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- Planning for Human Implantation of a Cortical Visual Prosthesis (sequence unknown), IPRO 334 - Deliverables: IPRO 334 Midterm Presentation F09
- Creator
- Bern, David, Chen, Shanyl, Deroo, Mary, Gorski, David, Kelly, Thomas, Leasenby, Alex, Li, Zhi, Pyrkh, Hanna, Subhani, Maham, Taneja, Aanchal
- Date
- 2009-12
- Description
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The Intracortical Visual Prosthesis is based upon that concept that by implanting a large number of subminiature electrodes within the human...
Show moreThe Intracortical Visual Prosthesis is based upon that concept that by implanting a large number of subminiature electrodes within the human visual cortex, coordinated temporal-spatial image information can be artificially communicated to the human visual cortex in the form of electrical currents, acting as a sensory substitute for normal vision.
Sponsorship: IIT Laboratory of Neural Prosthetic Research
Deliverables for IPRO 334: Planning for Human Implantation of a Cortical Visual Prosthesis for the fall 2009 semester
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- Adaptive Reuse Hybrid Development
- Creator
- Jarzabkowski, Henry
- Date
- 5/4/2011, 2011-05
- Description
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Producing and designing a prototype hybrid use development strategy for a neighboring pair of preexisting historical building in Chicago’s...
Show moreProducing and designing a prototype hybrid use development strategy for a neighboring pair of preexisting historical building in Chicago’s North side community of Lakeview.
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- Title
- Space|Place: CharlottePage_Master'sProject_Board
- Creator
- Page, Charlotte
- Date
- 5/4/2011, 2011-05
- Description
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A commentary on Education: examination of the experience of the subject (space) in relation to the object (place).
Sponsorship: Conger-Austin,...
Show moreA commentary on Education: examination of the experience of the subject (space) in relation to the object (place).
Sponsorship: Conger-Austin, Susan
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- MANAGING STOCHASTIC WIND POWER GENERATION BY INCORPORATING DEMAND RESPONSE IN DAY-AHEAD SCHEDULING
- Creator
- Al Hassan, Hassan
- Date
- 2015, 2015-05
- Description
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This thesis proposes a stochastic algorithm for managing the variability of wind energy by incorporating hourly demand response in the day...
Show moreThis thesis proposes a stochastic algorithm for managing the variability of wind energy by incorporating hourly demand response in the day-ahead scheduling in power systems. Monte Carlo simulation with Latin hypercube sampling technique is applied to represent the uncertainties of wind energy via different wind scenarios. Demand response has several physical and operating constraints to be considered into the stochastic security-constrained unit commitment (SCUC) for economic, reliability, and security purposes. Benders decomposition method is applied to decompose the large-scale complex stochastic SCUC problem into several tractable problems. Different case studies are analyzed in this thesis to demonstrate the benefits of applying DR to the proposed day-ahead scheduling model with variable wind energy.
M.S. in Electrical Engineering, May 2015
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- VIEW SYNTHESIS OF THREE DIMENSIONAL VIDEOS USING VIDEO PLUS DEPTH
- Creator
- Loghman, Maziar
- Date
- 2012-07-02, 2012-05
- Description
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This thesis investigates the use of segmentation in view synthesis for three- dimensional video. View synthesis is the process of generating...
Show moreThis thesis investigates the use of segmentation in view synthesis for three- dimensional video. View synthesis is the process of generating novel views of a scene, using set of views as the reference. Recently, several techniques have been suggested that use the depth maps for rendering virtual views. However, inaccuracy in depth maps causes annoying visual artifacts in depth-based view synthesis. This thesis presents an e cient depth image-based rendering technique based on segmentation using multi-level thresholding. In the proposed algorithm, rst all the images are segmented according to the depth and the pixels belonging to di erent objects are warped and blended independently. Based on multi-level thresholding, an algorithm for nding the ghost contour pixels is provided which simpli es the computations. A novel method for inpainting for disocclusions is introduced which uses the segmented images to nd the associated background boundary pixels. The experimental results show that the proposed algorithm improves the PSNR of the synthesized views up to 0:68 dB for the multi-view video test sequences and eliminates the annoying artifacts.
M.S. in Electrical Engineering, May 2012
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- Sloan Valve Company (sequence unknown), IPRO 306 - Deliverables: IPRO 306 Midterm Presentation F09
- Creator
- Delahanty, Sean, Jaouen, Julien, Thakkar, Hetul, Jones, Santiago Guerrero, Kim, Sung, Toor, Hammad, Jalan, Arjun, Soleja, Sikander, Zhang, Yayan
- Date
- 2009-12
- Description
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Sloan Valve manufactures and distributes commercial valves and plumbing fixtures globally. The IPRO team will work to improve the 'procure to...
