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Showing 1 to 20 of 599 for “"systems-based"”.
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Smart Systems Based on Electroactive Polymers
… thesis is the development and analysis of smart systems based on electroactive polymers (EAPs). Thanks to their sensing and actuation capabilities, devices based on EAPs, like ionic polymer metal composites (IPMCs), realized by using a noble metal or ionic polymer polymer composites (IP2Cs), …
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Tutoring systems based on user-interface dialogue specification
… command sets. A portable rule-based shell has been developed in Common Lisp which supports the delivery of tutorials for a range of software application package interfaces. The use of both the shell and tutorials for two such interfaces is reported. A computer-based authoring …
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Heterogeneous Cloud Systems Based on Broadband Embedded Computing
Computing systems continue to evolve from homogeneous systems of commodity-based servers within a single data-center towards modern Cloud systems that consist of numerous data-center clusters virtualized at the infrastructure and application layers to provide scalable, cost-effective and elastic …
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Complex adaptive systems based data integration : theory and applications
… integration are indicative of socio-cultural systems in general and are caused by some measurable attributes common in DDLs. This research's main contributions are: (1) a theory of data integration requirements to fully support automatic data integration from autonomous heterogeneous data …
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Design of control systems based on Q(Youla)-parmetrization
… of a method for control system design based on Youla(Q)-Parametrization. The fundamental concepts of the parametrization method have been used by Newton et al, Franklin and Raggazzini [Maciejewski, 1989] as early as 1957. The importance of its implications were not noticed during those …
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Systems based approaches to unravelling neuropeptide-receptor interactions in nematodes
… advance our knowledge of neuropeptide signalling systems in nematode parasites and can inform and direct functional deorphanisation studies in a range of nematode species. Secondly, established physiology tools and available transcriptomic and peptidomics data in the nematode parasite Ascaris suum …
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Process and systems based methodologies related to control structure selection
… has been the integration of existing process based tools and methodologies with a much more general approach of a systems and control theory character. The problem of Global Process Instrumentation concerns the selection of systems of measurement and actuation variables, found during the …
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Security Analysis of ICT Systems based on Bio-Inspired Models
In recent years, information and communication technology (ICT) has been characterized by several evolving trends and new challenges. The design and management of each information system must address is-sues related to planning an ICT infrastructure. The design of an ICT infrastructure can not …
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Failure avoidance techniques for HPC systems based on failure prediction
… in today's large high-performance computing systems is wasted due to failures and recoveries. Moreover, it is expected that high performance computing will reach exascale within a decade, decreasing the mean time between failures to one day or even a few hours, making fault tolerance a major …
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Design and implementation of computational systems based on programmed mutagenesis
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 1998.
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Real-time Prediction of Dynamic Systems Based on Computer Modeling
… to predict the real-time behavior of dynamic systems. The proposed DTFLOP modeling classifies the computation into the sequential computation, which is conducted on the CPU, and the parallel computation, which is performed on the GPU and formulates the data transmission between the CPU and the …
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ALN/ALSCN Acoustic Resonant Systems Based on Ultra-Thin Piezoelectric Films
… nitride/aluminum scandium nitride (AlN/AlScN) based acoustic resonant systems. Various microelectromechanical system (MEMS) acoustic resonators — surface acoustic wave (SAW), thin-film bulk acoustic resonator (FBAR), and Lamb wave resonators— were investigated by employing the ultra-thin …
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Distributed Generation Systems Based on Hybrid Wind/Photovoltaic/Fuel Cell Structures
… renewable energy technologies. Fuel cell (FC) systems also show enormous potential in future DG applications, due to a fast technology development, high efficiency, environment friendliness and modularity. Hybrid systems encompassing wind, photovoltaic and FC generators are today revised as a …
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Control-systems based analysis and design methods for scanning probe microscopy
… and manufacturing. This thesis presents control systems theoretic analysis and synthesis of new modes of operations that significantly expand the range of performance specifications and capabilities of SPMs. In particular, the focus of this thesis is on the two main requirements of SPMs, the …
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Multimaterial fiber microelectromechanical systems based on electrostrictive P(VDF-TrFE-CFE)
… enabled the deployment of microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) in a variety of applications, from cell phones and ink-jet printers to drug delivery devices. A recently developed approach for the fabrication of multimaterial fiber devices presents a unique opportunity to realize MEMS in a novel …
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Nanostructured gene and drug delivery systems based on molecular self-assembly
… the fabrication of both gene and drug delivery systems which, by virtue of their well-controlled architectural features, possess advantageous properties relative to traditional materials used in these applications. The first part of this thesis describes the solution-phase self-assembly of a new …
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Development of drug delivery composite systems based on stimuli responsive segmented polymers
Η ληψη φαρμακου με τη μεσολαβηση ενος φορεα έχει αναδειχθεί ως μια ισχυρη μεθολογια θεραπειας ποικιλων παθολογιων. Για να βελτιωθει ο θεραπευτικος δεικτης τοσο των παραδοσιακων οσο και των πρωτοπορων φαρμακων, νανοσωματιδια σχεδιαστηκαν αριστοποιωντας το μεγεθος και τα επιφανειακα χαρακτηριστικα, …
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Climate Change and Farmer Mental Health: A Participatory and Systems-Based Approach
… data from community stakeholders and applying a systems perspective in two phases to address the research question: How does climate change impact farmer mental health? The study takes place in farming communities in rural southeastern Iowa, which have experienced demonstrated increases in daily …
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