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Conferences

Providing Disruption QoS in an OFDM System Using Residual Idle Time Based Opportunistic Spectrum Access

December 3, 2013

Author(s)

Anirudha Sahoo, Michael R. Souryal, Mudumbai Ranganathan

Dynamic spectrum access (DSA) is emerging as a promising technology to mitigate spectrum scarcity caused by static frequency allocation. Among the different...

A Simulation Platform to Study Inter-BAN Interference

December 2, 2013

Author(s)

Kamran Sayrafian, John G. Hagedorn, Martina Barbi, Judith E. Terrill, Mehdi Alasti

A Body Area Network (BAN) is a radio standard for wireless connectivity of wearable and implantable sensor nodes that are located inside or in proximity to the...

High-Temperature Electromechanical Properties of CTGS

December 1, 2013

Author(s)

Ward L. Johnson, Michal Schulz, Holger Fritze

CTGS (Ca3TaGa3Si2O14) is a commercially available, Czochralski-grown piezoelectric material from the langasite family that has an ordered crystal structure. It...

Practical CFD Simulations of Wind Tunnel Tests

December 1, 2013

Author(s)

Dilip K. Banerjee, DongHun Yeo, Scott Hemley, Randall J. McDermott, Franklin T. Lombardo, Emil Simiu, Marc L. Levitan

Practical CFD Simulations of Wind Tunnel Tests

December 1, 2013

Author(s)

Dilip K. Banerjee, Scott Hemley, Randall J. McDermott, Donghun Yeo, Marc L. Levitan

Computational fluid dynamics (CFD) has the potential of replacing wind tunnel testing in many wind engineering applications. Validated CFD software could enable...

REQUIREMENTS ANALYSES TO SUPPORT A MATERIAL INFORMATION MODEL FOR SUSTAINABILITY

November 21, 2013

Author(s)

Paul W. Witherell, Arvind Harinder, Katherine C. Morris

Materials, and therefore material selections, influence the sustainable impact of a product from beginning to end-of-life. With improved access to material...

TOWARDS THE SYNTHESIS OF PRODUCT KNOWLEDGE ACROSS THE LIFECYCLE

November 21, 2013

Author(s)

Paul W. Witherell, Boonserm Kulvatunyou, Sudarsan Rachuri

Product lifecycle management is an important aspect of todays industry, as it serves to facilitate information exchange and management between most, if not all...

Web Based 3D Visualization and Interaction for Whole Body Laser Scans

November 20, 2013

Author(s)

Sanford P. Ressler

A web based system that allows the user to select, sort, and measure 3D bodies using displays inside of ordinary web browsers without the use of 3D plug-ins is...

Toward the Ideal of Automating Production Optimization

November 15, 2013

Author(s)

John L. Michaloski, Frederick M. Proctor, Jorge Arinez, Jonatan Berglund

The advent of improved factory data collection offers a prime opportunity to continuously study and optimize factory operations. Although manufacturing...

On the Determination of Carbon by PGAA

November 10, 2013

Author(s)

Rolf L. Zeisler, Rick L. Paul, Jeffrey A. Fagan, Zsolt R¿vay, Stefan S¿llradl

Determination of carbon was achieved with reduction of background in prompt gamma activation analysis.

Application of a Natural Ventilation System Design Tool To A School Building

November 8, 2013

Author(s)

Steven J. Emmerich, William S. Dols, Brian J. Polidoro

A software tool to aid in the design of natural ventilation systems has recently been udpated. This update implements a general method for sizing of natural...

Dielectrophoretic Trapping of P19 Cells on Indium Tin Oxide based Microelectrode Arrays

November 8, 2013

Author(s)

Aveek Gangopadhyay, Saugandhika Minnikanti, Darwin Reyes-Hernandez, Mulpuri V. Rao, Nathalia Peixoto

A microfabricated device comprised of a microelectrode array (MEA) and a microfluidic channel is presented here for the purpose of trapping cells using positive...

Fault Localization Based on Failure-Inducing Combinations

November 7, 2013

Author(s)

Raghu N. Kacker

Combinatorial testing has been shown to be a very effective testing strategy. After a failure is detected, the next task is to identify the actual fault that...

A Baseline for Assessing Biometrics Performance Robustness: A Case Study across Seven Iris Datasets

November 7, 2013

Author(s)

Yooyoung Lee, James J. Filliben, Ross J. Micheals, Michael D. Garris, P J. Phillips

We examine the robustness of algorithm performance over multiple datasets collected with different sensors. This study provide insight as to whether an...

Microsensor Analyses for Trace Targets over Extended Times in a Simulated Martian Environment

November 6, 2013

Author(s)

Kurt D. Benkstein, Phillip H. Rogers, Christopher B. Montgomery, Stephen Semancik, C. Jin, Baranidharan Raman

We have studied the performance of a chemical microsensor array in a simulated Martian environment, which involved a carbon dioxide-rich background with low...

