Recent years have witnessed extensive research activity in modeling genetic regulatory networks (GRNs) as well as in developing therapeutic intervention strategies for such networks. S-systems, which offer a good comp...
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This paper describes an analog-to-digital converter (ADC) array for an implantable neural sensor which digitizes neural signals sensed by a microelectrode array. The ADC array consists of 96 variable resolution ADC ba...
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The capacity of a secondary link in spectrum sharing systems has been recently investigated in fading environments. In particular, the secondary transmitter is allowed to adapt its power and rate to maximize its capac...
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Obtaining the Jacobian parameters for a nonlinear system, such as in X-parameter or S-function measurement, requires excitation of tickle tones either on or slightly off of the main harmonic frequencies. Traditional o...
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On page 1 of Educating the Engineer of 2020: Adapting engineering Education to the New Century cites the most critical task of engineering educators: "first and foremost, engineering education must produce techni...
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On page 1 of Educating the Engineer of 2020: Adapting engineering Education to the New Century cites the most critical task of engineering educators: "first and foremost, engineering education must produce technically excellent and innovative graduates." This report further states "it is agreed that innovation is the key and engineering is essential to the task of helping the United States maintain its economic leadership and its share of high technology jobs." The goal of our research is to benchmark and identify creativity and innovation skill sets in first-year engineering students, which are included among necessary entrepreneurial skill sets, and understand how and why these skill sets change over their undergraduate matriculation. Our research will report on an initial study of the impact of first-year engineering courses on the changes in entrepreneurial mindsets of first year engineering students. Entrepreneurial mindset in our study is operationally defined as a more growth orientated mindset versus a fixed orientated mindset. This operational definition and the accompanying mindset measurement instrument was developed and validated by Carol Dweck of Stanford University. Based on Dweck's research results we assume a growth mindset is a reasonable surrogate for a student engineer's creative and innovative or entrepreneurial skills. Mindset of student engineers are benchmarked at the beginning of the freshman year and then again at the end of the freshman year, soon after completion of a team based poverty alleviation freshman capstone project. Two pre and post control samples of freshman engineer mindsets are being collected from similar sized engineeringprogram. at comparable colleges in our geographic vicinity. Initial beginning-of-year testing results indicate a statistically significant tilt toward a fixed mindset in freshman engineering students compared to a growth mindset observed in an opportunity sample of freshman business students. We are trackin
We show evidence of electrical and thermal conductivity percolation in polymer based carbon nanotube (CNT) composites, which follow power law variations with respect to the CNT concentrations in the matrix. The experi...
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The Ray Tracing rendering algorithm can produce high-fidelity images of 3-D scenes, including shadow effects, as well as reflections and transparencies. This is currently done at a processing speed of at most 30 frame...
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In this paper, we present a novel statistical reconstruction method based on Compton noise suppression for Digital Breast Tomosynthesis. The physical modeling for X-ray's interaction with tissues was investigated....
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Digital breast tomosynthesis is a novel breast cancer detection technique by allowing the reconstruction of arbitrary planes in the breast from a set of limited-angle projection images acquired at different view angle...
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We have developed novel opto-thermo-mechanical actuators by effectively distributing a significant amount of single-wall carbon nanotube (SWCNT, up to 0.7%w/w) into liquid crystal elastomer (LCE) matrices. These SWCNT...
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