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Showing 1 to 20 of 37 for “"FMC"”.
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Quantitative modeling and analysis with FMC-QE
The modeling and evaluation calculus FMC-QE, the Fundamental Modeling Concepts for Quanti-tative Evaluation [1], extends the Fundamental Modeling Concepts (FMC) for performance modeling and prediction. In this new methodology, the hierarchical service requests are in the main focus, because they …
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Remote sensing to characterise vegetation fuel moisture content in the UK uplands
… can become more accurate. Fuel moisture content (FMC) is one of the most important factors influencing wildfire risk, as it controls the probability of ignition and the rate of spread of a fire. This work aims to assess the potential of calibrated time-series Sentinel-2A MultiSpectral Instrument …
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The incombatibility of the Free Methodist Church and fundamentalist theology: why Free Methodists are not fundamentalists
… Key research questions included whether the FMC at its inception would be predisposed to fundamentalism, why fundamentalism has at times been attractive to Free Methodists and why Free Methodists ultimately rejected fundamentalism. Over the course of the thesis, I have used the literary tool …
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A framework for the performance-based design of flexible manufacturing cells
… evaluation of flexible manufacturing cells (FMCS) based on the strategic objectives of firms was developed. Four different types of manufacturing task profiles were identified based on the primary manufacturing task, product characteristics, and manufacturing system characteristics of a …
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Topographic reconstructions of the Variscan Belt of Western Europe through the study of fossil hydrothermal systems
… Massif (AM) and the French Massif Central (FMC) with age-equivalent precipitation records in the foreland Bourbon l’Archambault basin (BA) and the Montagne Noire (MN). Combined microstructural, hydrogen and oxygen stable isotope, thermometry and geochronology data allow the calculation of …
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A framework for developing, manufacturing, and sourcing trucks & equipment in a global fluid management industry
… Management. At Fluid Management Corporation (FMC), Trucks and Equipment (T&E) that are used to deliver services both onshore and offshore currently follow a single product development model: In-house design; Outsourced prototyping, testing, and manufacturing. The objective of this research …
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Design of a flexible manufacturing cell/system, optimizing for quality
… design method used for the development of an FMC. PART TWO: - Presents an introduction to the formal " DESIGN FUNCTION DEPLOYMENT ", currently discussed at the Engineering Design Centre at the city University PART THREE: - Re-works the FMC design problem using the " DFD " methodology as …
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Virtual source aperture ultrasonic imaging for non destructive testing
… array (PA) techniques and full matrix capture (FMC). VSA overcomes the shortcoming of PA by using the Delay and Sum (DAS) algorithm to synthesise a PA focussing point at every single point in the image. This allows for easier data interpretation than PA and also allows for several extra views, …
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Sensorimotor transformation and information coding across cortex during perceptual decisions
… posterior parietal (PPC), and frontal motor (fMC) cortices of mice during a memory-guided visual decision task. Large-scale calcium imaging revealed that neurons in each area were heterogeneous and spanned all task epochs (stimulus, delay, response). However, information encoding was distinct …
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Design Demonstration and Optimization of a Morphing Aircraft Control Surface Using Flexible Matrix Composite Actuators
… in this field is the flexible matrix composite (FMC) actuator. This muscle-like actuator can be embedded with the deformable structure and unlike many other actuators continue to actuate with the morphing of the structure. This was demonstrated in the FMC active spoiler prototype, which was a …
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Computationally Efficient Modeling of Transient Radiation in a Purely Scattering Foam Layer
… compared to an established forward Monte Carlo (FMC) solution to determine the accuracy and efficiency of both methods. For both RMC and ROM methods the agreement with FMC is good. The average difference in areas under the curves relative to the FMC curve for the ten cases of RMC is 7.1% and for …
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Dynamics and control of flexible spacecraft : a case study
The First Milestone Configuration (FMC) of the proposed Space Station Freedom is considered for investigating the dynamics and control aspects of a space based orbiting flexible structure. The system dynamics is governed by an extremely lengthy (even in the matrix form), highly nonlinear, …
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The Educational Dimensions of Filipina Migrant Workers’ Activist Identities
… who are members of the Filipino Migrant Center (FMC), Long Beach in Southern California. FMC engages in organizing low-income members of the Filipino community around issues and concerns affecting them, provides services, and conducts research and educational work. This study investigates the …
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Analysis of predictive factors for fully mission capable rates of deployed aircraft
… focus of much attention. Fully Mission Capable (FMC) rates measure the percentage of time that aircraft are fully able to meet mission requirements. FMC rates have been determined to be the best single measure of equipment condition, providing an indication of aircraft readiness. This thesis …
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An FPGA platform for demonstrating embedded vision systems
… (1980 x 1080) HDMI camera, an off-chip DRAM, an FMC connector, an SD Card, and an HDMI display. The interface processing includes debayering for the camera input, arbitration for DRAM, and object annotation for the display. The platform must also handle the different clock frequencies of various …
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A Petri net-occam based methodology for the development of dependable distributed control software.
Analysis of flexible manufacturing cells (FMCs) shows their requirement for flexible, correct, reliable, safe and distributed control. A comparison of the state of the art in software engineering for parallel systems, and an examination of safety related systems, reveal a need for formal and …
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Family medicine patients and mental health referrals: implications for primary care physicians
… adults who were at the Family Medicine Center (FMC) in Fort Collins, Colorado, for medical appointments. Participants completed a questionnaire which measured demographic information, socioeconomic and health insurance status, relationship with physician and FMC, past mental health treatment, …
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Improving Supplier Engagement as a Means to Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions of a Global Company
… is provided in the format of a case study using FMC Corporation (FMC). The case study included interviews with industry experts, a survey sent to individuals from prominent corporations based in the United States of America (US) with global footprints, benchmarking across the chemical sector and …
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