Macroscopic mechanical properties of human skin in vivo cannot be considered independent of adjacent subcutaneous white adipose tissue (sWAT). The layered system skin/sWAT appears as the hierarchical structural composite in which single layers behave as fiber-reinforced structures. Effective macroscopic mechanical properties of such composites are mainly determined either by the properties of t...

We will demonstrate the Secure Wireless Agent Testbed (SWAT), a unique facility developed at Drexel University to study integration, networking and information assurance for next-generation wireless mobile agent systems. SWAT is an implemented system that fully integrates: 1) mobile agents, 2) wireless ad hoc multi-hop networks, and 3) security. The demonstration will show the functionality of ...

The expansion of cultivated land in place natural vegetation has a substantial influence on hydrologic characteristics watershed. However, due to basin and the nature intensity landscape modification, response varies across basins. This study aims evaluate performance soil water assessment tool (SWAT) model its applicability assessing effects use cover (LULC) changes hydrological processes uppe...

Over the past few decades, several high-resolution gridded precipitation products have been developed using multiple data sources and techniques, including measured precipitation, numerical modeling, remote sensing. Each has its own sets of uncertainties limitations. Therefore, evaluating these datasets is critical in assessing their applicability various climatic regions. We used ten datasets,...

The temptation to include model parameters and high resolution input data together with the availability of powerful optimization and uncertainty analysis algorithms has significantly enhanced the complexity of hydrologic and water quality modeling. However, the ability to take advantage of sophisticated models is hindered in those models that need a large number of input files, such as the Soi...

Elisabeth Hamin, for their guidance in constructing the project and for posing important questions that helped drive the design of the project. I would especially like to thank Tim Randhir for working with me to build the model. I would also like to thank Nancy Sammons and Raghavan Srinivasan for their extensive support in troubleshooting problems with the model. Their willingness to take time ...

This paper proposes and evaluates a decentralized self-healing mechanism that detects and recovers from wormhole attacks in wireless multi-hop sensor networks. Upon detecting a wormhole attack, the proposed mechanism, called SWAT, identifies the locations of malicious nodes (or wormhole nodes), isolates them from the network and recovers the routing structure distorted by them. SWAT is the firs...

Calibration of large watershed models requires multi-gage calibration, however there are limited tools available for performing these calibrations of SWAT models. Non-Dominated Sorting Genetic Algorithm II (NSGA-II) has been shown to be an effective and efficient multi-objective calibration algorithm in various disciplines. Although NSGA-II has been used with SWAT before, there is no publically...