Understanding both swine growth performance and swine barn management under different conditions is essential to evaluate the swine production system. The integrated effect of swine growth and swine barn management is ...

This thesis proposes a method for accurate temperature estimation of thermally-aware power electronics systems. The duality between electrical systems and thermal systems was considered for thermal modeling. High dimensional ...

Why do state implosions occur? This question urges itself on theorists and practitioners in international relations and security in the aftermath of the dissolution of the Soviet Union. Despite the importance of the question, ...

Power system engineers face a double challenge: to operate electric power systems within narrow stability and security margins, and to maintain high reliability. There is an acute need to better understand the dynamic ...

A dynamic analysis of the three dimensional (3-D) kinematic and kinetic characteristics of changing direction during walking was conducted which included examination of: the body segment contributions to the angular momentum ...

As is well known, the computational effort in quantum mechanics grows exponentially with system size. Thus a typical computation of an interesting many-body problem quickly becomes prohibitive. In this work, we try to ...

The extraction of depth in binocular stereopsis relies upon the ability to detect the co-occurrence of similar features in a stereo pair of images and the subsequent extraction of positional disparity. The fundamental ...

The analysis of biomolecules, including proteins and DNA, is rapidly moving towards lab-on-a-chip devices in an effort to minimize sample volume and sample loss. Pores with diameters in the tens of nanometers range have ...

There is a considerable interest in developing robotic aircraft, inspired by birds, for a variety of missions covering reconnaissance and surveillance. Flapping wing aircraft concepts have been put forth in light of the ...