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Sunil Dehipawala; Vazgen Shekoyan; Haishen Yao

verify the level ofmethods in the physics course. Students worked in groups of knowledge achieved at the end of the semester. The2-3 students on specially designed mathematical exercises to final examination was cumulative and covered all thesuite physics problem solving. The other section (the control topics of the physics course.group) utilized full class period of 50 minutes for traditionallecture on physics. During a class period both sections covered Table 1: Individual grades of preliminary math and physicssame amount of study material in physics and were introduced tests. Group A- Experimental group; Group B- Control groupto same examples. To compensate for the time used formathematical

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Zhan Su; Qian Wang P.E.; Huanzi Wang

of 150feet. There are one pier and two abutments in EX2. In bothexamples, the bridge piers are 30 feet tall, with 6 feet indiameter. A commercial FE code, CSI-Bridge [7] is used tomodel and analyze the bridges. In the two examples, thefollowing general conditions are assumed: (b) Example 2 (EX2): A Two-Span Bridge • The concrete strength is 4 ksi. • The bases of the piers are considered as fully fixed, and the abutments are assumed to be roller-supported. • The foundation or pier settlements are defined at the bases of the piers. • An integral cap beam is adopted for all the bridges. • The piers are modeled with three-dimensional

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Yves Ngabonziza; Hendrick Delcham

. case of the breaking pad and the disk, and the second case wasFigure 3 below shows the comparison between the two cases, when a lubricant layer, 2mm of Polytetrafluoroethyleneone being the case of a cylinder subjected to heat flux, the (PTFE), was added on top of the disk.other case being the same cylinder with an additional coatingof a different material at the outside of the cylinder. (a) (b) Figure 4: Surface temperature profile for (a) plain disk and breaking pad, and (b) disk and pad with a 2mm

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Yenny Rua; Kaitlin Maciejewski; Russell Muren; Shanon M. Reckinger

The cleaning methods explored include the cleaning of measurements A and B were taken when the part was still wet,microfluidic channels by gravity, and by submerging in after patting the coupon dry with paper towel. Once allsolutions at different temperatures. A solution of sodium external support material was dissolved, the fin measurementhydroxide in water was used for cleaning because this is the was taken. This measured the amount of material removedmethod recommended by the Objet Eden 250 instructions. The from the tube fitting and fin of the coupon (Fig. 5). Siderecommended concentration from Objet was 2% but others Measure A was taken from the opening near the “1” mark andhave found

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Isaac George Macwan; Zihe Zhao Omar Sobh; Prabir Patra

concentric magnetic field if the conductor happens to be ainformation technology processing and memory units would straight wire as shown in Fig 1. According to Ampere's law,be a possible alternative to the current EUV-based chip the line integral of the magnetic field, B with respect to changefabrication technology. in length dl over a closed path is μ0 times the current enclosed by the path: II. MICRO-ORGANISMS IN DIRECTED MANUFACTURING In the past, efforts have been made to attach a bacterial ∫ B • dl = μ 0 Ienclosed (1)species to plastic substrates such as

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Abdulrahman Alkhodairy; Sarosh Patel

camera and fed to thePC that controls the robot. The final image reproduced by therobot is of the dimensions 105x105 mm, where 2 pixelsrepresent 1 mm. For this reason the original image has to beprocessed, converted to black and white, and finally resized asillustrated in Figure 3. a b c d e f Fig. 3. Algorithm sequence of image processing module. Fig. 4. Image processing

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Reem Khalid Mahjoub; Christian Bach

IX. REFERENCES:to the current knowledge. As part of knowledgemanagement, this should be considered and taken care of.This drives us to an updated view of the knowledge [1] J. B. Barney, "Firm Resources and Sustained Competitivemanagement life cycle and should lead to some modification Advantage," Journal of Management, pp. 99-120, 1991.for the previous model. The modification appears inmodifying the model to be a cycle rather than a sequential [2] R. E. Cole, "Introduction," California Management, pp. 15-21, 1998.model as shown in Fig. 2. In the cycle, the new outsource [3] J. C. Spender, "Making Knowledge the Basis of a Dynamic

