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Improving The Environmental Sustainability Of Pallet Logistics Through Preemptive Remanufacturing: An Integer Linear Optimization Model, Fabiana Tornese, Jennifer A. Pazour, Andres L. Carrano, Brian K. Thorn

International Material Handling Research Colloquium

Poster 2

Economic And Performance Analysis Of Dual-Bay Vertical Lift Modules, Fabio Sgarbossa, Martina Calzavara, Alessandro Persona

International Material Handling Research Colloquium

Poster 3

A Motion Capture System Framework For The Study Of Human Manufacturing Repetitive Motion, Jesus Jimenez, Francis Mendez, David Wierschem

International Material Handling Research Colloquium

Poster 21

Deployment Of An Distributed Strategic Material Flow Control For Automated Material Flow Systems Consisting Of Autonomous Modules, Christian Lieberoth-Leden, Johannes Fottner

International Material Handling Research Colloquium

Poster 10

Managing The Order Picking Process In For Click And Collect In Grocery Stores, Dale T. Masel, Akhilesh Mesa

International Material Handling Research Colloquium

Poster 14

A Practical Collaborative Material Handling Strategy For Cross-Docks, Hector J. Carlo, Stephanie Santiago-Montano

International Material Handling Research Colloquium

Poster 8

Differences In The Throughput Performance Of The Warehouse Depending On The Quality Of The Calculation Parameters, David Sourek

International Material Handling Research Colloquium

Poster 25

Impact Of Automonous Delivery And Last-Mile Logistics, Michael G. Kay, Peerapol Sittivijan, Bhagyalakshmi V. Shrikrishna, Bharat Kulkarni

International Material Handling Research Colloquium

Poster 19

Pathfinder: Affordable And Effective Web-Books For First Year Engineering Courses, Jess Everett, Scott Steiner

Henry M. Rowan College of Engineering Departmental Research

This paper describes the implementation of PathFinder (https://pathfinder.rowan.edu/), a website that facilitates the creation and dissemination of affordable web-books for college students. The purpose of this paper is to describe its implementation in an introduction-to-engineering curriculum at a public university in the north east, and to discuss the use of Pathfinder (or similar websites) in first and second year engineering courses in general.

The PathFinder website allows professors to create, maintain, and access an electronic database of engineering topic folders. Each folder contains information on a single topic and may contain an article and other content, e.g., variables, equations, images, …

Process Mineralogy Of Iranian High Sulfur Iron Ore, Tonglin Zhao, Xiaoli Wang, Hongle Ai, Ahmed Sobhy

Mining Engineering Faculty Research & Creative Works

Processing of Iranian high sulfur iron ore is problematic in minerals industry. The iron ores were studied by the means of polarizing microscopy, chemical analysis, X-ray diffraction. The study shows that the iron ores have high grade of iron, and complex structures. XRD showed that the iron ore consists of metallic minerals such as magnetite with a small amount of hematite and limonite and non-metallic minerals as serpentine, chlorite, and talc. The average particle size of magnetite crystals is 0.182 mm. The ore contains 1.62% sulfur as harmful impurity in form of pyrite mineral. Due to the isomorphism of magnesium …

Structural, Nanomechanical, And Nanotribological Characterization Of Human Hair And Conditioner Using Atomic Force Microscopy And Nanoindentation, Bharat Bhushan

Advances in Cosmetic Formulation Design [2018]

Human hair is a nanocomposite biological fiber. Maintaining the health, feel, shine, color, softness, and overall aesthetics of the hair is highly desired. Hair care products such as shampoos and conditioners, along with damaging processes such as chemical dyeing and permanent wave treatments, affect the maintenance and grooming process and are important to study because they alter many hair properties. Nanoscale characterization of the cellular structure, mechanical properties, and morphological, frictional, and adhesive properties (tribological properties) of hair are essential to evaluate and develop better cosmetic products, and to advance the understanding of biological and cosmetic science. The tensile response …

Sulfate Free Solutions For Personal Care Applications, Prabhjyot Singh

Advances in Cosmetic Formulation Design [2018]

The personal care market is driven by consumer needs, where natural ingredients, safety awareness and free- from claims are main drivers. Free-from claims are continuing to grow and sulfate-free is a leading claim for this trend, particularly in the shampoo and body wash market. Sulfate-free cleansers are growing more than 8% CAGR. Sulfate- free surfactants present many challenges in product performance in comparison to sulfates, mainly in providing efficient thickening and desirable sensory and lather performance. Another challenge is to meet the crucial needs of the formulator by providing ingredients that are sustainable, able to be cold processed and delivered …

Novel High-Performance Ingredients Based On Functionalized Polysaccharides – The Role Of Enzymatic Catalysis., Stefan Ulvenlund

Advances in Cosmetic Formulation Design [2018]

