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Title: BROAD AND NARROW PERSONALITY TRAITS AS PREDICTORS OF RISKY DRIVING BEHAVIORS
Creator: Watson, Jeremy Beau
Date: 2011-04-05, 2011-05
Description: The accurate prediction of risky driving behaviors or possible accident and injury involvement contains several benefits as even minor...
Show moreThe accurate prediction of risky driving behaviors or possible accident and injury involvement contains several benefits as even minor increases in detection may result in possible avoidance of accidents and loss of life. This study examined the relationship between both broad and narrow personality traits and risky driving behaviors and the role of the bandwidth-fidelity dilemma. Based on archival data, 680 adults from a community sample in the Pacific Northwest completed the 16 Personality Factor Questionnaire (16PF) and a daily behavior inventory of act frequencies. Results indicated that broad and narrow personality traits are equally predictive of risky driving behaviors, but there are some appreciable differences at the primary factor level. Previous research, implications, and limitations to this study are also discussed.
M.S. in Psychology, May 2011
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Title: Jet Impingement Tone Suppression Using Powered Resonance Tubes
Creator: Sarpotdar, Shekhar, Raman, Ganesh, Sharma, S. D., Cain, Alan B.
Date: 2007-05
Publisher: American Inst Aeronaut Astronaut
Description: This work is an experimental study of high subsonic jet impingement tone suppression. We begin by documenting the characteristics of the...
Show moreThis work is an experimental study of high subsonic jet impingement tone suppression. We begin by documenting the characteristics of the impingement tone for various Mach numbers and standoff (nozzle exit to ground plate) distances. The results revealed frequency staging and the presence of two types of impingement tones. A novel feature of our work is the use of four miniature high-frequency actuators known as powered resonance tubes that were located circumferentially around the main jet nozzle. The powered resonance tubes were capable of producing high amplitude acoustic excitation over a range of frequencies, up to 17.5 kHz. Our target excitation frequency range was about 3-5 times that of the natural flow instability. Using high-frequency excitation, tonal suppression levels as high as 20 dB and broadband suppression levels as high as 5-10 dB were obtained. The mass addition rate from the powered resonance tubes was of the order of 2% of the mass flow rate from the main jet. Mass flow reductions could be obtained under conditions when the powered resonance tube resonated strongly. Our results suggest that appropriately designed miniature powered resonance tube actuators have potential for use in flow control applications.
http://dx.doi.org/10.2514/1.15818
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Title: Impacts of Sulfur Capture Technology in Coal Power Plants (sequence unknown), IPRO 302 - Deliverables: IPRO 302 Brochure F09
Creator: Contreras, Abraham, Dickman, Justin, Enadeghe, Gregory, Garcia Rodriguez, Hector, Haddad, Michael, Kyle, Ryan, Mongillo, Michael, Murphy, Ryan, Shonubi, Oluwaseun, Swillum, Bryce, Wolber, Brian, Worthon, Terrika
Date: 2009-12
Description: The IPRO team was investigating the net impact of sulfur capture technologies used in current and next generation power plants in the United...
Show moreThe IPRO team was investigating the net impact of sulfur capture technologies used in current and next generation power plants in the United States. It planned to use this knowledge to determine which sulfur capture technologies produce the greatest benefit for industry and society and to find the marketability of the sulfur byproducts created in these power plants.
Sponsorship: Sargent & Lundy, LLC
These are the deliverables for IPRO 302: Impacts of Sulfur Capture Technology in Coal Power Plants from the Fall 2009 semester.
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Title: Measurement of the charged kaon correlations at small relative momentum in the SELEX experiment, Proceedings of the XLIII International Symposium on Multiparticle Dynamics
Creator: Nigmatkulov, Grigory
Date: 2013-09-15, 2013-09-15
Publisher: IIT Press
Description: We report the first measurement of charged kaon Bose–Einstein correlations produced by 600 GeV/c Σ−, π− and 540 GeV/c p beams in the SELEX...
