Thesis Work Research Articles

Game-Theoretic Threat Screening and Deceptive Techniques for Cyber Defense

My research addresses the problem faced by a defender who must screen objects for potential threats that are coming into a secure area. The particular domain of interest for my work is the protection of cyber networks from intrusions given the presence of a strategic adversary. My thesis work allows fora defender to use game-theoretical methods that randomize her protection strategy and introduces uncertainty to the adversary that makes it more difficult to attack the defender’s network successfully.

Analysis of Implementation of RFID Technology in Retail Industry

In today’s world cost optimization and better service are becoming the essential components ofthe retail supply chain. The thesis tries to contribute to the understanding of the RFIDtechnology in the retail industry. The basic concepts and the research contribution of the variousauthors are briefed in the theoretical framework made for a better understanding to the readers.After gained the relevant theoretical knowledge, the interviews were conducted with the RFIDexpert and some retailers. The empirical data collected from the interviews and surveys areprojected. With the empirical results and the relevant theoretical results, an analysis is madewhich explicitly gives the basis of implementation of RFID in the retail supply chain and itsassociated practical scenarios. Another outcome of the thesis is the result of the checkoutanalysis of the Willys retail store, and researchers try to show the potential benefit of adoptingthe RFID technology at item level at the point of sales, also cost estimation and savings areshown in the analysis. In a bird’s eye view, this research thesis work is a contribution to theimplementation of RFID technology in the retail industry and its integration among the differententities of retail supply chain and improves the overall performance of supply chain and providea framework for RFID implementation for the case company.

Meet the First Authors.

Meet the First Authors.

AN EFFICIENT MODEL FOR EFFECTIVE USE OF ICT INFRASTRUCTURES FOR BETTER ELECTRONIC DELIVERY OF SERVICES FOR SUCCESSFUL IMPLEMENTATION OF EGOVERNANCE

Wastes collected from dairy farm are converted into manure by various processes for their application in agricultural fields in order to yield more production of crops. But unexpectedly the nutrient present in the manure is not completely utilized by the plants sometimes due to surface water runoff, floods and certain other aspects. The production of mineral fertilizers has a significant environmental impact, including depletion of fossil fuels and minerals. Therefore, the nutrients present in this manure comprise of minerals such as Magnesium, Ammonium and Phosphate which is otherwise called as struvite. This struvite can be precipitated separately and can be made as a substitute for manure since struvite is far rich in nutrients compared to manure and also it is considered as a slow releasing fertilizer which has less soluble in water. This thesis work shows the amount of MAP (Mg, Nh4, and P) nutrients generated when Dairy manure is used as the influent to the fluidized bed reactor with addition of Mgcl which acts as a precipitating agent and also the impact of struvite precipitation in the concentration of total solids, hardness, pH, BOD/COD from the dairy wastewater is observed. Keywords: Dairy manure, struvite crystallization, nutrient recovery

A Strategic Perspective on Human Resource Development in Nepal

The PhD thesis work aims at examining the presence of strategic human resource development (HRD) characteristics instrumental to achieve theoretical HRD outcomes, in view of a long-felt need to manage the strategic factors of HRD. An exploratory and analytical research approach was adopted to study all commercial banks (N = 25) and national level development banks (N = 14) of Nepal through a survey (2012-2013) on incumbent supervisors and managers (N = 708) chosen through a proportionate, stratified probability sampling technique from (a) hierarchy-based strata, and (b) from both bank categories. Principal component analysis (PCA) analyzed 25 theoretically identified strategic characteristics in current HRD practices; the study — through the factor analysis — finally identified 19 relevant and influential characteristics factor-labeled by PCA into a two-factor framework based on regression analysis: namely, (a) Enabling-cum-facilitating Factors and (b) Implementation-cum-control Factors. Based on the findings enshrined in the strategic HRD (SHRD) framework, it devised strategic characteristics-based SHRD model which was further validated through an analysis of the qualitative data collected from a depth-interview based ‘key resourceful informant survey’ (KRIS). The SHRD model so developed should prove instrumental to HR managers in strategically managing their HRD function for achieving expected HRD outcomes in strategically steering modern day organisations amid rapidly changing, complex external environmental factors.