Polysaccharides are interesting starting materials in the design of high-performance cosmetic ingredients, not only because of their generally low toxicity and “green” profile, but also because of their wide and exciting propensity to form complex self-aggregated structures. These structures have direct relevance for formulation science, since they provide us with the means to tailor and optimize rheological characteristics, solubilization efficiency, emulsification and other critical attributes of a formulation. However, in order to fully exploit this potential of polysaccharide-based materials we need not only the ability to extract, purify and refine them on an industrial scale. We also need cost-efficient tools …

Natsurfact: Progress In Commercializing Rhamnolipids, Daniel Derr

Advances in Cosmetic Formulation Design [2018]

NatSurFact is a rhamnolipid-based biosurfactant ingredient for the cosmetics industry developed by Logos Technologies. Rhamnolipids are a member of the glycolipid class of biosurfactants. They are made up of a rhamnose sugar head group and medium chain length 3-hydroxy fatty acid tails. Their structure was first elucidated in 1949 and they have been studied for myriad applications both academically and commercially since. While their properties as an anionic surfactant in the salt form are attractive – natural, mild, high foaming, high cleansing – they are not sold yet in appreciable commercial quantities. To bring rhamnolipids to market, Logos has focused …

15th International Material Handling Research Colloquium Program, College Industry Council On Material Handling Education, Mhi

International Material Handling Research Colloquium

Official Conference Program

Incorporation Of Anionic Monomer To Tune The Reversible Catechol-Boronate Complex For Ph Responsive, Reversible Adhesion, Ameya R. Narkar, Bruce P. Lee

Department of Biomedical Engineering Publications

Up to 30 mol% of acrylic acid (AAc) was incorporated into a pH responsive smart adhesive consisting of dopamine methacrylamide (DMA) and 3-acrylamido phenylboronic acid (APBA). FTIR spectroscopy and rheometry confirmed that the incorporation of AAc shifted the pH of catechol-boronate complexation to a more basic pH. Correspondingly, adhesive formulations with elevated AAc contents demonstrated strong adhesion to quartz substrate at a neutral to mildly basic pH (pH 7.5-8.5) based on Johnson-Kendall-Roberts (JKR) contact mechanics test. When pH was further increased to pH 9.0, there was a drastic reduction in the measured work of adhesion (18 and 7 fold reduction …

Reliability And Uniformity Enhancement In 8t-Sram Based Pufs Operating At Ntc, Pramesh Pandey, Asmita Pal, Koushik Chakraborty, Sanghamitra Roy

Electrical and Computer Engineering Faculty Publications

SRAM-based PUFs (SPUFs) have emerged as promising security primitives for low-power devices. However, operating 8T-SPUFs at Near-Threshold Computing (NTC) realm is plagued by exacerbated process variation (PV) sensitivity which thwarts their reliable operation. In this paper, we demonstrate the massive degradation in the reliability and uniformity characteristics of 8T-SPUF. By exploiting the opportunities bestowed by schematic asymmetry of 8T-SPUF cells, we propose biasing and sizing based design strategies. Our techniques achieve an immense improvement of more than 55% in the percentage of unreliable cells and improves the proximity to ideal uniformity by 82%, over a baseline NTC 8T-SPUF with no …

Query-Constraint-Based Mining Of Association Rules For Exploratory Analysis Of Clinical Datasets In The National Sleep Research Resource, Rashmie Abeysinghe, Licong Cui

Computer Science Faculty Publications

Background: Association Rule Mining (ARM) has been widely used by biomedical researchers to perform exploratory data analysis and uncover potential relationships among variables in biomedical datasets. However, when biomedical datasets are high-dimensional, performing ARM on such datasets will yield a large number of rules, many of which may be uninteresting. Especially for imbalanced datasets, performing ARM directly would result in uninteresting rules that are dominated by certain variables that capture general characteristics.

Methods: We introduce a query-constraint-based ARM (QARM) approach for exploratory analysis of multiple, diverse clinical datasets in the National Sleep Research Resource (NSRR). QARM enables rule mining on …

Influence Of Stress Triaxiality On Fracture Ductility For Stereo Lithography, Anjali Sandip, Ravi Kiran Yellavajjala

Mechanical Engineering Posters and Presentations

Stress triaxiality is one of the most important factors that controls fracture ductility. The objective of this study was to investigate the influence of stress triaxiality on fracture ductility for specimens’ printed using stereolithography (SL). Dog bone shape specimens were printed using Formlabs® Form 2 Desktop SLA 3D printer. The specimens were built layer by layer with the help of this 3D printer. Each layer of liquid photopolymer is solidified through a computer-controlled ultraviolet (UV) light source with a laser spot size of 140 𝜇m. A photopolymer resin supplied by the manufacturer which comprised of a proprietary mix of Methacrylated …

59th Annual Rocky Mountain Conference On Magnetic Resonance

Rocky Mountain Conference on Magnetic Resonance

Final program, abstracts, and information about the 59th annual meeting of the Rocky Mountain Conference on Magnetic Resonance, co-endorsed by the Colorado Section of the American Chemical Society and the Society for Applied Spectroscopy. Held in Snowbird, Utah, July 22-27, 2018.