Show moreWe report the first measurement of charged kaon Bose–Einstein correlations produced by 600 GeV/c Σ−, π− and 540 GeV/c p beams in the SELEX experiment. The SELEX (E781) experiment at Fermilab is a fixed target three–stage magnetic spectrometer designed for study hadroproduction at high acceptance for forward interactions (xF ≥ 0.1). One–dimensional charged kaon correlation functions were obtained for all three beams and three pair transverse momentum ranges. The femtoscopic parameters for the radii and correlation strength of the kaon source were extracted. The fit results show the decrease of the emission source radii with the increase of the pair transverse momentum.
Sponsorship: IIT College of Science, High Energy Physics Division of Argonne National Laboratory
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Title: SOCIAL FUNCTIONING AND CORE SYMPTOMATOLOGY AS PREDICTORS OF RESPONSE TO A SUMMER TREATMENT PROGRAM FOR YOUTH WITH COMBINED TYPE ATTENTION DEFICIT HYPERACTIVITY DISORDER
Creator: Uribe, Roberto Alejandro
Date: 2015, 2015-12
Description: The study was a retrospective repeated measures analysis of 108 youth (age 6-12) who took part in the 2008-2012 Camp STAR (Summer Treatment...
Show moreThe study was a retrospective repeated measures analysis of 108 youth (age 6-12) who took part in the 2008-2012 Camp STAR (Summer Treatment Program for ADHD and Related Disorders) Summer Treatment Program. Developed by William E. Pelham in 1980, the Summer Treatment Program (STP) is an intensive psychosocial intervention delivered to children ages 6-12 in natural settings through the medium of summer camp. A recognized evidence base for the STP has steadily developed and evolved leading to improved stabilization of ADHD associated issues and treatment satisfaction. The following investigation sought to address questions about the efficacy of the STP with respect to predicting treatment responses for a subgroup of ADHD youth presenting with complex clinical presentations of combined type ADHD. The study built on prior evaluations of predictor importance by utilizing socio-emotional measures from the daily behavioral data of the STP, as well as more typically used ADHD dimensional symptom severity measures to inform treatment fit. As anticipated, because the heterogeneity of the disorder suggests that response to treatment is multifaceted, no combination of predictor variables produced a regression equation model that significantly explained variance across all of the treatment outcome variables. After controlling for concurrent pharmacotherapy and age, the combined effects of pretreatment core ADHD symptom severity and social functioning measures were found to significantly explain variance in a criterion variable corresponding with camp objectives (e.g., developing social competencies and coping skills, decreased functioning; Overall STP Improvement Index), as well as positive and negative socio-emotional behaviors measured directly by the STP Point System at the end of the camp. Change in R2 statistics confirmed the study hypothesis in which, the pretreatment socio-emotional factor sets significantly improved the prediction of multiple treatment outcomes over and above DSM-IV ADHD symptom dimensions and control variables. Ten percent of unique variance when predicting informant ratings of improvement made while at camp, 4% unique variance when predicting positive social behavior at the conclusion of Camp STAR, and 2% unique variance when predicting negative social behavior at the conclusion of Camp STAR were among the results. Observed negative behaviors at baseline demonstrated predictive utility whereas results pertaining to hyperactivity/impulsivity and inattention symptom dimensions did not significantly influence behavior, and subsequently, revealed little about the observed variation in outcomes in this particular dataset. While each of the core DSM-IV symptom dimensions are known to be differently associated with a variety of domain specific impairments in the general population (Lahey, & Willcutt, 2010), the results from this study suggest that with ADHD subgroups featuring severe symptom and impairment profiles, the core symptom dimensions did not appear to be as differentially associated with functional impairment. In cases of severe combined type ADHD, decisions about treatment fit should be based more on the socio-emotional impact of symptoms rather than their mere presence. The findings underscore the value in identifying socio-emotional impairments for individuals diagnosed with severe and complicated ADHD as early as possible and to intervene with intensive modalities specifically aimed at developing skills and cognitive faculties that enhance abilities to maintain healthy relationships.
