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- Title
- How to Plan and Analyze the Process Opportunity?
- Creator
- Palan,Dheemant
- Date
- 2021
- Description
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Organizations are organically grown, and it can be very satisfying to see them thrive under the right conditions and treatment just like their...
Show moreOrganizations are organically grown, and it can be very satisfying to see them thrive under the right conditions and treatment just like their botanical equivalents. But, at some stage, if you're not cautious, they can uncontrollably sprout and spread out until one day they've begun strangling themselves and even others. Organizations are strangling by not responding to development. As new people enter, procedures that worked perfectly in the beginning with only one participant often get unsuccessful, sometimes painful. It's easy to spot the signs of stressful processes; increased stress, constant yet insufficient coordination, low levels of effort and resources, bottlenecks, e-mail congestion, repeated progress updates, expired tabs, dysfunctional rules, low productivity the list continues. With Business Improvement it becomes very critical on how we plan & what are the facts which we have derived from the initial analysis. In this article, we will try to cover different tools that can be used for analyzing & planning.
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- Title
- Process Engineering
- Creator
- Palan,Dheemant
- Date
- 2021
- Description
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As a futuristic approach in order to increase their productivity and efficiency while being agile and quick to adapt to the new dynamic...
Show moreAs a futuristic approach in order to increase their productivity and efficiency while being agile and quick to adapt to the new dynamic environment, companies must undergo business process reengineering as a potential trend. The digitizing period is followed by an accelerating IT cycle, often linking reengineering with tech or IT revolution. The article discusses what is a Business Process, what are the opportunities for Improvements, how to measure the success criteria, what are different process flow & the value for an organization to achieve the objective of business process improvement
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- Title
- Which should you be the flowchart for your Process?
- Creator
- Palan,Dheemant
- Date
- 2021
- Description
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A flowchart or Process Flow is a powerful business tool. With proper design and construction, it communicates the steps in a process very...
Show moreA flowchart or Process Flow is a powerful business tool. With proper design and construction, it communicates the steps in a process very effectively and efficiently. There are a variety of ways to make a flowchart. Initially, flowcharts were made by hand using a pencil and paper. Until the advent of a personal computer, drawing models made of plastic flowchart form outlines helped flowchart designers work faster and gave their diagrams a more detailed look. Flowcharts were initially used by industrial engineers to organize work processes such as assembly line output. Today, flowcharts are used for several purposes in manufacturing, architecture, engineering, industry, technology, education, research, medicine, government, administration, and many other fields. In this article, we will be looking at different types of Flowchart & their usages
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- An aircraft hangar and the study of long-span metal structures
- Creator
- Sharpe, David C. (David Carold)
- Date
- 1962-06
- Description
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The study of long-span structures developed from a design problem for an aircraft hangar. The problem of the aircraft hangar was concerned...
Show moreThe study of long-span structures developed from a design problem for an aircraft hangar. The problem of the aircraft hangar was concerned with the development of a reasonable structurtal type into an architectural solution. Several types were considered; the truss, the arch, a rigid frame system in prestressed concrete. These were discarded in favor of a rigid frame system of steel that seemed to give the best visual solution.
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- FAST AUTOMATIC BAYESIAN CUBATURE USING MATCHING KERNELS AND DESIGNS
- Creator
- Rathinavel, Jagadeeswaran
- Date
- 2019, 2019-12-20
- Publisher
- Chicago
- Description
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Automatic cubatures approximate multidimensional integrals to user-specified...
Show moreAutomatic cubatures approximate multidimensional integrals to user-specified error tolerances. In many real-world integration problems, the analytical solution is either unavailable or difficult to compute. To overcome this, one can use numerical algorithms that approximately estimate the value of the integral. For high dimensional integrals, quasi-Monte Carlo (QMC) methods are very popular. QMC methods are equal-weight quadrature rules where the quadrature points are chosen deterministically, unlike Monte Carlo (MC) methods where the points are chosen randomly. The families of integration lattice nodes and digital nets are the most popular quadrature points used. These methods consider the integrand to be a deterministic function. An alternate approach, called Bayesian cubature, postulates the integrand to be an instance of a Gaussian stochastic process.
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- Semantics and further Use-Cases and Evaluation of the C-Saw language
- Creator
- Zhu, Henry, Zhao, Junyong, Sultana, Nik
- Date
- 2023-03-09
- Description
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This report provides supplementary technical details to the conference paper that introduced C-Saw, a language for expressing software...
Show moreThis report provides supplementary technical details to the conference paper that introduced C-Saw, a language for expressing software architecture patterns. This report provides additional examples of using C-Saw, supplementary evaluation details, and it defines the formal semantics of the language.
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- Fostering personal finance engagement with a habit building app
- Creator
- Hapner, Bridget
- Date
- 2022-11-04
- Description
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Master's Project focused on developing a concept for a personal finance literacy app.
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- Continuous Generalization of 2’s Complement Arithmetic
- Creator
- Patel, Shivam
- Date
- 2022-11-26
- Title
- USING COMPUTATIONAL MOLECULAR MODELING TO STUDY TRANSPORT PROCESSES OF INTEREST IN SEPARATIONS
- Creator
- Wang,Xiaoyu
- Date
- 2020, 2020
- Publisher
- ProQuest
- Description
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Separation processes are widely used in chemical productions. The further development of membrane-based separation processes, compared with...
