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Heros: A Patient-Centered Goal-Directed Electronic Medical Record System For The Homeless, Kallol Silas Mahata May 2007

Heros: A Patient-Centered Goal-Directed Electronic Medical Record System For The Homeless, Kallol Silas Mahata

Computer Science and Engineering Theses - Archive

Homelessness is a growing problem in the United States. Numerous barriers keep the street homeless from obtaining healthcare. Medical Street Outreach (MSO) programs are designed to reach out to the homeless. Gathering relevant clinical information on the streets is difficult, and carrying paper records in MSO is cumbersome and inefficient. Several complex healthcare record systems have been developed for hospitals, but no such system exists for collecting health data on the streets. In this thesis, we describe a light weight Electronic Medical Record (EMR), called HEROS (Homeless Electronic RecOrd System) that we have built to address the process of healthcare …

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Medical Decision Support System Using Augmentable Guideline Engine, Adetayo Afolabi Aiyedun May 2007

Medical Decision Support System Using Augmentable Guideline Engine, Adetayo Afolabi Aiyedun

Computer Science and Engineering Theses - Archive

Increasing life expectancy accompanied by existing growth of wireless infrastructure and ubiquitous computing technologies has given healthcare providers access to vital information within their healthcare networks. Medical decision support systems (MDSS) play an increasingly important role in medical practice by assisting physicians with making clinical decisions. MDSS are interactive computer programs, which are designed to assist physicians and other health professionals with decision making. Currently, the strategies for providing MDSS has failed, in part, because they have not provided a secure, timely access to information that is current, ability to modify their knowledge base without hard coding them in their …

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Efficient Multi-View Video Coding Scheme Based On Dynamic Video Object Segmentation, Xiaohui Wei May 2007

Efficient Multi-View Video Coding Scheme Based On Dynamic Video Object Segmentation, Xiaohui Wei

Computer Science and Engineering Dissertations - Archive

Multi-view video, which simultaneously acquires multiple video sequences from multiple viewpoints or view directions, is poised to become the next generation video technology. Exploiting redundancy is the hallmark of traditional video coding but is even more essential in multi-view video coding (MVC) where the data size is extremely large. The exploitation of additional redundancies, however, incurs extra computational overhead, thereby counteracting the benefits gained from coding efficiency. This dissertation proposes an efficient MVC scheme that provides a complete encoding solution with low complexity. This includes exploitation of inter- and intra-view redundancies for achieving high coding efficiency, and exploitation of inter-view …

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Efficient Visualization Of Streaming Sensor Network Data Using Approximation Technique, Sunil Pai May 2007

Efficient Visualization Of Streaming Sensor Network Data Using Approximation Technique, Sunil Pai

Computer Science and Engineering Theses - Archive

By commanding a large number of wireless sensor nodes capable of sensing, communicating, and computing, wireless sensor networks have revealed their vast potential in a plethora of applications. However, due to the stringent resources limitations on each sensor node ranging from energy and computation to network bandwidth and storage, efficient and light weight systems must be designed in order to accommodate the resource limited environment. Furthermore, due to the potentially large number of sensor nodes deployed, the amount of sensory data gathered therein can be overwhelming for processing and visualizing in a resource limited central controller, such as mobile devices. …

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Hiearchical Overlay For Service Composition In Pervasive Environments, Aparna Kailas May 2007

Hiearchical Overlay For Service Composition In Pervasive Environments, Aparna Kailas

Computer Science and Engineering Theses - Archive

The objective of pervasive computing is to allow users to perform their tasks in a transparent way regardless of device features. Resources on devices should be exploited to provide services in order to perform user tasks. When there is no exact match for the user task in the environment, the capabilities of available devices should be combined to perform the user task. Seamless Service Composition (SeSCo) abstracts device capabilities as services and leverages existing work on graph algorithms to perform service composition. A lightweight framework, PerSON (Service Overlay Network for Pervasive Environments) was developed to provide a service overlay network …

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A Dynamic Framework For Testing The Synchronization Behavior Of Java Monitors, Andres Yanes May 2007

A Dynamic Framework For Testing The Synchronization Behavior Of Java Monitors, Andres Yanes

