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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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
The 2008 Short Sale Ban: Did We Sell Price Discovery Short
(Finance & Real Estate, 2010-07-19)
This dissertation investigates the impact of a short sale ban on the stock market and the options market and the interrelation between the two markets during the US financial crisis of 2008. The first essay focuses on the ...
Building Bayesian Network Based Expert Systems From Rules
(Computer Science & Engineering, 2010-11-01)
Combining expert knowledge and user explanation with automated reasoning in domains with uncertain information poses significant challenges in terms of representation and reasoning mechanisms. In particular, reasoning ...
Design And Analysis Of Application Architecture For Opportunistic Networks Using Ad Hoc Wi-Fi
(Computer Science & Engineering, 2010-03-03)
In recent years, the number of smartphone users has increased by many folds. In fact, it is estimated to reach 100 million by 2013. Current generation of smartphones has better storage, battery, computing capabilities and ...