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Title: Industrial illumination
Creator: Arenberg, Albert Lee
Date: 2009, 1917
Publisher: Armour Institute of Technology
Description: http://www.archive.org/details/industrialillumi00aren
Thesis (B.S.)--Armour Institute of Technology, 1917 B.S. in Electrical Engineering, 1917

Title: SCALABLE INDEXING AND SEARCHING ON DISTRIBUTED FILE SYSTEMS
Creator: Ijagbone, Itua
Date: 2016, 2016-05
Description: Scientific applications and other High Performance applications generate large amounts of data. It’s said that unstructured data comprises...
Show moreScientific applications and other High Performance applications generate large amounts of data. It’s said that unstructured data comprises more than 90% of the world’s information [IDC2011], and it’s growing 60% annually [Grantz2008]. The large amounts of data generated from computation leads to data been dispersed over the file system. Problems begin to exist when we need to locate these files for later use. For small amount of files this might not be an issue but as the number of files begin to grow as well as the increase in size of these files, it becomes difficult locating these files on the file system using ordinary methods like GNU Grep [8], which is commonly used in High Performance Computing and Many-Task Computing environments. It is as a result of this problem that we have chosen this thesis to tackle the problem of finding files in a distributed system environment. Our work leverages the FusionFS [1] distributed file system and the Apache Lucene [10] centralized indexing engine as a fundamental building block. We designed and implemented a distributed search interface within the FusionFS file system that makes both indexing and searching the index across a distributed system simple. We have evaluated our system up to 64 nodes, compared it with Grep, Hadoop, and Cloudera, and have shown that FusionFS’s indexing capabilities have lower overheads and faster response times.
M.S. in Computer Science, May 2016
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Title: INACTIVATION OF MURINE NOROVIRUS AND MS2 COLIPHAGE DURING FREEZE-DRY DEHYDRATION OF CONTAMINATED STRAWBERRIES
Creator: Wang, Xueyan
Date: 2013, 2013-07
Description: Human norovirus (HuNoV) is the major causative agent of foodborne acute gastroenteritis in the US and worldwide. A 2012 norovirus outbreak...
Show moreHuman norovirus (HuNoV) is the major causative agent of foodborne acute gastroenteritis in the US and worldwide. A 2012 norovirus outbreak that was associated with frozen strawberries has led to more than 11,000 illnesses in Germany. Freezedrying, a common process used to preserve berries, has been questioned for its effectiveness of norovirus inactivation. In our study, the survival of MS2 coliphage and murine norovirus-1 (MNV-1), surrogates of HuNoV, on inoculated strawberries were evaluated during a 24hr freeze-dry dehydration process with and without radiant heat. Fresh strawberries were 7 mm-thickness sliced, virus-inoculated, 1hr frozen, and 24hr freeze-dried. Freeze-drying of inoculated berries with the temperature ranging from 0 to 40°C was studied with continuous recording of the temperatures once every 20 min. Infectious MNV-1 was quantified using a Raw 264.7 cell culture plaque assay. The quantification of MS2 was conducted using a double agar plaque assay. The average recovery of MS2 coliphage from berry slices by an elution protocol developed in the study was 97% ± 27% based on the inoculum as 100%. Only 57% ± 11% of MNV was recovered from berry slices using the identical elution protocol. Approximately half of the recoverable population (either MS2 or MNV-1) became undetectable after 24hr cold storage, the final average recovery being 46% and 29% for MS2 and MNV-1 respectively. Radiant heat was found to accelerate the reduction of MS2 up to 2.56 logs reduction per sample in the process. The overall reduction of MS2 was about 3 logs as maximum after 24hr freeze-drying. Regression analysis illustrated a significant correlation between MS2 log reduction and radiant heat applied. The x regression formula suggested that an increase of one degree Celsius in radiant heat during the 24hr freeze-drying would increase the log reduction of MS2 on berries by 0.044 log. The reductions of MNV on berries after the 24hr freeze-drying ranged from 0.85 to 1.82 logs. Via ANOVA analysis, MNV reduction on berries with radiant heat ≥20°C was significantly greater than heating at 10°C or without heat (~0°C), p<0.05. The overall maximum reduction of MNV on berries after the 24hr-process, therefore, was >2 logs. Although radiant heat inactivated MNV during the freeze-drying process, the inactivation of MNV by heat was less efficient than that of MS2. These data may be helpful in designing processes to control viral contaminants during freeze-drying of virus-contaminated berries.
