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Showing 1 to 20 of 21 for “"improving reliability"”.
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Improving Reliability in DNA based Computations with Applications to Cryptography
DNA computing has become an attractive alternative to traditional computing techniques due to the large storage capacity of DNA, massive parallelism and energy efficiency of the computations. However, since DNA computing is based on bio-molecular reactions, it is not error free. One of the main …
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Improving reliability and security monitoring in enterprise and cloud systems by leveraging information redundancy
… modern life, the need to ensure the security and reliability of the underlying information technology infrastructures is greater than ever before. Large-scale enterprise and cloud systems, which form the backbone for the majority of computing activity, consist of many components and services …
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Analysis and design of a low-ripple coupled-inductor boost topology
… which simplifies design and manufacture, while improving reliability. Small signal models for the proposed topology are presented along with hardware verification. It is found that, with proper damping, the small signal characteristics of the coupled-inductor topology are very similar to those …
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Reliability assessment of smart distribution system and analysis of automatic line switches
Electric Power reliability is a major concern of any utility company. Although the distribution system is getting advanced, reliable energy at a cheaper cost is still a big concern. Power utility companies are trying to provide reliable energy through many possible ways. One of the possible …
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Reconfigurable multiport solid-state transformer for DC fast charging stations
… Vehicle (EV) fast charging station that enhances reliability and optimizes power distribution. Traditional SST-based stations rely on a shared DC bus, susceptible to faults that disrupt the entire system. The proposed system introduces multiple independent DC buses, isolating faults and improving …
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Assessment of Service Quality in Tanzanian Museums and Its Effect on Visitor Satisfaction: A case of Iringa Region Tanzania
… timeliness (ability to deliver service timely), reliability (performance of service facilities, goods, and staff), staff competence (skills, expertise and professionalism with which the service is executed), Staff attitude (politeness and friendliness), look and feel (appearance, comfort of …
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Customers’ Service Satisfaction at Uchumi Commercial Bank in Moshi Municipality, Tanzania
… timeliness (ability to deliver service timely), reliability (performance of service facilities, goods, and staff), staff competence (skills, expertise and professionalism with which the service is executed), Staff attitude (politeness and friendliness), look and feel (appearance, comfort of …
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Fault tolerance core: a framework for application-aware reliability
… keep pushing the limits of the transistor, the reliability of computer systems has become an increasing concern. Various fault tolerance techniques have been developed in an effort to provide reliable computing in the presence of faults. These approaches suffer from either a high resource cost …
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Toward improved evaluation of large scale hydrologic models: estimation and quantification of parameter uncertainty
… likelihood to extract quantitative information, improving communication of hydrologic simulation data, and ultimately improving reliability of hydrologic models. The techniques proposed and demonstrated here were programmed within the MATLAB programming environment using the Linux platform. The …
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A Parametric Simulation Model for Evaluating Cost Effectiveness of Remote Monitoring for Risk Reduction in Rural Water Supply Systems and Application to the Tazewell County, Virginia System
… which are inversely related to mechanical reliability. Reliability is controlled by facility monitoring that identifies excursions enabling operators to implement mitigating measures. Cost effectiveness refers to the cost relationship among operating alternatives that reveals changed …
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Novel approaches for reliable and efficient circuit design
… a suite of approaches are presented to improve reliability of 3D heterogeneous processors (3DHP) and to reduce the area overhead of asynchronous designs. This work is primarily divided into two parts. In the first part, we present an approach for improving reliability in 3DHP. Typically, in …
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Mathematical framework for designing energy matching and trading within green building neighbourhood system
… production based on renewable energyresources, improving reliability, increasing power quality and other concepts are providing the most important topics in the power systems analysis especially in green building in the neighbourhood systems (GBNS). To do so, the need to obtain the optimal and …
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Towards force-correlated ultrasound volume elastography
… of tissue over a broad volume, potentially improving reliability and repeatability in diagnosing and staging diffuse diseases.
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Single-Stage Wireless Power Transfer System with Single-Switch Secondary Side Modulation
… of increased size/cost, control complexity, or reliability in electrically noisy environments. This dissertation proposes a single switch control and regulation mechanism based on the secondary side of the WPT system. Specifically, the duty cycle of the secondary side synchronous rectifier (SR) …
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System Design of a High-Temperature Downhole Transceiver
… complexity, weight, and cost of the system while improving reliability. In addition, current downhole telemetry data rates are insufficient for supporting more sophisticated and higher resolution well-logging sensors. Increasing the data rates can also save the industry significant amount of time …
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Optimizing performance under thermal and power constraints for HPC data centers
… Recent reports have expressed concern that reliability at the exascale level could degrade to the point where failures become a norm rather than an exception. HPC researchers are focusing on improving existing fault tolerance protocols to address these concerns. Research on improving …
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Impact of heat exchanger surface wettability on condensation, frosting, and defrosting performance under practical testing conditions
… critical to lowering energy demands and improving reliability across residential, commercial, and transportation applications. One promising strategy to address these challenges is through surface engineering, where coatings and treatments are designed to alter wettability and control …
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Exploiting structure for scalable software verification
… the software engineering industry by improving reliability and decreasing development costs. Since software analysis is in general undecidable, automatic tools have to use various abstractions to make the analysis computationally tractable. Abstraction is a double-edged sword: coarse …
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Modeling and Control of Surface Micromachined Thermal Actuators
… <p>Feedback control has proven useful in improving reliability and performance for a variety of systems. However there has been limited success implementing feedback control on surface micromachined MEMS devices. The inherent difficulties in sensing microscale phenomena complicate the …
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Development of regional reliability hurdle rate for South Africa
… leading up to this thesis has been to develop reliability hurdle rates that include the effect of the IBR scheme implemented by the national regulator authority of South Africa. This will enable the network planner to compare the investment decision with the reward / penalty scheme. The thesis …
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