Culture can be a significant contributor to, or hindrance to, a team's success. Research has clearly established that failing to have a cohesive team culture creates a severe challenge to any team effort. Culture is also something that everyone brings with them to the team. Yet,…
The ability to predict and prevent the occurrence of Hospital Acquired Infections (HAI) continues to be an evolving challenge both in the U.S. and around the world. Care delivery environments meant to support curative efforts can often be a significant source of infectivity risk…
The main aim of this thesis is to generate different simulation modeling scenarios for performing inspection operations on different Federal Aviation Administration facilities. Different combinations of aircraft and routes are initiated to design different scenarios for performi…
Cloud computing is a technology by internet, where a large amount of data being pooled by different users is stored. It provides users with a range of services and is highly cost-effective and versatile. The data being stored comes from various organizations, individuals, and co…
We live in a digital world and the technology is growing at a fast pace. Today, whether we use android or iOS phones, we have mobile apps available for everything. The massive use of mobile devices as well as the monetary benefits in digital marketing has attracted the attention…
In smart manufacturing systems, production scheduling, maintenance decision-making, and process monitoring are three key, closely interconnected components, which play significant roles in the system performance, quality control, and overall cost. Due to the rapid advancement of…
Issues surrounding traffic safety and mobility have been at the center of transportation research for many years. Much effort has been made to identify the problematic road features and develop countermeasures to mitigate the crash risk in crash-prone locations. With the emergin…
Risk management plays an increasingly important role in systems engineering, project management and decision making. Risk assessment and management techniques are increasingly applied in future planning and risk decisions of enterprises. One area very important to the evaluation…
The understanding of subjective aspects of communities is a powerful tool for stakeholders (policy-makers, government officials, community organizers, etc.) to advance the creation of measures to improve public well-being. Each community has its unique needs and characteristics,…
Geographic cohorting (GC) is an increasingly common strategy for placement of general medicine (GM) patients by physically co-locating all patients cared for by a given medical team to the same unit in the hospital. In some circumstances, this approach has been shown to improve …
A building’s air system hardware and control strategy greatly impact the building’s operational cost, carbon footprint, and air quality. This thesis presents a methodology for inspecting a building’s air delivery system’s hardware, analyzes different air system control strategie…
Oil is the primary source of income for the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA); fluctuations in prices have a direct impact on KSA’s economy. Large fluctuations, usually sudden dips in oil price such as those seen in 2015 when oil prices dropped to below 40 per barrel, are leading to…
The high cost of healthcare is a well-known topic. Utilizing systems engineering methods to address the problem is less well-known in the healthcare industry. There are many variables that impact the cost of healthcare, and this dissertation proposes a solution for the systemic …
The diverse forms of life which surround us today are the product of long lines of mutations, all running back to a common ancestor. Along these interconnected lines of evolutionary history, DNA sequences have been duplicated, deleted, mutated, and merged together by recombinati…
Geçmişi milattan önceki yıllara dayanan gösteri salonları, müziğe ve tiyatroya ilginin artmasıyla işlevini geliştirerek açık tiyatrolardan özel gösteri salonlarına dönüşmüştür. Günümüzde gösteri salonlarındaki en önemli girdi dinleyici/izleyicinin konforu haline gelmiştir. Şüphe…
Doğal dil işleme, bilgisayarların, doğal yazı veya konuşma dilini nasıl anlayabileceğini ve manipüle edebileceğini çözümleyen araştırmalardan ve uygulamalardan oluşmaktadır. Konuşma işleme ise konuşma sinyalleri ve sinyal işleme yöntemlerini barındıran doğal dil işlemenin bir al…
This dissertation takes an interdisciplinary approach to understanding what makes states antifragile and why this matters by constructing a parsimonious, first of its kind agent-based model. The model focuses on the key elements of state antifragility that reside along a spectru…
Rangeland social-ecological systems in Northeastern (NE) Colorado are undergoing linked land-use, livelihood, and identity transitions. Land change is a spatially and temporally complex process in which land-use decisions cascade through interconnected social and ecological sphe…