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Title: Ozone Delivery System Binder
Creator: Cooper, Kerri, Lee, Alvin, Slade, Peter
Date: 2010-09-10T18:51:34Z
Description: Development and validation of the Ozone Delivery System

Title: Fab Lab: Creating Design-to-Prototype Learning Modules at the Museum of Science and Industry (sequence unknown), IPRO 333 - Deliverables: IPRO 333 Final Report F09
Creator: Bonesz, Andrew, Clark, Howard, Douglas, Carlie, Gajdorus, Michael, Gottschall, Keenan, Hendricks, Rachel, Kimball, Clayton, Linares, Jared, Marks, Paul, Mellom, James, Oblenida, Cindy, Pop, Sabina, Stelcel, Carl, Young, Jeremy, Zhou, Raymond
Date: 2009-12
Description: The primary objective of IPRO 333 is to partner the knowledge and ideas of young engineers, architects, and scientists at IIT with the...
Show moreThe primary objective of IPRO 333 is to partner the knowledge and ideas of young engineers, architects, and scientists at IIT with the resources of the Museum of Science and Industry (MSI) in Chicago. This partnership endeavors to help the museum's Fabrication Laboratory (Fab Lab) maximize its potential as a resource for museum guests, young and old, as well as for IIT students, staff, and faculty.
Sponsorship: Museum of Science and Industry. Steven Willis- Director, Fabrication Lab
Deliverables for IPRO 333: Fab Lab: Creating Design-to-Prototype Learning Modules at the Museum of Science and Industry for the fall 2009 semester
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Title: THE EFFECT OF FLOW ON MICROPARTICLE TRANSPORT AND THE ROLE OF MICROPARTICLES IN THROMBOSIS
Creator: Lee, Ying-hui
Date: 2012-11-27, 2012-12
Description: Elevated monocyte/macrophage-derived microparticles (MPs) have been found to correlate with thrombotic complications. These MPs carry tissue...
Show moreElevated monocyte/macrophage-derived microparticles (MPs) have been found to correlate with thrombotic complications. These MPs carry tissue factor (TF), the principal coagulation pathway initiator, as their parental cells and expose anionic phospholipid phosphatidylserine (PS), which can promote thrombin generation and fibrin formation. During thrombus development, MPs may be delivered to the injured/dysfunctional vascular endothelium or biomaterial surfaces and influence the process of thrombosis. MPs are submicron membrane vesicles that may have increased transport and/or binding capabilities compared to platelets or other cell types due to their decreased size and their higher Brownian diffusion. MPs and their surface molecules can be delivered to surfaces, either biological or prosthetic, and alter the local environment. Little is known of the mechanisms by which MPs are transported to and impart their biological activity on surfaces, especially in blood. Such a transfer of activity will depend on the ability of MPs to be transported to the surface, the strength of adhesion of the MPs on the surface and the nature of the activity/host interaction. In the present study, physical and biological properties of MPs generated from macrophage-like cell lines by endotoxin stimulation were characterized, the transport of MPs to surface by flow was investigated, and the import biological activity on surfaces was elucidated. We observed that the deposition of MPs suspended in buffer on glass surfaces was strongly shear-dependent using a well-defined parallel plate flow chamber. The diffusivity coefficients of MPs at shear rate ranges ranging from 100 to 3200 s-1 were determined from the classical mass transport equation proposed by Leveque and the values were found to be of the same order of magnitude as predicted by Brownian xi diffusion. MPs non-specific attachment to glass was dominated by electrostatic interactions; this was verified by changing the surrounding ionic strength of the suspending solution. In addition to shear rate, red blood cells (RBCs) also influenced MP adhesion due to the complex movement of RBCs. Such movement has been shown to enhance the adhesion of platelets (1-2 micron size cells) to surfaces in flowing blood. MP lateral transport was enhanced at low concentrations of RBCs and reduced at higher concentration of RBCs. The reduction of MP deposition was due to the competition for surface binding sites between the two populations of MPs. The two types of MPs studied here, those produced by macrophages after endotoxin stimulation and those produced by RBCs during experimental preparation (repeated centrifugal washing) have the capability of nonspecific binding to artificial surfaces in a competitive manner. Finally, we demonstrated that the amount of adherent MPs on surfaces influenced fibrin formation via both a TF-dependent and a negatively charged phospholipid pathway. These findings suggest that procoagulant MPs may modulate thrombotic events under certain conditions, especially in MP-associated diseases. The knowledge of the effects of flow on MP transport and the influence of increased MPs on thrombosis may provide novel insights for the transfer of biological activity to relatively passive surfaces.
