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Title: Division Street Dance Academy: A_Bayley_master's_pre-design
Creator: Bayley, Andrew
Date: 2012-05-02, 2012-05
Description: This project explores an architecture of symbiosis between Dance Academy and host community as a critique of contemporary private property...
Show moreThis project explores an architecture of symbiosis between Dance Academy and host community as a critique of contemporary private property development in a mature and gentrifying Chicago neighborhood.
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Title: ISOLATION OF TRANSPOSON MEDIATED TRANSGLUTAMINASE MUTANTS OF DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER
Creator: Yang, Hua
Date: 2016, 2016-05
Description: Transglutaminase, Tg, catalyzes the formation of isopeptide bonds crosslinking and stabilizing protein complexes. The best-known factor XIII...
Show moreTransglutaminase, Tg, catalyzes the formation of isopeptide bonds crosslinking and stabilizing protein complexes. The best-known factor XIII crosslinks fibrin in clots. Paradoxically, there is an unexpected and counterintuitive correlation between factor XIII levels and heart attack mortality. Since factor XIII strengthens fibrin and resists fibrinolysis, higher XIII activity would be expected to lead to more stable fibrin clots and so more fatal atherosclerotic plaques; but it actually results in reduced mortality. One hypothesis to explain this is that Tg activity may also stabilize cardiac muscle tissue. Studies have shown that Tg is expressed in human embryonic myoblasts. Therefore, we suggest that muscular attachments may be strengthened by Tg, and play a vital unrecognized role in the muscular attachment. Humans have 9 Tg genes, complicating studies. However Drosophila melanogaster, D.m., has only one Tg gene, and is an attractive model system. We isolated 39 mutant D.m. lines gene produced by transposon mobilization in locus in a "dirty" fashion expected to create random deletions within the Tg locus. We then characterized them by PCR and sequencing, as well as functional assays, in an attempt to develop a Tg null line to test this hypothesis. The aim is to identify a line with all of Tg removed, but with neighboring genes unperturbed. Once the approximate break points were identified by PCR, we did DNA sequencing to fully characterize the genomic breakpoint. According to the DNA sequencing results, one line is specific for Tg exon1, and eliminates one of the two known Tg transcripts. Another line eliminated almost the entire catalytic domain. We also did RT-qPCR for two lines that were sequenced to determine their genomic characteristics. Both of these lines are viable but with subtle developmental defects, showing that Tg deficiency is not lethal in D.m.
M.S. in Biology, May 2016
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Title: Architectural Hybrid Studio: Architectural Hybrid Studio
Creator: Emery, Jake
Date: 2012-05, 2012-05
Description: The innovative institute blends the professionalism of the city with the teachings of a studio-based architecture school in the neighborhood...
Show moreThe innovative institute blends the professionalism of the city with the teachings of a studio-based architecture school in the neighborhood of Bronzeville. Thus, this helps the students become exposed to the real world practice, attaining professional principles and experience in the field. The new institute becomes an incubator for learning and producing great architecture. It combines individuals at various stages of their professional and educational careers. Graduate students, graduates, and working architects share space and together create a unique learning environment
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Title: HIGH RISE BUILDING: PLAN SECTION
Creator: Sun, Yanfang
Date: 2012-05-08, 2012-05
Description: MIXED USE HIGH RISE BUILDING DESIGN COMBINING WIND TURBINE, IN ORDER TO FIND A SUSTAINABLE WAY TO USING CLEAN ENERGY

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Title: Diffraction at the LHC, Proceedings of the XLIII International Symposium on Multiparticle Dynamics
Creator: Csanád, M.
Date: 2013-09-15, 2013-09-15
Publisher: IIT Press
Description: Proton-proton collisions at the LHC can be classified as elastic, non-diffractive, and diffractive. In this paper we discuss various...
Show moreProton-proton collisions at the LHC can be classified as elastic, non-diffractive, and diffractive. In this paper we discuss various measurements of these above processes at various LHC experiments. We report about the total proton-proton cross-section measurements, about the analysis of diffractive events and also about the pseudorapidity distribution in inelastic events.