Ph.D. in Psychology, December 2015
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Title: LOW POWER METHODOLOGIES USING UNIFIED POWER FORMAT
Creator: Varsha
Date: 2012-11-14, 2012-12
Description: This thesis would be incomplete without the mention of people who made it possible and encouraged me at every step along the way. I would like...
Show moreThis thesis would be incomplete without the mention of people who made it possible and encouraged me at every step along the way. I would like to thank Spenser for helping me with the scripts, design of the architectures and always being ready to assist timely with so many issues. My immense gratitude goes to my advisor and mentor Dr. Erdal Oruklu, who pushed me at every step to achieve my best, drove me to explore new avenues, think new ideas and rethink old ones. I am truly thankful to him for his guidance, believing in me and giving me this opportunity to work under him. Thanks to my committee members Dr. Jafar Saniie and Dr. Tricha Anjali for their insights and suggestions. My heartfelt thanks goes to Hirva, Sneha, Pavan, Sagar, Mateen, Pooja and Neha for their continued support and encouragement throughout. Special thanks to Pavan and Sagar for assisting with the architectures and Mateen for helping with the documentation. Thanks to Krishna for being the go-to person for LATEX issues and always being there to help. Thanks to Santhosh and innumerous friends and acquaintances who helped unconditionally in so many ways. My family has been instrumental in the execution of my thesis. Thanks to my sister for inspiriting me, my brother-in-law for his endless encouragement and advice, their continued support along with my uncle, and my family for standing by me. Finally, this thesis is dedicated to my parents, for never giving up on me, believing in me and letting me pursue my dreams.
M.S. in Electrical Engineering, December 2012
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Title: Factors Affecting Sanitizer Efficacy on Preventing Cross-Contamination of E. Coli 0157:H7 During Postharvest Washing of Romaine Lettuce
Creator: Li, Yichen
Date: 2011-12-05, 2011-12
Description: Outbreaks of E. coli O157:H7 infections have been a continuing food safety challenge for the produce industry. Previous studies showed that...
Show moreOutbreaks of E. coli O157:H7 infections have been a continuing food safety challenge for the produce industry. Previous studies showed that contamination that originated in the farm can spread during postharvest processing. The objective of this study was to examine the spread of E. coli O157:H7 during postharvest washing of contaminated lettuce and to determine factors affecting the efficacy of sanitizer use in preventing cross-contamination. A bench-scale washing system was established to simulate industry operations. This system was equipped with a submersible pump and instruments to measure wash water properties including pH, temperature, chlorine level, oxidation reduction potential (ORP), turbidity and total organic carbon (TOC). Fresh-cut romaine lettuce (8 or 20 g) inoculated with approximately 8 log CFU/ml of E. coli O157:H7 with green fluorescence protein (GFP) were added into 40 L of tap water or industry water together with uninoculated lettuce (800 or 2000 g). The wash procedure lasted for 2 minutes. Washing operations were performed at two temperatures (3°C and 20°C) combined with different levels of chlorine treatments (0, 5, 20 and 30 ppm). Smaller-scale (50 – 100 mL) washing experiments were performed separately to determine the effects of organic contents and solid contents on the efficacy of sanitizer. Without chlorine treatment, the spread of E. coli O157:H7 occurred in both tap water and industry water at both 20°C and 3°C. With 20 ppm chlorine, no E. coli O157:H7 was detected in either wash water or uninoculated lettuce after washing in tap water. In industry water, chlorine level at 30 ppm or above could prevent crosscontamination of E. coli O157:H7. Neither the lettuce load nor the wash water temperature was proved to affect the efficacy of sanitizer. At 5 ppm of chlorine, increases in organic carbon (0% to 20%) led to the drop of free chlorine which resulted in a decrease in the microbial reduction from 2.51 to 0.01 log CFU/g. Increases in solid contents (0 g/L to 20 g/L) also caused a decrease in the microbial reduction from 2.52 to 1.17 log CFU/g but it did not change the free chlorine concentration. The utility of ORP as a measure of the antimicrobial efficiency of wash water was evaluated. ORP readings increased with increasing chlorine levels but reached a plateau and failed to correlate with the concentration of chlorine at chlorine levels > 20 ppm.
