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Showing 1 to 20 of 154 for “"Performance Enhancement"”.
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Performance Enhancement of Aerobic Landfill Bioreactors
… of aeration techniques, aerobic waste cell enhancement to biologically degrade lignin, and drying of an aerobic waste cell to prepare it for mining. The study consisted of a series of batch and flow through lysimeter experiments as well as mathematical modeling. The best aeration technique …
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Optical reference gyro characterization and performance enhancement
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 1990.
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Aircraft performance enhancement with active compressor stabilization
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Aeronautics and Astronautics, 1988.
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Performance Enhancement in Copper Twisted Pair Cable Communications
… exploited, so as to meet the desired data rate performance. The current balanced transmission over the structured twisted pair cable and its parallel single-in-single-out channel model is revisited and formulated as a full-duplex multiple-in-multiple-out (MIMO) channel model. With a common …
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Comparison and performance enhancement of modern pattern classifiers
… using a range of benchmark datasets, on the performance of some modern machine learning systems and possible enhancements to them. When new algorithms and their performance are reported in the machine learning literature, most authors pay little attention to reporting the statistical …
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Additively Manufactured Dielectric Elastomer Actuators: Development and Performance Enhancement
… great attention is paid to enhancing the performance of printed DEAs through developing printable elastomer and electrode materials with improved properties. Lastly, performance enhancement is approached from the design point of view by developing a novel 3D printable DEA configuration …
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Seismic Evaluation and Performance Enhancement of Industrial Storage Racks
… adequately designed for seismic effect, the rack performance also significantly impacts the seismic risk to society both in terms of life-safety and economic losses. The seismic behavior of industrial storage racks is fundamentally different than typical civil engineering structures due to the …
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X-ray microscope performance enhancement through control architecture change
… is to apply control algorithms to improve the performance of nanopositioning devices used on the beamline in Advanced Photon Source (APS) at Argonne National Laboratory (ANL). A prototype device, better known as the Early User Instrument (EUI) was the subject of this work. It consists of X-ray …
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Beamforming performance enhancement by adaptive hyperbola array shape estimation
Analysis of U.S. Navy Ice Exercise 2016 (ICEX16) data, through a collaboration with MIT Lincoln Laboratory, demonstrated that towed array curvature commonly exhibited heading differences up to 100° and never maintained heading differences less than 30° between the forward compass and the aft …
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Discrete Tire Model Application for Vehicle Dynamics Performance Enhancement
… variations on the handling, braking, and ride performances of the vehicle. • To further enhance the tire model by considering dynamic stiffness changes and temperature dependent friction properties. • To develop, and implement novel control algorithms for braking, stability, and ride …
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Sources and Correlates of Performance Enhancement in Audiovisual Speech Perception
… enhanced by seeing the speaker’s face. This enhancement results from the integration of auditory and visual signals, but the underlying mechanisms remain largely unknown. This thesis describes the results from four studies investigating the enhancement of speech comprehension in an open-set, …
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Performance Enhancement of Concrete Produced with Treated Demolition Waste Aggregates
… of recycled aggregate concrete structural performance have limited its utilisation in structural applications. The current literature showed only a few studies on the use of treated recycled aggregate from construction and demolition waste and its effect on the different engineering …
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Power evaluation and performance enhancement of CSMA/CA based WLANs.
… public, but also has the potential for enhanced performance. Our contributions in this thesis are twofold: (1) We extend a recently introduced model of transmitted power in WLANs to cover unsaturated conditions when stations do not always have packets to send. we implement an experimental …
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Performance enhancement of segmented infrared reflectors via quasistatic shape control
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Aeronautics and Astronautics, 1992.
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Electrically-Small Antenna Performance Enhancement for Near-Field Detuning Environments
Bandwidth enhancement of low-profile omnidirectional, electrically-small antennas has evolved from the design and construction of AM transmitter towers eighty years ago to current market demand for battery-powered personal communication devices. Electrically-small antenna theory developed with …
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EMI Suppression and Performance Enhancement for Truly Differential Gate Drivers
… of this design is to mitigate EMI, improve performance, and reduce the number of filtering elements that are typically required. The investigation into the impact of EMI on electrical systems involves exploring factors such as testing equipment, power supplies, and gate drive layout. Based …
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Performance Enhancement and Stability Robustness of Wing/Store Flutter Suppression System
… feedback system that demonstrates increased performance as well as robustness to modeling errors. This approach treats the actuator as an active soft-decoupling tie between the wing and store, thus isolating the wing from store pitch inertia effects. Advanced control techniques are used to …
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Disciplinary Mythologies: A Rhetorical-Cultural Analysis of Performance Enhancement Technologies in Sports
… technologies are intended to increase athletic performance on some level. And yet, certain performance enhancement technologies can be criticized for being antithetical to the spirit of sports, which is framed as being a strictly natural and pure human endeavor. Using a rhetorical-cultural …
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On-chip self-rolled-up nanomembrane tube inductor for RFIC performance enhancement
… to reduce the fabrication cost and enhance the performance and functionality of radio frequency integrated circuits (RFICs). Numerous improvement methods have been demonstrated but all fail to fundamentally solve the intrinsic drawbacks of planar spiral structure, especially the most critical …
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Design for performance enhancement in feedback control systems with multiple saturating nonlinearities
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 1988.
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