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Demand responsive transportation is a variable route service of passengers or freight from specific origin (s) to destination(s) in response to the request of users. Recent methods for DRT planning...

Random numbers are used in a lot of applications. In particular, they are essential for most of the cryptographic systems. Pseudorandom generator is a mechanism for producing random numbers on a...

CDMA based cellular systems have been widely deployed and CDMA is selected as the air interface of third-generation (3G) cellular system (W-CDMA, cdma2000, TD-SCDMA). With the exponential growth rate...

Laser tracking system (LTS) is one of the most powerful measurement and tracking instruments, and it has been widely used in accurate target tracking and measurement process in commercial or military...

The role that mobile and wireless network technologies play in the learning process is a critical success factor in our contemporary educational system. These technologies offer unique solutions to...

This work describes the design and implementation of a fully monolithic 10 Gb/s phase and frequency-locked loop based clock and data recovery (PFLL-CDR) integrated circuit, as well as the Verilog-A...

In supply chain management, comparably less theoretical studies are found to warehousing logistics. Warehouse owners and managers complain that the little of what can be found is rather individually...

The industrial deployment of the fluidized bed reactors (FBR) have recently increased because of their excellent heat and mass transfer characteristics and product efficiency. In the state- of-the...

In a global economy, no company can safely assume that their products will be accepted in foreign markets. The main challenge is to understand and meet the latent needs of culturally diverse groups...

The purpose of this study was to examine the structure and policies of a contemporary western design museum. In so doing, the role of design in society, the characteristics that distinguish design...

Much of today's research in military assets is focused on remotely controlled designs and alternative energy. In this thesis, a modified design for a current UAV used by the military is discussed...

Level of service at the airport check-in area is important not only to passengers but also to the airport operators and airlines. This book explains a computational method to design or redesign...

This book is intended to provide a methodology for the design of grouted bolts, based on empirical and analytical methods. The main objectives of this book are to offer the practical means for better...

The main purpose of this book is to introduce the reader to the fundamental analytical concepts of the design of minimum-weight structures. This subject, more broadly termed structural optimization,...

Linear motors are strong candidates for manufacturing automation applications requiring high-performance direct-drive linear position control. Unlike rotary motor drive systems, linear motor drive...

New wireless technologies open up possibilities for the monitoring of vital signs parameters using wearable biomedical sensors. The idea behind the newly developed wireless ECG sensor was to avoid...

This book centres around the discussion of the advantages and disadvantages of various designs of ion traps. The first chapter introduces the topic of ion traps to clarify the local context of this...

Power semiconductor devices are critical components within power electronics technology. In this thesis, physical operating mechanisms of conventional IGBT structures are analyzed, designed and...

This thesis studies in a Web search engine how a crawler with limited computing resource can effectively crawl from the dynamically changing Web and acquire the most updated Web documents, and how a...

Petroleum refinery is an industrial process plant where crude oil is processed and refined into more useful petroleum products, such as gasoline, diesel fuel, asphalt base, heating oil, kerosene, and...

This study explored the physical and social characteristics that encourage gathering behavior in coffee shops. The study is primarily qualitative using the techniques of visual documentation,...

This work gives an account of the design, development and deployment of the Sonic Blocks, with a small group of children in a primary school. The work gained an understanding of the blocks unique...

Over the last two decades, the Internet has been dramatically revolutionizing many aspects of transactions between consumers and firms. Unlike traditional marketing channel, B2C e-commerce depends...

This book takes a new look at the discussion of poetry in Plato's early dialogues. It argues that Socrates did not believe poets to be divinely inspired; rather, his treatment of poetry must be...

Repeat travel demonstrates great potentials in terms of its size and economic contribution. However, the repeat travel market has been understudied. Theoretically, this study was built upon the...

The problem of modeling and detecting polymorphic engines shellcode is adressed in this book. By polymorphic engines, we mean programs having the ability to transform any piece of malware into many...

This book introduces the idea of volatility as an asset class. Implied Volatility for individual U.S. Stocks are examined extensively. The first chapter defines the notion of implied volatility...

I analyze the impact of three institutional factors (legal origin, perceived corruption level and ownership structures) on the cash flow sensitivity of investment in ten emerging markets (Hong Kong,...

In recent years the pressure pulse decay technique became a frequent tool for fast and convenient measurement of permeability of tight rocks. The method is superior to conventional steady state...

Cementing is an extremely important part of completing an oil and gas well. Based on quality and type of cement used, factors such as the future exploitation of the well and its ability to withstand...