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Title: Dielectric Resonator Phase Shifting Frequency Discriminator
Creator: Wong, Thomas T. Y., Nagode, Thomas D., Khesbak, Sabah
Date: 2009-05-11, 1998-12-08
Description: A dielectric resonator frequency discriminator comprising a microstrip, a single mode dielectric resonator coupled to the microstrip, at least...
Show moreA dielectric resonator frequency discriminator comprising a microstrip, a single mode dielectric resonator coupled to the microstrip, at least one detector for detecting an RF signal coupled to the microstrip and an RF input for introducing an RF signal coupled to the microstrip.
Sponsorship: Illinois Institute of Technology
United States Patent
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Title: Influence of the target on multiparticle production in the forward domain in p+Pb collisions at 158 GeV, Proceedings of the XLIII International Symposium on Multiparticle Dynamics
Creator: Rybczyński, Maciej
Date: 2013-09-15, 2013-09-15
Publisher: IIT Press
Description: In this talk we show the influence of the target on multiparticle production in the forward hemisphere in p+Pb collisions at top SPS energy....
Show moreIn this talk we show the influence of the target on multiparticle production in the forward hemisphere in p+Pb collisions at top SPS energy. The multiplicity distributions appear to be almost target independent in the projectile fragmentation domain and the effect of fluctuations of the number of target participants is not seen in the projectile fragmentation region. We compare the obtained results with those for p+p interactions and predictions of models.
Sponsorship: IIT College of Science, High Energy Physics Division of Argonne National Laboratory
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Title: STRUCTURAL CHARACTERIZATION OF THE FLIGHT MUSCLE OF MANDUCA SEXTA
Creator: Cheng, Yu-shu
Date: 2013-04-22, 2013-05
Description: There are several properties of the flight muscle Manduca sexta that are interesting. In its physiological characteristics, like mammalian...
Show moreThere are several properties of the flight muscle Manduca sexta that are interesting. In its physiological characteristics, like mammalian skeletal and cardiac striated muscle, it is a synchronous muscle. However, it is much more similar structurally to the more widely known asynchronous insect flight muscles of Drosophila and Lethocerus. The goal of the thesis is to study the structural characteristics and perform mechanical studies of dorsal and ventral muscle of Manduca flight muscle. In pursuit of this goal, a secondary purpose was to develop better storage conditions for skinned insect muscle which can maintain muscle structure and function. Maximum active force as a function of time in storage was compared for storing at 4℃ without glycerol and storing at -80℃ with 75% glycerol. The maximum force values were almost the same during days 0-4. However, the muscle stored at -80℃ with 75% glycerol gave higher active force in high calcium (pCa 4.5) solution over a longer time in storage than muscle stored at 4℃. Both ventral and dorsal muscles can deliver 40-50% of original active force for up to 21 days in storage. X-ray diffraction experiments were done to compare the response of chemically skinned Manduca flight muscle to temperature and to the induction of rigor. The lattice spacing (d10) decreased and intensity ratio I20/I10 increased when the temperature of the relaxing solution bathing the solution increased from 10℃ to 40℃. Lattice spacing (d10) decreased, but the I20/I10 intensity ratio increased slightly while concentration of dextran increased from 1% to 6%. Six percent dextran was insufficient to restore the in vivo lattice spacing.
M.S. in Molecular Biochemistry and Biophysics, May 2013
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Title: MONITORING, MODELING, AND TREATMENT OF ODORS/ODORANTS AT WATER RECLAMATION PLANTS
Creator: Zhang, Yanming
Date: 2012-04-23, 2012-05
Description: A thorough study including odor monitoring, modeling and treatment as three important aspects of odor control in WRPs has been performed in...
Show moreA thorough study including odor monitoring, modeling and treatment as three important aspects of odor control in WRPs has been performed in this research. Measurement of H2S emissions from odor sources was proven to be an essential step in odor monitoring program. The H2S emission rates were measured from various sources throughout a WRP for 9 sampling events during winter and summer. During summer, both the average and the maximum emission rates of H2S from liquid treatment processes increased significantly compared to those measured during winter. However, for solids-handling processes, the emission rates remained constant because sludge characteristics did not vary throughout the year. The total sulfide concentrations present in liquid treatment processes were higher than those in preliminary and primary treatment units but at much lower levels in secondary treatment. Rates of H2S emission from the headworks were correlated to daily average wastewater temperature, TKN concentration, and flow rate. AERMOD was used as the modeling tool to evaluate the odor impact of Egan WRP on the surrounding communities. The emission rates could significantly affect the modeling results. Long-term H2S monitoring increases the possibility of developing the proper emission rate for the worst-case scenario. Excluding the modeling during the night would avoid overestimation of odor impact and excessive odor control. In the laboratory-scale study of O3 oxidation of H2S, O3 oxidation was proven to be a fast and effective method to remove H2S from the odorous air emitted from wastewater treatment processes. The increased initial ratio of O3/H2S enhances the removal rate of H2S. The consumption ratio of O3/H2S is a function of input reactant ratios. A multiple linear regression model (R2=0.84) has been developed to predict the H2S residual for given initial H2S and O3 concentrations and reaction time. The increased moisture content of the odorous air enhanced the H2S removal while DMS and DMDS inhibit H2S removal by competing for the limited O3 supply.
Ph.D. in Environmental Engineering, May 2012
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Title: DETERMINATION OF REDUNDANCY IN STRUCTURES USING INTERVAL UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS
Creator: Amirshaghaghi, Sayeh
Date: 2014, 2014-05
Description: Existence of redundancy in structures plays an important role in increasing their safety and reliability. However, using state-of-the-art...
Show moreExistence of redundancy in structures plays an important role in increasing their safety and reliability. However, using state-of-the-art deterministic and probabilistic approaches, all possibilities for estimation of redundancy (e.g. due to occurrence of different damage scenarios) have not been considered. One of the methods to quantify the presence of uncertainties in a system is to use interval variables. In this work, a new method for estimating the redundancy using interval structural analysis is developed. This method, hereafter referred to as Interval Redundancy Analysis (IRA), is robust and considers possibilities of strength reduction for each element leading to failure. Independent intervals for reduction of the strength for five damage scenarios of intact, slightly damage, moderately damaged, severely damaged, and completely damaged as well as strength of each element are considered. A numerical example to show the behavior of the developed method with comparison to Monte-Carlo simulation results is presented.
M.S. in Civil Engineering, May 2014
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Title: Motor Control
Creator: Schwarz, Ernst L.
Date: 1945-07-10
Description: Sponsorship: Armour Research Foundation
United States Patent

