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Showing 1 to 20 of 43 for “"design and assessment"”.
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Design And Assessment Of Compact Optical Systems Towards Special Effects Imaging
… compact relay optics was assessed, developed, and a working prototype was built. It was concluded that even though compact relay optics can be achieved, further push for compactness and cost-effectiveness was impossible in the paradigm of bulk macro-optics systems. Thus, a paradigm for imaging …
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A conceptual design and assessment of a low-cost augmented reality headset
… technologies, the way people receive information and communicate with one another has been constantly changing, moving from traditional letters, newspapers and televisions to modern computers and smartphones. In the meantime, screens of various sizes have also flooded our lives, ranging from …
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Design and assessment of a super high speed, hybrid hydrofoil/SWATH crew boat
This thesis presents the preliminary design and assessment of Wavecutter, an innovative super high speed, hybrid hydrofoil/SWATH crew boat. The intended mission of the vessel is the very-fast transportation of crew and cargo, to and from offshore installations. The design builds on Brizzolara's …
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The intentional design and assessment strategies for character development of students in Christian coalition colleges
The study was designed to investigate the practices of Christian college educators in identifying and translating ethical and moral ideals into written character development objectives for integration into curricular and co-curricular activities. A second purpose was to determine what sponsored …
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Organizational Architecture Design and Assessment of Statistical Feasibility for NPM Implementation in an Airplane Subassembly
Company Z is a ubiquitous name and prominent leader in the aerospace industry, maintaining dominance in part by continuously seeking to improve. Company Z is now embracing a charter to become a Global Industrial Champion in manufacturing by developing strategies to improve manufacturing quality, …
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Enhanced Gate-Driver Techniques and SiC-based Power-cell Design and Assessment for Medium-Voltage Applications
… a paradigm shift in research focusing on wide-bandgap-based (WBG) materials. SiC power semiconductors exhibit superiority in terms of switching speed, higher breakdown electric field, and high working temperature, slowly becoming a global solution in harsh medium-voltage (MV) high-power …
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Integrated design of semi-displacement patrol crafts
Early stage ship design and assessment continues to be a challenge for naval architects and ocean engineers. The complex and multifaceted interactions between the different components of the ship and the broad spectrum of disciplines required in ship design make it difficult to fully realize the …
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Integrating seakeeping in the design of semi-displacement and displacement monohulls
Early stage ship design and assessment continues to be a challenge for naval architects and ocean engineers. The complex and multifaceted interactions between the different components of the ship and the broad spectrum of disciplines required in ship design make it difficult to fully realize the …
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Seismic site response of deep soil and embankments in the New Madrid Seismic Zone
"The Federal Highway Administration and the Missouri Department of Transportation have funded a project at the University of Missouri-Rolla with the objective of improving earthquake resistance, and mitigation of earthquake damage to roadway transportation network, including loss of bridges and …
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Using media to teach a biography of Lincoln and Douglass: a case study of teaching ESL listening & viewing in college composition
… The primary text was Freedman's Abraham Lincoln and Frederick Douglass: The Story Behind an American Friendship, and the graduate instructor had written the curriculum in a master's class, Curriculum Design and Assessment, taught by the program director and the responsible investigator for this …
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Analysis of mixing and thrust diagnostics for shock tunnel hot nozzle testing
… nozzle flows is being pursued to enable cost and time savings of one to two orders of magnitude over steady-state hot-flow testing. This thesis presents the design and assessment of mixing and thrust measurement systems for use with a shock tunnel for these applications. Results from …
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Advanced anaerobic treatment for energy recovery and improved process economics in the management of biorefinery wastewaters
… requires cost competitiveness of biofuels and their coproducts. This study set out to improve biorefinery process economics and enable more robust techno-economic analyses (TEAs) through a focused analysis and evaluation of the wastewater treatment process and more specifically, the …
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Design and acoustic shielding prediction of hybrid wing-body aircraft
Recent research and developmental efforts in aircraft design have focused on the growing concerns about the environment impact of aviation and the rising costs of fuel. Under NASA's N+2 subsonics fixed-wing project, hybrid-wing-body (HWB) aircraft are investigated with the goal to meet the N+2 …
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Insulation Design, Assessment and Monitoring Methods to Eliminate Partial Discharge in SiC-based Medium Voltage Converters
… speed with less switching related losses and run under higher temperature. Thus, theoretically, it can achieve much higher power density, which becomes very promising for future power transmission and distribution. However, in order to achieve the desired high power density, insulation …
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Modeling human supervisory control in heterogeneous unmanned vehicle systems
… relieves the human operator of low-level tasking and the future vision for network-centric operations, operator supervisory control of Unmanned Vehicle (UV) teams is likely to be a focal point of future research and development. Due to requirements for interoperability among UVs of varying …
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Forced Response System Identification of Full Aero-Engine Rotordynamic Systems
… have surfaced in advanced turbofan engine designs where there are opportunities for dynamical coupling between rotor shafts and support structures, requiring entire system-level assessment. Addressing such vibration challenges relies on knowledge of damping levels in the system, but …
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Musicians at the Margins: A Case Study of the Role of Instrumental Music Teachers in a University Music Department.
… UK university departments experience their work and interpret their role. It provides the basis for realistic steps for enriching their contribution to and relationship with the department in which they are situated. The area of activity was examined through a qualitative research approach within …
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Ultrasonic sensor platforms for Non-Destructive Evaluation
… to their attractiveness in terms of cost, safety and their accessibility to areas where manual inspection is not practical. A reconfigurable Lamb wave scanner, using autonomous robotic platforms is presented. The scanner is built from a fleet of wireless miniature robotic vehicles, each with a …
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An assessment of multidimensional wellbeing in rural Rwanda: impacts of and implications for rural development and natural resource conservation
… of wellbeing, which includes material, social and subjective dimensions, to household level social research in rural Rwanda. Its contribution lies in applying the approach to three different fields: the study of cultural difference; natural resource management; and agrarian change, and in …
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