• Performance Evaluation for Adaptive Modulation over Rayleigh Fading Channel 

  Elnawaa, Khamis Hamid (2017-09-13)

  In this project, adaptive modulation for end to end wireless link system using MQAM modulation scheme over Rayleigh fading channel is addressed. Selecting the modulation schemes, which maintain appropriate frame error ...
• Effects of Micro Cellulose Fibers Addition on Concrete Mechanical Properties Under Flexure and Uniaxial Tension 

  Zubair, Nouman (2017-09-13)

  Natural fiber reinforced concrete (NFRC) has been brought into the lime light again by researchers to address the issues of sustainability, recyclability, and CO2 gas emission that are associated with the manufacturing and ...
• Evaporation Boundary Conditions for the R13 Equations of Rarefied Gas Dynamics 

  Struchtrup, Henning; Beckmann, Alexander; Rana, Anirudh Singh; Frezzotti, Aldo (Physics of Fluids, 2017)

  The regularized 13 moment equations (R13) are a macroscopic model for the description of rarefied gas flows in the transition regime. The equations have been shown to give meaningful results for Knudsen numbers up to ...
• PLC Programming for A Water Level Control System: Design and System Implementation 

  Ji, Haoqiang (2017-09-11)

  In industry, the water level control problem is a typical process control problem, and has been extensively studied in the literature. This report focuses on the design and implementation of a PLC-based water level control ...
• Probabilistic timing verification and timing analysis for synthesis of digital interface controllers 

  Escalante, Marco Antonio (2017-09-08)

  In this dissertation we present two techniques on the topic of digital interface design: a probabilistic timing verification and a timing analysis for synthesis, both rooted in a formal specification. Interface design ...
• On performance improvement of restricted bandwidth multimedia conferencing over packet switched networks 

  ElGebaly, Hani H. (2017-09-08)

  Advances in computer technology such as faster processors, better data compression schemes, and cheaper audio and video devices have made it possible to integrate multimedia into the computing environment. Desktop conferencing ...
• Tracking of dynamic hand gestures on a mobile platform 

  Prior, Robert (2017-09-08)

  Hand gesture recognition is an expansive and evolving field. Previous work addresses methods for tracking hand gestures primarily with specialty gaming/desktop environments in real time. The method proposed here focuses ...
• Thermal-aware and uniform priority with scaled routing for high-performance network-on-chip 

  Okeke, Stanley (2017-09-01)

  3D-NoC architectures are the amalgamation of the 3D integration (Die stacking of 3D-IC Technology) with the increased scalability found in NoC. Originally, it was proposed to tackle the problem of increasing the number of ...
• Simulation based design and performance assessment of a controlled cascaded pneumatic wave energy converter 

  Thacher, Eric (2017-08-31)

  The AOE Accumulated Ocean Energy Inc. (AOE) wave energy converter (WEC) is a cascaded pneumatic system, in which air is successively compressed through three point absorber devices on the way to shore; this air is then ...
• Local model interpolation for stable haptic interaction 

  McWilliam, Rebecca (2017-08-31)

  Haptic, or force, interaction in virtual environments can support the development of physical manipulation skills if users feel realistic forces in response to their motion in the virtual environment. The realism of the ...
• Graph Grammar Based RDF Benchmarking System 

  Xu, Jiaping (2017-08-31)

  In this thesis, we propose a graph grammar based RDF (Resource Description Framework) benchmarking system. We generate the graphs based on two types of graph grammars, Generalized Node Replacement Recursive Graph Grammar ...
• Secured-by-design FPGA against side-channel attacks based on power consumption 

  Almohaimeed, Ziyad Mohammed (2017-08-31)

  Power Analysis Attacks pose serious threats to hardware implementations of cryptographic systems. To retrieve the secret key, the attackers can exploit the mutual information between power consumption and processed data ...
• Global optimization using interval constraints 

  Chen, Huaimo (2017-08-30)

  Global optimization methods can be classified into two non-overlapping classes with respect to accuracy: those with guaranteed accuracy and those without. The former are called bounding methods, the latter point methods. ...
• A global-scale two-layer transient groundwater model: Development and application to groundwater depletion 

  de Graaf, Inge E.M.; van Beek, Rens L.P.H.; Gleeson, Tom; Moosdorf, Nils; Schmitz, Oliver; Sutanudjaja, Edwin H.; Bierkens, Marc F. P. (Advances in Water Resources, 2017-04)

  Groundwater is the world’s largest accessible source of freshwater to satisfy human water needs. Moreover, groundwater buffers variable precipitation rates over time, thereby effectively sustaining river flows in times of ...
• Real Time Electrocardiogram Web Application Implemented by Angular2 

  Hui, Yuejiao (2017-08-29)

  Heart disease is one of the leading causes of death and there is one died of heart disease in every four deaths [1]. One of the reasons is that there are no obvious warning signs or symptoms before any sudden cardiac events. ...
• Mechanically stable fibrin scaffolds promote viability and induce neurite outgrowth in neural aggregates derived from human induced pluripotent stem cells 

  Meghan, Robinson; Sarah, Douglas; Stephanie, Michelle Willerth (Scientific Reports, 2017)

  Recent work demonstrated that 3D fibrin scaffolds function as an effective substrate for engineering tissues from pluripotent stem cells. However, the rapid degradation rate of fibrin remains a major limitation when ...
• Development of a glial cell-derived neurotrophic factor-releasing artificial dura for neural tissue engineering applications 

  Mohtaram, N.K.; Ko, J.; Agbay, A.; Rattray, D.; Neill, P.O.; Rajwani, A.; Vasandani, R.; Thu, H.L.; Jun, M.B.G.; Willerth, S.M. (Journals of Materials Chemistry B, 2015)

  Encapsulated electrospun nanofibers can serve as an artificial dura mater, the membrane that surrounds the brain and spinal cord, due to their desirable drug delivery properties. Such nanofiber scaffolds can be used to ...
• Addressing software-managed cache development effort in GPGPUs 

  Lashgar, Ahmad (2017-08-29)

  GPU Computing promises very high performance per watt for highly-parallelizable workloads. Nowadays, there are various programming models developed to utilize the computational power of GPGPUs. Low-level programming ...
• Atomization based dual regime spray coating system: design and applications 

  Rukosuyev, Maxym (2017-08-28)

  In modern research and industrial applications, the importance of coatings can hardly be underestimated. Coatings are used extensively in optics, biomedical instruments, cutting tools, and solar panels to name a few. The ...
• Development of a multifunctional dressing for epidermal wound monitoring and on-site drug delivery 

  Mirani, Bahram (2017-08-28)

  The treatment of epidermal wounds, particularly chronic wounds, is one of the most ubiquitous medical challenges and has imposed a considerable financial burden on the global health care system. Several factors in epidermal ...

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