M.S. in Food Safety and Technology, December 2011
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Title: REAL-TIME FACEDETECTION ANDRECOGNITION SYSTEM INCOMPLEX BACKGROUNDS
Creator: Zhang, Xin
Date: 2015, 2015-07
Description: This report provides a fast and reliable system for real-time face detection and recognition in complex backgrounds. Most current face...
Show moreThis report provides a fast and reliable system for real-time face detection and recognition in complex backgrounds. Most current face recognition systems identify faces under constrained conditions, such as constant lighting condition, the same background. In the real world, people need to be recognized in complex backgrounds under different conditions, such as tilted head poses, various facial expressions, dark or strong lighting conditions. Meanwhile, because of large amounts of real-time applications for face recognition, such as intelligent robot, unmanned vehicle, security monitor, the fast face recognition rate needs to be satisfied for the real-time requirement. In this project, a fast and reliable system is designed to real-time detect and recognize faces under various conditions. Frames are obtained directly from VGA camera. Image preprocessing and face detection, collection, recognition are sequentially implemented on the frames. Local binary patterns and Haar features are used for face detection and eye detection. Local binary pattern encodes every pixel of the image for texture extraction, which is several times faster than Haar feature detection. Adaptive boosting algorithm is used for selecting the best weak classifiers and cascading method divides the extracted best classifiers into several stages to enhance detection rate. Affine transformation is implemented to unify the size of detected facial images and align two eyes to the desired position for improving recognition accuracy. 3􀁵3 Gaussian filter is designed to remove noises of the pre-processed facial images. Principal component analysis (PCA) is used for face recognition, which is fast to identify high-dimensional faces with few principal components.
M.S. in Electrical Engineering, July 2015
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Title: The structural design of a three-story reinforced concrete cold storage building
Creator: Wamsley, Gage R
Date: 2009, 1920
Publisher: Armour Institute of Technology
Description: http://www.archive.org/details/structuraldesign00wams
Thesis (B.S.)--Armour Institute of Technology;Includes folded leaves in back pocket

Title: Improving Food Processing with Process Mapping Techniques (sequence unknown), IPRO 345 - Project Plan: IPRO 345 Project Plan F09_redacted
Creator: Alemayehu, Matti, Amegasse, Pierre-paul, Hogan, Michael, Isoda, Mitchell, Li, Cheng, Mick, Emily, Torres, Edgar
Date: 2009-12
Description: Land O'Frost is a third generation privately held food processing company providing sliced lunch meat products to the North American...
Show moreLand O'Frost is a third generation privately held food processing company providing sliced lunch meat products to the North American marketplace. This IPRO team will study the Formulation process, identifying all inputs, mapping the production process, observing activities and working to identify improvements. The IPRO team will develop a process map of the company’s formulation function, noting inputs, outputs, assets and process parameters.
Sponsorship: Land O'Frost
Project Plan for IPRO 345: Improving Food Processing with Process Mapping Techniques for the fall 2009 semester
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Title: ENHANCED MIXING OF MULTIPLE SUPERSONIC RECTANGULAR JETS BY SYNCHRONIZED SCREECH
Creator: Taghavi, R, Raman, G
Date: 1994-12
Publisher: AMER INST AERONAUT ASTRONAUT

Title: PA 508 Student Computer Usage Survey
Creator: Ahrens, Aric G.
Date: 2010-01-19, 2010-01-19
Description: Included are a survey, and the results in graphic form. The survey was designed to find out how and where the Chinese contingent of Master of...
Show moreIncluded are a survey, and the results in graphic form. The survey was designed to find out how and where the Chinese contingent of Master of Public Administration students used computers. The focus was to determine whether they preferred to use computers on the Downtown Campus, where classes were taught, or on Main Campus, where most of the students lived.