Show moreSloan Valve manufactures and distributes commercial valves and plumbing fixtures globally. The IPRO team will work to improve the 'procure to pay' process and also assist in the development of a new warehouse management module.
Sponsorship: Sloan Valve Company
Deliverables for IPRO 306: Sloan Valve for the fall 2009 semester.
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- The Odd Couple: FINAL SLIDESHOW
- Creator
- Bacheller, Tim
- Date
- 5/4/2011, 2011-05
- Description
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The socio-political structure of Belgium, a whole containing disparate parts, serves as the catalyst for The Odd Couple: two individual...
Show moreThe socio-political structure of Belgium, a whole containing disparate parts, serves as the catalyst for The Odd Couple: two individual secondary schools in Brussels, one Dutch-speaking, the other French-speaking, sharing the same site. The common element shared among the two schools is the public realm. Rather than shunning the public, the public is encouraged to actively engage in activities within the building. In this way the common spaces throughout the building take on the role of serving the needs and desires of both schools and the public, resulting in the necessity for dialogue and cooperation. By filtering program through a socio-political lens, a “school” typology emerges that emphasizes interaction and extramural learning.
Sponsorship: Conger-Austin, Susan
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- MULTIMODAL NEUROIMAGING IN BLAST INDUCED TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY
- Creator
- Stout, Jeffrey
- Date
- 2015, 2015-12
- Description
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Recent military conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan have resulted in an increase in the number of blast related traumatic brain injury (TBI)...
Show moreRecent military conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan have resulted in an increase in the number of blast related traumatic brain injury (TBI) cases, currently estimated in excess of 300,000. Current neuroimaging methods, including MRI and CT, are generally not sensitive enough to diagnose blast TBL This research represents several advancements in the understanding of long-term TBI related changes as well as imaging comorbid neurocognitive deficits and psychopathologies. The multi modal approach was taken to leverage the differing sensitivities of each imagmg modality to better identify neuroimaging changes associated with blast TBL T l-weighted MRI was utilized to assess cortical thickness reduction in the TBI subjects, resulting in right temporal lobe decreases that were associated with posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and neurobehavioral symptom indices. Utilizing positron emission tomography (PET), several areas of metabolic change were associated with blast TBI, PTSD, repetitive head injury, and TBI severity. Functional MRI was used to assess working memory deficit, demonstrating relatively normal function in the mild TBI subject, except for at higher cognitive loads; whereas the moderate TBI subjects demonstrated a trend of dysfunction at most levels of cognitive load. Fractional anisotropy (FA) changes were assessed using diffusion tensor imaging, however there was no resulting statistical significance due to differences in the locations of single subject FA changes that could not be realized at the group level using standard analyses. Investigation into multimodal searchlight to integrate the sensitivities of each imaging modality into a single statistical measure, provided enhanced sensitivity to TBI-induced changes in neuroimaging versus single modal searchlight and identified several clusters of change most notably in the cerebellum, temporal lobes, brainstem, and internal capsule. Through a multimodal approach we have shown several areas of damage and dysfunction associated with blast TBI in subjects greater than one year post injury. This research is important due to the large numbers of subjects currently experiencing long-term post concussive symptoms. Our findings show that both TBI and PTSD playa large role in the changes identified on neuroimaging. This research can provide information to assist in the understanding , diagnosis , and treatment of blast TBI.
Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering, December 2015
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- Pressure Sensitive Paint Demonstrates Relationship Between Ejector Wall Pressure and Aerodynamic Performance
- Creator
- Taghavi, R., Raman, G., Bencic, T.
- Date
- 1999-05
- Publisher
- Springer Verlag
- Description
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This paper provides an example of the application of Pressure Sensitive Paint (PSP) to complex internal suspersonic flows and demonstrates the...
Show moreThis paper provides an example of the application of Pressure Sensitive Paint (PSP) to complex internal suspersonic flows and demonstrates the relationship between ejector wall pressure and aerodynamic performance. Details of such jet mixer-ejector nozzles are relevant to jet noise reduction programs. Several ejector configurations with straight, convergent, and divergent side walls were used in our experiments. The side-wall that was painted with PSP was also instrumented with an array of 156 pressure taps connected to Electronically Scanned Pressure (ESP) modules, enabling simultaneous measurement of "true" reference pressures. The PSP results agreed very well with the "true" reference pressures and also provided a detailed map of the complicated pressure patterns that could not be detected using the pressure taps. Finally, we also demonstrated the direct relationship between ejector side-wall pressure distribution and ejector performance characteristics such as exit mean flow uniformity, pumping, and thrust augmentation.
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- HOW HOSTILE CRITICISM RELATES TO HEALTH FUNCTIONING AND MARITAL ADJUSTMENT IN PATIENTS WITH CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE AND THEIR PARTNERS
- Creator
- Hicks Iii, R. Elliott
- Date
- 2012-04-30, 2012-05
- Description
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Destructive communication and hostile interactions between spouses has been found to elicit large increases in systolic blood pressure, heart...
