Tuesday, November 17, 2009

Hydrologic and Water Quality Benefits of Grass Swales for Managing Highway Runoff




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Hydrologic and Water Quality Benefits of Grass Swales for Managing Highway Runoff

Posted: 08 Nov 2009 01:30 AM PST

Due to growing awareness of non-point source pollution treatment, the performance of grass swales as a highway runoff treatment and the effect of including a grass filter strip pretreatment area adjacent to the swale were evaluated using a field-scale input/output study on a Maryland highway. Results of this comparison for 22 rainfall events over 1.5 [...]


    

Discounted cash flow model project report






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Discounted cash flow model project report

Posted: 12 Nov 2009 03:47 AM PST

The purpose of this thesis is to compare the practical use of the DCF model with the theoretical recommendations. The empirical study is based on eight different DCF models performed by American, European and Nordic investment banks on the Swedish retail company Hennes & Mauritz (H&M). These models are currently being used internally by the [...]


     

Project Report - Polymeric waveguide devices

Posted: 12 Nov 2009 03:43 AM PST

Integrated optics, or guided wave optics, is playing an increasingly important role in optical communication networks and optical sensor systems today. Optical devices with diverse functionality based on different materials have been demonstrated. Recently, polymeric waveguide devices have attracted a great deal of attention because polymer materials have many unique properties, such as ease of [...]


     

Face detection tracking project report

Posted: 12 Nov 2009 03:40 AM PST

Face orientation estimation is an important topic in computer vision and pattern recognition, and in particular, more recently in some emerging, media-related applications. Due to the non-rigid properties of faces, it is computationally expensive and in general difficult to achieve good estimation accuracy and robustness in face orientation estimation. In this thesis I present a [...]


    

Effect of stress on incidental explicit and implicit memory

Posted: 12 Nov 2009 03:37 AM PST

This study examined the effect of stress on memory impairment by inducing acute stress on healthy human participants. Methods: A total of 46 participants from Hong Kong were randomly assigned to either the stress group (i.e., mental arithmetic with loud noise) or the non-stress group. Within each group, participants were randomly assigned to either the [...]


     

Intensive care: The significance of gender

Posted: 12 Nov 2009 03:33 AM PST

Jordan is a developing country which is taking measures to make the situation in the society more equal between males and females. Former research has showed that it, worldwide, sometimes is great differences between the genders in the health care. This thesis illuminates how it is to work in an intensive care unit and if [...]


     

WCDMA in GSM

Posted: 12 Nov 2009 03:30 AM PST

Multiple Access Techniques is the emerging techniques for the next generation (3G) wireless communication systems. Multiple access techniques has been designed to add features such as multimedia capabilities, high data rates and multi-rate services to the existing wireless communication framework. The data rates proposed 2, 3 are 2Mbps indoor, 384 Kbps pedestrian, and 144 Kbps [...]


     

Corporate Control and Value Destruction

Posted: 12 Nov 2009 03:27 AM PST

Investigating a panel of Swedish public companies from 1986 to 2003 (4543 firm year observations) this paper investigates the effect of control structure and type of controlling owner on investment efficiency. Sweden is characterized by a high prevalence of voting and cash flow rights separation, as well as controlled ownership structures where families are the [...]


     

XMLNuke, Content Management System, Development Framework

Posted: 11 Nov 2009 04:51 AM PST

XMLNuke is a Content Management System designed for Internet web sites. It manages all web site information through the use of XML documents. These documents, stored in its native text format, are then changed by XSL instructions and presented to the user who will be able to view the information in any web browser. A [...]


     