PH.D in in Biomedical Engineering, December 2012
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Title: Overlap Overlay: Overlap Overlay
Creator: Wankel, Jordan
Date: 5/4/2011, 2011-05
Description: The purpose of this overlay is to provide the proper mechanics which allows a new type of home ownership while addressing current urban...
Show moreThe purpose of this overlay is to provide the proper mechanics which allows a new type of home ownership while addressing current urban vacancy. The overlay attempts to be democratic. It establishes basic rules based on the existing block requirements, while also providing flexibility within. Residents voluntarily participate in the system, benefiting from the whole. Social interactions, block orientated activities, and housing arrangements expand and contract over time.
Sponsorship: Goodman, David
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Title: Interactive Urban Landmark Kiosks for Memorial Walk of Martin Luther King (sequence unknown), IPRO 314 - Deliverables: IPRO 314 Brochure F09
Creator: O’leary, Kevin, Petty, Sonya, Qi, Tianshu, Tan, Sophia, Noor, Nashrah, Schleich, Kenneth, Akhtar, Ayesha, Cheng, Eric, Kim, James, Parker, Joseph, Saha, Sougata
Date: 2009-12
Description: The objective of this IPRO is to help the students of Gage Park H.S. bring their vision of a memorial to a historical event into existence.
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Show moreThe objective of this IPRO is to help the students of Gage Park H.S. bring their vision of a memorial to a historical event into existence.
Sponsorship: Gage Park High School
Deliverables for IPRO 314: Interactive Urban Landmark Kiosks for Memorial Walk of Martin Luther King for the fall 2009 semester.
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Title: ULTRASONIC RANGING AND INFRARED DEPTH PROFILING FOR 3D IMAGE RECOl'STRUCTION AND SCENE ANALYSIS
Creator: Jia, Weldi
Date: 2013, 2013-07
Description: This doctoral work cannot be done without the help, support and dedication of numerous people. First of all, I will give my great thanks to my...
Show moreThis doctoral work cannot be done without the help, support and dedication of numerous people. First of all, I will give my great thanks to my advisor Dr. Jafar Saniie, who is patient, fundamental and knowledgeable in providing advices, suggestions and guidance to all my six years' study. I would like to express my sincere thanks for his encouragement and nancial support during my study. I will never forget the days and nights he spent with me doing research work in the ECASP research lab. His spirit of carefully searching, friendly talking and knowledgeably thinking stays in my mind forever. My gratitude extends to my committee members, Dr. Anjali, Dr. Moderes and Dr. Oruklu. Also, I would like to give my thanks to my colleagues and friends, especially the people in ECASP research lab, Won-Jae, Sufeng, Thomas, Spenser and Pramod. Their kindness and powerful knowledge in di erent elds help me enhance my work so much. I will never forget the days debugging programs with them and the days we cheered for our success. I would like to dedicate this thesis to my family, especially to my grandfather who just passed away but gave me nancial support and advices from childhood till now, my father who is not able to speak after an accident during my study, my mother who is taking care of my father herself during the past six years, and my wife Wenhui Liu, who encouraged and helped me living in the United States. I promise that I will use what I learned from here to change the world and their constant support of my academic ventures from the beginning to the present would be valuable. Thank you Grandpa, rest in peace in heaven.
PH.D in Electrical Engineering, July 2013
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Title: Cure for the IKIA Syndrome : presented at IACRL 2008 conference: Cure For IKIA Syndrome: Cure For IKIA Syndrome: Cure For IKIA Syndrome
Creator: Uth, Charles, Link, Jeanne
Date: 2008-02
Description: 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: Jet-cavity Interaction Tones
Creator: Raman, G., Bencic, Tj, Envia, E.
Date: 2002-08
Publisher: American Inst Aeronaut Astronaut
Description: A fundamental study of resonant tones produced by jet-cavity interaction over a wide range of flow conditions covering both subsonic and...
