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Jon Heales,Andy Susilo,Fiona Rohde
Development failures and runaway projects in the information systems (IS) area can result in substantial losses to organizations, either financially or to a company?s reputation. One important strategy in mitigating risk is the use of effective controls...
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Sarah Barnes, Anzori Georgadze, Andrea Giammanco, Madis Kiisk, Vitaly A. Kudryavtsev, Maxime Lagrange and Olin Lyod Pinto
A key task for customs workers is the interception of hazardous, illegal and counterfeit items in order to protect the health and safety of citizens. However, it is estimated that only a small fraction of cargo is inspected and an even smaller fraction o...
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Yang-Rui Li, Chih-Chia Chen and Chao-Chung Peng
For quadrotor control applications, it is necessary to rely on attitude angle changes to indirectly achieve the position trajectory tracking purpose. Several existing literature studies omit the non-negligible attitude transients in the position controll...
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Stephen McCord, Gregory Reller, Jon Miller and Kim Pingree
MercLokTM P-640 (MercLok) is a proprietary product developed by Albemarle as a mercury (Hg) treatment technology. MercLok captures mercury and sequesters it for a long period under ambient environmental conditions. For this project, MercLok was applied t...
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Shih-Lun Fang, Ting-Jung Chang, Yuan-Kai Tu, Han-Wei Chen, Min-Hwi Yao and Bo-Jein Kuo
Most existing greenhouse decision support systems only consider external environmental factors, such as soil and atmosphere, rather than plant response. A conceptual plant-response-based strategy for irrigation and environmental controls for tomato (Sola...
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Rahul Misra, Rafal Wisniewski and Alexander Zuyev
We consider the problem of attitude stabilization for a low Earth orbit satellite having only electromagnetic actuation. Such a satellite is not fully actuated, as the control torque is the cross-product of magnetic moment due to magnetorquers and the ge...
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Xiangfei Zhao, Maosheng Cui, Yidi Zhang, Yaowei Liu and Xin Zhao
Oocyte enucleation is a critical procedure for somatic cell nuclear transfer. Yet, the main steps of oocyte enucleation are still manually operated, which presents several drawbacks such as low precision, high repetition error, and long training time for...
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Michael Alicea and Izzat Alsmadi
Firewalls and network access controls play important roles in security control and protection. Those firewalls may create an incorrect sense or state of protection if they are improperly configured. One of the major configuration problems in firewalls is...
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Crina Pungulescu
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This paper investigates whether small markets offer higher risk-adjusted expected returns using a large set of developed and emerging markets over a time span of up to four decades. The results show that expected returns are significantly lower in larger...
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Alexander P. J. Ebbing, Gregory S. Fivash, Nuria B. Martin, Ronald Pierik, Tjeerd J. Bouma, Jacco C. Kromkamp and Klaas Timmermans
Multiannual delayed gametophyte cultures can stay vegetative for years, while also having the ability to grow. This study aims to investigate whether male and female multiannual delayed gametophyte strains of the species Saccharina latissima and Alaria e...
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Nicola Lolli, Alessandro Nocente and Steinar Grynning
The influence of different control strategies on the user?s satisfaction in cell offices was studied in a full-scale facility in Trondheim, Norway. Eleven participants used two test cells as a workspace and answered a computer-based questionnaire for rep...
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Kegang Zhao, Chengxia Wang, Guoquan Xiao, Haolin Li, Jie Ye and Yanwei Liu
This work is used for the unmanned driving of vehicles and other devices.
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Baptiste Chomette and Jean-Jacques Sinou
Friction-Induced Vibration and noisE (FIVE) is still a complex and nonlinear physical phenomenon which is characterized by the appearance of instabilities and self-sustained vibrations. This undesirable vibrational phenomenon is encountered in numerous i...
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Amanj Mohamed Ahmed,Akram Ahmed Muhammed
The overall objective of this study was to establish the effects of internal controls on the financial performance of Asiacell as a telecommunication company in Kurdistan Region of Iraq. This was achieved by looking at the effect of control environment, ...
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Lyle Weber,Riaan J. Rudman
AbstractBring Your Own Device (BYOD) involves allowing employees to use their own mobile devices to access their organisations? networks. Many organisations are embracing this trend as a means to cut information technology (IT) expenditure, enhance emplo...
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Lin Liu, Liming Jiang, Yafei Sun, Hansheng Wang, Chaolu Yi and Houtse Hsu
Evaluating the impacts of climatic changes and morphometric features on glacier mass balance is crucial to providing insight into glacier changes and their effects on regional water resources and ecosystems. Here, we presented an evaluation of morphometr...
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Lin Liu, Liming Jiang, Yafei Sun, Hansheng Wang, Chaolu Yi, Houtse Hsu
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Evaluating the impacts of climatic changes and morphometric features on glacier mass balance is crucial to providing insight into glacier changes and their effects on regional water resources and ecosystems. Here, we presented an evaluation of morphometr...
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Jin Woo Moon, Min Hee Chung, Hayub Song and Se-Young Lee
The aim of this study was to develop an artificial neural network (ANN) prediction model for controlling building heating systems. This model was used to calculate the ascent time of indoor temperature from the setback period (when a building was not occ...
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Stephen Treado and Yan Chen
This article presents an analysis of the relationship between building energy usage and building control system operation and performance. A method is presented for estimating the energy saving potential of improvements in building and control system ope...
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Jin Woo Moon, Kyung-Il Chin and Sooyoung Kim
This study proposes an artificial neural network (ANN)-based thermal control method for buildings with double skin envelopes that has rational relationships between the ANN model input and output. The relationship between the indoor air temperature and s...
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