Compound Design Process - To A Better Start, Aurora Costache, Gabor Imre, Ivan Solt, Akos Tarcsay, Aurora Costache

Advances in Cosmetic Formulation Design [2018]

Molecule and formulation design is an information demanding activity, since all relevant knowledge is to be accessible within a single space and requires synchronized application of computational models to assist decision making on synthesis candidates. Our study aims to evaluate a software platform coping with this complexity (Marvin Live). The tool provides central management of innovative ideas and helps triage them based on predicted properties and available knowledge collected from a variety of sources. The calculated properties span physico-chemical descriptors, combined metrics, 3D overlay and modelling results, with the ability to check if they are compliant with local and international …

Conference Program, Samiul Amin, Ponisseril Somasundaran

Advances in Cosmetic Formulation Design [2018]

No abstract provided.

Research On The Development Of Energy-Efficient Binders For Modern Construction, G. Karimov, N. Bakhriyev

Problems of Architecture and Construction

An analysis of the world economic trends in capital construction, in particular in the production of binding materials and cement, shows that the use of resources and energy-saving, innovative technologies is a requirement of the present and future. The article presents ideas and experimental developments of energy-saving nanotechnologies, innovative methods for obtaining astringent low water requirements.

Spatial Calculation Of The Steel Frame Of A Multi-Storey Building, G. Freedman

Problems of Architecture and Construction

In paper the instance of calculation of the space steel framework of a multistorey building in altitude of 8 floors with use of the personal computer LYRE is observed. A framework - communication has system with an internal kernel of rigidness. All aspects of loadings, including wind and seismic are considered. Selection of cross-sections of elements of a framework in the application of LIRA-STK is executed.

The Dependence Of Heat Transfer Resistance Of Many Corrugated Small Foam Blocks On The Number And Dimensions Of Hollows, G. Shukurov, B. Turaboyev, Sh. Musayev

Problems of Architecture and Construction

In paper results of theoretical heat-physical researches are resulted and dependences of resistance to a heat transfer of the small block from foam concrete from quantity of through hollows, the form of their arrangement and from their sizes in the block are defined. Besides it is offered the empirical formula for definition of resistance of a heat transfer of the small block from foam concrete depending on quantity of through hollows.

Using The Method Of "Imitation Modeling” In Obtaining Various Fractional Fillers By Grinding Large Stones And Rocks, B. Saidmuratov, Kh. Gulamova

Problems of Architecture and Construction

In paper questions of processes of crushing and screening from mountain inert mucks, their physical essence are observed. On the basis of existing theories of crushing and levitating of many scientists the leading-out is drawn. The circuit design for optimization of processes of grinding-sorting knot is spent.

Seismic Resistance Issues In Collapsing Of Khiva Minarets, G. Durdiyeva, A. Zargarov, E. Salayev, T. Fozilov

Problems of Architecture and Construction

To identify the technical state of constructions of the minaret Islam Khodja, located in Ichan-Kala of Khiva, engineering survey was carried out on its load-bearing structures. This article touches upon the issue of seismic stability of Islam Khoja minaret. Full-scale monitoring and researches of architectural monuments of Khorezm have shown that the ancient masters-architects were acquainted with quite various destructive effects of earthquakes.

Modern Roofing Materials Based On Modified Bitumen, I. Kasimov

Problems of Architecture and Construction

Information on the further development of the building industry in Uzbekistan and also lacks and ways of improvement of process of technology and an operating ability roofing coatings with application structure-forming and polymeric additives are resulted. The analysis of research has shown that now the most effective modifiers of bitumen are structure-forming additives, polymers thermolayers, elastomeric (rubbers), thermoplastic basically synthetic.

Heat-Physical Calculation Of Constructions Of Building Foundations According To The Requirements Of Heat Protect Rate Of Buildings, E. Tulakov, Sh. Sirojiddinov

Problems of Architecture and Construction

Quite often, the foundations are combined with the walls of basements. Their reliable operation can be ensured only in the presence of thermal insulation of external structures in contact with the ground. The need for insulation is due to the fact that heat loss through the underground part of the building in some cases up to 20% of the total heat loss. In the presence of a heated basement, insulation will protect the walls of the basement from freezing, will help prevent condensation, dampness and mold development.

Including Farmer Irrigation Behavior In A Sociohydrological Modeling Framework With Application In North India, Jimmy O’Keeffe, Simon Moulds, Emma Bergin, Nick Brozovic, Ana Mijic, Wouter Buytaert

Daugherty Water for Food Global Institute: Faculty Publications

Understanding water user behavior and its potential outcomes is important for the development of suitable water resource management options. Computational models are commonly used to assist water resource management decision making; however, while natural processes are increasingly well modeled, the inclusion of human behavior has lagged behind. Improved representation of irrigation water user behavior within models can provide more accurate and relevant information for irrigation management in the agricultural sector. This paper outlines a model that conceptualizes and proceduralizes observed farmer irrigation practices, highlighting impacts and interactions between the environment and behavior. It is developed using a bottom-up approach, informed …