This report summarizes the need for (dedicated) radio spectrum for IVHS communication services. It concludes that, if efficient architectures can be developed, several MHz of spectrum will be needed for large-scale introduction of IVHS services. Compared to most other reported estimates of the...

Task time estimation is a core industrial engineering discipline. However, the process to collect the required data is manually intensive and tedious, thus making it expensive to keep the data current. Radio frequency signals have been used to automate the required data collection in some...

Efficient biodiesel production from beef tallow was achieved with radio frequency (RF) heating. A conversion rate of 96.3 ± 0.5% was obtained with a NaOH concentration of 0.6% (based on tallow), an RF heating for 5 min, and a methanol/tallow molar ratio of 9:1. Response surface methodology...

This dissertation establishes a novel system for human face learning and recognition based on incremental multilinear Principal Component Analysis (PCA). Most of the existing face recognition systems need training data during the learning process. The system as proposed in this dissertation...

Neutron scanning techniques are becoming important tools in the search for chemical agents, explosives, drugs, nuclear material and other hazardous materials in government buildings, airports, military installations or public areas. Each nucleus when excited emits quanta of gamma radiation at...

Frame theory is closely intertwined with signal processing through a canon of methodologies for the analysis of signals using (redundant) linear measurements. The canonical dual frame associated with a frame provides a means for reconstruction by a least squares approach, but other dual frames...

Partial discharges (PD) emit energy in several ways and in the process, electro-magnetic emissions in the form of radio waves, light and heat, audible and ultra-sonic acoustic emissions are produced. These emissions enable the detection, location, measurement and analysis of the PD activity. PD...

In this article we present a framework for line search methods for optimization on smooth homogeneous manifolds, with particular emphasis to the Lie group of real orthogonal matrices. We propose strategies of univariate descent (UVD), methods. The main advantage of this approach is that the...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to show that subordinated debt regulatory proposals assume that transactions in the secondary market of subordinated debt can attenuate moral hazard on the part of management if secondary market prices are informative signals of the risk of the...