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Title: Alloy Systems and Process for the Manuafacture Thereof
Creator: Holtz, Frederick C
Date: 4/24/2009, 1970-08-25
Description: Sponsorship: IIT Research Institute
United States Patent

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: 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: HERAFitter - an open source QCD fit framework, Proceedings of the XLIII International Symposium on Multiparticle Dynamics
Creator: Starovitov, Pavel
Date: 2013-09-15, 2013-09-15
Publisher: IIT Press
Description: The patron distribution functions (PDFs) describe the parton content of the proton. They cannot be calculated from the first principle and are...
Show moreThe patron distribution functions (PDFs) describe the parton content of the proton. They cannot be calculated from the first principle and are to be determined empirically by fitting experimental observables to quantum chromodynamics (QCD) predictions. The HERAFitter project aims to provide a framework for QCD analyses of proton structure at leading order (LO), next-to-leading order (NLO) and next-to-next-to-leading (NNLO) orders in perturbative QCD. The framework includes various modules and interfaces enabling a large number of theoretical and methodological options. It also allows to study the impact of the new experimental data on the PDFs from ep, pp and pp̅ scattering processes. The fast development of the project involves active communication with theorists and experimentalist as well as a close collaboration with the main PDF fitting groups. Full information about the project, downloads and documentation can be found in http://herafitter.org.
Sponsorship: IIT College of Science, High Energy Physics Division of Argonne National Laboratory
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Title: Synthesizing Carbon from Sludge
Creator: Khalili, Nasrin R., Arastoopour, Hamid, Walhof, Laura K.
Date: 2009-05-11, 2000-02-29
Description: The synthesis of carbon, particularly in an activated form, from sludge materials such as composed of biosolids and the like is described...
Show moreThe synthesis of carbon, particularly in an activated form, from sludge materials such as composed of biosolids and the like is described wherein the treated material is subjected to processing including chemical activation, light and humidity treatment, pyrolysis and physical activation to result in an activated carbon of high surface area and microporosity.
Sponsorship: Illinois Institute of Technology
United States Patent
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Title: Magnetic Recorder
Creator: Camras, Marvin
Date: 1944-06-13
Description: Sponsorship: Armour Research Foundation
United States Patent

Title: QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS OF THE EFFECTS OF BIOFUNCTIONAL AND PHYSICAL GRADIENTS ON CELL BEHAVIOR IN POLY (ETHYLENE GLYCOL) DIACRYLATE HYDROGELS
Creator: Turturro, Michael
Date: 2012-10-29, 2012-12
Description: The continued enhancement of tissue engineered scaffolds relies on their ability to stimulate the formation of a stable microvascular network...
Show moreThe continued enhancement of tissue engineered scaffolds relies on their ability to stimulate the formation of a stable microvascular network within the biomaterial. In vivo, the spatial presentation of immobilized extracellular matrix cues and matrix mechanical properties play an important role in directed and guided cell behavior and neovascularization. The overall goals of this thesis are to develop a technique for the generation of gradients of physical properties and incorporated biofunctionality within poly(ethylene glycol) diacrylate (PEGDA) scaffolds and to investigate the effects of these gradients on 3D cell invasion and neovascularization. To this end, a novel photopolymerization technique for generating spatial variations in matrix properties and incorporated biofunctionality within synthetic PEGDA hydrogels, perfusion-based frontal polymerization (PBFP), was developed. This technique relies on the controlled perfusion of a photoinitiator to a reaction chamber containing a precursor solution and results in the propagation of a polymer reaction front that travels through the monomer solution creating a gradient in hydrogel crosslinking. Manipulation of the magnitude of the gradient can be achieved through alterations in the polymerization conditions. Scaffolds with embedded gradients were designed and optimized based on a range of properties shown to support 2D cell adhesion, proliferation, and 3D vascular cell invasion in bulk photopolymerized hydrogels with homogeneous properties. An in vitro model of neovascularization was used to evaluate the effect of these gradients on vascular sprout formation. Sprout invasion in gradient hydrogels occurred bi-directionally with sprout alignment observed in the direction parallel to the gradient while control hydrogels with homogeneous properties resulted in uniform invasion. In PBFP gradient hydrogels, sprout xvi length was found to be twice as long in the direction parallel to the gradient as compared to the perpendicular direction after three weeks in culture. This directionality was found to be more prominent in gradient regions of increased stiffness, crosslinked matrix metalloproteinase (MMP)-sensitive peptide presentation, and immobilized YRGDS concentration. In vivo tissue invasion was shown to be directly related to gradient properties and orientation. Alterations in the magnitude of the gradient in elastic modulus enhanced the directionality of invading vascular sprouts while restricting in vivo tissue invasion.
