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A Methodology For Evaluating Prospective Investments In Flexible Automation, Werner A. Eikenbusch

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The flexible automation of production systems (FA) provides the technology necessary for competitive success. However, the use of traditional budgeting methods has proved unsatisfactory when evaluating this type of investment, primarily because of the inadequate consideration being given to the resultant strategic benefits.

A methodology considered suitable for evaluating FA investments is proposed together with an illustrative application. To determine its industrial usefulness, manufacturing managers of North American and West German companies were surveyed both via interviews and via questionnaires. Their response confirms the merit of the procedure, despite the differences in competitive foci found between the American and the …

Effects Of Peripheral And Microwave-Core Heating On Survival In Hemorrhagic Shock In Rats, Ashraf Sabry El-Assuooty

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In a model of rats resuscitated from hemorrhagic shock,where 11 of 12 animals were alive up to 4 hours after shock, there was an average drop of 10°C in core body temperature. Survival and morbidity was much impaired when the shocked animals were externally heated with an infrared lamp to maintain a core body temperature of 35°C. Since the increased intrashock mortality is possibly due to the circulatory changes induced by peripheral heating, an attempt was made to determine the effects of heating the animal at its core. Twelve rats were shocked in the same fashion, however the body core …

Ibm/Xt-Based Automatic Monitoring Instrumentation System For Eating Behavior Studies In Rats, Binghong Gui

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An auto-feeding system based on the IBM-XT microcomputer has been designed for use in the anti-obesity research program in the Pharmacology Department at Hoffmann-La Roche Inc. By using this system, experimental rats can be automatically fed, some which have been given anti-obesity drugs and some which have not. The system can also collect data, such as eating times and food intake, which are used for studying the rat's eating behavior.

The system is designed to control thirty six cages with one experimental rat in each cage and it performs three functions:

1 ) To automatically dispense a preset quantity of …

Micro Cad/Cam System Selection And Implementation, Christian Georg Haas

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The rapid growth of the computer market in the last four decades causes difficulties in evaluating the various systems and configurations of this complex market.

This thesis focuses on graphics capable microcomputers in the computer aided design (CAD) and computer aided manufacturing (CAM) field. The thesis emphasizes the technical possibilities such a system offers in terms of hardware, software and applications. Each hardware and software component is detailed to give a new-comer the opportunity to update him or herself in this high technology field. Technical information, as well as installation and implementation are described. Also, provided are lists of several …

The Application Of Zero-Sum Games To Low Sensitivity Optimal Control, Jun Huang

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This thesis deals with the synthesis of low sensitivity optimal control systems. Zero-Sum games are applied to the first order linear differential equation system. The goal is to obtain an optimal control of the system performance, and at the same time, reduce the sensitivity of the performance index and sensitivity trajectory.

In this thesis, the quadratic index of performance is selected in the argumented system which is combined/ the system equation with the sensitivity equation. Two control variables U & V are selected to maximize and minimize the system, in order to obtain the optimal value of the system.

Two …

Investigation Of A Technology For Glass Shaping By The Use Of Abrasive Waterjet, Wu-Tzung Lee

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This study investigates the effects of AWJ properties on the results of glass machining and examines the feasibility of contour glass cutting. The principal defects of AWJ glass cutting are identified. A practical technique to prevent defects and to improve the quality of the glass surface is presented. A computer package was developed to provide a computer-aided programming function, a control program transformation fuction, and a object image operation function. Throughout the programming function, robot control programs can be generated to improve cutting quality and cutting speed. The transformation function can be used to change the programming modes or the …

Fetal Phonocardiography, Jeng-Kwan Lin

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A reliable non-invasive tracking of the fetal heart rate from the maternal abdominal surface could be of significant diagnostic importance in the monitoring of pregnancies, not only for fetal heart rate assessment, but also for the observation of congenital cardiac malformations and transient difficulties during labor. Further, the fetal heart rate recording may be used to assess fetal heart rate variability in the antepartum period of gestation when it is not possible to obtain a fetal scalp lead electrocardiogram.

There are several methods being used to detect the fetal heart rate. Phonocardiography, abdominal electrocardiography and ultrasound cardiography are the three …

Gallium Arsenide Standard Cell Cad Database For Digital Design, Nanchou Liu

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This thesis develops a selected design database of gallium arsenide logic cells for automated design. Uniformly applied 1 um gate length physical layout rules are used for the design database with a standard cell design methodology.