M.S. in Food Safety and Technology, July 2013
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Title: Improvement of Sheridan road in Glencoe
Creator: Walther, Ralph A., Dawson, M., Sturtevant, R. W.
Date: 2009, 1909
Publisher: Armour Institute of Technology
Description: http://www.archive.org/details/improvementofshe00walt
Thesis (B.S.)--Armour Institute of Technology

Title: FATIGUE, FRACTURE, AND CRACK GROWTH BEHAVIOR OF FIVE CANDIDATE STEELS FOR WIND TOWER APPLICATION
Creator: Tsosie, Henrietta R.
Date: 2011-08, 2011-07
Description: Fatigue, fracture toughness, and crack propagation tests were performed on five candidate steels for wind tower applications. Normally, these...
Show moreFatigue, fracture toughness, and crack propagation tests were performed on five candidate steels for wind tower applications. Normally, these steels are ordered to meet ASTM A572/A709 Grade 50 or EN 10025-2 Grade S355 in the normalized condition. Five steels with varying carbon content and alloy additions focusing on niobium and vanadium content are investigated. Two of the five steels are in the normalized condition to check the EN 10025-2 requirement while the rest are in the as-rolled condition. Fatigue tests were performed to determine the endurance limit using a constant amplitude loading at a constant load ratio. Fracture toughness testing using the J􀀀 integral method was performed to determine the critical fracture energy, Jc. This value is then converted to the critical plain strain stress intensity factor if requirements are met. Three fracture toughness tests were performed for each material at room temperature using a C(T) specimen. Crack propagation tests were performed to determine the Paris constants using a contoured double cantilever beam specimen. The steels with niobium give better results in fatigue and displayed smaller grain diameters than the steels with vanadium. The fatigue results for the low carbon steel with niobium are comparable to another HPS steel. Overall, the low carbon steel with niobium provides better toughness, fatigue resistance, and weldability than the steels that are normalized to meet the EN 10025-2 requirement for wind tower plates.
M.S. in Materials Science and Engineering, July 2011
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Title: IMPLEMENTATION OF GENERAL-PURPOSE BENDERS DECOMPOSITION ALGORITHM IN MATLAB AND ITS APPLICATION TO POWER SYSTEM PLANNING
Creator: Shao, Hang
Date: 2013-04-29, 2013-05
Description: For most huge systems, planning is a very important step to adapt them for future excepted changes. Planning could figure out most of...
Show moreFor most huge systems, planning is a very important step to adapt them for future excepted changes. Planning could figure out most of potential problems and help people to make long-term decisions to get more secure and profitable. But huge system-planning problems would cost long time and lots of effort, we need some mathematic methods to simplify and solve the problems. Luckily, there comes Benders Decomposition. Benders Decomposition is a popular technique in solving certain classes of difficult problems such as stochastic programming problems, and mixed-integer nonlinear programming problems [1][2]. Then some software is needed to model basic template of Benders Decomposition algorithm with and for most engineers, MATLAB is one of the most popular software, which could solve engineering problems by matrixes. So the resultant model is solved numerically by the application of Benders Decomposition algorithm, whose implementation and development were executed using the software MATLAB. Even though the codes are for general system-planning problems, most of examples in this paper were power systems. But it does not mean it could only solve specifically, examples of power systems are popular and typical in Bender Decomposition problem solving. This paper describes the process of programming, such as basic mathematic method studying, specific models making, common models building, codes simplifying and examples testing with. At the end of it, conclusion was made about the performing of the code.
