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: Electrostatic Recording System Employing Photoconductice Electrodes; Sponsorship: IIT Research Institute, United States Patent

: Growing Water: 31st Street Eco-Boulevard and IIT Pavilion Prototype (Semester Unknown) IPRO 322; • To create publicity and awareness about the state of Chicago water and the need to start taking steps to preserving and restoring it. • To create a catalog of sustainable methodologies to be implemented in an urban planning strategy throughout the city of Chicago. • Enhance the impact of the Eco-Boulevards in the community. • Collaborate with the city of Chicago and the project team regarding possible implementation of ecological strategies regarding water. • To research and share methods, techniques, practices, equipment, biology, etc. of functional living machines and make it available knowledge. • To establish a social program for the living machine Pavilions to create public interaction points with the ecological function of the living machine., Deliverables

: Systems, Methods, and Protocols for Process Migration and Group Membership management; A system, method, and set of protocols for dynamic group communication are provided for enabling dynamic process migration and dynamic group membership management. A process in a group receives and distributes a migration signal. Group communication continues while the processes in the group asynchronously reach a global superstep and then a synchronization point. The processes then spawn a new process on a new device and update group membership information. The new process operates in continuous execution with the new group., Sponsorship: Illinois Institute of Technology, United States Patent

: Microcomb-Type Magnetic Recording Head; Sponsorship: IIT Research Institute, United States Patent

: Apparatus for Electrolytically Determining the Thickness of Metal Coatings; Sponsorship: Armour Research Foundation of Illinois Institute of Technology, United States Patent

: Methods for Producing Organic Nanocrystals; Methods for producing small crystals on islands formed on specialized substrates by, inter alia, subjecting the substrate to a hydrophilic SAMs solution for self-assembling hydrophilic SAMs on certain portions of the substrate surface and subjecting the substrate to a hydrophobic SAMs solution for self-assembling hydrophobic SAMs on certain other portions of the substrate surface., Sponsorship: Illinois Institute of Technology, United States Patent, Primary US Patent Classification 430/324, International Patent Classification G03F 7/20

: Electromagnetic Transducer Head; Sponsorship: Armour Research Foundation of Illinois Institute of Technology, United States Patent

: Magnetic Transducer Head with Single Record Winding and Plural Reproduce Windings; Sponsorship: IIT Research Institute, United States Patent

: Screech Tones of Supersonic Jets from Bevelled Rectangular Nozzles; It is known experimentally that an imperfectly expanded rectangular jet from a thin-lip convergent nozzle emits only a single dominant screech tone. The frequency of the screech tone decreases continuously with an increase in jet Mach number. However, for a supersonic jet issued from a bevelled nozzle or a convergent-divergent nozzle with straight side walls, the shock cell structure and the screech frequency pattern are fairly complicated and have not been predicted before. It is shown that the shock cell structures of these jets can be decomposed into waveguide modes of the jet flow. The screech frequencies are related to the higher-order waveguide modes following the weakest link screech tone theory. The measured screech frequencies are found to compare web with the predicted screech frequency curves.

: Relationships Among Twitter Conversation Networks, Language Use, and Congressional Voting; As Twitter becomes a more common means for officials to communicate with their constituents, it becomes more important that we understand just how that communication relates to other political activities. Using data from 411 members of Congress' Twitter activity during the summer of 2011, we examine relationships among the resulting conversation networks, language use, and political behavior. The social networks that result from their communications have surprisingly low density and high diameter, indicating a level of independence that is surprising for a group so tightly connected offline. Our findings also indicate that officials frequently use Twitter to advertise their political positions and to provide information but rarely to request political action from their constituents or to recognize the good work of others. Our analysis suggests strong relationships between anti-social behaviors indicated by the loosely connected network and low incidence of pro-social conversations and polarized or extreme Congressional voting records.

: Gerry-meandering: An Assessment of the Congressional District Model of Depository Allocation (preprint): AhrensGriffinedrev2; The preprint of a published article dealing with the effect of allocating Federal Depositories by Congressional district. Conclusions drawn include the fact that due to redistricting that occurs after each decennial census, over time some districts may have within their boundaries a greater number than the two depositories that Congressional district allocation was intended to produce. Likewise, over time shifting boundaries of districts have created districts that have no depositories whatsoever.

