The quality of the communication between teachers and students and ultimately, of classroom education itself, is closely linked to the acoustic quality of the auditorium. This acoustic quality can be characterized based on the reverberation time (RT), speech transmission index (STI) and the sound insulation. In this context, an acoustic study was conducted in an auditorium located in the Higher...

The auditorium within the Heydar Aliyev Center serves for an audience of 1200 and incorporates conference, concert and opera use altogether. Confronting the multi-functional performance program of the space together with uncompromising aesthetic considerations, coupled space concept has been adopted as an acoustical and architectural design aid. This paper presents mainly the dependable acousti...

In elections employing electronic voting machines, we have observed that poor procedures, equipment failures, and honest mistakes pose a real threat to the accuracy of the final tally. The event logs kept by these machines can give auditors clues as to the causes of anomalies and inconsistencies; however, each voting machine is trusted to keep its own audit and ballot data, making the record un...

Dissertation for the degree of Doctor of Technology to be presented with due permission for public examination and debate in Auditorium