Sponsorship: IIT College of Science, High Energy Physics Division of Argonne National Laboratory
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Title: Automatic Insulin Pumps Using Recursive Multivariable Models and Adaptive Control Algorithms
Creator: Cinar, Ali, Oruklu, Meriyan
Date: 2014-04-09, 2014-04-08
Description: A method and device for monitoring or treating patient glucose levels. The device includes a glucose sensor for measuring a glucose level of a...
Show moreA method and device for monitoring or treating patient glucose levels. The device includes a glucose sensor for measuring a glucose level of a patient, a physiological status monitoring system for measuring at least one physical or metabolic variable of the patient, and an automatic controller in communication with the glucose sensor and the physiological status monitoring system. The controller includes a prediction module for automatically predicting a future glucose level using data measured by the glucose sensor and the physiological sensor.
Sponsorship: Illinois Institute of Technology
United States Patent
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Title: INCORPORATING REACTIVE POWER MARKET INTO THE DAY-AHEAD ELECTRICITY MARKET
Creator: Al Ghamdi, Mohammed
Date: 2012-05-29, 2012-07
Description: The research work presented in this thesis proposes the incorporation of the reactive power market into the day-ahead electricity market in...
Show moreThe research work presented in this thesis proposes the incorporation of the reactive power market into the day-ahead electricity market in order to compensate generation companies (GENCOs) and independent power producers (IPPs) for providing any additional reactive power support, which varies on an hourly basis based on the load demand, transmission network configuration, and any contingencies that might occur. This proposal would minimize the total payment burden on the independent system operator (ISO), which is related to the reactive power dispatch. The proposed model achieves the main objective of an ISO in a competitive electricity market, which is to provide the required reactive power support from generators at minimum cost while ensuring the secure operation of the power system. In this research, the reactive power price is the bidding-based price that is submitted by the GENCOs and IPPs to the ISOs during the day-ahead market. The proposal takes into the account both the technical and economic aspects associated with the active power and reactive power dispatch in the context of the new operating paradigms in competitive electricity markets. In this research, the Security Constrained Unit Commitment (SCUC) based on AC power flow modeling is considered as the drive engine for clearing the day-ahead electricity market based on the amount of information provided by the market participants. This proposed framework would provide appropriate reactive power support from service providers at minimum cost, while ensuring the secure and reliable operation of the electrical power system. In the research, the PQ capability curves of the generating units are modeled to ensure the practically of the SCUC solutions that are obtained. This proposal would be an essential step toward a fair electricity market while increasing the security of the power system and reducing transmission congestions. Also, it would pave the road for various renewable energy resources since the penetration of renewable energy resources would impact the commitment of the generating units. This would impact the available reactive power reserve margin and security of the network. In addition, incorporating the reactive power market into the day-ahead market would provide a clear signal for optimal private investment in the reactive power capacity. The framework that has been developed is general in nature and can be used for any electricity market structure.
Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, July 2012
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Title: Microchannel Heat Exchanger with Micro-encapsulated Phase Change Material for High Flux Cooling
Creator: Farid, Mohammed Mehdi, Al-hallaj, Said
Date: 2012-03-20, 2012-02-07
Description: A microchannel cooler containing a slurry having a particulate liquid/solid phase change material is provided balancing the interdependent...
Show moreA microchannel cooler containing a slurry having a particulate liquid/solid phase change material is provided balancing the interdependent factors of microencapsulated particle size with microchannel size and shape and flow conditions for the removal of high heat flux with low space and low power requirements.
Sponsorship: Illinois Institute of Technology
United States Patent
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Title: Bridging the Gap: Multi-Generational Community Center: Final Layout Final
Creator: Lunn, Elizabeth
Date: 2012, 2012-05
Description: This community center was designed to make connections between the different generations to create a truly united community, not just a...
Show moreThis community center was designed to make connections between the different generations to create a truly united community, not just a neighborhood. Each generation has something that they can bring to others, but this rarely happens because each generation normally congregates together, which isolates themselves from the others. The community center provides opportunities to create these connections. These opportunities will be through Music, Fitness, Art and Education.
