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Title: A SYSTEM FOR COMPUTATIONAL ANALYSIS AND RECONSTRUCTION OF 3D COMMINUTED BONE FRACTURES
Author: Liu, Pengcheng
Date Created: 2012
Subjects--Topical: Electrical engineering, Computer science
Description: High energy impacts at joint locations often generate highly fragmented, or comminuted bone fractures. A leading current approach for treatment requires physicians qualitatively to classify the fracture to one of four possible fracture severity ca...

Title: ACOUSTIC SIGNAL PROPAGATION CHARACTERIZATION OF CONDUIT NETWORKS
Author: Khan, Muhammad Safeer
Date Created: 2013
Subjects--Topical: Electrical engineering, Sound
Description: Analysis of acoustic signal propagation in conduit networks has been an important area of research in acoustics. One major aspect of analyzing conduit networks as acoustic channels is that a propagating signal suffers frequency dependent attenuati...

Title: ANALYSIS OF CONDUCTIVE PROPERTIES OF CORE/ SHELL NANOCOMPOSITE STRUCTURES
Author: Moorthy, Gayathri
Date Created: 2012
Subjects--Topical: Electrical engineering, Nanoscience
Description: Nanostructures have been explored considerably in recent times to ascertain the unique properties they exhibit in the nanoscale regime as opposed to their bulk counterparts. Their characteristic high surface-to-volume ratio coupled with confinemen...

Title: Architecture Estimation from Sparse Images using Grammatical Shape Priors for Cultural Heritage
Author: Sui, Yunfeng
Date Created: 2011
Subjects--Topical: Electrical engineering, Computer science
Description: The estimation and reconstruction of 3D architectural structures is of great interest in computer vision, as well as cultural heritage. This dissertation proposes a novel approach to solve the difficult problem of estimating architectural structur...

Title: Behavioral Modeling of Zinc-Oxide, Thin-Film, Field-Effect Transistors and the Design of Pixel Driver, Analog Amplifier, and Low-Noise RF Amplifier Circuits
Author: Calder, Leroy
Date Created: 2010
Subjects--Topical: Electrical engineering
Description: Zinc-oxide (ZnO) is of great interest due to transparent properties, high breakdown voltages, and low cost. Behavioral modeling is presented in this dissertation to model ZnO thin-film field-effect transistor (FET) drain current versus gate-source...

Title: Bridging the gap between heterogeneous computing and next generation memory architecture using high level synthesis
Author: Rajagopala, Abhilash
Date Created: 2019
Subjects--Topical: Electrical engineering, Computer engineering
Description: The impact of transistor scaling on FPGAs is changing the role of FPGA from accelerators to a major role as processors. With this rapid development and the ability to implement complex systems on FPGAs, the conventional hardware language design fl...

Title: Broadband and Reconfigurable Filtering Antennas for Next Generation Mobile Wireless Communications Systems
Author: Shehan, Joshua
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Electrical engineering, Electromagnetism
Description: Mobile wireless communications systems, particularly at the base station level, are ever evolving to provide more data with better coverage resulting in continuously evolving antenna technology. From first generation (1G) mobile networks deployed ...

Title: COMPUTATIONAL INVERSE MECHANICS OF A HIGHLY COMMINUTED TIBIA FRACTURE
Author: Shadid, Waseem
Date Created: 2014
Subjects--Topical: Electrical engineering, Computer engineering, Biomedical engineering
Description: This dissertation presents a new computational system that seeks to estimate the inverse mechanics of a bone fracture from 3D CT images. One image provides a model of an unbroken bone and a second records a fractured example of the same bone after...

Title: Energy-efficient Base Station Sleep-mode Strategies for Ultra-dense Cellular Networks
Author: Opadere, Johnson
Date Created: 2019
Subjects--Topical: Electrical engineering
Description: Future mobile cellular networks will be characterized by massive densification of base stations (BSs) and a reshape of network functionalities, which include the potentials of advanced technologies like the network function virtualization, network...

Title: Exploiting Metamaterials: Fundamentals and Applications
Author: Karami, Morteza
Date Created: 2017
Subjects--Topical: Optics, Physics, Electromagnetism
Description: Metamaterials are man-made structures developed to engineer electromagnetic waves, and they have been studied intensely in recent decades. Although there are still debates about the performance of these types of artificial materials, many practica...