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Title: Waterproofing of concrete by addition of commerical compounds
Creator: Hills, G. B, Cleaver, J. G, Schmidt, Fred
Date: 2009, 1911
Publisher: Armour Institute of Technology
Description: http://www.archive.org/details/waterproofingofc00hill
Thesis (B.S.)--Armour Institute of Technology, 1911 B.S. in Civil Engineering, 1911

Title: FUNCTION APPROXIMATION WITH KERNEL METHODS
Creator: Zhou, Xuan
Date: 2015, 2015-12
Description: This dissertation studies the problem of approximating functions of d variables in a separable Banach space Fd. In particular we are...
Show moreThis dissertation studies the problem of approximating functions of d variables in a separable Banach space Fd. In particular we are interested in convergence and tractability results in the worst case setting and in the average case setting. The symmetric positive definite kernel in both settings is of a product form Kd(x, t) := d =1 1 − α2 + α2 Kγ (x , t ) for all x, t ∈ Rd. The kernel Kd generalizes the anisotropic Gaussian kernel, whose tractability properties have been established in the literature. For a fixed d, we study rates of convergence, which indicate how quickly approximation errors decay. Since rates of convergence can deteriorate quickly as d increases, it is desirable to have dimension-independent convergence rates, which corresponds to the concept of strong polynomial tractability. We present sufficient conditions on {α }∞ =1 and {γ }∞ =1 under which strong polynomial tractability holds for function approximation problems in Fd. Numerical examples are presented to support the theory and guaranteed automatic algorithms are provided to solve the function approximation problem in a straightforward and efficient way. viii
Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics, December 2015
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Title: Developing a Collaborative On-line Student Research Forum (sequence unknown), IPRO 321 - Deliverables: IPRO 321 Project Plan F09
Creator: Abhay, Anandha, Cornelius, Zachary, Corsus, Tom, De Courten-myers, Maximilian, Eberlin, Adam, Kapaldo, James, Nicholson, Bethany, Sizyuk, Yuriy, Sundberg, Stephen
Date: 2009-12
Description: ResearchWeb is meant to broaden IIT undergraduate participation beyond the existing mechanisms such as fellowships, research and reading...
Show moreResearchWeb is meant to broaden IIT undergraduate participation beyond the existing mechanisms such as fellowships, research and reading courses, and departmental projects. There is also the possibility of broadening this program to other scholarly individuals outside of the IIT undergraduate community. These individuals include IIT graduate students, students from other universities, and promising high school students. ResearchWeb is also meant to improve the transition, and perhaps promote if need be, the transition from undergraduate education to graduate education. This would be fulfilled through practical research experience.
Deliverables for IPRO 321:Developing a Collaborative On-line Student Research Forum for Fall 2009
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Title: Developing a Collaborative On-line Student Research Forum (sequence unknown), IPRO 321 - Deliverables: IPRO 321 Poster F09
Creator: Abhay, Anandha, Cornelius, Zachary, Corsus, Tom, De Courten-myers, Maximilian, Eberlin, Adam, Kapaldo, James, Nicholson, Bethany, Sizyuk, Yuriy, Sundberg, Stephen
Date: 2009-12
Description: ResearchWeb is meant to broaden IIT undergraduate participation beyond the existing mechanisms such as fellowships, research and reading...
Show moreResearchWeb is meant to broaden IIT undergraduate participation beyond the existing mechanisms such as fellowships, research and reading courses, and departmental projects. There is also the possibility of broadening this program to other scholarly individuals outside of the IIT undergraduate community. These individuals include IIT graduate students, students from other universities, and promising high school students. ResearchWeb is also meant to improve the transition, and perhaps promote if need be, the transition from undergraduate education to graduate education. This would be fulfilled through practical research experience.
