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Website Development For E-Gardening Nursery Online Store, Jun Mou Dec 2005

Website Development For E-Gardening Nursery Online Store, Jun Mou

Masters Theses & Doctoral Dissertations

This project successfully develops a web-based database-driven information system (an E-commerce website) with good quality. This website is developed for a small virtual online store and the key goal of this project is that the project must be completed at quite low developing cost. The project design and implementation are superior, because the project goal is very well achieved at a very low developing cost, by appropriately using some high-quality open­source resources (such as MySQL, JSP, Java Servlet, and Tomcat server). This website also realizes quite low maintenance cost, because of its effective "code-reuse implementation". In addition, the whole project …

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Wireless Protected Access, Abhishek Neelakanata Dec 2005

Wireless Protected Access, Abhishek Neelakanata

Masters Theses & Doctoral Dissertations

The researcher identified security issues in the wireless network, and discussed methods and the importance of a securing wireless network. Wireless network encryption in use today were examined for their vulnerabilities and the researcher determined that most of the wireless security features in use today do not provide adequate security measure. The researcher recommended that home or Small Office/ Home Office (SOHO) environment users to make the best of what is available for securing wireless networks i.e. upgrade to WPA2 (Wi-Fi Protected Access 2), or use WPA (Wi-Fi Protected Access) with truly random value with minimum 20 characters of PSK …

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Inbound Express Reservation & Management Systems, Kei Kagawa Dec 2005

Inbound Express Reservation & Management Systems, Kei Kagawa

Masters Theses & Doctoral Dissertations

This document describes my final project which I am completing at my employer, JTN. This project changes the company client website, Inbound Express, from a static one to a dynamic one supporting B to C with full function to meet the demands of the JTB Travel Network. This document describes the problem, the solution, the methodology and the technique including the current NYC travel industry business trends for 2005, a quick sketch of JTN, the demands of JTN, the network system, the business rules and the final product.

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Applying Electronic Commerce To Property Management, Paul Weist Dec 2005

Applying Electronic Commerce To Property Management, Paul Weist

Masters Theses & Doctoral Dissertations

This project will step through the business analysis process involving the application of e-commerce usage in the management of real estate. Each step of the analysis process is examined to understand and prove that web based property management is a viable approach. First the current process of property management is evaluated. This normally involves an intermediary, the real estate agent. They assist the buyer and seller in the buy/sell transaction. This is of course done for a fee. Usually the fee is calculated based on the selling price. Requirements of both the buyer and seller are defined and analyzed as …

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Rdr6 Has A Broad-Spectrum But Temperature-Dependent Antiviral Defense Role In Nicotiana Benthamiana, Feng Qu, Xiaohong Ye, Guichuan Hou, Shirley Sato, Thomas E. Clemente, Thomas Jack Morris Dec 2005

Rdr6 Has A Broad-Spectrum But Temperature-Dependent Antiviral Defense Role In Nicotiana Benthamiana, Feng Qu, Xiaohong Ye, Guichuan Hou, Shirley Sato, Thomas E. Clemente, Thomas Jack Morris

Nebraska Center for Virology: Faculty Publications

SDE1/SGS2/RDR6, a putative RNA-dependent RNA polymerase (RdRP) from Arabidopsis thaliana, has previously been found to be indispensable for maintaining the posttranscriptional silencing of transgenes, but it is seemingly redundant for antiviral defense. To elucidate the antiviral role of this RdRP in a different host plant and to evaluate whether plant growth conditions affect its role, we down-regulated expression of the Nicotiana benthamiana homolog, NbRDR6, and examined the plants for altered susceptibility to various viruses at different growth temperatures. The results we describe here clearly show that plants with reduced expression of NbRDR6 were more susceptible to all viruses tested …

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Galactic Cosmic-Ray Modulation Using A Solar Minimum Mhd Heliosphere: A Stochastic Particle Approach, Bryan M. Ball, Ming Zhang, Hamid K. Rassoul, Timur J. Linde Dec 2005

