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Sarosh Patel; Tarek Sobh

manipulators with full manipulator dexterity at the given task S. Patel is with the Department of Computer Science and Engineering,University of Bridgeport, Bridgeport, CT 06605 USA (e-mail: region or trajectory is proposed. Ting introduced the five-linksaroshp@bridgeport.edu). Grashof criterion [6] and extended it to N-link chains [7], [8]. T. Sobh is with the Department of Computer Science and Engineering,University of Bridgeport, Bridgeport, CT 06605 USA (e-mail:sobh@bridgeport.edu).978-1-4799-5233-5/14/$31.00 ©2014 IEEE B. Parametric Optimization Approach III. PROBLEM STATEMENT Parametric optimization is a

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Thy Dinh; Bryan Slater

standing quarter mile in 13.8 s at 82.3 mph (1). Currently, the cost per gallon of gasoline is $3.29. Using this cost with the efficiency of the gasoline engine produces a cost of $0.07/mile. During the Where x is the number of miles traveled by the bike. combustion of a single gallon of gasoline 8887 grams Then, on the other hand, the cost for the gasoline bike of CO2 are emitted to the atmosphere. This means if is $0.07 per mile. So, the cost for the gas bike is: the bike was to travel 100 miles it would use 1.92 gallons

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Raju Shrestha; Mahmoud Elsayed; Paul Cotae

time. Let the sample X of the first transmittersequences through an underwater channel system. PN has its corresponding probability p(x). The signal X willsequences are deterministically generated but yet they are transmit down the first channel and will be received as Y1 byalmost like random sequence of 0’s and 1’s with equal the first receiver sensor node, Y2 by the second receiverprobability of occurrence. Information loss can mostly be sensor node, and finally as Yi by the last receiver sensorexpressed as the difference of mutual information and node. During the observation of downstream transmission ofentropy of transmitted signal: signal data from X

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Adedamola Akinsanya; Christian Bach

accounts for Journal of Marketing, 1963. 27(3): p. 11-15.place in our marketing mix. Publics are the audience being [7] Goldberg, M.E., Social Marketing: Are We Fiddlingsought out to be addressed i.e. the pregnant women. Also, while Rome Burns? Journal of Consumerpeople who have some form of influence on our interested Psychology, 1995. 4(4): p. 347-370.demographic. These include husbands, other family members, [8] Hill, S., F. Provost, and C. Volinsky, Network-Basedphysicians, TV hosts, policymakers, co-workers etc. Marketing: Identifying Likely Adopters via Consumer Networks

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Sudhanshu Sinha; Manohar Mareboyana

,j] otherwise, 0. That is, Figure 2: Output Image for Tree Case 1 0                        𝑖𝑓    𝑑! < 𝑡ℎ𝑟 𝑂𝑢𝑡 𝑖, 𝑗 =   ______(14) 255                          𝑂𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑟𝑤𝑖𝑠𝑒 Case 2: With input ratio of 3 colors and output 3 colors: Result shown in Fig. 3This Out[i,j] is put in decision frame S that will bedisplayed as result of segmentation.C. Updating the Training Frames Set The frames in the training set are updated after each

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Rasha Gaffer M. Helali

-release program are represented, but not what a program does [3].defects as an indicator of quality is questioned. Knowing that Yet, many important program attributes may have more to dothere were a large number of defects during the coding stage with the latter than the former. In the following we introducedoes not mean there will be a lot of bugs in the post release a number of software metrics that reflect semantic propertiesversion too. In contrast, other researchers defined quality by of software products. Gall, C. S In 2008 [16] suggests anusing different concepts such as reliability, availability, lower approach using semantic metrics to provide insight intomaintainability cost and sometimes the

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Kishan Gutta; Madhav Patil

structural health monitoring. Shock andbeen used are specially design with power Vibration Digest, 2006. 38(2): p. 91-130.management and energy awareness [16]. 3. Magazine, S., Editorial: this changes everything—market observers quantify the rapid escalation of wireless sensing and explain its The future for wireless sensors is poised to effects. Wireless for Industry, Supplement tohave a promising growth. As the technology is Sensors Magazine, 2004 p. S6–S8.realized that will enable a wireless transducer to 4

