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Title: Creating a Contemporary and Dynamic Science Fair Bank for Chicago Public Schools (Semester Unknown) IPRO 330: Creating a Contemporary and Dynamic Science Fair Bank for Chicago Public Schools IPRO 330 Brochure Sp08
Creator: Baldwin, Leah, Campbell, Keith, Diaz, Rocio, Gim, Yewon, Pak, Angela, Parrillo, Anthony, Steward, Shane, Tate, Joshua, Ten Eyck, Patrick, Totlebe, Aimee
Date: 2008, 2008-05
Description: IPRO 330 has one clear and main purpose: to increase high school student interest in Science and Mathematics in Chicago Public Schools. This...
Show moreIPRO 330 has one clear and main purpose: to increase high school student interest in Science and Mathematics in Chicago Public Schools. This is a very lofty and broad goal, so IPRO 330 has chosen to use the Chicago Public School Science Fair program as a vehicle to achieve this purpose. IPRO 330 is a continuing IPRO, meaning that we have a foundation and a base of work that has already been accomplished. As a result, one of the project goals of this team will be to obtain in-depth feedback from professionals within IIT, from Chicago Public Schools, and certainly from other professional education venues as well. Specifically, we will be looking to obtain feedback from the three most involved sources in high school students’ lives: students, teachers, and parents. This may be the most vital part of our project, because we want to make sure that our projects and guides are of high quality and high interest to high school students. IPRO 330 has an existing bank of Science Fair projects and guides which are located on the website sciencefair.math.iit.edu. In an effort to make our website more effective and more appealing, we will have team goals to create more Science Fair projects, and guides which will target areas that Chicago Public High School Students typically have trouble addressing, such as data analysis. We feel like the guides are a way to really implement more mathematics into the Science Fair program as a whole. In addition, there will be a group of students in our IPRO focused on improving the website and implementing new projects. IPRO 330 will address these objectives by first having all members, including faculty advisors, attend and judge a Chicago Public School Science Fair. This will allow everyone working on this project to get a better sense of what we are working on, make some contacts with teachers and Science Fair Coordinators, and even get feedback from students who used the website as a resource for their project. After this initial phase, the group will break up into three teams, an infrastructure team, a communication team, and a project and guides team. In these sub teams, IPRO 330 will be able to more effectively deal with more specific issues that arise
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Title: Solid Fuel from Biomass for Cogeneration (Semester Unknown) IPRO 349: Solid Fuel from Biomass for Cogeneration IPRO 349 Final Presentation Sp08
Creator: Mikesell, Jonathan, Dlugosz, Anna, Heffernan, Joseph, James, Joshua, Vassi, Anna, Yap, Ying Bing, Yeap, Xin Yi, Chacko, Serena, Ruidera, Ryan, Stanfield, Terrance
Date: 2008, 2008-05
Description: Renewable energy is one of the most important and widely researched topics today. It is classically defined as any form of energy coming from...
Show moreRenewable energy is one of the most important and widely researched topics today. It is classically defined as any form of energy coming from any naturally replenish-able source. This may include everything from solar to wind power, as well as biomass or biofuels. When considering biomass, or any (living or recently-dead) biological material, the chemical energy of the molecules is generally collected through combustion. The area of liquid fuels from biomass has especially gained much notoriety and support in recent years. This is due to the lower emissions and clean-burning nature of these fuels when compared to more traditional approaches, as well as the obvious renewable nature of the starting material. While vegetable oils or animal fats can be used as a replacement for diesel fuels, corn, switchgrass, or other grains are more widely used to produce ethanol for use in common combustion engines. Today’s E85 fuel is sold to customers with a chemical makeup of 85% ethanol and 15% gasoline. The use of solid biomass as a direct supplier of energy, however, is an area still left relatively unexplored in this growing field. In theory, and as preliminary research suggests, harvesting energy directly from solid biomass may be considerably more efficient than gathering it from its processed liquid counterpart. In fact, some studies suggest that the energy acquired from burning ethanol is up to 67% lower than is contained in the plant cellulose from which it is derived.[1] There are, however, several other factors besides energy projections to consider when looking at the economic and market viability of such an approach. For example, one of the main advantages of liquid fuels over solid is the ease of transportation and storage. Additionally, the feasibility of developing a whole new process of biomass collection and processing must be balanced with economic and logistical constraints. This includes not only careful analysis of energy and cost balances, but also in-depth examination of all equipment, manpower and environmental limitations. IPRO 349 was established to examine these (and many more) considerations in the viability of sold fuel from biomass. Specifically, we have narrowed the scope of our research to biomass derived from corn stover (leaves and stalk left in the ground after harvesting) within the state of Illinois. Illinois was chosen because it is currently the largest producer of corn in the nation.[2] Corn stover has been shown to have an energy content of 5,290 Btu/lb. wet, and 7,560 Btu/lb. dry.[2]With such an approach, it may be possible to utilize what would otherwise be considered “waste” to produce useable, renewable energy. For the purposes of this project, cogeneration, or the simultaneous generation of both electricity and useful heat will be examined.
