Three novel approaches that are based on a recent communication technique called time compression overlap-add (TC-OLA), are introduced into pulse compression (PC) radar systems to improve the radar waveform shaping and enhance radar performance. The first approach lays down a powerful framework for combining the TC-OLA technique into traditional PC radar system. The new TC-OLA-based radar obtained is compared with other radars, namely traditional linear frequency modulation (LFM), and wideband LFM which has the same processing gain under different background situations. The results show the superiority of the proposed radar over the others. The second approach combines a random phase noise signal with a selected radar signal to build a new radar system, SSLFM radar, that enjoys the low-probability of intercept property, and, therefore, has higher immunity against noise jamming techniques compared with other radar systems. The properly recovery of the transmitted signal, however, requires a synchronization system at the receiver side. In this dissertation, we propose three synchronization systems each having different pros and cons. The last approach takes the radar waveform design methodology in a different direction and proposes a novel framework to combine any number of radar signal and transmit them simultaneously. Instead of trying to achieve universality through waveform shaping optimization, we do so via pluralism. As a proof of concept, all the proposed radars have been implemented and tested on software-defined radar (SDR). The theoretical and the experimental results showed the superiority of all proposed radar systems. Since TC-OLA is fundamental to this work, we add a chapter to propose a new technique called downsample upsample shift add (DUSA) to address the limitations of the existing implementation of TC-OLA. / Graduate

abstract: The victim-offender overlap is a widely accepted empirical fact in criminology. While many methodological strategies have been used to study overlap, prior studies have assumed that it is uniform, taking little consideration into the potential differences within the overlap. The larger body of criminological research on pathways to crime suggests that victim-offenders also have variability in their victimization experiences and offending patterns. Not accounting for variation within the overlap has produced inconsistent findings in terms of establishing theoretical explanations for the victimization and offending relationship. Several general theories of crime have merit in their assumptions about the relationship between victimization and offending. Routine activity/lifestyle theory, low self-control theory, and general strain theory offer insight into the overlap. Variables derived from these three general theories are assessed to test their ability to explain a more complex conceptualization of the victim-offender overlap. Using data on 3,341 individuals drawn from four waves of the publically available National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health (Add Health), a latent class analysis establishes unique victim-offender overlap taxonomies. A multinomial logistic regression is conducted to test how well theoretically derived variables from three general theories (e.g., routine activity theory, low self-control theory, and general strain theory) predict membership in the unique victim-offender overlap taxonomies. Additional multinomial logistic regressions are run using a split sample analyses to test the invariance of the findings across different social groupings (e.g., gender and race/ethnicity). Comparing the more complex operationalization of the victim-offender overlap with the baseline regression models shows notable differences. For example, depression significantly predicts membership in the general victim-offender overlap group, but when taking into consideration variation within the overlap, depression does not consistently predict membership in all taxonomies. Similar results are found for routine activity/lifestyle theory and low self-control theory. Tests of invariance across gender and race/ethnicity highlight the need to consider how theoretical explanations of the victim-offender overlap differ based on social groupings. Males and females have unique risks and needs and these should be reflected in how routines and negative emotions are measured. The findings underscore the need to consider overlap when studying the relationship between victims and offenders. Implications for theory, future research, and policy are also discussed. / Dissertation/Thesis / Doctoral Dissertation Criminology and Criminal Justice 2018