M.S. in Electrical Engineering, December 2012
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Title: Indirect illumination with nitrogen-filled lamps
Creator: Adamson, J. Priece, Borroughs, Walter L, Wright, Chester F
Date: 2009, 1915
Publisher: Armour Institute of Technology
Description: http://www.archive.org/details/indirectillumina00adam
Thesis (B.S.)--Armour Institute of Technology, 1915 B.S. in Electrical Engineering, 1915

Title: CHILD TEMPERAMENT AND PARENTING BEHAVIOR AT AGE 5: DO THEY PREDICT CHILD COPING AT AGE 6?
Creator: Hwang, Maria D’aniello
Date: 2014, 2014-07
Description: Coping has been shown to be related to many positive outcomes in children, including better psychological adjustment, positive social...
Show moreCoping has been shown to be related to many positive outcomes in children, including better psychological adjustment, positive social relationships and higher achievement. Additionally, coping abilities in childhood and adolescence can serve as risk or protective factors for psychopathology. Both parenting and child temperament have been shown to be related to child coping; however, these variables have never been examined simultaneously. The transition from kindergarten to grammar-school is considered to be important because children must learn to adjust to this critical, more structured environment. As a result, it is important to determine what factors contribute to adaptive coping at the time when children begin formal school. The aim of this study was to: (a) examine the relationship between child negative affect (NA), effortful control (EC), parenting variables (support/scaffolding, support/engagement, and hostility/coercion), and child coping; and (b) to determine if parenting moderates the effects of temperament on adaptive coping. Participants included 796 (391 males and 405 females) children and their primary caregivers. Children were assessed at ages 5 and 6 years. NA and EC were assessed by parent-report with the Child Behavior Questionnaire. EC also was assessed with an observer-rated task, Gift Delay, which measures the child’s ability to delay a prepotent response, and with two subtests from the NEPSY; Knock and Tap, and Statue. Parenting variables (support/engagement and hostility/coercion) were assessed by parent-report with the Parenting Behavior Inventory and through an observation task, which was assessed by a factor-analyzed composite of variables rated during the National Institute for Child Health and Human Development 3-Boxes Task (support/scaffolding). Coping adaptability was assessed using the Early Childhood Coping Puppet Interview. Results of hierarchical regression analyses indicated that NA, EC, support/scaffolding, support/engagement, and hostility/coercion were not related to child coping adaptability. There also was no evidence of moderation of the relationship between temperament and coping by parenting. Post hoc analyses indicated that for males, lower SES was related to more adaptive coping. Implications of these findings and suggestions for further research are discussed.
Ph.D. in Psychology, July 2014
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Title: Impounding dam and filtration plant
Creator: Nelson, Chas. J, Tompkins, G. Dwight
Date: 2009, 1907
Publisher: Armour Institute of Technology
Description: http://www.archive.org/details/impoundingdamfil00nels
Thesis (B.S.)--Armour Institute of Technology, 1907 B.S. in Civil Engineering, 1907

Title: AN EVALUATION OF THE FEASIBILITY OF AN ONLINE FAMILY-BASED INDICATED PREVENTION PROGRAM FOR ADOLESCENT EATING DISORDERS
Creator: Lebow, Jocelyn R.
Date: 2011-10, 2011-12
Description: Adolescent eating disorders are highly impairing class of mental illness, marked by chronicity and recurrence. Data indicate that early...