Galactic Cosmic-Ray Modulation Using A Solar Minimum Mhd Heliosphere: A Stochastic Particle Approach, Bryan M. Ball, Ming Zhang, Hamid K. Rassoul, Timur J. Linde

Aerospace, Physics, and Space Science Faculty Publications

An example of Galactic cosmic-ray modulation in a fully three-dimensional heliosphere is presented here. We use a stochastic particle method to solve for modulation without requiring symmetric boundaries or fields. We include all typical modulation terms, including full three-dimensional drift. We have applied this to an MHD heliosphere appropriate for solar minimum conditions. This field includes nonradial solar wind velocity components, as well as a built-in nonspherical termination shock. Parameters that are of interest in modulation can be analyzed in detail, particularly the momentum change of cosmic rays during their transport through the heliosphere. We show radial profiles of modulation …

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Ecotoxicology And Environmental Education In The Development Of A Turtle Conservation Program In Southeastern Tennessee, Stefan L. Moss Dec 2005

Ecotoxicology And Environmental Education In The Development Of A Turtle Conservation Program In Southeastern Tennessee, Stefan L. Moss

Masters Theses and Doctoral Dissertations

In 1999, the Tennessee Aquarium initiated a long-term mark-recapture study to promote the conservation of freshwater turtles in the Tennessee River Gorge (TRG). The TRG consists of a 42-kilometer stretch of the Tennessee River surrounded by 27,000 acres (11,000 hectares) and is known as the "Grand Canyon of Tennessee." In 2002, the Aquarium established a partnership with The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga (UTC) and the Tennessee River Gorge Trust (TRGT) to expand the program. Since then, researchers at UTC have been conducting scientific research at the TRG each year in an effort to increase the amount of available information …

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New Families Of Voltage-Mode And Current-Mode Filter Circuits., Tongfeng Qian Dec 2005

New Families Of Voltage-Mode And Current-Mode Filter Circuits., Tongfeng Qian

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

In some previous papers, feed forward configurations of realizing second order all pass transfer functions with complex poles by adding some configurations to a first order circuit are discussed. In this dissertation, the above idea extended to realize some other basic second order complex pole filter transfer functions. A new corollary for circuit conversion is proposed and proved. This corollary is useful for converting op amp based voltage-mode circuits to their CCII based equivalent circuits, as are other existing theorems. But the new corollary is useful for converting circuits that cannot be converted by other theorems.

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Thermal Conductivity Measurement Of Thin Film Of Carbon Swnt Using The 3w Technique., Anton Nickolaevich Sidorov 1981- Dec 2005

Thermal Conductivity Measurement Of Thin Film Of Carbon Swnt Using The 3w Technique., Anton Nickolaevich Sidorov 1981-

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

We have measured the temperature-dependent thermal conductivity, K(T) of single walled carbon nanotubes from 300 K to 8 K by 3w methods. K(T) exhibits linear temperature dependence in the entire temperature range. Our results are in good agreement with the results obtained by Hone et al. using a standard steady state technique. Also we measured the temperature-dependent thermal conductivity K(T) of quartz and SiO2 in the same temperature range (300 K to 8 K) as a standardization tool. Our technique shows promise for the thermal conductivity measurements of many nanostructures with slight modifications.

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Human Performance In Agile Production Systems : A Longitudinal Study In System Outcomes, Human Cognition, And Quality Of Work Life., John K. Layer 1963- Dec 2005

Human Performance In Agile Production Systems : A Longitudinal Study In System Outcomes, Human Cognition, And Quality Of Work Life., John K. Layer 1963-

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

This dissertation examines a research objective associated with human performance in agile production systems, with specific attention towards the hypothesis that system outcomes are the causal result of worker human cognition and quality of work life attributes experienced in an agile production system. The development and adoption of world class agile production systems has been an immediate economic answer to the world-wide competitive call for more efficient, more cost-effective, and more quality laden production processes, but has the human element of these processes been fully understood and optimized? Outstanding current literature suggests that the recent movements toward higher standards in …