Computer Science and Engineering Theses - Archive

A Java monitor is a specialized class that is used to synchronize the behavior of threads in a Java program. The monitors in a Java program must be adequately tested to ensure the correctness of the program. In this thesis we propose a dynamic framework in which a Java monitor is tested by exploring its state space in a depth-first manner. The state exploration procedure consists of dynamically creating method sequences to exercise the possible synchronization behavior of the monitor. During exploration, new threads will be created on the fly to simulate different scenarios that result from threads reaching the …

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Salinity, Ph, Temperature, Desiccation And Hypoxia Tolerance In The Invasive Freshwater Apple Snail Pomacea Insularum, Veena Ramakrishnan May 2007

Salinity, Ph, Temperature, Desiccation And Hypoxia Tolerance In The Invasive Freshwater Apple Snail Pomacea Insularum, Veena Ramakrishnan

Earth & Environmental Sciences Dissertations - Archive

Pomacea insularum is a tropical and subtropical, ampullariid, freshwater prosobranch snail that is native to slow-flowing rivers and canals in South America. It is a member of the genus, Pomacea, and, like other species in this genus, can be a severe agricultural pest in wetland rice and taro agriculture systems. It has been introduced to the United States, establishing populations in the rice belt region of southeastern Texas. The resistance adaptations of P. insularum were investigated with respect to important physico-chemical parameters including temperature, salinity, pH, emersion, desiccation and progressive hypoxia in order to predict its potential distribution in North …

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New Applications Of The Pauson-Khand Reaction And Studies Towards The Synthesis Of The Hamigerans, Christian Emeka Madu May 2007

New Applications Of The Pauson-Khand Reaction And Studies Towards The Synthesis Of The Hamigerans, Christian Emeka Madu

Chemistry & Biochemistry Dissertations - Archive

This dissertation is divided into two parts. The first part describes the dicobalt octacarbonyl mediated synthesis of medium sized rings via intramolecular Pauson-Khand (IMPK) reaction. The cyclization of 1,8-enynes has proved to be difficult via the IMPK reaction due to entropy reasons. To overcome thid limitation we attempted this cyclization in the presence of an ortho- buttressing group (t-butyl group) on the aromatic ring so as to reduce the conformationally allowed volume of the alkene arm of the substrate. The construction of the substrates started with O-alkenylation of the commercially available 3,5 di-tert-butyl-2-hydroxylbenzaldehyde and then the O-alkenylation products were alkynylated …

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Study Of Oxide Surfaces Using Time Of Flight Positron Annihilation Induced Auger Electron Spectroscopy, Manori Prasadika Nadesalingam May 2007

Study Of Oxide Surfaces Using Time Of Flight Positron Annihilation Induced Auger Electron Spectroscopy, Manori Prasadika Nadesalingam

Physics Dissertations - Archive

Transition metal oxides (TMOs) exhibit a rich collection of interesting and intriguing properties which can be used for wide variety of applications. In this dissertation, I will discuss the first PAES measurements on vacuum anneal induced changes in the surface layers of Cu2O/Ta, Cu 2O/TCO and oxidized Cu(100) prepared by spray coated, electrochemically deposition and thermal oxidation techniques respectively. PAES measurements on Cu2O/TCO shows that the a very large increase in the intensity of the Cu (M2,3 VV) Auger peak after annealing at 250°C. Similar but significantly smaller changes were observed in the EAES spectra consistent with the fact that …

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First Direct Measurement Of The Energy Spectra Of Individual Auger Cascade Steps In Solid Mno, Ag And Pd, Rajalakshmi Sundaramoorthy May 2007

First Direct Measurement Of The Energy Spectra Of Individual Auger Cascade Steps In Solid Mno, Ag And Pd, Rajalakshmi Sundaramoorthy

Physics Dissertations - Archive

We present the first direct measurements of energy spectra of electrons emitted in the later steps of the Auger cascade processes in solids. Measurements were carried out for the L-->MV-->VVV and L-->MM-->MVV-->VVVV Auger cascades in MnO and L-->MM-->MVV, M-->NV-->VVV Auger cascades in Ag and M-->NV-->VVV Auger cascade for Pd. The spectra associated with the later steps in the cascade were separated from overlapping spectral contribution from other decay processes by acquiring the cascade induced spectra in time coincidence with Auger electrons emitted in the prior cascade step. The Auger …

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Alfvénic Accelerated Electrons And Short Burst Auroral Kilometric Radiations Observed By The Fast Satellite, Lun Ma May 2007

