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Showing 1 to 19 of 19 for “"ONR"”.
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Comparison of RANS and Potential Flow Force Computations for the ONR Tumblehome Hullfrom in Vertical Plane Radiation and Diffraction Problems
… heave and pitch motions are prescribed to the ONR Tumblehome hullform in calm water at zero forward speed and Fn 0.3. Combinations of amplitude and frequency of oscillation ranging from small to large are considered. Results are compared with several potential flow codes which utilize varying …
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Modelling framework for assessing nuclear regulatory effectiveness
… on the Office for Nuclear Regulation (ONR), the British nuclear regulator, and its process for structured inspections. The first part of the thesis demonstrates that the hazard and operability (HAZOP) technique, used in the nuclear industry to identify hazards associated with an …
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Quantitative Aspects of Interface Remodeling During Germband Extension
… results of this study show that onion rings (<em>onr</em>) and funnel cakes (<em>fun</em>) encode the <em>Drosophila</em> homologs of the Exo84 and Sec8 exocyst subunits, respectively. In <em>onr</em> and <em>fun</em> mutant cells, cytokinesis is disrupted early in furrow ingression, leading to …
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ASSESSING THE USABILITY OF MONTEREY PHOENIX SOFTWARE
… responded to an invitation to participate in an ONR-sponsored, usability study completed a carefully constructed protocol designed to identify modeling experience level, provide a brief introductory tutorial to the MP software, present participants with a simple modeling task using MP, and …
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Analysis of 2-axis pencil beam sonar microbathymetric measurements of mine burial at the Martha's Vineyard Coastal Observatory
… remain lethal. The Office of Naval Research (ONR) has developed a computer model that predicts the extent of mine burial to aid mine hunting and mine clearing operations. Investigations under ONR's Mine Burial Program are presently being conducted to calibrate and validate this model. This …
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rave: A Framework for Code and Memory Randomization of Linux Containers
… attacks. This work is supported in part by ONR under grant N00014-18-1-2022 and NAVSEA/NEEC/NSWC Dahlgren under grant N00174-20-1-0009.
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Biomimetic sonar design and the investigation of the role of peripheral dynamics for target classification in bat biosonar
… by grants from the Office of Naval Research (ONR) and the Naval Engineering Education Consortium (NEEC). Additional support was provided by an East Asia and Pacific Summer Institutes (EAPSI) fellowship from the National Science Foundation (NSF).
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Analysis of 2-axis pencil beam sonar microbathymetric measurements of mine burial at the Martha’s Vineyard Coastal Observatory
… remain lethal. The Office of Naval Research (ONR) has developed a computer model that predicts the extent of mine burial to aid mine hunting and mine clearing operations. Investigations under ONR's Mine Burial Program are presently being conducted to calibrate and validate this model. This …
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Analysis of 2-axis pencil beam sonar microbathymetric measurements of mine burial at the Martha's Vineyard Coastal Observatory
… remain lethal. The Office of Naval Research (ONR) has developed a computer model that predicts the extent of mine burial to aid mine hunting and mine clearing operations. Investigations under ONR's Mine Burial Program are presently being conducted to calibrate and validate this model. This …
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An experimental study of the one Atmosphere Diving Suit (ADS) and data analysis of military diving
… prompted the Office of Naval Research (ONR) to fund an investigation into the next-generation ADS. In partnership under a Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) contract, Mid6 Technology and MIT teamed up to investigate new joint design. To better understand the existing ADS and …
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Analytic model for matched-filtered scattered intensity of volume inhomogeneities in an ocean waveguide calibrated to measured seabed reverberation
… with data collected during the 2003 and 2006 ONR Geoclutter Experiments on the New Jersey continental shelf and on the northern flank of Georges Bank in the Gulf of Maine, respectively. The statistics for the inverted bottom parameters are summarized for all frequencies and experimental …
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Analysis of the Power Conditioning System for a Superconducting Magnetic Energy Storage Unit
… for Power Electronics Systems (CPES) under an ONR funded program. The project was to develop advanced power electronic techniques for SMES Naval applications. This thesis focuses on system analysis and development of a demonstration test plan to illustrate the SMES systems' ability to be …
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Managing choice in research and development
… Index. Option value, calculated for a set of ONR-relevant product classes, is found to change investment decisions. Sensitivity studies reveal a critical transition interval in volatility, where managerial effort should be focused. Two organizational questions underlie this work. How can …
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The Social Organization of the Ontario Minimum Wage Campaign
… on by the Ontario Needs a Raise coalition (ONR) from 2003 to 2006, and was re-launched in 2007 by the Toronto and York Region Labour Council (TYRLC) in association with some community groups. The OMWC brought together across time and space activist groups, community agencies and labour …
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Optimal path planning for detection and classification of underwater targets using sonar
… work, supported by the Office of Naval Research (ONR), is intended to develop a suite of interactive sensing algorithms to autonomously command an autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) for the task of detection and classification of underwater mines, while choosing an optimal navigation route that …
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Engineering a human Factors analysis of a novel one Atmosphere Diving Suit (ADS) elbow joint
… contract funded by the Office of Naval Research (ONR) between the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Midé. The elbow joint prototype, developed and manufactured by Midé, was tested in a rig, designed and built at MIT, consisting of a water tank with the joint completely submerged. Range of …
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Thermal Management of Power Electronic Building Blocks
… initiated through the Office of Naval Research (ONR), is a promising enabling technology which will promote future electrical power systems. Key in this development is the thermal design of a PEBB packaging scheme that will manage the module's high heat dissipation levels. As temperatures in …
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The role of orphan nuclear receptor DAX-1 (NR0B1) in human breast cancer cells: expression, proliferation and metastasis
<p>The orphan nuclear hormone receptor DAX-1 (Dosage Sensitive Sex Reversal, Adrenal Hypoplasia Congenita on the X Chromosome, gene 1) plays an important role in the development of adrenal and gonadal tissues and functions as a global negative-regulator of steroidogenesis. In addition, it is known …
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Building conditions and students' attainment in Jamaica
A growing body of research has established that there is a link between building conditions and students' academic performance--if the condition of the school facility is good the academic scores of students are likely to be higher than those schools that are in a bad state. However, there have …