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Quantification and Analysis of Carbon Deposition on Catalytic Oxygen Carriers for the Oxidative Coupling of Methane
Ikeda, Kevin ( 2017-05 )The current commercial method of obtaining ethylene, a highly valuable product, through steam cracking is highly process and energy intensive. An alternative way to obtain ethylene is through the direct conversion of natural ... -
Quantification and Visualization of Fungal Degradation of Polyurethane Foam in Homes
Campbell, Iona ( 2020-05 )People spend 90% of their time in the indoor environment including homes. Homes contain many exposures that can cause harm to human health, and one harmful exposure potentially comes from the degradation of polyurethanes. ... -
Quantification of Apohemoglobin
Pires, Ivan ( 2019-05 )Apohemoglobin (apoHb) is produced by removing heme from hemoglobin (Hb). Unfortunately, preparations of apoHb may contain damaged globins, which render total protein assays inaccurate for active apoHb quantification. ... -
Quantification of Brake Disc Runout Due to Assembly and Manufacturing Variations
Samodelov, Valentina ( 2010-06 )Brake disc runout, which is defined as a variation in the distance of a brake surface to a reference plane, is a key contributor to torque variations. Runout also leads to disk thickness variation by inducing uneven wear ... -
Quantifying Fuel Consumption and Emission Saving of Hybrid Vehicles over Gasoline in Real Traffic
Dong, Zixuan ( 2022-05 )Roadway vehicle emissions are a primary cause of greenhouse gas. The CO2 emissions of a conventional automobile are directly related to the amount of gasoline it consumes, and the fuel consumption increases with acceleration. ... -
Quantitative Analysis of Cross-Country Flight Performance Data
Burger, George ( 2005-06 )The aviation industry depends heavily on the trained professionals that control the aircraft from the cockpit. Airlines invest substantial resources to training and evaluating these pilots. Today, most of those assessments ... -
A Quantitative Assessment of a LEED Certified Campus Building
DeArmon, Steven ( 2009-06 )In today’s society, sustainability is a key word in the building design and construction industry. But how does one measure the sustainability of a building? The LEED program offers a rating system based on certain ... -
Quantitative Molecular Sensing Using DNA Origami
Easwaran, Lavanya ( 2016-05 )Type I diabetes is considered a worldwide epidemic because its incidence is exponentially increasing. Current treatment of the disease requires blood glucose monitoring and intake of insulin. While there have been many ... -
QuickUp Analysis of Wireless Sensor Network Startup Companies
Beck, Brian ( 2007-06 )The past decade has seen a relative explosion in the field of wireless sensing applications. The market for sensing equipment and sensing applications has increased rapidly and has been subject to constant changes. Many ... -
Radio Frequency Energy Harvesting for Carbon Monoxide Alarms
Guo, Mengyuan ( 2011-06 )Radio Frequency (RF) energy harvesting is an eco-friendly solution of providing power over distance to many remote devices which can avoid the dispose of batteries used in them and also lead to the convenience of not ... -
Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) on Textiles
Xiang, Junzi ( 2019-05 )Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) provides a convenient and efficient way of identifying targets with unique advantages over barcodes and Near Field Communication (NFC). However, traditional RFID systems are composed ... -
Radio Frequency Induced Heating of a Medical Device with Vascular Flow Conditions
Scandling, Benjamin ( 2016-05 )Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) is a tool used to scan more than 40 million U.S. patients every year, but a major concern exists with the safety of patients with implanted medical devices. When implanted medical devices ... -
Rapid Synthesis in a Microcombustion Environment and Transfer Process Development for Few Layer Graphene
Silleck, Alexander ( 2013-08 )Graphene is a nanomaterial that consists of a carbon monolayer (one atom thick) arranged in the graphitic structure. Since the 2004 discovery of graphene as a material useful for applications using nanotechnology, there ... -
Real-time computer control of a high-performance, series elastic, articulated jumping leg
Curran, Simon ( 2005-08 )A lightweight, small-scale, prototype mechanical leg was developed with the intent of being used in a quadrupedal machine capable of a planar gallop. In contrast with wheeled vehicles, robotic quadrupeds do not require a ... -
REAL-TIME COMPUTER CONTROL OF A PROTOTYPE BIPEDAL SYSTEM
Wensing, Patrick ( 2009-06 )While much work in the area of robotics has attempted to replicate the power and agility of biological locomotion in a physical system, even the most impressive prototypes to date are functionally very simple in comparison ... -
Real-Time Control of Cycling in a High-Performance Leg With Series-Elastic Actuation
Birkmeyer, Paul ( 2007-06 )A high-performance, lightweight prototype robotic leg using series-elastic actuation was developed in previous work to study the effects of series-elastic actuation in vertical jumping. However, there was also a desire to ... -
Real-Time Hardware Implementation of Telephone Speech Enhancement Algorithm
Obnamia, Forrest ( 2013-05 )Hearing impairment detrimentally affects communication over the telephone. Since phone lines reduce bandwidth and dynamic range, the poor quality speech signal can cause hard of hearing (HoH) listeners to experience extreme ... -
Real-time Modeling of Battery Pack Temperature for Thermal Limit Prevention in Electric Race Vehicles
Brodsky, Polina ( 2016-05 )As the automotive industry moves towards reducing CO2 emissions, battery powered electric vehicles are becoming a commercial reality. Though Lithium ion battery technology has significantly improved with recent research ... -
Real-time Motion Planning For Autonomous Car in Multiple Situations Under Simulated Urban Environment
Wang, Xinyu ( 2020-05 )Advanced autonomous cars have revolutionary meaning for the automobile industry. While more and more companies have already started to build their own autonomous cars, no one has yet brought a practical autonomous car into ... -
Real-time Tracking for Assisted Living
Al Sabbagh, MHD Zaher ( 2006-03 )This paper is intended to explain and present our research on a real-time tracking and locating system for an indoor environment. The paper includes the description and implementation of each part of this system, and the ...