Alfvénic Accelerated Electrons And Short Burst Auroral Kilometric Radiations Observed By The Fast Satellite, Lun Ma

Physics Theses - Archive

This investigation is motivated by previous study of short burst radiations (S-bursts) reported by Ergun et al. [2006], who suggested two generation mechanisms of S-bursts: one is the electron cyclotron maser instability due to an unstable ring distribution; the other is an upward electron beam generating upper hybrid resonance. The simulation results reported by Su et al. [2007] support the former mechanism. Only one Earth-based S-burst event was reported prior to our study. A systematic study was performed on particle and field observations from the FAST spacecraft to search for events of S-bursts and Alfvén waves. Eight events involving coexistence …

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Coupling Photodriven Multielectron Reduction Of Ruthenium Polypyridyl Complexes With Hydrogen Evolving Co-Catalysts, Cale Mcalister Apr 2007

Coupling Photodriven Multielectron Reduction Of Ruthenium Polypyridyl Complexes With Hydrogen Evolving Co-Catalysts, Cale Mcalister

Chemistry & Biochemistry Theses - Archive

With energy demands continuing to increase, the importance of finding a means of converting solar energy into a usable form of chemical energy continues to escalate. Photocatalysis provides a viable approach to harnessing energy from the sun for its use in energy converting reactions such as the water splitting reaction. Ruthenium polypyridyl complexes have played an important role in the growth and advancement of artificial photosynthetic systems, many of which have the ability to utilize solar energy in the process of H2 evolution. This thesis focuses on a biomimetic approach to solar H2 production through multi-electron photocatalysis. The two dinuclear …

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Computing Best Coverage Path In The Presence Of Obstacles In Wireless Sensor Networks, Senjuti Basu Roy Apr 2007

Computing Best Coverage Path In The Presence Of Obstacles In Wireless Sensor Networks, Senjuti Basu Roy

Computer Science and Engineering Theses - Archive

Given a set S = {S1,...,Sn} of n homogeneous wireless sensors deployed in a two dimensional area, a source point s and a destination point t, the least protected point p along a path (s,t) is that point such that the Euclidean distance between p and its closest sensor node Si is maximum. This distance between p and S_{i} is called the Cover value of the path P(s,t). The Best Coverage Path between s and t, denoted as BCP(s,t), is the path that has the minimum cover value. Although there exists efficient algorithms to compute BCP in O(n log n) …

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A Random Walk Approach To Sampling Hidden Databases, Arjun Dasgupta Apr 2007

A Random Walk Approach To Sampling Hidden Databases, Arjun Dasgupta

Computer Science and Engineering Theses - Archive

A large part of the data on the World Wide Web is hidden behind form-like interfaces. These interfaces interact with a hidden back-end database to provide answers to user queries. Generating a uniform random sample of this hidden database by using only the publicly available interface gives us access to the underlying data distribution. In this thesis, we propose a random walk scheme over the query space provided by the interface to sample such databases. We discuss variants where the query space is visualized as a fixed and random ordering of attributes. We also propose techniques to further improve the …

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Hydrogeochemical Evolution Of Arsenic Along Groundwater Flow Paths: Linking Aqueous And Solid Phase Arsenic Speciation, Shama Haque Apr 2007

Hydrogeochemical Evolution Of Arsenic Along Groundwater Flow Paths: Linking Aqueous And Solid Phase Arsenic Speciation, Shama Haque

Earth & Environmental Sciences Dissertations - Archive

The central hypothesis of this Doctoral research work is that changes occurring along groundwater flow paths that accompany chemical weathering and oxidation-reduction reactions catalyze both arsenic (As) mobilization from, and capture by, minerals via adsorption/desorption and/or mineral dissolution/precipitation reactions. This central hypothesis is addressed by (i) quantifying concentrations and speciation of As, and ancillary geochemical parameters, including a number of redox sensitive parameters in groundwater samples collected along flow paths, and (ii) determining solid phase speciation of As in aquifer sediment samples, with specific emphasis on the labile (i.e., surface exchangeable) and non-labile As fractions (e.g., precipitated with Fe oxides). …

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Effect Of Structure And Stereochemistry On Cytotoxicity Of Ruthenium Polypyridyl Complexes, Arthi Krishnan Apr 2007