Saturday, November 7, 2009

Networks and Mobile Systems

Networks and Mobile Systems

Overview
The NMS group at MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory conducts research in many areas of networking: wireless networks, Internet architecture and protocols, overlay and peer-to-peer networks, sensor networks, network security, and networked systems. The group was formed in 1998.
Current projects
CarTel: a mobile sensor network system developing vehicular network protocols, software, and services.
Wireless network coding: practical techniques using network coding to improve wireless network throughput.
Bit-switched wireless networks: using cross-layer confidence information (SoftPHY) from the physical layer to design better higher-layer wireless network protocols.
Combating wireless interference: new techniques to overcome wireless interference.
AIP (Accountable Internet Protocol): self-certifying Internet addresses + new protocols to provide accountability and improve Internet security.
WaveScope: a sensor computing system for high data-rate applications. Unfortunately, the above list might be a bit out-of-date. The NMS papers page has a more current list of papers.
Some past projects
Internet architecture, overlay and P2P networksP2P and overlay networks
Chord: a scalable and robust distributed hash table (DHT) enabling key-value lookups.
Project IRIS: A multi-institution NSF ITR collaboration that developed the network and system infrastructure for resilient Internet services using DHTs. Our work included:
Dynamic evolution of P2P systems: The amount of work required to maintain good connectivity depends on the "half-life" of a P2P system.
SFR (Semantic-Free Referencing), a reference (name) resolution service for linked systems.
DOA (Delegation-Oriented Architecture), an extension to the Internet architecture that accommodates "middleboxes" in an architecturally coherent way using a new delegation primitive.
DQE (Distributed Quota Enforcement), a spam control system.
Speak-up, a defense against application-level DDoS attacks.
RON (Resilient Overlay Networks): Improving availability and resilience of Internet paths using application-controlled overlay routing.
MONET: Multi-homed overlay network of web proxies to route around network failures for Web applications. Congestion control, traffic engineering
XCP (eXplicit Congestion Control) and TeXCP: Congestion control for high bandwidth-delay product networks and responsive traffic engineering.
CM (Congestion Manager), an integrated end-to-end congestion management architecture and congestion control algorithms for the future Internet.
OxygenTV: rate adaptation and error control for MPEG-4 delivery. Internet routing
rcc and correct Internet routing: tools to improve routing correctness and experimental studies of Internet routing and failures.
R-BGP: Improving Internet routing connectivity.
BGPSep: Constructing correct and scalable iBGP configurations. Network measurement
DNS analysis: trace-based analysis of DNS performance and caching.
M&M tools: multiQ and mystery, passive measurement tools suitable for large scale studies of Internet path characteristics
Routing analysis: BGP measurements.
Wireless, mobile, and sensor networks
Cricket: An accurate indoor location system. (Now commercially available.)
SMART (Scalable Medical Alert and Response Technologies) and the Patient-Centric Network: networking and systems infrastructure for health-care facilities.
INS is an intentional naming system for scalable and dynamic resource discovery. Twine aims to make INS scalable to large networks using peer-to-peer lookups, built on top of Chord.
Migrate, an end-to-end architecture for Internet host mobility, support for suspend/resume operations for mobile network applications to handle disconnections, and server failover.
Harnessing multiple radios and access points
FatVAP: Aggregating AP backhaul bandwidth.
Horde: networking software that allows an application to stripe data from multiple streams across a set of dissimilar wireless network channels.
Divert: a multi-radio, fine-grained path selection system for improving throughput in wireless LANs.
APware: improving performance and robustness for multi-rate wireless LANs.
Fusion: Mitigating congestion in wireless sensor networks.
BSD (Bounded SlowDown), Span, LEACH and Spin: energy-efficient protocols for wireless and sensor networks
Spectrumware: new algorithms for radio and wireless physical layers for implementation on a flexible software platform. (Now commercially available.)
Blueware, protocols for internetworking with Bluetooth.
Network security
Kill-Bots: Surviving application-layer botnet attacks that mimic flash crowds.
Real-Time anomaly detection: Improving network security with real-time scanning and worm detection.
Speak-up, a defense against application-level DDoS attacks using bandwidth as a "currency".
DQE (Distributed Quota Enforcement), a spam control system.
Securing SSH from address harvesting attacks.
Infranet: circumventing Web censorship and surveillance.
RoboNorm: Efficient and robust TCP stream normalization.
Distributed data management, stream processing
Medusa: Distributed data stream processing.
HRDB: Database fault-tolerance with heterogeneous replication.

Computer Science Projects

Digital Image Watermarking
This is a suite of algorithms implemented in delphi that demonstrate simple high-capacity fragile watermarking algorithms and how they can be implemented on loss-less format images. The algorithms implement LSB watermarking on 1st, 2nd and 3rd bits, and have been optimised to be run in parallel. Due to the high data storing capacity of the algorithms they can also be used as steganographic tools for storing hidden data.