PH.D in Biomedical Engineering, December 2012
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Title: Collective dynamics of the p-Pb collisions at the LHC, Proceedings of the XLIII International Symposium on Multiparticle Dynamics
Creator: Broniowski, Wojciech, Bożek, Piotr
Date: 2013-09-15, 2013-09-15
Publisher: IIT Press
Description: We review the signatures for the soft collective dynamics in highest-multiplicity ultrarelativistic p-Pb collisions and show that the effects...
Show moreWe review the signatures for the soft collective dynamics in highest-multiplicity ultrarelativistic p-Pb collisions and show that the effects are well described in a three-stage model, consisting of the event-by-event Glauber initial conditions, viscous 3+1D hydrodynamics, and statistical hadronization. In particular, we discuss the ridges in two-particle correla- tions in the relative azimuth and pseudorapidity, the elliptic and triangular flow coefficients, and the mass hierarchy of observables sensitive to flow.
Sponsorship: IIT College of Science, High Energy Physics Division of Argonne National Laboratory
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Title: Pressure Shut-Off Assembly
Creator: Curth, Otto E.
Date: 1964-09-01
Description: Sponsorship: IIT Research Institute
United States Patent

Title: Redefining the Urban Lifestyle, West Englewood, Chicago, IL
Creator: Haberkost, Jesse
Date: 2010-07-29

Title: Electromagnetic Transducer Head
Creator: Camras, Marvin
Date: 1954-07-13
Description: Sponsorship: Armour Research Foundation of Illinois Institute of Technology
United States Patent

Title: Video Recording System
Creator: Camras, Marvin
Date: 2009-04-30, 1973-06-05
Description: In the disclosed embodiments the video signal is recorded on successive longitudinal tracks with high frequency bias. The sound may be...
Show moreIn the disclosed embodiments the video signal is recorded on successive longitudinal tracks with high frequency bias. The sound may be recorded transversely on adjacent tracks or may be recorded with the video as pulse modulation in the horizontal blanking intervals. The video bias frequency is selected so as to avoid beat notes with the video signal. The horizontal and vertical sync signals may be amplified separate from the composite video and then added thereto so as to record sync signals of increased amplitude. The picture signal from a television receiver may be recorded without further amplification.
Sponsorship: IIT Research Institute
United States Patent
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Title: BIODESULFURIZATION IMPROVEMENT OF A SYMBIOTIC PAENIBACILLUS CULTURE UTILIZING VITREOSCILLA HEMOGLOBIN
Creator: Liu, Benjamin Kwan
Date: 2015, 2015-05
Description: Biodesulfurization (BDS) of petroleum has been investigated as an alternative method to conventional chemical desulfurization for many years....
Show moreBiodesulfurization (BDS) of petroleum has been investigated as an alternative method to conventional chemical desulfurization for many years. Despite its potential to be an environmentally benign method, it has not been developed sufficiently to be useful in real world applications. This is due to its low efficiency and the necessity for it to work at temperatures high enough to lower the viscosity of petroleum so that mixing can be achieved. This study places the spotlight on two strains of Paenibacillus isolated in our laboratory that, together, possess biodesulfurization ability at moderately high temperatures and attempts to enhance biodesulfurization by expression of Vitreoscilla hemoglobin (VHb) in the Paenibacillus strains. The effects of expression of the VHb gene (vgb) on growth and desulfurizing activity was examined in a symbiotic system between the Paenibacillus strains 32O-Y and 32O-W. Of the two, 32O-Y is the one with the ability to metabolize dibenzothiophene (DBT), a common compound in petroleum that contains organic sulfur, while 32O-W enhances this ability, forming a symbiotic relationship between the two. The transformant of 32O-Y bearing vgb cloned into the shuttle vector pNW33N had been previously constructed in our laboratory. Presence of pNW33N-vgb was verified in one strain of 32O-Y through isolation of DNA, PCR, and gel electrophoresis. Mixtures of 32O-Y/32O-W or 32O-Y[pNW33N-vgb]/32O-W were cultured in minimal medium (CDM) with DBT as the sole sulfur source and subjected to multiple trials of growth and assay of DBT metabolism at varying temperatures. At 45 ˚C there was a substantial increase in both growth and DBT metabolizing coincident with VHb expression, whereas at lower (37 ˚C) and higher (50 ˚C) temperatures, VHb expression had little to no effect on either parameter. For both growth and DBT metabolism tested at 37 ˚C, 45 ˚C and 50 ˚C the highest absolute levels were seen at 37 ˚C, and the lowest at 45 ˚C.
M.S. in Biology, May 2015
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Title: Improved UV Transmitting Lanthanium-Zinc-Borate Glass Compositions
Creator: Ali, Mir Akbar, Bratschun, William R., Pincus, Alexis G.