Effect Of Structure And Stereochemistry On Cytotoxicity Of Ruthenium Polypyridyl Complexes, Arthi Krishnan

Chemistry & Biochemistry Theses - Archive

Efforts to develop novel non-platinum, metal-based antitumor drugs have been pursued by many groups and ruthenium complexes have drawn a lot of attention as prospective transition metal-based antineoplastic agents. Recently, it was discovered that complex [(phen)2Ru(tatpp)Ru(phen)2]+4 shows biological activity both in vitro and in vivo. Expanding on this area of research, in depth cytotoxicity studies in human lung cancer cells and healthy cells were carried out in five different ruthenium(II) polypyridyl complexes as racemic mixtures and also their enantiopure forms. This study was carried out by performing MTT-cytotoxicity assays on non small cell lung cancer cells (NSCLC), H358 - Human …

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Inference Of Node And Edge Replacement Graph Grammars, Jacek Kukluk Feb 2007

Inference Of Node And Edge Replacement Graph Grammars, Jacek Kukluk

Computer Science and Engineering Dissertations - Archive

In this dissertation we study the inference of node and edge replacement graph grammars. The approach is based on previous research in frequent isomorphic subgraphs discovery. We extend the search for frequent subgraphs by checking for overlap among the instances of the subgraphs in the input graph. If subgraphs overlap by one node, we propose a node replacement graph grammar production. If subgraphs overlap by two nodes or two nodes and an edge, we propose an edge replacement graph grammar production. We also can infer a hierarchy of productions by compressing portions of a graph described by a production and …

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Estimation Of Dry Deposition Of Atmospheric Mercury In Nevada By Direct And Indirect Methods, Seth N. Lyman, Mae Sexauer Gustin, Eric M. Prestbo, Frank J. Marsik Jan 2007

Estimation Of Dry Deposition Of Atmospheric Mercury In Nevada By Direct And Indirect Methods, Seth N. Lyman, Mae Sexauer Gustin, Eric M. Prestbo, Frank J. Marsik

USU Uintah Basin Faculty Publications

Atmospheric models and limited measurements indicate that dry deposition of atmospheric mercury is an important process by which mercury is input to ecosystems. To begin to fill the measurement data gap, multiple methods were used simultaneously during seasonal campaigns conducted in 2005 and 2006 to estimate dry deposition of atmospheric mercury at two Mercury Deposition Network (MDN) sites in rural Nevada and in Reno, Nevada. Gaseous elemental mercury (Hg0), reactive gaseous mercury (RGM), and particulate-bound mercury (Hgp) concentrations were measured using Tekran 2537A/1130/1135 systems. These speciated measurements were combined with on-site meteorological measurements to estimate depositional fluxes of RGM and …

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On The Size Of Succinct Indices, Alexander Golynski, Ankur Gupta Jan 2007

On The Size Of Succinct Indices, Alexander Golynski, Ankur Gupta

Scholarship and Professional Work - LAS

A succinct data structure occupies an amount of space that is close to the information-theoretic minimum plus an additional term. The latter is not necessarily a lower-order term and, in several cases, completely dominates the space occupancy both in theory and in practice. In this paper, we present several solutions to partially overcome this problem, introducing new techniques of independent interest that allow us to improve over previously known upper and lower bounds.

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Temperature-Driven Transition From The Wigner Crystal To The Bond-Charge-Density Wave In The Quasi-One-Dimensional Quarter-Filled Band, Rahul Hardikar Jan 2007

Temperature-Driven Transition From The Wigner Crystal To The Bond-Charge-Density Wave In The Quasi-One-Dimensional Quarter-Filled Band, Rahul Hardikar

Scholarship and Professional Work - LAS

It is known that within the interacting electron model Hamiltonian for the one-dimensional 14-filled band, the singlet ground state is a Wigner crystal only if the nearest-neighbor electron-electron repulsion is larger than a critical value. We show that this critical nearest-neighbor Coulomb interaction is different for each spin subspace, with the critical value decreasing with increasing spin. As a consequence, with the lowering of temperature, there can occur a transition from a Wigner crystal charge-ordered state to a spin-Peierls state that is a bond-charge-density wave with charge occupancies different from the Wigner crystal. This transition is possible because spin excitations …

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Kentucky Structural Contours From Digitally Vectorized Geologic Quadrangles, Kentucky Geological Survey Jan 2007