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Title: Apparatus for Electrostatic Encapsulation
Creator: Langer, Gerhard, Yamate, George
Date: 4/23/2009, 1966-12-27
Description: Sponsorship: IIT Research Institute
United States Patent

Title: Low-energy exclusive cross sections and inclusive production of identified charged hadrons with Babar, Proceedings of the XLIII International Symposium on Multiparticle Dynamics
Creator: Gary, J. William
Date: 2013-09-15, 2013-09-15
Publisher: IIT Press
Description: Recent measurements of exclusive hadronic cross sections from the Babar Collaboration at SLAC are presented. Specifically, we present results...
Show moreRecent measurements of exclusive hadronic cross sections from the Babar Collaboration at SLAC are presented. Specifically, we present results on the e⁺e⁻ → K⁺K⁻(γ), p̅p, KₛKₗ, KₛKₗπ⁺π⁻ , KₛKₛπ⁺π⁻, and KₛKₛK⁺K⁻ cross sections performed using events with initial-state photon radiation, which allows the cross sections to be measured at low energy and over an extended energy range. In addition, we present results on the inclusive momentum spectra of identified charged pions, kaons, and protons at the fixed center-of-mass energy of 10.54 GeV, allowing new tests of QCD.
Sponsorship: IIT College of Science, High Energy Physics Division of Argonne National Laboratory
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Title: System for Continuous Vehicular Travel on Crossing Roadways
Creator: Sutchiewcharn, Narathip, Li, Zongzhi, Budiman, Jeffry, Shen, Jay
Date: 2012-03-20, 2012-02-07
Description: Systems for improved vehicular movement between first and second crossing roadways. The systems employ multiple turn roadways to permit a...
Show moreSystems for improved vehicular movement between first and second crossing roadways. The systems employ multiple turn roadways to permit a vehicle traveling on one of the crossing roadways to appropriately turn and continuously travel onto the other of the crossing roadway. The systems are adaptable to use in conjunction with either left side of the road vehicle movement or right side of the road vehicle movement. In addition, the systems can be adapted for use in conjunction a roadway crossing whereat at least one of the roads is for forwarded vehicle movement in only one direction.
Sponsorship: Illinois Institute of Technology
United States Patent
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Title: A study of the corrosion of locomotive boiler tubes
Creator: Congdon, Charles C.
Date: 2009, 1915
Publisher: Armour Institute of Technology
Description: http://www.archive.org/details/studyofcorrosion00cong
Thesis (B.S.)--Armour Institute of Technology; Bibliography: leaves 36-37

Title: The world's playground: EungjuYeon_final presentation
Creator: Yeon, Eungju
Date: 2012-04-25, 2012-05
Description: Olympic cultural center for 2012, Korea

Title: INVESTIGATION OF NIOBIUM SURFACE STRUCTURE AND COMPOSITION FOR IMPROVEMENT OF SUPERCONDUCTING RADIO-FREQUENCY CAVITIES
Creator: Trenikhina, Yulia
Date: 2014, 2014-12
Description: Nano-scale investigation of intrinsic properties of niobium near-surface is a key to control performance of niobium superconducting radio...
Show moreNano-scale investigation of intrinsic properties of niobium near-surface is a key to control performance of niobium superconducting radio-frequency cavities. Mechanisms responsible for the performance limitations and their empirical remedies needs to be justified in order to reproducibly control fabrication of SRF cavities with desired characteristics. The high field Q-slope and mechanism behind its cure (120◦C mild vacuum bake) were investigated by comparison of the samples cut out of the cavities with high and low dissipation regions. Material evolution during mild field Q-slope nitrogen treatment was characterized using the coupon samples as well as samples cut out of nitrogen treated cavity. Evaluation of niobium near-surface state after some typical and novel cavity treatments was accomplished. Various TEM techniques, SEM, XPS, AES, XRD were used for the structural and chemical characterization of niobium near-surface. Combination of thermometry and structural temperature-dependent comparison of the cavity cutouts with different dissipation characteristics revealed precipitation of niobium hydrides to be the reason for medium and high field Q-slopes. Step-by-step effect of the nitrogen treatment processing on niobium surface was studied by analytical and structural characterization of the cavity cutout and niobium samples, which were subject to the treatment. Low concentration nitrogen doping is proposed to explain the benefit of nitrogen treatment. Chemical characterization of niobium samples before and after various surface processing (Electropolishing (EP), 800◦C bake, hydrofluoric acid (HF) rinsing) showed the differences that can help to reveal the microscopic effects behind these treatments as well as possible sources of surface contamination.
