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Experimental Studies On Shrinkage Induced Pressure Measurements Of Four Expansive Soils
(Civil & Environmental Engineering, 2011-03-03)
Civil structures were damaged by expansive soils due to its large volumetric changes caused by moisture fluctuations. During wet and dry season, the ground heaves up and also shrinks noticeably. The significant amount of ...
Alternative Cooling Technologies For Telecommunication Data Centers: Air Cooling And Rear Door Heat Exchangers
(Mechanical Engineering, 2011-03-03)
Telecommunication industry is currently emphasizing to a miniaturization and convergence. The need for smaller, smarter and faster devices is leading drastic increment in power density and accordingly, thermal management ...
Reanalysis For Static And Steady State Structure Response
(Mechanical Engineering, 2011-03-03)
Reanalysis of a structure has become very important in structural analysis, as it reduces the cost and the computational time required to measure the response of the structure after it has been modified. As the importance ...
Handling Periodic Signs In American Sign Language Using Synthetic Generation Of Periods
(Computer Science & Engineering, 2011-03-03)
American Sign Language (or ASL) is the dominant sign language of deaf people in United States and parts of Canada. 500,000 to 2 million people use ASL as their primary language in United States. ASL uses hands, face and ...
Risk And Protective Factors Associated With Teen Fatherhood Among A Sample Of Black, White, And Hispanic Males
(Social Work, 2011-03-03)
After 14 years of consistent decline, the teen pregnancy rate increased for 2 consecutive years. This increase is concerning due to the adverse consequences associated with teen pregnancy. This study conducted secondary ...
Adaptive Methods For Realistic And Intuitive Human-robot Interaction
(Electrical Engineering, 2011-03-03)
Due to the advancement in robotics and computer technology, having access to sophisticated robot hardware is becoming common. An increase in the number of robots allows one to achieve different kind of tasks by exploiting ...
Selected Studies Of Orbital Stability And Habitability In Star-planet Systems
(Physics, 2011-03-03)
The study of planets remaining in orbit around one star with another starinterfering is an important topic of orbital mechanics and astrobiology. The onset of instability for a planet which is part of a stellar binary ...
Modeling Studies To Assess Long Term Settlement Of Light Weight Aggregate Embankment
(Civil & Environmental Engineering, 2011-03-03)
Expanded clay and shale (ECS) is a low weight material derived from clay and shale, and has been used in large quantities throughout the world. Very few studies have been performed to investigate the behavior of ECS and ...
A Tutorial On LTE Evolved UTRAN (EUTRAN) and LTE Self Organizing Networks (SON)
(Electrical Engineering, 2011-03-03)
The third-generation (3G) cellular communication technology, Universal Mobile Terrestrial System (UMTS), based on Wideband Code-Division Multiple Access (WCDMA), has been widely deployed all over the world providing faster ...
Innovations In ¹H MR Tissue Oximetry: New Probes And Pulses
(Biomedical Engineering, 2011-03-03)
Low oxygenation level (hypoxia) of tissue leads to cellular dysfunction, damage and poor response to therapy. Quantitative measurement of tissue oxygenation is critical not only for the study of tissue physiology, but ...