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  • Human Performance with Multiple UAV Systems: Use Cases and Modeling

    Creator:
    Uriarte, Patrick A.
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    Commercial and public safety usage of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles in the National Airspace is currently restricted by federal regulation. The Federal Aeronautics Association is interested in modifying the restrictions; however, research is needed to study the human factor and required aptitude for a single human operating multiple UAVs. This Master’s...
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    aptitude for a single human operating multiple UAVs. This Master’s Project report documents my

  • Planning Under Uncertainty for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles

    Creator:
    Skeele, Ryan
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    Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) technology has grown out of traditional research and military applications and has captivated the commercial and consumer markets, showing the ability to perform a spectrum of autonomous functions. This technology has the capability of saving lives in search and rescue, fighting wildfires in environmental monitoring, and...
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    with communication loss and still report improved gains. We demonstrate this work with a pair of

  • Modeling Student Engagement in Online Learning Environments Using Real-Time Biometric Measures : Electroencephalography (EEG) and Eye-Tracking

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    Elatlassi, Rime
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    Online learning, also known as e-learning, has become an increasingly popular and important component of higher education. Current literature indicates that higher education institutions rely on online learning to meet instructional loads and mitigate increasingly complex course scheduling problems. Students also find it more convenient to finish their college curricula...
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    the absence of a clear definition of what student engagement exactly means, there is also no clear

  • Microchannel extraction of Te⁴⁺ from a stream of CdTe via MIBK in supported liquid membrane

    Creator:
    Liburdy, Heather Johnson
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    A new technique is developed to recover elemental tellurium (Te) from cadmium telluride (CdTe) which is abundantly available in photovoltaic semiconductor waste. The method is based on microchannel fluid flow with the use of a supported liquid membrane (SLM) between the donor (feed) and acceptor (strip) channels. A predictive theoretical...
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    ). Distribution constant, (no units), (Eq. 3.8). Pea Peclet number based on channel dimension a. (Pea=auo/DF=Sc

  • Care Team Burnout: Predictors and Potential Intervention

    Creator:
    Alshaiji, Rawan A M A J
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    Burnout is a state of physical or emotional exhaustion and disconnectedness induced by continuous stress that affects various aspects of an individual’s life. Physicians experience burnout at a higher rate than other professions due to the highly stressful nature of their work. Consequently, physicians are at a higher risk of...
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    exhibit a reflective approach towards obstacles in the workplace report lower rates of burnout

  • Integrative Review of Methods for Cognitive Debiasing and Applications in Design

    Creator:
    Han, Yu L.
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    Design is a process of decision making. Organizations that are dedicated to systematic support of the design process tend to have higher profit margins. Further, studies of system development have shown that early-stage design mistakes have a large impact on incurred costs. Therefore, it is critical to identify methods to...
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    document and report taxonomies of bias,  The second objective is to provide a review of methods for

  • Advancing forced draft biomass cookstove technology with computational fluid dynamics modeling

    Creator:
    Cassidy, Liam J
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    Today, billions of people are limited to using biomass-fueled traditional fires as a primary energy source for cooking and purification of drinking water. Reliance on open burning of biomass leads to exposure to high levels of household air pollution which has been estimated to claim over 1.5 million lives annually,...
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    domain is computationally expensive. The use of a two-dimensional domain assumes that there is no

  • Real-Time Estimation and Prediction of Wave Excitation Forces for Wave Energy Control Applications

    Creator:
    Ling, Bradley A.
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    Wave energy is emerging as a new potential source for renewable energy generation. However, wave energy technology is not currently cost competitive with other more mature renewable energy sources such as wind and solar. One approach that researchers and developers are taking to reduce the cost of wave energy is...
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    a linear autoregression model, with no significant performance difference shown between the two

  • Artificial Swarm Control Through Learning Based Leadership

    Creator:
    Tuzel, Ovunc
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    Collective migration in animal groups is often guided by distributed leader agents that influence their peers by modulating their motion behaviors. Distributed leadership is a promising navigation strategy for artificial swarms, but designing the leaders’ controllers is difficult due to the swarm’s collective emergent behaviors. The presented research formulates a...
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    herd into multiple groups. Kilgour and Scott [19] also report that leadership in cows is not a result

  • Characterization of flow boiling in a fractal–like branching microchannel network

    Creator:
    Edward, Lee M.
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    Based on experimental investigations the present study evaluates flow instability and void fraction in a fractal-like branching microchannel network with rectangular cross-section. The hydraulic diameter of the channels ranged from 308μm at the inlet to 143μm at the outlet. The flow network used is characterized by set branching ratios for...
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    documenting the typical behavior of a stable expansion of vapor slugs down the upstream K4 location with no