Browsing College of Engineering and Technology by Title
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Enhancing the Distance Learning Experience: Designing Virtual Classroom and Laboratory Environments
(2009-04)New virtual environments are evolving to a point where academics can visualize the benefits of these more socially interactive distance media. A first step in evaluating these virtual environments is to build virtual ... -
An Ergonomic Evaluation of a Front Support Chair for Forward Leaning Seated Tasks
(East Carolina University, 2014)The prevalence of low back pain in industry has contributed to employee days away from work and therefore decreased production. Low back pain is even more pervasive in industries where the work requires the employee to ... -
Evaluating effectiveness of the application of the new perspective in safety, Safety-II: by Functional Resonance Analysis Method (FRAM) in a manufacturing environment
(East Carolina University, 2017-07-25)The risk matrix has been used by safety professionals for many years as a significant tool for hazard management, risk assessment and prioritization, and to aid in offering a proactive approach to prevent negative outcomes. ... -
EXAMINING MULTICULTURAL COMPETENCIES OF STUDENT AFFAIRS PROFESSIONALS WHO ADVISE STUDENT ORGANIZATIONS OF COLOR
(East Carolina University, 2018-12-10)The purpose of this quantitative study was to determine if, and to what extent, racial and ethnic identity, years of experience, education level, age, gender, advisor status, and sexual orientation are related to multicultural ... -
Expansion des laitiers d’aciérie : à l’ouest, il y a du nouveau !
(2016-04)Contrairement aux laitiers de hauts fourneaux qui sont volumétriquement stables et faciles à utiliser en construction routière notamment, les laitiers d’aciérie contiennent de la chaux libre non hydratée en proportion variable ... -
Exploring the Usability Issues Encountered by Individuals with Visual Impairments on Social Networking Sites: Problem Description, System Evaluation and Semantic Web Solution
(East Carolina University, 2014-08-28)While social networking sites (SNSs) like Facebook are widely used and have been broadly studied, investigations of their use by individuals with visual impairments are scarce within the academic literature. Anecdotal ... -
Fluid Contact Angle Assessment to Evaluate Wetting of Dental Materials
(East Carolina University, 2017-04-27)Dental crowns account for a large percentage of restorative dental procedures, but the crown materials have been shown to cause wear on the natural opposing tooth. There is uncertainty regarding which mechanical or chemical ... -
Formal Model To Reduce the Risk Of Cloud Outages
(East Carolina University, 2014)Cloud outages have become very common in recent years as many companies adopt hosted services. One of the major reasons for cloud outages is the service level for availability, reliability, security not being met as mentioned ... -
GestDefLS : A Gesture Definition Language in Swift
(East Carolina University, 2015)The application programming interfaces supplied by Apple for developing applications in the Swift programming language on iOS devices provide limited support when it comes to declaring gesture recognizers outside of those ... -
Gesture Prediction Model for the Guitar Fingering Problem
(East Carolina University, 2014)In this thesis we provide a method for finding the fingering of a music piece on any type of guitar using a hand model. Adapting to the real world conditions by deploying a model of the user's hand, and considering the ... -
Group Mutual Exclusion in Linear Time and Space
(East Carolina University, 2014)The Group Mutual Exclusion (GME) problem, introduced by Joung, is a natural extension of the classical Mutual Exclusion problem. In the classical Mutual Exclusion problem, two or more processes are not simultaneously allowed ... -
Group mutual exclusion in linear time and space
(2018-01)We present two algorithms for the Group Mutual Exclusion (GME) Problem that satisfy the properties of Mutual Exclusion, Starvation Freedom, Bounded Exit, Concurrent Entry and First Come First Served. Both our algorithms ... -
Identifying a cross-correlation between heart rate variability and skin conductance using pain intensity on healthy college students
(East Carolina University, 2018-05-18)Chronic pain affects approximately 100 million Americans annually. Heart rate variability and skin conductance have been used separately as measures of pain intensity. Current methods of assessing pain intensity have some ... -
Identifying Mold Heath Hazards Using Smartphone-based Microscope
(2018-03-28)The current technological development of smartphones makes it possible to use them in identifying environmental health hazards. Based on the known information about mold types and their reproductive routines, economically ... -
Implementation of a System for Monitoring Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE) and Exploring Correlation Between OEE and Process Capability
(East Carolina University, 2011)An effective process equipment monitoring tool widely accepted in manufacturing units today is overall equipment effectiveness (OEE). OEE began its debut as a pillar of the total productive maintenance (TPM) system, where ... -
Improving Access to Information through Conceptual Classification
(East Carolina University, 2011)Overwhelming the users with large amount of information on the Web has resulted in users' inability to find the information and their dissatisfaction with available information searching and filtering systems. On the other ... -
INTELLIGENT MODEL FOR IMAGE-BASED RECOMMENDATION SYSTEM
(East Carolina University, 2016-08-29)Online shopping has developed in parallel with the Internet, and Recommendation Systems have played a pivotal role in its growth. The recommendations are usually provided in two ways: Content-based Filtering and Collaborative ... -
INVESTIGATING THE STAR SCHEMA BENCHMARK AS A REPLACEMENT FOR THE TPC-H DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEM
(East Carolina University, 2016-12-13)Decision Support System (DSS) are at the core of business intelligence systems. Implementation costs for enterprise level Database Management System (DBMS) and DSS average $10,461 for installation costs. This does not ... -
Knowledge Discovery for Clinical Decision Support System in Patient Records
(East Carolina University, 2018-07-23)Knowledge discovery from the patient's health records is a challenging task for the medical specialists. The knowledge generated from the patient's records can assist specialists to make an effective decision and recommend ... -
Knowledge-Based Competencies Necessary for the Frontline Construction Supervisor : Improving Safety through Knowledge
(East Carolina University, 2012)Evaluating supervisor competency levels has been a management challenge since the beginning of supervisory roles in the construction process. Supervisors perform a critical role in the workplace with respect to workplace ...