Date: 2009-04-30, 1973-11-20
Description: An improved ternary lanthanum-zinc-borate glass composition having improved ultraviolet light transmission in near ultraviolet spectral range,...
Show moreAn improved ternary lanthanum-zinc-borate glass composition having improved ultraviolet light transmission in near ultraviolet spectral range, and a process for preparing such a glass composition wherein the near ultraviolet light transmission is improved by small amounts of compounds such as lanthanum and zinc fluorides and chlorides, and tin, arsenic and antimony oxides.
Sponsorship: IIT Research Institute
United States Patent
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Title: Recent Results from RHIC, Proceedings of the XLIII International Symposium on Multiparticle Dynamics
Creator: Evdokimov, O.
Date: 2013-09-15, 2013-09-15
Publisher: IIT Press
Description: The Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) has opened a new era in experimental nuclear physics. Among the most important discoveries of this...
Show moreThe Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) has opened a new era in experimental nuclear physics. Among the most important discoveries of this new era are the jet quenching phenomenon, the energy loss suffered by a hard scattered parton traversing the medium, and the collective flow, approaching the limit of ideal hydrodynamics. RHIC experiments have introduced a number of novel correlation methods for studies of jets and jet-medium interactions in the high multiplicity environment of ultra-relativistic heavy ion collisions. The di- and multi-hadron correlation techniques have since been quintessential to the understanding of the properties of the created medium in many complementary ways. In this work selected recent results are presented for the RHIC’s top energy collisions at 200 GeV. Di-hadron correlation measurements from Au–Au collisions, illuminating the properties of the hot nuclear medium, are confronted with the recent findings from d–Au data at the same energy. Understanding of initial state properties and collision evolution is tested by unexpected similarities in the di-hadron correlation measurements between the two systems.
Sponsorship: IIT College of Science, High Energy Physics Division of Argonne National Laboratory
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Title: Vibrationless Pneumatic Impact Tool
Creator: Altschuler, Samuel
Date: 1956-06-05
Description: Sponsorship: Armour Research Foundation of Illinois Institute of Technology
United States Patent

Title: HYPOTHESIS TESTING FOR STOCHASTIC PDES DRIVEN BY ADDITIVE NOISE
Creator: Xu, Liaosha
Date: 2013, 2013-12
Description: We study hypothesis testing problem for the drift/viscosity coefficient for stochastic fractional heat equation driven by additive space-time...
Show moreWe study hypothesis testing problem for the drift/viscosity coefficient for stochastic fractional heat equation driven by additive space-time white noise colored in space. Since it is the first attempt to deal with hypothesis testing in SPDEs, we assume that the first N Fourier modes of the solution are observed continuously over time interval [0, T], similar methodology could be developed later for discrete sampling. The highlight of this article lies in the notion of “asymptotically the most powerful test” we introduce, which is a brand new idea for hypothesis testing not only in stochastic PDEs but in general stochastic processes. This conception provides a definite criterion how we compare the convergence rates of errors of two tests and how we maximize this convergence rate in a given rejection class when T or N is near infinity. And also we will give some equally important results for controlling the errors with finite T and N. We will build up asymptotic rejection class and find explicit forms of “the most powerful test” in two asymptotic regimes: large time asymptotics T →∞, and increasing number of Fourier modes N → ∞. The proposed statistics are derived based on Maximum Likelihood Ratio. We first consider a simple hypothesis testing, for which we exploit the key technic, by which we continue considering for more general issues. Over the course of proving the main results, we obtain a series of technical results on the asymptotic behaviors of the probabilities related to likelihood ratio, which are also, in some sense, of high value for study in probability theory. In particular, we find the cumulant generating function of the log-likelihood ratio, we obtain some sharp large deviation type results for both T → ∞ and N → ∞, and develop some useful strategies in probability convergence for studying asymptotic properties of the power of the likelihood ratio type tests.
M.S. in Applied Mathematics, December 2013
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Title: PSYCHOMETRIC PROPERTIES OF THE CENTER FOR EPIDEMILOGICAL STUDIES DEPRESSION SCALE (CES-D) USED AMONG NATIVE CHINESE INDIVIDUALS WITH SPINAL CORD INJURY
Creator: Xiong, Ying
Date: 2014, 2014-07
Description: Depressive symptoms are highly prevalent among people with Spinal Cord Injury (SCI) and yet there is a lack of consensus over psychometrically...