Made available in DSpace on 2014-06-11T19:24:47Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2009-07-13Bitstream added on 2014-06-13T19:31:49Z : No. of bitstreams: 1 cruz_jhd_me_bauru.pdf: 3641948 bytes, checksum: b4c0a20ae031697c0e2cd3d13e4151ae (MD5) / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES) / Os clientes dos fabricantes de equipamentos exigem cada vez mais eficiência com melhor desempenho e maior economia de energia. Prova disso são produtos que vem diminuindo no tamanho e no peso. Um componente mais eficiente necessita de melhor qualidade de acabamento superficial e tolerâncias mais apertadas. Na fabricação de componentes precisos destaca-se a usinagem, os processos convencionais mais precisos são a retificação, a lapidação e o brunimento. Entretanto desenvolvimentos recentes nas áreas de eletrônicos e computadores geraram a necessidade de tolerâncias nanométricas, métodos ultra-precisos, que usam abrasivos livres, trabalham com tolerâncias de milésimos de micrometros. A retificação é o processo abrasivo mais utilizado para promover acabamento e formas finais em componentes de precisão. Utiliza como ferramenta um rebolo abrasivo, e conta com a operação de dressagem para controle da capacidade de corte. As elevadas temperaturas geradas podem provocar danos térmicos e deformações dimensionais e de forma na peça de trabalho. Na lapidação são utilizados grãos abrasivos livres e o perfil é transferido a peça através de movimentos aleatórios. O grande número de variáveis envolvidas na lapidação a tornam complexa e dispendiosa. Nos anos 90, difundiu-se um processo abrasivo de grãos fixos, no qual as peças e o rebolo abrasivo composto de pastilhas de CBN ou diamante, produzem movimento análogo ao da lapidação. Esse processo, muitas vezes denominado por brunimento plano, traz vantagens em relação à lapidação, como: peça limpa, reduzido desperdício de abrasivo e maior taxa de remoção. Neste trabalho é descrito um equipamento denominado de lápidoretificadora que usina peças pelo processo de lápidoretificação. Diferente de qualquer outro processo a lápidoretificação une uma cinemática que gera riscos aleatórios com uma ferramenta... / Customer's equipment manufacturers demand more efficiency with better performance and greater energy saving. In parallel is development of products with less size and weight. The most efficient components need quality of surface finish and increased manufacturing accuracy. Precise component manufacturer is normally produced by cutting process. Grinding, lapping and honing are the most commons manufacturing precision processes in practice today. Recent developments in electronics and computers created the need for nanometer tolerances, ultra precision cutting machines, which use free abrasive process, working tolerances in thousandths of microns. Grinding is the most common abrasive process used to promote final form in precision components. Using an abrasive wheel as a tool, it is possible to control the cutting conditions with the dressing operation. The high temperatures generated can cause thermal damage and dimensional deformation. Lapping use free abrasive grains with random movements. The immense numbers of variables involved in the lapping make the process to complex and expensive. In the '90s, it spread a fixed abrasive grains process using CBN or diamond wheels, with movements similar to lapping. This process, often called flat honing, product clean surfaces, reduced abrasive waste and increased removal rate. This paper described a device named lappingriding machine. Different of any other process, the lappingriding kinematics generates random risks with an abrasive tool prepared by dressing operation. The surface fining quality is similar to lapping or flat honing and the operational versatility is similar to grinding processes. The lappingring machine has specific functions such as the kinematics of workpiece fixing device and automatic dressing device. Its main features are rigidity and effectiveness of control, providing precision and cutting capacity stabile.

