its mechanical and thermal properties are needed for ...
Light Trapping And Absorption Enhancement For High Performance Solar Cells And Infrared Photodetectors
(Electrical Engineering, 2010-07-19)
This dissertation presents the work on light trapping and absorption enhancement in solar cells and infrared photodetectors. Hemispherical microstructure based omni-directional anti reflection (Omni-AR) coating has been ...
Experimental Investigation Of Thermal Behaviour Of Air Foil Bearings
(Mechanical Engineering, 2011-03-03)
Micro-turbo machinery demands gas bearings to ensure compactness, lightweight and extreme temperature operation. Gas bearings with large stiffness and damping, and preferably of low cost, will enable successful commercial ...
Is There Predictive Value In The Words Managers Use? A Key Word Analysis Of The Annual Report's Management Discussion And Analysis.
(Accounting, 2010-07-19)
This study examines whether managers use linguistic style (i.e. optimistic and pessimistic tone) in the Management Discussion and Analysis (MD&A) section of the annual report to the SEC, Form 10-K, to provide information ...
Enabling Context-aware Applications In Smart Environments
(Computer Science & Engineering, 2010-07-19)
Recognizing human activities is an important feature for the development of contextaware applications that are so fundamental to enabling assistive environments. Only once these applications are able to determine the ...
Is Benefit For Individuals: Expanded Conceptualization And Comprehensive Construct Development
(Information Systems & Operations Management, 2010-11-01)
Information systems benefits for individuals (ISBI) has been a key construct for the IS success model, which has evolved over the years to strengthen the theoretical foundation for the IS field. However, relatively little ...
Modeling And Simulation Of The Flight Dynamics Of Morphing Wing Aircraft
(Aerospace Engineering, 2010-03-03)
Aircraft with variable wing geometry (morphable wings) are of considerable interest, not only for mission-specific optimization, but for enhanced maneuverability as well. In the nascent field of mini- or micro-Unmanned ...