• Photoconductive generation and detection of THz-bandwidth pulses using near-field coupling to a free-space metallic slit waveguide 

  Smith, Robert; Jooshesh, Afshin; Zhang, Jinye; Darcie, Thomas (Optics Express, 2017)

  THz-bandwidth pulses are generated, transmitted along a gold-plated stainless steel metallic slit waveguide, and detected with 1.5 THz bandwidth and 60 dB dynamic range. The source and detector were edge-pumped slotlines ...
• Physically based rendering of ice crystal halos 

  Firmino, Arthur (2019-02-08)

  The anisotropic scattering properties of atmospheric ice crystals lead to complex and visually appealing halos, however these have yet to receive due modelling in physically based rendering systems. This project aims to ...
• Random-Noise Denoising and Clutter Elimination of Human Respiration Movements Based on an Improved Time Window Selection Algorithm Using Wavelet Transform 

  Shikhsarmast, Farnaz Mahmoudi; Lyu, Tingting; Liang, Xiaolin; Zhang, Hao; Gulliver, Thomas Aaron (Sensors, 2019)

  This paper considers vital signs (VS) such as respiration movement detection of human subjects using an impulse ultra-wideband (UWB) through-wall radar with an improved sensing algorithm for random-noise de-noising and ...
• An Improved Unauthorized Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Detection Algorithm Using Radiofrequency-Based Statistical Fingerprint Analysis 

  Yang, Shengying; Qin, Huibin; Liang, Xiaolin; Gulliver, Thomas Aaron (Sensors, 2019)

  Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are now readily available worldwide and users can easily fly them remotely using smart controllers. This has created the problem of keeping unauthorized UAVs away from private or sensitive ...
• Clutter Elimination and Harmonic Suppression of Non-Stationary Life Signs for Long-Range and Through-Wall Human Subject Detection Using Spectral Kurtosis Analysis (SKA)-Based Windowed Fourier Transform (WFT) Method 

  Yang, Shengying; Qin, Huibin; Liang, Xiaolin; Gulliver, Thomas Aaron (Applied Sciences, 2019-01)

  Life sign detection is important in many applications, such as locating disaster victims. This can be difficult in low signal to noise ratio (SNR) and through-wall conditions. This paper considers life sign detection using ...
• Dynamis: Effective Context-Aware Web Service Selection Using Dynamic Attributes 

  Pahlevan, Atousa; Duprat, Jean-Luc; Thomo, Alex; Müller, Hausi (Future Internet, 2015)

  Quality web service discovery requires narrowing the search space from an overwhelming set of services down to the most relevant ones, while matching the consumer’s request. Today, the ranking of services only considers ...
• The Optimal Fix-Free Code for Anti-Uniform Sources 

  Zaghian, Ali; Aghajan, Adel; Gulliver, T. Aaron (Entropy, 2015)
• Design and implementation of a blockchain shipping application 

  Bouidani, Maher M. (2019-01-31)

  The emerging Blockchain technology has the potential to shift the traditional centralized systems to become more flexible, efficient and decentralized. An important area to apply this capability is supply chain. Supply ...
• Resilient controller placement problems in software defined wide-area networks 

  Tanha, Maryam (2019-01-31)

  Software Defined Networking (SDN) is an emerging paradigm for network design and management. By providing network programmability and the separation of control and data planes, SDN offers salient features such as simplified ...
• Design and optimization of avalanche photodiodes 

  Ghaffari, Khashayar (2019-01-31)

  Avalanche photodiodes are the primary choice for photodetection in optical access networks, due to their capacity to meet the current requirements of bandwidth and sensitivity introduced by NG-PON2. This work provides an ...
• Substrate integrated waveguide antenna systems 

  Salem Hesari, Sara (2019-01-29)

  Due to high demand for planar structures with low loss, a considerable amount of research has been done to the design of substrate integrated waveguide (SIW) components in the mm-wave and microwave range. SIW has many ...
• Plasmon-enhanced LT-GaAs/AlAs heterostructure photoconductive antennas for sub-bandgap terahertz generation 