Orientador: Luiz Eduardo de Angelo Sanchez / Banca: Carlos Alberto Fortulan / Banca: Carlos Elias da Silva Junior / Resumo: Atualmente tem-se verificado crescente demanda por processos de fabricação capazes de produzir peças sob estreitas faixas de tolerâncias dimensionais e geométricas. Dentre os processos utilizados para conferir acabamento superficial e correção de forma destacam-se a retificação e a lapidação. Porém, muitas peças mostram-se suscetíveis ao calor gerado pela retificação, como no caso da deformação de peças delgadas ou então naquelas peças passíveis de mudanças microestruturais, recorrendo-se nestes casos à lapidação que, por sua vez, é um processo de difícil seleção de parâmetros. Neste trabalho é iniciado o desenvolvimento de um processo híbrido capaz de aliar algumas importantes características da retificação e da lapidação, no qual do primeiro é usado a operação de dressagem e do segundo o movimento cinemático. Dessa forma dotou-se uma... (Resumo completo, clicar acesso eletrônico abaixo) / Abstract: Lately, one can verify that there has been a growing demand for manufacturing processes capable of producing workpieces under tight dimensional and geometric tolerance rangers. Among the processes used to assure surface finish and shape correction to the part, grinding and lapping arise as the most used. However, many parts show themselves sensitive to the heat generated during the grinding process, as in the case of thin ones, or those susceptible to micro-structural changes. On these cases, one can use lapping, even though being a more difficult parameter selection process. In these studies, the development of a hybrid process capable of binding some important grinding and lapping features is initiated; the dressing operation, for the case of grinding and, for the case of lapping, the cinematic movement... (Complete abstract click electronic access below) / Mestre

Orientador: Luiz Eduardo de Angelo Sanchez / Banca: Eduardo Carlos Bianchi / Banca: Carlos Elias da Silva Junior / Resumo: Os clientes dos fabricantes de equipamentos exigem cada vez mais eficiência com melhor desempenho e maior economia de energia. Prova disso são produtos que vem diminuindo no tamanho e no peso. Um componente mais eficiente necessita de melhor qualidade de acabamento superficial e tolerâncias mais apertadas. Na fabricação de componentes precisos destaca-se a usinagem, os processos convencionais mais precisos são a retificação, a lapidação e o brunimento. Entretanto desenvolvimentos recentes nas áreas de eletrônicos e computadores geraram a necessidade de tolerâncias nanométricas, métodos ultra-precisos, que usam abrasivos livres, trabalham com tolerâncias de milésimos de micrometros. A retificação é o processo abrasivo mais utilizado para promover acabamento e formas finais em componentes de precisão. Utiliza como ferramenta um rebolo abrasivo, e conta com a operação de dressagem para controle da capacidade de corte. As elevadas temperaturas geradas podem provocar danos térmicos e deformações dimensionais e de forma na peça de trabalho. Na lapidação são utilizados grãos abrasivos livres e o perfil é transferido a peça através de movimentos aleatórios. O grande número de variáveis envolvidas na lapidação a tornam complexa e dispendiosa. Nos anos 90, difundiu-se um processo abrasivo de grãos fixos, no qual as peças e o rebolo abrasivo composto de pastilhas de CBN ou diamante, produzem movimento análogo ao da lapidação. Esse processo, muitas vezes denominado por brunimento plano, traz vantagens em relação à lapidação, como: peça limpa, reduzido desperdício de abrasivo e maior taxa de remoção. Neste trabalho é descrito um equipamento denominado de lápidoretificadora que usina peças pelo processo de lápidoretificação. Diferente de qualquer outro processo a lápidoretificação une uma cinemática que gera riscos aleatórios com uma ferramenta... (Resumo completo, clicar acesso eletrônico abaixo) / Abstract: Customer's equipment manufacturers demand more efficiency with better performance and greater energy saving. In parallel is development of products with less size and weight. The most efficient components need quality of surface finish and increased manufacturing accuracy. Precise component manufacturer is normally produced by cutting process. Grinding, lapping and honing are the most commons manufacturing precision processes in practice today. Recent developments in electronics and computers created the need for nanometer tolerances, ultra precision cutting machines, which use free abrasive process, working tolerances in thousandths of microns. Grinding is the most common abrasive process used to promote final form in precision components. Using an abrasive wheel as a tool, it is possible to control the cutting conditions with the dressing operation. The high temperatures generated can cause thermal damage and dimensional deformation. Lapping use free abrasive grains with random movements. The immense numbers of variables involved in the lapping make the process to complex and expensive. In the '90s, it spread a fixed abrasive grains process using CBN or diamond wheels, with movements similar to lapping. This process, often called flat honing, product clean surfaces, reduced abrasive waste and increased removal rate. This paper described a device named lappingriding machine. Different of any other process, the lappingriding kinematics generates random risks with an abrasive tool prepared by dressing operation. The surface fining quality is similar to lapping or flat honing and the operational versatility is similar to grinding processes. The lappingring machine has specific functions such as the kinematics of workpiece fixing device and automatic dressing device. Its main features are rigidity and effectiveness of control, providing precision and cutting capacity stabile. / Mestre