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May Alzawawi

sustainability into the supply chain supply chain decisions," Journal of Cleaner Production,processes. It has a very low-key influence on the final decision. vol. 16, pp. 1688-1698, 2008.It is indicated that integrating sustainability into the supply chain [8] S. Seuring and M. Müller, "From a literature review to aprocesses is expensive and require a big amount of money especially conceptual framework for sustainable supply chainfor small to medium enterprises. Also, lack of knowledge obviously management. ," Journal of Cleaner Production, vol. 16, pp.appears to be a common hindrance for establishing a sustainable 1699-1710, 2008.supply chain approach. Employees are

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Askhan Vakil; Hassan Bajwa

graphene based Photovoltaic Specialists Conference, 2005.nanoscale antennas can be designed to harvest energy Conference Record of the Thirty-first IEEE, 2005, pp.from UV light spectrum. 78-81. [8] T. Minemoto, S. Nagae, and H. Takakura, "Impact of spectral irradiance distribution and temperature on the outdoor performance of amorphous Si REFERENCES photovoltaic modules," Solar energy

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Salamahn Mill; Dafe Ukaivbe; Weiwei Zhu

). A brief background about our motivation is Using the aerial sensor technology, a satellite can detectintroduced first. and classify objects on the earth with the help of propagated signals, or electromagnetic radiation. In 1980’s, Thematic1.1 Tsunami early warning systems (TEWS) Mapper (TM) became the prime instrument in infrared geostationary Satellites Landsats 4, 5 and 6. It is a scanner (or A tsunami is a series of ocean waves generated by sudden sensor) with seven spectral bands

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Yves Ngabonziza; Hendrick Delcham

14 [1] Lightman, A. and Sadler, P. (1993). Teacher predictions 12N u m b e r o f S tu d e n ts Strongly Agree versus actual student gains. The Physics Teacher, 31: 162. 10 Agree 8

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Islam A. Ashry

. (2) 1. sine: ⎡ ⎛ π z ⎞⎤ Using the coupled-mode theory, the reflectivity of the FBG Δn( z ) = Δn ⎢sin ⎜ ⎟⎥ , 0≤ z≤ L (5)is given by [3]: ⎣ ⎝ L ⎠⎦ 2. sinc: k 2 sinh 2 ( sL) R ( L, λ ) = 2 , (3) ⎛ L⎞ s cosh ( sL ) + δ 2 sinh 2 ( sL ) 2 2π ⎜ z

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Hussain A. Alhassan; Christian Bach

. IV. CONCLUSION [13] C.-C. Chang, K.-H. Liao, and Y.-H. Li, "An Exploration of Risk Factors Hospitals evaluate their performance to meet the scale of Selecting for Hospital Information Security through NGT Method,"quality in patient care. To ensure the quickest access to patient Management and Service Science (MASS), pp. 1 - 4, 2010.records and superior care, new technologies in hospital [14] L. Shi, S. Yan, and F. Wang, "Network security evaluation in hospitaladministration are now being implemented. Where accessing based on Fuzzy Comprehensive Judgment

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Amer H. Daggag

of individuals in the ICT products production.V. A., & Pittayachawan S. (2009)) [16]. The implementation of the green ICT has led to the reduction2.1. Why is it important? of the regulatory and governmental pressure and voluntary initiatives. Many institutions have started to research on theThe reason why green computing is vital is due to the benefit different ways that they could use in order to go green [3]. Thethat it provides to the environment and the general society. By looming penalties from different institutions have required thereferring to Murugesan & Laplante (2011), they mentioned

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Julie N. Renner; Kathy E. Ayers

the feed stream combine with electrrons at the cathode to form hydroxide ions (OH-) and ammoniia. The key enabler in the device is the AEM which selectiveely conducts OH- to the anode where the ions form oxygen n (O2) and H2O. The end result is an ammonia enriched stream s depleted of small amount of N2 and H2O. Electrolysis catalysts were used

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Yao Agoudavi; Nathan Cyrille; Luis Hernandez; Amber LaGuerre; Zhineng Li; Katherine Vides; Sunil Dehipawala; Andrew Nguyen; Alexei Kisselev; Tak Cheung

tocounseling on which career path such as electrical engineering, investigate the local environments of arsenic in an arsenicchemical engineering, environmental engineering, biomedical hyperaccumulator, Cretan brake [2]. It was reported that As-Oengineering, etc. Hands-on experience gained in doing a has bond length values from 170 pm to 180 pm and As-S hasresearch project in a laboratory and presenting the results in bond length value of about 225 pm. Another report for Zn inconferences would enhance motivation and improve retention. tobacco roots also shows that Zn-O bond length values haveOur community college, Queensborough Community College more variation (196 to 207 pm) as compared to Zn-S inQCC