Show moreAdolescent eating disorders are highly impairing class of mental illness, marked by chronicity and recurrence. Data indicate that early intervention, before anorexia nervosa (AN) or bulimia nervosa (BN) symptoms become entrenched, leads to an increased likelihood of positive outcomes (Fisher, Schneider, Burns, Symons & Mandel 2001; Le Grange, Loeb, Van Orman & Jellar, 2004). As such, numerous prevention programs have been developed for adolescent eating disorders, with mixed success (Shaw, 2008, Stice, Shaw & Marti, 2007). Most recently, programs have utilized the technology of the Internet to make prevention and early intervention more accessible and cost effective for affected teens and families. The current study assessed the feasibility of an original Internet-based indicated prevention program for families of adolescents with subsyndromal eating disorders. The program was based on the empirically-supported Family Based Treatment (FBT) for adolescent AN and BN. Seven families (comprised of 7 caregivers and 7 adolescents with subthreshold levels of eating disorder symptoms) were enrolled in the study, and 4 families successfully completed all program requirements. Four separate aims were assessed including: evaluation of program acceptability, identification of recruitment and retention patterns, assessment of program compliance and dosage received, and analysis of preliminary outcomes. Results suggested that the program was acceptable to all participants, and that the program format and content were positively received. Preliminary outcome data was limited due to the small sample size, however, descriptive analyses showed that the program had a significant effect on the reduction of all cognitive and behavioral eating disorder symptoms, as well as on the reduction of adolescent depressive symptoms. Adolescent ix self esteem was not significantly impacted by program participation. Compliance results were less straightforward. Program adherence was mixed, and further investigation is needed to clarify patterns of compliance and retention. Finally, the recruitment strategies used were found to not be feasible. Despite a wide-ranging and multi-faceted recruitment strategy, rates were very slow. Further, a large percentage of interested potential participants had to be excluded, calling into question the appropriateness of the applicant pool that was accessed through the implemented program of recruitment. Implications of these findings, possible explanations and suggestions for future research are discussed.
Ph.D. in Psychology, December 2011
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Title: MEDIATORS FOR QUALITY OF LIFE IN SURVIVORS WITH BRAIN INJURY
Creator: Johnson, Kristina S.
Date: 2017, 2017-07
Description: Injury to the brain can range in cause, severity, and outcomes. Individuals with brain injury may experience both physical and cognitive...
Show moreInjury to the brain can range in cause, severity, and outcomes. Individuals with brain injury may experience both physical and cognitive impairments. Not only can a patient experience a wide range of symptoms, these symptoms also can vary drastically in severity. Research has shown that these symptoms play a role in a person’s quality of life following injury: the worse a person’s symptoms are, the lower they report their quality of life. However, recent research suggests that psychosocial factors may mediate the relationships between disability severity and quality of life across multiple rehabilitation populations. Two of the previously researched psychosocial constructs include social support and a sense of mastery over the disability or disease. The purpose of this study was to examine a structural model hypothesizing the mediating role of these two constructs on the relationship between symptom severity and quality of life among adults with brain injury. Participants in this study included 183 individuals with brain injury recruited through state brain injury organizations across the United States to participate in an online survey study. Using structural equation modeling (SEM), results demonstrated good model fit. (χ2(15, n = 183) = 13.68). Normed Bentler-Bonnet fit index (NFI) was .97; Goodness-of-Fit statistic (GFI) was .98; Adjusted-goodness-of-fit (AGFI) was .96; and Comparative fit index (CFI) was 1.00 (indices exceeding .90 indicate acceptable fit). Examination of the direct effects showed that perceived social support and sense of mastery are negatively associated with symptom severity (-.19 and -.66 respectively). Additionally, perceived social support was positively associated with mastery (.30). Both mastery and social support were moderately related to quality of life (.46 and .53, respectively). Rmediation analysis revealed perceived social support and mastery fully mediate the relationship between symptom severity and quality of life. Additionally, mastery partially mediated the relationship between social support and quality of life. These findings highlight the importance of incorporating these psychosocial factors into clinical interventions with hopes of increasing levels of perceived social support and mastery, and ultimately promoting quality of life. Further research is needed to explore the best strategies to increase support and mastery within the brain injury population and to identify additional psychosocial factors that may be mediators of quality of life.
