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Title: Aeroponic Agriculture in Chicago
Creator: Maceachen, Charles
Date: 2010-07-29

Title: Church & School Energy Efficiency and Financing Program (sequence unknown), IPRO 328 - Deliverables: IPRO 328 Poster F09
Creator: Ciuffini, Kathryn, Kim, Ja Young, Knapczyk, Robert, Mckinley, Matthew, O'brien, Patrick, Maddamma, Todd, Schafer, Michael, Soderling, Philip, Wedster, Bonnie
Date: 2009-12
Description: The Fall 2009 IPRO 328 team envisions the development and ultimately execution of a volunteer program which would facilitate the...
Show moreThe Fall 2009 IPRO 328 team envisions the development and ultimately execution of a volunteer program which would facilitate the implementation of energy saving improvements in a church and/or parochial school within the surrounding neighborhoods of IIT campus.
Sponsorship: Vince Cushing of Clean Urban Energy
Deliverables for IPRO 328: Church & School Energy Efficiency and Financing Program for the fall 2009 semester
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Title: A test of a 2,500 KVA turbo-generator
Creator: Grabendike, C. A.
Date: 2009, 1921
Publisher: Armour Institute of Technology
Description: http://www.archive.org/details/testof2500kvatur00grab
Thesis (B.S.)--Armour Institute of Technology

Title: Finding Uses for Alternative Fuels in Intermodal Transportation Hubs (sequence unknown), IPRO 307 - Deliverables: IPRO 307 Brochure F09
Creator: Balakirev, Konstantin, Beau‐luby, Ryan, Bouikidis, John, Cargill, Matthew, Dziuba, David, Kehoe, Matthew, Slonski, Bryan, Tesfaye, Melat, Wiese, Matthew, Wiseman, Christopher, Zook, Joel
Date: 2009-12
Description: Chicago, being the third largest freight hub in the world, needs an efficient movement of goods for the increasing freight shipments.
Sponsorsh...
Show moreChicago, being the third largest freight hub in the world, needs an efficient movement of goods for the increasing freight shipments.
Sponsorship: Mi-Jack
Deliverables for IPRO 307: Finding Uses for Alternative Fuels in Intermodal Transportation Hubs for the fall 2009 semester.
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Title: RELIABILITY AND ENERGY ANALYSIS FOR EXTREME SCALE SYSTEMS
Creator: Yu, Li
Date: 2015, 2015-12
Description: Reliability and energy are two of the top major concerns in the development of today's supercomputers. To build a powerful machine while at...
Show moreReliability and energy are two of the top major concerns in the development of today's supercomputers. To build a powerful machine while at the same time satisfying reliability requirement and energy constraint, HPC scientists continue to seek a better understanding of system and component behaviors. Toward this end, modern systems are deployed with various monitoring and logging tools to track reliability and energy data during system operations. Since these data contain important information about system reliability and energy, they are valuable resources for understanding system behaviors. However, as system scale and complexity continue to grow, the process of collecting system data to extracting meaningful knowledge out of overwhelming reliability and energy data faces a number of key challenges. To address these challenges, my work consists of three parts, including data preprocessing, data analysis and advanced modeling.
Ph.D. in Computer Science, December 2015
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Title: A Video Annotation and Indexing System (sequence unknown), IPRO 327 - Deliverables: IPRO 327 Poster F09
Creator: Dhagam, Karthik, Donchev, Alexander, Homawoo, Sergio, Litas, Alexander, Orlichenko, Anton, Osswald, Christian, Petsod, Jason, Rawlings, Ori, Shaffer, Joshua, Smith, Antoinette, Yates, Andrew, Yu, Hee Jeoung
Date: 2009-12
Description: Much information available on the Web is in video format. The problem with this medium is users cannot comment on particular scenes within the...
Show moreMuch information available on the Web is in video format. The problem with this medium is users cannot comment on particular scenes within the videos and there is no method of searching for specific content within the videos. The team proposes to develop a system that will allow users to make fine-grained comments on scenes within the video and then to use these comments to aid in search within videos.
Deliverables for IPRO 327: A video annotation and indexing system for the fall 2009 semester
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Title: RE-POSITIONING THE CHICAGO BOULEVARD SYSTEM: TOWARDS THE DEFINITION OF AN ACTIVE URBAN INFRASTRUCTURE
Creator: Vadacca, Anna
Date: 2016, 2016-05
Description: How can urban infrastructures be reinterpreted based on their social potential? The thesis discusses the value that infrastructures can have...
