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- Title
- Record Protector for Magnetic Recording and Reproducing Devices
- Creator
- Camras, Marvin
- Date
- 1950-07-18
- Description
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Sponsorship: Armour Research Foundation of Illinois Institute of Technology
United States Patent
- Title
- Video Transducing Electric Circuits
- Creator
- Camras, Marvin
- Date
- 2009-04-27, 1971-07-27
- Description
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Monochrome and color television recording and playback circuitry for coupling with a standard broadcast receiver. Recording signals supplied...
Show moreMonochrome and color television recording and playback circuitry for coupling with a standard broadcast receiver. Recording signals supplied to the recording head without further amplification, and with circuitry for maintaining a good visual display during recording, and circuitry for phase correction and pulse modification. Playback circuitry for reduced thermal noise, phase correction and improved response. Frequency modulation sound on video track.
Sponsorship: IIT Research Institute
United States Patent
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- Remote Home: a handcrafted, component-based solution for southwest living: cordell_masters_booklet_2012
- Creator
- Cordell, Christopher
- Date
- 2012-05-01, 2012-05
- Description
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A prefabricated home with componentry optimized for simple fabrication and human-scale labor. This project explores the benefits of linking...
Show moreA prefabricated home with componentry optimized for simple fabrication and human-scale labor. This project explores the benefits of linking digital design and prefabrication to maximize construction efficiency and minimize on-site delays. Its physically remote location also necessitates a highly light and mobile solution that is simple in construction.
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- Title
- Agricultural Rehabilitation Tower: Thesis Project_RGG_JYL
- Creator
- Garcia, Rodrigo, Lee, Jennifer
- Date
- 5/4/2011, 2011-05
- Description
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to create a vertical community bound together by two key issues/requirements in Korean society: urban agriculture and mental health care to...
Show moreto create a vertical community bound together by two key issues/requirements in Korean society: urban agriculture and mental health care to create a ‘vertical façade farm’ capable of producing 156 tons of vegetables (predominantly lettuce, tomatoes, peppers, and strawberries) and 200 tons of fish per year to create a mental health sanctuary (or sanatorium) that provides short term (days), midterm (months) and long term (years) residence and care for people with mental health issues that may require physical operations and/or psychological care. to actively engage the mental health residents in aspects of the agricultural production to draw on research showing that engagement with plants/nature assists in mental healing. to create a large multi-purpose space at the ground floor of the building which will largely serve as a farmer’s market for sale of the agricultural produce and engagement between the community residents and the public to create a series of gardens/green spaces at height within the complex, as well as vertical green walls, for healing (residents and urban issues) to use the double-skin ‘façade farm’ for assisting in passive natural ventilation of internal spaces
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- Title
- Reinforced Porous Ceramic Bone Prosthesis
- Creator
- Bortz, Seymour A., Rechter, Harold L., Bazell, Seymour
- Date
- 2009-04-29, 1972-05-16
- Description
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A structural member having a core of porous material permitting fluid flow and an outer layer of composite material having rigid matrix with...
Show moreA structural member having a core of porous material permitting fluid flow and an outer layer of composite material having rigid matrix with reinforcing material embedded therein. The member finds its primary use in prosthetics.
Sponsorship: IIT Research Institute
United States Patent
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- Title
- HIGH PERFORMANCE AND LOW POWER HARDWARE IMPLEMENTATION FOR CRYPTOGRAPHIC HASH FUNCTIONS
- Creator
- Zhang, Yunlong
- Date
- 2013-04-30, 2013-05
- Description
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In this thesis, we introduce hash encryption functions which are widely used in a number of protocols as digital signature to protect privacy...
Show moreIn this thesis, we introduce hash encryption functions which are widely used in a number of protocols as digital signature to protect privacy information. Since the hash algorithm can be speeded up and be more security by physical protection, hash function hardware implementation is more desired today for evaluating its performance and processing data with dramatically increased size. Then we consider those two problems in the hash function hardware implementation: throughput and power consumption. High level of throughput is significant for the efficiency of hash algorithm. By using unfolding transformation, the throughput of hash function can be increased apparently. However, power consumption, area and critical path delay will also be increased. Pipeline and parallelism is an effective technique to decrease the critical path delay, by analyzing the construction of computing process. Another Problem is power consumption which will influence the reliability and cost of device. Clock gating is a widely used and efficiency technique for dynamic power reducing at register transfer level (RTL). There are two basic modes for single level clock gating: XOR-based clock gating and load-enable based clock gating [13]. The former one is based on the comparing between output and input of flip-flops (FFs). Although this XOR-based clock gating technique is not used in our hash function hardware implementation, we will briefly introduce some techniques of this method which is our previous research work for dynamic power reduction by comparing some RTL low power techniques. x Next, load-enable based clock gating which works with an enable signal is introduced. According to the idle mode of some components in our simply hash encryption system, we use this load-enable based clock gating to eliminate wasted toggle rate of some signals, thus reducing dynamic power consumption. Finally, according to the source of dynamic power dissipation, reducing clock frequency is another choice. Frequency trade-off technique is proposed, which combines unrolling transformation with frequency scaling. In this technique, a scope of frequency value is given in each hash function with different number of iteration rounds for trading off low dynamic power consumption and high throughput.
