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POWER SYSTEM MODELS FORMULATED AS EIGENVALUE PROBLEMS AND PROPERTIES OF THEIR SOLUTIONS
(2010-12-15)Eigenvalue problems incorporate multiplicative nonlinearities in otherwise linear equations. Two power systems models with multiplicative nonlinearities are reformulated as eigenvalue problems. Reformulation allows for ... -
Challenges In Applying Sustainability Principles to the design of the Engineering School located in San Juan, Puerto Rico
(2011-03-15)The Engineering School of Island University in San Juan, Puerto Rico has decided to complete a new classroom and lab facility on their campus in the year 2015. The facility will provide a home for innovative courses which ... -
THERMAL TRANSPORT BY HEAT PULSE PROPAGATION ON HSX: MOTIVATION, SIMULATION, AND EXPERIMENTAL PREPARATION
(2011-05-15)Heat and particle losses in magnetically confined fusion devices are dominated by anomalous losses that are thought to be driven by micro-turbulence. Micro-turbulence contributes to the inverse cascade of energy from ... -
RISK FRAMEWORK FOR PUBLIC PRIVATE PARTNERSHIPS IN HIGHWAY CONSTRUCTION
(2011-05-15)Recent Public Private Partnerships (P3) in the United States represents a significant advancement in the level of participation of the private sector in the provision of road and highway assets. A number of states and local ... -
Microwave beamforming for non-invasive patient-specific hyperthermia treatment of pediatric brain cancer
(2011-05-15)We present a numerical study of an array-based microwave beamforming approach for non-invasive hyperthermia treatment of pediatric brain tumors. The transmit beamformer is designed to achieve localized heating?that is,to ... -
ENABLING NEW USES FOR GPUS
(2011-05-15)As graphics processing unit (GPU) architects have made their pipelines more programmable in recent years, GPUs have become increasingly general-purpose. As a result, more and more general-purpose, non-graphics applications ... -
Cascaded Stalling of Induction Motors in Fault-Induced Delayed Voltage Recovery (FIDVR)
(2011-05-15)In recent years, the phenomenon of Fault-Induced Delayed Voltage Recovery (FIDVR) has increasingly been observed. Air conditioner (A/C) motor stalling is considered as one of the main reasons for the occurrence of delayed ... -
THEMODIFIED CONSTANT Q SPECTROGRAM(MCQS) AND ITS APPLICATION TO PHASE VOCODING
(2011-05-15)This thesis discusses the development of amodified constant Q spectrogram representation which is invertible in a least-squares sense. A good quality inverse is possible because this modified transform method, unlike ... -
Polarization Modulation for Application in Terahertz Sensing
(2011-05-15)Providing defense against asymmetric threats under many di erent environmental conditions requires broad spectrum sensing and presently underutilized polarization sensitivity. In this thesis a novel pulsed radar sensing ... -
Movement Compensation in Magnetoencephalography Analysis
(2011-05-15)EVOKED response data in magneto-encephalography (MEG) typically has a very low signal-to-noise ratio(SNR). To address this problem, in the course of an experiment stimuli are periodically applied to a subject dozens of ... -
Maximizing Throughput of Power-Constrained Multi-Core Processors Manufactured with Unreliable CNFETs
(2011-05-15)Silicon is used in making transistors conventionally but scaling of silicon if getting difficult with time.Scaling of silicon has become difficult lately.Without scaling we won?t have more transistors on chip every year ... -
An Investigation for Strengthening Existing Reinforced Concrete Beams in Shear Using a MF-FRP Retrofit System
(2011-05-15)The purpose of this research was to determine if a Mechanically-Fastened Fiber Reinforced Polymer (MF-FRP) Retrofit System is viable for increasing shear strength in existing reinforced concrete beams. Due to the more ... -
ENVIRONMETAL IMPACTS WHEN BUILDING AN ELECTRICAL SUBSTATION IN WISCONSIN POWER AND LIGHT TERRITORY
(2011-05-15)This research states the importance of electrical substations to meet the increasing electrical demands in rural areas taking as an example Wisconsin Power & Light (WP&L) territory. Given the fact that WP&L is a regulated ... -
GPGPU WORKLOAD ANALYSIS AND MEDIA PERFORMANCE STUDIES
(2011-05-15)This project was done with the Mobile Microprocessor Group at Intel Corporation as a part of a six month internship. The primay objective of this project was to study the performance of GPGPUs (General purpose computation ... -
The effects of plasma exposure on the time-dependent dielectric breakdown of low-k porous organosilicate glass
(2011-05-15)Time-dependent dielectric breakdown (TDDB) is a major concern for low-k organosilicate (SiCOH) dielectrics. To examine the effect of plasma exposure on TDDB degradation, time-to-breakdown measurements were made on porous ... -
An Analysis of FPGA-based Architectures and Algorithm Implementations for the Compact Muon Solenoid Experiment Regional Calorimeter Trigger Phase-I Luminosity Upgrade
(2011-05-15)The Large Hadron Collider's (LHC) Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) is a high-energy physics experiment designed to observe and analyze particle collisions at a rate of one billion collisions per second. The CMS experiment relies ... -
SEIZURE DETECTION AND ANALYSIS USING PHASE-SLOPE INDEX
(2011-05-15)Detection and analysis of epileptic seizures is of clinical and research interest. We propose a novel seizure detection and analysis scheme based on the phase-slope index (PSI) of directed influence applied to ... -
Fast Distributed Mutual Exclusion
(2011-05-15)A technique is proposed for quickly distributing mutexes in a system of multiple nodes. Evaluated in the context of a physical network, it is relatively agnostic with respect to the underlying topology and can be modified ... -
Metamorphic Testing and its Application on Hardware Fault-Tolerance
(2011-05-15)In testing, people normally use the ?golden model? to judge the correctness of the tested unit. However, in some cases the golden model is difficult to produce, and in some cases the outputs do not need to exactly match ... -
Modeling Consumer Adoption of Alternative-Fuel Vehicles In Dane County, Wisconsin
(2011-05-15)With the rapid development of technology and increase in human activities, the existing resources have been consumed at unprecedented speed, which also gives rise to the growing environmental concerns. For instance, there ...