Show moreHow can urban infrastructures be reinterpreted based on their social potential? The thesis discusses the value that infrastructures can have in relation to mobility and quality of life, in the context of the urban project, and proposes an example of how underutilized spaces, that pertains to an outdated model of the city, can be re-configured as adaptable and dynamic infrastructures. The Boulevard System of Chicago emerged during the process of “beautification” that the “City Beautiful” movement fostered in the 19th century. From being the “Emerald Necklace”, as it was known, the Boulevard System became today a fragmented infrastructure that mirrors the socio-economic segregation of Chicago neighborhoods. Within the archipelago of different urban realities of the city, the Boulevard System represents today an under-utilized urban space that reinforces the already existing urban thresholds between different urban communities. The goal of the research is to re-think the Boulevard System as a new transportation corridor, able to interact with other urban systems. The proposal for the boulevards is part of an Infrastructure Plan for Chicago that aims to propose ways inwhich different actions on infrastructure can revitalize the City. The idea is to re-activate the boulevard through a series of interventions, articulated around the re-connection of the fragmented system, as a new “ring” infrastructure, and the engagement with the surrounding specificities. The proposed Bus Rapid Transit system should offer an experience through the parks in Chicago and support its reactivation through the promotion of activities and events. Furthermore, the creation of a hub around the Garfield Green Line station is meant to propose a more engaging transit experience around the city of Chicago.
M.S. in Architecture, May 2016
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Title: TWO-LAYERED DEPTH ESTIMATION USING SEMI-GLOBAL MATCHING WITH MUTUAL INFORMATION
Creator: Zhang, Chen
Date: 2014, 2014-07
Description: Depth estimation plays an important role in three-dimensional computer vision area. Its recent development focuses on real-time application....
Show moreDepth estimation plays an important role in three-dimensional computer vision area. Its recent development focuses on real-time application. To be able to provide depth map for real-time applications like pedestrian detection and intelligent vehicles, three challenges must be overcome: 1. Real-time processing speed; 2. Insensitive to brightness change; 3. Clear boundaries and smooth surface. The thesis first describes the major steps of depth estimation, then many commonly used methods are reviewed. From them and other related real-time method, we found that the iteration based semi-global matching with mutual information has much potential to be improved. Based on that, the thesis proposed a method with two layers to provide depth map for pedestrian detection. The low resolution layer’s task is to produce a coarse depth map as quick as possible, then it helps to produce accurate mutual information distribution without iterations. The Full-resolution layer applies semi-global matching with two optional simplification schemes to speed up. The proposed method is implemented on both CPU and GPU. Experimental results and evaluation shows that it has great insensitivity to brightness changes and achieves real-time processing speed while maintaining a comparable performance with state-of-the-art real-time depth estimation methods.
M.S. in Electrical Engineering, May 2014
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Title: ASSESSMENT OF THE IPR ALGORITHM FOR THE DIFFERENTIAL FUNCTIONING OF ITEMS AND TESTS FRAMEWORK
Creator: Neuhengen, Jonas M.
Date: 2013, 2013-12
Description: The Diferential Functioning of Items and Tests (DFIT) framework is a widely used test of di erential functioning. DFIT uses the Item Parameter...
Show moreThe Diferential Functioning of Items and Tests (DFIT) framework is a widely used test of di erential functioning. DFIT uses the Item Parameter Replication (IPR) algorithm to generate statistical cuto s, which relies on several simpli cations have not been formally tested. This study examines these assumptions by comparing the IPR algorithm with an extended, unsimpli ed procedure intended to represent results observed in practice. Monte Carlo simulation was used to compare cuto s between the two methods under a number of conditions. Di erences between the IPR and extended cuto s indicate that Type I error rates are conservative at the test level and in ated at the item level. Mean group di erences resulted in massive in ation. Sample size and test length had only minor inuences on error rates.
M.S. in Psychology, December 2013
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Title: Tests of a mechanical rectifier
Creator: Smith, Bernard M, Wolfson, William
Date: 2009, 1916
Publisher: Armour Institute of Technology
Description: http://www.archive.org/details/testsofmechanica00smit
Thesis (B.S.)--Armour Institute of Technology; Bibliography: leaf 50

Title: CONSTRUCT AND MEASUREMENT EQUIVALENCE ACROSS GENDER OF THE DYADIC ADJUSTMENT SCALE
Creator: Yap, Bonnie Joyce
Date: 2012-10-16, 2012-12
Description: The Dyadic Adjustment Scale (DAS) is the most widely used measure of dyadic adjustment for individuals in committed relationships (Spanier,...
