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Showing 1 to 16 of 16 for “"Engineering controls"”.
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Lights Out! The Effect Of Green Building Certification And Pro-Environmental Prompts On The Lighting Behaviors Of Dormitory Occupants
… released into the environment. Administrative controls to minimize the release of gases, including intergovernmental agreements, federal and regional legislation, and Voluntary Emission Reductions (VERs) programs, have been a major focus among political and organizational leaders, while …
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An ergonomic job analysis of a work process within a glovebox
… disorders, unless administrative or engineering controls were initiated in the near future. Recommendations to improve the glovebox design have been discussed.
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Innovative Design and Development of PANDORA: Advancing Humanoid Robotics Through Additive Manufacturing
… developed for previous Terrestrial Robotics and Engineering Controls (TREC) Lab robots, such as THOR and ESCHER. The upper body features a cable-driven arm system, which is both lightweight and highly functional, offering eight degrees of freedom per arm. A significant contribution of this work …
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Institutional controls and brownfield redevelopment
Institutional controls (ICs) are used to reduce risks to human health and environment from exposure to contaminants at Brownfield sites. Regulators approve use of ICs in Brownfield redevelopment with the expectation that ICs will remain effective over the long-term under proper oversight …
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Effects of Dust Controls and Dust Sources on Respirable Coal Mine Dust Characteristics
… monitoring technologies, and improved dust controls have emerged, and all are based on the presumption that limiting RCMD on the basis of mass will effectively mitigate the exposure hazards. Given the latency of exposure outcomes, it will be some time before the full impact of these …
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Effect of Various Water Chemistry Factors on Legionella Proliferation and the Premise Plumbing Microbiome Composition
… The goal of this work was to explore engineering methods for control of L. pneumophila and total regrowth. The first line of study involved a series of experiments with simulated glass water heaters (SGWHs) to investigate interactions between specific water chemistry factors and L. …
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A fogging scrubber to treat diesel exhaust: field testing and a mechanistic model
… works can be chronically overexposed. Current engineering controls used to mitigate DPM exposure include cleaner fuels, regular engine maintenance, ventilation controls, and enclosed cabs on vehicles. However even with these controls in place, workers can still be overexposed. The author's …
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Three Essays on Modeling Complex Dynamic Problems in Health and Safety
… the causes of falls in construction, developing engineering controls, informing policy and intervention design to reduce the risk of falls, and improving research synthesis methods. Essay #2 – Review of quantitative studies of interventions for responding to infectious disease outbreaks We …
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Assessing Spray Deposition and Weed Control Efficacy from Aerial and Ground Equipment in Managed Turfgrass Systems
… Future research should evaluate possible engineering controls for these problems.
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Artificial Neural Network-Based Robotic Control
<p>Artificial neural networks (ANNs) are highly-capable alternatives to traditional problem solving schemes due to their ability to solve non-linear systems with a nonalgorithmic approach. The applications of ANNs range from process control to pattern recognition and, with increasing importance, …
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Towards Autonomous Localization of an Underwater Drone
<p>Autonomous vehicle navigation is a complex and challenging task. Land and aerial vehicles often use highly accurate GPS sensors to localize themselves in their environments. These sensors are ineffective in underwater environments due to signal attenuation. Autonomous underwater vehicles utilize …
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A LiDAR Based Semi-autonomous Collision Avoidance System and the Development of a Hardware-in-the-Loop Simulator to Aid in Algorithm Development and Human Studies
… that provides standard steering wheel and pedal controls along with a television monitor equipped with a wireless video receiver in order to provide a real-time driver’s perspective video feed. The hardware-in-the-loop simulator was developed in order to aid in the evaluation and further …
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State Omniscience for Cooperative Local Catalog Maintenance of Close Proximity Satellite Systems
<p>Resiliency in multi-agent system navigation is reliant on the inherent ability of the system to withstand, overcome, or recover from adverse conditions and disturbances. In large part, resiliency is achieved through reducing the impact of critical failure points to the success and/or performance …