Title: FRACTAL-INSPIRED SUBWAVELENGTH GEOMETRIC INCLUSIONS FOR IMPROVEMENT OF HIGH-FREQUENCY ELECTROMAGNETIC DEVICES
Author: Smith, Kathryn
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Electromagnetism
Description: This dissertation presents research results demonstrating the efficacy of fractal-inspired subwavelength geometric inclusions for improvement of high-frequency electromagnetic devices. It begins with a review of the open literature in the area of ...

Title: FREQUENCY INDEPENDENT ANTENNAS INTERACTED ULTRA-WIDE BAND (UWB) ARTIFICIAL MAGNETIC CONDUCTOR (AMC) FOR 5G MILLIMETER WAVE WIRELESS COMMUNICATION APPLICATIONS
Author: Wang, Xuehe
Date Created: 2019
Subjects--Topical: Electrical engineering
Description: Fifth generation (5G) wireless communication is on the horizon and presents opportunities for significant technological advancement for years to come. As part of this important technology, millimeter wave communication has become a very important ...

Title: From pixel to region to temporal volume: a robust motion processing framework for visually-guided navigation
Author: Liu, Jianfei
Date Created: 2011
Subjects--Topical: Computer science, Computer engineering, Diagnostic imaging
Description: The ability to view pre-operative CT colonoscopy images co-aligned with optical colonoscopy images from endoscopic procedures can provide useful information to the gastroenterologist and lead to improved polyp detection. Colonoscopy data presents ...

Title: Geometric Analysis Tools for Mesh Segmentation
Author: Zhou, Beibei
Date Created: 2013
Subjects--Topical: Electrical engineering
Description: Surface segmentation, a process which divides a surface into parts, is the basis for many surface manipulation applications which include model metamorphosis, model simplification, model retrieval, model alignment and texture mapping. This dissert...

Title: Integration of the Simulation Environment for Autonomous Robots with Robotics Middleware
Author: Harris, Adam
Date Created: 2014
Subjects--Topical: Electrical engineering, Computer engineering, Robotics
Description: Robotic simulators have long been used to test code and designs before any actual hardware is tested to ensure safety and efficiency. Many current robotics simulators are either closed source (calling into question the fidelity of their simulation...

Title: MINIMALLY SUPERVISED LOW-FREQUENCY METHODS FOR MONITORING MAJOR ENERGY CONSUMERS IN BUILDINGS
Author: Mostafavi, Saman
Date Created: 2019
Subjects--Topical: Electrical engineering
Description: Buildings consume approximately 40% of global primary energy. Almost a fifth of this consumption arises from faulty or poorly operated systems. Monitoring the state of such systems can provide beneficial diagnostic insight in favor of more energy-...

Title: Microwave power imaging for ultra-wide band early breast cancer detection
Author: Shao, Wenyi
Date Created: 2012
Subjects--Topical: Electrical engineering, Biomedical engineering, Electromagnetism
Description: Due to the critical need for complementary or/and alternative modalities to current X-ray mammography for early-stage breast cancer detection, a 3D active microwave imaging system has been developed. This thesis presents a detailed method for rapi...

Title: Powerline Communications Through Series Connected Switched Mode Power Converters to Be Used in Solar Microinverters
Author: Evans, Daniel
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Electrical engineering
Description: Modern photovoltaic converters and energy storage modules are shifting to a cascaded or distributed module-level inverters to reduce the required voltage output of each module and thereby optimizing production costs. The switch to an AC-stacked ar...

Title: The Development of the Toner Density Sensor for Closed-Loop Feedback Laser Printer Calibration
Author: Thomas, Keisha
Date Created: 2009
Subjects--Topical: Electrical engineering
Description: A new infrared (IR) sensor was developed for application in closed-loop feedback printer calibration as it relates to monochrome (black toner only) laser printers. The toner density IR sensor (TDS) was introduced in the early 1980's; however, due ...

Title: UTILIZATION OF WIRELESS SIGNAL STRENGTH FOR MOBILE ROBOT LOCALIZATION IN INDOOR ENVIRONMENTS
Author: Shue, Samuel
Date Created: 2017
Subjects--Topical: Electrical engineering, Computer engineering, Robotics
Description: Localization is a key component of any mobile robot application. For any task a mobile robot might need to perform, precise knowledge of its pose within its environment is critical. Mobile robots employ a multitude of sensors to estimate position,...