Title: AN ADAPTIVE RESCALING SCHEME FOR COMPUTING HELE-SHAW PROBLEMS
Creator: Zhao, Meng
Date: 2017, 2017-07
Description: In this thesis, we develop efficient adaptive rescaling schemes to investigate interface instabilities associated with moving interface...
Show moreIn this thesis, we develop efficient adaptive rescaling schemes to investigate interface instabilities associated with moving interface problems. The idea of rescaling is to map the current time-space onto a new time-space frame such that the interfaces evolve at a chosen speed in the new frame. We couple the rescaling idea with boundary integral method to demonstrate the efficiency of the rescaling idea, though it can be applied to Cartesian-grid based method in general. As an example, we use the Hele-Shaw problem to examine the efficiency of the rescaling scheme. First, we apply the rescaling scheme to a slowly expanding interface. In the new frame, the evolution is dramatically accelerated, while the underlying physics remains unchanged. In particular, at long times numerical results reveal that there exist nonlinear, stable, self-similarly evolving morphologies. The rescaling idea can also be used to simulate the fast shrinking interface, e.g. the Hele-Shaw problem with a time dependent gap. In this case, the rescaling scheme slows down the interface evolution in the new frame to remove the severe time step constraint that makes the long-time simulations prohibitive. Finally, we study an analytical solution to the stability of the interface of the Hele-Shaw problem, assuming a small surface tension under a time dependent flux Q(t). Following [116, 109], we find the motions of daughter singularity ζd and simple singularity ζ0 do not depend on the flux Q(t). We also find a criterion to identify the relation between ζ0 and ζd.
Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics, July 2017
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Title: Method of Making Acetals and Compositions Resulting Thereform
Creator: Sosnovsky, George
Date: 1964-06-30
Description: Sponsorship: IIT Research Institute
United States Patent

