Sensory Evaluation of Banana Bread With Varying Levels of Sugar Substitutes

This experiment was conducted to offer a healthier choice of banana bread that will provide for a better snack designed for diabetics. The original recipe for the banana bread contained regular table sugar; this was used as the control group. Three other variables of banana bread were made, each containing the different sugar substitutes: Splenda®, Stevia®, and Truvia®. The control group, along with the 3 variables were analyzed and evaluated for comparison using a scorecard by the students of Ouachita Baptist University. Results showed that 63% of students ranked the control group as the best overall sampling. The other 3 variables were each ranked closely with the sample containing Splenda® being the least liked overall

Preliminary Investigation of Ultra-High Performance Concrete Behavior at High Strain Rates using the Split-Hopkinson Pressure Bar

Ultra-high performance concrete (UHPC) displays several enhanced material properties compared to normal strength concrete (NSC). In past research, Split-Hopkinson pressure bar (SHPB) tests have been used for normal strength concrete to determine material behavior at high strain rates. The behavior of advanced concrete materials, such as UHPC, under high strain rates has not been thoroughly investigated. While it is generally accepted that concrete materials experience increases in compressive strength under increasing strain rates, a preliminary investigation was conducted to gain insight into the compressive behavior of UHPC under high strain rate SHPB testing. In this research, 50 specimens were tested in compression using the SHPB equipment at Michigan Technological University. Normal strength concrete, ambient cured UHPC, and thermally treated UHPC specimens were tested at 2:1, 1:1, and 0.5:1 aspect ratios. A dynamic increase factor (DIF), which shows the increase in strength between dynamic and static loading, was calculated for each specimen. Based on results of specimens meeting recommended tolerances, DIFs were found to be between 3.65 and 4 for NSC, 1.73 and 2.95 for ambient cured UHPC, and 1.21 and 2.45 for thermally treated UHPC for strain rates between 102 and 103 s-1. While UHPC experiences a relative increase in dynamic compressive strength, it is less strain rate sensitive than NSC and experiences a lower overall compressive strength increase

Development of Bluebeam Curriculum for Construction Management Department in Virtual and In-Class Transmissions

This paper discusses the development of two new learning modules for the California Polytechnic University, San Luis Obispo Construction Management department on Bluebeam practices and usage that reflect industry and technological changes. Adapting to and maintaining practices in distance learning, this curriculum allows for optimal online education and further advancement and clarity in in-person transmissions. With step-by-step videos for optional distance learning, students and faculty can choose to engage in alternative modes of education delivery. Building on traditional roles of construction technology education, teaching instructions are provided for faculty. This project based senior project positively impacts the body of knowledge available to students and faculty at Cal Poly in relations to construction technology

Combining SAT Methods with Non-Clausal Decision Heuristics

AbstractA decision procedure for arbitrary first-order formulas can be viewed as combining a propositional search with a decision procedure for conjunctions of first-order literals, so Boolean SAT methods can be used for the propositional search in order to improve the performance of the overall decision procedure. We show how to combine some Boolean SAT methods with non-clausal heuristics developed for first-order decision procedures. The combination of methods leads to a smaller number of decisions than either method alone

Shapley-like values without symmetry

Following the work of Shapley on the Shapley value [16], and further work of Owen [14], we offer an alternative formulation of and path to and through the work of Weber in his paper on efficient but not symmetric cooperative games [21]. We accomplish this by offering alternative conditions to replace the standard axiomatic assumptions. This is accomplished by introducing conditions, "reasonableness" and "efficiency" on the output of the games themselves, and using this to find properties of the linear maps that describe the games themselves. This results in a special class of linear maps for which any other "reasonable, efficient" map can be written as a convex combination of special ones.Includes bibliographical reference

Robot Simulation Analysis

Objectives • Build a tutorial targeted to Middle School and High School Students to get ROS running on a Virtual Machine• Make ROS and it\u27s simulations approachable to middle school and high school students

Simultaneous Localization and Mapping Analysis

Objectives • Simulate virtual robot for test and analysis • Analyze SLAM solutions using ROS • Assemble a functional Turtlebot • Emphasize projects related to current research trajectories for NASA, and general robotics application