Ph.D. in Physics, December 2014
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Title: Digital Control of Power Converters
Creator: Khaligh, Alireza, Lee, Young-joo, Emadi, Ali
Date: 2012-03-20, 2012-01-03
Description: A method of controlling a DC/DC converter to regulate an output voltage from an input voltage source that varies from a fully-charged voltage...
Show moreA method of controlling a DC/DC converter to regulate an output voltage from an input voltage source that varies from a fully-charged voltage to a discharged voltage. The method introduced improves the dynamic response of the converter during transients by switching between different converter topologies to spread out voltage spikes, which are an inevitable result of transients. The invention also can improve the efficiency of the DC/DC converter by replacing higher loss modes with combination modes.
Sponsorship: Illinois Institute of Technology
United States Patent
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Title: Chicago Politicians on Twitter
Creator: Hemphill, Libby, Shapiro, Matthew A., Otterbacher, Jahna
Date: 2012-03-12, 2012-03-12
Description: This paper uses data from 1,042 tweets posted by or mentioning Chicago Aldermen or Mayor Rahm Emanuel to examine how Chicago politicians use...
Show moreThis paper uses data from 1,042 tweets posted by or mentioning Chicago Aldermen or Mayor Rahm Emanuel to examine how Chicago politicians use social media. Twitter provides a public communication medium in which constituents and their representatives can have two-way conversations that others can witness and record, and we used qualitative and social network methods to examine conversations between Chicagoans and representatives in city government. We coded the contents of each tweet over the two-week time period (e.g., official business, fundraising) and created representations of the social networks created by the users’ following behaviors. These networks indicate who receives politicians’ tweets and help identify the audiences for political messaging in social media. Our analysis indicates that Chicago’s Aldermen and Mayor use Twitter for social conversations more often than political ones, and that only a small number of Aldermen dominate the resulting conversation networks.
Sponsorship: Social Network Research Group at IIT, IIT Graduate College
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Title: A HARDWARE-IN-THE-LOOP SOFTWARE-DEFINED NETWORKING TESTING AND EVALUATION FRAMEWORK
Creator: Yang, Qi
Date: 2017, 2017-05
Description: The transformation of innovative research ideas to production systems is highly dependent on the capability of performing realistic and...
Show moreThe transformation of innovative research ideas to production systems is highly dependent on the capability of performing realistic and reproducible network experiments. Simulation testbeds o↵er scalability, reproducibility but lack fidelity due to model abstraction and simplification, while physical testbeds o↵er high fidelity but lack reproducibility and often technically challenging and economically infeasible to perform large-scale experiments. In this work, we present a hybrid testbed consisting of container-based network emulation and physical devices to advocate high fidelity and reproducible networking experiments. In particular, the testbed integrates network emulators (Mininet) [5], a distributed control environment (ONOS) [1], physical switches (Pica8) and end-hosts (Raspberry Pi and commodity servers). The testbed (1) o↵ers functional fidelity through unmodified code execution on an emulated network, (2) supports large-scale network experiments using lightweight OS-level virtualization techniques and capable of running across distributed physical machines, (3) provides the topology flexibility, and (4) enhances the repeatability and reproducibility of network experiments. We validate the fidelity of the hybrid testbed through extensive experiments under di↵erent network conditions (e.g., varying topology and traffic pattern), and compare the results with the benchmark data collected on physical devices.