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Title: Improving Audio Quality and Energy Efficiency in Mobile Devices and Intercom Systems (Semester Unknown) IPRO 344: ImprovingAudioQualityandEnergyEfficiencyInMobileDevicesandIntercomSystemsIPRO344BrochureF09
Creator: Algie, Teague, Bartolomei, Anthony, Bian, Joy, Chiles, Jeffrey, Gavris, Calin, Ieong, Iat, Han Jun, Chang, Kim, Woochan, Lee, Harry, Miller, Nathan, Shegarfi, Roozbeh
Date: 2009, 2009-12
Description: A. The focus of the IPRO 344 iFidelity team for the Fall 2009 semester is to gather and analyze data from our audio system and further refine...
Show moreA. The focus of the IPRO 344 iFidelity team for the Fall 2009 semester is to gather and analyze data from our audio system and further refine and improve upon the hardware and procedures developed in previous semesters. B. The team has set objectives of improving the audio performance of our kiosk, experimenting, testing and demonstrating the improvement empirically, establishing a frame of reference to compare our design to currently used intercom systems, and refining the kiosk circuitry and enclosure.
Sponsorship: Shure Inc.
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Title: Power Management for Multi-module Energy Storage Systems in Electric, Hybrid Electric, and Fuel Cell Vehicles
Creator: Lukic, Srdjan, Emadi, Ali
Date: 2012-03-20, 2010-12-28
Description: An electric energy storage system (EESS) for providing a power management solution for a multi-subsystem energy storage in electric, hybrid...
Show moreAn electric energy storage system (EESS) for providing a power management solution for a multi-subsystem energy storage in electric, hybrid electric, and fuel cell vehicles. The EESS has a controller that determines when to draw power from each subsystem as needed by the vehicle.
Sponsorship: Illinois Institute of Technology
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Title: A study of the effects produced on Portland cement by the addition of various percentages of hydrated lime
Creator: Knuepfer, Claude Albert, Hook, Leonard Doolittle
Date: 2009, 1915
Publisher: Armour Institute of Technology
Description: http://www.archive.org/details/studyofeffectspr00knue
Thesis (B.S.)--Armour Institute of Technology; Bibliography: leaf 99

Title: Maintaining and Implementing a Knowledge Management System (semester?), IPRO 338: iKNOW Management IPRO 338 Final Report Sp06
Creator: Collard, Aaron, Crulcich, Jake, Debiak, Carol, Edwardson, John, Hasija, Abhinav, Krzyzek, Piotr, Lam, Christopher, Meyer, Douglas, Ramakrishna, Sushanth, Roberson, Dennis, Robinson, Joy, Schramm, Dan, Tillmans, Mike, Wojtowicz, Norbert
Date: 2006-05, 2006-05
Description: IPRO 338 project started in 2003 was designed to address the issue of knowledge transfer in the IPRO teams. Due to an 80% student turnover...