Show moreA fundamental study of resonant tones produced by jet-cavity interaction over a wide range of flow conditions covering both subsonic and supersonic speeds is described. Two significant findings emerge. For the jet-cavity configurations investigated, a suitably defined reduced frequency parameter allows for a global classification of all jet-cavity tones into two main types. For the first type, the reduced frequency depends on the jet Mach number, whereas for the second type, the reduced frequency is independent of the jet Mach number. We propose simple correlations for the frequency of both types of tones. Based on earlier research, we had expected that the traditional classifications of cavity flows into the open, transitional, or closed variety would be insensitive to small changes in Mach number and would depend primarily on the cavity's LID ratio. However, use of the novel high-resolution photoluminescent pressure sensitive paint shows that these classifications are actually quite sensitive to the jet Mach number for jet-cavity interactions. However, these classifications provide no guidance for determining tone type, amplitude, or frequency.
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Title: Controller performance assessment by frequency domain techniques
Creator: Kendra, S. J., Cinar, A.
Date: 1997-06
Publisher: ELSEVIER SCI LTD
Description: A system identification based method for assessing the performance of closed-loop systems is proposed, utilizing measures which coincide...
Show moreA system identification based method for assessing the performance of closed-loop systems is proposed, utilizing measures which coincide naturally with classical and modern frequency domain design specifications. Standard robust control system design methodologies seek to maximize closed-loop performance, subject to strict robustness requirements and include specifications for bandwidth and peak magnitude of the sensitivity and complementary sensitivity functions. Estimates of these transfer functions can be obtained by exciting the reference input with a zero mean, pseudo random binary sequence, observing the process output and error response, and developing a closed-loop model. Performance assessment is based on the comparison between the observed frequency response characteristics and the design specifications. Selection of appropriate model structures, experiment design, and model validation which will ensure reasonable estimates of the closed-loop transfer functions are considered in this paper. A case study involving the performance assessment of a packed bed tubular reactor control system is presented.
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Title: Resonant interaction of a linear array of supersonic rectangular jets: An experimental study
Creator: Raman, G, Taghavi, R
Date: 1996-11-10
Publisher: CAMBRIDGE UNIV PRESS

Title: Using Assessment Data to Improve Library Services : presented at ILA 2007 conference: ILA_presentation_07_revised_final: ILA_presentation_07_revised_final
Creator: Stewart, Christopher, Uth, Charles
Date: 2007-10
Description: IIT Libraries conducted LibQUAL+ service quality assessment in 2004 and 2006. This presentation will outline strategies we undertook to...
Show moreIIT Libraries conducted LibQUAL+ service quality assessment in 2004 and 2006. This presentation will outline strategies we undertook to address issues identified in the 2004 assessment, and evaluate their success based on assessment results in 2006. We will also discuss the importance of measuring academic library effectiveness in higher education’s emerging outcomes-based culture.
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Title: Proton structure from multiparticle contribution to elastic pp-scattering at 7 TeV, Proceedings of the XLIII International Symposium on Multiparticle Dynamics
Creator: Dremin, I. M.
Date: 2013-09-15, 2013-09-15
Publisher: IIT Press
Description: The parton content of protons gets strong peripheral contribution at 1 fm from multiparticle dynamics as revealed by the overlap function in...
Show moreThe parton content of protons gets strong peripheral contribution at 1 fm from multiparticle dynamics as revealed by the overlap function in the unitarity condition for elastic pp-scattering at 7 TeV.
Sponsorship: IIT College of Science, High Energy Physics Division of Argonne National Laboratory
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Title: Easy Access, Early Exit? The Internet and the FDLP (preprint)
Creator: Griffin, Luke A., Ahrens, Aric G.
Date: 2004-07
Description: The article presents information on Federal Depository Library Program (FDLP). The majority of the twentieth century saw a marked growth in...
Show moreThe article presents information on Federal Depository Library Program (FDLP). The majority of the twentieth century saw a marked growth in the number of libraries participating in FDLP. The FDLP was established by Congressional resolution on December 27, 1813. On December 1, 1814, the American Antiquarian Society of Worcester, Massachusetts received the first documents distributed to a non-governmental body and became the first depository library. The primary purpose of the program was preservation of the historical record, not dissemination. Staff and funding issues and the availability of resources via the Internet points to the weight that libraries may be placing on the ability to provide information via the Internet on their decisions to remain in or to leave the FDLP. In today's work environment, in which increased productivity is expected and doing more with less is essential, the Internet can be an obvious alternative to physical collections, which require space and greater staff time and resources. In the last decade, the essential association between the ability to provide access to government information and participation in the FDLP has broken down.