M.S. in Psychology, July 2017
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Title: ESSAYS IN ENVIRONMENTAL FINANCE
Creator: Li, Jing
Date: 2013, 2013-07
Description: The Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) is a mechanism de ned in the Ky- oto protocol that incentivizes parties to the protocol to fund...
Show moreThe Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) is a mechanism de ned in the Ky- oto protocol that incentivizes parties to the protocol to fund sustainable development projects in countries that are not party to the protocol. In the rst chapter of this paper, I introduce the CDM and how the nancing mechanism works. In the second chapter, I analyze a target contract nancing structure for di erent CDM projects in order to see under what conditions the nancing structure is e cient and to explore the contract's allocation of pro t among the rms. In the two broad categories of CDM projects I consider, I nd the optimal investment decision for the investor and for the overall system. I also analyze how the residual value of technology would a ect the nancing, target contract's e ciency, and allocation of pro t. In the third chapter, I conduct empirical analysis on the actual CDM outputs, Certi ed Emission Reduction units (CERs), for a sample of wind CDM projects in China. I nd that CDM projects greatly under perform relative to the promises they make. Based on this under-performing records, in the fourth chapter, I analyze the economic bene ts investors could gain if they were able to directly fund a portfolio of CDM projects and obtain returns from the anticipated CER issuances and underlying energy generated from the portfolio of CDM projects. I consider a variety of funding constraints that the CDM fund/portfolio manager (CDM-PM) may face and determine their economic performance against actual CDM project data for wind CDM projects in China.
PH.D in Management Science, July 2013
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Title: MINIMIZING SALMONELLA CONTAMINATION IN SPROUTS BY CONTROLLING THE IRRIGATION CONDITIONS DURING GERMINATION
Creator: Xie, Jing
Date: 2014, 2014-07
Description: The objective of this study was to examine whether the proliferation of Salmonella can be minimized during sprouting by controlling the...
Show moreThe objective of this study was to examine whether the proliferation of Salmonella can be minimized during sprouting by controlling the irrigation conditions using seeds that have been either treated or not treated with 20,000 ppm of calcium hypochlorite, Ca(OCl)2. 200 g of alfalfa seeds spiked with 2 g (or 1 %) of inoculated seeds (containting~1 log cfu/g of Salmonella) were allowed to germinate in a glass jar or in an automatic sprouter (EasyGreen) for 5 days at room temperature. The sprouts germinated in the automatic sprouters were irrigated with either sterile tap water or chlorinated water (containing 100 ppm of calcium hypochlorite) at various frequencies (once every 1, 2 or 4 h); the sprouts germinated in glass jar were rinsed every 24 h with sterile tap water. The same growth studies were performed on seeds treated with 20,000 ppm Ca(OCl)2 for 15 min prior to sprouting. Sprout samples were taken daily and analyzed for the level of Salmonella using the three-tube most probable number method as described in the FDA BAM. Seed treatment with 20,000 ppm Ca(OCl)2 reduced Salmonella level in seeds to a level that was below the detection limit (< -2.5 log MPN/g). The pathogen was not detected during five days of germination in automatic sprouters or jars. Using untreated seeds, the level of Salmonella changed from an increase of ~ 7 log MPN/g in sprouts grown in jars and irrigated once every 24 h to an increase of ~ 4 log MPN/g during sprouting in the automated sprouters and irrigated once every 1 h. Irrigation with chlorinated water although inhibited Salmonella re-growth but affected the quality of sprouts. Overall, seed treatment combined with frequent irrigation with tap water or chlorinated water can control the level of Salmonella to an undetectable level during sprouting.
