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Showing 1 to 20 of 20 for “"Experimental Platforms"”.
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Experimental testbeds for real-time motion planning : implementation and lessons learned
… systems is the actual development and test of experimental platforms, to validate the system design and the effective integration of hardware and real-time software. The objective of this thesis is to report on experimental implementation of platforms and testing environments for real-time …
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A study of the Rayleigh-Taylor Instability during deceleration in inertial confinement fusion relevant conditions
… capsules causing holes in the shell. Creating experimental platforms for current laser configurations on Omega and the Na- tional Ignition Facility (NIF) is necessary to study deceleration-stage RTI experimentally and validate computational modeling. A comprehensive exploration of potential …
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Cross-Frame Association of Through-Wall Handheld-Radar-Based Detections
… processing to produce detections, i.e. the experimental platforms have not been productionized nor tested live in applicable environments. Further, many of the proposed architectures rely on the specific motion paths of subjects to identify them. MIT Lincoln Laboratory’s (MITLL) Group 45 has …
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Adaptation of Biophysical Platforms to the study of Blast Injury
… aim of this thesis has been the development of experimental protocols and experimental platforms aimed at understanding how fresh tissues respond to compression and blast-type pressures. First, both dynamic and quasi-static testing apparatus were used to study the mechanical properties of …
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Experimental and Modeling Study of the Thermal Management of Li-ion Battery Packs
This work reports the experimental and numerical study of the thermal management of Li-ion battery packs under the context of electric vehicle (EV) or hybrid EV (HEV) applications. Li-ion batteries have been extensively demonstrated as an important power source for EVs or HEVs. However, thermal …
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Deliberation and Decision Making Online: Evaluating Platform Design
… exploration of innovative online deliberation platforms. ICT and online communication is increasingly sophisticated and ubiquitous in public life yet its democratic impact is ambiguous. Online engagement is characterised by low quality, disorganised deliberation. Experimental platforms have …
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Droplet evaporation dynamics on surfaces
… but also provides new avenues and strong experimental platforms for the study of phase change heat transfer processes that enable the decoupling of the intricate and length-scale dependent balance played by internal and external flows and binary-mixture dynamics, and the visualization of …
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Real-time Three-Dimensional DNA Microarrays: How Well Can We Distinguish Between Related Target Sequences?
… as they have been tested on different experimental platforms with samples of varying complexity. Experimental validation of analysis methods is limited, and not feasible as a general strategy. Advances in microarray data analysis would accelerate the employment of the powerful DNA …
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Autoscaling through Self-Adaptation Approach in Cloud Infrastructure. A Hybrid Elasticity Management Framework Based Upon MAPE (Monitoring-Analysis-Planning-Execution) Loop, to Ensure Desired Service Level Objectives (SLOs)
… infrastructure and autoscaling environment over experimental platforms i-e OpenStack and CloudSim Plus. In nutshell, the research provides solid understanding of autoscaling phenomenon, devises MAPE based hybrid elasticity management framework and explores its implementation potential over …
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Integrating Functional Genomics, Proteomics and Computational Analysis for the Characterization of Cellular Networks
… While development of novel high throughput experimental platforms is essential for an accurate large-scale data collection, novel theoretical methodology is indispensable for proper analysis and interpretation of these data. My projects aim at both, developing novel theoretic-analytical …
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Studying Particle and Energy Transport using Nuclear and X-ray Diagnostics for Discovery Science and Inertial Confinement Fusion
… decades. In contrast, only a very limited set of experimental data exists to test these theories. The lack of data is generally due to the dynamic and complex nature of HEDP and ICF implosions, seriously compromising any methods that try to directly relate observables to the transport processes. …
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Into the Wild: Deploying Brain and Physiological Sensing in Natural Environments to Enhance Wake and Sleep Cognitive Behavioral Studies
This thesis presents two experimental platforms for performing cognitive behavioral studies in natural settings: one for wake time and one for sleep. The equipment utilized today in behavioral and sleep labs is not very accessible, comfortable, portable, or simple to operate. The systems documented …
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EXTENSIVE GREEN ROOF SUBSTRATE COMPOSITION: EFFECTS OF PHYSICAL PROPERTIES ON MATRIC POTENTIAL, HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY, PLANT GROWTH, AND STORMWATER RETENTION IN THE MID-ATLANTIC.
… conductivity and matric potential of three experimental GR substrates with increasing volumetric proportions (10%, 20%, 40%) of organic matter (OM), were determined using the HYPROP© method, which extends the traditional measurement range for soils. However, the high porosity of GR …
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Phase Behavior, Filling Dynamics, and Packing of Fluids inside Isolated Carbon Nanotubes
… geologic media. In this thesis, we develop experimental platforms to study confinement effects on fluid packing, filling, and phase behavior inside isolated, substrate-bound carbon nanotubes with diameters ranging from 0.8 nm to 3 nm. Carbon nanotubes are grown by chemical vapor deposition …
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Neural network based adaptive control for autonomous flight of fixed wing unmanned aerial vehicles
… planes are modified and instrumented to form experimental platforms. Different sensors employed to collect the flight data are discussed along with their calibrations. The time constant and delay for the servo-actuators for the platform are estimated. Two different data collection and …
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Electromagnetic-thermal Characteristics of Conductor on Round Core (CORC) Cables
… inductance of this magnet (a few μH) is experimentally measured using the circuit resistance and discharging curve. Overall, this thesis concluded the electromagnetic-thermal qualities of CORC cables involving the current capacity, thermal stability, and AC transport loss level, promoting …
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Single-molecule methods for an improved understanding of biophysical interactions: from fundamental biology to applied nanotechnology
… and have allowed for the development of novel platforms to study nano-bio interactions. In this thesis, we will describe two main sets of experiments to explore molecular interactions at the single-molecule scale. We will focus on the study of protein-DNA interactions and also the interactions …
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Identification of transcription factor genes in plants
… we have started to develop high-throughput experimental platforms (in rice and C. reinhardtii) to monitor gene expression changes of TF genes under different genetic, developmental or environmental conditions. In this work we present the monitoring of Arabidopsis thaliana TFs during the …
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Phosphorus speciation, agronomic performance and soil nutrient testing for waste recovered fertiliser use in Northern Irish soil
… local agriculture with P. <br/><br/>In this PhD, experimental platforms have been developed to assess the most effective way to measure soil test P (STP) in the unique soils of NI and how to accurately predict the behaviour of recycled P in soils. This was done by (i) surveying chemical properties …
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Strongly correlated quantum fluids and effective thermalization in non-Markovian driven-dissipative photonic systems
… regime at exceptionally high temperatures, these platforms appear as extremely promising candidates for the ``quantum simulation'' of the most exotic many-body quantum problems: while the precursors experiments in semiconductor exciton-polariton already allow to reach the Bose-Einstein …