Show moreIPRO 338 project started in 2003 was designed to address the issue of knowledge transfer in the IPRO teams. Due to an 80% student turnover rate and few teams continuing across semesters a large amount of valuable project knowledge was being lost. To address this issue, the IPRO knowledge management tool – iKNOW, was developed to assist with capturing and cataloging the knowledge generated from IPRO projects during each semester. This semester, IPRO 338 was charged with the full implementation of IKNOW across the 36 teams in the IPRO Spring semester. However, since this report was completed prior to the iKNOW upload deadline, a full accounting of the number of compliant teams was unavailable.
Sponsorship: Tom Jacobius
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Title: Zero Liquid Discharge (Semester Unknown) IPRO 302: ZeroLiquidDischargeIPRO302FinalPresentationSp09
Creator: Pattermann, William, Ashrafi, Sahar, Shin, Woo, Isoda, Mitchell, Hill, Ross, Latour, Catherine, Ballard, Ray, Ng, Angela, Lai, James, Ong, Alex, Beissinger, Danny
Date: 2009, 2009-05
Description: The objective of this project is to identify, evaluate, and prioritize technologies that can be used to achieve zero discharge in a 500 MW...
Show moreThe objective of this project is to identify, evaluate, and prioritize technologies that can be used to achieve zero discharge in a 500 MW power plant using Powder River Basin coal. To accomplish this mission, we will: 1. Determine the water balance around a typical facility 2. Perform a qualitative assessment of the viability of the three technologies above toward meeting zero discharge. 3. Determine the size, first cost and operating cost for each combination of zero discharge unit operations considered 4. Identify creative options for reusing treated discharge water within the plant 5. Identify emerging technologies that might play a major role in the future.
Sponsorship: Sargent & Lundy
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Title: Operation Marketing Gurus (Semester Unknown) IPRO 346: OperationMarketingGurusIPRO346ProjectPlanSp09
Creator: Coughlin, Dan, Hamann, Eric, Hasan, Hasan, Lipman, Tim, Milkic, Jelena, Park, Jay, Phillips, Zack, Tishler, Michael, Wilke, Kara
Date: 2009, 2009-05
Description: The goal of Operation Marketing Gurus is to expand the customer base of Daco, Inc. We plan to achieve this through several objectives...
Show moreThe goal of Operation Marketing Gurus is to expand the customer base of Daco, Inc. We plan to achieve this through several objectives including:  Seeking new customers for existing Daco products  Researching new products desired by current Daco customers  Designing and marketing new products to Daco customers
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Title: Disaster Recovery: DIY Home Building (semester?), IPRO 324: DIY Home Building IPRO 324 Project Plan Sp07
Creator: Chacko, Serena, Dakowisz, Dukasz, Diaz De Leon Orraca, Federico, Dilger, Andrew, Dolejs, Martina, Grosse, Christopher, Kim, Jung-jae, Kirsch, Joseph, Navarro, Jonathan, Peck, Edward, Ray, Monmayuri, Rios, Homero, Rogers, Eric, Rotella, James, Thompson, Sean T.
Date: 2007-05, 2007-05
Description: IPRO 324, Disaster Recovery: Do-It-Yourself Home Building, is focused on designing a building manual to aid disaster victims in building new...
Show moreIPRO 324, Disaster Recovery: Do-It-Yourself Home Building, is focused on designing a building manual to aid disaster victims in building new buildings. The objectives of this group are to continue the efforts made from the previous semester. This includes the creation of a manual illustrating how to build the design, design for handicap accessibility as a provision to the current design, to market this manual to a disaster relief organization that would be responsible for the distribution, to find a new client who would be interested in having this project built, and to find funding in order to build the design. Over the course of this semester, the team will be focusing on creating the manual and attempting to build the design at a site either in New Harmony, Louisana or Gulfport, Mississippi where potential clients are. The house at a bare minimum consists of a multipurpose room, a kitchen, and a bathroom; and will cost approximately $17,000. This is an affordable home/structure considering the cost of building a house now. The team is aware that some families are not fortunate enough to have a savings of $20,000 when these unexpected disasters occur. For this reason, it is an objective of the team to obtain funding.