M.S. in Food Safety and Technology, July 2014
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Title: MOTION ESTIMATION METHODS FOR RESPIRATORY GATED SPECT
Creator: Hurtado Jaramillo, Juan Sebastian
Date: 2014, 2014-12
Description: Single photon emission computed tomography (SPECT) is a type of nuclear imaging test that is used for detection of cardiac diseases....
Show moreSingle photon emission computed tomography (SPECT) is a type of nuclear imaging test that is used for detection of cardiac diseases. Unfortunately it suffers from several image degrading factors, including respiratory motion, that can affect the accuracy of diagnosis. Four-dimensional (4D) respiratory gated SPECT helps to correct this issue by performing the acquisition at several intervals and applying motion-compensated reconstruction methods. With this in mind, and to improve 4D reconstruction, three different motion estimation methods (i.e., optical flow equation, center of mass, and template matching) are applied in this project. Three different sets of dose levels are simulated using NCAT and one set of clinical data is used. The results for motion estimation on simulated data show that the template matching methods have better performance overall. Additionally, noise reduction by means of a spatial smoothing filter helps on the reduction of the average error. Rotational motion estimation using principal component analysis (PCA) was also studied to examine if there can be improvements over the translational motion methods. The initial outcome is that there is a small rotation that can be detected on the ideal reconstruction; the compensation of this rotation also helps to reduce the error obtained from translational motion, albeit by a small margin. Unfortunately, the same cannot be said when noisy reconstructions were used.
M.S. in Electrical Engineering, December 2014
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Title: STIGMA AND MENTAL ILLNESS: THE ROLE OF STEREOTYPE THREAT ON PERFORMANCE OF COGNITIVE MEASURES
Creator: Hautamaki, Julie Bilyeu
Date: 2013, 2013-05
Description: Deficits in cognitive functioning observed in people with schizophrenia are well-documented; however, social psychologists recognize that...
Show moreDeficits in cognitive functioning observed in people with schizophrenia are well-documented; however, social psychologists recognize that additional societal factors, such as stigma and discrimination, may further contribute to these observed deficits in functioning. This study investigated the role of stereotype threat on cognitive functioning of people with schizophrenia. This group encounters stigma in various realms such as employment, relationships and housing. The negative stereotypes regarding this population have been well-documented and studied. In the current study, 60 participants were randomized into a control or stereotype condition. The participants completed a series of cognitive tests and the Structured Clinical Interview for DSM-IV Axis I Disorders (SCID-I). Participants in the stereotype threat condition were primed with a statement and questions to induce stereotype threat. The order of test administration was part of the threat induction. Stereotype threat was not found to impact the performance of cognitive measures for this group. In-group identification, stigma endorsement, and anxiety levels did not predict performance on cognitive measures.
PH.D in Psychology, May 2013
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Title: VISUAL TRAINING AT ILLINOIS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY: AESTHETICS IN ARCHITECTURAL EDUCATION
Creator: Jones, Kristin
Date: 2016, 2016-05
Description: Over the course of 78 years, an aesthetic ideal which embodies architectural values has been collectively cultivated through Visual Training...
Show moreOver the course of 78 years, an aesthetic ideal which embodies architectural values has been collectively cultivated through Visual Training at the Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT) school of architecture in Chicago. This dissertation provides a comprehensive explanation of Visual Training as it has been conducted at IIT. It promotes a better understanding of the background of Visual Training, the pedagogical practice of the Visual Training exercises, and the ongoing value of the course. The dissertation traces the underpinnings of Visual Training through the writings of Walter Peterhans, founder and Professor of Visual Training at IIT from 1938-1960, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Professor and Director of Architecture at IIT from 1938-1958 and other key figures. The thesis shows how the Visual Training program at IIT was influenced by movements in philosophy and mathematics in early 20th century Germany and how existing pedagogy at the Bauhaus was adapted to serve its aim. The dissertation includes an explanation of each exercise in the Visual Training program. It makes explicit the point of each exercise, how each one is conducted and why. Original detailed descriptions, illustrated with examples, show what a student gains from each exercise and how the process of performing the exercise achieves that end. The dissertation compares the way in which the Visual Training program originally developed in relation to other courses in the architecture curriculum to disclose the meaning of architecture, and what has happened in Visual Training as the architecture program at IIT has continued to evolve. The thesis brings to light enduring epistemological tensions underlying architectural education.