Made available in DSpace on 2014-06-11T19:30:13Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2010-04-22Bitstream added on 2014-06-13T19:18:39Z : No. of bitstreams: 1 pinto_tlf_me_botib.pdf: 10229682 bytes, checksum: e319a3314228da6cf44610341b2135ad (MD5) / Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPq) / A composição da fauna de um riacho pode variar tanto em função de alterações sazonais em sua estrutura, como em função da presença ou ausência da mata ciliar, acarretando alterações na oferta de nichos e modificando a composição de espécies. Uma questão que tem sido pouco considerada em estudos de partilha de recursos no Brasil, sao mudanças no hábito alimentar, em função da disponibilidade de alimento e mudanças na escolha do alimento, em função de sua qualidade. Assim, a determinação da existência ou não de uma preferência alimentar pela ictiofauna de riachos permitiria uma análise das relarções tróficas entre os membros da comunidade, levando em conta os recursos disponíveis no ambiente e a seletividade alimentar das espécies. No presente trabalho, as comunidades de macroinvertebrados aquáticos e de peixes de um riacho de 3ª ordem situado no município de Itatinga (SP) foram estudadas com objetivo de verificar possíveis mudanças na estrutura destas comunidades e na seletividade alimentar dos peixes, em função de variações sazonais (estação seca-Junho/2006 e chuvosa-Dezembro/2006) e espaciais (presença ou ausência de mata ciliar). A partir de uma análise quantitativa da fauna bentônica em corredeiras e da dieta da ictiofauna, a preferência alimentar foi avaliada através da aplicação de índices de eletividade. Para a comunidade de macroinvertebrados bentônicos foi observado um predomínio do filo Arthropoda, com destaque para a classe Insecta. Uma variação espacial e temporal foi verificada para os grandes grupos de macroinvertebrados bentônicos amostrados, com maiores valores de abundância, riqueza e elevada dominância de Insecta registrados para área aberta, durante a estação seca, e maiores valores de diversidade durante a estação chuvosa, nas duas áreas. A estrutura trófica da ictiofauna também variou espacial e sazonalmente... / The aim of this research was to describe the spatial and seasonal variations in the trophic structure of a stream fish community. The fishes were sampled on June 2006 (dry season) and December 2006 (rainy season), at an area shaded by a well-preserved riparian gallery forest (closed area) and at other area with herbaceous vegetation at the margin (open area). Macrophytes were abundant in the open area, covering the river bank and the bed. The diet analysis of the fish species sampled in the two areas showed a predominance of insectivores, mainly during the rainy season. Although aquatic insects were eaten by many species, leading to a high diet overlap between many pairs of species, differences related to the type (order/family) of insect consumed reduced this overlap. A more complex trophic structure was found in the open area during the rainy season, probably because of the great number of fish species and the high food resources availability. In the open area, the macrophytes were used as substrate by a diversified fauna. They also form an important barrier that traps the organic matter imported to the system from the upstream forested area. Seasonal and spatial variations of the fish diets emphasize the adaptability, greatflexibility and plasticity of their feeding habits and can be related to changes in the environmental complexity

This thesis presents a comprehensive exploratory analysis of truck route choice diversity in the state of Florida, for both long-haul and short-haul truck travel segments. We employ six metrics to measure three different dimensions of diversity in truck route choice between any given origin-destination (OD) pair. These dimensions are: (1) number of distinct routes used to travel between the OD pair, (2) the extent of overlap (or lack thereof) among the routes, and (3) the evenness (or the dominance) of the usage of different unique routes. The diversity metrics were utilized to examine truck route choice diversity from over 73,000 truck trips that were derived from over 200 million GPS records of a large truck fleet. Descriptive analysis and statistical modeling of the diversity metrics offered insights on the determinants of various dimensions of truck route choice diversity between an OD pair. The results could be used to improve choice set generation algorithms for truck route choice modeling as well as in planning truck route policies and investments.