M.S. in Electrical Engineering, May 2013
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- Title
- Constant Speed Drive for Magnetic Record Members
- Creator
- Camras, Marvin
- Date
- 1953-01-06
- Description
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Sponsorship: Armour Research Foundation of Illinois Institute of Technology
United States Patent
- Title
- REAL TIME STATIC SCENE 3D RECONSTRUCTION USING DEPTH SENSORS FOR AUGMENTED TELEOPERATION
- Creator
- Srinivasan, Ranga Ramanujam
- Date
- 2015, 2015-05
- Description
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In the first part of this Master’s Thesis, literature survey is done to find the best performing algorithm in terms of real-time performance...
Show moreIn the first part of this Master’s Thesis, literature survey is done to find the best performing algorithm in terms of real-time performance and quality of 3D reconstruction from depth images. Kinfu of PCL is found to be the best in terms of real-time performance and maintainability, as it is open-source software, with thousands of users working on to improve it. The primary part of the thesis is to improve on the 3D reconstruction quality of Kinfu and this is achieved by improving on the three important stages of Kinfu, Depth Filtering, Pose-estimation and 3D reconstruction. A new Anisotropic depth filtering kernel is proposed and it is found to give 23% quantitative improvement over baseline Kinfu. A modified pose-estimation which incorporates the uncertainty or error characteristics of the depth measured as part of the ICP algorithm is proposed. This results in a 51% quantitative improvement and a big subjective quality improvement over baseline Kinfu. A similar approach based on depth error characteristics but applied to 3D reconstruction stage which is based on an already published paper [1], is implemented. All the improvements in each of the three stages are combined together, to get a robust, real-time 3D reconstruction framework.
M.S. in Electrical Engineering, May 2015
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- Title
- The Collegiate Strip: An Urban Renewal of Main Street
- Creator
- Wade, Jessica
- Date
- 2012-04-30, 2012
- Description
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This project was a look at redeveloping Main Street in Buffalo,New York to become a new Collegiate Strip for College students. The detailed...
Show moreThis project was a look at redeveloping Main Street in Buffalo,New York to become a new Collegiate Strip for College students. The detailed site located at the intersection of Jewett Avenue and Main Street provided a new 'Arts Node' where students could live, perform, and practice their given talents. This site also provided a connection to the existing Tri-Main Center which allows public display space for artistic individuals. An infrastructural addition over the existing railway system provided additional outdoor space labeled a 'social alley' that connected Main Street and Jewett Avenue and provided more creative space between the Tri-Main Center and the new Arts Node.
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- Title
- High-rise mix-use: Mei Chuan Master Project booklet
- Creator
- Mei, Chuan
- Date
- 2012-05-02, 2012-05
- Title
- HIGH RISE BUILDING: var
- 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
- Cure for the IKIA Syndrome : presented at IACRL 2008 conference
- Creator
- Uth, Charles, Link, Jeanne
- Date
- 2008-02
- Description
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Informal observations of a practical and creative approach piloting Blended Library Instruction for undergraduate Civil Architecture and...
Show moreInformal observations of a practical and creative approach piloting Blended Library Instruction for undergraduate Civil Architecture and Engineering students, in collaboration with faculty. At Illinois Institute of Technology students don’t receive library instruction as a required class or in tandem with a composition class. Faculty will schedule one-time sessions, which ideally should be planned with a class assignment in mind, but students are rarely engaged with a one time instruction. Many have IKIA syndrome or I Know It Already syndrome. The Millennials are a group that has integrated technology into every aspect of their lives and they assume that retrieving useful or necessary information will be easy. When they discover this isn’t the case lack of time, heightened anxiety, and increased frustration can prevent them from doing their best work. By intentionally creating a similar crisis prior to library instruction, students were more interested in what they stood to gain during pending library instruction. In this presentation we will discuss: 1) A creative means of delivering library instruction to a traditionally challenging population: engineering undergraduate students 2) Qualitative information collected via multiple assignments and interpreted in a quantitative fashion, as well as our observations. 3) A method for preparing students for library instruction that can be applied in almost any discipline without asking the instructor to sacrifice class time.
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- Title
- Magnetic Recorder Head Assembly
- Creator
- Camras, Marvin
- Date
- 1956-02-28
- Description
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Sponsorship: Armour Research Foundation of Illinois Institute of Technology
United States Patent
- Title
- Computational Aeroacoustics
- Creator
- Raman, Ganesh
- Date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Multi-Science Pub.
- Title
- A study and test of a boiler efficiency indicator
- Creator
- Wetzel, Guy F.
- Date
- 2009, 1916
- Publisher
- Armour Institute of Technology
- Description
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http://www.archive.org/details/studytestofboile00wetz
Thesis (B.S.)--Armour Institute of Technology
- Title
- HIGH RISE BUILDING: turbine detail view
- 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
- Cure for the IKIA Syndrome : presented at IACRL 2008 conference: revised_assignment1for approval
- Creator
- Uth, Charles, Link, Jeanne
- Date
- 2008-02
- Description
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Informal observations of a practical and creative approach piloting Blended Library Instruction for undergraduate Civil Architecture and...
