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Validation of All-Sky Imager Technology and Solar Irradiance Forecasting at Three Locations: NREL, San Antonio, Texas, and the Canary Islands, Spain
(2/17/2019)Increasing photovoltaic (PV) generation in the world's power grid necessitates accurate solar irradiance forecasts to ensure grid stability and reliability. The University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA) SkyImager was ... -
Value stream mapping along the product development process
(Proceedings of the 24th International Conference on Flexible Automation & Intelligent Manufacturing, 2014)Today's business conditions are characterized by increased competition. Therefore enterprises have to cope with shorter product life cycles, higher product complexity and more product variants. The reaction of many enterprises ... -
Value stream mapping and discrete event simulation applied to reduce waste in a company that manufactures a family of automotive parts
(Proceedings of the 24th International Conference on Flexible Automation & Intelligent Manufacturing, 2014)Lean manufacturing seeks consistent and complete elimination of waste in order to optimize resources. However, the elimination of such waste in most cases is done through of trial and error, which usually entails more costs ... -
Variability in the Capacity to Produce Damage-Induced Aldehyde Green Leaf Volatiles among Different Plant Species Provides Novel Insights into Biosynthetic Diversity
(2/6/2020)Green leaf volatiles (GLVs) are commonly released by plants upon damage, thereby providing volatile signals for other plants to prepare against the major causes of damage, herbivory, pathogen infection, and cold stress. ... -
Variable production and indexical social meaning: On the potential physiological origin of intervocalic /s/ voicing in Costa Rican Spanish
(Studies in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics;10(1), 2017-05-02)In several dialects of Spanish, men tend to exhibit more intervocalic /s/ voicing than women, e. g., oso ‘bear’ as [ozo], and this difference may have a physiological basis. File-Muriel et al. (2015, Disentangling the ... -
Variations in the Morphology, Mechanics and Adhesion of Persister and Resister E. coli Cells in Response to Ampicillin: AFM Study
(5/7/2020)Persister bacterial cells are great at surviving antibiotics. The phenotypic means by which they do that are underexplored. As such, atomic force microscope (AFM) was used to quantify the contributions of the surface ... -
Vehicle-Related Flood Fatalities in Texas, 1959–2019
(10/16/2020)Texas has the highest number of flood fatalities and vehicle-related flood fatalities in the United States. This study provides a detailed analysis of vehicle-related flood fatalities in Texas from 1959 to 2019. The data ... -
Viktor Frankl and COVID-19: Finding Hope Amidst a Pandemic
(The UTSA Journal of Undergraduate Research and Scholarly Work;Volume 7, 2020-12)This essay applies Viktor Frankl’s logotherapy on the anxiety produced by the coronavirus outbreak (COVID-19). During the Holocaust, survivor and psychologist Viktor Frankl utilized his study of logotherapy to discover how ... -
Vinyldiazo Reagents and Metal Catalysts: A Versatile Toolkit for Heterocycle and Carbocycle Construction
(ChemCatChem;, 2017-09-17)Over the past decade, vinyldiazo compounds have provided mild, efficient, and highly selective methods for the construction of heterocycles and carbocycles. Dinitrogen extrusion with suitable catalysts provides the carbon ... -
Visual Attention Software: A New Tool for Understanding the “Subliminal” Experience of the Built Environment
(2021-07-04)Eye-tracking technology is a biometric tool that has found many commercial and research applications. The recent advent of affordable wearable sensors has considerably expanded the range of these possibilities to fields ... -
Voice Activation Control with Digital Assistant for Humanoid Robot Torso
(The UTSA Journal of Undergraduate Research and Scholarly Work;Volume 3, 2018)Digital Voice Assistants are an emerging technology due to improvements on mobile communication and computing technologies and are becoming more popular in recent years due to growing marketing strategies on new smart home ... -
Wake Up: Part I
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Walking Engagement in Mexican Americans Who Participated in a Community-Wide Step Challenge in El Paso, TX
(2021-12-02)In the United States, the Latinx population has the highest prevalence of physical inactivity compared with other ethnicities. Research shows that work-based physical activity interventions have been widely implemented in ... -
The Walls Stare Back
(2020-12-10)This picture is inspired by my recent trials in a 2-week quarantine. Essentially trapped by the walls of my room with no opportunity of leaving my space, the idea of being confined overrode my thoughts. As I analyzed the ... -
Waste minimization at abattoir and processor end in beef supply chain
(Proceedings of the 24th International Conference on Flexible Automation & Intelligent Manufacturing, 2014)The UK beef industry holds around 12% value of total agriculture in UK. However, it is currently suffering because of some series of events in the past like outbreak of BSE (Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy), Foot and Mouth ... -
We Are: A Human Expression
(2020-11-28)This work is about how everyone struggles, and how the pandemic is making that strikingly clear. -
Wearable Sensing Devices: Towards the Development of a Personalized System for Construction Safety and Health Risk Mitigation
(1/20/2021)Wearable sensing devices (WSDs) are increasingly helping workers stay safe and healthy in several industries. However, workers, especially in the construction industry, have shown some aversion towards the use of WSDs due ... -
Weekly Mapping of Sea Ice Freeboard in the Ross Sea from ICESat-2
(2021-08-19)NASA's ICESat-2 has been providing sea ice freeboard measurements across the polar regions since October 2018. In spite of the outstanding spatial resolution and precision of ICESat-2, the spatial sparsity of the data can ... -
What Could Interfere with a Good Night’s Sleep? The Risks of Social Isolation, Poor Physical and Psychological Health among Older Adults in China
(Research on Aging;Vol. 44, Iss. 7-8, 2022-01-07)This study provides one of the first population-based investigations of the longitudinal association between social isolation and sleep difficulty among older adults in China. We analyzed three waves of longitudinal data ... -
What does it mean to make a difference in the world today?
(2020-11-08)My work is about how to make a difference in the world using certain career paths and even doing the most simplest deeds.