In recent years, the popularity of graph databases has grown rapidly. This paper focuses on single-graph as an effective model to represent information and its related graph mining techniques. In frequent pattern mining in a single-graph setting, there are two main problems: support measure and search scheme. In this paper, we propose a novel framework for constructing support measures that brings together existing minimum-image-based and overlap-graph-based support measures. Our framework is built on the concept of occurrence / instance hypergraphs. Based on that, we present two new support measures: minimum instance (MI) measure and minimum vertex cover (MVC) measure, that combine the advantages of existing measures. In particular, we show that the existing minimum-image-based support measure is an upper bound of the MI measure, which is also linear-time computable and results in counts that are close to number of instances of a pattern. Although the MVC measure is NP-hard, it can be approximated to a constant factor in polynomial time. We also provide polynomial-time relaxations for both measures and bounding theorems for all presented support measures in the hypergraph setting. We further show that the hypergraph-based framework can unify all support measures studied in this paper. This framework is also flexible in that more variants of support measures can be defined and profiled in it.

L'avènement de terminaux avancés permet l'accès à des services toujours plus gourmands en bande passante, avec notamment le déploiement de services de vidéo mobile sans couture offert par le mode diffusion mobile intégré standardisé par le 3GPP. Dans le même temps, la communauté << broadcast » s'est adaptée aux nouveaux usages de télévision mobile avec la norme DVB-NGH (Digital Video Broadcasting - Next Generation Handheld). Dans ce contexte, l'objectif de cette thèse est d'étudier la convergence spectrale entre les deux réseaux DVB et LTE en déployant une petite cellule LTE au sein d'une grande cellule DVB. Les deux technologies utilisent une forme d'onde OFDM (Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing), en liaison descendante pour le LTE, ct possèdent donc quelques similarités tout en étant assez différentes par leurs caractéristiques. Dans ces travaux, nous nous intéressons aux performances atteignables lorsque les deux systèmes se recouvrent spectralement sans coopération. Le problème considéré étant analogue à un problème d’utilisateur secondaire opérant en mode recouvrement avec un utilisateur primaire, on commence par étudier le problème de la capacité ergodique du système secondaire, i.e. utilisateur LTE, sous contraintes de puissance moyenne générée par le secondaire sur le primaire, i.e LTE sur DVB, et de puissance crête au secondaire lorsque l'utilisateur primaire interfère sur le secondaire. Le problème est résolu analytiquement dans le cas général du canal croisé avec évanouissements de Rayleigh. Dans un deuxième temps nous étendons cette étude préliminaire au cas où la forme d'onde des deux systèmes primaire et secondaire est effectivement de type OFDM. En considérant d'abord un modèle simple de recouvrement total des sous-porteuses, nous délivrons la capacité ergodique globale ce qui nous permet d'évaluer l'influence des paramètres des systèmes, comme le nombre de sous-porteuses de chaque système ou les puissances interférentes, sur les capacités globales et individuelles. Nous nous intéressons ensuite à l'optimisation de la capacité globale où deux stratégies sont étudiées. D'une part, la capacité globale étant la somme de deux fonctions convexe et concave respectivement, la solution obtenue conduit au minimum de capacité globale mais mène à une situation d'équilibre entre les systèmes DVB et LTE. D'autre part, la maximisation de la capacité globale sous contrainte conduit à favoriser largement un système sur l'autre. Enfin, une étude fine de l'interférence causée par un système sur l'autre par recouvrement partiel est menée. L'effet de la variation du taux de recouvrement spectral entre les bandes du DVB et du LTE sur l'efficacité spectrale globale est étudié. On suppose ensuite que le récepteur possède une capacité de réjection de l'interférence permettant de déterminer le recouvrement optimal maximisant la capacité globale. Les différentes contributions de ces travaux ont permis d'avoir une approche théorique sur la modalité d'allocation de puissance des deux systèmes DVB et LTE co-existants et sur le taux de recouvrement approprié entre leurs spectres respectifs. Cette étude pourrait être ut le pour les opérateurs intéressés par un scénario de déploiement dense afin de choisir les configurations optimales des ressources dans une perspective de réutilisation agressive des fréquences. / Since the launch of the first numerical mobile telecommunications networks in the nineties, the quantity