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• #### Design of a harmonic drive test apparatus for data acquisition and control ﻿

(1997)
Harmonic drive gear reducers were developed during the mid-1950's and are used in many industrial and military applications. The harmonic drive is a compact, "in-line" gear reducer capable of producing reduction ratios of ...
• #### Design of a High-Throughput Flow Perfusion Bioreactor System for Tissue Engineering ﻿

(2012)
Flow perfusion culture is used in many areas of tissue engineering and offers several key advantages. However, one challenge to these cultures is the relatively low-throughput nature of perfusion bioreactors. Here, a ...
• #### Design of a methanol to hydrogen micro-reformer for fuel cell applications ﻿

(2007)
A new design for a microchannel methanol-steam reformer has been developed to provide power in conjunction with a micro fuel cell for a portable, low-power device. The design is optimized for low pumping power and rapid ...
• #### Design of a New Type of Compact Chemical Heater for Isothermal Nucleic Acid Amplification ﻿

(2015)
Previous chemical heater designs for isothermal nucleic acid amplification have been based on solid-liquid phase transition, but using this approach, developers have identified design challenges en route to developing a ...
• #### Design of a paracorporeal artificial lung device in an integrative model of the ovine cardiovascular system ﻿

(2006)
Due to its similar cardiac output and size, the sheep often serves as an important animal model for the study of the human cardiovascular system and for studies of ventricular and pulmonary assist devices. We develop a ...
• #### Design of a parallel-group balanced controlled trial to test the effects of assist-as-needed robotic therapy ﻿

(2015)
In this methods paper, we report on the design of a clinical study testing the efficacy of a newly developed control scheme for robot-aided rehabilitation. To measure the value added by a new control scheme, we pursued a ...
• #### Design of Adaptive Overlays for Multi-scale Communication in Sensor Networks ﻿

(2005-06-01)
In wireless sensor networks, energy and communication bandwidth are precious resources. Traditionally, layering has been used as a design principle for network stacks; hence routing protocols assume no knowledge of the ...
• #### Design of artificial genetic networks to regulate the biosynthesis of polyhydroxyalkanoate copolymers with desirable structures ﻿

(2008)
The design of artificial genetic networks constitutes a powerful tool to regulate cellular physiology. Simple regulatory structures comprised of a few interacting genes can be assembled to engineer desirable phenotypes and ...
• #### Design of Coded Modulation Schemes for Orthogonal Transmit Diversity ﻿

(2001-06-20)
In this paper, we propose a technique to decouple the problems of spatial and temporal diversity gain maximization involved in the design of space-time codes in fast Rayleigh fading channels by using orthogonal transmit ...
• #### Design of Coded Modulation Schemes for Orthogonal Transmit Diversity ﻿

(2001-05-20)
In this paper, we propose a technique to decouple the problems of maximizing spatial diversity gain, temporal diversity gain, and coding gain, involved in the design of space-time codes in Rayleigh fading channels. For ...
• #### Design of computationally efficient multiuser detectors for CDMA systems ﻿

(1997)
Linear multiuser detectors have been developed for CDMA systems to maintain a balance between the performance and computational complexity of the detectors. However for a system with a large number of users and huge data ...
• #### Design of Computationally Efficient Multiuser Detectors for CDMA Systems ﻿

(1997-05-20)
Linear multiuser detectors have been developed for CDMA systems to maintain a balance between the performance and computational complexity of the detectors. However for a system with a large number of users and huge data ...
• #### Design of control systems to meet l(infinity) specifications ﻿

(1993)
Three control system design problems aimed at meeting specifications given in terms of the $l\sb\infty$ norm, or peak magnitude, of disturbances and errors are solved. The specification in the first problem requires simply ...

(1974)
• #### Design of Heterotrimeric Collagen Triple Helices ﻿

(2014-04-24)
Select loci in native collagen display clusters of contiguous amino acids that recognize a diverse array of extracellular matrix (ECM) and blood serum proteins critical for homeostasis and hemostasis. The mechanism of ...
• #### DESIGN OF LINEAR MULTIVARIABLE CONTROLLERS ﻿

(1984)
In this thesis, a recently developed computational method for the design of linear multivariable controllers is presented. For a given linear time-invariant multi-input-multi-output system, our objective is to find a ...
• #### Design of Linear Phase Cosine Modulated Filter Banks for Subband Image Compression ﻿

(1994-01-15)
Wavelet methods give a flexible alternative to Fourier methods in non-stationary signal analysis. The concept of band-limitedness plays a fundamental role in Fourier analysis. Since wavelet theory replaces frequency with ...