Application of Contextual Teaching and Learning (CTL) Components In Telecommunication Network Design and Optimization Course

ABSTRACT: One of the academic problems in the Electrical Engineering Undergraduate Program of Islamic University of Indonesia is the thesis work beyond the target time, so the average period of study became over time. Several solutions have been worked out, but the results have not been significant impact. The biggest problem is the lack of research experience and support skills in research. This research proposes a new solution by inviting students to do integrated learning and research in the Telecommunication Network Design and Optimization course. The selected learning model is Contextual Teaching and Learning based on Problem Based Learning. CTL is a teaching-learning strategy that emphasizes the full process of student involvement in order to discover the material learned and relate it to real life situations that encourage students to apply it in their lives. The results can improve the students achievement of competencies and give direct experience to students to conduct the research. This is evidenced by the increase of the average mark from 63.78 to 78.91 and the availability of student to write the good research reports.Keywords: Contextual, problem based learning, integrated learning and research, study periodReceived: 17 January 2018, Revised: 15 February 2018, Accepted: 24 February 2018

Application of Contextual Teaching and Learning (CTL) Components In Telecommunication Network Design and Optimization Course

ABSTRACT: One of the academic problems in the Electrical Engineering Undergraduate Program of Islamic University of Indonesia is the thesis work beyond the target time, so the average period of study became over time. Several solutions have been worked out, but the results have not been significant impact. The biggest problem is the lack of research experience and support skills in research. This research proposes a new solution by inviting students to do integrated learning and research in the Telecommunication Network Design and Optimization course. The selected learning model is Contextual Teaching and Learning based on Problem Based Learning. CTL is a teaching-learning strategy that emphasizes the full process of student involvement in order to discover the material learned and relate it to real life situations that encourage students to apply it in their lives. The results can improve the students achievement of competencies and give direct experience to students to conduct the research. This is evidenced by the increase of the average mark from 63.78 to 78.91 and the availability of studentto write the good research reports.

Design of a Cyber Security Research Lab

Important considerations in the design of a network security teaching and research lab are discussed in the context of the University Of Management and Technology Graduate Network Security MS course. The main objective is to provide a learning and research environment for the student to enrich their understanding of the network and computer security theory taught in the classroom with an extensive set of complementary hands-on laboratory exercises. The mission of Information security and DFIR Laboratory is to support varied demands of research, education, and outreach in information security and cyber forensics. More specifically, the laboratory must be able to be used by professors for conducting research activities; individual student thesis and project work, class projects on information security topics, and to support faculty and students partnering with industry on issues of practical security.The type of expected research projects include Information Hiding, Tracing and Watermarking, Intrusion Detection and prevention, Applications of Machine Learning in Information Security, Key Distribution, Escrow and Security Protocols, Survivable Computation, Cryptography, Malware analysis and classification, Mobile Device Security and Forensics, Software Security, Vulnerability Assessments and Penetration Testing to name a few.

Crazy About CRISPR: An Interview with Francisco Mojica.

Crazy About CRISPR: An Interview with Francisco Mojica.

Investigation and Analysis on Feeling of Undergraduates Majoring in Biopharmaceutical After Thesis Defense

In order to make better practice teaching of undergraduate thesis, randomly selected a respondent group (28 students) to make an anonymous written questionnaire, which was entitled “Feeling after thesis defense”. And there was not any other restrictive requirement on them. The survey results were classified and analyzed from thesis design, research process and thesis accomplishment. It was shown that, though the survey objects encountered some difficulties and hardships in the practice activity, they had a greater degree of recognition on the importance of graduation thesis and the necesscity of engaging in thesis work. And also they not only benefited from the help of teachers and students. But also they were trained and improved greatly in the comprehensive quality and ability in the activity, and so they were pleased for this. It is believed that this investigation will help the practice teaching of undergraduate thesis go up to a new stage.

Ranchi Institute of Neuro-Psychiatry and Allied Sciences: A pioneer in the field of psychiatry in India.

