Experimental investigation on heat transfer & hydrodynamic performance of vortex generators in a microchannel by Song, Hanyu

“…The microchannel and vortex generator are studied in this final year project, to assess the heat transfer and hydrodynamic performance. …”
Get full text

QoS provisioning by power control for video communication via satellite links by Ma, Ting, Lee, Yee Hui, Winkler, Stefan, Ma, Maode

“…We performed a video-streaming experiment over a satellite link for 24 days distributed over 1 year to investigate the effects of rain fade. Based on the measurements, models for the relationships between rainfall rate, power level, packet loss, and video quality are proposed. …”
Get full text
Get full text

Exploring small-scale optimization coupling learning approaches for enterprises’ financial health forecasts by Zhu, L, Zhang, Z, Crabbe, MJC

“…It not only revealed lagging, immediate, continuous impacts of various indicators in different fiscal year, but also had the same low computational cost and complexity as known small-scale machine learning models. …”

Energy efficiency: low-hanging fruit for India by Jain, AK

“…At the Copenhagen Conference of Parties (COP) in 2009, India voluntarily committed to reducing its emissions intensity of GDP by 20–25 per cent from 2005 levels, by the year 2020. Although it is currently on track to meet (and perhaps even overachieve) this target, India faces challenges in sustaining this momentum; its population is rapidly urbanizing, but over 50 per cent still work in agriculture, and a third currently lack access to any form of modern commercial energy. …”

The Pascal Visual Object Classes (VOC) challenge by Everingham, M, Van Gool, L, Williams, C, Winn, J, Zisserman, A

“…The paper concludes with lessons learnt in the three year history of the challenge, and proposes directions for future improvement and extension. …”

Case Report: Concurrent transcatheter aortic and mitral valve replacement for symptomatic concomitant aortic and mitral valve stenoses by Bussmann, BM, Dawkins, S, Newton, J, Cahill, T

“…We present a case of a 76-year-old patient with concomitant severe aortic valve stenosis and severe mitral valve stenosis who underwent concurrent TAVI and transcatheter mitral valve replacement. …”

Physical unclonable function based solutions to unification of user, device and data authentication by Zheng, Yue

“…At a time of rampant public media manipulation and ease of fake image/video fabrication, verification of benign and malicious image transformations is necessary but not sufficient for fact checking of visual artefacts presented in the court of law. …”
Get full text

Non-linear Log-Sobolev Inequalities for the Potts Semigroup and Applications to Reconstruction Problems by Gu, Yuzhou, Polyanskiy, Yury

“…Furthermore, p-NLSIs allow us to conclude that for $$q\ge 3$$ q ≥ 3 , distributions that are not a product of identical distributions can have slower speed of convergence to equilibrium, unlike the case $$q=2$$ q = 2 . …”
Get full text

Understanding Chromatin Organization and Dynamics with Coarse-Grained Modeling by Liu, Shuming

“…OpenABC incorporates diverse CG force fields within an extensible framework and is built on a simulation platform that supports GPU acceleration, thus speeding up CG simulations. In Chapters 4 and 5, we shift our focus to the applications of CG simulations. …”
Get full text

Designing for Connection with Inner Processes by Mindel, Jessica Rachel

“…Through this work, I hope to lay the foundation for future research on technology's role in supporting interpersonal understanding at a time when so many subjectivities collide and are summarized at the speed of data.…”
Get full text
Get full text

Three essays on behavioral and experimental economics by Li, Yupeng

“…To bolster our findings, we confirmed in a separate experiment that the difference in response to the accents was not due to the speed of speech or vocal pitch. In Chapter 2, we experimentally examine how trustee identity disclosure affects trustor trust behavior in an online environment on WeChat (a Chinese social media platform). …”
Get full text

Learning-based robot navigation in dynamic environments: from indoor scenes to human crowd scenes by Jiang, Haoge

“…In the earlier phase, our work more focus on indoor scene navigation with learning-based approaches, we first proposed dueling deep deterministic policy gradient (Dueling-TD3) to address the existing issues that the original TD3 has such as inefficient learning and slow convergence speed. In this way, enable the model to derive an ideal action for mobile robot navigation. …”
Get full text

Photonic analog-to-digital conversion and photonic microwave signal generation by Wong, Jia haur

“…Driven by the increasing demand for speed and capacity in advanced signal-processing systems such as radar, surveillance, millimeter-wave access networks, and satellite communication, there has been a strong interest in developing analog-to-digital converters (ADC) with high sampling rate and resolution. …”
Get full text

Electrical machine fault analysis and modelling by using electromagnetic approach by Zhang, Meng Qi

“…Compared to the finite element method, this model gives consistent prediction of machine flux distribution and exhibits faster computational speed. Secondly, a lumped MEC model has been proposed to predict machine performance incorporating rotor motion. …”
Get full text

Attack strategies in birds of prey by Brighton, C

“…</p> <p>I used onboard cameras and GPS to study attack flights in peregrine falcons (<em>Falco peregrinus</em>), and high-speed ground photogrammetry for attacks in Harris' hawks (<em>Parabuteo unicinctus</em>), to show that two different raptor species effectively implement the same guidance law of pure proportional navigation for intercepting manouevring and non-manouevring prey-targets.…”

Application of microwave-assisted orange peel digestion in lithium-ion battery recycling by Nawfal Alimullah Marican

“…As the demand for lithium-ion batteries continues to increase year on year, various concerns begin to arise, such as the possible shortage of important metals such as lithium, cobalt, manganese and lithium. …”
Get full text

Optimization in liner industry with new sulphur cap regulation by Yan, Zirui

“…Although shipping is considered as an environmentally friendly transportation mode, the International Maritime Organization (IMO) still strives to further reduce the environmental impact by shipping activities, hence, the stricter sulphur regulation, which is known as ‘0.5% low sulphur regulation’, will come into force in year 2020. With less than one year before this new regulation taking into effect, shipping companies actively search for ways to cope with this big challenge. …”
Get full text

Natural avian inspired ornithopter UAV by Kaung, Ko Ko

“…With the increased frequent use of UAV for both military and commercial purposes along with innovative designs and manufacturing systems such as 3d addictive manufacturing, it has become much easier to develop and adapt a UAV which has future potential uses. In this final year project, the area of unconventional UAV is explored, mainly being the UAV which has unique bio mimicry propulsion and flight control systems similar to those found on birds, natural avian. …”
Get full text

15.280 Communication for Managers, Fall 2008 by Hartman, Neal

“…Schedule and curriculum coordinated with 15.311 Organizational Processes class. Restricted to first-year Sloan School of Management graduate students. …”
Get full text

A synthetic biology platform for malaria parasites based on orthogonal transcriptional control by Cárdenas Ramírez, Pablo

“…Malaria is responsible for half a million deaths each year in some of the poorest communities around the world. …”
Get full text