Kentucky Structural Contours From Digitally Vectorized Geologic Quadrangles, Kentucky Geological Survey

Research Data--KGS

This dataset includes geologic stuctural contours of varying datums across Kentucky in shapefile format. These structural contours are compiled from structural contour layers published as a part of the individual Digitally Vectorized Geologic Quadrangles (DVGQ) datasets (by the Kentucky Geologic Survey: https://kgs.uky.edu/kygeode/services/pubs/?pubtype=DVGQ&searchtype=pubcategory). The original structural contours were mapped on the 7.5-minute (1:24,000 scale) series geologic maps published during the Kentucky geologic mapping program (Kentucky Geological Survey - U.S. Geological Survey from 1960 to 1989: https://kgs.uky.edu/kygeode/services/pubs/?pubtype=GQ&searchtype=pubcategory). The digital contours were subsequently digitized as a part of the DVGQ datasets during the geologic digital mapping program at KGS (1996 – 2007). Contoured …

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Paleomagnetic Dating Of Fault Slip In The Southern Rocky Mountains, Usa, And Itsimportance To An Integrated Laramide Foreland Strain Field, T. F. Wawrzyniec, Alexis K. Ault, J. W. Geissman, E. A. Erslev, S. D. Fankhauser Jan 2007

Paleomagnetic Dating Of Fault Slip In The Southern Rocky Mountains, Usa, And Itsimportance To An Integrated Laramide Foreland Strain Field, T. F. Wawrzyniec, Alexis K. Ault, J. W. Geissman, E. A. Erslev, S. D. Fankhauser

Geosciences Faculty Publications

The Laramide orogen of the U.S. Cordillera formed in the latest Cretaceous, and deformation lasted into the earliest Oligocene. Along and proximal to the eastern and northern margins of the Colorado Plateau, deformation associated with this event mainly took place along reactivated structures. Related tectonic models invoke some role for the plateau either as a stress guide transmitting compression to the foreland or as a freely rotating microplate. Models dominated by northward displacements of the Colorado Plateau also require covariance between timing and magnitude of dextral strike-slip deformation in the eastern domain and thrust deformation in the northern domain. Here …

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Tracing And Replay Of Real-Time Concurrent Programs In Vxworks, Daxa Keshavji Patel Dec 2006

Tracing And Replay Of Real-Time Concurrent Programs In Vxworks, Daxa Keshavji Patel

Computer Science and Engineering Theses - Archive

Real-time concurrent programs are difficult to analyze, debug and test because of the existence of race conditions. In particular, cyclic debugging requires the ability to reproduce a failed execution. That is, when a failure is observed during a test run, it is often necessary to reproduce the test run as an effort to locate the bug that has caused the failure. However because of the variations in thread scheduling and signal latency, a real-time concurrent execution may not be reproduced simply by re-executing the program under test. In this thesis, we describe a language-based framework for tracing and replay of …

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Performance Analysis Of The Beacon Period Contraction Mechanism In Wimedia Mac For Uwb, Shenjin Sun Dec 2006

Performance Analysis Of The Beacon Period Contraction Mechanism In Wimedia Mac For Uwb, Shenjin Sun

Computer Science and Engineering Theses - Archive

The WiMedia MAC for UWB based WPANs is currently preferred among standards for wireless network since it requires non-infrastructure for ad hoc network, and also supports for Quality of Service (QoS). Without infrastructure, coordination of devices within radio range is achieved by the exchange of beacon frames, which is an overhead in WiMedia MAC, since no data transmission is allowed during Beacon Period (BP). In a dynamic network, devices might leave or join in, so beacon slots will be released or reoccupied with the changing of network. And BP contraction mechanism is aimed at reusing the released beacon slots in …

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Novel Functions And Physiological Significance Of Ral Interacting Protein - Rlip76 In In Vitro And In Vivo Models, Ewa L. Zajac Dec 2006

Novel Functions And Physiological Significance Of Ral Interacting Protein - Rlip76 In In Vitro And In Vivo Models, Ewa L. Zajac