Show moreDestructive communication and hostile interactions between spouses has been found to elicit large increases in systolic blood pressure, heart rate, and cardiac output in patients (Nealey-Moore et al., 2007; Smith et al., 2009). This negatively impacts the cardiovascular health of the receiving partner. The present study was designed to assess the relationship between hostile criticism and patient report of marital satisfaction, physical health, and depressive symptomatology in a sample of couples participating in a cardiac risk reduction intervention. The current study uses archival data obtained during the Partners for Life cardiac risk reduction intervention for couples (Sher et al., 2002). Additionally, further observationally coded data was collected from video taped conversations recorded for the purposes of the Partners for Life study. Pearson correlation analyses indicate moderate negative relationships between Criticism and Marital Adjustment. Implications of these and other results are discussed.
M.S. in Clinical Psychology, May 2012
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- VIBRATION IN TRACTION MOTORS FOR ELECTRIC AND HYBRID ELECTRIC VEHICLES
- Creator
- Yang, Zhi
- Date
- 2014, 2014-12
- Description
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Due to increased fuel efficiency and lower cost/mile feature, electric vehicle (EV) and hybrid electric vehicle (HEV) are becoming more and...
Show moreDue to increased fuel efficiency and lower cost/mile feature, electric vehicle (EV) and hybrid electric vehicle (HEV) are becoming more and more popular. It is estimated that the sale of electric vehicles will reach 3.8 million by 2020, while hybrid vehicles will grow to 4% by 2020 from their current share of 2%. To meet this target, EV an HEV motors, the core energy conversion components, should not only satisfy specific requirements in performance and efficiency but also constrain vibration. This necessitates the analysis of vibration in traction motors for EV/HEV application. The primary objective of this dissertation is to characterize and compare the electromagnetic and vibrational behavior of typical traction motors (PMSM with distributed winding, PMSM with concentrated winding, IM, and SRM) over a wide torque speed range. For this purpose, weak-coupled analysis of electromagnetic force and structure are performed in ANSYS environment. The secondary aim of this dissertation is to develop a rotor position related variable switching frequency pulse width modulated (PWM) strategy to ameliorate the acoustic noise due to high frequency harmonic current. Switching frequency is modified online to adapt current ripple and vibration requirement, thus ameliorate the acoustic noise. It is expected that this strategy with variable switching frequency has the advantages of spreading the vibration spectrum and reducing switching losses. Experimentally verification is also performed. At the end of this dissertation, characterization of vibration behavior of switch reluctance machine with higher number of rotor poles than stator poles is performed.
Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering, December 2014
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- Design of a Large Scale Structure (sequence 315), IPRO 315 - Deliverables: IPRO 315 Project Plan F09
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- Aguilar-wedge, Carmen, Animashaun, Oladipo, Baur, Alex, Cullen, Michael, Hadi, Shuaib, Hedge, Namrata, Kuo, Steve, Lee, Christopher, Lee, Yongdoo, Rybaltowski, Karol, Scully, Dawveed, Shen, Jie-hua, Yousef, Shadi
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- 2009-12
- Description
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Located in Oakbrook, IL the architects and engineers of IPRO 315 will design a 22 story hotel. Together architects and engineers will modify...
Show moreLocated in Oakbrook, IL the architects and engineers of IPRO 315 will design a 22 story hotel. Together architects and engineers will modify and re analyze a structure created by pervious designers, and select any new materials for construction. In creating the hotel students will be responsible for the structural analysis of columns, beams, foundation, steel, and concrete design required to insure all serviceability requirements. The students will be required to follow the 2006 International Building Code, and secure the safety of all possible occupants. Management, leadership, ethics, and teamwork will be an integral part of building a large scale structure as students learn to work together on a “real life” project.
Deliverables for IPRO 315: Design of a Large Scale Structure for the fall 2009 semester
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- A study of the alternating current series motor
- Creator
- Peters, Williams H., Petty, Edwin W
- Date
- 2009, 1909
- Publisher
- Armour Institute of Technology
- Description
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http://www.archive.org/details/studyofalternati00pete
Thesis (B.S.)--Armour Institute of Technology
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- Finding Uses for Alternative Fuels in Intermodal Transportation Hubs (sequence unknown), IPRO 307 - Deliverables: IPRO 307 Poster F09
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- 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
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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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- Bloomingdale Trail Revival
- Creator
- Jeffrey, Johnson
- Date
- 2010-07-29
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- Church & School Energy Efficiency and Financing Program (sequence unknown), IPRO 328 - Deliverables
- Creator
- Ciuffini, Kathryn, Kim, Ja Young, Knapczyk, Robert, Mckinley, Matthew, O'brien, Patrick, Maddamma, Todd, Schafer, Michael, Soderling, Philip, Wedster, Bonnie
- Date
- 2009-12
- Description
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The Fall 2009 IPRO 328 team envisions the development and ultimately execution of a volunteer program which would facilitate the...
