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Ideas for rent: an overview of markets for technology
No full textThis article surveys some of the recent literature on technology markets, and summarizes its main issues and insights. We structure our analysis in three parts: the supply and demand of technology; the factors that condition the formation and growth of technology markets; industry structure and dynamic issues. In addition, we summarize some of the studies that have tried to document the size and growth of these markets. We find that the literature has focused mainly on the supply of technology, but several other aspects of these markets remain under-studied, including the demand for external technology, the role of uncertainty in technology markets, and the dynamic interaction between industry structure and the market for technology. Understanding these will illuminate whether markets for technology will continue to grow or remained confined to pockets of the economy. Copyright 2010 The Author 2010. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of Associazione ICC. All rights reserved., Oxford University Press.
Metrics for analytics and visualization of big data with applications to activity recognition
No full textActivity recognition systems detect the hidden actions of an agent from sensor measurements made on the agents' actions and the environmental conditions. For such systems, metrics are important for both performance evaluation and visualization purposes. In this thesis, such metrics are developed and illustrated. For human activity recognition datasets, a reporting structure is described to visualize the metrics in a systematic manner. The other contribution of this thesis is to describe a visualization tool for estimating the orientation (attitude) of a rigid body from streaming motion sensor (accelerometer and gyroscope) data. A feedback particle filter (FPF) is implemented algorithmically to solve the estimation problem.Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'Closed Access', the embargo will last until 2018-05-01The student, Rohan Arora, accepted the attached license on 2016-04-25 at 10:47.The student, Rohan Arora, submitted this Thesis for approval on 2016-04-25 at 10:48.This Thesis was approved for publication on 2016-04-27 at 15:05.DSpace SAF Submission Ingestion Package generated from Vireo submission #9459 on 2016-07-07 at 14:17:57Made available in DSpace on 2016-07-07T21:18:02Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 2
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Hybrid Viscous-Structural Damping Identification Method
No full textDamping still remains one of the least well-understood aspects of general vibration analysis. The effects of damping are clear, but the characterization of damping is a puzzle waiting to be solved. A major reason for this is that, in contrast with inertia and stiffness forces, it is not clear which state variables are relevant to determine the damping forces. In this paper, a new hybrid viscous-structural damping identification method is proposed. The proposed method is a direct method and gives explicit structural and viscous damping matrices. The effectiveness of the proposed structural damping identification method is demonstrated by two numerical examples. First, numerical study of lumped mass system is presented which is followed by a numerical study of fixed-fixed beam. The effects of coordinate incompleteness and different level of damping are investigated. The results have shown that the proposed method is able to identify accurately the damping of the system.</p
Study on formability of friction stir welded dissimilar Aluminum alloys AL-6061-Y6 and AL-5083
No full textFirst generation Asian immigrants and mental health treatment
No full textAny first generation immigrant has a hard time assimilating to life in a new country, and this holds true for the Asian population and their mental health (Arora et al., 2020). This project focused on what impacts mental health of first generation Asian immigrants.Research presentationFaculty Mentor: Dr. Kathy Andrese
The effectiveness of the WHAM handwriting intervention for second to fifth grade students
No full textHandwriting is an essential skill for school assignments and projects. Elementary school students spend up to 50% of the school day engaged in paper and pencil tasks. Occupational therapists assist children to overcome handwriting difficulties through varied intervention approaches and techniques. The purpose of this retrospective study was to examine the effectiveness of a handwriting program for 2nd to 5th grade students based on motor learning principles of feedback, practice, and task relevance. Thirty students' handwriting samples were examined. The handwriting quality was analyzed using a modified scale based on the Minnesota Handwriting Assessment . The results showed significant improvement between pre and post for all measures of legibility, form, alignment, size and spacing
Towards automated classification of fine-art painting style: a comparative study
No full textThis thesis presents a comparative study of different classification methodologies for the task of fine-art genre classification. The problem of painting classification involves classifying new unknown paintings among different art genres. Two-level comparative study is performed for this classification problem. The first level reviews the performance of discriminative vs. generative models while the second level touches the features aspect of the paintings and compares Semantic-level features vs low-level and intermediate-level features present in the painting. Three models are studied and compared, namely - 1) A Discriminative model using a Bag-of-Words (BoW) approach; 2) A Generative model using BoW; 3) Discriminative model using Semantic-level features. Various experiments and techniques like Bag of Words model, Topic models and Classeme features are employed to get insights into potential of these automatic classification techniques for painting styles.M.S.Includes bibliographical referencesby Ravneet Singh Aror
Study and Evaluation of Groundwater Quality of Malwa Region, Punjab (North India)
No full textWater is the most v aluable, basic human need, prime natural resource and a precious asset. Water is indeed required in all aspect of life and health for domestic purposes, drinking, cooking, bathing, washing clothes, utensils, producing food, agricultural activity, energy generation, maintenance of environment and development for life. Water plays important role in several metabolic, physiological and other activities in human body as well as in other living beings ( m ittal and Arora, 2014)
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