In control system design, different kinds of equations arise and need to be solved for the purpose of designing the system, prior to optimizing it. To optimize a system, a cost functional should be formulated in terms of ...

A lightning strike to an overhead structure will cause a brief arc through the soil from its lightning ground to any nearby grounded metal utility line such as a gas pipe, sewer line, or communications cable. A limited ...

The purpose of this project is to implement an automated data collection drone that fly’s to wireless sensor nodes and collects measurement data. This is intended for sensor networks that are placed too far apart to ...

Though we already had a standardized way (from Oracle) for Disaster Recovery policy, a major crash of the PLM database made our DBAs to come up with a proposal to execute a procedure using Data Guard together with Oracle ...

The SBA (Small Business Administration) offered a list of failure rates of small business loans sorted by franchise brands from 2001 to 2011. This is a collection of data of over 580 franchise brands who fail to pay back ...

Securing personal data in the public spaces is something to worry about, in particular, the privacy and the confidentiality. The Internet of Things (IoT) will be widespread all over the network to connect devices and the ...

This paper analyzes debt-equity choice for financing a two-stage investment when a firm's insiders have private information about the firm's expected earnings. When private information is one-dimensional (for example when ...

This study aims at developing the technology framework for an integrated platform which enables key stakeholders in the caregiving system to communicate with reliable, trustworthy sources thereby improving pediatric oncology ...

In this study, a novel performance evaluation approach combining DEMATEL, ANP and ANN methods is proposed. The influenced weights for the evaluation criteria are calculated by D-ANP and following this the final ranking of ...