The objective of these studies was to develop an
analog from surimi that would resemble abalone.
Preliminary studies involved the standardization of batter
preparation conditions, such as pH adjustment, optimum
moisture content and batter mixing time. The texture of a
gelled analog prepared with different protein adjuncts
egg white, gluten...
The optimal allocation of buffers in serial production systems is one of the oldest and most researched problems in Industrial Engineering. In general, there are three main approaches to the buffer allocation problem when the objective is to maximize throughput. The first is basically a systematic trial and error procedure...
When a single object is captured by multiple edge devices, the data captured by every edge device could contain both public and private information. The private information in every copy of the data captured has to be preserved while the public information has to be utilized for any further machine...
The variability introduced into measurements by a measuring instrument is referred to as measurement instrument precision. Experimental procedures and analysis methods exist when measurements are repeatable and can be repeated on the same item. However, when the measurements are destructive and repeated measurements are not possible, estimating measuring instrument precision...
Both transportation costs and market values of woody biomass are strongly linked to the amount of moisture in the woody biomass. Therefore, managing moisture in the woody biomass well can lead to significant advantages in the woody biomass energy business. In this study, two prediction models were developed to estimate...
This Thesis aims to determine whether we can improve the accuracy, resolution, and speed of calculations for common power system problems using simple computational models that scale well to machine learning and high performance computing solutions. The second chapter of this Thesis implements more precise aging and degradation models for...
Work on individually constructed devices has demonstrated that nanowires (NWs) offer great promise for applications such as sensing and optoelectronics. Despite this work, reliable large scale alignment and integration of these individual nanostructures into a lithographically defined process remains a challenge.
Dielectrophoresis (DEP) is a promising alignment method in which...
The high level of parallelism in throughput processors such as GPGPUs has resulted in significantly changed on-chip data traffic behaviors. This demands new research to identify and address the limiting factors of networks-on-chip (NoCs) in the context of throughput processors. In this work, we first quantitatively analyze the performance of...
Thin-film transistors (TFTs) are primarily used as a switching element in liquid crystal
displays. Currently, amorphous silicon is the dominant TFT technology for displays, but
higher performance TFTs will become necessary to enable ultra-definition resolution
high-frequency large-area displays. Amorphous zinc tin oxide (ZTO) TFTs were
fabricated by RF magnetron sputter...