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Connecticut Common Interest Ownership Act
No full textThe Connecticut Common Interest Ownership Act a/k/a "C.I.O.A.," was enacted by this state's legislature in response to numerous problems associated with the function and management of condominium associations. Specifically, problems of how and when to provide notice to association members, the appropriateness of public board meeting agenda and content and the ability of association members to participate and be heard in connection with an association's activities. The C.I.O.A. was to accomplish not only protecting the rights of individual association members, but also to standardize practices and procedures among all associations within the state in order to provide uniformity in dispute outcomes. Prior to the enactment of the C.I.O.A. each association had its own set of rules in regard to foregoing, placing undue burden on 1) individual association members in understanding them and 2) the state's courts in interpreting them
Shape optimization design and material selection for a fitness equipment
No full textRecently, engineers still pay attention to the design of bar structure. For their simple shape and simple manufacture process, a lighter and cheaper bar structure was demanded. As the bar structure is used widely in people’s daily life, there is a fairly useful example for bar structure design. In this project, the Finite Element Method (FEM) was applied to design the bar structures of the fitness equipment. The principle stress and deformation of the equipment by a load that simulate the body weight was predicted by the FEM software (ANSYS). According to the result, the requirement of the material properties was found. The Yield Stress must be lower than the maximum stress, which means this equipment will not be broken at the load. The thickness of the bar and the maximum principle stress was set for a parametric study. For this step, the minimum volume was found. There are many different ways to select an appropriate material. In this project, the CES Edupack was used to select the material
The Potential for Bivalve-Enhanced Denitrification in Long Island Sound
No full textTaylor Gofstein's poster on the potential use for bivalve-enhanced denitrification in Long Island Sound
Goal Directed Design of Serial Robotic Manipulators
No full text© ASEE 2014Computing the optimal geometric structure of manipulators is one of the most intricate problems in contemporary robot kinematics. Robotic manipulators are designed and built to perform certain predetermined tasks. It is therefore important to incorporate such task requirements during the design and synthesis of the robotic manipulators. Such task requirements and performance constraints can be specified in terms of the required end-effector positions, orientations along the task trajectory. In this work, we define, develop and test a methodology that can generate optimal manipulator geometric structures based on the task requirements. Another objective of this work is to guarantee task performance under user defined joint constraints. Using this methodology, task-based optimal manipulator structures can be generated that guarantee task performance under set operating constraints
Gait based gender classification using Kinect sensor
No full textIn this project, we propose a novel method to recognize human gender based on their gaits. We collect samples of walking silhouettes with Microsoft Kinect sensor and extract gait features from Gait Energy Image (GEI). The samples are divided into two parts: training dataset and testing dataset. We train a SVM classifier using the training set and test with testing dataset. We use feature vector with a low dimension in this project. The experimental results show that our method has accuracy higher than 80%
Guidelines for Micronutrient Interventions Studies
No full textDr. Kendler's poster on guidelines for studies related to human disorders and micronutrient intervention
Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome: Definition and Diagnosis
No full textThis thesis is being archived as a Digitized Shelf Copy for campus access to current students and staff only. We currently cannot provide this open access without the author's permission. If you are the author of this work and desire to provide it open access or wish access removed, please contact the Wahlstrom Library to discuss permission.Objective: Polycystic ovarian syndrome (PCOS) is a disorder of many systems including the endocrine, reproductive, metabolic, and psychological systems. Classically, PCOS is characterized by ovulatory dysfunction with infertility, hirsutism/hyperandrogenism, insulin resistance, and obesity. This thesis will aim at providing a literature review and will explore the mechanism in which this disorder manifests, and how clinicians diagnose and decide to treat and manage such cases. Basic Procedures: Articles and reviews were acquired through searching databases and journals on myEureka! and PubMed. Research focused on the diagnosis, characterization, treatment, and sequelae of PCOS. Papers were only chosen if published in the past twenty years. Main Findings: There were discrepancies over the diagnostic criteria that define PCOS. The prevalence was difficult to determine due to the inconsistencies in definition. Pharmaceutical and natural interventions were found to be standard across the board, with both addressing the matters of weight loss, insulin re-sensitization, and hormone balancing. It was interesting to note, the consistency in themes regarding the treatment of PCOS from both the naturopathic and conventional approaches. Principal Conclusions: PCOS is becoming more prevalent in the realm of endocrine disorders today. Treatment is essential due to the seriousness of possible conditions that arise if left untreated or managed. Naturopathic treatment including botanicals, lifestyle management, and nutrient supplementation are non-invasive and do not carry the side-effect burden of pharmaceutical agents. This thesis will briefly review both naturopathic and conventional therapeutic options, after addressing the pathophysiology, and diagnostic criteria of PCOS
Can Arabidopsis thaliana Seeds Survive Exposure to Extreme Cold?
No full textAmanda Scott, Bryant Brown, John Solomon's poster about Arabidopsis thaliana seeds and there ability to survive exposure to extreme cold
New Virtual Currency Bitcoin Its Past, Present, and Future
No full textBitcoin is a peer-to-peer payment system and digital currency introduced in 2009 by developer Satoshi Nakamoto. Unlike other currencies, Bitcoins are created by solving math puzzles called mining. There are finite number of bitcoins – 21 million – and All are expected to be mined by 2014. In a key development in 2011, BitPay, a payment processor that allows e-commerce merchants to accept bitcoins, begins operating. BitPay allows both users and senders to remain anonymous by transferring bitcoins between digital wallets that can be set up on computers and mobile phones. The program tracks each bitcoin to prevent counterfeiters