Deliverables for IPRO 321:Developing a Collaborative On-line Student Research Forum for Fall 2009
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Title: COMPLETE PLASTID GENOME OF THE HEMIPARASITIC PLANT PEDICULARIS REX
Creator: Yang, Jingyi
Date: 2015, 2015-07
Description: Pedicularis rex is a hemiparasitic plant from the Orobanchaceae family. Hemiparasites, also called semiparasites, are partly dependent on...
Show morePedicularis rex is a hemiparasitic plant from the Orobanchaceae family. Hemiparasites, also called semiparasites, are partly dependent on their host and, while they steal nutrients and other metabolites like other parasites, they have retained their photosynthesis ability. To better understand the hemiparasitic lifestyle of Pedicularis rex and what remains of its photosynthetic capability, we have determined the complete sequence of its plastid chromosome. The chloroplast genome of Pedicularis rex is 153,650 base pairs-long and exhibits a typical quadripartite structure with a large single copy (LSC) region and a small single copy (SSC) region separated by two inverted repeats (IR). A total of 79 unique protein-coding genes, including 9 pseudogenes, 30 tRNA- and 4 rRNA-encoding genes were retained in the plastid genome. Compared to the plastome of its close non-parasitic relative Lindenbergia philippensis, only one protein-coding gene and one intron are missing from P. rex but many genes show signs of pseudogenization. Pseudogenization in the P. rex plastid genome was found to be mainly caused by single site insertions, deletions or substitutions. The overall high level of homology between the P. rex and L. philippensis plastomes may explain why P. rex shows weak host dependence. However, how P. rex maintains its photosynthetic capability despite featuring a number of potentially dysfunctional pseudogenes involved in photosynthesis is unclear, and the minimal set of genes that is required for hemiparasitic plants to keep their autotrophic lifestyle is still unknown.
M.S. in Biology, July 2015
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Title: Planning for Human Implantation of a Cortical Visual Prosthesis (sequence unknown), IPRO 334 - Deliverables: IPRO 334 Poster F09
Creator: Bern, David, Chen, Shanyl, Deroo, Mary, Gorski, David, Kelly, Thomas, Leasenby, Alex, Li, Zhi, Pyrkh, Hanna, Subhani, Maham, Taneja, Aanchal
Date: 2009-12
Description: The Intracortical Visual Prosthesis is based upon that concept that by implanting a large number of subminiature electrodes within the human...
Show moreThe Intracortical Visual Prosthesis is based upon that concept that by implanting a large number of subminiature electrodes within the human visual cortex, coordinated temporal-spatial image information can be artificially communicated to the human visual cortex in the form of electrical currents, acting as a sensory substitute for normal vision.
Sponsorship: IIT Laboratory of Neural Prosthetic Research
Deliverables for IPRO 334: Planning for Human Implantation of a Cortical Visual Prosthesis for the fall 2009 semester
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Title: A study of the effect of temperature and pressure on the carbonation of water
Creator: Marx, Walter L
Date: 2009, 1916
Publisher: Armour Institute of Technology
Description: http://www.archive.org/details/studyofeffectoft00marx
Thesis (B.S.)--Armour Institute of Technology, 1916 Bibliography: leaf 40 B.S. in...
Show morehttp://www.archive.org/details/studyofeffectoft00marx
Thesis (B.S.)--Armour Institute of Technology, 1916 Bibliography: leaf 40 B.S. in Chemical Engineering, 1916
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Title: Using Assessment Data to Improve Library Services : presented at ILA 2007 conference: Using LibQUAL and Developing a Culture of Assessment in Lib..
Creator: Stewart, Christopher, Uth, Charles
Date: 2007-10
Description: IIT Libraries conducted LibQUAL+ service quality assessment in 2004 and 2006. This presentation will outline strategies we undertook to...
Show moreIIT Libraries conducted LibQUAL+ service quality assessment in 2004 and 2006. This presentation will outline strategies we undertook to address issues identified in the 2004 assessment, and evaluate their success based on assessment results in 2006. We will also discuss the importance of measuring academic library effectiveness in higher education’s emerging outcomes-based culture.
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