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Title: Machine Vibration Monitoring and Control Solutions for A. Finkl & sons (semester?), IPRO 331: Finkl Machine Vibration Monitoring and Control Solutions IPRO 331 Final Report Sp06
Creator: Lipanovich, Rachel, Calik, Martin, Barnard, Leland, Lee, Christopher, Matute, Matthew, Schreckengost, Mark, Sanchez, Daniel, Cahan, Craig, Kunin, Vitaliy, Min, Kyoung-min, Song, Sung, Contreras Vega, Jose
Date: 2006-05, 2006-05
Description: The purpose of this IPRO is to develop a system to automatically detect a problem with a mill at A. Finkl & Sons Co. The system with either...
Show moreThe purpose of this IPRO is to develop a system to automatically detect a problem with a mill at A. Finkl & Sons Co. The system with either turn the mill off or warn the operator when a tooth breaks, or some other irregularity occurs. This system will involve measuring vibration, sound, power, or some combination of these variables. This will replace the current setup, which involves an operator staying in close proximity to the mill to turn it off when a tooth breaks or any other irregularity occurs
Sponsorship: A. Finkl & Sons
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Title: Carbon Footprint of Automobiles (Semester Unknown) IPRO 322: CarbonFootprintOfAutomobilesIPRO322Poster1Sp10
Creator: Bais, Rajiv, Burian, James, Choi, Lien, Fournier, Andrew, Mora, Andres, Rafalko, Susan, Shonekan, Morayomola, Swanston, Seantoia, Vasilev, Teodora, Yi, Won-jae, Yu, Mary
Date: 2010, 2010-05
Description: The goal of the IPRO 322 team is to develop and present a “User friendly” way of identifying vehicles with respect to the emission of...
Show moreThe goal of the IPRO 322 team is to develop and present a “User friendly” way of identifying vehicles with respect to the emission of greenhouse gases throughout their life cycle.
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Title: Designing a State-of-the-Art Exhibit for the Atrium at Fermilab (semester?), IPRO 303: Fermilab Exhibit IPRO 303 IPRO Day Presentation Sp05
Creator: Rosenthal, Chris, Colvin, Marcus, Ferrario, Daniel, Olive, Daniel, Vasos, Maria, Williams, Taylor, Calik, Martin, Dutkovich, Frank, Mccrory, Reuben, Ortega, Uriel, Whitmore, Hugh
Date: 2005-05, 2005-05
Description: Over the next few years, the global scientific community will be deciding on the site for the International Linear Collider (ILC). The ILC...
Show moreOver the next few years, the global scientific community will be deciding on the site for the International Linear Collider (ILC). The ILC will be the next great step in particle physics, and there will only be one in the world. The United States would like to host the ILC and Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory in Illinois is a very likely candidate to support this technology. Many important politicians and scientists will be visiting Fermilab during this period of political negotiation and site evaluation. The team’s goal is to design an exhibit for the atrium in Wilson Hall at Fermilab that conveys the scale and importance of scientific research, the value of science education, and the intersections of art and science for both a scientific and non-scientific audience. The exhibit will not only be open to the Fermilab staff and general public, but also to visiting dignitaries and politicians.
Deliverables for IPRO 303: Designing a State-of-the-Art Exhibit for the Atrium at Fermilab for the Spring 2005 semester
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Title: Global Warming and Community Outreach (Semester Unknown) IPRO 331: GlobalWarmingandCommunityOutreachIPRO331MidTermPresentationSp10
Creator: Bober, Kamil, Desai, Sapna, Abu-amara, Hashem, Jani, Arjun, Cho, Haein, Haznar, Daria, Gonzalez, Arturo
Date: 2010, 2010-05
Description: Utilize previous presentations to inform and educate the public about the cause, impact, and responses to global warming. Divide the overall...
Show moreUtilize previous presentations to inform and educate the public about the cause, impact, and responses to global warming. Divide the overall issue into major aspects including the ones set by previous IPRO‟s while adding our own.
