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- Using Infrared Imaging to Monitor and Control Welding
- Creator
- Bangs, Edmund R., Longinow, Nicholas E., Blaha, James R.
- Date
- 2009-05-08, 1989-10-31
- Description
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The technique and arrangement of distributed, real time, intelligent control of welding including IR detection and measurement of process...
Show moreThe technique and arrangement of distributed, real time, intelligent control of welding including IR detection and measurement of process conditions, and controlling process parameters in view of a knowledge base including a predetermined rule set for interpreting the results of IR detection. The arrangement includes a multilevel communication scheme internally and between hardware nodes of the arrangement, and the data-driven scheduling of inference processes under direction of a semantic network.
Sponsorship: IIT Research Institute
United States Patent
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- Make a Connection: Library Services for International Students
- Creator
- Han, Yi
- Date
- 2012-06-08, 2012-06-08
- Description
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This presentation for the 2012 I-Share Instruction Team’s Forum: Library Instruction for Diverse Student Populations at the Catholic...
Show moreThis presentation for the 2012 I-Share Instruction Team’s Forum: Library Instruction for Diverse Student Populations at the Catholic Theological Union Conference Center focuses on ways to adapt library services, orientations, and online and in-person instruction to meet international students' informational needs.
This is an updated version of the presentation of Make a connection: Library services for International Students at the 2011 Illinois Library Association (ILA) annual conference.
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- Remixed: Reuse, Recycles, Mixed Use, Mixed Income: REMIXED FINAL BOOK
- Creator
- Hamburg, Michael
- Date
- 2012-05-04, 2012-05
- Description
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A mixed use, mixed income proposal for the Chicago south side, adaptively reusing shipping containers to keep construction costs low
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- Transitional Refugee Community: Design Strategy for Dry/Arid Regions
- Creator
- Nakalembe, Hanifah
- Date
- 2010-05-01, 2010-05-01
- Description
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The proposed master’s project is the exploration of how architectural planning and design can improve and increase efficiency in transitional...
Show moreThe proposed master’s project is the exploration of how architectural planning and design can improve and increase efficiency in transitional housing during emergency relief and/or conflict related situations. The project proposal developed through design exploration of several prototypes that would not only be minimal but will also be culturally and climatically adaptive among other things. After a thorough select ion process, concentration was given to arid/dry climate and the area select ed for study was Darfur, Sudan.
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- Title
- Test of a delco lighting plant
- Creator
- Porges, Edward D., Given, Louis E
- Date
- 2009, 1917
- Publisher
- Armour Institute of Technology
- Description
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http://www.archive.org/details/testofdelcolight00porg
Thesis (B.S.)--Armour Institute of Technology; Bibliography: leaf 88
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- Hybrid Surface-Wave Transducer
- Creator
- Van Den Heuvel, Anthony P., Owen, Ronald B., Joshi, Shrinivas G.
- Date
- 2012-03-20, 1972-05-23
- Description
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A transducer for generating and detecting surface elastic waves in a non-piezoelectric material may include an interdigital electrode array...
Show moreA transducer for generating and detecting surface elastic waves in a non-piezoelectric material may include an interdigital electrode array coupled to a piezoelectric crystal. The crystal is mechanically coupled to the non-piezoelectric material through an acoustical transmissive medium.
Sponsorship: IIT Research Institute
United States Patent
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- Study of the production of resorcin
- Creator
- Cable, D. E., Prest, J. I.
- Date
- 2009, 1918
- Publisher
- Armour Institute of Technology
- Description
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http://www.archive.org/details/studyofproductio00cabl
Thesis (B.S.)--Armour Institute of Technology
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- INTEGRATION OF TANGENTIAL FLOW FILTRATION AND IMMUNOMAGNETIC SEPARATION FOR RAPID DETECTION OF ESCHERICHIA COLI 0157:H7 IN PRODUCE WASH WATER
- Creator
- Ren, Yan
- Date
- 2011-12-12, 2011-12
- Description
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Escherichia coli O157:H7 is one of the most commonly reported pathogens associated with microbial contamination of leafy greens. Since washing...