M.S. in Computer Science, May 2017
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Title: EXPLOITING NETWORK CODING IN DIFFERENT WIRELESS NETWORKS
Creator: Guo, Bin
Date: 2012-07-06, 2012-07
Description: Wireless communication networks have been incorporated into our daily life and provide convenience anytime and anywhere. However, the wireless...
Show moreWireless communication networks have been incorporated into our daily life and provide convenience anytime and anywhere. However, the wireless medium is unreliable and unpredictable. Current wireless networks suffer from low throughput, low reliability, etc. Network coding, an alternative approach, has attracted more interests and has emerged as an important technology in wireless networks. It can provide significant potential throughput improvements and a high degree of robustness. This dissertation is built on the theory of network coding. In this dissertation, different network coding protocols are designed in varied wireless networks. The first part of this dissertation proposes a novel coding-ware routing protocol in wireless mesh networks. In particular, a generalized coding condition is formally established to identify the coding opportunities. Based on general coding conditions analysis, a novel routing metric FORM (Free-ride Optimal Routing Metric) and the corresponding routing protocol are developed with the objective to exploit the coding opportunities and maximize the benefit of “free-ride” in order to reduce the total number of transmissions and consequently to increase the network throughput. The results show the proposed protocol achieves significant throughput gain than existing approaches. The second part of this dissertation exploits network coding in wireless cooperative networks. Firstly, a Decode-and-Forward Network Coded (DFNC) protocol is proposed for multi-user cooperative communication system. In particular, DFNC develops an efficient construction method for coding coefficients and a novel decoding algorithm that combines network coding and channel coding. DFNC exploits both temporal and spatial diversities through multiple channels by allowing all the users to generate redundant network-coded packets in a distributed manner and it helps fully explore the redundancy provided by network coding to realize error correction. Theoretical analysis and simulation results demonstrate that DFNC outperforms other transmission schemes in terms of Symbol Error Rate (SER) and achieves higher diversity order. Secondly, the idea of DFNC is extended and Modified-DFNC (M-DFNC) is introduced for a more practical scenario: not all the users will be able to dedicate their resources to provide assistance for others. The throughput analysis shows that M-DFNC outperforms the conventional cooperative protocol in the low-SNR regime and it implies that an adaptive cooperation system should be adopted to optimize the performance. The simulation results validate the theoretical analysis.
Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, July 2012
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Title: Eco-Life (URBAN REDEVELOPMENT following CATASTROPHE in nanjing, china): Yingqiu Wu_Master project_poster
Creator: Wu, Yingqiu
Date: 2011-05-04, 2011-05
Description: My project is an urban redevelopment following catastrophe. A catastrophic explosion in 2010 left a portion of Nanjing city destroyed. The...
Show moreMy project is an urban redevelopment following catastrophe. A catastrophic explosion in 2010 left a portion of Nanjing city destroyed. The project proposes a new urban plan to rebuild the neighborhood and restore the community. A powerful explosion at an abandoned plastics factory in Qixia district of Nanjing city has left several people dead and dozens injured. Buildings and vehicles within 100m of the factory destroyed, 3000 citizen got the key of the street and buildings suffered varying degrees of damage in the area 8 miles in circumference. The blast was caused by a leak from a gas pipeline inside the factory, the blast happened after workers dismantling the plant damaged a propylene pipeline. The leaked gas was then ignited when a car engine was started at the scene. There were a community college and several kindergartens in this area, fortunately, it was summer break at that time, no students hurt reported. It is a unique opportunity to develop a plan in an urban context when the prior years of development have been wiped away. The purpose of the project is giving condos return to 3000 people who lost their houses in the explosion and planing mix-used buildings of the community for next 20 years. At present, many old nerghbourhoods in China are being replaced by new ones. In the most cases, the existing urban patternes are erased and a town is built with out any links to what had previouly existed there. My ptoposal is reusing most of the existing tree line streets, river and bridges. The key of this proposal is sustainability, first idea is using existing river to develop a nice wetland park and the second idea is farming gradens.
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