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Gad J. Selig

. in retrospect than in the moment-when they finally have a • 84% of graduates of Incubators are still in the same solution that matches the problem." community as their incubators. [7] • Small businesses are responsible for 60%-80% of net new jobs annually. Traditional business plans and pro-forma financials • Small businesses provide an essential role in presume they must be written to support the founder(s) on a economic development, job creation and full-time permanent basis (a legacy from their roots in large- sustainability. company

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Ali M. Elrashidi

Alexandria University in 2001, the MS Degree in fiber optics from the same[1] K. Tanaka, A. Agata, and Y. Horiuchi, “IEEE 802.3av 10G-EPON university in 2007, and he received Ph.D. degree in Computer Science and standardization and its research and development status,” J. Lightw. Engineering in the University of Bridgeport from 2008-2012. From 2002 to Technol., vol. 28, no. 4, pp. 651-661, Feb. 15, 2010. 2008, he was with Physics and Electric Department, Alexandria University,[2] J. Buset, Z. El-Sahn, and D. Plant, “Experimental Demonstration of a 10 Egypt, as an assistant professor from October 2012 to August 2013 and in Gb/s Subcarrier Multiplexed WDM PON,” IEEE Photo. Technol

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Aziz Obaid Alotaibi; Christian Bach

., S.L. Pan, and R. Hackney, The Strategic Implications ofZahrani, R. M, shows us that government involvement is a Web Technologies: A Process Model of How Web Technologies Enhance Organizational Performance. Engineering Management,key factor in reaching desired goals. Also, the data received IEEE Transactions on, 2010. 57(2): p. 181-197.from the risk of infection via the web , shows that customer 4. Alwahaishi, S., A. Nehari-Talet, and V. Snasel. Electronic commercevulnerability in Saudi Arabia is significantly higher than that growth in developing countries: Barriers and challenges. in Networkedin other countries. Data taken from per

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Shamshad Rahman Lubna

, [1] Erhardt L. Cigarette Smoking: An undertreated risk factor for cardiovascular disease. Atherosclerosis. 2009; 205: 23-32.economic means of controlling the several risk factors. This [2] http://www.who.int/mediacentre/factsheets/fs310/en/can be ensured by conducting fitness or health programs at [3] Abdallah MH, Arnaout S, Karrowni W, Dakik HA. The management oflocal educational and healthcare institutions, thus, covering a acute myocardial infraction in developing countries. Int J Cardiol. 2006;majority of the different age-groups. Consumption of alcohol 111: 189-194

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Chrisna Nguon; N. N. Nagadewate; Kavitha Chandra; Charles Thompson

3 describes the computational model. Section 4 Ωspresents results for scattering from an inviscid fluid (2)ellipsoidal shaped scatterer for varying compressibil- for s = a, b,where k1s = ωs /c0 is the wavenum-ity contrast parameters. ber and G(x, x0 ) is the three-dimensional free-space Green’s function,2 Scattering from Inhomogeneous ejk1s |x−x0 | Media G(x, x0 ) = (3

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Jenny Au; Ololade O. Mudasiru; Kavitha Chandra

S (θ)= n= − N a [n]e c (1) I. INTRODUCTION with c meters/second being the speed of sound. The aperture A microphone array is a device consisting of several function a[n] will be assumed to be uniform for all elements,microphones, referred to as array elements that can be jointly which are also taken to be omnidirectional. Definingactivated to receive sound from preferred

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Bryan Slater; Thy Dinh; Branden Frazier; Farshid Zabihian

motorcycle was 52 mpg, and with a 4.8 gallon tank, the motorcycle had a range of 250 miles. As far as performance, it was able to reach a top speed of 94.9 mph and a standing quarter mile in 13.8 s at 82.3 mph [3]. Currently, the cost per gallon of gasoline is $3.29. Using this cost with the efficiency of the gasoline