Show moreEscherichia coli O157:H7 is one of the most commonly reported pathogens associated with microbial contamination of leafy greens. Since washing is a major postharvest processing step, microbial testing of spent wash water has been suggested as a good marker to determine the contamination status of the products. In this study, the efficiency of four commercial rapid methods (BAX®, IQ-Check, Reveal® and mini-VIDAS®) for detection of E.coli O157:H7 in lettuce wash water was evaluated in comparison with the FDA BAM method. The improvement of the detection sensitivity of these tests by immunomagnetic separation (IMS) technology and sample pre-concentration by Tangential Flow Filtration (TFF) was determined. Twenty-five ml of lab prepared lettuce wash water samples were spiked with 0, 1, 10, 100 CFU of E.coli O157:H7, and subjected to enrichment protocols recommended by each of the methods. The presence of E.coli O157:H7 in the enriched samples were then assayed by the test kits, either directly or after IMS (IMS-Pathatrix ™ or IMS-Dynabeads™) treatments. All four test kits and BAM were able to detect E.coli O157:H7 at levels as low as 1 CFU/25ml of wash water. IMS treatments did not lead to further improvement in detection sensitivity. Experiments were also performed to determine the feasibility of incorporating IMS and sample pre-concentration to achieve culture-free detection. Fifty ml of wash water samples were inoculated with E.coli O157:H7 at levels of 0 to 107 CFU and analyzed by the test kits either directly or after IMS-Pathatrix™ treatment. Additionally, 10 L of wash water either prepared in the lab or collected from a commercial fresh-cut processing facility were inoculated with 0 – 106 CFU of the pathogen and subjected to TFF concentration prior to IMS or test kit analyses. IQ-Check showed the highest sensitivity with a detection limit as low as 103 CFU/50ml, and, with IMS, achieved a sensitivity of 100 CFU/50ml. Combining TFF concentration and IMS, 10 L of lab prepared wash water can be tested with IQ-Check and achieve a detection limit of approx. 100 CFU/10 L within 6 hours. For 10L of industry spent wash water, IQ-check also showed the highest sensitivity but the results lacked consistency and required additional evaluations.
M.S. in Food Safety and Technology, December 2011
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- NUMERICAL SINGULARITY ANALYSIS
- Creator
- Adomaitis, R. A., Cinar, A.
- Date
- 1991
- Publisher
- PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
- Description
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A numerical scheme is presented for classifying the different static bifurcation behaviors exhibited by a nonlinear system in its remaining...
Show moreA numerical scheme is presented for classifying the different static bifurcation behaviors exhibited by a nonlinear system in its remaining parameter space. This numerical technique differs from previously published schemes in that the application of singularity theory is done numerically and requires no explicit differentiations of the system in question. It also does not require the reduction of the mathematical model to a scalar equation. The utility of this multivariable scheme will be demonstrated through an application to a seven PDE tubular packed-bed reactor model.
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- Title
- Magnetic Transducer Head
- Creator
- Camras, Marvin
- Date
- 1961-06-06
- Description
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Sponsorship: Armour Research Foundation of Illinois Institute of Technology
United States Patent
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- Diffraction Enhanced Imaging Method Using a Line X-Ray Source
- Creator
- Chapman, Leroy Dean
- Date
- 2009-05-19, 2008-02-12
- Description
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A method for detecting an enhanced image of an object by independently analyzing, detecting, digitizing, and combining images acquired on a...
Show moreA method for detecting an enhanced image of an object by independently analyzing, detecting, digitizing, and combining images acquired on a high and a low angle side of a rocking curve of a crystal analyzer. An x-ray beam generated by a line x-ray source is collimated by a crystal monochromator including two non-matching crystals to form an x-ray area beam. The x-ray area beam is transmitted through an object to be imaged and onto an image detector and the image is digitized. The digitized images are simultaneously solved, preferably on a pixel-by-pixel basis, to derive an enhanced image which has dramatically improved contrast and spatial resolution over an image acquired through conventional radiology methods.