Show moreDepressive symptoms are highly prevalent among people with Spinal Cord Injury (SCI) and yet there is a lack of consensus over psychometrically sound diagnostic criteria or screening tools for depression. This is particularly true with the SCI population in China. Currently, there is limited information regarding the prevalence of depression, severity, and depressive symptomatology among individuals with SCI in China. CES-D lOis a simple and quick tool to use, and it avoids over-estimating depression due to frequent somatic complaints associated with SCI. To our best knowledge, the CES-D 10 had not been used among the native Chinese population with SCI. The current study used the CES-D 10 to measure depressive symptoms among individuals with SCI in China. The purpose ofthis study was to examine factorial validity, internal consistency, construct validity, and concurrent validity ofCES-D 10 among 260 Chinese individuals with SCI. Results showed an alarmingly high prevalence of depressive symptoms among the sample. Consistent with existing literature and hypotheses, a two-factor structure of CES-D 10 was replicated based on a confirmatory factor analysis. Hierarchical regression analyses showed several important psychosocial constructs such as acceptance of disability, social support, and functional disability were predictors of overall depressive symptoms. Surprisingly, depressive symptoms were not predictive of employment status. The scale showed low internal consistency, and a cultural response bias in which participants are less likely to endorse positively-stated CES-D items among the current sample. Such finding is consistent with past studies among the East Asian population. Limitations and implications ofthe study were discussed.
Ph.D. in Psychology, July 2014
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Title: CAPACITY BOUNDS FOR LARGE SCALE WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORKS
Creator: Tang, Shaojie
Date: 2012-11-20, 2012-12
Description: We study the network capacity of large scale wireless sensor networks under both Gaussian Channel model and Protocol Interference Model. To...
Show moreWe study the network capacity of large scale wireless sensor networks under both Gaussian Channel model and Protocol Interference Model. To study network capacity under gaussian channel model, we assume n wireless nodes {v1, v2, · · · , vn} are randomly or arbitrarily distributed in a square region Ba with side-length a. We randomly choose ns multicast sessions. For each source node vi, we randomly select k points pi,j (1 ≤ j ≤ k) in Ba and the node which is closest to pi,j will serve as a destination node of vi. The per-flow unicast(multicast) capacity is defined as the minimum data rate of all unicast(multicast) sessions in this network. We derive the achievable upper bounds on unicast capacity and a upper bound(partial achievable) on multicast capacity of the wireless networks under and Gaussian Channel model. We found that the unicast(multicast) capacity for wireless networks under both two models has three regimes. Under protocol interference model, we assume that n wireless nodes are randomly deployed in a square region with side-length a and all nodes have the uniform transmission range r and uniform interference range R > r. We further assume that each wireless node can transmit/receive at W bits/second over a common wireless channel. For each node vi, we randomly pick k − 1 nodes from the other n − 1 nodes as the receivers of the multicast session rooted at node vi. The aggregated multicast capacity is defined as the total data rate of all multicast sessions in the network. In this work we derive matching asymptotic upper bounds and lower bounds on multicast capacity of large scale random wireless networks under protocol interference model.
PH.D in Computer Science, December 2012
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Title: EMPIRICALLY KEYING PERSONALITY MEASURES TO MITIGATE FAKING EFFECTS AND IMPROVE VALIDITY: A MONTE CARLO INVESTIGATION
Creator: Tawney, Mark Ward
Date: 2012-12-05, 2012-12
Description: Personality-type measures should be viable tools to use for selection. They have incremental validity over cognitive measures and they add...
Show morePersonality-type measures should be viable tools to use for selection. They have incremental validity over cognitive measures and they add this incremental validity while decreasing adverse impact (Hough, 1998; Ones, Viswesvaran & Schmidt, 1993; Ones & Viswesvaran, 1998a). However, personality measures are susceptible to faking; individual’s instructed to fake on personality measures are able to increase their scores (Barrick & Mount, 1996; Ellingson, Sackett & Hough, 1999; Hough, Eaton, Dunnette, Kamp, & McCloy, 1990). Further, personality measures often reveal less than optimal validity estimates as research continually finds meta-analytic coefficients near .2 (e.g., Morgeson, Campion, Dipboye, Hollenbeck, Murphy, & Schmitt, 2007). Some researchers have suggested that these two problems are linked as faking on personality measure may reduce their ability to predict job performance (e.g., Tett & Christansen, 2007). Empirically keyed instruments traditionally enhance prediction and have been found to mitigate the effects of faking (Kluger, Reilly & Russell, 1991; Scott & Sinar, 2011). Recently suggested as a means to key to personality measures (e.g., Tawney & Mead, In Prep), this dissertation further investigates empirical keying methods as a means to both mitigate faking effects and as a means to increase validity of personality-type measures. A Monte Carlo methodology is used due to the difficulties in obtaining accurate measures of faking. As such, this dissertation investigates faking issues under controlled and known parameters, allowing for more robust conclusions as compared to prior faking research.
PH.D in Psychology, December 2012
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