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Furse, Cynthia M. | A busy professors guide to sanely flipping your classroom | This paper describes the use of the flipped classroom approach for an Introduction to Electromagnetics course. Video lectures were created on a tablet PC, and uploaded to YouTube. Students watched the videos before coming to class. Class time was used for problem solving strategy (using homework as ... | | 2013-01-01 |
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Stevens, Kenneth | A low power UART design based on asynchronous techniques | Abstract-Universal Asynchronous Receiver Transmitter (UART) implements serial communication between peripherals and remote embedded systems. The UART protocol is defined based on fixed frequencies with a sampling method to achieve robustness under reasonable frequency variations between systems. Suc... | | 2013-01-01 |
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Kirby, Robert Michael | A scalable, efficient scheme for evaluation of stencil computations over unstructured meshes | Stencil computations are a common class of operations that appear in many computational scientific and engineering applications. Stencil computations often benefit from compile-time analysis, exploiting data-locality, and parallelism. Post-processing of discontinuous Galerkin (dG) simulation solutio... | | 2013-01-01 |
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Simpson, Jamesina J. | A stochastic FDTD model of electromagnetic wave propagation in magnetized ionospheric plasma | Communications, surveillance, and navigation capabilities rely heavily on accurate knowledge of electromagnetic (EM) signal propagation characteristics through and reflected by the Earth's ionosphere. Satellite communications, over-the-horizon radar, and target direction finding are a few example ap... | | 2013-01-01 |
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Mastrangelo, Carlos H. | A very high density floating electrode flexible sensor array for high-resolution measurements of contact forces | We present the development, fabrication and testing results of a new high-density flexible sensor array (HDFA) suitable of recording three-axis stresses with high spatial resolution. The new HDFA consists of 676 (26×26) sensing cells fabricated on top of a high-density flex circuit substrate. Each ... | | 2013-01-01 |
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Mastrangelo, Carlos H. | An exothermal energy release layer for microchip transience | A single layer nanothermite spin coated gel has been utilized as a solid-state exothermic energy release layer for triggered microchip transience. A proportional combination of self-assembled CuO/Al nanothermite and Napalm-B as gelling agent has been used to develop for the first time a spinable nan... | | 2013-01-01 |
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Henderson, Thomas C. | Analysis of topographic maps for recreational purposes using decision trees | In this paper we describe a method for predicting the subjective quality of a new mountain bike route for a particular subject based on routes previously ridden and ranked by the subject. GPS tracks of the previously ridden routes are over laid on rasterized topographic maps and topographic features... | | 2013-01-01 |
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Rieth, Loren W | Bi-layer encapsulation of Utah array based nerual interfaces by atomic layer deposited Al2O3 and parylene C | We present a novel coating method that combines atomic layer deposited Al2O3 and Parylene C for encapsulation of biomedical implantable devices, focusing on its application on Utah electrode array based neural interfaces. The alumina and Parylene C bi-layer encapsulated wired Utah electrode array sh... | | 2013-01-01 |
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Mathews, V. John | Blind identification of QAM signals using a likelihood-based algorithm | This paper presents a method for automatically identifying different QAM modulations. This method identifies the modulation type as the hypothesis for which the likelihood function of the amplitudes of the received signal is the maximum. The derivation of the likelihood functions assumes additive wh... | | 2013-01-01 |
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Blair, Steven | Channel routing for integrated optics | Increasing scope and applications of integrated optics necessitates the development of automated techniques for physical design of optical systems. This paper presents an automated, planar channel routing technique for integrated optical waveguides. Integrated optics is a planar technology and lacks... | | 2013-01-01 |
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Blair, Steven | Crossing-aware channel routing for photonic waveguides | Abstract-Silicon photonics technology is progressing at a rapid pace. Despite greatly expanded manufacturing capability, physical design of integrated optical circuits currently lacks the level of automation found in VLSI design. A key component of integrated optic design is waveguide routing; howev... | | 2013-01-01 |
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Mastrangelo, Carlos H. | Design and characterization of electronic sensing system for a 13 × 13 biomechanical ground reaction sensor array | This paper presents the design and characterization of an electronic sensing system interfaced with a high-density flexible biomechanical ground reaction sensor array (GRSA). The prototype system can be incorporated into a personal boot heel to measure real-time ground force, shear strain and sole d... | | 2013-01-01 |
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Khan, Faisal Habib | Design and simulation of contour mode MEMS resonator on Si for power converters | Microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) resonators on Si have the potential to replace the discrete passive components in a power converter. These devices not only can reduce the size and weight of the converter but also can facilitate the implementation of power converter on a chip. In this paper, a ... | | 2013-01-01 |