Sponsorship: Illinois Institute of Technology
United States Patent
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- Title
- Combination of Magnetic Transducing and Erasing Heads
- Creator
- Camras, Marvin
- Date
- 1948-12-21
- Description
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Sponsorship: Armour Research Foundation of Illinois Institute of Technology
United States Patent
- Title
- Tetramethylammonium Ozonate and Method for its Manufacture
- Creator
- Solomon, Irvine J., Kacmarek, Andrew J., Hattori, Kiyoshi
- Date
- 1960-09-06
- Description
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Sponsorship: Armour Research Foundation of Illinois Institute of Technology
United States Patent
- Title
- Self-Correcting Record-Play System and Method
- Creator
- Camras, Marvin
- Date
- 2009-05-08, 1984-06-19
- Description
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A transducer head configuration is utilized which is operable by means of recording pulses of extremely short duration and of low duty cycle....
Show moreA transducer head configuration is utilized which is operable by means of recording pulses of extremely short duration and of low duty cycle. Provision is made for reading the recorded magnetization between recording pulses and correcting same pulse prior to substantial movement of the record medium relative to the transducing gap.
Sponsorship: IIT Research Institute
United States Patent
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- Title
- Method for Producing Biodegradable Products
- Creator
- Shutov, Fyodor, Ivanov, George, Arastoopour, Hamid
- Date
- 2009-05-11, 1997-11-18
- Description
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A method of making a molded biodegradable food receptacle product including the steps of grinding up non-toxic agricultural waste plant...
Show moreA method of making a molded biodegradable food receptacle product including the steps of grinding up non-toxic agricultural waste plant material like soy, rice, oat and wheat hulls into particles having a range of sizes so that, if compressed in a mold, the smaller particles substantially fill the spaces between the much larger ones. Where necessary, there is added to the particles a natural and biodegradable binder-forming material, like an edible vegetable oil which will bind like a food receptacle the particles together to form a leak-proof receptacle, when inserted into a mold and compressed by the mold walls at elevated temperatures will produce compact well bound together particles. Without any chemical or physical pretreatment of the ground particles and particle-binder feed mix, the unpretreated mix, with or without small amounts of coloring, aromatic or foaming agents, is fed into a pressure-applying mold. The initial pressure and temperature preferably squeezes inherent binding-forming oils from the preferably seed hulls which freely flow through the mix. The high pressure is then partially reduced and the mold temperature is elevated to maximize the binding action of the binder materials as they solidify.
Sponsorship: Illinois Institute of Technology
United States Patent
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- Title
- Method of Making Fine-Grain Chromium
- Creator
- Metcalfe, Arthur G., Spachner, Sheldon A.
- Date
- 1962-06-05
- Description
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Sponsorship: Armour Research Foundation of Illinois Institute of Technology
United States Patent
- Title
- HIGH RISE BUILDING: tube detail 1
- Creator
- Sun, Yanfang
- Date
- 2012-05-08, 2012-05
- Description
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MIXED USE HIGH RISE BUILDING DESIGN COMBINING WIND TURBINE, IN ORDER TO FIND A SUSTAINABLE WAY TO USING CLEAN ENERGY
- Title
- Transducer Head System
- Creator
- Camras, Marvin
- Date
- 1962-06-19
- Description
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Sponsorship: Armour Research Foundation of Illinois Institute of Technology
United States Patent
- Title
- RECONFIGURABLE ANALOG FRONT-END SYSTEM FOR ULTRASONIC IMAGING APPLICATIONS
- Creator
- Vasudevan, Vidya
- Date
- 2014, 2014-12
- Description
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Ultrasonic systems, applied in the field of Medical Imaging and Non-Destructive Testing, have evolved from the trolley-based units to more...