Schottky Diode FET Logic (SDFL) technology with double level metallization was selected following a consideration of alternative gallium arsenide MESFET logic types. The SDFL approach is judged to provide improved noise margin, production yield, density, and lower power dissipation.

A cell library with 60 um cell height has been implemented with double entry for each cell input/output. Each cel1 has been simulated with SPICE …

Contrast Sensitivity Measurement Via Evoked Potential, Ken-Gen Lu

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This work is concerned with the use of the visual Evoked Response (VER) to determine Contrast Sensitivity in humans. For this purpose, a system has been developed where signals, obtained from scalp electrodes, and stimulated by visual grating patterns, are recorded digitized and processed on a personal computer (IBM compatible). Processing includes signal averaging and digital filtering. The system provides storage, retrieval and graphic representation of data as well as the capability to transfer data to other computer systems. Data processing includes parameter estimation of suitable signal models, which provide effective data compression of the signal into a finite set …

Asics Application On Voice Processing Interface Design- Qegg Multiplier, Gwo-Jen Luar

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Application Specific Integrated Circuits (ASIC) is a high density VLSI design that including the lower cost, higher performance, small size, and increased reliability. The ASIC, XILINX's LCA is applied on the signal processing ahead of computer I/O interface, specially for the quantitative Electroglottograph. This thesis covers the logic design, simulation test, realization, and stand alone test.

Analysis Of Selected Pollutants In Complex Media, Suyi Luo

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Part one: A rapid and reliable procedure is developed for the measurement of the carcinogen benzo(a)pyrene in food. It is a streamlined hybrid of two published methods. These involve ethanalic potassium hydroxide digestion of samples, isooctane extraction, column chromatography on florisil, separation of B(a)P by thin-layer chromatography and measurement of B(a)P by fluorimetry. The recovery of a B(a)P spike of sample is 86.0 + 14.5 % . The procedure which has a limited of detection of 0.05 ng/g (0.05ppb), has been applied to the Human Exposure to B(a)P study.

Part Two: Hexachlorocyclohexane, hexachlorobenzene and some selected PCB congeners were found …

Interface To 8052ah-Basic Microcontroller For A Multichannel Priority Interrupt System, Chen-Tung Mo

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This thesis presents the design and development of a system with the capability to detect up to forty channels of signals generated from different analog sources and to process them under the control of a microcomputer.

The present work offers the design and implementation of a hardware interface unit in a multichannel real-time data acquisition system as well as the application software program to operate it. This kind of system can be widely used in process control, musical instrument interfacing, and machine automation.

This interface unit follows the general instrumentation architecture in both signal processing and logic control. The software …

A Dynamic Set-Based Multiaccess Protocol For Local Area Networks, Parul S. Nanavati

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The packet-broadcasting technique brings together the advantages of both packet switching and broadcast communication. The central problem of a packet broadcast network is conflict resolution among the users sharing the broadcast communication link. Collisions are the major source of transmission errors which degrade the performance of a LAN. Proposed here is a novel multiaccess protocol which offers full communication resources to the user at low traffic requirements. It dynamically adjusts the number of users allowed to access the medium at heavy traffic requirements such that number of collisions are reduced and thus maintains the efficient utilization of the medium and …

Reliability Problems In Semiconductor Lasers, Ajay R. Patel

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The stability and reliability of semiconductor laser is dependent on its design, fabrication, and output power. The best way to assure high reliability of these devices is by accelerated aging test and by selection of strict and meaningful criteria for the acceptance or rejection of a particular device. In this thesis emphasis is given on different failure mechanisms that are known. As new development takes place, other mechanisms may be found. Catastrophic degradation, gradual degradation, darkline defects, and contamination during the fabrication process are the main source of device failure.

The noise generation and the packaging issue of semiconductor laser …

Microprocessor Testing And Computer Aided Diagnosability Of Digital Circuits, Shirish Patel

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Computer Aided Diagnosability Of Circuits (CADOC), a new method is developed for isolating and pin-pointing a faulty device in digital circuits. CADOC is based on graph-theoretic principle and PFD numbers. Without considering any SA1 or SAO faults, we can zoom out faulty device by selecting different diagnostic path to narrow down the faulty region and to isolate the faulty device. The efficiency of this new technique is confirmed by applying the technique to many examples.