(1969)
• #### Design of Multiple Antenna Coding Schemes with Channel Feedback ﻿

(2001-11-20)
In this paper, we derive multiple antenna transmission strategies in the presence of limited channel information at the transmitter and the receiver. In particular, we look at the cases of complete channel information, ...
• #### DESIGN OF MULTIVARIABLE FEEDBACK CONTROLLERS: ITALIC-L(1)-OPTIMAL SYSTEMS ﻿

(1987)
This thesis treats the following problem: Given a multivariable linear time-invariant plant, we want to design a feedback controller in such a way that the closed loop system is internally stable and the output tracks an ...
• #### Design of nozzles for partly ionized gases ﻿

(1959)
An analytic expression is obtained for the speed of sound in a partly ionized gas under certain conditions. The method of characteristics is adapted to use this information for the solution of the compressible gas flow ...
• #### DESIGN OF OPTIMAL DIGITAL FILTERS (APPROXIMATION, CHEBYSHEV, LINEAR PHASE, MINIMUM PHASE, COMPLEX DOMAIN) ﻿

(1986)
Four methods for designing digital filters optimal in the Chebyshev sense are developed. The properties of these filters are investigated and compared. An analytic method for designing narrow-band FIR filters using Zolotarev ...
• #### Design of Optimal Feature Extractors by Mathematical Programming Techniques ﻿

(1976-06-20)
In an automatic pattern recognition system, the processor that selects and measures features fo the data, on the basis of which classification is made, is called a "feature selector" or "feature extractor". This paper ...
• #### Design of oversampled multichannel filter banks ﻿

(2005)
This thesis introduces a general approach for the design of oversampled multichannel filter banks including one-dimensional and nonseparable multidimensional filter banks, as well as filter banks with linear phase and ...
• #### Design of prototyping platforms for multiple antenna wireless communications ﻿

(2005)
As the demand for higher performance wireless communications continues to grow, novel algorithms have been developed which provide increased performance and efficiency. One such class of algorithms involves the use of ...
• #### DESIGN OF ROBUST FEEDBACK SYSTEMS FOR ROBOT ARM MANIPULATOR ﻿

(1986)
The principal problem is the control of a nonlinear system with uncertainty. We will consider a robot manipulator system, which is nonlinear, and uncertain (unknown parameters and modeling errors). Our goals are to come ...
• #### Design of Space Time Codes With Optimal Coding Gain ﻿

(2000-09-20)
Space time codes have been proposed in the literature as an efficient means for improving the data rates over fading channels with multiple transmit antennas. In particular, the rank and the determinant of code difference ...
• #### Design of space-time codes with optimal coding gain ﻿

(2000-10-20)
Space time codes have been proposed in the literature as an efficient means for improving the data rates over fading channels with multiple transmit antennas. In particular, the rank and the determinant of code difference ...

(1979-10)
• #### Design of the Transit Access Point Hardware Platform ﻿

(2005-09-01)
Our objective is to design, analyze, prototype and experimentally study the theoretical underpinnings for a wireless internet that simultaneously achieves deployability, scalability, high performance and a cost-effective ...
• #### Design of Training Data Based Quadratic Detectors with Application to Mechanical Systems ﻿

(1996-01-20)
Reliable detection of engine knock is an important issue in the design and maintenance of high performance internal combustion engines. Cost considerations dictate the use of vibration signals, measured at the engine ...
• #### Design of vibration inspired bi-orthogonal wavelets for signal analysis ﻿

(2013-07-24)
In this thesis, a method to calculate scaling function coefficients for a new bi-orthogonal wavelet family derived directly from an impulse response waveform is presented. In literature, the Daubechies wavelets (DB wavelet) ...
• #### Design of WARP: A Wireless Open-Access Research Platform ﻿

(2006-09-01)
This paper presents the design of WARP, a custom platform for research in advanced wireless algorithms and applications. The platform consists of both custom hardware and FPGA implementations of key communications blocks. ...

(1968)
• #### Design Principles of Cellular Differentiation Regulatory Networks ﻿

(2015-12-01)
To understand cellular differentiation programs is to understand the often large and complex gene regulatory networks (GRNs) that control and orchestrate these programs. The work presented here aims to exploit the wealth ...
• #### Design space exploration for real-time embedded stream processors ﻿

(2004-07-01)
We present a design framework for rapidly exploring the design space for stream processors in real-time embedded systems. Stream processors enable hundreds of arithmetic units in programmable pro-cessors by using clusters ...
• #### Design Space Exploration of Parallel Algorithms and Architectures for Wireless Communication and Mobile Computing Systems ﻿

(2014-10-30)
During past several years, there has been a trend that the modern mobile SoC (system-on-chip) chipsets start to incorporate in one single chip the functionality of several general purpose processors and application-specific ...
• #### Design Techniques for Robust Analog Signal Acquisition ﻿

