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The Effects Of A Variable Modulus Of Elasticity On Prestress Losses In Bridge Girders
(Civil & Environmental Engineering, 2011-10-11)
The purpose of this research is to evaluate a method proposed by Franz Dischinger (Dischinger, 1939) to consider the effects of a variable modulus of elasticity (MOE) of concrete over a period of time. Current guidelines ...
Convert UHF RFID Tag From Passive To Semi-passive Tag Using External Power Sources
(Electrical Engineering, 2011-03-03)
In this thesis, I present novel circuit designs that convert a passive radio frequency identification (RFID) tag into a semi-passive RFID tag. Passive RFID tags are relatively inexpensive to purchase and to integrate into ...
Target Tracking With Lucas-kanade Optical Flow And Particle Filters Through Affine Transforms And Occlusion
(Computer Science & Engineering, 2011-03-03)
This paper investigates a hybrid approach derived from Lucas-Kanade optical flow tracking and particle filters that is capable of tracking objects through occlusion and affine transformations. This approach is inspired ...
A Highly Linear Voltage Controlled Oscillator With Low Power Dissipation
(Electrical Engineering, 2011-10-11)
A voltage controlled oscillator using 90 nm CMOS technology has been presented with the extremely low power dissipation of 1.35 mW and provides 1.45 mW (with use of buffers) output AC power. It has highly linear voltage ...
The Translator's Assistant: A Multilingual Natural Language Generator Based On Linguistic Universals, Typologies, And Primitives
(Linguistics, 2011-07-14)
The Translator's Assistant (TTA) is a multilingual natural language generator (NLG) designed to produce initial drafts of translations of texts in a wide variety of target languages. The four primary components of every ...
Unsaturated Soil Behavior Under Large Deformations Using A Fully Servo/suction-controlled Ring Shear Apparatus
(Civil & Environmental Engineering, 2011-07-14)
In recent years, the key hypotheses of most elasto-plastic constitutive frameworks postulated for unsaturated soils have been validated via suction-controlled oedometer, triaxial, and direct shear testing. These techniques, ...
Sex, Drugs, And Work: The Associations Of Personality Characteristics, Risky Sex, Substance Use, And Work Behavior In Young Adult Restaurant Workers
(Psychology, 2011-07-14)
Personality characteristics among young adult (18 - 29 years old) restaurant workers were examined in relation to substance use, risky sexual behavior, and several work outcomes. High sensation seekers and emerging adults ...
GPU Parallel Collections For Scala
(Computer Science & Engineering, 2011-07-14)
A decade ago, graphics processing units have been used specifically for high-speed graphics. Of late, they are becoming more popular as general purpose parallel processors. With the release of CUDA, ATI Stream and OpenCL, ...
Implementation And Performance Analysis Of 2-d Order 16 Integer Transforms in H.264/AVC and AVS-video for high definition video coding
(Electrical Engineering, 2011-03-03)
H.264/AVC and AVS-video are two video coding standards that have a wide range of applications ranging from high-end professional camera and editing systems to low-end mobile applications. They strive to achieve maximum ...
Constrained Dynamics Approach For Motion Synchronization And Consensus
(Aerospace Engineering, 2011-03-03)
In this research we propose to develop constrained dynamical systems based stable attitude synchronization, consensus and tracking (SCT) control laws for the formation of rigid bodies. The generalized constrained dynamics ...