Test-analyze-and-fix (TAAF) is the most commonly recognized method of improving system reliability. The work presented here addresses the question of when to stop testing during TAAF programs involving one-shot systems ...

Two quadtree algorithms are presented that use table driven traversals to reduce the time complexity required to achieve their respective goals. The first algorithm is a two step process that converts a boundary representation ...

Prior to 1980, the practice in multilevel autorack management was to load the railcars at various origin points, ship them to the destination ramps, unload them, and then return each car to the loading point where it ...

Human beings have a touch and force estimation mechanism beneath their feet. They use this feeling of touch and force to maintain balance, walk, run and perform various agile motions. This paper presents a new sensor ...

This dissertation demonstrates the preparation of blocky brominated syndiotactic polystyrene (sPS-co-sPS-Br) copolymers with tailored chain sequences using a simple, post-polymerization functionalization method conducted ...

This thesis is a flirtation with architectural materials and tailoring techniques that questions industry solutions and standards. Searching with tailoring precision to create architectural seams, edges, darts, and ...

Tailored communications have been effective in increasing both recall and readership of health information. However, there is no clear evidence that tailoring is necessary or beneficial in creating behavior change. There ...

Improving the quality factor of the mechanical oscillations of micron scale beams in a viscous fluid, such as water, is an open challenge of direct relevance to the development of future technologies. We study the stochastic ...

Gaeumannomyces graminis var. triciti (Ggt), the causal agent of take-all in wheat, is difficult to detect accurately and rapidly due to its similarity to fungi in the Gaeumannomyces-Phialophora complex. My objectives ...