Reliability Evaluation Of Liquid Crystal Displays Under Accelerated Test Conditions, Ishatdev Singh Rathore

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This thesis deals with the recent study of reliability of liquid crystal displays. This study determined the effects of high temperature on LCD reliability. To accomplish this, reliability life testing was done on different kinds of LCD samples under different operating conditions. The tests were carried out on the samples of two different vendors at two different temperatures. No humidity was added in any test.

Vendor No. 1

1. 120 units at 77° ± l° C.

2. 80 units at 85° ± 1° C.

Vendor No. 2

1. 60 hard and 60 soft glass units at 77° ± 1°C.

2. …

Sorption Characteristics And Their Effects On Geotechnical Properties Of Clay Soils, Arambawattage Mahendra Rodrigo

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An experimental investigation on the sorption characteristics of clay soils with liquid organics (phenol, chlorophenol, nitrophenol and chlorobenzene) and their effects upon geotechnical properties was undertaken. The investigation consisted of two different phases, namely, (1) the sorption/ desorption study, including kinetic rate, equilibrium time, isotherm modeling, and (2) geotechnical properties due to clay/ liquid organic interactions. The results of kinetic rate study indicate that the equilibration time for the contaminants way dependent upon the hydrophobic or the hydrophelic nature of the chemical. For equilibrium adsorption models, the linear isotherm was found to be the best fit in predicting sorption capacities …

Design And Development Of An Infrared Ccd Camera, John Frederick Romanowich

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An infrared CCD camera system was designed and developed for operating various sizes of Schottky-barrier IR-CCD image sensor chips. The camera has a digitally programmable frequency synthesizer for operating the 160 X 244, 320 X 244, and 256 X 256 image sensors developed at the David Sarnoff Research Center. The electronics of the camera are designed to provide the outputs required for operating a XYZ monitor, a standard TV monitor, or a computer workstation. At the core of the camera design is a RS-170 standard sync generator that supplies the waveforms for synchronizing the camera's circuitry to produce a composite …

Study Of Dynamic Cmos Families And Development Of Certain Guidelines For Logic Synthesis, Vinay Santurkar

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This work studies in detail two dynamic logic families, namely Zipper and Nora. It compares their performance using SPICE, a popular circuit simulator. Results show that a novel clocking scheme and a different latch circuit for the Nora pipelined structure can push its maximum clock rate of CMOS Dynamic circuits higher. It also ascertains whether the increased complexity of NORA is justified compared to the simpler Zipper circuit. It is shown that for very long logic chains, Nora works faster than Zipper. The work also presents some guidelines for synthesis of logic functions using CMOS Dynamic Cells. It shows that …

An Investigation Of Electrical And Physical Properties Of Reactively, Diode Sputtered Silicon Nitride Thin Films, Divyang Manharlal Shah

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Silicon nitride thin films were deposited by r.f. reactive sputtering of silicon in nitrogen and argon discharge. Biased and unbiased modes of diode mode sputtering were used. Typical parameters for a sputter deposition run were: base pressure, 1-2x10-6 torr; sputtering pressure, 5-7 mtorr; nitrogen partial pressure, 15-16%; cathode-anode gap, 4 inch; r.f. power, 200-250 watts; cathode voltage, 1.8-2.1 V r.f.; water vapor pressure, 20-30% of the base pressure. The film thickness and the refractive index were measured by ellipsometery. The films of thickness 300-2500A, refractive index 1.9-2.1 and resistivity 10101Ω — cm were obtained. The deposition rate was in the …

Integration Of Cad/Cam System Into A Waterjet Cutting Cell, Sanjay C. Shah

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The work is intended to bridge the gap between CAD and CAM fora waterjet cutting cell. The output of CAD is used by CAM directly through the software interface developed. To achieve this, a postprocessor is designed for a two-dimensional system for the series 8200 Allen Bradley's 5-axes Robot Controller. Calma's DDM & DIMENSION III interactive graphics system implemented on VAX was used for the part design. The postprocessor is a computer program, written in the structured FORTRAN, that is unique for a given machine-tool/controller combination. The conversion of the coding and recording format of the APT file to the …

Culture Analysis In A Merger Environment, Dorairaj Sharathram

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The effects of the merger upon the People Express Airline company is studied with particular emphasis upon changes in corporate culture and structure.

A case study approach utilizes an extensive literature search and interviews with People Express executives. It is confirmed that the structural change has led to the cultural change.

With a unique style of management structure and culture, People Express, due to its own mistakes and problems, quickly lost its market share and allowed itself to be taken over by Continental Airlines a subsidiary of Houston based Texas Air Corp.

