For many years, the trend has been to automate processes in order to increase the efficiency of performing redundant tasks and systems were developed to address specific production-line requirements. The emergence of robots has been the result of the need to deal with parts that are too complex to handle by a simple automatic system. The capability to inspect aircraft and large structures has b...

The Extensible Authentication Protocol (EAP) is defined in RFC 3748. This document defines a mechanism that allows an access network to provide identity selection hints to an EAP peer -the end of the link that responds to the authenticator. The purpose is to assist the EAP peer in selecting an appropriate Network Access Identifier (NAI). This is useful in situations where the peer does not rece...

As the Extensible Authentication Protocol (EAP) evolves, EAP peers rely increasingly on information received from the EAP server. EAP extensions such as channel binding or network posture information are often carried in tunnel methods; peers are likely to rely on this information. Cryptographic binding is a facility described in RFC 3748 that protects tunnel methods against man-in-the-middle a...

In 2000 the Eastside Access Partnership (EAP) was organized to identify barriers to enrollment in these neighborhoods and to develop strategies to reduce these barriers. EAP is part of a larger university-community partnership known as the Detroit Community-Academic Urban Research Center (URC). The URC brings together Detroit community organizations, the Detroit Health Department and the Univer...

This thesis is dedicated to the development of new acquisition and processing methods in diffusion MRI (dMRI) to characterize the diffusion of water molecules in white matter fiber bundles at the scale of a voxel. In particular, we focus our attention on the accurate recovery of the Ensemble Average Propagator (EAP), which represents the full 3D displacement of water molecule diffusion. Diffusi...

The Extensible Authentication Protocol (EAP) is a generic framework supporting multiple types of authentication methods. The EAP Re-authentication Protocol (ERP) specifies extensions to EAP and the EAP keying hierarchy to support an EAP method-independent protocol for efficient re-authentication between the peer and an EAP re-authentication server through any authenticator. Authenticated Antici...

Despite the ongoing dialogue on facilitating mobility between the European Union and the Eastern Partnership (EaP) countries, very little is known about the magnitude and characteristics of migration from these countries. We find that EaP migrants experience worse labor market outcomes than other migrant groups, but current and potential migrants hold qualifications in those areas were skill sh...