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A Method for Characterizing Reclaimed Asphalt Pavement Degree of Binder Activity
(2020-12-02)
Most transportation agencies in the United States continue to assume reclaimed asphalt pavement (RAP) contributes 100% of its binder to a new asphalt concrete (AC) mixture, which has been proven to be an incorrect assumption, ...
Wireless Network Slicing on MAC Scheduling
(2020-11-06)
Networks are constantly flooded by heterogeneous services, and while some services such as Virtual Reality (VR) and Voice over IP (VoIP) have strict requirements regarding real-time packet delivery, others such as downloading ...
Evergreen, Semi-evergreen, and Deciduous Woody Plants in a Semi-arid Savanna: Photosystem Energy Dynamics and Near-canopy Remote Sensing with CCI/PRI
(2020-11-25)
Woody encroachers have transformed the Southern Great Plains across its semi-arid regions. Little is known how these encroachers—particularly the drought tolerant Juniperus—may be vulnerable to hotter temperatures and water ...
DEVELOPMENT OF A MACHINE LEARNING ALGORITHM TO MINIMIZE RUNOFF THROUGH AN AUTOMATED SMART IRRIGATION SYSTEM
(2019-11-25)
The study of proper water management practices is of prime importance due to the ever-
increasing population and rapid industrialization which results in shortage of portable water
supplies throughout the world. The current ...
Development of Optimal Ice Cloud Optical Property Models for Remote Sensing Applications
(2020-11-20)
This dissertation develops optimal cloud ice particle optical property models used for remotely sensed data from multi-angular satellite sensors. The optimal degree of surface roughness is inferred from Multi-angle Imaging ...
AN EXPERIMENTAL INVESTIGATION OF HIGH DOSE RATE ELECTRON BEAM IRRADIATION OF PETROLEUM IN A CONTINUOUS FLOW SYSTEM
(2019-11-11)
High dose rate electron beam (10 MeV, 15 kW, LINAC) irradiation was investigated as a potential technology for heavy oil upgrading. The flow system allows irradiation of crude oils at constant temperature while bubbling ...
Application of Parametric Optimization and Control in The Smart Manufacturing of Hydrogen Systems
(2019-08-29)
The main objective of this dissertation is to develop and deploy and test explicit model predictive control feedback strategy on hydrogen systems using the PARametric Optimization and Control framework (PAROC). In line ...
Function Conservation of Plant Cell-Surface Co-Regulatory Receptors Across 400 Million Years of Evolution of the Land Plants
(2020-12-06)
Plants possess a variety of cell surface receptors that perceive endogenous and exogenous signals to regulate plant growth, development, and immunity. These receptors include receptor-like kinase (RLKs) and receptor-like ...
Scalable Systolic Array Architecture (SSAA) - A General Convolutional Neural Network ISA and Compiler-Enabled Dataflow to Maximize Parallelism While Reducing Memory Utilization
(2020-12-02)
Convolutional Neural Networks have become the standard mechanism for machine vision problems due to their high accuracy and ability to keep improving with new data. Although precise, these algorithms are mathematically ...
On Spectral Operators in Finite von Neumann Algebras
(2020-12-04)
An operator on a Hilbert space is said to be spectral if it has a suitably well-behaved `idempotent-valued' spectral measure. Dunford introduced these operators and also provided the following characterization: An operator ...