This article discusses the results of a senior design project to design a baseband system for a communication system, as well as on-going efforts to improve the design. Upon completion, the experimental design is inte...
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We investigate the simplest Slepian-Wolf source network, consisting of an information source correlated with a second source used as a side-information for the decoder but not the encoder. The information source and s...
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The challenges associated with student transfer between institutions of higher education are investigated. The Utah System of Higher Education (USHE) requires that undergraduate courses from non-ABET accredited instit...
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Fluorescence spectroscopy has potential to improve cervical precancer detection. The relationship between tissue biochemistry and fluorescence is poorly understood. The goal of this study was to characterize normal ce...
Fluorescence spectroscopy has potential to improve cervical precancer detection. The relationship between tissue biochemistry and fluorescence is poorly understood. The goal of this study was to characterize normal cervical autofluorescence, using fresh tissue short-term tissue cultures and epithelial cell suspensions. Transverse, short-term tissue cultures were prepared from 31 cervical biopsies; autofluorescence images were obtained at 380 and 460 nm excitation. Fluorescence excitation–emission matrices were measured from normal, precancerous and cancerous cervical cell suspensions. Observed fluorescence patterns contrast those reported for frozen–thawed tissue, and were placed into groups with (1) bright epithelial and weak stromal fluorescence; (2) similar epithelial and stromal fluorescence; and (3) weak epithelial and bright stromal fluorescence. The average ages of women in the groups were 30.9, 38.0 and 49.2 years. Epithelial fluorescence intensity was similar in Groups 1 and 2, but weaker in Group 3. Stromal intensity was similar in Groups 2 and 3, but weaker in Group 1. The ratio of epithelial to stromal fluorescence intensity was significantly different for all groups. EEMs of cell suspensions showed peaks consistent with tryptophan, reduced form of nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide (phosphate) and flavin adenine dinucleotide. Short-term tissue cultures represent a novel, biologically appropriate model to understand cervical autofluorescence. Our results suggest a biological basis for the increased fluorescence seen in older, postmenopausal women.
The area of chemical analysis is growing rapidly, supporting areas related to Bioengineering, such as pharmaceuticals and genetics. High throughput of analyses is becoming more critical. As the size of each sample shr...
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The area of chemical analysis is growing rapidly, supporting areas related to Bioengineering, such as pharmaceuticals and genetics. High throughput of analyses is becoming more critical. As the size of each sample shrinks, so to does the time available to perform accurate analysis due to evaporation and other contamination factors. New materials and processes are being created in order to provide the ability to analyze large numbers of samples in a reasonable period of time. One such project at Purdue is reducing the size of samples even further, while increasing the spatial density of a group of samples. This requires increased precision in two-dimensional alignment and sample deposition. Students in electrical and computerengineering technology participated in an interdisciplinary project with chemical engineering students to automate a mostly manual alignment and deposition process. Automation of this process involves the integration and precise computer control of several disjoint instruments. The primary objective of this work was to increase throughput by several orders of magnitude. Secondary goals include system characterization and prediction of throughput upper bounds using available technology and off-the-shelf components. Successful completion of these objectives requires a combination of skills learned in the classroom as well as teamwork among students within specific disciplines as well as those from others, where technical languages and dialects are different. This paper describes the problem and subsequent design, implementation and system characterization activities undertaken. New and innovative test and measurement techniques were developed, requiring creative solutions using and stretching those learned in the classroom. Descriptions of the obstacles, methods, lessons learned, and throughput improvement results are presented. This work has provided a unique opportunity for interdisciplinary collaboration and research and development experiences
Distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks on the Internet have become an immediate problem. As DDoS streams do not have common characteristics, currently available intrusion detection systems (IDS) cannot detect th...
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In this paper, the topology of a low cost series compensator for voltage sags (SCVS) are introduced. This device deliver to a sensitive load in a distribution system, three-phase sinusoidal balanced and regulated volt...
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In this paper, the topology of a low cost series compensator for voltage sags (SCVS) are introduced. This device deliver to a sensitive load in a distribution system, three-phase sinusoidal balanced and regulated voltages, even under voltage sags. This topology differs from the typical DVR (dynamic voltage restorer) in the literature, however, on where the diode rectifier is connected: at the in-bus (DVR) or at the out-bus-regulated (proposed topology - IDVR) of the SCVS. In order, to validate the developed SCVS a prototype was implemented verifying the SCVS dynamics in the presence of a voltage dip caused by the turn-on of an inductive load, and harmonics due to the diode rectifier
Historically, electricalengineering students have been very proficient in the application of mathematics. At California State University we have experienced, recently, a negative shift of mathematical interest and th...
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