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  • Inductors in high-performance silicon radio frequency integrated circuits : analysis, modeling, and design considerations

    Creator:
    Lutz, Richard D., Jr
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    Spiral inductors are a key component of mixed-signal and analog integrated circuits (IC's). Such circuits are often fabricated using silicon-based technology, owing to the inherent low-cost and high volume production aspects. However, semiconducting substrate materials such as silicon can have adverse effects on spiral inductor performance due to the lossy...
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    AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF Richard D. Lutz, Jr. for the

  • Toward computer vision for understanding American football in video

    Creator:
    Hess, Robin W.
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    In this work, I examine the problem of understanding American football in video. In particular, I present several mid-level computer vision algorithms that each accomplish a different sub-task within a larger system for annotating, interpreting, and analyzing collections of American football video. The analysis of football video is useful in...
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    AN ABSTRACT OF THE DISSERTATION OF Robin W. Hess for the

  • Probabilistic models for quality control in environmental sensor networks

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    Dereszynski, Ethan W.
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    Networks of distributed, remote sensors are providing ecological scientists with a view of our environment that is unprecedented in detail. However, these networks are subject to harsh conditions, which lead to malfunctions in individual sensors and failures in network communications. This behavior manifests as corrupt or missing measurements in the...
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    AN ABSTRACT OF THE DISSERTATION OF Ethan W. Dereszynski for

  • Algorithms for massive biological datasets

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    Bryant, Douglas W. (Douglas Wesley)
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    Within the past several years the technology of high-throughput sequencing has transformed the study of biology by offering unprecedented access to life's fundamental building block, DNA. With this transformation's potential a host of brand-new challenges have emerged, many of which lend themselves to being solved through computational methods. From de...
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    AN ABSTRACT OF THE DISSERTATION OF Douglas W. Bryant, Jr. for

  • Distributed OpenCL : a platform for distributed, heterogeneous computing for domain scientists

    Creator:
    Dillon, William H.
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    It is possible to purchase, for as little as $10,000, a cluster of computers with the capability to rival the supercomputers of only a few years ago. Now, users that have little to no experience developing distributed applications or managing a cluster are in a position to do so. To...
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    w/VMX for Traditional Computation Synergistic Processor Elements for High (Fl)ops / Watt

  • Machine Learning Techniques to Model Species Interactions and Distributions Under Imperfect Detection

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    Seo, Eugene
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    Ecological domains seeking to understand the environment and the behavior of species have received little attention in machine learning (ML), despite the fact that environmental changes have a significant impact on humans as well as ecosystems. Some ecological problems can be formulated similarly to other common ML applications, but there...
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    been a great inspiration to me. I must also thank Dr. Tyler A. Hallman, Dr. W. Douglas Robinson, and

  • Efficient power conversion interface circuits for energy harvesting applications

    Creator:
    Le, Triet T.
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    Harvesting energy from the environment for powering micro-power devices have been increasing in popularity. These types of devices can be used in embedded applications or in sensor networks where battery replacement is impractical. In this dissertation, different methods of energy harvesting from the environment are explored as alternative sources of...
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    rectification, fabricated in a 0.25-μm CMOS process, is 86% efficient with 22-μW peak output power when

  • CMOS Transducers and Programmable Interface Circuits for Resource-Efficient Sensing Applications

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    Sengupta, Shaan
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    Modern sensors are complex systems comprising multiple sub-systems such as transducers, analog and mixed-signal interface circuits, digital processing circuits, and packaging. Over the last few decades, innovations in these sub-systems combined with their increased integration in complementary metal-oxide semiconductor (CMOS) processes have led to the rapid growth in sensors for...
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    to thank my SIM Lab colleagues: Hyunkyu, Soumya, Boyu, Kyle, Jinyong, Richard, Jacob, Callen

  • Advanced time-varying approaches for modeling the multipath channel in wireless network

    Creator:
    Aljerme, Abdelkader A.
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    This dissertation proposes the use of advanced time-varying approaches for modeling the dynamics of the multipath channel in wireless communication networks. These advanced time-varying approaches include linear Kalman innovation models in observable block companion form, and neural network-based models. The e˙ectiveness of these type of models is evaluated through three...
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    spacing is 1/W , which is the resolution of the multipath channel model. • The tap gain function g̃(t) is

  • Information Foraging Theory as a Unifying Foundation for Software Engineering Research : Connecting the Dots

    Creator:
    Piorkowski, David
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    Empirical studies have shown that programmers spend up to one-third of their time navigating through code during debugging. Although researchers have conducted empirical studies to understand programmers’ navigation difficulties and developed tools to address those difficulties, the resulting findings tend to be loosely connected to each other. To address this...
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