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EARLY DETECTION OF METASTATIC CANCER USING COMPUTATIONAL ANALYSIS
(2017-10-06)Metastasis is the leading cause of cancer related deaths. Early detection of cancer cells can enable early disease diagnosis and stage specific therapeutics. Metastatic cancer cells have abnormal expression of certain ... -
Effects Of Base Station Power Control And Soft Handoff On The Outage And Capacity In The Forward Link Of CDMA Systems
(Electrical Engineering, 2007-08-23)This thesis focuses on the capacity analysis of the forward link of code division multiple access (CDMA) systems by characterizing the base station (BS) power distribution. With the rapid growth of data and multi-media ... -
Effects Of Voltage Unbalance And System Armonics On The Performance Of Doubly Fed Induction Wind Generators
(Electrical Engineering, 2009-09-16)Inherent difficulties in management of electric power in the presence of an increasing demand for more energy, non-conventional loads such as digital appliances, and non-sustainable imported fossil fuels has initiated a ... -
Efficient HEVC Loss Less Coding Using Sample Based Angular Intra Prediction (SAP)
(Electrical Engineering, 2013-07-22)High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC) [3] is the next generation video compression standard being jointly developed by the Joint Collaborative Team on Video Coding (JCT-VC) of ITU-T WP3/16 and ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 29/WG 11. The ... -
An Efficient Piecewise Linear Network
(Electrical Engineering, 2010-03-03)A Piecewise Linear Network (PLN) is a local network that offers the accuracy of higher order networks and the Multi Layer Perceptron (MLP), with the computational simplicity of linear networks. A method to design a PLN is ... -
Efficient Transcoding Of An MPEG-2 Bit Stream To An H.264 Bit Stream
(Electrical Engineering, 2007-08-23)Low complexity fast transcoding of an MPEG-2 elementary stream to an H.264 elementary stream. Objective: MPEG-2 has been a widely accepted video coding standard for various applications ranging from DVD to digital TV ... -
Eigenspace Model Based Error Concealment And Low Bit Rate Coding Of Face Sequences
(Electrical Engineering, 2007-08-23)The emerging multimedia applications address the increasing demand for novel video coding systems to provide higher compression ratio while maintaining the high quality of the reconstruction. This research makes an effort ... -
Electrical Detection Of Single-based DNA Mutation Using Functionalized Nanoparticles
(Electrical Engineering, 2010-03-03)DNA molecules posses unique structure and molecular recognition properties that makes them excellent candidate for bio-chemical sensors. Understanding the mechanism of charge transport in DNA is essential to develop DNA ... -
Electrochemical Energy Storage Integration Challenges Within High Voltage Distributed Generation Power System Architectures
(2019-05-07)Future stationary and mobile microgrids may be deployed with a number of high power electrical loads that operate transiently. The transient nature of the loads will impart high stress on a microgrid’s power system, ... -
Electrodeposited Cuprous Oxide Solar Cells
(Electrical Engineering, 2010-03-03)The electrochemically deposited cuprous oxide (Cu₂O) as a photovoltaic absorber material is introduced in this work. The electrical, structural, and optical characteristics of electrodeposited Cu₂O are well investigated. ... -
Electromagnetic Wave Scattering From Vegetation
(Electrical Engineering, 2007-08-23)This dissertation contains the theoretical study of microwave scattering from vegetated media and the development of microwave scattering models with applications to these media. A vegetation canopy may consist of deciduous ... -
Electromagnetically Actuated Devices For Optical Coherence Tomography Applications
(Electrical Engineering, 2007-08-23)A fast optical scanning device has always been desired for numerous applications such as biomedical imaging, optical communications, and variety of sensing and actuating applications. This dissertation presents a new ... -
Electronic Biosensors for Early Cancer Detection
(2016-05-06)Nanotechnology is an emerging field that holds promise to improved disease diagnosis and better health care. It has revolutionized the medical industry and is continuing to mesmerize in other research areas as well. Even ... -
Electrostatic And Piezoelectric Micro Energy Harvesters For Environmental Vibrational Energy Scavenging
(Electrical Engineering, 2015)Nowadays wireless sensors are widely used in all kinds of fields such as biomedical, commercial and military. Micro energy harvesters converting the wasteful energy from environment into electricity enable the possibility ... -
Elevated Recharge Of Electrochemical Cells
(Electrical Engineering, 2014-03-12)Electrochemical cells are energy dense storage devices used to power everything from small portable electronics such as cell phones, to larger systems including electric and hybrid-electric vehicles or even electric utility ... -
Embedded And RF Powered Implantable Medical Device For Gastric Electrical Stimulation (GES)
Gastric electrical stimulation (GES) has attracted significant attention in the treatment for Gastroparesis-a common disorder caused in patients suffering from diabetes, cancer and Parkinson's disease. Symptoms include ... -
Embedded Data Acquisition Platform For Low Speed Automated Surface Measurements On Asphalt
The study is to be performed with the main goal of analyzing the existing portability and scalability problems of the existing Road profile measurement for TXDOT and improving it by making a system which is much more ... -
Embedded Data Acquisition Platform For Surface Measurements On Wet Concrete
The early detection of roughness over newly poured wet concrete allows correction of the surface before concrete is hardened. The smoothness of the wet concrete can be monitored and controlled at an early stage saving ... -
Embedded System For Monitoring Human Activities Using 3-axis Accelerometer
(Electrical Engineering, 2008-04-22)The last decade has witnessed a surge of interest in new sensing and monitoring devices for health care. In several medical and non-medical applications it is necessary to measure the human activities. Detection and ... -
An Emission Model For Lunar Regolith Surfaces Based On Matrix Doubling Method
(Electrical Engineering, 2007-08-23)An emission model based on Matrix Doubling Method is implemented for the calculation of emission signatures from the lunar regolith surfaces. The matrix doubling method is used to solve the radiative transfer equations ...