FastGEO

FastGEO is a library written in object pascal that contains a wide range of highly optimized vector based geometrical algorithms and routines for many different types of geometrical operations such as geometrical primitives and predicates, hull construction and triangulation, clipping, rotations and projections.
Particle Engine System (P.E.S)
This is a fully scalable particle engine, that has the capabilities of running on clusters that run MPI and Open-MPI protocols. Currently the system simulates mass-spring systems, and visualizes the result via OpenGL 3D graphics and GLUT windowing interface.At the moment the system uses very primitive ODEs such as Euler, Extended Euler and Runge-Kutta algorithms. PES has been successfully compiled and run under both Unix and Windows systems, however under Windows MPI capabilities are not available.

N-Mice Simulation

This is a simulation of the N-Mice problem, which is presented as the paths that "N" mice which are standing evenly distributed around a circle with a particular radius would take if they were all trying to reach the mouse on their right hand side. It turns out that mathematically they never reach each other, however physically they do. The paths they create are in spiral form, This application can simulate up to 20 mice, in theory it could do much more, however the visual effect of the nice spirals really begin to dissipate after about 20 mice. The simulation assumes each mouse as being an independent particle in 2D space, each particle (mouse) follows the particle on its right hand side, with an attraction force that is calculated via Newton's formula of matter to matter attraction. There are many other ways to implement this problem, a full mathematical definition of the problem and other possible solutions can be found at mathworld.
Polynomial Signal Rectification
This is a signal generation and processing application. It is capable of producing many different types of commonly used wave forms such as square, saw-tooth and triangular wave forms, it can also take an algebraic expression representing a continuous analog signal and turn it into a useable digital wave form. The application also has a rendering system which applies different types of smoothing and noise reduction algorithms. I hope to add Fourier and Hadamard transformations to future versions of this application. (If I get the time...)

Equation Evaluator

This is my contribution to the plethora of mathematical applications on the web. I wrote this to prove to myself I could write and implement a grammar, and once I had achieved that I saw many different areas in which I could use the grammar. The application does function graphing, solution to expressions, integration in 2D and 3D and it also does simple series calculations. Its a very simple program and was only intended on demonstrating the speed and capabilities of the parser engine I had developed. A note on the parser engine is its unique ability to simplify expressions and re-order them so that they are executed as a list of sequential operations rather than a tree of prioritized expression this functionality leads to great decrease in time needed to evaluate a particular expression which makes it ideal for repetitive evaluations of expressions where only the variables change value and not the expression itself, such as graphing a function or integrating an area.
Virtual Particle Flame
This is a particle simulation with a cooling algorithm implemented as the particles move within the 2D space. The particles follow a very simple parametric equation and the space that they have traveled on begins to cool down with regards to Newton's differential equation for the cooling of matter. What is interesting here is if another particle intersects the path of a particle which has just passed the space where the intersection occurs heats up more than what the second particle would have heated it up normally. This is due to the remaining heat that was already there being summed up by the new heat that is arriving. This simulation makes for some very interesting eye-candy .

Simple Java Paint Brush

This is a simple java applet implementation of a paint-brush style program. It has the basic drawing tools such as pen, line, filled and non-filed rectangles and ellipses and color manipulation options, other than that its really boring, but a good example of how to use java's graphics libraries.
C++ Galois Field Arithmetic Library
A simple library written in the C++ language for performing arithmetic over Galois fields. The arithmetic can be in the form of either elements or polynomials over a specified Galois field. The library is optimised to run in one of two modes, normal or LUT mode. In the LUT mode performance is increased dramatically at the cost of large consumption of memory. The library can be used in but not limited to such fields as cryptography, error correcting codes and computational analysis.

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Material handling at Volvo Construction Equipment Braas

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Material handling at Volvo Construction Equipment Braas

Posted: 30 Sep 2009 06:59 AM PDT

Title: Internal material handling at Volvo Construction Equipment Braas Material handling is a large part of a company´s internal work and represents between 15 % and 70 % of the total cost of a manufactured product. By improving the internal handling of material, more efficient distribution and manufacturing flows are possible. The material handling process is [...]

Report: Frequency Oriented Scheduling on Parallel Processors

Posted: 30 Sep 2009 06:45 AM PDT

The LOIS project aims at building a radio sensor and IT infrastructure in the south of Sweden, primarily with but not limited to the goal of space observations. Signals received produce a gigantic stream of data that has to be processed in real time. The target is to schedule stream computations to computation nodes in [...]


Project Report - Effect of expertise on creative problem solving

Posted: 30 Sep 2009 06:30 AM PDT

This experimental study was set up to examine if experts' domain-related knowledge induces fixation effect on creative problem solving, and explore the role of an incubation period in creative problem solving. Three hypotheses were put forward and tested. The first one proposed that experts' automatically activated domain-related knowledge fixates their minds when solving creative problems [...]