Show moreThe Dyadic Adjustment Scale (DAS) is the most widely used measure of dyadic adjustment for individuals in committed relationships (Spanier, 1976). However, little research has focused on whether DAS measures the construct of dyadic adjustment in a way that is equivalent and unbiased across genders. The current study utilized matched moderated regression (MMR) to assess each item of the DAS to detect if gender differences in the relationships between item responses and the construct being measured are due to (a) factors other than the construct and (b) differences in the construct. Archival data were acquired from a previously published study (Eddy, Heyman, & Weiss, 1991). The sample was very large (N =3322) so it was divided into two replication groups in such a way that no couples were included in the same group. A number of statistically significant differences were found on items in both replication samples; however: (1) many of these items were not consistent across replicate groups; (2) Even when there was a consistent gender difference in both replication groups, the magnitude was small; (3) When all of the differences were summed across items, bias in total scale score was minimal because the direction of the biases differed across items and so cancelled out and; (4) A small gender difference may exist in preferences for demonstrations of affection. Findings suggest that there are not substantial gender bias or scale equivalence problems with the DAS. The construct of dyadic adjustment was similar in men and women. These findings are congruent results from the recent study of South and Kruger (2009) on gender differences in the factor structure on the DAS and lend support to the valid use of the DAS in studies of dyadic adjustment.
M.S. in Psychology, December 2012
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Title: COMPUTER-BASED LEARNING ENVIRONMENTS IN ORGANIZATIONAL TRAINING: IMPACT OF LEARNING ENVIRONMENT AND PERSONALITY
Creator: Papaioannou, Georgia-niki
Date: 2015, 2015-05
Description: The purpose of this study was to investigate the potential effects of technology and personality on training using a computer based learning...
Show moreThe purpose of this study was to investigate the potential effects of technology and personality on training using a computer based learning environment designed to improve learning through technology-delivered instruction. Data were collected from a sample of undergraduate students (N = 98), recruited from three universities (two in the US and one in Canada), who participated in both experimental days. Condition had no effect on learning outcomes, while Conscientiousness was found to be significantly correlated with academic performance. In further analyzing the relationship between personality and learning outcomes across time using a latent growth curve model results showed non-significant conclusions for the direction of the relationship for each of the Big Five. Discussion of the results and implications for practice and future research are provided. In conclusion, this study provides a basis for considering personality characteristics when designing computer-based training interventions in organizational settings.
M.S. in Psychology, May 2015
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Title: A study of resorcinol production
Creator: Bernstein, Joseph M., Vogt, Emil G.
Date: 2009, 1920
Publisher: Armour Institute of Technology
Description: http://www.archive.org/details/studyofresorcino00bern
Thesis (B.S.)--Armour Institute of Technology

Title: Recent results on vector boson production in association with jets with the CMS detector, Proceedings of the XLIII International Symposium on Multiparticle Dynamics
Creator: Cornelis, Tom
Date: 2013-09-15, 2013-09-15
Publisher: IIT Press
Description: The production of weak vector bosons in association with jets and their properties are intensively studied using proton-proton collision data...
Show moreThe production of weak vector bosons in association with jets and their properties are intensively studied using proton-proton collision data collected with the CMS detector. In this proceedings, we will show the cross section measurement of the electroweak production of a Z boson in association with 2 jets at √s = 8 TeV, including a new data-driven approach and studies on the hadronic activity in the region between the two tagging jets. The azimuthal correlations and event shapes in Z + jets events at √s= 7 TeV are also presented.
Sponsorship: IIT College of Science, High Energy Physics Division of Argonne National Laboratory
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Title: EFFECT OF NOVEL SANITIZERS IN COMBINATION WITH HIGH-POWER-ULTRASOUND ON MNV-ION ROMAINE LETTUCE
Creator: Zeng, Jin
Date: 2016, 2016-05
Description: Human norovirus is a leading cause of foodborne outbreaks around the world especially in fresh-cut products like romaine lettuce. Traditional...
