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A design and analysis of computer experiments approach for green building
(2016-12-07)The coming shortage of energy sources and critical environmental impacts are two major factors that have forced a change in product design processes. The shortage of energy sources is related to the limitation on non-renewable ... -
Additive Manufacturing of Stretchable Piezo-Resistive Sensors: Fabrication and Performance Evaluation
(2022-12-19)Additive manufacturing provides a distinctive layer-wise production method, which is efficient and effective, especially when fabricating products with complex designs and/or multiple materials. One of the promising ... -
Assessing the impact of Principal Component Analysis on accurately predicting melanoma diagnosis applied on different classification models
(2019-11-26)With huge amounts of data at our disposal in the medical field, mathematical models are built to diagnose diseases. This study focuses on melanoma because it’s the type of skin cancer that accounts for most deaths, up to ... -
CAPACITY FADE OF VALVE REGULATED LEAD ACID & LITHIUM IRON PHOSPHATE BATTERIES THROUGH HIGH RATE, PULSED LOADS
(2016-05-11)Electrochemical energy storage has become more power and energy dense in recent years. Many applications demanding energy storage operate in a pulsed manner. The most common chemistries considered for use in these applications ... -
DATA SCIENCE APPLICATIONS IN HEALTH AN SOCIAL CARE
(2018-12-04)Health and social care are areas of concern worldwide nowadays. Chronic diseases such as cancer and social problems such as tobacco consumption are leading risks of deaths in many countries, and preventive efforts are ... -
Design and Development of a Virtual Reality Training Platform for Fiber-reinforced Composite Manufacturing
(2023-05-04)This study presents the design and development of a virtual reality (VR) training platform for manufacturing fiber-reinforced composites, a sophisticated and high-demand material in various industries. Due to the high costs ... -
Discriminating Parkinson's disease using functional connectivity and brain network analysis
(2016-05-10)In this study, we explored the use of functional connectivity patterns in fMRI data to classify subjects on the basis of Parkinson's disease. We explore various brain networks and features. We partition our fMRI data in 5 ... -
Evaluating The Economic Impacts Of Pipeline Usage On Texas Oil & Gas Supply Chain
The objective of this dissertation is to find the minimum supply chain cost for the Texas oil and gas industry, when pipeline is used as the major mode of transporting oil. The problem is solved, by introducing a mixed – ... -
Evaluating The Economic Impacts Of Pipeline Useage On The Indian Oil and Gas Supply Chain.
The objective of this dissertation is to find the minimum supply chain cost for the Indian oil and gas industry. The problem is solved by introducing a mixed – integer programming model which will avail in taking the ... -
Exploring Deep Learning in Finance
(2022-05-20)Financial market analysis is process of analyzing market closely and predict the next move of market whether it will go up or down using historical data. Financial market is stochastic and has rapid changes over time, ... -
IMPLEMENTATION PROCESS FOR AUTOMATED DATA ANALYSIS IN MINERAL EXTRACTION COMPANIES
(2015-11-24)The need to determine knowledge from increasing amounts of information and raw data is a current and ongoing goal [1]. As technology continues to advance in the ability to collect and save more and more data, companies ... -
MULTIVARIATE TIME SERIES PATTERN RECOGNITION USING MACHINE LEARNING AND DEEP LEARNING METHODS
(2019-12-16)In this research work, we have implemented machine learning & deep-learning algorithms on real-time multivariate time series datasets in the manufacturing & health care fields. The research work is organized in two ... -
New Approach For Minimizing Human Errors In Hospital Operating Rooms By Using RFID Alerting Systems
(Industrial & Manufacturing Engineering, 2013-07-22)Patient safety is an increasing concern in health care due to the fact the increasing number of medical errors. Most fatal medical errors happen in hospital operating rooms. This research proposes a unique approach that ... -
One Step at a Time: Improving the Fidelity of Geospatial Agent-Based Models Using Empirical Data
(2021-11-18)Agent-based modeling is frequently used to produce geospatial models of transportation systems. However, reducing the computational requirements of these models can require a degree of abstraction that can compromise the ... -
Optimizing Load Control For A Residential Microgrid In A Collaborative Environment
(Industrial & Manufacturing Engineering, 2013-07-22)This research is aimed to develop an analytical model for a Residential Microgrid under a collaborative environment. In order to maximize profit, Collaborative Consumption (C.C) as a community-based social agreement has ... -
Predicting a Quarterback's Fantasy Football Point Output For Daily Fantasy Sports Using Statistical Models
(2017-04-24)In the new age of daily fantasy sports (DFS), fantasy football has become an enormous revenue generator for DFS sites, such as DraftKings and FanDuel. Both companies are valued over \$1 billion. However, previous analysis ... -
Productivity Improvement and Cost Optimization of Small and Medium Scale Enterprises
(2017-05-11)Productivity improvement and cost optimization have been a topic of discussion for at least a century. The publication of Fredrick Taylor’s book ‘The Principles of Scientific Management’ in 1911 can be considered as the ... -
Sealing And Lamination Of Microfluidic Devices
(Industrial & Manufacturing Engineering, 2008-09-17)A difficult problem facing microfluidic manufacturing of devices remains that often material requirements force device designers to choose materials that are difficult to bond, seal or enclose. Examples of these materials ... -
Sparse Representation and Learning for Discriminative EEG Source Imaging
(2018-05-07)As a direct measurement modality of neural electrical firing patterns, electroencephalogram (EEG) has a much higher temporal resolution up to millisecond compared to positron emission topography (PET) and functional magnetic ... -
A Sustainability Based Framework To Make A Strategic Outsourcing Decision For Warehouses In The Electronics Industry
(Industrial & Manufacturing Engineering, 2013-07-22)Over the course of last decades, sustainability matured from an abstract concept to an important source of corporate legitimacy. Supply chain management plays an important role in shaping and framing sustainability, due ...