Chemistry & Biochemistry Dissertations - Archive

This dissertation is divided into four parts. The first part is an introduction of energy dependent xenobiotic transporters and their relevance in multidrug resistance. However, the main focuse is the description of RLIP76 protein, non-ABC transporter, which it the most efficient transporter of glutathione conjugates and anti-cancer drugs. The second part describes materials and methods that were used in two investigated projects. The third part explains the correlation of RLIP76 with signaling protein POB1 and an involvement of these two proteins in apoptosis of lung cancer cells. The effect of recombinant POB1 and its deletion mutant POB11-512, on transport activity …

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Effects Of Temperature Gradients On Transverse Oscillations Of Solar Magnetic Flux Tubes, Shilpa Subramaniam Dec 2006

Effects Of Temperature Gradients On Transverse Oscillations Of Solar Magnetic Flux Tubes, Shilpa Subramaniam

Physics Theses - Archive

Solar magnetic flux tubes support three fundamental modes: longitudinal, transverse and torsional tube waves. Previous studies showed that the propagation of longitudinal and transverse waves along thin and isothermal magnetic flux tubes is affected by the cutoff frequency, which are global quantities that restricts the wave propagation to only those frequencies that are higher than the cutoff. It was also demonstrated that the tubes respond to freely propagating longitudinal and transverse tube waves by oscillating at the corresponding cutoff frequency. No cutoff frequency was found for torsional waves propagating along thin and isothermal magnetic flux tubes. Since the solar atmosphere …

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Probabilistic Localization Of Mobile Ad Hoc Networks, Rui Huang Dec 2006

Probabilistic Localization Of Mobile Ad Hoc Networks, Rui Huang

Computer Science and Engineering Dissertations - Archive

The mobile ad hoc network localization problem deals with estimating the physical location of the nodes that do not have a direct way (e.g., GPS) to determine their own locations. Being an enabling technology that is considered essential to the success of the future implementation of ad hoc networks in the real world, localization is a fundamental problem that needs to be solved with the best possible accuracy and efficiency. For this research, we study the localization problem in its various incarnations such as localization through static beacons, mobile beacons, dynamically deployed beacons and link longevity estimation based on relative …

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Runtime Optimization And Load Shedding In Mavstream: Design And Implementation, Balakumar Kendai Dec 2006

Runtime Optimization And Load Shedding In Mavstream: Design And Implementation, Balakumar Kendai

Computer Science and Engineering Theses - Archive

In data stream processing systems Quality of Service (or QoS) is extremely important. The system should try its best to meet the QoS requirements specified by a user. On account of this difference, unlike in a database management system, a query cannot be optimized once and executed. It has been shown that different scheduling strategies are useful in trading tuple latency requirements with memory and throughput requirements. In addition, data stream processing systems may experience significant fluctuations in input rates. In order to meet the QoS requirements of data stream processing, a runtime optimizer equipped with several scheduling and load …

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Compensation Of Photobleached Images For A Cell Dynamics System, Sowmya Gopinath Dec 2006

Compensation Of Photobleached Images For A Cell Dynamics System, Sowmya Gopinath

Computer Science and Engineering Theses - Archive

Progress in the field of medicine attributes to the discoveries in biology that require an extensive knowledge of cell dynamics. Intracellular Cell Dynamics Analysis System (ICellDAS) is a web based tool aimed at automating sub cellular particle motion estimation, tracking and mobility analysis. The purpose of this tool is to develop a better understanding of specific biology problems by visualizing biological data. For reliable analysis as well as visualization of cell dynamics, it is essential that the acquired images reflect the exact information of the specimen. The goal of the thesis is to design an interface for the ICellDAS project …

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Analyzing Differences In Color Variation Sensitivity Between Experts And Novices To Find A Differentiating Process In Pigmented Skin Lesion Diagnosis, Yu-Chin Chai Dec 2006

Analyzing Differences In Color Variation Sensitivity Between Experts And Novices To Find A Differentiating Process In Pigmented Skin Lesion Diagnosis, Yu-Chin Chai

Computer Science and Engineering Theses - Archive

Fatal skin lesions such as melanomas appear as having high color variation to experts but often as having low variation to novices. This thesis investigated if it is possible to find a function representing an expert's color variation sensitivity to skin lesions without explicitly requiring them to provide a diagnosis. Various pigmented skin images with either normal pigmentation or with diseased lesions were evaluated by experts and novices. To determine the best color space for lesion differentiation, an optimization process based on parametric color dimensions in a RGB color space was used to find the parameters of a color transformation …

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