Autonomous car, Communication, image processing
Cooperation Autonomous driving is an extremely difficult task requiring absolute reliability under a great variety of situations. Currently, it is almost impossible for a single sensor to handle the complexity due to limited perspective and intrinsic weakness such as...
Communication, Computer, data mining
Cascading Failures Introduction The complex structure and wide interconnections of power grids make them vulnerable to disturbances such as faults, loss of transmission lines (TLs), etc. This complexity makes the control strategies more sophisticated and costly in...
Communication
Interaction between Electric Vehicles charging and the grid Besides the charging station, EVs are viewed as a possible solution to integrating the renewable energy to the power grid. One of the impact of EVs on renewable energy is load shifting. The typical daily...
Communication
Large scale charging at public facilities In this section, we present the framework of EV charging in public charging facilities. In US, there are several major parties that invest in public EV charging stations. The government spends in charging stations in public...
Communication
Large Scale Charging in Distribution System In this section, we discuss the framework of the large-scale EV charging in a distribution system. As shown in Figure 2.7, EVs are attached to residential houses or public chargers distributed in a wide area. A service...
Communication
Charging scheduling of single Electric Vehicles In this subsection, we present a generic formulation of the scheduling problem of single EV charging. Here we assume the state of charging (SOC) is linear in the power consumptions and discharging is forbidden. Since the...
Communication
Home charging Electric Vehicles models and impacts on distribution systems The most commonly used charging method would be charging at home using level 1 or level 2 charging outlets. In this section, we present the charging framework of a single EV in a residential...
Communication
Charging behavior of an Electric Vehicles battery To study the EV charging behavior or design the battery management system, we need to understand how the batteries of EVs are charged and discharged. There are four kinds of batteries that are commonly used in electric...
Communication
Electric vehicle Charging Standards There are typically three levels of charging stations: Level 1, Level 2 and DC Fast Charge (DCFC) 1. These levels denote different charging rates of an electric vehicle’s battery. The use of higher level charging stations will...
Communication
Broad classifications of Electric vehicle charging methodologies The great challenge and potential of EV charing problems have attracted plenty of attention to this area. The subject can be probed from different angles. An EV owner wants to minimize the total charging...
Communication
Overview of technology: challenges and limitations of large scale charging of Electric Vehicle Impacts and challenges However, before the win-win situation comes true, multiple technical challenges need to be solved. It has been shown that, with no proper...
Communication
Importance of Electric Vehicle charging The anxiety of driving range has been the greatest barrier of wide EV adoption. Thus the convenient access of charging facilities and fast charging technology are essential for success of EVs. Residential are unlikely to...
Communication
Electric Vehicle history The first electric car is considered to be invented by Scotsman Robert Anderson, somewhere in-between 1832 and 1839. Unfortunately, the exact date is unknown and the detail design was lost. In the same time, Sibrandus Stratingh, a Dutch...
Communication, Computer, data mining
File Sharing in Mobile Devices In the digital world, electronic gadgets can be considered as a measuring instrument to decide an individual’s complexity of living. Using mobile devices such as laptops and cellular phones has become the norm. The increased demand for...
Communication, Computer, data mining, database of image
The Digital Imaging Revolution The invention of the Charge-Coupled Device (CCD) FPA by Boyle and Smith in 1969 was a major breakthrough for entire elds and industries who depended on the reliable sampling, storage and transmission of optical signals . The CCD is the...
Communication, Computer, data mining
Reliability Modeling and Management In Mobile Devices Optimizing performance in mobiles increases the peak power consumption, causing the device temperature to raise quickly. This dramatically worsens the impact of transistors and interconnects reliability degradation...
Communication, Computer, data mining
Temperature Modeling and Management In Mobile Devices Power dissipated by electronic circuits is converted into heat causing an increase in the device temperature. High temperatures negatively impact performance, raise leakage power consumption and can damage circuits...
Communication, Computer, data mining
Mobile Devices and User Experience Providing quality user experience is the main goal of mobile devices . This depends on how quality is perceived by users. Quality user experience is achieved when the device behavior meets user’s expectations. User’s perception is...
Communication, Computer, data mining
Video Conferencing Quality under Network Impairments Wireless networks are much more volatile than wireline networks. The unique challenge for mobile video call is to maintain stable realtime video streaming quality in face of various network impairments, such as...
Communication, Computer, data mining
Can you SEE me now?” A Measurement Study of Mobile Video Calls Video telephony is increasingly being adopted by end consumers. It is extremely challenging to deliver video calls over wireless networks. In this paper, we conduct a measurement study on three popular...