Show moreUltrasonic systems, applied in the field of Medical Imaging and Non-Destructive Testing, have evolved from the trolley-based units to more portable, hand-held devices. These systems are built to suit a specific application or aim at specific target material. In order to make these systems portable and adaptable to the testing environment, a flexible and programmable hardware is built. A fully configurable Analog Front-End (AFE) is presented, which possesses the capability for dynamic re-configuration by using ARM processing core for real-time control, data acquisition and signal analysis in a Linux environment. This system supports up to 8 ultrasonic sensors. The flexibility built into the AFE allows for various beamforming and signal conditioning requirements. This reconfigurable system enables ultrasonic researchers to efficiently prototype different experiments and to incorporate high performance ultrasonic signal and image processing algorithms. This system provides real-time signal processing for nondestructive evaluation (NDE) and imaging applications using ultrasonic sensors ranging from 60 KHz to 15 MHz operating frequencies. A dynamically reconfigurable sensor interface is presented for ultrasonic pulse-echo measurements targeting flaw detection and parametric echo classification applications. For real-time implementation, a SoC-based system is developed on an ARM platform. For a working system, a BCM2835 SoC on a Raspberry Pi hardware system is explored with a further upgrade to Xilinx Zynq 7020 SoC in order to achieve a higher throughput.
M.S. in Electrical Engineering, December 2014
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- HYBRID TO SOCIAL CONDENSER: COMPETING APPROACHES TO MIXED-USE DEVELOPMENT
- Creator
- Zagow, Maged
- Date
- 2016, 2016-12
- Description
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In the last two decades, mixed use has taken center stage in urban planning development in the United States. The research frequently cites...
Show moreIn the last two decades, mixed use has taken center stage in urban planning development in the United States. The research frequently cites this development as a model that can address a variety of socioeconomic problems. Also, it has enjoyed a recent surge in popularity in redeveloping cities by providing more affordable housing opportunities, ensuring safety, reducing auto-dependency, and for providing a sense of place and community. However, its affordability, physical design, and outcomes are highly variable. This study is particularly interested in whether and how mixed use affects the socioeconomics configuration of the built environment. This study uses multilevel data from the county level to the zip code level that represents all US neighborhoods. I use different implementation methods of mixed-use development and different cultural and historical backgrounds to examine the data. The study adopts six mixed-use models that present different methodological interactions between socioeconomic spatial metrics and urban forms. These models represent the realistic constraints of urban geometry and of the socioeconomic structure that comprises the charateristics of race, income, accessibility, safety, adjacency, accessibility, environment, and density. This study finds that the built environment produces a rich landscape of information that appears to guide the opportunities for facilities. The analysis shows that mixed-use development may have certain effects on the number of facilities, housing, income, diversity, crime rate, employment, health, and environment. The analysis of this research works in two dimensions. First, urban models (Hybrid and Social Condenser in general and under two categories Metropolis and Neighborhood Community). The second dimension is the urban characteristics (zoning programming, land use mix, streets fabric), socioeconomics variables (Population density, occupied housing, median age, diversity of race, income, and employment rates), and location variation (states, and cities). The results confirm that mixing the facilities in hybrid communities create more jobs opportunities but limit the affordability of housing, social cohesion and the race diversity. But in Social Condenser models, there are more race diversity safety and healthy environment. These results reflect complexity demands more than mixed-use developments, beyond Jane Jacobs' requirements, and beyond the designation of selected mixed-use zones. This study contributes to the study of how mixed-use development models shift because of various social and economic conditions. The findings from this study can inform architects, investors, policymakers, economists, and planners about factors that sustain mixed-use neighborhoods in the United States and beyond. Urban designers will be able to inform how the seemingly necessary act of laying out mixed-use development can affect the socioeconomic structure of a city. Thus, this study is a useful source for more accurate planning ideas than generic abstract theories or slogans.
Ph.D. in Architecture, December 2016
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