Title: Aeroacoustic Features of Coupled Twin Jets with Spanwise Oblique Shock-Cells
Creator: Panickar, P., Srinivasan, K., Raman, G.
Date: 2004-11-22
Publisher: Academic Press Ltd Elsevier Science Ltd
Description: This paper experimentally investigates the aeroacoustics of coupled twin jets of complex geometry. The study was motivated by the fact that...
Show moreThis paper experimentally investigates the aeroacoustics of coupled twin jets of complex geometry. The study was motivated by the fact that twin jet configurations that are commonly used in aircraft propulsion systems can undergo unpredictable resonant coupling resulting in structural damage. Further, nozzles with spanwise oblique exits are increasingly being considered for their aerodynamic and acoustic advantages, as well as stealth benefits. Although several studies have examined aspects of twin jet coupling, very little data is available on the coupling of jets from nozzles of complex geometry. Our study focuses on twin convergent nozzles with an aspect ratio of 7 with spanwise oblique exits operated over the fully expanded Mach number range from 1.3 to 1.6. The inter-nozzle spacing (s/h) was varied from 7.4 to 13.5. However, the focus remained on the lower spacing that is more representative of aircraft applications. Several interesting results have emerged from this study: (1) Coupling of twin nozzles with a beveled exit was observed only when the beveled edges faced each other and the nozzles formed a 'V' shape in the inter-nozzle region. Specifically, if the two beveled edges were oriented away from each other to form an arrowhead (W) shape no coupling was observed. (2) Despite the presence of spanwise antisymmetric, spanwise symmetric and spanwise oblique modes for the single nozzles, only the first two modes were evident in the coupling. (3) The symmetric coupling produced unsteady pressures in the inter-nozzle region that were up to 7.5 dB higher than the antisymmetrically coupled case. (4) Dynamic tests conducted by moving the nozzles apart while they were operating or by continuously changing the stagnation pressure at fixed inter-nozzle spacing revealed that coupling modes could co-exist at non-harmonically related frequencies. These dynamic tests reproduced the static test data. (5) The frequency of both coupling modes agrees with the higher order waveguide modes based on Tam's theory. (6) Differences in broadband shock noise between the 'V' and 'A' configurations were also documented. Our results provide an understanding of complex twin jet coupling and will serve as benchmark data for validating computational models. (C) 2003 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jsv.2003.10.011
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Title: The potential importance of low luminosity and high energy at the LHC, Proceedings of the XLIII International Symposium on Multiparticle Dynamics
Creator: White, Alan R.
Date: 2013-09-15, 2013-09-15
Publisher: IIT Press
Description: Low luminosity runs at higher LHC energy could provide definitive evidence for an electroweak scale sextet quark sector of QCD that produces...
Show moreLow luminosity runs at higher LHC energy could provide definitive evidence for an electroweak scale sextet quark sector of QCD that produces electroweak symmetry breaking and dark matter within the bound-state S-Matrix of QUD - a massless, weak coupling, infra-red fixed-point, SU(5) field theory that might underly and unify the full Standard Model.
Sponsorship: IIT College of Science, High Energy Physics Division of Argonne National Laboratory
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Title: Tests on a four-cycle automobile engine
Creator: Barrett, D. O., Morgan, C. W.
Date: 2009, 1908
Publisher: Armour Institute of Technology
Description: http://www.archive.org/details/testsonfourcycle00barr
Thesis (B.S.)--Armour Institute of Technology; Bibliography: leaves 1-3