Show moreInformal observations of a practical and creative approach piloting Blended Library Instruction for undergraduate Civil Architecture and Engineering students, in collaboration with faculty. At Illinois Institute of Technology students don’t receive library instruction as a required class or in tandem with a composition class. Faculty will schedule one-time sessions, which ideally should be planned with a class assignment in mind, but students are rarely engaged with a one time instruction. Many have IKIA syndrome or I Know It Already syndrome. The Millennials are a group that has integrated technology into every aspect of their lives and they assume that retrieving useful or necessary information will be easy. When they discover this isn’t the case lack of time, heightened anxiety, and increased frustration can prevent them from doing their best work. By intentionally creating a similar crisis prior to library instruction, students were more interested in what they stood to gain during pending library instruction. In this presentation we will discuss: 1) A creative means of delivering library instruction to a traditionally challenging population: engineering undergraduate students 2) Qualitative information collected via multiple assignments and interpreted in a quantitative fashion, as well as our observations. 3) A method for preparing students for library instruction that can be applied in almost any discipline without asking the instructor to sacrifice class time.
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- Title
- Densifying Magnesia
- Creator
- Atlas, Leon M.
- Date
- 1958-02-11
- Description
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Sponsorship: Armour Research Foundation of Illinois Institute of Technology
United States Patent
- Title
- reVOLT: An Electric Vehicle Charging Station Prototype: Bristow_Abby_EVStation
- Creator
- Bristow, Abby
- Date
- 5/4/2011, 2011-05
- Description
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An electric vehicle charging station prototype. The project proposes coupling vehicle charging with other revenue generating program that...
Show moreAn electric vehicle charging station prototype. The project proposes coupling vehicle charging with other revenue generating program that grows and shrinks according to site restrictions. A small, medium, and large prototype are developed.
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- Title
- ENABLING TOOLS FOR SINGLE CELL ANALYSIS
- Creator
- Li, Zhaoxia
- Date
- 2011-07, 2011-07
- Description
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Cells are basic functional units of life. A cell function is mediated by proteins and genes, whose distribution and expression level depends...
Show moreCells are basic functional units of life. A cell function is mediated by proteins and genes, whose distribution and expression level depends remarkably on the microenvironment. In the native environment, individual cells behave differently but communicate with surrounding cells. It is imperative to investigate proteins and genes at the single cell level in their native environment. The current representative single cell analysis methods, fluorescent techniques, are the most direct tools to study a single cell. The commonly used methods to measure protein and gene expression levels in single cells are on the basis of fluorescence labeling, such as fluorescence-activated cell sorting and live cell microscopy. They become more powerful when combine with the use of microfluidic devices. The disadvantages of these methods are, (1) their limited sensitivity doesn’t allow the detection of low-abundance proteins and genes; (2) they are unable to detect the cell-to-cell difference within a population; (3) the cell-sorting based method is lack of spatial resolution since the isolation of cells from the natural environment is required for analysis. To tackle these challenges, we established atomic force microscopy based approaches for in-situ gene and protein analysis on a target single live cell. The methods provide the spatial and quantitative information of cells in their native culture environment. They are effective and sensitive to detect low-abundant proteins and genes. In this thesis work, we developed a novel immunofluorescence assisted affinity mapping (IF-AM) method, in which immunofluorescence provides the guidance to locate a desired type of cell in a cell community for performing affinity mapping to quantify the local protein density at a high spatial resolution. Due to the ability of directly assessing proteins of individual cells, the IF-AM method is shown to be a sensitive tool for xiii resolving subtle differences in the local expression of membrane proteins even at low abundance. In the following work, we improved the accuracy of protein quantification by adapting the separation work based calculation rather than the previously used maximum adhesion force based calculation, and established a practical model to analyze the data systematically. We applied the methods to investigate the membrane proteins TRA-1-81 and E-cadherin on human embryonic stem cells. The heterogeneous distribution of TRA- 1-81 and the homogeneous distribution of E-cadherin as well as the quantitative measurement of the protein local abundance provided comprehensive information in understanding the strategy of hES cells to maintain the stemness during cell proliferation and to initiate the differentiation. An mRNA retrieval method was also developed to perform the gene expression analysis on a single cell of a desired type in a cell community. This was achieved by using a functionalized AFM tip as a bait to bind and retrieve mRNA from a desired single cell, followed by sensitive Quantitative Polymerase Chain Reaction (Q-PCR) analysis. The extraction of mRNA from live cells was performed with non/negligible damage to the cells. The established method here enabled the gene expression analysis of individual live cells at the original sites without disrupting the cell context. Thus the gene expression of a target cell and its surrounding cells can be analyzed in parallel, deriving concrete data for understanding the behavior of one cell in concert with that of the surrounding cells in the same or different cell population. The method was successfully applied in the study of side population cells in ovarian cancer cells. The methods developed in this thesis are versatile, and can be broadly applied to the study of different membrane proteins and genes of various cell types.
Ph.D. in Chemistry, July 2011
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