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Showing 1 to 20 of 47 for “"Critical tasks"”.
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Implementing lean manufacturing critical tasks in product & process development : case study on a new automobile engine program
Thesis (M.B.A.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Management; and Thesis (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, 1998.
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Conducting a Dissonant Symphony: A Case Study of Network Leadership in the National Quality Forum
… for this dissertation, a network entrepreneur's critical tasks in creating a network administrative organization. The purpose of this dissertation is to present the results of an empirical study of the critical leadership tasks of the NQF's President and CEO during the NQF's formative stages. …
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High Performance Data Mining Techniques For Intrusion Detection
… This makes these algorithms impractical for time critical tasks like intrusion detection because of the large execution time. Our approach towards this issue makes use of high performance data mining techniques to expedite the process by exploiting the parallelism in the existing data mining …
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Wildland Firefighter Health and Safety
… the relationship between smokejumper core critical tasks (fireline digging, packing loads over 85 lbs, and repetitive lifting/carrying) and the current physical training (PT) test. The smokejumper PT test uses push-ups, pull-ups, sit-ups and a 1.5 mile run to determine if individuals have …
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Wildland Firefighter Health and Safety
… the relationship between smokejumper core critical tasks (fireline digging, packing loads over 85 lbs, and repetitive lifting/carrying) and the current physical training (PT) test. The smokejumper PT test uses push-ups, pull-ups, sit-ups and a 1.5 mile run to determine if individuals have …
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Beyond rules: how Large Language Models are redefining cryptographic misuse detection
… models for coding assistance, including security-critical tasks. Our work presents a comprehensive comparison between traditional static analysis tools for cryptographic API misuse detection—CryptoGuard, CogniCrypt, and Snyk Code—and the LLMs—GPT, Llama, Claude, and Gemini. Using benchmark …
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Application of queueing theory in bulk biotech manufacturing
… is adhering to the daily schedule of production tasks. Delays in non-time critical tasks have been traced to temporary workload surges that exceed the production staff's capability to handle them. To quantify this effect, a method for creating an M/M/c queueing model that is specific for bulk …
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FALCON: Fine-Time-Measurement to Approach, Localize, and Track RF Targets via Drone Networks
… sensory measurements and to realize approaching-critical tasks in a mission in addition to localization and tracking. For that, we propose to jointly exploit drones' diversity of observation and dynamics of approaching the target, and dynamically adjust the intensities of approaching and …
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Computer Vision Techniques for Drill Bit Identification and Mechanical Wear Detection
… techniques, deep learning models for vision tasks have received increasing attention, and they both see considerable utility in space exploration. Specifically, real-time obstacle detection and motion planning require advanced vision logic. However, retroactive data analysis is an area with …
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A study of organizational alignment at a Boston area hospital and its effects on patient throughput in the peri-operative areas
… the alignment of objectives, resources, critical tasks and vision is a useful model for identifying potential areas of disconnect in the system.
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Applied HW/SW Co-design: Using the Kendall Tau Algorithm for Adaptive Pacing
… supporting functions to people therefore it is critical for these devices to meet their timing constraints. This thesis examines the use of hardware co-processing to accelerate the calculation time associated with the critical tasks of a pacemaker. In particular, we use an FPGA to accelerate a …
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Autonomous adaptation and collaboration of unmanned vehicles for tracking submerged contacts
… (ASVs), are anticipated to play a key role for critical tasks such as mine countermeasures (MCM) and anti-submarine warfare (ASW). Addressing these issues with autonomous systems poses a host of difficult research challenges, including sensing, power, acoustic communications, navigation, and …
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End-to-end scheduling to meet deadlines in distributed systems
… real-time system or communication network, tasks may need to be executed on more than one processor. For time-critical tasks, the timing constraints are typically given as end-to-end release times and deadlines. This thesis describes algorithms to schedule a class of systems where all the …
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Aeroacoustics of perforated drag plates for quiet transport aircraft
… compared to current practice. One of the most critical tasks in noise reduction is to develop technologies to increase drag in quiet ways. The work presented in this thesis focuses primarily on aeroacoustic tests and analysis of perforated drag plates. The idea behind a quiet spoiler or drag …
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Design, Development, and Evaluation of Customized Electronics for Controlling a 5-DOF Magneto-Rheological Actuator Collaborative Robot
… operating system to handle multiple time-critical tasks and to guarantee the stability and effectiveness of robot control system. A series of experiments are conducted to validate the designed hardware and software systems, and evaluate their performance.
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In the Shadow of Prompts: Adversarial Attacks and Model Cloning in Large Language Models
… models (LLMs) already power mission critical tasks such as command-and-control chat, satellite ground-station automation, military analytics, and cyber-defense. Since most of these services are offered through application programming interfaces (APIs) that still expose full or top-k …
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Effect of Zolpidem, Zaleplon, and Ramelton on cognitive functioning after awakening from napping
… wake up before a “full night’s” rest to perform critical tasks.\r\nThis project reviews the literature regarding the effectiveness of zaleplon, zolpidem, or ramelteon in inducing sleep and the effects on cognitive functioning and performance decrements within eight hours after use.
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How Do Refugees Experience a “Sense Of Place” in a Community Garden? Exploring an Intervention to Mitigate the Consequences of Displacement
… and decrease psychological distress, all critical tasks during resettlement. Integrating both community and the natural environment, community gardening programs offer refugees the opportunity to maintain agrarian and cultural traditions practiced in their countries-of-origin, especially …
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Hybrid adaptive sequential sampling for reliability-based design optimization
… to replace expensive physical models. One of the critical tasks of employing surrogate models for system design optimization is to develop an accurate surrogate model cost-effectively. In this thesis, a new hybrid adaptive sequential sampling strategy has been developed to substantially improve …
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Automation and scalability of in vivo neuroscience
… because of the reliance on human operators for critical tasks. Ideally, automation would yield repeatable and reliable experimental procedures. Precision engineering would also allow us to perform more complex experiments by allowing us to take novel approaches to existing problems. Two such …
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