Title: WIRELESS SCHEDULING IN MULTI-CHANNEL MULTI-RADIO MULTIHOP WIRELESS NETWORKS
Creator: Wang, Zhu
Date: 2014, 2014-07
Description: Maximum multi ow (MMF) and maximum concurrent multi ow (MCMF) in multi-channel multi-radio (MC-MR) wireless networks have been well-studied in...
Show moreMaximum multi ow (MMF) and maximum concurrent multi ow (MCMF) in multi-channel multi-radio (MC-MR) wireless networks have been well-studied in the literature. They are NP-hard even in single-channel single-radio (SC-SR) wireless networks when all nodes have uniform (and xed) interference radii and the positions of all nodes are available. This disertation studies maximum multi ow (MMF) and maximum concur- rent multi ow (MCMF) in muliti-channel multi-radio multihop wireless networks under the protocol interference model in the bidirectional mode or the unidirectional mode. We introduce a ne-grained network representation of multi-channel multi- radio multihop wireless networks and present some essential topological properties of its associated con ict graph. It was proved that if the number of channels is bounded by a constant (which is typical in practical networks), both MMF and MCMF admit a polynomial-time ap- proximation scheme under the protocol interference model in the bidirectional mode or the unidirectional mode with some additional mild conditions. However, the run- ning time of these algorithms grows quickly with the number of radios per node (at least in the sixth order) and the number of channels (at least in the cubic order). Such poor scalability stems intrinsically from the exploding size of the ne-grained network representation upon which those algorithms are built. In Chapter 2 of this dissertation, we introduce a new structure, termed as concise con ict graph, on the node-level links directly. Such structure succinctly captures the essential advantage of multiple radios and multiple channels. By exploring and exploiting the rich structural properties of the concise con ict graphs, we are able to develop fast and scalable link scheduling algorithms for either minimizing the communication latency or maximizing the (concurrent) multi ow. These algorithms have running time growing linearly in both the number of radios per node and the number of channels, while not sacri cing the approximation bounds. While the algorithms we develop in Chapter 2 admit a polynomial-time ap- proximation scheme (PTAS) when the number of channels is bounded by a constant, such PTAS is quite infeasible practically. Other than the PTAS, all other known approximation algorithms, in both SC-SR wireless networks and MC-MR wireless networks, resorted to solve a polynomial-sized linear program (LP) exactly. The s- calability of their running time is fundamentally limited by the general-purposed LP solvers. In Chapter 3 of this dissertation, we rst introduce the concept of interference costs and prices of a path and explore their relations with the maximum (concurrent) multi ow. Then we develop purely combinatorial approximation algorithms which compute a sequence of least interference-cost routing paths along which the ows are routed. These algorithms are faster and simpler, and achieve nearly the same approximation bounds known in the literature. This dissertation also explores the stability analysis of two link scheduling in MC-MR wireless networks under the protocol interference model in the bidirectional mode or the unidirectional mode. Longest-queue- rst (LQF) link scheduling is a greedy link scheduling in multihop wireless networks. Its stability performance in single-channel single-radio (SC-SR) wireless networks has been well studied recently. However, its stability performance in multi-channel multi-radio (MC-MR) wireless networks is largely under-explored. We present a stability subregion with closed form of the LQF scheduling in MC-MR wireless networks, which is within a constant factor of the network stability region. We also obtain constant lower bounds on the efficiency ratio of the LQF scheduling in MC-MR wireless networks under the protocol interference model in the bidirectional mode or unidirectional mode. Static greedy link schedulings have much simpler implementation than dy- namic greedy link schedulings such as Longest-queue-frst (LQF) link scheduling. However, its stability performance in multi-channel multi-radio (MC-MR) wireless networks is largely under-explored. In this dissertation, we present a stability subre- gion with closed form of a static greedy link scheduling in MC-MR wireless networks under the protocol interference model in the bidirectional mode. By adopting some special static link orderings, the stability subregion is within a constant factor of the stable capacity region of the network. We also obtain constant lower bounds on the throughput efficiency ratios of the static greedy link schedulings in some special static link orderings.
Ph.D. in Computer Science, July 2014
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Title: Presentation to CARLI collections group
Creator: Uth, Charles
Date: 2010-04-13T13:25:24Z

Title: Chemical Process Performance Evaluation
Creator: Cinar, Ali, Palazoglu, Ahmet, Kayihan, Ferhan
Date: 2007
Publisher: CRC Press

Title: High Throughput Non-Photochemical Laser Induced Nucleation
Creator: Myerson, Allan S.
Date: 2009-05-14, 2004-05-11
Description: A method for the high-throughput non-photochemical laser induced nucleation of crystals from aged supersaturated solutions in which short high...
Show moreA method for the high-throughput non-photochemical laser induced nucleation of crystals from aged supersaturated solutions in which short high-intensity laser pulses are used to induce nucleation in an array or sequence aged supersaturated solutions. The laser reduces nucleation time and induces nucleation only in the area where the beam is focused or passes through, resulting in fewer nuclei than would be achieved by spontaneous nucleation. The high-throughput methodologies allow more crystals to grow in a given amount of time.
Sponsorship: Illinois Institute of Technology
United States Patent
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Title: Wind Turbine Building
Creator: Tseng, Ling Yi
Date: 5/4/2011, 2011-05
Description: Wind Turbine Building with Venturi Tube
Sponsorship: Land, Peter

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: Switched Reluctance Machine
Creator: Desai, Piyush C., Emadi, Ali
Date: 2009-05-19, 2007-06-12
Description: A switched reluctance machine (SRM) having a rotor and stator pole numerical relationship of S number of stator poles and R number of rotor...
Show moreA switched reluctance machine (SRM) having a rotor and stator pole numerical relationship of S number of stator poles and R number of rotor poles, where R=2S-2, when S is greater than 4; provides improved power density, torque production, torque ripple, and acoustic noise, and is readily adaptable to existing hardware such as known controllers and the like.
Sponsorship: Illinois Institute of Technology
United States Patent
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Title: Magnetic Transducer Head
Creator: Camras, Marvin
Date: 1951-04-24
Description: Sponsorship: Armour Research Foundation of Illinois Institute of Technology
United States Patent

Title: Preparation of 1-Benzoyloxydipropyl Sulfide
Creator: Sosnovsky, George
Date: 4/23/2009, 1966-12-06
Description: Sponsorship: IIT Research Institute
United States Patent

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