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Novel Processes For Large Area Gallium Nitride Single Crystal And Nanowire Growth., Hongwei Li 1975- Dec 2005

Novel Processes For Large Area Gallium Nitride Single Crystal And Nanowire Growth., Hongwei Li 1975-

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

III-nitrides (InN, GaN, AlN) are some of the most promising materials for making blue light emitting diodes (LED), blue laser diodes (LD) and high power, high temperature field effect transistors (FET). Current techniques produce GaN films with defect densities on the order of 107/cm2 or higher. The performance and life-time of the devices critically depend upon the defect densities and high power, high frequency devices require the defect densities to be lower than 104/cm2. So, the need for new processes to produce large size GaN crystals with defect densities less than 107/cm2 is immediate. In addition to large area single …

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Reliability Measurement Of Mass Storage System For Onboard Instrumentation, Minsu Choi, Nohpill Park, Vincenzo Piuri, Fabrizio Lombardi Dec 2005

Reliability Measurement Of Mass Storage System For Onboard Instrumentation, Minsu Choi, Nohpill Park, Vincenzo Piuri, Fabrizio Lombardi

Electrical and Computer Engineering Faculty Research & Creative Works

Advances in spaceborne vehicular technology have made possible the long-life duration of the mission in harsh cosmic environments. Reliability and data integrity are the commonly emphasized requirements of spaceborne solid-state mass storage systems, because faults due to the harsh cosmic environments, such as extreme radiation, can be experienced throughout the mission. Acceptable dependability for these instruments has been achieved by using redundancy and repair. Reconfiguration (repair) of memory arrays using spare memory lines is the most common technique for reliability enhancement of memories with faults. Faulty cells in memory arrays are known to show spatial locality. This physical phenomenon is …

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Dynamic Growth Rates Of Microbial Populations In Activated Sludge Systems, Peter George Stroot, Pascal E. Saikaly, Daniel B. Oerther Dec 2005

Dynamic Growth Rates Of Microbial Populations In Activated Sludge Systems, Peter George Stroot, Pascal E. Saikaly, Daniel B. Oerther

Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering Faculty Research & Creative Works

Results of mathematical modeling and whole cell 16S ribosomal RNA-targeted fluorescence in situ hybridizations challenge the widely held perception that microbial populations in "steady-state" activated sludge systems share a common net growth rate that is proportional to the inverse of the mean cell residence time. Our results are significant because they encourage bioprocess engineers to appreciate the differences in growth physiology among individual microbial populations in complex mixed microbial communities such as suspended growth activated sludge bioreactor systems.

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Origins Of Imperial Ottoman Architecture In Istanbul : A Cross-Cultural Interpretation On The Development Of A New Classical Tradition., Shannon P. Carneal Dec 2005

Origins Of Imperial Ottoman Architecture In Istanbul : A Cross-Cultural Interpretation On The Development Of A New Classical Tradition., Shannon P. Carneal

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Following the conquest of Constantinople in 1453 by the Ottomans, a new trend in architecture developed that achieved a balance between the traditional Ottoman building practices of Bursa and Edirne with the styles found in Byzantium and the West. This thesis uncovers what led to the creation of a new Classical Ottoman architecture through an examination of the architectural resources available to the Ottoman sultans and their architects. The goal of this thesis is to discover what, if anything, is Ottoman about Ottoman imperial architecture in Istanbul. Was this new architecture the result of a logical progression of a traditional …

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Ethnicity As An Independent Predictor Of Incontinence Care Seeking When Theoretical Modeling Is Used., Michael Heit 1962- Dec 2005

Ethnicity As An Independent Predictor Of Incontinence Care Seeking When Theoretical Modeling Is Used., Michael Heit 1962-