Show moreHuman norovirus is a leading cause of foodborne outbreaks around the world especially in fresh-cut products like romaine lettuce. Traditional sanitizers such as sodium hypochlorite have been used in food industry to prevent contamination; however there are certain issues such as residuals and toxicity. Novel organic sanitizers have been developed and most of them have been proved not effective on human norovirus. High- Power-Ultrasound (HPU) has a potential to improve effectiveness of sanitizers for washing of fresh-cut produce. As a novel technology, HPU is a non-thermal processing that can enhance inactivating microorganisms in food. In the present study, we have systematically investigated the effect of sanitizers, Chico-wash, ProduceShield, Tsunami 100, EatCleaner and chlorine on human norovirus surrogate and the effect of HPU to enhance viral inactivation. For washing study, romaine lettuce leaves were cut into 5x5 cm2 pieces and spotinoculated with approximately 7 log PFU/ml of MNV-1. The leaves were washed for 60s, 90s, and 120s using various sanitizer concentrations. After washing, leaves were transferred into a stomach bag that contained 20ml of Dulbecco's modified eagle medium (DMEM) or phosphate buffer solution (PBS) containing 0.5M sodium thiosulfate to neutralize the sanitizers. Viruses were extracted by stomaching and recovered from the samples and quantified by viral plaque assay. Water wash without sanitizer was used as a negative control. For water wash, 1.1± 0.1 log PFU/g, 1.3 ± 0.1 log PFU/g and 1.3 ± 0.1 log PFU/g reduction were observed respectively under 60s, 90s and 120s washing.For 20% Chico-wash, under three different time intervals, MNV-1 reductions of 1.2 ± 0.1 log PFU/g, 1.1± 0.1 log PFU/g and 1.2 ± 0.2 log10 PFU/g were observed respectively. While for ProduceShield, at 20% concentration level, 1.5 log PFU/g, 1.6 log PFU/g and 1.6 log PFU/g reduction were observed respectively. For Tsunami 100, leaves were washed for 60s at different concentrations of 20, 40, 60, 80 and 100 ppm, the reduction of MNV-1 was 2.1 ± 0.2, 2.9 ± 0.3, 3.2 ± 0.3, 3.7 ± 0.2 and 3.7 ± 0.2 log PFU/g, respectively, on the surface of lettuce leaves. In HPU study, a high power ultrasound was introduced into washing step in combination with Tsunami 100 at concentrations of 20, 40, 60, 80, 100 ppm. The reduction of MNV-1 was 2.7 ± 0.3, 2.9 ± 0.5, 3.3 ± 0.7, 3.6 ± 0.7 and 3.8 ± 0.5 log10 PFU/g, respectively. For EatCleaner, lettuce leaves were washed for 60s and the reduction of MNV-1 was 1.9 ± 0.1 log10 PFU/g.The results suggest that Chico-wash and ProduceShield were not effective on removing MNV-1 from romaine lettuce while EatCleaner was effective. Tsunami 100 was effective on MNV-1. One-way ANOVA shows that introducing HPU could enhance MNV-1 inactivation at low Tsunami 100 concentration.
M.S. in Food Safety and Technology, May 2016
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Title: An intelligent system for multivariate statistical process monitoring and diagnosis
Creator: Tatara, E., Cinar, A.
Date: 2002-04
Publisher: I S A-THE INSTRUMENTATION SYSTEMS AUTOMATION SOC
Description: A knowledge-based system (KBS) was designed for automated system identification, process monitoring, and diagnosis of sensor faults. The real...
Show moreA knowledge-based system (KBS) was designed for automated system identification, process monitoring, and diagnosis of sensor faults. The real-time KBS consists of a supervisory system using G2 KBS development software linked with external statistical modules for system identification and sensor fault diagnosis. The various statistical techniques were prototyped in MATLAB, converted to ANSI C code, and linked with the G2 Standard Interface. The KBS automatically performs all operations of data collection, identification, monitoring, and sensor fault diagnosis with little or no input from the user. Navigation throughout the KBS is via menu buttons on each user-accessible screen. Selected process variables are displayed on charts showing the history of the variables over a period of time. Multivariate statistical tests and contribution plots are also shown graphically. The KBS was evaluated using simulation studies with a polymerization reactor through a nonlinear dynamic model. Both normal operation conditions as well as conditions of process disturbances were observed to evaluate the KBS performance. Specific user-defined disturbances were added to the simulation, and the KBS correctly diagnosed both process and sensor faults when present.
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Title: DESIGN OF VANET COOPERATIVE MESSAGE AUTHENTICATION PROTOCOL AND PERFORMANCE EVALUATION WITH PRACTICAL SIMULATION
Creator: Han, Tingting
Date: 2012-07-24, 2012-07
Description: In the near future, vehicular ad hoc networks (VANETs) are expected to be more widely deployed, where vehicles would be equipped with on-board...
