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A Single Continuous Function As A Model For Fast Rise Exponential Decay Gamma-Ray Bursts, Daniel B. Logue
A Single Continuous Function As A Model For Fast Rise Exponential Decay Gamma-Ray Bursts, Daniel B. Logue
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A quantitative analysis was performed on a sample of Fast-Rise Exponential-Decay gamma-ray bursts using a continuous fitting function. The data were obtained from the Large Area detector catalogue of the Burst and Transient Source Experiment, which flew from 1991-2000 onboard the Compton Gamma-Ray Observatory. The purpose here is to tabulate from the fits quantities associated with gamma-ray bursts, emphasising peak intensity, duration, and characteristic rates of rising and falling. V/Vmax and duration analyses show that the sample of bursts is representative of the larger population of gamma-ray bursts. A modified asymmetric double sigmoidal was found to fit the background subtracted …
Social Learning Theory As A Model For Illegitimate Peer-To-Peer Use And The Effects Of Implementing A Legal Music Downloading Service On Peer-To-Peer Music Piracy, Nathan Fisk
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In an attempt to both provide added services to students and help curb the growing problem of music piracy on college campuses, many universities have implemented legal digital music services. The Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) was one of these universities, where the Cdigix Ctrax service is provided to students. In order to evaluate the effectiveness of such a strategy, Information Technology Services (ITS) at RIT requested the services of Dr. Samuel McQuade, who administered a Webbased survey to all Ctrax users and an equal number of randomly selected non-Ctrax using students at RIT. In total, 447 students responded to …
Efficient Job Scheduling For A Cellular Manufacturing Environment, Joshua Dennie
Efficient Job Scheduling For A Cellular Manufacturing Environment, Joshua Dennie
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An important aspect of any manufacturing environment is efficient job scheduling. With an increase in manufacturing facilities focused on producing goods with a cellular manufacturing approach, the need arises to schedule jobs optimally into cells at a specific time. A mathematical model has been developed to represent a standard cellular manufacturing job scheduling problem. The model incorporates important parameters of the jobs and the cells along with other system constraints. With each job and each cell having its own distinguishing parameters, the task of scheduling jobs via integer linear programming quickly becomes very difficult and time-consuming. In fact, such a …