Browsing Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering by Title
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Management of supply chain: an alternative modelling technique for forecasting
(Journal of the Operational Research Society, 2007-05-23)Forecasting is a necessity almost in any operation. However, the tools of forecasting are still primitive in view of the great strides made by research and the increasing abundance of data made possible by automatic ... -
Methods, Impacts, and Opportunities in the Concrete Building Life Cycle
(MIT Concrete Sustainability Hub, 2011-08)Life cycle assessment (LCA) offers a comprehensive approach to evaluating and improving the environmental impacts of buildings. This research explores and advances three key areas relevant to the field of buildings LCA: ... -
Methods, Impacts, and Opportunities in the Concrete Pavement Life Cycle
(MIT Concrete Sustainability Hub, 2011-08)Life cycle assessment (LCA) offers a comprehensive approach to evaluate and improve the environmental impacts of pavements. This research explores and advances three key areas relevant to the pavement LCA field: methodology, ... -
Molecular Medicine
(2008-07-30)Healthcare problems of the 21st Century shall require effective therapies for emerging infectious diseases. Understanding why some infectious agents and parasites can co-exist or reside within the human host may offer ... -
Molecular Virology: SARS-CoV-2 and CoVID-19 (Current Topics)
(2020-10-16)Low-cost, non-invasive, detection, and diagnostic platform for surveillance of infections in humans, and animals. The system embraces the IoT “digital by design” metaphor by incorporating elements of connectivity, data ... -
Nano-sensoromics: Is it Conceptually Similar to Carbonomics?
(2008-12-15)Conceptual systems thinking evoking an amalgam of data analytics in healthcare vs energy -
Negative and Positive Transcriptional Regulation by Thyroid Hormone Receptor Isoforms
(The Endocrine Society (USA), 1990)Negative and positive regulations by multiple forms of thyroid hormone receptors. -
P3 - Porous Pareto Partition
(2020-02-29)Unsustainable and Misaligned Economics of Technology triggers a Porous Pareto Partition Between the Haves and the Have Nots: Can Democratization of Distributed Data act as a Catalyst for the Dissemination of Digital Dividends? -
PEAS - Making Meaningful Sense of Sensor Data and Information
(2020-02-29)Exploring convergence of ideas to transform data into meaningful information. -
A Portfolio Approach for Purchasing Systems: Impact of Switching Point
(2008-08-01)In operations management different ordering policies, such as, economic order quantity, lot for lot and periodic ordering, are used in various combinations without deeper considerations for the likely consequences on cash ... -
Potential for Improving Decision Support Catalysed by Semantic Interoperability Between Systems
(2008-07-31)Convergence of systems and intelligent automation may augment the ability of supply chain operations or healthcare networks to rapidly adapt to changes or respond, with minimal human intervention, under ideal conditions. ... -
Potential to Improve Forecasting Accuracy: Advances in Supply Chain Management
(2008-07-31)Forecasting is a necessity almost in any operation. However, the tools of forecasting are still primitive in view of the great strides made by research and the increasing abundance of data made possible by automatic ... -
A Purified Adenovirus 289-Amino-Acid ElA Protein Activates RNA Polymerase III Transcription In Vitro and Alters Transcription Factor TFIIIC
(American Society for Microbiology, 1991-10)We have previously demonstrated that a purified bacterially synthesized ElA 289-amino-acid protein is capable of stimulating transcription from the promoters of genes transcribed by RNA polymerase II in vitro (R. Spangler, ... -
Research Brief: A break-even hazard mitigation metric
(2017-01-12)CSHub researchers developed the Break Even Mitigation Percent (BEMP) to answer the question: “How much should be invested in mitigation for a particular building?” -
Research Brief: A Reaction-Diffusion Model to Determine Mesoscale Patterns in Cement Paste
(2018-08)Strength and toughness, two important aspects of the durability of concrete structures, are dramatically influenced by the material’s nanotexture, but the question of how the building blocks of cement paste organize ... -
Research Brief: A Resilience Assessment of Structures Using Molecular Dynamics
(2018-06)Between 1993-ˇ2012, more than 75% of catastrophic losses in the United States were caused by windstorms (1). The Congressional Budget Office estimated an average annual damage amounting to $28 billion (0.16 percent of GDP), ... -
Research Brief: Assessing Road Quality Using Crowdsourced Smartphone Measurements
(2020-07)As the demands on the nation’s roads increase, so too have road maintenance costs. To meet these challenges, agencies must vigilantly monitor road surface quality to properly apportion resources. Traditional methods of ... -
Research Brief: Can Passive House and Zero-energy Building Standards Promise a Low-carbon Future?
(2020-05)Passive house (PH) and zero-energy building (ZEB) standards aim to reduce the energy consumption and carbon footprints of buildings. The PH concept implies a low energy consumption achieved through passive technology such ... -
Research Brief: Capillary Stress During Cement Drying Shrinkage
(2018-06)Imagine a household sponge lying next to a kitchen sink. The sponge looks and feels different when it is wet versus when it is dry. When a sponge dries, it shrinks, curls and hardens due to suction forces (called “capillary ... -
Research Brief: Climate Change Mitigation Potential of Pavement Albedo
(2018-01)Albedo is the measure of how much solar energy is reflected by the Earth’s surface. Lighter color, or high-albedo, surfaces absorb less sunlight energy and reflect more shortwave radiation. Increasing pavement albedo has ...
