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Automatic Guided Robot
No full textIn production industries and chemical plants there are some repetitive and tedious jobs that require a lot of monotonous actions, like moving objects. These activities are time bound which cannot be managed by humans alone. Automatic Guided Robot system is a reprogrammable robot which will be able to identify objects on its own and it will carry the identified object to its destination. System uses image processing for comparison of two images, image captured by camera and required image. Wireless camera is used to capture an image and the captured image is transferred to the computer using an RF module. Microcontroller AT Mega 16 will control the robot arms and wheels and works as per commands by computer
UB Knightlines Fall/Winter 2016
No full textThe UB Knightlines newsletter for fall and winter of 2016. This issue contains articles discussing winners of the UB Alumni Association's Distinguished Alumni Award, Alumni Association Scholarship winner Mendel Murray, professor Jeongkyu Lee’s Young Data Science program, president emeritus Richard Rubenstein and this book After Auschwitz, UB receiving a National Institutes of Health grant to expand research, SASD students winning third place in the Sherwin-Williams STIR Student Design Challenge, the opening of the new dorm University Hall, student Michael Asmerom a National Association of Black Accountants, professor Marsha Matto and SASD students work with couple to design beach home, faculty news, alumni news, books published by alums and faculty, and other campus and sports news
Gait Balance Detection and Analysis Using Smart-phone Application
Get PDFThis poster describes the components of a gait analysis framework in a smart-phone App. Gait detection is a major concern problem in the field of biomedical Engineering. This present work deals with gait detection using the help of the following devices: a 3-axial accelerometer sensor, an Arduino uno kit a GPS-GSM module, and a buzzer. The sensor analyzes the data stream coming from a (Microelectromechanical systems) MEMS tri-axial accelerometer to infer fall occurrences and to evaluate the gait quality. With the signals obtained, a new automated approach is developed for classifying (diagnosing) locomotive patients using features that may be extracted from their gait signal. For the analysis of different patterns, we use MATLAB. Arduino uno kit is an open source electronics prototyping platform based on flexible and easy-to-use hardware and software modules. The accelerometer helps in tracking human motion and it plays a vital role in gait detection. On the smart-phone side, the application is made of four major components: Background Service, Classification Engine, Notification System and Graphical User Interface. This is a research work in-progress where we are trying to also analyze and process the gait signals from PhysioNet’s Gait in Neurodegenerative disorder public database that includes various kinds of diseases such as Parkinson’s disease, Huntington’s disease, Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis and Healthy control. With the signals obtained, in this study, we try to develop a new automated approach for classifying (diagnosing) locomotive patients using features that may be extracted from their gait signal
Automated and High Speed Mechanical System for Assembling of Self Centering Release Bearing in Automobile Industries
No full textThe moto of this research paper is to design and simulation of a fully automated and high speed assembly system design for self-centering release bearing, which can reduce human efforts, time consumption and eventually cost of a final product. This system increases efficiency and production rate on an assembly line. This system has been designed by using PTC Creo 2.0 a modelling software. For the gripping purpose a self-centering gripper is used, which is designed in such a way that it holds the bearing hub with center matching technology and assemble it over self-centering release bearing within the exact tolerance zone. To control all motions of the grippers and the center matching tools the rod less pneumatic cylinders are used. At the end, the computer aided structural analysis and validation of the bearing hub and the gripper have been performed using ANSYS Workbench 16.0 to study the stresses developed and deformation pattern during the process of assembly
Business Faculty Perceptions and Enforcement of Academic Integrity Policies
No full textThe primary purpose of this research was to study the difference of perceptions, beliefs as well as the level of enforcement of the institution’s Honor Code/Code of Conduct between full time and part time College of Business faculty at a private mid-Atlantic university. The objective was to develop a better understanding of faculty perceptions, faculty beliefs, and factors that influence faculty behavior to either take action or inaction with regards to the institution’s Academic Integrity polices. The research examined material on academic integrity/honor codes in higher education, faculty enforcement of honor codes, faculty perceptions of honor codes, perceptions of full time vs. part time faculty of the higher education experience, higher education leadership, honor codes in business degree programs, student course evaluations and faculty reactions to student course evaluations. This research study concluded that an overwhelming majority of full time and part time faculty at the College of Business did not ignore academic dishonesty and enforced the University’s honor code. Furthermore, the research determined that in general, full time and part time faculty perceptions regarding Academic Integrity were similar
Benefit Corporations and Certified B Corporations: Which is More Beneficial for a Socially Responsible Entrepreneur?