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Urinary incontinence is a major public health problem affecting 30% of community dwelling women aged 35-85. Urinary incontinence may have a significant impact on activities of daily living depending on the severity of symptoms. Women with urinary incontinence suffer from psychological distress associated with the self-imposed social isolation required to hide their disorder from friends and family. The annual health care costs for managing urinary incontinence has been estimated at nearly 26 million dollars and 70% of these costs are attributed to remedies that are not covered by healthcare insurance. Yet, only 25-50% of incontinence sufferers seek professional care for …

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Radar - A Novel Admission Control And Handoff Management Scheme For Multimedia Leo Satellite Networks, Syed Rashidali Rizvi Dec 2005

Radar - A Novel Admission Control And Handoff Management Scheme For Multimedia Leo Satellite Networks, Syed Rashidali Rizvi

Computer Science Theses & Dissertations

Low Earth Orbit (LEO) satellite networks are deployed as an enhancement to terrestrial wireless networks in order to provide broadband services to users regardless of their location. In addition to global coverage, these satellite systems support communications with hand-held devices and offer low cost-per-minute access cost, making them promising platforms for Personal Communication Services (PCS). LEO satellites are expected to support multimedia traffic and to provide their users with some form of Quality of Service (QoS) guarantees. However, the limited bandwidth of the satellite channel, satellite rotation around the Earth and mobility of end-users makes QoS provisioning and mobility management …

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Hanging The Moonbow : Tom Wallace And The Cumberland Falls Fight, 1926-1931., Noah Garland Huffman 1981- Dec 2005

Hanging The Moonbow : Tom Wallace And The Cumberland Falls Fight, 1926-1931., Noah Garland Huffman 1981-

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

This thesis is an examination of Louisville Times editor Tom Wallace's fight to prevent the construction of a hydroelectric dam at Cumberland Falls, Kentucky between 1926 and 1931. By mining Wallace's recently cataloged personal papers, this study provides a narrative of Wallace's lead role in the campaign that resulted in the preservation of Cumberland Falls and the establishment of a state park on the site in 1931. More importantly, however, as a case study of conservation activism during the understudied period from late 1920s and early 1930s, this thesis illustrates how Wallace developed certain arguments and strategies that were especially …

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A West Virginia Family In World War Ii, Miles B. Berger Dec 2005

A West Virginia Family In World War Ii, Miles B. Berger

Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Problem Reports (ETD)

As an analysis and examination of the letters of two West Virginia residents written during each resident's service in World War II, this thesis compares the wartime experiences of a brother and sister against secondary and primary source literature covering World War II and the Women's Army Auxiliary Corps/Women's Army Corps. The experiences of these two soldiers are told through an interpretation of their letters home and an examination of the training experiences of women and men in World War II. In addition, the first main section of the thesis, Chapter Two, is devoted to an overview and analysis of …

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Metabolic Syndrome In Saudi Arabia, Mansour Al-Nozha, Akram Al-Khadra, Mohammed R. Arafah, Mohammed A. Al-Maatouq, Mohamed Z. Khalil, Nazeer B. Khan, Yaqoub Y. Al-Mazrou, Khalid Al-Marzouki, Saad S. Al-Harthi, Moheeb Abdullah, Maie S. Al-Shahid, Abdulellah Al-Mobeireek, Mohmmed S. Nouh Dec 2005

Metabolic Syndrome In Saudi Arabia, Mansour Al-Nozha, Akram Al-Khadra, Mohammed R. Arafah, Mohammed A. Al-Maatouq, Mohamed Z. Khalil, Nazeer B. Khan, Yaqoub Y. Al-Mazrou, Khalid Al-Marzouki, Saad S. Al-Harthi, Moheeb Abdullah, Maie S. Al-Shahid, Abdulellah Al-Mobeireek, Mohmmed S. Nouh