Ranchi Institute of Neuro-Psychiatry and Allied Sciences (RINPAS; Ranchi Indian Mental Hospital; Ranchi Manasik Aryogyashala) traces its origin from a lunatic asylum for Indian soldiers established at Munghyr in Bihar in 1795 and thus is the first mental hospital in India established by the British purely for Indian patients as well as the second oldest functioning mental hospital in India. The hospital made great strides in improving patients care and using modern methods of assessment and treatment as well as education and research during the tenure of Dr J E Dhunjibhoy the first Indian medical superintendent. As a result the mortality rate was the lowest among the mental hospitals in Indian. There was a shift from custodial care to curative treatment. Since 1930s psychiatric training was given to undergraduate medical students of Patna Medical College and subsequently from Darbhanga and Cuttack. The Institute was affiliated to Universities of London and Edinburgh for Diploma in Psychological Medicine in 1936. The thesis work of the first Indian MD (Psychiatry) was done at this institute. Subsequently many psychiatrists completed their MD (Psychiatry) under the guidance of Dr L.P. Verma at this institute. A number of staff and alumini of the institute held the post of President and office bearers of Indian Psychiatric Society (IPS), starting with Dr J.E. Dhunjibhoy, the first president of the IPS. The Institute declined in the 1980s but after intervention of the Supreme Court it was transformed into an autonomous institute. Under the new dispensation the institution is regaining its vitality. Care and facilities for inpatients has greatly improved. Laboratory and imaging services have been updated. Modern facilities for eye and dental surgery are available. Attendance in outpatient department and especially in satellite clinics is increasing. Postgraduate training in psychiatry, clinical psychology, psychiatric social work and psychiatric nursing has started and research is once again a priority.

Algorithm on Converting a 2D Scanning LiDAR to 3D for use in Autonomous Indoor Navigation

Autonomous indoor navigation is synonymous with military centric autonomous navigation in GPS-denied environments. Unmanned aerial systems (UAS) are routinely connected to autonomous navigation. This combination of technology has many disparate uses such as in kids toys, photography, and military applications. For each of these areas a major concern is size, weight, and power (SWaP) in the product design. SWaP has a direct effect on the operations of an autonomous UAS such as on the flight time, the maneuverability, controllability, and the durability. This paper presents a basic algorithm describing one aspect of reducing SWaP on an autonomous quad-rotor UAS, by converting a 2D scanning LiDAR sensor to a 3D sensor, thus eliminating the need for additional sensors used to perform localization and mapping. Much that is described here is derived from the thesis work presented by Cooper. The majority of work was performed during a Master’s Thesis investigation by M. A. Cooper titled “Converting a 2D Scanning LiDAR to a 3D System for Use on Quad-Rotor UAVs in Autonomous Navigation.” The work presented here develops the generalized calibration procedure.

La evaluación de los aprendizajes en aulas universitarias: una investigación sobre las prácticas

The present work describes a research carried out as a Master thesis work, on the subject of the evaluation of learning at university. The objective of the research was to study the formative evaluation practices that exist in an institution of engineering education, to make them visible. It was started from the conception of formative evaluation as one that is integrated to the teaching and that allows the feedback. It was developed with a qualitative methodology based on interviews with students, teachers and an institutional reference, plus analysis of various documents. As a result, five cases of formative assessment practices were selected and analyzed, and common conclusions were reached

Investigation of Stretch and Recovery Property of Weft Knitted Regular Rib Fabric

Weft knitted regular rib (1×1) fabric stretch and recovery property are very tough to control. This project and thesis work have been devoted to studying the effect of variation of stitch length, yarn count, and GSM on the stretch and recovery properties of weft knit regular rib fabric. Three yarn counts, each with 4 level of stitch length, was manufactured for the purpose of this experiment, remaining the machine set up, dyeing and finishing process constant. In this research, it was found that the better stretch and recovery property of regular rib fabric can be produced by using 2.6 mm to 2.65 mm stitch length for yarn count of Ne 28/1 KH and GSM of 195 to 205.

Repetitive on-demand drug release from polymeric matrices containing a macroscopic spherical iron core.