Thermally-Assisted Transient Analysis for Reducing the Response Time of Microhotplate Gas Sensors

November 6, 2013

Author(s)

Alexander (. Vergara Tinoco, Kurt D. Benkstein, Stephen Semancik

This study examines methods for decreasing the response time of chemiresistive, metal oxide microhotplate gas sensors. We describe a successful approach that...

Exploring Local Features and the Bag-of-Visual-Words Approach for BioImage Classification

November 5, 2013

Author(s)

Afzal A. Godil, Asim Wagan

With recent advances in imaging technologies large numbers of bioimages are currently being acquired. Automated classification of these bio-images is a very...

Acoustic and electrical properties of Ca3TaGa3Si2O14 piezoelectric resonators at elevated temperatures

November 3, 2013

Author(s)

Ward L. Johnson, Michal Schulz, Holger Fritze

Synthetic piezoelectric crystals in the P321 crystal class have been a focus of substantial research in relation to their application in high-temperature...

Fabrication and Characterization of a Dual-mode SPR/SERS Sensor Based on Plasmonic Nanodome Arrays

November 3, 2013

Author(s)

Charles J. Choi, Stephen Semancik

This work describes a label-free, optical sensor system fabricated on a flexible plastic film with dual detection modalities: surface-enhanced Raman scattering...

Temperature-Controlled Electrochemical Microwell Platform for Studying Biomolecular Interactions

November 3, 2013

Author(s)

Stephen Semancik, Zuliang Shen, Herman O. Sintim

We designed and fabricated, on a 4-inch wafer, prototype devices for proof-of-concept studies on biomolecular interactions. The platform includes eight probe...

High Resolution Frequency Comb Molecular Spectroscopy.

November 3, 2013

Author(s)

Ian R. Coddington, Alexander M. Zolot, Esther Baumann, Fabrizio R. Giorgetta, Greg B. Rieker, Jeffrey W. Nicholson, William C. Swann, Nathan R. Newbury

Frequency combs serve as an extremely high accuracy reference across broad portions of the optical spectrum. Dual frequency combs harness this accuracy and...

Methods for Optimizing and Extending the Performance of Chemiresistive Gas Microsensors

November 3, 2013

Author(s)

Kurt D. Benkstein, Alexander (. Vergara Tinoco, Christopher B. Montgomery, Baranidharan Raman, Stephen Semancik

This paper briefly describes varied concepts developed and implemented to enhance the performance of gas-phase chemical microsensors. The developments are...

Combinatorial (t-way) testing for software: an adaptation of design of experiments

November 1, 2013

Author(s)

Raghu N. Kacker

Most modern instruments of measurements for science, engineering, and commerce have embedded software. Also software is required for data handling and...

Does Your SEM Really Tell the Truth? Part 2

November 1, 2013

Author(s)

Michael T. Postek, Andras Vladar, Premsagar P. Kavuri

The scanning electron microscope (SEM) has gone through a tremendous evolution to become indispensable for many and diverse scientific and industrial...

Demonstration Paper : Connecting Medical Devices Through ASTM-2761-09 - Schedule Conflict Detection Prototype

November 1, 2013

Author(s)

Lukas L. Diduch

The Integrated Clinical Environment (ICE) ASTM-2761 Standard specifies an architecture for real-time medical device interoperability, and a set of Clinical...

Nanomanufacturing Concerns about Measurements made in the SEM II: Specimen Contamination

November 1, 2013

Author(s)

Michael T. Postek, Andras Vladar, Premsagar P. Kavuri

The scanning electron microscope (SEM) has gone through a tremendous evolution to become a critical tool for many and diverse scientific and industrial...

Nanomanufacturing concerns about Measurements made in the SEM I: Imaging and its Measurement

November 1, 2013

Author(s)

Michael T. Postek, Andras Vladar

The high resolution of the SEM is especially useful for qualitative and quantitative applications for both nanotechnology and nanomanufacturing. But, should...

On the Use of Phase Data When Conducting an Extrapolation Measurement

November 1, 2013

Author(s)

Jason B. Coder, David R. Novotny, Michael H. Francis, Jeffrey R. Guerrieri

The extrapolation measurement technique has been used with the three antenna method for more than 40 years, to determine absolute antenna gain and polarization...

PDR: A Prevention, Detection and Response Mechanism for Anomalies in Energy Control Systems

October 30, 2013

Author(s)

Maria C. Alcaraz, Meltem Sonmez Turan

Prevention, detection and response are nowadays considered to be three priority topics for protecting critical infrastructures, such as energy control systems...

Enhancing the Performance of High Volume Fly Ash Concretes Using Fine Limestone Powder

October 29, 2013

Author(s)

Jussara Tanesi, Dale P. Bentz, Ahmad Ardani

One of the primary approaches being explored to produce more sustainable concretes consists of replacing a significant portion of the portland cement with...

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