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Showing 1 to 20 of 275 for “"computing technology"”.
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Preventive computing technology for successful aging
… of this thesis is to assess the current state of technology as it is (or can be) used in everyday life to support healthy and happy older adults by maintaining physical fitness, cognitive health, and emotional fulfillment. In addressing this problem, much focus has been placed on assistive …
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Adoption of cloud computing technology for exploration, drilling and production activities: Nigerian upstream oil and gas industry
… faster and more accurate decision making. Cloud computing offers information technology (IT) services via the internet and the technology offers several benefits such as flexibility, scalability, cost reduction, real-time information, monitoring, collaboration and timely interpretation of …
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Feeder Performance Analysis with Distributed Algorithm
… data, is difficult. How to utilize distributed computing technology to accomplish these tasks with a timely fashion is challenging. This thesis addresses the issues mentioned above, by investigating feeder performance analysis of electric power distribution systems with distributed algorithm. …
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Sculptured computational objects with smart and active computing materials
… philosophical means and methodology, by which technology artists and researchers can materially and sculpturally transform physical computing technology from hard, remotely-designed, plastic shells, into intimately created, sensual computing objects and artifacts. It asserts that the rigid, …
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Bending the ICT curve: Evaluating options to achieve 2030 sector-wide climate goals & projecting new technology impacts
… impact of the information and communications technology (ICT) sector is both growing and changing as computing technologies continue to develop and industry leaders make more efforts towards emissions reductions. Recent work highlights the increasing importance of manufacturing emissions in …
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Windows Azure: Using Windows Azure's Service Bus to Solve Data Security Issues
<p>Many of the largest technology companies are heavily investing in Cloud Computing technology, making this a major force in the realm of software development. However, this software paradigm brings with it significant data related security issues. This paper discusses some of these security …
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RNA CoMPASS: RNA Comprehensive Multi-Processor Analysis System for Sequencing
… which leverages many existing tools and parallel computing technology to facilitate the analysis of extremely large studies. RNA CoMPASS provides a web-based graphical user interface and distributed computational pipeline including endogenous transcriptome quantification and additionally the …
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Quantifying the Effects of Correlated Covariates on Variable Importance Estimates from Random Forests
Recent advances in computing technology have lead to the development of algorithmic modeling techniques. These methods can be used to analyze data which are difficult to analyze using traditional statistical models. This study examined the effectiveness of variable importance estimates from the …
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The Impact of Cloud Computing in Supply Chain Collaborative Relationships, Collaborative Advantage and Relational Outcomes
… central strategy for organizations. Logistics computing technologies in the cloud may facilitate collaboration in the supply chain, although there are conflicting viewpoints regarding cloud viability. This study also evaluates the effect that cloud computing technology has on collaborative …
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Utilization of Geographic Information System for Research, Management, and Education in the Natural Resources Management Department at California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo
… hereafter NRM, was one of the early users of GIS technology. Although GIS was primarily used as an educational tool, it was also used for cataloging and displaying resource information for management planning and research projects. As the computing technology advanced, GIS became more powerful and …
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A distributed computing environment (DCE) based object request broker
Object oriented technology has moved beyond being a tool for design and programming and is now being used to implement enterprise wide computer systems. Also, there has been a move from centralised mainframe systems to distributed computing due to the advent of more powerful workstations and …
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Securing the Public Cloud: Host-Obscure Computing with Secure Enclaves
As the practice of renting remote computing resources from a cloud computing platform becomes increasingly popular, the security of such systems is a subject of continued scrutiny. This thesis explores the current state of cloud computing security along with critical components of the cloud …
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Modeling Behaviour of Damaged Turbine Blades for Engine Health Diagnostics and Prognostics
… reflect reality. With improvements to sensor and computing technology there is a growing interest in a system that could continuously monitor the health of structural aircraft as well as forecast future damage accumulation in real-time. Through the use of two-dimensional and three-dimensional …
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Accelerating genomic sequence alignment using high performance reconfigurable computers
Reconfigurable computing technology has progressed to a stage where it is now possible to achieve orders of magnitude performance and power efficiency gains over conventional computer architectures for a subset of high performance computing applications. In this thesis, we investigate the potential …
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A framework for integrating wireless sensors and cloud computing
… enables storage, processing, and analysis. Cloud computing technology can provide unlimited storage in addition to a flexible processing infrastructure, allowing for the management and analysis of vast amounts of sensor data. This thesis presents a framework for integrating wireless sensors and …
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Impact assessment using geographic information system (Gis): Transportation engineering applications
… and complex spatial data management. Advances in computing technology have lead to wide spread use of GIS in many areas, particularly in transportation, environmental and landuse impact assessment studies; Yucca Mountain, 100 miles northwest of Las Vegas Nevada has been chosen as the site of a …
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The automated assessment of computer software documentation quality using the objectives/principles/attributes framework
… feasible. Enabled by the rapid progress in computing technology, the prospect of an automated, formalized system of quality assessment, based on the presence of certain attributes deemed essential to the quality of a document, is feasible. The existing Objectives/Principles/Attributes …
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Neural networks applications in estimating construction costs
… the potential application of neural networks technology to construction cost estimating problems. This is done by developing neural networks applications for a number of case studies constructed from the historical cost data of actual construction projects. Parameter-based cost estimating …
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A General Framework of Large-Scale Convex Optimization Using Jensen Surrogates and Acceleration Techniques
… a world where data rates are growing faster than computing power, algorithmic acceleration based on developments in mathematical optimization plays a crucial role in narrowing the gap between the two. As the scale of optimization problems in many fields is getting larger, we need faster …
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