During my chemical engineering studies, it was only during my master thesis work that I decided to continue with PhD research as I really enjoyed doing original research. When coming to the end of my PhD research under supervision of Prof. Ulrich S. Schubert, I developed the ambition to pursue an academic career. Fortunately, I got the opportunity to stay with Prof. Schubert as project leader for the Dutch Polymer Institute (DPI). Within this position, I supervised ten researchers and was able to start developing my independent research lines. Despite that I now advise students to not stay in the same laboratory, this first position allowed me to gain some initial independence and to publish a large number of papers that has been a great benefit in my further career. After two and a half years I needed a new challenge that I found by taking up a part-time position at a start-up company in Eindhoven, Dolphys Medical BV, while I also continued as part-time group leader for the DPI. As senior product developer, I was in charge of the research and learned to focus on the application rather than scientific curiosity. This experience made me realize that I prefer the freedom to do academic blue sky research and decided to fully go for an academic position. After personal discussions with some prominent professors in the Netherlands, I applied for a postdoc fellowship in the Netherlands with Prof. Roeland Nolte as well as a Humboldt fellowship in Germany with Prof. Martin Möller, which I both got. As a result, I went one year 'abroad' to Aachen and returned to Nijmegen where I intended to start my independent career. However, another opportunity came along. Via my personal network I was informed that I would make a good chance if I applied for a new professor scheme in Ghent. So I applied and the rest is history. Picture of the Supramolecular Chemistry Group (2017).

The #AustralianBeachspace Project: Examining Opportunities for Research Dissemination Using Instagram

The #AustralianBeachspace Project: Examining Opportunities for Research Dissemination Using Instagram

Frequency Domain Digital Image Segmentation based on a Modified kMeans

The segmentation of image is the basic thing for understanding the images whether it is a color image or gray scale image. It is used in the various image processing applications, computer vision, etc. In this thesis work we have used multiple clustering approaches to segment the image in our initial step like Normalized cut, kMeans, and Mean shift. The main aim was to obtain feature extraction, to reduce convergence, to reduce computation time, and to overcome the over segmentation caused by the noise, also incorrect spread of intensity. Hence the optimal solution has been derived through the Modified kMeans through which the feature extraction and the separation of overlapping objects were evaluated by making use of wavelet transform and computation time was reduced by considering approximation band coefficients of DWT contribution in an image through which overall performance was improved. Proposed work has been implemented in MATLAB environment.

REGION BASED CLUSTERING FOR DATA COLLECTION IN WSN

The lower cost and easier installation of the WSNs than the wired counterpart pushes industry and academia to pay more attention to this promising technology. Large scale networks of small energy-constrained sensor nodes require techniques and protocols which are scalable, robust, and energy-efficient. The most efficient approach provided by clustering the nodes is hierarchy. The one node will send the data to another node and the another node will send to its neightbouring node. In smart cities, wireless sensor networks (WSNs) act as a type of core infrastructure that collects data from the city to implement smart services. Our thesis work included the region based clustering, cluster head selection and energy efficient communication using static base station and movable mobile nodes. Since it was earlier proposed that clustering improves the network lifetime. We modified the region based clustering by dividing the network area into n regions with cluster head chosen for each region and proposed a new method for cluster head selection having less computational complexity. It was also found that the modified approach has improved performance to that of the other clustering approaches. We have used the mobile nodes for each section with controlled trajectory path as a reference to compare the performance of each of the clustering methods.

Moshi Song: An International Ballad.

Though Moshi Song is a relatively new face in the Wu laboratory at Stanford University in California, this postdoctoral fellow brings with her a world of experience. She graduated from the Beijing Forestry University with a BS degree in Biology before completing a 2-year MMS in Biomedicine at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, Sweden. Most recently, she completed her PhD in Molecular Cell Biology in the Dorn laboratory at Washington University in St Louis, where she was awarded the Spencer T. and Ann W. Olin Medical Science Fellow by the Division of Biology and Biomedical Sciences. When I was a very little kid, I wanted to be a school teacher. Both of my parents were teachers, although they didn’t want me to follow in their path. Ultimately, I decided to study biology when filling out the form of intention for my college entrance examination because I thought it would give me the opportunity to be involved in solving human puzzles as a life scientist. I realized I wanted to study abroad not long after starting college, and I took the GRE general test during my sophomore year. I received a great offer from the Karolinska Institute, where I did both coursework and benchwork. I also got to travel around Europe in more than 15 countries, seeing historic places and meeting people of various backgrounds. Stockholm is still my favorite city, but at the time I was young and did not want to stay in the same place for more than a few years. I applied to ten graduate programs in the United States to pursue my PhD …

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