It is interesting to note that the corporate …

Seizure And Wear Testing Methodology, I-Tsung Shih

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In this work the seizure as an adhesive wear has been discussed and analyzed The diffusion hypotheses is accepted as the seizure mechanism. It was determined that the surface of machine components, material properties, and contact stresses in sliding and loading zone are responsible for the wear.

A computer controlled wear testing methodology has been developed and a wear testing machine has been designed and assembled. The tests for the selected gray cast non and alloy steel specimens with different surface treatment were performed on the designed wear testing machine.

The test results showed that the selected materials with additional …

Analysis And Simulation Of Chirp Radar System, Tina Tsung Tsai

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This paper consists of a technique to design a Chirp radar system and proposes a solution to optimize the design of the linear time delay network required in such systems. A Chirp radar system has a wide bandwidth for high range resolution, and long pulse duration for high velocity resolution and high transmitted energy. The technique of a pulse compression system offers a means of increasing the average power available to illuminate radar targets without any loss of the resolution at the receiver needed for the tactical requirements of the system. This is accomplished by transmitting a wide pulse in …

The Changing Role Of The Electric Utility Rates Manager, Richard J. Tutela

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The Changing Role of the Electric Utility Rates Manager will examine the rapidly changing functions of the electric utility rates and regulatory affairs executives. It will explore the changing attitudes, responsibilities, concerns, and required resources of the incumbents. Moreover, it will project and examine the issues which will be of major concern before the turn of the century.

Expectations are that the future functions associated with managing electric rates will soon be significantly different than those in recent past. Further, expectations are to find that if some specific issues which are projected to be of major concern are not properly …

Cmos Sram Design For Initializing Programmable Logic Devices, Ravi K. Vaidyanathan

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This thesis presents the design of CMOS Static Random Access Memory (SRAM) which is imbedded within a high performance Programmable Logic Device (PLD). The SRAM and its control circuitry are used to initialize (or personalize) the NJIT PLD chip. The design is defined in 3-levels of functional hierarchy consistent with the physical and electronic design automation utilized for this design. The imbedded SRAM supports the PLD application circuit which includes 8 small Array and one large Control Programmable Logic Arrays.

The SRAM is structured as 64 X 138 bit array with serial read and write inputs. It is designed emphasizing …

Analysis Of Spread Spectrum System Using Direct Sequence Technique In Jamming Environment, Kandarp A. Vyas

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A spread spectrum system is a means of transmitting data over a channel In addition it offers a wide variety of features like data security and signal hiding This work studies in detail a spread spectrum system using direct sequence binary phase shift keying. The Sliding Correlator and Sequential Detector techniques have been used to achieve synchronization. A brief study of pseudorandom noise has been presented. System was simulated on UNIX using 'c'. A modified version, suitable for software implementation, of Sliding Correlator and Sequential Detector was, used. Results generated using tins model are presented here.

Attenuation Properties Of An Lp 11 Mode In A W-Type Fiber Operating Below Cutoff, Chih-Chiang Wang

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Rigorous formulation of a W-type fiber for its dispersion properties is presented. An LP mode has been studies extensively with respect to its attenuation properties when the frequency of operation is kept below cut-off. Due to rigorous dispersion equation numerical difficulties encountered in the computations, an approximate dispersion equation corresponding to weakly guided modes is solved. Numerical results corresponding to attenuation and propagation characteristics of the W-type fiber for radii and refractive index variations are presented. A computational subroutine for radial functions (Bessel, etc ) for complex argument has been used and proved to be useful in the legion of …

Research, Development, And Evaluation Of A Solid State Transformer, Robert Michael Joseph Wozniak

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The analysis and design of a solid state step down transformer is presented as part of a research study which reviews novel approaches to the development of high frequency power magnetic apparatuses and applies available theory to produce a solid state counter part. The resulting circuit exhibits the potential for efficiency as high as 85%, low output ripple, regulation that is comparable with other modes of power conversion and the ability to provide localized on-board power.

The State And Future Of Televised Professional Training Systems, Robert Michael Brady

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This paper investigates the topic of televised professional training -- that is training and educating managers and technical professionals via live or videotaped television broadcasts. The investigation begins with a description of how some typical educational networks operate; it then goes on to analyze in a strictly theoretical sense, some of the advantages and disadvantages that such a system would have compared with the traditional methods of offering continuing education; it then discusses the results of two specially prepared surveys -- one addressed to the administrator/manager, and one addressed to the student. These areas are then united in a final …