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Title: EFFICIENT AND FAIR RESOURCE ALLOCATION FOR OFDMA NETWORKS
Creator: Alavi, Seyed Mohamad
Date: 2012-11-26, 2012-12
Description: In Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiple Access (OFDMA) systems, resources, including subcarriers, bits and power, need to be adaptively...
Show moreIn Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiple Access (OFDMA) systems, resources, including subcarriers, bits and power, need to be adaptively allocated to users in order to improve spectral efficiency, increase capacity, and reduce power consumption, while satisfying the Quality of Service (QoS) requirements for users. Most of the previous works concentrate on satisfying rate and power requirements, however providing delay requirement is also necessary, especially with increasing demand on delay-sensitive applications. We first model the resource allocation problem as a cross-layer optimization problem considering the constraints on bit error rate (BER), data rate, total power, as well as delay. We first develop a nonlinear optimization model, which generally requires high computation complexity. To consider a more realistic scenario, we take into account imperfect Channel State Information (CSI) due to estimation errors or channel feedback delay, and incorporate the imperfect CSI into the optimization problem formulation. We then derive the solution through a dual decomposition method. Due to the duality gap between the original and dual optimizations, we convert the non-linear optimization to an equivalent linear formulation so that an exact solution can be obtained. To further reduce the complexity, we develop a heuristic algorithm to provide a solution close to the optimum. Then, we study the notion of fairness in the context of resource allocation. In particular, cooperative game theory can be applied to OFDMA networks for fair resource allocation. We apply two cooperative games, Non-Transferable Utility (NTU) game and Transferable Utility (TU) game, to provide fairness in OFDMA networks. In NTU game, fairness is achieved by defining appropriate objective function, while in TU game, fairness is provided by forming the appropriate network structure. For NTU game, we analyze the Nash Bargaining Solution (NBS) as a solution of NTU game taking into account CSI and Queue State Information (QSI). In a TU game, we show that coalition among subcarriers to jointly provide rate requirements leads to better performance in terms of power consumpviii tion. We show that although NTU and TU games are modeled as rate adaptive and margin adaptive problems, respectively, but both solutions provide a fair distribution of resources with minimum fairness index of 0.8. Although NBS can provide fairness, the fairness is not from user perspective. In competitive fairness, which is based on auction theory, each user is responsible for his/her own action. A distributed allocation of resources in OFDMA networks is studied through auction theory. A combinatorial auction is formulated in which the users’ utility enforce the truthful resource demands. Since the original problem is NP hard, a method based on simulated annealing applied to find near-optimum results. Then, we turn our attention toward a more complicated scenario of multicell OFDMA networks. A combinatorial auction, which takes into account the interference from adjacent cells is presented. Auction objective is to minimize the interference, while power of users is limited. Due to the complexity of original problem, we apply a heuristic approach, in which the bids are ordered based on the linear programming approximation of combinatorial auction, and then local improvements are made in the order of bids. Our iterative approach along with the proposed load control scheme provides fair distribution of resources to the users, regardless of their position in the cell. Finally, we propose a comprehensive auction in OFDMA network. We present an auction framework for allocation of subcarriers, in which winner pays monitoring and entry fees, in addition to the price which he is paying for the allocated subcarrier. We prove that in our framework users will avoid bidding for the subcarriers where they have a relatively low chance of winning. We obtain optimal bidding strategy based on Bayesian Nash Equilibrium (BNE) in which users are maximizing their net profit. In a Fractional Frequency Reuse (FFR) implementation of frequency planning, we will find a focal distance which classifies the users into cell-center and cell-edge users. It is shown that the focal distance increases as the interference decreases.
PH.D in Electrical Engineering, December 2012
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Title: Finding Uses for Alternative Fuels in Intermodal Transportation Hubs (sequence unknown), IPRO 307 - Deliverables
Creator: Balakirev, Konstantin, Beau‐luby, Ryan, Bouikidis, John, Cargill, Matthew, Dziuba, David, Kehoe, Matthew, Slonski, Bryan, Tesfaye, Melat, Wiese, Matthew, Wiseman, Christopher, Zook, Joel
Date: 2009-12
Description: Chicago, being the third largest freight hub in the world, needs an efficient movement of goods for the increasing freight shipments.
Sponsorsh...
Show moreChicago, being the third largest freight hub in the world, needs an efficient movement of goods for the increasing freight shipments.
