“The internet is no longer a web that we connect to. Instead, its a computerized, networked, and interconnected world that we live in. This is the future, and what were calling the Internet of Things.”- Bruce Schneier, ...

With the advent of rotate construction techniques, it is easy to build a new bridge crossing over existing structures, rivers and valleys quickly, easily and safely. Although the general concept of the rotating method ...

Dissertation analyzes optimal control of systems with distributed parameters described by the general boundary value problems in a bounded Lipschitz domain for the linear second order uniformly elliptic partial differential ...

Underwater hull grooming is a proactive approach to ship hull husbandry. It has been defined as the frequent and gentle wiping of a ship hull coating to maintain it free of fouling. One of the challenges to implementing ...

To support the pursuit of quality in MOOCs, this study follows the Sloan Consortium online education quality framework. This framework includes five pillars of quality online education that need to be assessed on an ...

A 20 million years reign of large terrestrial mammals, known as megafauna (animals over 45 kg), came to an end during the Pleistocene-Holocene transition. Particularly apparent in the Americas, the sudden extinction of ...

Despite the ongoing efforts to develop cutting-edge security solutions, the question always remains whether these technologies can overcome system vulnerabilities that often result from poor security practices made by ...

Natural language processing (NLP) techniques have been through many advancements in recent years, linguistics and scientist utilized these techniques to solve many challenges related to written language and literary. ...

With the advance of speech recognition technologies, intelligent voice control devices such as Amazon Echo have became increasingly popular in our daily life. Currently, most state-of-the-art speech recognition systems are ...

The purpose of this mixed-method study was to explore the relationship between place attachment and socioscientific reasoning (SSR) of Puerto Rican high school students through debate and discourse of local and foreign ...