Show moreIn the near future, vehicular ad hoc networks (VANETs) are expected to be more widely deployed, where vehicles would be equipped with on-board devices that permit wireless networking between vehicles on the road, and between vehicles and in- frastructure. To ensure security and privacy, digital signature and veri cation schemes have been extenstively developed. The group signature implemented in VANETs causes large computation overhead, While the On Board Units installed on vehicles have limited CPU computing capacity. To address this issue, a practical cooperative message authentication protocol (CMAP) is designed and simulated in this work. In the protocol, vehicles share their veri cation results with each other in a cooperative way so that each vehicle just needs to verify a small number of messages. Compared with other work considering 1-D highway road scenario, 2-D city road scenario is built with the tra c simulator VanetMobiSim. Our CMAP simulation is based on the basic Periodic BroadCast (PBC) platform available in newer versions of ns-2 system. The protocol design and all detailed procedures of CMAP algorithms are implemented in the network simulator ns-2 with C++ programming. The simulation also evaluates the performance of CMAP with metrics including missed detection ratio, CPU load, under conditions of di erent vehicle densities and di erent numbers of veri ers. The performance of our CMAP with n-nearest veri er selction method is compared with previously reported probabilistic veri cation method, and shows the advantage.
M.S. in Electrical Engineering, July 2012
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Title: SYNTHESIS, PURIFICATION AND CRYSTAL GROWTH OF INDIUM IODIDE SEMICONDUCTORS
Creator: Bertorello, Charles
Date: 2012-04-23, 2012-05
Description: The indium monoiodide (InI) semiconductor is a promising candidate for Gamma-ray and X-ray radiation detector devices. The high atomic number...
Show moreThe indium monoiodide (InI) semiconductor is a promising candidate for Gamma-ray and X-ray radiation detector devices. The high atomic number of indium (In) and iodine (I), along with high density, give the InI detector a higher photon stopping power (attenuation coe cient) compared to germanium based detectors and comparable to that of CdT e. Based on the previous research on melt synthesis and vapor synthesis by Dr. Ostrogorsky at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) and Dr. Burger at Fisk University from 2006 to 2009, the present work improves the purity of indium monoiodide by demonstrating the e ciency of zone re ning of this material. A segregation coe cient study is presented based on a Glow Discharge Mass Spectrometry (GDMS) and an Instrumental Gas Analysis (IGA) analyses performed by Evans Analytical Group (EAG). Two indium monoiodide crystals were grown using the Vertical Bridgman technique and analyses done on one of the crystals shown a resistivity of 3 109 .cm which is the second highest value reported. Indium monoiodide synthesized and puri ed in this current study was used to grow several Czochralski crystals.
M.S. in Mechanical, Materials, and Aerospace Engineering, May 2012
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Title: Church & School Energy Efficiency and Financing Program (sequence unknown), IPRO 328 - Deliverables: IPRO 328 Brochure F09
Creator: Ciuffini, Kathryn, Kim, Ja Young, Knapczyk, Robert, Mckinley, Matthew, O'brien, Patrick, Maddamma, Todd, Schafer, Michael, Soderling, Philip, Wedster, Bonnie
Date: 2009-12
Description: The Fall 2009 IPRO 328 team envisions the development and ultimately execution of a volunteer program which would facilitate the...
Show moreThe Fall 2009 IPRO 328 team envisions the development and ultimately execution of a volunteer program which would facilitate the implementation of energy saving improvements in a church and/or parochial school within the surrounding neighborhoods of IIT campus.
Sponsorship: Vince Cushing of Clean Urban Energy
Deliverables for IPRO 328: Church & School Energy Efficiency and Financing Program for the fall 2009 semester
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Title: Green Building Design Concept & Integration (sequence unknown), IPRO 335 - Deliverables: IPRO 335 Poster F09
Creator: Avanessian, Aris, Banda, Justine, Bergerson, Joshua, Burke, Jeffrey, Christo, Robert, Dexter, Eric, Kim, Kibum, Mey, Andrew, Okunaga, Jonathan, Razeq, Ali, Schaefer, Jacqueline, Thovar Leon, Adrian, Um, Hye
Date: 2009-12
Description: The scope of this IPRO project spans structural, architectural, foundation, HVAC, lighting and electric system designs, as well as building...
Show moreThe scope of this IPRO project spans structural, architectural, foundation, HVAC, lighting and electric system designs, as well as building cost estimating and professional ethics. The IPRO team will become informed about and apply principles associated with green design concepts, energy sustainability, post occupancy comfort, acoustic design issues, smart building concepts, health issues (abatement of mold- and allergy-causing agents), and safety considerations.
Deliverables for IPRO 335: Green Building Design Concept & Integration for the fall 2009 semester
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