(2012-10-02)
The random demodulator architecture is a compressive sensing based receiver that allows the reconstruction of frequency-sparse signals from measurements acquired at a rate below the signal’s Nyquist rate. This in turn ...
• #### Design thesis by Derek W. Dutton ﻿

(1987)
No abstract
• #### Design thesis by Scott Martsolf ﻿

(1986)
No abstract
• #### Design, analysis, implementation, and control of a mobile robotic testbed for telepresence ﻿

(1992)
A unique mobile telepresence testbed has been designed and implemented. This testbed is a tool for research in telepresence and tele-existence for control of remote robotic systems. An eight-degree-of-freedom, redundant ...
• #### Design, construction, and commissioning of the Exit Charge Detector for BNL-AGS Experiment 896 ﻿

(1998)
The Exit Charge Detector (ECD) is used to determine the impact parameter of relativistic gold-gold interactions in BNL-AGS Experiment 896 by measuring the total charge of projectile-like particles in each collision. Results ...
• #### Design, construction, and commissioning of the time-of-flight detector for BNL-AGS Experiment 896 ﻿

(1998)
A Time-of-Flight (TOF) detector is used to provide particle identification in BNL-AGS Experiment 896. It is also used to assist in tracking and as a fast trigger. Results are presented from simulations which optimized the ...
• #### Design, Fabrication and Characterization of Polymer-based Parity-Time Symmetric Materials and Structures ﻿

(2015-12-04)
This study presents the investigation of polymer-based one dimensional (1D), two dimensional (2D) and three dimensional (3D) materials and structures with unidirectional light propagation and Parity-Time symmetry breaking. ...
• #### Design, Implementation and Characterization of a Cooperative Communications System ﻿

(2011)
Cooperative communications is a class of techniques which seek to improve reliability and throughput in wireless systems by pooling the resources of distributed nodes. While cooperation can occur at different network layers ...
• #### Design, self-assembly and applications of heterotrimeric collagen mimics ﻿

(2009)
Collagen, a fibrous protein, is an essential structural component of all connective tissues, including cartilage, skin, tendon, ligaments and bone. Type I collagen is an AAB heterotrimer assembled from two identical alpha1 ...
• #### Design, Synthesis, and Monitoring of Light-Activated Motorized Nanomachines ﻿

(2013-09-16)
Our group has developed a family of single molecules termed nanocars, which are aimed at performing controllable motion on surfaces. In this work, a series of light-activated motorized nanomachines incorporated with a MHz ...
• #### Design, synthesis, and screening of chiral binaphthyl ketones for catalytic asymmetric epoxidation of alkenes ﻿

(2004)
Research directed toward the design, synthesis, and screening of binaphthyl ketones for catalytic asymmetric epoxidation of alkenes is reported. To date, an easily accessible and recyclable catalyst that tolerates a wide ...
• #### Design, synthesis, and testing of molecular scale electronic components ﻿

(2003)
Chapter 1 discusses recent results in the area of molecular electronics. Molecules have been shown to act as switches and memory components in two different test structures. We have synthesized and tested several molecules ...
• #### Design, synthesis, and testing of novel organic oligomers for use as molecular-scale electronic devices ﻿

(2006)
Based on rational design principles, diverse arrays of small organic oligomers containing unique electronics structures and redox functionalities have been synthesized for use in molecular-scale electronic device architectures. ...

(2000)
• #### Designing incentives for peer-to-peer systems ﻿

(2010)
Peer-to-peer systems, networks of egalitarian nodes without a central authority, can achieve massive scalability and fault tolerance through the pooling together of individual resources. Unfortunately, most nodes represent ...
• #### Designing Scalable Networks for Future Large Datacenters ﻿

(2012-09-05)
Modern datacenters require a network with high cross-section bandwidth, fine-grained security, support for virtualization, and simple management that can scale to hundreds of thousands of hosts at low cost. This thesis ...
• #### Designing synthetic biological circuits using optimality and nonequilibrium thermodynamics ﻿

(2013-08-06)
In general, the invention relates to a method for designing a biological circuit. The method includes obtaining a target circuit objective for the biological circuit, determining an objective function corresponding to the ...
• #### Designing the store-bought spec-built dream ﻿

(1999)
With the disintegration of analog technologies and media, the book struggles to maintain its validity as a form of communication. The architectures that create and maintain the book as a repository of history and knowledge ...
• #### Designing type inference for typed object-oriented languages ﻿

(2010)
Type-checked object-oriented languages have typically been designed with extremely simple type systems. However, there has recently been intense interest in extending such languages with more sophisticated types and subtyping ...

(1986)
• #### DESIRE ﻿

(1965-10-07)
• #### Desire, Leadership Keys To Owl Success ﻿

(1960-12-09)
• #### Desk for the Koran ﻿

(1878)
A book-stand with the Koran on it, and stilt-shoes at its base.