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Showing 1 to 20 of 37 for “"simulation performance"”.
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Improving Simulation Performance With Gpus
<p>Simulations are indispensable for engineering. They make it possible that one can perform faster and cheaper virtual experiments than physical ones on virtual environments based on numerical methods. One key factor to the performance of a simulation system is the speed of solving linear …
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Simulation, performance and interference analysis of multi-user visible light communication systems
… motivate the study of heterogeneous network performance, especially with respect to the design of protocols to best exploit the characteristics of each medium. This study considers Visible Light Communications (VLC), which is expected to coexist with legacy and future radio frequency (RF) …
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Analytical and simulation performance modelling of indoor infrared wireless data communications protocols
… and physical layer and presents protocol performance models with the aim of highlighting the critical factors affecting performance and providing recommendations to system designers for parameter settings and protocol enhancements to optimise performance. An analytical model of the IrDA …
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Effect of an Experiential Learning Model for Simulation Design on Clinical Nursing Judgment Development in Pre-Licensure Baccalaureate Nursing Students
Simulation is an experiential learning process used in nursing education to develop and evaluate competencies, including clinical judgment (Berragan, 2011; Jeffries, 2012), yet the effectiveness of simulation in nursing education is not sufficiently evaluated (Foronda, Liu, & Bauman, 2013) and …
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The Impact of Structured Prebriefing on Nursing Students' Competency Performance, Clinical Judgment and Experience in Simulation
… prebriefing, for its effect on students' simulation performance and their prebriefing experience. Prebriefing is the introductory phase of the simulation process.</p> <p>BACKGROUND Despite its inclusion in the simulation process, little research is available on prebriefing. Reflection …
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Finding the ghost with the machine: Breaking through the assessment center validity ceiling by exploring decisional processes using new sources of behavioral data within virtual assessments
… and unobtrusively during a computer-based simulation assessment. Using a decision making framework, basic characteristics of the new behavioral data are tested against existing theories of decisional efficacy. The construct-related validity of the new decision-related behavioral data is …
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Statistical-Based Hydrological Simulation and Inference
… methods have been developed for hydrological simulation and inference (i.e., explain reasonings behind model response). However, many challenges arise from enormous uncertainties and complexities in the hydrological systems that greatly limit the usefulness of statistical models in terms of …
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A comparison of timing methods in orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) systems
… synchronization, the timing errors, and the performance of different techniques under a variety of mobile channel models (indoor and outdoor) are investigated, and simulation performance results for each technique under different channel models are presented.
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Learning control for a class of discrete-time, nonlinear systems
… reliable methods exist to achieve satisfactory performance on even the largest and most complex of dynamical systems. The application of these control methods, though, often require extensive modelling and design effort. Recent techniques to alleviate the strain on modellers use various schemes …
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Accurate power analysis of integrated CMOS circuits on gate level
… The modelling of these glitches within the logic simulation, which use conventional delay models, is not accurate enough for circuits with a significant logical circuit depth. The exact modelling of glitches on gate level is the main contribution of the thesis. First the different operation points …
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HEMLOCK: HEterogeneous ModeL Of Computation Kernel for SystemC
… designs, heterogeneous modelling and efficient simulation become increasingly important. The key in making an SLDL heterogeneous is the facility to express different Models Of Computation (MOC). Currently, all SystemC models employ a Discrete-Event simulation kernel making it difficult to …
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Integral Boundary Layer Methods in Python
… ODE solver that allows for querying of simulation results at any point with accuracy to the same order as that of the solver; and an edge velocity treatment method using cubic spline interpolation that improves the simulation performance using only points from an inviscid edge velocity …
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Accelerating Hardware Simulation on Multi-cores
… time of complex hardware systems. Functional simulation forms the main stay of testing and verification process and is the most widely used technique for testing and verification. Most of the simulation algorithms and their implementations are designed for uniprocessor systems that cannot …
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An Architectural Framework for Performance Analysis: Supporting the Design, Configuration, and Control of DIS /HLA Simulations
… understanding regarding bottlenecks in run-time performance of distributed applications. This is especially true in the domain of distributed simulations where a myriad of enabling technologies are used as building blocks to provide large-scale, geographically disperse, dynamic virtual worlds. …
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Galvanic Vestibular Stimulation Applied to Flight Training
… and explores the effects of GVS on flight simulation performance. Bilateral bipolar rectangular pulse electrical stimulations were given to subjects via skin-mounted electrodes placed over each mastoid process to stimulate the vestibular system with roll and yaw sensations. Two studies were …
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Microgrid Modeling, Planning and Operation
… is a big challenge for Microgrid modeling, simulation, planning and operation. The major goal of this thesis is to build a library of various Microgrid components. First of all, the thesis is going to present a detailed description of Microgrid models with moderate complexity. Next, it will …
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Efficient parallel simulations and their application to communication networks
Simulation is one of the most important tools for system performance evaluation in communication networks as well as many other areas. However, simulation is computationally intensive. A traditional sequential simulation of a complex model or a rare-event system may require days or even weeks of …
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An efficiency rating tool for process-level VHDL behavioral models
… VHDL models. This is done by measuring the simulation efficiency of process-level VHDL behavioral models. Research in the determination of what VHDL constructs and modeling styles are most efficient is presented. The development and use of a tool that parses VHDL behavioral models and …
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Inference for auto-regulatory genetic networks using diffusion process approximations
… numerically. Furthermore, we compare the LNA's simulation performance to the performance of other (approximate and exact) methods under different modelling scenarios and we relate the performance of the approximate methods to the system size. In addition, we consider LNA as an inferential tool …
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Computer simulation of stand-alone photovoltaic systems with battery storage
… has been developed to simulate accurately the performance of stand alone photovoltaic systems with battery storage on an hourly basis for one simulated year. The program incorporates models of the POA irradiance, the photovoltaic cell · temperature and the battery temperature to simulate the …
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