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Hamoud Alshammari; Hassan Bajwa; Jeongkyu Lee

required data. NameNode should be able to direct thethe subsequence of a sequence that has already been jobs to read the specific DataNodes without goingsearched require the same amount of time. through all DataNodes. 3 REFERENCES[1] A. Pavlo, E. Paulson, A. Rasin, D. J. Abadi, D. J. [7] A. McKenna, M. Hanna, E. Banks, A. Sivachenko, K. DeWitt, S. Madden, and M. Stonebraker, "A Cibulskis, A. Kernytsky, K. Garimella, D. Altshuler, comparison of approaches to large-scale data S. Gabriel, and M. Daly, "The Genome Analysis analysis," in Proceedings of the 2009 ACM

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Sundas Zafar; Aparicio Carranza

saved this python script will run. The scriptextracted. The actual configuration file is camera.py is designed to use SSMTP and sendtitled motion­mmalcam.conf. an email notification every time a picture is saved. Since it uses SSMTP it is necessary towget  enter the email address and password of thehttps://www.dropbox.com/s/xdfcxm5hu71s97d/ account the notifications are to be sent to [3].motion­mmal.tar.gz The content text can also be adjusted withintar zxvf motion­mmal.tar.gz the program. In this

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Walter Engels; Farshid Zabihian

the cold deep water toefficiency was 6.99%. In the second analysis of the system, there the surface [2]. In 1993 a small open cycle OTEC plant waswas a mass flow rate of 1000 kg/s. The working fluid and designed and constructed by L. A. Vega in Hawaii [3]. Thistemperature difference were accounted for in the heat exchangeof the warmer surface water to the cold water used in the was a small plant that was more of a testing plant. The plantcondenser. In this analysis the Rankine cycle efficiency was closed in 1998. It was a model of an actual working plant andfound to be 3.97% and the

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Vazgen Shekoyan

groups.This shows that by attempting to solve problems via means- Textbook problem: A student stands at the edge of the cliffends analysis the goal-specific groups suffered from cognitive and throws a stone horizontally over the edge with a speedoverload that manifested itself by the increase of mathematical 16.0 m/s. The cliff is 54.0 m above a flat, horizontal beach. (a)errors made. What are the components of the initial velocity? (b) How long It has to be noted that research on more complex problems after being released does the stone strike the beach below thesuch as created by Electric Field Hockey software provided cliff? (c) With what speed and angle of

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Samuel Erskine; Hassan Bajwa

congestion control, end-to- including non-time sensitive V I REFERENCES [35] N. Tezcan and W. Wang, “ART: an asymmetric and reliable transport [1] Y. G. Iyer, S. Gandham, and S. Venkatesan, “STCP: A generic transport mechanism for wireless sensor network,” International Journal of Sensorlayer protocol for wireless sensor networks,” in Proceedings of IEEEICCCN Network, 2007.2005, Oct. 17-19, San Diego, California, USA. [36] A Fairness-Aware Congestion Control Scheme in Wireless Sensor[2] Reliability in WSN for Security: Mathematical Approach. George S. Networks Xiaoyan Yin, Student Member

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Joseph Betthauser; Daniel Benavides; Jeff Schornick; Neal O'Hara; Jimit Patel; Jeremy Cole; Edgar Lobaton

MarXBot ARM11, 533 MHz, Camera, WiFi, Bluetooth Up to 2048x1536 N/A 128MB RAM Accelerometer, pixel s @ 12 FPS Gyroscope, RFID, 2D Force, Microphone Khepera III XScale, 600MHz, IR, Ambient Light, WiFi, Bluetooth 640x480 pixels @ 15 >$2000 128MB RAM Ultrasonic, Camera FPS CITRIC XScale, 624 MHz, Camera, Microphone Zigbee 1280x1024 pixels @ $600 64MB RAM

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Arafat Abu Malluh; Khaled M. Elleithy; Zakariya Qawaqneh; Ramadhan J. Mstafa; Adwan Alanazi

that every node can be a cluster head with aprobability of popt. In every round there is a new cluster headinstead of the one in the previous round. The set G contains Fig. 1. Radio Energy Dissipation Model [7]the rest of the nodes that are non-head nodes to keep thecluster head constant for each round. Every round r, a newhead is selected when every node s G selects a number Where Eelec is the energy consumed per bit to transmit datarandomly in [0,1] . The node is considered as a head for the between sender and receiver, _fs and _mp depend on thecluster if that number is less than the threshold T(s). transmitter amplifier model we use, and d represents the