Sponsorship: Mi-Jack
Deliverables for IPRO 307: Finding Uses for Alternative Fuels in Intermodal Transportation Hubs for the fall 2009 semester.
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Title: Static and dynamic behavior of autocatalytic replicators in reactor networks
Creator: Tatara, E., Birol, I., Teymour, F., Cinar, A.
Date: 2004-07-07
Publisher: AMER CHEMICAL SOC
Description: The static and dynamic behavior of the autocatalytic reaction R + 2P --> 3P with decay P --> D is studied in networks of coupled continuous...
Show moreThe static and dynamic behavior of the autocatalytic reaction R + 2P --> 3P with decay P --> D is studied in networks of coupled continuous stirred tank reactors (CSTRs). Numerical bifurcation studies of the system are performed, resulting in rich steady-state bifurcation structures with multiple steady states and isolas. The heterogeneity of the networks is influenced by the number of reactors as well as the network topology. It is shown that the number of steady states of the network increases with heterogeneity, thereby allowing those autocatalytic species to exist in the network that would normally not exist in the homogeneous environment of a single CSTR. Spatial patterns of stable steady states are evident in reactor networks. Dynamic simulation studies are performed to illustrate the transition from one stable state configuration to another or from stable steady states to periodic regimes.
Endnote format citation for DOI:10.1021/ie030802d
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Title: Cohousing Dallas
Creator: Justin, Vaughan
Date: 2010-05-01, 2010-05-01
Description: 20 Households participated in the process of creating this Cohousing proposal. Cohousing is a type of collaborative housing in which residents...
Show more20 Households participated in the process of creating this Cohousing proposal. Cohousing is a type of collaborative housing in which residents actively participate in the design and operation of their own neighborhoods. The interactions with the participants included conversations and questionnaires aimed at bringing forth desired qualities of a residence and a larger community. The design proposal of this project attempts to reflect the individualities and shared qualities of its future cohabitants.
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Title: Power Measurement for Road Bicycles: Towards a Universal Solution (sequence unknown), IPRO 324 - Deliverables: IPRO 324 Midterm Presentation F09
Creator: Adrianzen, Luis, Allen, Ross, Antonio, Chris, Callan, Mark, Claxton, Sara, Diesse, Patrick, Gaylord, Matthew, Herbert, Greg, Shaffer, Dan, Wegrzyn, Celeste
Date: 2009-12
Description: The goal of the IPRO is to try to find an inexpensive, but accurate way of measuring the power output of a rider on a bicycle. Problems with...
Show moreThe goal of the IPRO is to try to find an inexpensive, but accurate way of measuring the power output of a rider on a bicycle. Problems with systems currently available are: some products are not compatible with all bike systems causing the need to purchase new parts, the cost of the available products is expensive, and some of the available measuring systems are not very accurate.
Deliverables for IPRO 324: Power Measurement for Road Bicycles: Towards a Universal Solution for the fall 2009 semester
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Title: STRUCTURE AND FUNCTION OF NATIVE AND EDITED DYSTROPHIN RODS
Creator: Sahni, Neha
Date: 2011-05-10, 2011-05
Description: The purpose of this study is to examine the biophysical properties of the rod region of the dystrophin protein. This is important due to the...
Show moreThe purpose of this study is to examine the biophysical properties of the rod region of the dystrophin protein. This is important due to the severity of the disease Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy, (DMD), which is associated with the malfunction of this protein. DMD is one of the most serious single gene genetic defects of man. This rod region consists of a number of repeat motifs called spectrin type repeats or STRs. The thermodynamical and biochemical stability analysis shows, which single motifs are unstable on their own and which ones become more stable when linked to their appropriate tandem neighbors. This knowledge will impact strategies to produce modified mini dystrophins for gene therapy. Exon skipping therapy is an emerging approach to treat such genetic diseases. This is done by the administration of modified antisense oligonucleotides, AONs, which can interfere with exon splicing process and eliminate certain exons from the mature transcript. Furthermore, the rod region has a number of ancillary functions, such as providing secondary binding sites for actin, neuronal NO synthetase and phospholipids, which may be adversely perturbed by the edits.
Ph.D. in Biological, Chemical, and Physical Sciences, May 2011
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Title: Flow characteristics of a rectangular multielement supersonic mixer-ejector
Creator: Taghavi, R, Raman, G
Date: 1996-10
Publisher: AMER INST AERONAUT ASTRONAUT

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