Show moreThe Fall 2009 IPRO 328 team envisions the development and ultimately execution of a volunteer program which would facilitate the implementation of energy saving improvements in a church and/or parochial school within the surrounding neighborhoods of IIT campus.
Sponsorship: Vince Cushing of Clean Urban Energy
Deliverables for IPRO 328: Church & School Energy Efficiency and Financing Program for the fall 2009 semester
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- PSYCHOSOCIAL FACTORS RELATED TO READING FLUENCY DURING THE TRANSITION FROM ORAL TO SILENT READING
- Creator
- Dreher, Taylor
- Date
- 2014, 2014-05
- Description
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The present study investigated how reading fluency is related to social desirability and academic self-concept during a critical period in...
Show moreThe present study investigated how reading fluency is related to social desirability and academic self-concept during a critical period in reading development for children. It was predicted that social desirability would be a better predictor of oral reading fluency, while academic self-concept would be a better predictor of silent reading fluency. Participants were sixty third-grade students from Catholic schools in a large metropolitan area. All children completed measures of oral reading fluency, silent reading fluency, academic self-concept, and social desirability. Multiple regression and dominance analysis supported the hypothesized relationships. Social desirability had a significant negative relationship with oral reading fluency, while academic self-concept was unrelated to oral reading fluency. In addition, academic self-concept had a significant positive relationship with silent reading fluency, while social desirability had a smaller, but still significant, negative relationship with silent reading fluency. The present findings suggest that psychosocial factors like social desirability and academic self-concept may help identify children who are at risk for reading underachievement. Future research should use a longitudinal design to examine if measuring social desirability and academic self-concept in third grade can predict important outcomes, such as reading fluency in fourth grade or beyond.
M.S. in Psychology, May 2014
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- Study of the starting torque in a polyphase synchronous motor
- Creator
- Marshall, H. B., Wright, M. E.
- Date
- 2009, 1905
- Publisher
- Armour Institute of Technology
- Description
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http://www.archive.org/details/studyofstartingt00mars
Thesis (B.S.)--Armour Institute of Technology
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- SURVIVAL AND ATTACHMENT OF SALMONELLA ENTERICA ON SELECT LOW MOISTURE NUT SURFACES
- Creator
- Zhang, Bo
- Date
- 2017, 2017-07
- Description
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Salmonella can contaminate various nuts and lead to human foodborne disease outbreaks and related product recalls in the United States. Nuts...
Show moreSalmonella can contaminate various nuts and lead to human foodborne disease outbreaks and related product recalls in the United States. Nuts have been identified as an increasingly common vector for human salmonellosis. The objective of this study was to evaluate the influence of environmental factors and Salmonella enterica serotypes on the survival and attachment of this pathogen on the surface of low moisture, raw in shell nuts. Two S. enterica strains (Enteritidis and Typhimurium) were individually tested on three different food samples (almonds, hazelnuts and black peppers) at 4°C or 25°C for up to 14 days. The storage relative humidity was maintained at 20±2% throughout the study. Nut samples were collected at 0, 1, 3, 7 and 14 days. The population of bacteria was calculated based on the plate count data. The results showed that S. Typhimurium attached and survived better than S. Enteritidis on almonds, hazelnuts and black peppers at both 4 and 25°C. A lower storage temperature led to a better survival of Salmonella on raw nuts during storage. The surface characteristics of hazelnuts resulted in the least Salmonella attachment compared to almond and black pepper.
M.S. in Food Safety and Technology, July 2017
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- CHARACTERIZATION OF A NOVEL TUMOR SUPPRESSOR BAX
- Creator
- Wang, Xin
- Date
- 2013-04-16, 2013-05
- Description
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Bax is a pro-death tumor suppressor. The loss of functional Bax expression can enhance the tumor growth. Recently we discovered a new family...
Show moreBax is a pro-death tumor suppressor. The loss of functional Bax expression can enhance the tumor growth. Recently we discovered a new family of functional Bax isoforms generated specifically in certain tumors; one of them is Bax 2 . In this thesis, I characterized the properties of Bax 2 protein by comparing with the parental Bax 2. Bax 2 was cloned into a GFP mammalian expression vector and transfected into the bax knockout cells. I examined Bax 2 expression, cellular distribution, and ability to induce cell death. The results show that the Bax 2 protein aggregated as granules around the nucleus in cytoplasm and induced more cell death than that from previously studied Bax 2. The results implicate that cancer patients with Bax 2 isoform might have better prognosis or response to treatment.
M.S. in Biology, May 2013
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