  Jooshesh, Afshin; Fesharaki, Faezeh; Bahrami-Yekta, Vahid; Mahtab, Mahsa; Tiedje, Thomas; Darcie, Thomas E.; Gordon, Reuven (Optics Express, 2017)

  Photocurrent generation in low-temperature-grown GaAs (LT-GaAs) has been significantly improved by growing a thin AlAs isolation layer between the LT-GaAs layer and semi-insulating (SI)-GaAs substrate. The AlAs layer allows ...
• Laboratory Efficacy and Disinfection by-Product Formation of a Coagulant/Disinfectant Tablet for Point-of-Use Water Treatment 

  Légaré-Julien, Félix; Lemay, Olivier; Vallée-Godbout, Ulysse; Bouchard, Christian; Dorea, Caetano C. (Water, 2018)

  Coagulant/disinfection products (CDPs) are a point-of-use (POU) water treatment technique that can improve microbial quality, reduce turbidity, and produce a free chlorine residual (FCR), serving as a potentially effective ...
• Passive Detection of Low-Altitude Signal Sources Using an Improved Cross- Correlation Algorithm 

  Cao, Conghui; Yang, Hua; Zhang, Hao; Wang, Yan; Gulliver, Thomas Aaron (Applied Sciences, 2018)

  The passive detection of low-altitude signal sources is studied using an improved cross-correlation method in the time–frequency domain. A matching template is designed for signal cross-correlation, and a cross-correlation ...
• 3D Bioprinting Human Induced Pluripotent Stem Cell-Derived Neural Tissues Using a Novel Lab-on-a-Printer Technology 

  De la Vega, Laura; Gómez, Diego A. Rosas; Abelseth, Emily; Abelseth, Laila; Allisson da Silva, Victor; Willerth, Stephanie M. (Applied Sciences, 2018-11)

  Most neurological diseases and disorders lack true cures, including spinal cord injury (SCI). Accordingly, current treatments only alleviate the symptoms of these neurological diseases and disorders. Engineered neural ...
• Smart Shear-Thinning Hydrogels as Injectable Drug Delivery Systems 

  Gharaie, Sadaf Samimi; Mohammad Hossein Dabiri, Seyed; Akbari, Mohsen (Polymers, 2018)

  In this study, we fabricated and characterized a smart shear-thinning hydrogel composed of gelatin and laponite for localized drug delivery. We added chitosan (Chi) and poly N-isopropylacrylamide-co-Acrylic acid (PNIPAM) ...
• A PLC Channel Model for Home Area Networks 

  Fang, Xinyu; Wang, Ning; Gulliver, Thomas Aaron (Energies, 2018)

  Smart meters (SMs) are key components of the smart grid (SG) which gather electricity usage data from residences and businesses. Home area networks (HANs) are used to support two-way communications between SMs and devices ...
• Antipodal Vivaldi Antenna Arrays Fed by Substrate Integrated Waveguide Right-Angled Power Dividers 

  Salem Hesari, Sara; Bornemann, Jens (Applied Sciences, 2018)

  This paper describes a novel feed system for compact antipodal Vivaldi antenna arrays on a single layer of substrate integrated waveguide (SIW) by using SIW H-plane right-angled power dividers. The proposed antenna systems ...
• Speech-Based Music Information Retrieval System 

  Singh, Jagjit (2019-01-23)

  Music is considered as the art form that is completely developed and closest in inter- action with the human race. Recent years have seen rapid growth in the use of mobile devices making it more accessible to humans. The ...
• Mesh models of images, their generation, and their application in image scaling 

  Mostafavian, Ali (2019-01-22)

  Triangle-mesh modeling, as one of the approaches for representing images based on nonuniform sampling, has become quite popular and beneficial in many applications. In this thesis, image representation using triangle-mesh ...

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