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Integrated Evaluation of Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Traditional Air Pollutants, and Economics of Three Types of Landfills
(2016-08-26)Despite the decreasing rate of landfilled waste due to increases in reuse and recycling, landfilling remains an enormous part of the waste industry of the United States due to population and economic growth. In addition, ... -
An Integrated Framework For Enhancing User Experience For Different Data Services In Multi-rate Wireless Systems
(Computer Science & Engineering, 2007-09-17)Technological advances in multi\--rate wireless systems have made wireless data services an intrinsic part of human life. An abundance of wireless devices, both in the wireless enabled home multimedia systems as well as ... -
An Integrated Framework For QoS-aware Data Reporting In Wireless Sensor Networks
(Computer Science & Engineering, 2010-07-19)Wireless sensor networks are being deployed in a wide variety of applications such as environment monitoring, smart buildings, security, machine surveillance system, and so on.The deployment of sensor networks for a specific ... -
Integrated High Speed Intelligent Utility Tie Unit For Disbursed/renewable Generation Facilities
(Electrical Engineering, 2007-08-23)After experiencing the price hikes and rotating blackouts in California, the disbursed or distributed generation (DG) is considered as one of the most attractive alternatives for future utility industry. In addition to the ... -
Integrated MEMS Microsensors
(Electrical Engineering, 2008-04-22)Many Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems (MEMS) products have been commercialized at a fraction of the cost and size of conventional devices. Low cost, small sizes and multi-function are the ultimate objectives of commodity ... -
Integrated Modeling Approach For Solid Oxide Fuel Cell-based Power Generating System
(Mechanical Engineering, 2013-07-22)Solid oxide fuel cell (SOFC) systems have been recognized as the most advanced power generation system with the highest thermal efficiency with a compatibility with a wide variety of hydrocarbon fuels, synthetic gas from ... -
INTEGRATED MODELING OF STORM DRAIN AND NATURAL CHANNEL NETWORKS FOR REAL-TIME FLASH FLOOD FORECASTING AND STORMWATER PLANNING AND MANAGEMENT IN LARGE URBAN AREAS
(2017-08-09)Urban flash flooding is a serious problem in large highly populated areas such as the Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex (DFW). Being able to monitor and predict flash flooding at a high spatiotemporal resolution is critical to ... -
Integrated Nurse Staffing And Assignment Under Uncertainty
(Industrial & Manufacturing Engineering, 2007-09-17)One of the major problems in the United States health care system is a shortage of nurses. Baby boomers and an increasing elderly population are the main reasons for a rapidly growing demand for nurses. Besides the decline ... -
Integrating Environmental Contamination Perceptions of Artisanal and Small-Scale Mining into Environmental Responses across Spatial Scales
(2022-08-10)**Please note that the full text is embargoed until 8/10/2024** ABSTRACT: Artisanal and small-scale gold mining (ASGM) is of significant interest to the international research community, government officials, and ... -
INTEGRATION AND VALIDATION OF POWER HARDWARE-IN-THE-LOOP GENERATOR MODELS FOR DEPLOYMENT IN A DISTRIBUTED GENERATION SOURCE TESTBED
(2019-05-15)Hardware in the Loop (HIL) is an established technology that allows for rapid prototyping of controls and verification of how physical devices respond for valid simulated systems. This involves deploying a model of a system ... -
Integration Mechanism Of The Site Specific Non-LTR Retrotransposon, R2Bm
(Biology, 2010-07-19)The focus of this thesis is the mechanistic study of non-LTR retrotransposon replication using the site specific transposon R2Bm. Non-LTR retrotransposons integrate into new chromosomal sites by copying their RNA back ... -
An Integration Of A Modern Flight Control System Design Technique Into A Conceptual Design Stability And Controls Tool, AeroMech
(Aerospace Engineering, 2010-11-01)The aircraft conceptual design (CD) phase is the most abstract, thus challenging phase of the entire aircraft design process. It is the responsibility of the CD engineer to identify and then to explore various aircraft ... -
Integration of a Portfolio-based Approach to Evaluate Aerospace R&D Problem Formulation Into a Parametric Synthesis Tool
(2016-09-15)The focus of this study is to improve R&D effectiveness towards aerospace and defense planning in the early stages of the product development lifecycle. Emphasis is on: correct formulation of a decision problem, with special ... -
INTEGRATION OF APACHE MRQL QUERY LANGUAGE WITH APACHE STORM REALTIME COMPUTATIONAL SYSTEM
(2016-12-02)The use of real time processing of data has increased in recent years with the increase of data captured by social media platforms, IOT and other big data applications. The processing of data in real time has been an ... -
Integration Of Data Mining Algorithms And Control Charts For Multivariate And Autocorrelated Processes
(Industrial & Manufacturing Engineering, 2010-03-03)The objective of this dissertation is to integrate state-of-the-art data mining algorithms with statistical process control (SPC) tools to achieve efficient monitoring in multivariate and autocorrelated process. Process ... -
Integration Of Hyperspectral Imaging System For Optimized Data Acquisition And Control To Revolutionized Pathology Applications
(Biomedical Engineering, 2009-09-16)Detecting and measuring the interactions and expression levels of tumor markers in a cancerous cell are quintessential in prognosis and management of cancer. These have propagated the need to develop better microscopic ... -
Integration of Multimodal Sensor Data for Targeted Assessment and Intervention
(2017-07-27)Physical and Occupational Therapy have been used for many years to help people who have suffered an injury of some kind. This injury could be caused by a physical injury, such as falling or breaking a bone, or a brain ... -
The Integration Of The Economics Profession Across Countries : evidence From Paper Citations
(Economics, 2011-07-14)By relating country-level journal article citation patterns to country-level proxies for various policies, the current project attempts to uncover possible causal relationships between them. The paper measures patterns of ... -
Integration Of The SAM-grid Infrastructure To The D0 Data Reprocessing Effort
(Computer Science & Engineering, 2007-08-23)The D0 experiment is one of the two high energy physics experiments currently being conducted at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, in Batavia, IL, on what is currently the world's highest energy particle accelerator, ... -
Integrative Approaches For Biological Network Inferences
(Computer Science & Engineering, 2014-09-17)Inferring biological networks from high-throughput bioinformatics data is one of the most interesting areas in the systems biology research in order to elucidate cellular and physiological mechanisms. In this thesis, network ...