Show moreSeparation processes are widely used in chemical productions. The further development of membrane-based separation processes, compared with thermal separations, can lead to significant energy savings in chemical process industries. However, the main obstacle of experiments is that many separation processes are not well understood at the fundamental molecular level. In this dissertation, we use computational molecular modeling tools, mainly classical molecular dynamics (MD), to clarify molecular forces and provide detail at a molecular level, which can aid in the understanding of transport process and designing materials for a proposed application. In the first study, we investigated separation of water/alcohol vapor using zeolite membranes. Experimentally, the separation of water/isopropanol (IPA) mixtures shows a dramatic decrease in selectivity due to increase of IPA flux as the feed water concentration decrease when using the sodium A zeolite membrane. We used molecular dynamics simulations to help our experimental collaborators understand these puzzling results. The MD results reveal that the water molecules gather around the defect pores on the zeolite membrane, which stops the IPA from going through the membrane and has a positive effect on separation. Then, we studied the HPLC used to separate chiral drug mixtures. One popular chiral stationary phase, amylose tris(3,5-dimethylphenyl carbamate) (ADMPC), has been investigated using both experimental and computational methods; however, the dynamic nature of the interaction between enantiomers and ADMPC, as well as the solvent effects on the ADMPC-enantiomer interaction, are currently absent from the chiral recognition mechanism. We used MD simulations to model the ADMPC in different solvents to elucidate the chiral recognition mechanism from a new dynamic perspective. The ADMPC is found to hold the left-handed helical structure in both methanol and heptane/IPA (90/10); however, the ADMPC has a more extended average structure in heptane/IPA. We developed a model where the ADMPC atoms were restricted in the MD simulation. To better understand the molecular dynamic chiral recognition that provides the retention factor and the elution order in HPLC, we examined hydrogen bonding lifetimes, and mapped out ring-ring interactions between the drugs and the ADMPC. We discover several MD metrics related to hydrogen-bonding lifetimes and correlate them with HPLC results. One metric provides a prediction of the correct elution order 90%, and the ratios of these quantities for the enantiomers provide linear correlation (0.85 coefficient) with experimental retention factors. In the following study, we presented an improved model wherein multiple ADMPC polymer strands are coated on an amorphous silica slab. Using various MD techniques, we successfully coated ADMPCs onto the surface without losing the structural character of the backbone in the solvent. This model provides more opportunities for chiral molecules interacting with ADMPC, resulting in a better agreement compared with experiment when using the overall average metric. The new model also provides the possibility for drug molecules to interact with two polymer strands simultaneously, which is not possible in the previous single-strand model. For a better understanding of why some metrics are better predictors than others, we used charts of the distribution of hydrogen bonding lifetimes to display the information for various donor-acceptor pairs. The results are more consistent than the previous models and resolves the problematic cases of thalidomide and valsartan. Besides the membrane-based separations, immiscible liquid-liquid equilibrium states were also studied. We successfully predicted results based on MD simulations and showed comparable accuracy with experimental data. This method has applications in liquid-liquid extraction which is widely used in industrial separation process.
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- Title
- Modeling enantiomeric separations as an interfacial process using amylose tris(3,5-dimethylphenyl carbamate) (ADMPC) polymers coated on amorphous silica
- Creator
- Wang,Xiaoyu, Jameson, Cynthia, Murad, Sohail
- Date
- 2020, 2020-01-20
- Publisher
- ACS Langmuir
- Description
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In the present study, we present a model to predict the chiral separation results for drug enantiomers by ADMPC chiral stationary phase in...
Show moreIn the present study, we present a model to predict the chiral separation results for drug enantiomers by ADMPC chiral stationary phase in high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) wherein multiple ADMPC polymer strands are coated on an amorphous silica slab. Both reactive and classical MD are used to prepare the surface. Using various MD techniques, we successfully coat ADMPCs onto the surface without losing the structural character of the backbone in the presence of the solvent system. Not only is this model more representative of the polymer surface on a solid support that is encountered by the enantiomers, it also provides more opportunities for chiral molecules interacting with ADMPC, resulting in a better agreement compared with experiment when we use overall average quantities as the metric. In our previous studies, we had used a single polymer strand of amylose tris(3,5-dimethylphenyl carbamate) (ADMPC) in the solvent system. The new model provides the possibility for large drug molecules to interact with two polymer strands at the same instant, which was not possible to model with only a single polymer strand in the solvent. For a better understanding of why some metrics are better predictors than others, we use charts of the distribution of hydrogen bonding lifetimes in this work to display the hydrogen-bonding information for various donor-acceptor pairs that contribute to the interaction events determining the relative retention times for the enantiomers. We also examine the contribution of the ring-ring interactions to the molecular recognition process and ultimately to differential retention of S and R enantiomers. The results using the new model are more consistent than the previous models and resolves the problematic case of two drugs, thalidomide and valsartan.
Sponsorship: The National Science Foundation (CBET 1545560)
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- Title
- Algorithms for Discrete Data in Statistics and Operations Research
- Creator
- Schwartz, William K.
- Date
- 2021-11-19, 2021-12
- Publisher
- ProQuest, https://www.proquest.com/docview/2622985712
- Description
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Sponsorship: The Air Force Office of Scientific Research's grant FA9550-14-1-0141 supported Prof. Petrović's and my initial work on this project.
- Title
- New Object
- Creator
- Zhang, He
- Title
- My IIT
- Creator
- Namburi, Kartheeka
- Date
- 2024
- Description
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Master's Project focused on developing a user-friendly mobile application for Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT).
- Title
- Students International House
- Creator
- Peterhans, Brigitte 1928-2021
- Date
- 1961