Browsing Library by Title
Now showing items 3527-3546 of 7484
-
IMPROVING FLOOD FORECASTING USING CONDITIONAL BIAS-AWARE ASSIMILATION OF STREAMFLOW OBSERVATIONS AND DYNAMIC ASSESSMENT OF FLOW-DEPENDENT INFORMATION CONTENT
(2020-12-22)Accurate forecasting of floods is a long-standing challenge in hydrology and water management. Data assimilation (DA) is a popular technique used to improve forecast accuracy by updating the model states in real time using ... -
Improving Fracture Toughness Of Silicon Carbide Based Ceramics By Microstructure Tailoring
Ceramic materials are one of the most promising materials for wide variety of technical applications such as automotive, aerospace, medical, and other applications. They have very high strengths and high melting points ... -
Improving Gesture Recognition Performance Using The Dynamic Space-time Warp Algorithm
(Computer Science & Engineering, 2013-07-22)The DSTW algorithm was originally used as the fundamental algorithm for a gesture recognition software. When the need arose for implementing gesture recognition on-board a robotic vehicle, the original recognition software ... -
IMPROVING HYDROLOGIC PREDICTION FOR LARGE URBAN AREAS THROUGH STOCHASTIC ANALYSIS OF SCALE-DEPENDENT RUNOFF RESPONSE, ADVANCED SENSING AND HIGH-RESOLUTION MODELING
(2016-05-18)Due to urbanization and climate change, large urban areas such as the DallasFort Worth Metroplex (DFW) area is vulnerable not only to river flooding but also flash flooding. Due to the nonstationarities involved, projecting ... -
Improving Hydrologic Prediction Via Data Assimilation, Data Fusion And High-resolution Modeling
(Civil & Environmental Engineering, 2014-12)With population growth, urbanization and climate change, accurate and skillful monitoring and prediction of water resources and water-related hazards are becoming increasingly important to maintaining and improving the ... -
Improving Interaction in Online Liaison Services through Skype
(IGI Global, 2015-01)This article describes a pilot project of enhanced virtual reference services through a multifaceted model of services that includes the addition of Skype reference. The project was created as a response to a growing need ... -
Improving Memorization and Long Term Recall of System Assigned Passwords
(2016-12-20)Systems assigned password have guaranteed robustness against guessing attacks, but they are hard to memorize. To make system assigned passwords more usable, it is of prime importance that systems that assign random password ... -
IMPROVING MULTI-RESERVOIR WATER SUPPLY SYSTEM OPERATION USING ENSEMBLE FORECASTING AND GLOBAL SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS
(2019-05-16)The objective of this research is to improve the cost-effectiveness, reliability and resilience of water supply system operation through the utilization of ensemble forecasting and optimization of the operating policies. ... -
Improving Online Students’ Quality of Relationships, Academic Success, and Overall Satisfaction: A Comparative Study between Undergraduates Who Use and Who Do Not Use Student Affairs Resources
(2020-05-20)Online education is the fastest-growing option for student seeking completion of a degree from an institution of higher education. Students enjoy the increase pace of the coursework and the autonomy to complete it on their ... -
IMPROVING OPERATIONAL HYDROLOGIC FORECASTING VIA CONDITIONAL BIAS-PENALIZED MULTI-SENSOR PRECIPITATION ESTIMATION AND MULTI-MODEL STREAMFLOW PREDICTION
(2021-05-09)Many multivariate analysis techniques involve minimizing mean square error (MSE) or error variance under unbiasedness. In the presence of observation error, variance minimization tends to introduce negative and positive ... -
Improving Performance and Security in Anonymity Systems
(2018-09-06)Tor is an anonymity network that provides online privacy for the Internet users. Tor hides the user's traffic among the others' traffic. The more users Tor attracts, the stronger anonymity it provides. Unfortunately, users ... -
Improving Post Processing of Ensemble Streamflow Forecast for Short-to-long Ranges: A Multiscale Approach
(2019-08-30)A novel multi-scale post-processor for ensemble streamflow prediction, MS-EnsPost, and a multiscale probability matching (MS-PM) technique for bias correction in streamflow simulation are developed and evaluated. The MS-PM ... -
Improving Privacy And Performance In Anonymous Communications
(Computer Science & Engineering, 2011-03-03)Anonymous communications systems provide an important privacy service by keeping passive eavesdroppers from linking communicating parties. However, an attacker can use long-term statistical analysis of traffic sent to and ... -
Improving Probabilistic Quantitative Precipitation Forecasting Using Machine Learning and Statistical Postprocessing Methods
(2021-12-09)The objective of this research is to address the limitations inherent in conventional statistical postprocessing schemes to generate probabilistic quantitative precipitation forecasts (PQPFs) and improve postprocessed ... -
Improving Productivity Of Tunnel Boring Machines
(Civil & Environmental Engineering, 2013-07-22)Tunneling with tunnel boring machines (TBMs) is one of the most mechanized and sophisticated processes within the construction industry. However, there are risks when venturing down several hundred feet where the conditions ... -
Improving public transit services: Does collaborative transit services among public transit providers make them more efficient?
(2017-04-28)The network effect is the postulation that the utility of a product to a consumer increases as its consumption increases (Clement, 2004). If a parallel is drawn in transit service usage, the utility for transit services ... -
Improving Quality Of Service In XML Data Stream Processing Using Load Shedding
(Computer Science & Engineering, 2012-07-25)In recent years, we have witnessed the emergence of new types of systems that deal with large volumes of streaming data. Examples include nancial data analy- sis on feeds of stock tickers, sensor-based environmental ... -
Improving Receiver Station-keeping In Aerial Refueling By Formulating Tanker Motion As Disturbance
(Aerospace Engineering, 2010-03-03)During aerial refueling operations, the receiver aircraft should hold position within a “refueling box” to maintain the boom-receptacle connection while the tanker aircraft flies in a racetrack maneuver. Prior research ... -
IMPROVING REGIONAL HYDROLOGY FORECASTING FOR THE NORTH CENTRAL TEXAS REGION UTILIZING CONDITIONAL ENSEMBLE STREAMFLOW AND HYDROMETEOROLOGICAL CONDITION PREDICTIONS WITH ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK MODELING
(2017-05-10)The predictive skill of hydrologic variables such as streamflow and soil moisture, in North Central Texas, has improved substantially in the recent decades. However, substantial model-data biases are still present during ... -
Improving Scalability of Database Systems by Reshaping User Parallel I/O
(ACM, 2022-04-05)Modern database systems suffer from compromised throughput, persistent unfair I/O processing and unpredictable, high latency variability of user requests as a result of mismatches between highly scaled user parallel I/O ...