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Evaluation of Calcium Oxalate Crystallization Kinetics in Solution
(2017)
Calcium oxalate is the primary component of kidney stones, a disease with increasing rates of occurrence and a high rate of reoccurrence. The main objective of this work is to evaluate and compare the impact of citrate and ...
Personalization and Learning Curve Optimization in Intelligent Tutoring Systems
(2017)
This dissertation introduces the socio-technical pedagogical paradigm called “crowdlearning'', aimed at STEM students in physical and virtual classrooms into collaborative problem-posing and problem-solving activities. ...
An Attacker-Defender Resource Allocation Game with Complementary and Substituting Effects
(2017)
The United States is funding homeland security programs with large budgets (e.g., for FY 2017, 66.8 billion dollars). A number of game-theoretic defender-attacker models have been developed to study the optimal defense ...
Performance Analysis of an Adaptive-Rate Buffer-Aware CSMA/CA-Based MAC Protocol
(2017)
Under the IEEE 802.11 Distributed Coordination Function (DCF), which is based on carrier-sense multiple access with collision avoidance (CSMA/CA), each user has an equal probability to access the channel irrespective of ...
Algorithms for Graph Drawing Problems
(2017)
A graph G is called planar if it can be drawn on the plan such that no two distinct edges intersect each other but at common endpoints. Such drawing is called a plane embedding of G. A plane graph is a graph with a fixed ...
Designing Multi-Drone Networks and Applications
(2017)
Recent advances in rotorcraft design, multi-rotor vehicle control, miniaturization of hardware, sensing, and battery technologies have enabled cheap, practical design of micro air vehicles (MAVs) for civilian and hobby ...
Efficient Architectures for High Speed Binary Multipliers
(2017)
Fast, efficient multiplication of binary operands in digital systems is a problem of critical importance to modern computing architectures. The efficiency of multiplier designs depends on the addition of partial products, ...
Data Driven Method for Building 3d Anatomical Models
(2017)
We present a method for building 3d models that takes into account the presence of tissue sampling. The purpose of this method is twofold: (1) Researchers who reconstruct 3D models will be able to calculate and understand ...
Design of Organic Electronic Device Fabrication: Sensitivity Analysis of Morphology Evolution Model
(2017)
Organic electronics (OE) has the potential to revolutionize next generation electronic devices as it exhibits flexibility, softness and compatibility with biological systems – features traditionally missing in silicon-based ...
Probabilistic geotechnical site characterization through stochastic inverse analysis of geophysical test measurements
(2017)
Conventional site characterization approach of sampling at a few locations in a soil deposit to infer soil parameters for the entire site inherently suffers from uncertainty due to limited data. Even statistical analysis ...