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Morphometric Analysis of the Human Lower Lumbar Intervertebral Discs and Vertebral Endplates: Experimental Approach and Regression Models
(2013-04-19)
Low back pain (LBP) has been a major socioeconomic problem to the modern society for decades. In industry, one of the most challenging issues in occupational ergonomics and health practices has been the reliable and accurate ...
Strategic Investment Decisions for Product Development Projects - An Option-Game Approach
(2015-04-08)
Gate-criteria have been identified as critical drivers of the success of a new product development (NPD) process. However, a major weakness of NPD projects is that gate-criteria are often inadequate for making go/kill ...
Operational and Investment Solutions for Dynamic Line Switching and Rating in Electrical Grid
(2015-07-07)
The electricity generation industry is one of the most expensive infrastructures and one of the major sources of greenhouse gas emissions among other industries. A great deal of short-term and long-term decisions have been ...
System Safety Analysis of the Opelika Fire Department's Crawling Simulator
(2015-12-04)
Firefighters have among the most physically and psychologically challenging jobs in the world, incurring more than 80,000 injuries each year. Firefighter training is crucial, as higher knowledge and experience levels are ...
On Closed-loop Supply Chain and Routing Problems for Hazardous Materials Transportation with Risk-averse Programming, Robust Optimization and Risk Parity
(2019-07-29)
The objective of this dissertation is to develop mathematical optimization models that assist and improve the decision making process in hazardous materials (hazmat) routing and supply chain network design. First, a ...
Cyberintrusion Detection in Critical Infrastructure
(2015-11-18)
Sophisticated cyberterrorists have su cient knowledge to devise an attack through the
Internet which could compromise critical resource delivery. As the threat of such cybercrime
escalates, defending critical infrastructure ...
Towards the Identification of Predictor Variables for Highway Safety
(2015-12-10)
Highway safety remains one the most critical issues in the United States. In recent years, new safety programs and policies have been adopted to save more lives, prevent tragedies, and reduce economic loss. Unfortunately, ...
An analytical and experimental study on 3D-printed custom surfaces for benthic algal biofilms
(2016-07-08)
Due to their fast growing rates and regeneration, algae are a promising avenue for biofuels, aquatic pollution recovery, and a source of protein nutrients, among others. Cultivation of benthic algal communities, in particular, ...
A Computational Study of Modern Approaches to Risk-Averse Stochastic Optimization Using Financial Portfolio Allocation Model
(2016-07-27)
We study some novel approaches to risk-averse stochastic optimization. Our
goal is to numerically evaluate whether these methods result in an improved decision
making under conditions of uncertainty. The methodology used ...
Trading Strategies and Risk Management for Wind Power in the Electricity Market
(2017-04-19)
The use of wind energy, one of the main renewable energy sources, has rapidly expanded around the world in past decades. However, the uncertainty and unpredictability of wind power lead to a number of challenges for both ...