: Silver Nanoparticles Indicators of Thermal History (Semester Unknown) IPRO 317; A. The primary purpose of IPRO 317 is to prove the merit of using silver nanorods as a thermal history indicator. The extended purpose of IPRO 317 is to convert the production of silver nanorods from a batch process to a continuous flow process. B. To accomplish this our team will:  Gain deeper understanding of batch process.  Research continuous flow processes with an emphasis on microreactors 6  Design and simulate a continuous flow process for production of silver nanorods with the aid of a computer simulation software., Deliverables

: Image-based Indexing and Classification in Image Databases; The invention enables the digital management of large scale image databases, to efficiently classify and index image data independent of language. Complex processing requirements are required only on reduced and operably small subsets of the entire collection, thereby effectively scaling large document collections. Embodiments of the present invention provide image-based classification and retrieval of documents based on image recognition, e.g., signatures, logos, stamps, or word-spotting; in documents within real time for large datasets such as in the millions of documents., Sponsorship: Illinois Institute of Technology, United States Patent

: Pilot Study in Mexico for KlarAqua Water Filtration System and Business Planning (semester?), IPRO 355; The main objective of the IPRO is to improve health conditions in low-income societies, specifically Mexico, by the design and implementation of a water filtration system. In previous semesters, the filtration system has been designed and tested. A pilot study will be conducted in Mexico in the coming months. The main objective for this semester is to develop a business plan for the IPRO in order to implement the broad distribution of the water filter., Deliverables for IPRO 355: Pilot Study in Mexico for KlarAqua Water Filtration System and Business Planning for the Fall 2006 semester

: Apparatus for Generating Generally Uniform Compression in High-Viscosity Fluids; An apparatus for generating generally uniform compression forces over a film of a relatively low-viscosity liquid by passing the low-viscosity liquid through a porous plate, from an upstream face to a downstream face of the porous plate. The porous plate has a specified porosity and arrangement of the through holes or other pores that results in forming a uniform pressure through and uniform compression forces over a film of the low-viscosity liquid that is at or near the upstream face of the porous plate. The apparatus of this invention results in homogeneous deformation of a material, such as molten polymer, polymer solution, multiphase polymer systems, asphalts or foods., Sponsorship: Illinois Institute of Technology, United States Patent

: Solar-electric Hybrid Rickshaw for India (semester?), IPRO 351; By working together, learning, and utilizing the myriad of skills within our team, our mission is to complete phase one of IPRO 351 by presenting results of in-depth research that will determine the feasibility of solar/plug-in power hybrid auto rickshaws in India., Deliverables for IPRO 351: Solar-Electric Hybrid Rickshaw for India for the Fall 2006 semester

: Spraying Process; Sponsorship: Armour Research Foundation of Illinois Institute of Technology, United States Patent

: The 21st Century Farm (Semester Unknown) IPRO 336; The purpose of this IPRO is to establish a strong foundation for the future of urban agriculture. We recognize the growing problems regarding the traditional methods of agriculture, and given the rate of growth of the world population, we propose a plan to grow food more efficiently and economically in urban areas., Sponsorship: John Edel, Bubbly Dynamics LLC, Deliverables

: Method and Means for Energizing Magnetic Recorder Heads; Sponsorship: Armour Research Foundation, United States Patent

: Method and Apparatus for Detecting Collisions on and Controlling Access to a Transmission Channel; A method for controlling multiple access of a transmission channel wherein a plurality of different patterns are assigned to a plurality of sending stations so that each sending station corresponds to a unique pattern, preferably a pattern represented by a Binomial coefficient. Each unique pattern is transmitted from a corresponding sending station to the transmission channel by way of a control minislot. Ternary feedback is received from the control minislot. A summation of different patterns within each control minislot are analyzed to detect whether a collision exists between the different patterns within each control minislot., Sponsorship: Illinois Institute of Technology, United States Patent

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