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Bargteil, Adam Wade | Dynamic sprites | Traditional methods for creating dynamic objects and characters from static drawings involve careful tweaking of animation curves and/or simulation parameters. Sprite sheets offer a more drawing-centric solution, but they do not encode timing information or the logic that determines how objects shou... | | 2013-01-01 |
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Liu, Feng | Effects of Li doping on H-diffusion in MgH2: A first-principles study | The effects of Li doping in MgH2 on H-diffusion process are investigated, using first-principles calculations. We have identified two key effects: (1) The concentration of H vacancy in the þ1 charge state ðVþ1 H Þ can increase by several orders of magnitude upon Li doping, which significantly in... | | 2013-01-01 |
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Mastrangelo, Carlos H. | Electrical characterization of 26 × 26 ground reaction sensor array interfaced with two parallel electronic detection channels | This paper presents the electrical characterization results of a 26 x 26 high-density ground reaction sensor array (HD-GRSA) interfaced with two parallel electronic detection channels. The system was developed for improving inertial measurement unit (IMU) positioning accuracy. The HD-GRSA is compose... | | 2013-01-01 |
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Liu, Feng | Electrochemical measurements on cells, I: Simulation of potential distribution with an embedded probe | Measurements of electric potential in electrochemical devices such as solid oxide fuel cells (SOFC) or solid oxide electrolyzer cells (SOEC) are often made by placing a reference electrode on the surface. Measurement of electric potential with embedded electrodes (probes) has also been reported [1].... | | 2013-01-01 |
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Hansen, Charles D. | Evaluation of depth of field for depth perception in DVR | In this paper we present a user study on the use of Depth of Field for depth perception in Direct Volume Rendering. Direct Volume Rendering with Phong shading and perspective projection is used as the baseline. Depth of Field is then added to see its impact on the correct perception of ordinal depth... | | 2013-01-01 |
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Regehr, John | Help, help, Im being suppressed the significance of suppressors in software testing | Abstract-Test features are basic compositional units used to describe what a test does (and does not) involve. For example, in API-based testing, the most obvious features are function calls; in grammar-based testing, the obvious features are the elements of the grammar. The relationship between fea... | | 2013-01-01 |
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Blair, Steven | Implantable devices for optical neural interfaces | Optical neural control requires light delivery techniques dependent on the experimental goal and biological model. Several light sources and neural interfaces have been implemented featuring one or more of the fol- lowing criteria: deep illumination, specific and/or com- prehensive access, spectral ... | | 2013-01-01 |
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Hansen, Charles D. | Interactive rendering and efficient querying for large multivariate seismic volumes on consumer level PCs | We present a volume visualization method that allows interactive rendering and efficient querying of large multivariate seismic volume data on consumer level PCs. The volume rendering pipeline utilizes a virtual memory structure that supports out-of-core mul- tivariate multi-resolution data and a GP... | | 2013-01-01 |
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Berzins, Martin | Investigating applications portability with the Uintah DAG-based runtime system on PetaScale supercomputers | Present trends in high performance computing present formidable challenges for applications code using multicore nodes possibly with accelerators and/or co-processors and reduced memory while still attaining scalability. Software frameworks that execute machine-independent applications code using a ... | | 2013-01-01 |
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Hibler, Michael J. | Isolation of malicious external inputs in a security focused adaptive execution environment | Reliable isolation of malicious application inputs is necessary for preventing the future success of an observed novel attack after the initial incident. In this paper we describe, measure and analyze, Input-Reduction, a technique that can quickly isolate malicious external inputs that embody unfore... | | 2013-01-01 |
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Furse, Cynthia M. | Manufacturing considerations for implantable antennas | Design of implantable antennas poses a unique set of challenges since antennas need to be small, biocompatible, and operate in the highly lossy environment of the human body. A recent review identified miniaturization challenges and how they have been managed in a variety of designs. [1] It also not... | | 2013-01-01 |
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Khan, Faisal Habib | Maximum power point tracking of stirling generator and ocean wave energy conversion systems using a two-stage power converter | Wave energy has become one of the most promising renewable energy resources nowadays. By using a linear generator/alternator, the periodic piston motion of the wave energy conversion system (WEC) can be converted to AC voltage with variable RMS amplitude and frequency; this process is comparable to ... | | 2013-01-01 |
