Plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEVs) have a large potential to reduce greenhouse gases emissions and increase fuel economy and fuel flexibility. PHEVs are propelled by the energy from both gasoline and electric power sources. Penetration of PHEVs into the automobile market affects the electrical grid through an increase in electricity demand. This paper studies effects of the wide spread ad...

Various automotive companies have demonstrated that used electric vehicle batteries (EVBs), after having been removed from electric vehicles (EVs) due to insufficient capacity or power, can still be repurposed as energy storage for stationary applications. If predictions on the diffusion of EVs prove true, a large amount of used EVBs will be available for repurposing until the end of this decad...

Silicon carbide (SiC)-based semiconductor electronic devices and circuits are presently being developed for use in high-temperature, high-power, and/or high-radiation conditions under which conventional semiconductors cannot adequately perform. Silicon carbide’s ability to function under such extreme conditions is expected to enable significant improvements to a far-ranging variety of applicati...

Electric Discharge Drill Machine (EDDM) is a spark erosion process to produce micro holes in conductive materials. This process is widely used in aerospace, medical, dental and automobile industries. As for the performance evaluation of the Electric discharge drilling machine it is very necessary to study the process parameters of machine tool. In this research paper a brass rod 2 mm diameter w...

Through a cost matrix and a combination of classifiers, this work identifies the most economical model to perform the detection of suspected cases of fraud in a dataset of automobile claims. The experiments performed by this work show that working more deeply in sampled data in the training phase and test phase of each classifier is possible obtain a more economic model than other model present...

This paper attempts to quantify the effects of airline deregulation in the United States on intercity automobile travel and consequently on the number of highway fatalities. A demand model is constructed for auto travel, which includes variables representing the price and availability of air service. A reduced form model of the airline market is then estimated. Finding that deregulation has dec...

We show that a large class of non–metric, non–symplectic affine holonomies can be realized, uniformly and without case by case considerations, by Weyl connections associated to the natural AHS–structures on certain generalized flag manifolds.

We investigate the use of large-scale Automated Highway Systems, also called one-dimensional vehicle platoons, as a practical traffic mitigation solution. We review recent theoretical results related to vehicle platooning and discuss their implications on the scalability and safety of large-scale platoons. We also quantify the performance of different platoon control strategies through simulati...

This paper addresses the problem of recognizing complex objects in images. The proposed approach is based on a prototype-centered object representation which describes objects as sets of local features. During an evolutionary learning step the model is derived from a set of sample images. The proceeding of the training is measured with regard to the recognition rate as well as the coverage of t...

Many people have made suggestions about what is the "best" approach to consumer protection regulation. However, Professor Whitford thinks that there has not been enough thought given to the relative effectiveness of these suggested approaches. In his article Professor Whitford analyzes the effectiveness of various approaches for consumer protection regulation of one particular consumer transact...