Communication, data mining, database of image
Solar Prediction The introduction of Solar Power Plants (SPPs) will have different financial effect in the MP and the PAB scheme. These effects are a function of market price, which depends on the bids of participants. Although the assumption of perfect competition...
Communication, Computer, data mining
Electricity Market schemes There are many kinds of electricity market schemes in use around the world. However, they differ in the market details. Most markets can be categorized into one of the following:the Marginal Price (MP) scheme, or the Pay-as-Bid (PAB) scheme....
Communication
SOCIAL MEDIA AND ITS UBIQUITOUS NATURE Kaplan and Haenlein defined social media as the “group of internet applications that built on the ideological and technological foundations of Web 2.0, and that allows the creation and exchange of user-generated content.”...
Communication
DNS Lookup DNS stands for domain name system. Several databases are responsible for storing all the domain names online and their corresponding IP addresses. DNS lookup is a process to find the IP address when a domain name is given. The reason to check the DNS lookup...
Communication
Email messages with an attachment In an attempt to protect users from malicious attachments, Duke OIT employs the Proofpoint TAP service to scan and sandbox (test the executable portions of attachments for malicious behavior in a safe place) all new incoming...
Communication
Email messages with and without a link The Duke email system has always been a complex system combined with the Duke Email Pre-Processing System and the Office 365 environment. Users’ experiences have been affected by the performance of both the Duke Email...
Communication, data mining, Medicine
Severity Of Low Back Disorfers In The Roofing Industry Low back disorders (LBDs) are one type of work-related musculoskeletal disorders (WMSDs), which refers to a group of painful disorders of soft tissues developed usually over from highly physical tasks. WMSDs...
Communication
Biologic vulnerability in women Several studies have indeed found that women have higher risk of contracting HIV upon exposure to the virus than men. A prospective study of 730 serodiscordant Italian couples showed that the efficiency of male-to-female transmission...
Communication
Introduction Aboriginal populations typically constitute one of the most vulnerable groups, both globally and in Canada, as they often live in remote, isolated, and highly impoverished communities. Because of these conditions, “their exposure to risk factors is often...
Communication, Computer, data mining
Analyzing Domestic Abuse using Natural Language Processing on Social Media Data Introduction Social media websites, such as Twitter, have frequently been used as a source of information for predicting and characterizing various societal and health issues. It is clear...
Communication, data mining
introduction There is a lot of excitement and zeal when it comes to the topic of stock prediction; a lot of communities like business, linguistics, sciences, engineering, etc. do the research on stock prediction, and in a many different ways . Conventionally stock...
Communication, data mining
Introduction and Motivation In the future robots will work closely with humans in the home to aid in various domestic tasks. Foremost are tasks in the kitchen. For a robot to help out and learn new abilities in the kitchen domain it must be able to understand a...
Communication, data mining
Telecommunication Industry Spurned by the explosion of the internet, the ever-increasing need for faster multimedia information transmission has created a large demand for expansive cable networks. The telecom industry, as stated before, is built upon a range of cable...
Communication, Speech Recognition
introfuction In 2006, amid a national energy crisis, Chilean utility companies Colbún and Endesa S.A. announced a joint venture called HidroAysén, a hydroelectric project proposing to construct five megadams on the Baker and Pascua rivers in Chile’s southernmost...
Communication
Introduction Beer has been brewed in America since colonial times and is a quintessential part of American culture. Founding father Benjamin Franklin has been credited with saying that “Beer is proof that God loves us.” However, only recently have the vast majority of...
Communication, data mining
Introduction Research offers the opportunity to bring together topics otherwise unexplored. The work presented here attempts to do that. This exploratory research integrates aspects of my broad professional background, my interest in sustainability, and my imminent...
Communication, Computer
Earned Value Management System (EVMS) The ANSI/ELA-748 Standard for Earned Value Management Systems was developed in 1996 as part of the Department of Defense (DoD) acquisition reform initiative that adapted commercial management control best practices. The U.S....
Communication, Computer, data mining
Linking Cost Of Quality (COQ) According to the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO), “Every two years at the start of a new Congress, GAO calls attention to agencies and program areas that are high risk due to their vulnerabilities to fraud, waste, abuse, and...
Communication, data mining
Introduction Coal power provides an inexpensive, reliable power source that is plentiful in the United States. Electricity has been essential in America’s culture, business and economy since the eighteenth century. Coal has been a staple in the production of...
Communication
Using Social Media In Public Health Interventions Communicating the safety of restaurants, food trucks, coffee shops and bars to the public is a federal mandate that must be followed by public health departments across the nation. It is important that this information...