Saudi Medical Journal

OBJECTIVE: Metabolic syndrome (MS) is a well-established risk factor for the development of coronary artery disease (CAD). We designed this study to obtain the prevalence of MS and each of its components in Saudi Arabia. This study is part of Coronary Artery Disease in Saudi Study (CADISS). METHODS: We conducted this community-based national epidemiological health survey by examining Saudi subjects in the age group of 30-70 years of selected households over a 5-year period between 1995 and 2000 in Saudi Arabia. We interviewed all subjects, examined and took measurements of their blood pressure, weight, height, waist circumference, as well as …

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Prevalence, Knowledge, Beliefs And Psychosocial Impact Of Acne In University Students In Central Saudi Arabia Dec 2005

Prevalence, Knowledge, Beliefs And Psychosocial Impact Of Acne In University Students In Central Saudi Arabia

Saudi Medical Journal

OBJECTIVE: To describe the prevalence of acne among Qassim University students, and to evaluate the knowledge, beliefs, and its psychosocial impact on them. METHODS: We observed 717 students (381 males, and 336 females), at Qassim University Medical clinics during February and March 2005. We interviewed and examined the subjects for the presence of acne. After confirming the diagnosis, we asked the patients several questions about acne, history, knowledge, perceptions, beliefs, and its psychosocial impact on them. We performed statistical analysis using the chi-square test with a 5% significance level. RESULTS: We found 56.2% of the students to have acne. The …

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Ossifying Renal Tumor Of Infancy, Tareq K. El-Husseini, Siddig A. Egail, Ali M. Al-Orf, Colin Mostert Dec 2005

Ossifying Renal Tumor Of Infancy, Tareq K. El-Husseini, Siddig A. Egail, Ali M. Al-Orf, Colin Mostert

Saudi Medical Journal

Ossifying renal tumor of infancy ORTI is a benign neoplasm, which presents with gross hematuria and less frequently as an abdominal mass, histologically it comprises a large cell with an epithelial nature and osteoid formation. We report a case of a 10-month-old girl who developed ORTI as non-opacified upper calyces of left kidney on excretory urography. We outlined the calcific and tumors nature of the lesion by ultrasound and computed tomography. The macroscopic and histological features were pathognomonic.

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Ascites And Eosinophilic Colitis In A Young Patient, Mohammed A. Yassin, Fahmi Y. Khan, Ahmed Al-Ani, Zeinab Fawzy, Issam A. Al-Bozom Dec 2005

Ascites And Eosinophilic Colitis In A Young Patient, Mohammed A. Yassin, Fahmi Y. Khan, Ahmed Al-Ani, Zeinab Fawzy, Issam A. Al-Bozom

Saudi Medical Journal

A 32-year-old man presented with 3-weeks history of abdominal pain and distention. Physical examination showed ascites, with no stigmata of chronic liver disease. Cytological preparations from the ascitic fluid showed a heavy population of mature eosinophils. Histological examination of colonic biopsies revealed a heavy expansion of the mucosa by sheaths of eosinophils. On the following days, the peripheral eosinophilia, ascites and abdominal pain resolved spontaneously.

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Self-Inflicted Needle In The Urethra Retrieved Endoscopically From The Bladder, Ali Al-Zahrani, Hamed El-Darawani, Yasser M. Al-Jehani, Khalid Moghazi, Ahmed El-Sadr Dec 2005

Self-Inflicted Needle In The Urethra Retrieved Endoscopically From The Bladder, Ali Al-Zahrani, Hamed El-Darawani, Yasser M. Al-Jehani, Khalid Moghazi, Ahmed El-Sadr

Saudi Medical Journal

No abstract provided.

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Bs News Dec 2005

Bs News

Building Services Engineering

No abstract provided.