Ph.D. in Architecture, May 2016
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Title: Polymorphic Network-on-Chip Datapath Architecture for Reconfigurable Computing Machines
Creator: Weber, Joshua
Date: 2012-04-18, 2012-05
Description: Polymorphic processors have considerable advantages in performance over existing reconfigurable designs. Polymorphic processors combine the...
Show morePolymorphic processors have considerable advantages in performance over existing reconfigurable designs. Polymorphic processors combine the flexibility and ease of a general purpose processor with the performance optimizations made possible through reconfigurable arrays. Polymorphic processors provide all the ease of programming from a traditional general purpose processor while incorporating the significant performance gains that can be realized using reconfigurable arrays. Polymorphic processors can be categorized by the level of integration between the general purpose processor and the reconfigurable array. At coarse levels of integration, the processor and reconfigurable array execute independently and exchange data utilizing bus structures. These systems perform robustly for high level datadriven optimizations, allowing large segments of processing to be quickly performed on fast reconfigurable resources. However, the overhead of data transfer between the processor and array limits the benefit to fine grained optimizations. Other architectures attempt a tight coupling of reconfigurable arrays, placing them within the processor as reconfigurable coprocessors and functional units. This technique allows fine grained optimizations of small scale, highly repeated computations, but finds it difficult to replicate the gains made in large coarse grained optimizations. To achieve an even more tightly coupled design than any prior work, the fundamental architecture of the processor is changed. The datapath of the processor is eliminated and replaced with a network-on-chip communications framework. This framework connects a system of reconfigurable arrays. Some of these reconfigurable blocks are tasked with execution of standard, general purpose processor computations, emulating the standard pipeline stages of a SPARC processor. Additional reconfigurable blocks are available to the end-user to incorporate custom application specific optimizations. This new polymorphic NoC datapath (PolyNoC) processor is able to provide a more tightly integrated architecture with significant performance advantages. The PolyNoC processor is able to incorporate both fine and coarse grained optimizations, producing a polymorphic processor able to provide performance improvements for a wide range of target applications. This thesis presents the architectural design of the PolyNoC processor. The unique design constraints resulting from the use of the NoC as a datapath will be fully explored. The impact of these constraints will be incorporated into the design of a suitable NoC for the PolyNoC processor. A cycle-accurate simulator of the PolyNoC processor has been constructed. This simulator is used to examine the performance of the PolyNoC processor when executing unmodified, industry standard benchmark programs. To demonstrate the advantages of application specific extensions to the processor, accelerators are added for each benchmark. The performance of the Poly- NoC processor is promising.
Ph.D. Computer Science, May 2012
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Title: AIRFOIL LONGITUDINAL GUST RESPONSE IN ATTACHED, SEPARATING, AND DETACHED SURGING FLOW
Creator: Weirich, Jeremy Michael
Date: 2013, 2013-12
Description: Longitudinally gusting ow over a nominally two dimensional airfoil is exam- ined over a range of incidence angles and reduced frequencies. The...
Show moreLongitudinally gusting ow over a nominally two dimensional airfoil is exam- ined over a range of incidence angles and reduced frequencies. The response of the airfoil to these gusting ows is compared with classical theory, and is found to follow theory moderately well at low incidence angles across all reduced frequencies. At high incidence angles, the predictive power of the classical model is found to decrease signi cantly. The aerodynamic forces are also decomposed into circulatory and non- circulatory e ects and their relative strength is examined. The circulatory e ects are found to be minimal and constant at low incidence angles, while high incidence angles show strong variation, indication that the wake structure experiences signi - cant changes. The noncirculatory e ects are found to depend linearly on the reduced frequency and a ect the ow more strongly at lower incidence angles. An argument is made for the utility of dividing analysis of the ow into attached ow, separating ow, and fully detached ow regimes. The division is clear when examining how the normalized force coe cients change with reduced frequency, and provides a useful tool for predicting the transition of the ow between regimes.