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Title: Nanoparticle Based Thermal History Indicators
Creator: Perez-luna, Victor Hugo, Betala, Pravin Ajitkumar
Date: 2012-03-30, 2011-10-11
Description: An indicator composition for determining a thermal or chronological history during shipping or storage of a product. The composition includes...
Show moreAn indicator composition for determining a thermal or chronological history during shipping or storage of a product. The composition includes a plurality of nanoparticles dispersed throughout a matrix. The nanoparticles turn color while dispersed in the matrix as a function at least one of time and temperature.
Sponsorship: Illinois Institute of Technology
United States Patent
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Title: HawkTour (semester?), IPRO 305: HawkTour IPRO 305 Project Plan Sp05
Creator: Murali, Rohit, An, Sangmin, Jastrzebski, Marcin, Jenyo, Olumayowa, Kodamanchili, Richard, Dixon, Dave, Charles, Jodel, Ilea, Nicu
Date: 2005-05, 2005-05
Description: The Spring 2005 IPRO 305 team will be continuing the efforts of ongoing research at IIT in the realm of Pervasive Computing. The team will be...
Show moreThe Spring 2005 IPRO 305 team will be continuing the efforts of ongoing research at IIT in the realm of Pervasive Computing. The team will be focusing on the challenge of integrating Pervasive Computing into a specific aspect of the IIT campus. The overall vision of the IPRO 305 team is to continue efforts to develop an application called HawkTour – a virtual Illinois Institute of Technology tour guide. HawkTour will provide a completely new approach to the campus tour at IIT. The application has been designed to run on Tablet PC’s or other devices with similar computing capabilities, and provides the user with general campus information while guiding the user around campus and maintaining complete awareness of the user’s current location and intent, thereby adapting the tour to the user’s own personal preferences. The objective for this semester’s team is to refine the application and come up with a new version with an optimized content database, a more sophisticated hardware interface, improve the mapping methodology, work on the user interface and scale of the application to simpler devices such as cell phones and personal digital assistants.
Sponsorship: ekahau
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Title: New Technologies for Cardiac Arrest Victims (Semester Unknown) IPRO 319: NewTechnologiesForCardiacArrestVictimsIPRO319FinalReportF09
Creator: John, Jennifer, Gazda, Christopher, Spinoza, Julian, Lasowky, Oksana, Hutchful, Albert, Austin, Grant, Cho, Bum Kyung, Fournier, Andrew, Harmon, Stephanie
Date: 2009, 2009-12
Description: The Interprofessional Projects (IPRO®) Program at Illinois Institute of Technology: An emphasis on multidisciplinary education and cross...
Show moreThe Interprofessional Projects (IPRO®) Program at Illinois Institute of Technology: An emphasis on multidisciplinary education and cross-functional teams has become pervasive in education and the workplace. IIT offers an innovative and comprehensive approach to providing students with a real-world project-based experience—the integration of interprofessional perspectives in a student team environment. Developed at IIT in 1995, the IPRO Program consists of student teams from the sophomore through graduate levels, representing the breadth of the university’s disciplines and professional programs. Projects crystallize over a one- or multi-semester period through collaborations with sponsoring corporations, nonprofit groups, government agencies, and entrepreneurs. IPRO team projects reflect a panorama of workplace challenges, encompassing research, design and process improvement, service learning, the international realm, and entrepreneurship. (Refer to http://ipro.iit.edu for information.) The New Developments in Cardiac Arrest team project represents one of more than 40 IPRO team projects for the fall 2009 semester.
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Title: CORROSION-RESISTANT ELECTRO-CATALYSTS AND SUPPORTS FOR ELECTROCHEMICAL ENERGY CONVERSION
Creator: Wang, Guanxiong
Date: 2016, 2016-12
Description: Polymer electrolyte fuel cells (PEFCs) convert chemical energy of fuels (eg. Hydrogen) directly to electrical energy with excellent power...