of the transmitted data over the networks is increasing year by year. Advanced user equipments enable to implement more and more bandwidth consuming services such as mobile T and multimedia internet, available in the integreted mobile broadcast mode recently standardized by the 3GPP group. In the meanwhile, the digital vide broadcasting - next generation handled (DVB-NGH) has been released in order to satisfy the increasing demand for mobile TV. These technologies compete for a more and more constrained spectral resource leading to question the possibility to deploy DVB and Long Term Evolution (LTE) service in a spectral overlay mode as it has been investigated by the Ml project funded by the National Research Agency. In this context, this thesis aims at studying the spectral convergence between DVB and LTE networks by deploying a small LTE cell in a large DVB cell. Both technologies present some similarities, i.e. both use orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) waveform (in downlink for LTE), but technical characteristics remain rather different between those. In this work, we deal with achievable performance when DVB and LTE spectrally overlap without cooperation. The considered problem being analog to the Seconda1y User (SU) - Primary User (PU) coexistence in overlay scenario, the SU ergodic capacity under average power generated on PU and peak power at SU constaints is investigated. An analytic solution is proposed in X-Channel with Rayleigh fading. In a second time, SU and PU are considered to be LTE and DVB respectively with their particular OFDM signal characteristics. With a first model of overlapping subcarriers, LTE and DVB ergodic capacities and global capacity as well are derived in closed form allowing to study the influence of several system parameters on ergodic capacities. The global capacity is then optimized using a convex-concave procedure leading to the minimum on the global capacity but to balanced capacity on individual links. On a second hand, global capacity maximization leads to favor one system over the other. Last but not least, a careful study of the interference caused by one system over the other by partial overlay is led. The effect of spectral overlap ratio between DVB and LTE systems over the global spectral efficiency is investigated. Advanced interference rejection ability is then assumed at receivers and the optimal spectral overlap, i.e. maximizing the global capacity, is then derived in that case. The different contributions in this work give a theoretical approach on the power allocation modality of two coexisting DVB and LTE systems and on the appropriate spectral overlap ratio between their respective spectrums. This study can be useful for operators interested in dense network deployment scenarios to decide the operating point of allocated resources in a very aggressive frequency reuse pattern.

The effect of hydrogen bonding interactions on the drop generation of both acid and hydroxyl-containing polymer solutions is reported showing that polymer chain relaxation can be influenced through the use of appropriate polymer co-solvent interactions for polymers having weight average molecular weight (Mw) < 100 kDa. Reported for the first time is evidence of flow-induced polymer degradation during inkjet printing for both poly(methylmethacrylate) and polystyrene in good solvent. Polymers having Mw either less than 100 kDa or greater than approximately 1,000 kDa show no evidence of molecular weight degradation. The lower boundary condition is a consequence of low Deborah number imposed by the printhead geometry and the upper boundary condition due to viscoelastic damping. For intermediate molecular weights the effect is greatest at high elongational strain rate and low solution concentration with higher polydispersity polymers being most sensitive to molecular weight degradation. For low polydispersity samples, PDi £ 1.3 chain breakage is essentially centro-symmetric induced either by overstretching when the strain rate increases well beyond a critical value, that is the stretching rate is high enough to exceed the rate of relaxation or by turbulence. For higher polydispersity samples, PDi chain breakage is consistent with almost random scission along the chain inferring that the forces required to break the chain are additionally transmitted either by valence bonds, i.e. network chains and junctions or discrete entanglements rather than solely by hydrodynamic interaction. Preliminary results are presented on the degradation of molecular structure in water of two galactomannan’s in water after inkjet printing. Galactommann’s are known to form complex H-bonded structures in water and the results are consistent with breaking of the H-bonding structure at low reduced concentration with evidence of main chain breakage at higher reduced concentration, c/c* = 0.25.