No full textViktoria Tkachenko's, Nikki Wingate's, and Elena Cahill's poster on benefit corporations and certified B corporations in the relation to socially responsible entrepreneur
Yahoo! Movies User Ratings and Descriptive Content Information, v.1.0
No full textA fundamental aspect of rating based systems is the observation process; the process which users choose the movies they rate. Finding user to user similarity is a fundamental component for collaborative filtering. In user to user similarity ratings assigned by two users to a set of items are pairwise compared and averaged is called correlation. In this project I want to show user to user similarity adaptive i.e., we dynamically change the computation depending on the profiles of the compared users and the target movie whose prediction is sought. I evaluate the proposed theory with k-means clustering by grouping similar users which rated similar movies with same rating. i.e., whoever is having same will come under one group
Computer Aided Analysis and Prototype Testing of an Improved Biogas Reactor for Biomass System
No full textThe alternative fuel resources substituting for conventional fuels are required due to less availability of fuel resources than demand in the market. A large amount of crude oil and petroleum products are required to be imported in many countries over the world. Also the environmental pollution is another serious problem when use petroleum products. Biogas, with the composition of 54.5% CH4, 39.5% CO2, and 6% other elements (i.e., H2, N2, H2S, and O2), is a clear green fuel that can substitute the regular petroleum fuels to reduce the pollutant elements. The purification process can be further applied to take away the pollutants in biogas. The pure biogas process analyzed in this research is compressed to 2950 psi while being filled into gas cylinder. The daily produced biogas capacity is around 5480 ft3 and the processing efficacy is affected by surrounding environment and other factors. The design and development of this biogas system is assisted through mathematical analysis, 3D modeling, computational simulation, and prototype testing. Both computer aided analysis and prototype testing show close results which validate the feasibility of this biogas system in biomass applications
The Top 9 Ways to Increase Customer Loyalty
No full textEvery company executive will raise their hand and say they believe having loyal customers is the key to business success. But what are executives really doing about it? Most point to customer care training or CRM systems and say “this is how we take care of loyalty at our firm”. Some point to monthly newsletters or discount programs to demonstrate their efforts. All of these are good attempts, however, they are not good enough. Companies are losing customers at a staggering rate and never hearing from most of them. Each year the average company loses 10-15% of its customer base. 84% of customers who leave do so because of poor service. A typical business only hears from 4% of its dissatisfied customers the other 96% leave, 91% leave for good. By understanding certain principles and putting those principals into practice a company can foster a culture of greater loyalty and engagement that will reward them with greater profits and increased sales. These topics can be separated into three primary groups: 1. Basic Concepts, 2. Technologies, 3. Business Outcome
Numerical Study on the Thermal Performance of Embedded Heat Pipes for CPU Cooling
No full textThermal management of central processing units (CPU) becomes more challenging in the development and production of high performance computers with faster and smaller size CPUs. Heat pipes are two-phase cooling devices with an effective thermal conductivity over 200 times higher than that of a copper heat sink. In addition, heap pipes have light weight, low cost and the flexibility of many different sizes and shape options which can be embedded into the metallic heat sink to provide more efficient thermal management. In this project, CFD was used to study a heap pipe embedded CPU cooler. The simulated results is validated with the experimental data for the same CPU cooler. Golf ball fans were also introduced to replace the stock fans in the CPU cooler to enhance the heat transfer and lower the operating temperature. The detailed distributions of temperature, velocity, and pressure were used to analyze the performance of the CPU cooler in both cases and found the golf ball fans are more effective than the stock fans