Show morePolymer electrolyte fuel cells (PEFCs) convert chemical energy of fuels (eg. Hydrogen) directly to electrical energy with excellent power density, high efficiency, and zero emissions. Several challenges have delayed the commercialization of fuel cells with one being the high cost and durability of the carbon-supported-platinum-based (Pt/C) electrocatalysts. The lifetime/durability issue is critical as insufficient durability/reliability of the catalysts affects the lifetime and economical viability of these devices. Carbon support corrosion is a major durability issue since the corrosion reaction is thermodynamically favorable but kinetically sluggish under normal operating conditions. The potential transients that occur during start and stop in automotive applications can lead to electrode potential excursions of up to 1.5 V and contribute to carbon corrosion. The best way to mitigate support corrosion in PEFCs is to replace the carbon supports with alternatives having high electronic conductivity, surface area and porosity. This dissertation investigates the following carbon alternatives: (i) tin doped indium oxide (ITO) and (ii) 1:1 mixed oxides of ruthenia and silica (RSO). Microstructure characterization and electrochemical evaluations, including accelerated stress tests (start-up/shut-down and load cycling protocols) were performed to evaluate ORR activity, fuel cell performance, and electrochemical stability under PEFC operating conditions. The ITO support and 40%Pt/ITO catalysts demonstrated exceptional electrochemical stability (and reasonable ORR activity) in rotating disk electrode (RDE) experiments under accelerated potential cycling that mimicked automotive drive cycles. However, Pt/ITO exhibited poor performance and stability during MEA evaluation in a PEFC. X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS) was employed to reveal the degradation modes of Pt/ITO during PEFC operation and it was found that the increase in the surface hydroxide concentration generates a passivating In(OH)3 layer that increases electrode resistance and undermines PEFC performance. The influence of the catalyst support on PEM degradation during PEFC operation was also studied. Rotating ring-disk electrode (RRDE) experiments were employed to estimate the fraction of H2O2 generated during the ORR on the supports (C and RSO) and catalysts (benchmark Pt/C and Pt/RSO). The percentage of H2O2 generated on C and Pt/C was 50% higher than that on RSO and Pt/RSO thus explaining the observed oxidative degradation resistance of the PEM with the latter supports/catalysts.
Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering, December 2016
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Title: The Widget Wonder Workers (Semester Unknown) IPRO 312: TheWidgetWonderWorkersIPRO312PosterF09
Creator: Alsharief, Yagoob, Aulfata, Muluken, Curtis, Christopher, Dhewaju, Anusuya, Mooney, Kevin, Mutyaba, Kevin, Ndoping, Marco, Onaissi, Samah, Peterson, Naomi, Siwek, Steven, Wallace, Sean, Yi, Won-jae
Date: 2009, 2009-12
Description: As a team, we desire to provide Comcast with feedback from an outside perspective, allowing them to see where their Tru2Way system needs...
Show moreAs a team, we desire to provide Comcast with feedback from an outside perspective, allowing them to see where their Tru2Way system needs additional attention or support. To do this, we will work together within out team and with Comcast, while maintaining professional standards.
Sponsorship: Comcast Corporation
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Title: Enhancing Psychology Research through Advanced Communications Technology (semester?), IPRO 306: Enhancing Psych Research IPRO 306 Final Report Sp07
Creator: Abou-nemeh, Tarek, Chiu, Tina, Franke, Kevin, Hernandez, Krystin, Jacob, Alice, Jones, Chris, Miller, Chelsea, Vilenchik, Vlad, Walter, Stephanie
Date: 2007-05, 2007-05
Description: The purpose of the research done in the IPRO 306 Mood Research Lab is to contribute to the body of knowledge regarding the patterns and...
Show moreThe purpose of the research done in the IPRO 306 Mood Research Lab is to contribute to the body of knowledge regarding the patterns and accuracy of retrospective recall of affect in persons with Major Depressive Disorder. This will be accomplished by using Personal Digital Assistants (PDAs) equipped with a standardized mood inventory to measure the recall accuracy in volunteers from the non-hospitalized, clinically depressed population and comparing it to that of volunteers from the healthy population.
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