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Clustered-Dot Periodic Halftone Screen Design And Icc Profile Color Table Compression, Chuohao Tang

Open Access Dissertations

This dissertation studies image quality problems associated with rendering images in devices like printing or displaying. It mainly includes two parts: clustered-dot periodic halftone screen design, and color table compression.

Screening is a widely used halftoning method. As a consequence of the lower resolution of digital presses and printers, the number of printer-addressable dots or holes in each microcell may be too few to provide the requisite number of tone lev- els between paper white and full colorant coverage. To address this limitation, the microcells can be grouped into supercells. The challenge is then to determine the desired supercell shape …

A High-Performance Communication Topology For Decentralized Protocols, Raza A. Khan

Open Access Theses

Preserving transaction atomicity and ensuring its commitment is key to the maintenance of data integrity in a distributed database. The distributed consensus protocol is a prominent example of a mechanism used to accomplish safe commitment of a distributed transaction. These protocols are based primarily on repeated message exchange among all sites/nodes and their performance is characterized not only by the number of these messages but also by the underlying communication topology. This thesis proposes a measure of performance known as average message complexity and proposes a communication structure based on folded even graphs called the Folded Even Network (FEN). Performance …

Magnetic Equivalent Circuit Based Permanent Magnet Characterization, Vinicius Cabral Do Nascimento

Open Access Theses

This thesis sets forth a permanent magnet characterization fixture and procedure. The work begins with a review of the state of the art in permanent magnet characterization. It then sets forth a new characterization fixture. The proposed system relies on the use of low cost sensors to perform the necessary measurements, which consists of search coils, hall sensors, and current probes. A magnetic equivalent circuit is set forth to analyze the fixture and for use in identification of permanent magnet parameters. The characterization procedure is based on an experimentally defined magnetic equivalent circuit. An experimental approach to model the tester …