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  • A direct-drive wave energy converter with contactless force transmission system

    Creator:
    Agamloh, Emmanuel B.
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    Commonly proposed ocean wave energy converters (OWEC) use inefficient and maintenance demanding intermediate hydraulic and pneumatic systems. We propose a novel rotary direct-drive OWEC that eliminates these intermediate stages. The new device employs a contactless force transmission system (CFTS) comprising a “piston” and a “cylinder” and a ball screw to...
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    energy device in a 3-D numerical wave flume using a computational fluids dynamics (CFD) code. In

  • Fluid flow on interacting, deformable surfaces

    Creator:
    Neill, Patrick
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    Fluid simulation is an interesting research problem with a wide range of applications including mechanical engineering, special effects in movies and games, and scientific simulation. Due to the complex nature of typical fluid flow equations, there are circumstances where a full volumetric fluid simulation may not be necessary to generate...
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    Masters Thesis
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    of Science in Computer Science presented on June 5, 2008. Title: Fluid Flow on Interacting

  • Causal Structure Learning from Experiments and Observations

    Creator:
    Sinha, Meghamala
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    In this research, we address the problem of learning a single causal network structure from multiple dataset generated from different experiments. The experiments can be observational or interventional. We assume that each dataset is generated by an unknown causal network altered under different experimental conditions (interventions, manipulation or perturbation). As...
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    experiments are conducted are different. A certain dependency occurring in one experiment might be absent in

  • Printing 3D Magnetic Composite Structures with Arbitrary Anisotropy using UV-curable Magnetic Ink

    Creator:
    Clay, Garrett
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    Inkjet printing offers a cost effective, highly customizable method for rapid manufacturing of functional devices with minimal material waste. Although this method has been used for a variety of composites, little work has been done in the area of 3D printing magnetic composites. Presented here is a process for inkjet...
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    . . . . . . . . . . 33 4.5 In the alignment time experiment, the aligning field was applied for X ms before the

  • Methodology for evaluating mechanical power in small-scale WEC experiments

    Creator:
    Simmons, Asher
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    Wave energy converters (WECs) are a broad class of emerging technology that converts hydrokinetic energy into some other useful form, such as electricity. The last stage in this transformation, the power take-off (PTO) subsystem, is often not experimentally evaluated until half-way through the recommended development process. This delay in evaluation...
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    Dissertation
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    1, 2017. Title: Methodology for Evaluating Mechanical Power in Small-Scale WEC Experiments

  • Garbage in, garbage out? An empirical look at oracle mistakes by end-user programmers

    Creator:
    Phalgune, Amit
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    End-user programmers, because they are human, make mistakes. However, past research has not considered how visual end-user debugging devices could be designed to ameliorate the effects of mistakes. This paper empirically examines oracle mistakes mistakes users make about which values are right and which are wrong to reveal differences in...
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    experiment with their software and see how the results work out after each change; an example of this in

  • Interactive fault localization techniques to empower the debugging efforts of end-user programmers

    Creator:
    Ruthruff, Joseph Ronald
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    End users develop more software than any other group of programmers, using software authoring devices such as e-mail filtering editors, by-demonstration macro builders, and spreadsheet environments. Despite this, there has been only a little research on finding ways to help these programmers with the dependability of the software they create....
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    Prabhakararao performed a majority of the data analysis in this work’s first experiment, and was assisted by

  • CMOS-Integrated Single-Element Thermal Flow Sensors

    Creator:
    Clocker, Kyle
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    Flow rate sensors for in situ gas or liquid monitoring typically comprise multiple transducer elements, including a heater and one or more temperature sensors to measure the rate of heat energy removal by the flowing fluid. The need for multiple transducer elements limits feasibility of shrinking these sensors to microfluidic...
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    temperature-induced impedance change in a fluid. The theory behind this sensor is that fluids in the body

  • Supporting end-user debugging

    Creator:
    Kissinger, Cory
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    Although researchers have begun to explicitly support end-user programmers’ debugging by providing information to help them find bugs, there is little research addressing the right content to communicate to these users. The specific semantic content of these debugging communications matters because, if the users are not actually seeking the information...
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    Environment The debugging features that were present in this experiment were a subset of WYSIWYT (“What

  • Explaining debugging strategies to end-user programmers

    Creator:
    Subrahmaniyan, Neeraja
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    There has been little research into how end-user programming environments can provide explanations that could fill a critical information gap for end-user debuggers – help with debugging strategy. To address this need, we designed and prototyped a video-based approach for explaining debugging strategy, and accompanied it with a text-only approach....
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    AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF Neeraja Subrahmaniyan for the degree of Master of Science in