M.S. in Aerospace Engineering, December 2013
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Title: EVALUATION OF TIME-FREQUENCY DISTRIBUTIONS FOR ULTRASONIC IMAGING APPLICATIONS
Creator: Lu, Juan
Date: 2013-05-01, 2013-05
Description: This thesis presents the performance evaluation of generalized time-frequency distributions (GTFD) and model-based time-frequency (TF)...
Show moreThis thesis presents the performance evaluation of generalized time-frequency distributions (GTFD) and model-based time-frequency (TF) estimation of ultrasonic signals. Two new TF distributions which are related to generalized time-frequency distribution have been examined. These methods are singular value decomposition of Choi-Williams distribution (CWD-SVD), and 2D (time and frequency) Gaussian kernel applied to generalized time-frequency distribution. The application of Short-Time Fourier Transform (STFT) is studied for chirplets estimation. Then, the Wigner distribution (also called the Wigner-Ville distribution) of estimated Chirplets yield a precise TF representation. The performance of the STFT, the Morlet wavelet transform, the Wigner distribution (WD), the CWD and the CWD-SVD are compared. CWD-SVD is a very effective algorithm to keep the high clarity of the Wigner distribution and to suppress the undesirable cross-terms resulting from multi-component signals. The Gaussian echo model is used to obtain the analytical TF distribution. For CWD the proper range of exponential kernel parameter, , is attained. This range allows CWD to sustain a high concentrated auto-terms and significant suppression of cross-terms. For this range of the CWD-SVD extracts high clarity auto-terms and facilitate eliminating the residual cross-terms. To remove the cross-terms, singular value decomposition algorithm extracts basis functions corresponding to auto-terms. After discarding the basis functions and singular values of the cross-terms and noise, the basis functions and their singular values of auto-terms are used to reconstruct the TF distribution. The results of multi-component Gaussian echoes with significant time and frequency overlaps show that the CWD-SVD is able to eliminate residual cross-terms for xi which the CWD failed to eliminate. The numerical analysis of multi-component Gaussian echoes indicates that CWD-SVD has the ability to resist noise resulting in accurate estimates of center frequencies and arrival times. The generalized time-frequency distribution with 2D Gaussian kernel is able to separate two extremely close Gaussian echoes in the time-frequency domain. In this study, typical values of the 2D Gaussian kernel parameters for efficient cross-terms elimination are provided. The relationship between the kernel's parameters and Gaussian echoes' parameters is deduced. A practical method for TF analysis is to decompose the signal into sparse chirplets. Decomposition requires chirplet parameter estimation. In this study, the parameters of a signal which is composed of two overlapping chirplets are estimated using STFT. By this method the estimation results are found to be accurate confirming that the STFT is an effective method for decomposing and estimating chirplets in a multi-component signal.
M.S. in Electrical Engineering, May 2013
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Title: MEAN-VARIANCE HEDGING WITH TIME CHANGED LEVY PROCESS
Creator: Liu, J Ingran
Date: 2012-11-17, 2012-12
Description: The goal of this thesis is to consider asset pricing model which driven by an exponential time changed process: Brownian motion with time...
Show moreThe goal of this thesis is to consider asset pricing model which driven by an exponential time changed process: Brownian motion with time changing process{ Poisson process. We rst present the characteristic function of the time change exponential Brown motion and its ltration. Second we exhibit the explicit European call pricing formula then discuss the mean-variance hedging method in this thesis.
M.S. in Applied Mathematics, December 2012
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