IT governance is an executive level concern in many enterprises today, but a method for credible, reliable, and cost-efficient IT governance maturity assessment has been lacking. Control Objectives for Information and related Technology (Cobit) is best practice in the area, but the method requires an experienced analyst to perform the assessment and the provided analysis framework is vague and ...

An overview of electro-thermal modeling of microsystems is presented. We consider the most important coupling between thermal and electrical phenomena, and then focus on the industry’s central concern, that of Joule heating. A description of different solution approaches for the heat transfer partial differential equation, which constitutes the central part of electro-thermal simulation, is giv...

Power has become the primary design constraint for systems ranging from server computers to handhelds. As semiconductor technology scales down, leakage power becomes significant. Leakage power is exponentially dependent on temperature. Therefore, future design studies call for temperature-aware power modeling and coupled power and thermal management due to the temperature dependence of leakage ...

the micro-segregation in binary al-cu alloys containing 2.2, 3.7, and 4.8 wt.% copper was investigated by differential thermal analysis (dta) and numerical modeling. for this purpose, the alloys were melted using a dta furnace with the capability of quenching samples during solidification. the melted samples were cooled at 0.008 and 0.083 k/s and subsequently quenched from predetermined tempera...

This paper aims at the application of an ergonomic maturity model (EMM), in order to assess the ergonomic sustainability outreach of ergonomic actions. This proposition was motivated by the widespread sensation that the development of the discipline, its educational devices and related practices depends on the attitude of ergonomics practitioners rather than environmental macroergonomic conditi...

Common heat transfer fluids such as water, ethylene glycol, and engine oil have limited heat transfer capabilities due to their low heat transfer properties. Nanofluids are suspensions of nanoparticles in base fluids, a new challenge for thermal sciences provided by nanotechnology. In this study, we are to optimize and report the effects of various parameters such as the ratio of the thermal co...

Pore and pore network evolution of shale is critical for the evaluation system in gas reservoirs. Thermal maturation effect acts as an indispensable role porosity evolution. In this paper, high-temperature high-pressure in-situ thermal simulation experiments were conducted to investigate process controlling factors marine-continental transitional shale. Multiple methods, including scanning elec...