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Investigation Of Egocentric And Exocentric Distance Perception In Virtual Environments: Application To Enhance Transfer Of Training In Multi-Model Ves, Cali Fidopiastis Dec 2005

Investigation Of Egocentric And Exocentric Distance Perception In Virtual Environments: Application To Enhance Transfer Of Training In Multi-Model Ves, Cali Fidopiastis

Link Foundation Modeling, Simulation and Training Fellowship Reports

In this report we summarize the results for three experiments completed during the Link Fellowship period. The aim of the first and second experiments were to test the efficacy of a novel assessment procedure for determining visual acuity and quantifying depth errors of observers wearing an optical see-t1u·ough prototype head-mounted display. If successful, the assessments could provide an optimization procedure capable of discerning limitations attributed to separate components of the VE system or to the system as a whole. The second experiment explored the feasibility of utilizing mixed reality (a mix of real and virtual items) environments for the study …

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Of Treaties And Torture: How The Supreme Court Can Restrain The Executive, Jeffrey C. Goldman Dec 2005

Of Treaties And Torture: How The Supreme Court Can Restrain The Executive, Jeffrey C. Goldman

Duke Law Journal

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State Punishment And Private Prisons, Sharon Dolovich Dec 2005

State Punishment And Private Prisons, Sharon Dolovich

Duke Law Journal

To date, the debate over private prisons has focused largely on the relative efficiency of private prisons as compared to their publicly-run counterparts, and has assumed that, if private contractors can run the prisons for less money than the state without a drop in quality, then states should be willing to privatize. This "comparative efficiency" approach, however, has two significant problems. First, it is concerned exclusively with efficiency, despite the fact that the privatization of prisons arguably implicates more urgent values. Second, it accepts the current state of public prisons as an unproblematic baseline, thus failing to consider the possibility …

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Sequential Aggregate Signatures Working Over Independent Homomorphic Trapdoor One-Way Permutation Domains, Huafei Zhu, Feng Bao, Robert H. Deng Dec 2005

Sequential Aggregate Signatures Working Over Independent Homomorphic Trapdoor One-Way Permutation Domains, Huafei Zhu, Feng Bao, Robert H. Deng

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

The contribution of this paper has two folds. In the first fold, we propose a generic construction of sequential aggregate signatures from families of certificated trapdoor one-way permutations. We show that our construction is provably secure in the random oracle model assuming that the underlying homomorphic permutations are trapdoor one-way. Compared to Lysyanskaya et al’s generic construction that is constructed from a trapdoor one-way permutation family working over the same domain [16], our scheme works over independent trapdoor one-way permutation domains. The flexible choice of the underlying permutation domains benefits our scheme to its applications in the real world where …

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A Scalable Correlation Aware Aggregation Strategy For Wireless Sensor Networks, Yujie Zhu, Ramanuja Vedantham, Seung Jong Park, Raghupathy Sivakumar Dec 2005

A Scalable Correlation Aware Aggregation Strategy For Wireless Sensor Networks, Yujie Zhu, Ramanuja Vedantham, Seung Jong Park, Raghupathy Sivakumar

Computer Science Faculty Research & Creative Works

Sensors-to-sink data in wireless sensor networks (WSNs) are typically correlated with each other. Exploiting such correlation when performing data aggregation can result in considerable improvements in the bandwidth and energy performance of WSNs. In order to exploit such correlation, we present a scalable and distributed correlation-aware aggregation structure that addresses the practical challenges in the context of aggregation in WSNs. Through simulations and analysis, we evaluate the performance of the proposed approach with centralized and distributed correlation aware and unaware structures.

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Distributed Simulation Modeling For Manufacturing Systems Design Using Xml, Rawinkhan Srinon, Sreeram Ramakrishnan Dec 2005

Distributed Simulation Modeling For Manufacturing Systems Design Using Xml, Rawinkhan Srinon, Sreeram Ramakrishnan

Engineering Management and Systems Engineering Faculty Research & Creative Works

Discrete event simulations have been used to model manufacturing systems. Various decomposition methods such as distributed simulations have been employed for this modeling. in the context of distributed simulations, each federate must be able to share the embedded logic with the other federates, irrespective of the software used to design and build such systems. This paper provides an extensible Markup Language (XML)-Based representation for distributed models that can be shared across the federation of simulations. Specifically, the paper outlines three different model components that forms the basis of a design framework for distributed simulation models - object model (for simulation …

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