Project Report on Medical Translation

Posted: 30 Sep 2009 06:10 AM PDT

Project Title: Analysis of a Medical Translation: Terminology and cultural aspects This analysis deals with the difficulties in translating a medical text from English into Swedish. As primary source, I have used a British textbook about geriatrics called Nursing Older People which is aimed at university students of nursing. The selected chapter is called Person-centred dementia [...]


Efficient content distribution in IPTV environments

Posted: 30 Sep 2009 05:15 AM PDT

Existing VoD solutions often rely on unicast to distribute content, which leads to a higher load on the VoD server as more nodes become interested in the content. In such case, P2P is an alternative way of distributing content since it makes better use of available resources in the network. In this report, several P2P [...]


Engineering of Context Dependent Quality of Service (QoS)

Posted: 30 Sep 2009 04:11 AM PDT

The service oriented computing paradigm is a new model for distributed computing and due to its simplicity and powerful features, it is being popular and has a wide variety of implementation in different scenarios. The already built system is studies in detail, which was totally implemented using the Grid Technology. The idea of the current [...]


Ground facility prototype development to support high-integrity aircraft approach and landing using GPS

Posted: 30 Sep 2009 03:08 AM PDT

The Local Area Augmentation System (LAAS) is an augmentation of the Global Positioning System (GPS) to allow for precision approach and landing at airports. Stanford University has, with support from U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), developed a real time prototype of the LAAS Ground Facility (LGF) known as the Integrity Monitor Testbed (IMT). It is [...]


Baseband Implementation and Performance Analysis of the Multiband OFDM UWB System

Posted: 30 Sep 2009 02:04 AM PDT

In this thesis, we follow the standard proposal IEEE 802.12.3a to implement the MB-OFDM UWB system in C programming language. We also analyze the system performance in the multipath fading channel, the IEEE 802.15.3a channel standard. Four different conditions of frequency and timing synchronization are considered. Since the entire system consists of two subsystems: (a) [...]


Line Probing in VoIP Networks to find Performance Limit of Echo Canceller

Posted: 30 Sep 2009 01:01 AM PDT

Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) has become an increasingly popular way to provide phone services. At this moment there is a transition going on from delivering voice over the Plain Old Telephone System (POTS) to using VoIP technology. Line echo is created in the 2-wire to 4-wire hybrid circuit between the VoIP phone and the [...]


An Investigation into Popular Art

Posted: 29 Sep 2009 11:58 PM PDT

While Popular Art surrounds us, there have been few scholarly investigations of it. One reason for this is that accounts of Popular Art have not facilitated such investigations into Popular Art. I characterize a work as Popular Art based on the relationships that it bears to the influences that make up Popular Culture and other [...]


Biomethanol Conversion from Sugar Beet Pulp with Pectin Methyl Esterase

Posted: 29 Sep 2009 10:55 PM PDT

Conversion of renewable biomethanol was studied from sugar beet pulp with pectin methyl esterases (PMEs). An analytical method for methanol and PME activity was developed based on potassium permanganate assay. Results showed that this method was sensitive, accurate and stable. Two PMEs, natural and mutated, were then produced and characterized. The kinetics parameters of Michaelis-Menten [...]


Laser Triangulation Using Spacetime Analysis

Posted: 29 Sep 2009 09:53 PM PDT

There are many different applications where three dimensional data describing the shape of an object is needed. For example it is used in the wood industry to determine the optimal sawing of logs; in the electronics industry to examine solder paste deposits and in the 3D animation industry to import real objects into animated films. [...]


Online and Offline Approximations for Population based Multi-objective Optimization

Posted: 29 Sep 2009 08:49 PM PDT

The high computational cost of population based optimization methods has been preventing applications of these methods to realistic engineering design problems. The main challenge is to devise approaches that can significantly reduce the number of function (or simulation) calls required in such optimization methods. This dissertation presents some new online and offline approximation approaches for [...]


Vehicle Shaping for Mine Blast Damage Reduction

Posted: 29 Sep 2009 07:41 PM PDT

When a buried explosive is detonated beneath a target (such as a vehicle), the target is rapidly loaded by flying ejecta, high pressure gas, and shock waves. This paper explores how changes in the shape of the underside of a target affect the total impulse captured from the detonation of a buried charge. The effects [...]