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Wei Lu

constructing thefollows [12]: generational trees. ACKNOWLEDGMENT [6] Z. Yang, and B. Rannala, Bayesian phylogenetic inference using DNA sequences: a Markov chain Monte carlo method. Mol. Biol. We would like to acknowledge and especially appreciate Evol., 1vol. 4, pp. 717–724, 1997.Dr. Kristen Porter-Utley, Associate Professor of Biology, [7] C.J. Geyer, Markov chain Monte Carlo maximum likelihood. InKeene State College, for her contributions to the DNA

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Ruzanna Davtyan

). LEARNING STYLES AND PEDAGOGY IN POST-16 BASED LEARNING. LEARNING: A SYSTEMATIC AND CRITICAL REVIEW. WOOD DAUDELIN, M. (1997). LEARNING FROM EXPERIENCE EGE, S. N., COPPOLA, B. P., & LAWTON, R. G. (1997). THE THROUGH REFLECTION. ORGANIZATIONAL DYNAMICS, UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN UNDERGRADUATE 24(3), 36-48. CHEMISTRY CURRICULUM 1. PHILOSOPHY, CURRICULUM, AND THE NATURE OF CHANGE. JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL EDUCATION, 74(1), 74. FALK, J. H., & DIERKING, L. D. (2000). LEARNING FROM MUSEUMS: VISITOR EXPERIENCES AND THE MAKING OF MEANING: ALTAMIRA

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Sarosh Patel; Tarek Sobh

manipulators with full manipulator dexterity at the given task S. Patel is with the Department of Computer Science and Engineering,University of Bridgeport, Bridgeport, CT 06605 USA (e-mail: region or trajectory is proposed. Ting introduced the five-linksaroshp@bridgeport.edu). Grashof criterion [6] and extended it to N-link chains [7], [8]. T. Sobh is with the Department of Computer Science and Engineering,University of Bridgeport, Bridgeport, CT 06605 USA (e-mail:sobh@bridgeport.edu).978-1-4799-5233-5/14/$31.00 ©2014 IEEE B. Parametric Optimization Approach III. PROBLEM STATEMENT Parametric optimization is a

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Arar Alkhader; Junling Hu; Akinwumi Akinkunmi; Prabir Patra; Xingguo Xiong

. This assumption is based on the implication that the ice is fully packed and the water that will form remains in the pack. B. Design Objectives Beside the clear vision for heat flow within the system that A rectangular shape was chosen for the layers while,could be offered by software like COMSOL Multiphysics, thickness of each layer was chosen approximately, but after getting the results, it can be easily modified to get the desiredthere are also many goals that are hoped to be achieved in this

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Abdelrahman Elleithy; Gonhsin Liu; Varun Pande

the sleep mode, power consumption for the least k nodes [6];transient mode, transmission period, transient mode duration,sleep mode duration, and active mode duration. The new model 6. 100% coveragefor power consumption in communications has been tested a. The time each target is covered by at least one node [7];versus a network of Micaz sensors and it shows results within5% difference between theoretical and practical results. The b. The time the whole area is covered by at least one noderesults obtained in this paper are more accurate than those [8];previously published. 7

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Robert Hood; Mark Jacobs; James Masi; Kayla McCaffrey

]. Figure 3. FloExpress (Solid Works) flow simulation (a) (b) (c) B. The Turbine Blades and the Mixer Ejector The purpose of this portion of the project was to: 1. Design and test the effects of multi-blade turbines for output vs wind velocity; 2. Observe the Venturi effect due to Mixer/EjectorFig. 1a. Twelve symmetrical steel rods shape the contraction cone and keepthe small frame

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Richard Steven Colon; Prabir Patra; Khaled Elleithy

the simplest forms of cause and effect situations. B. MINSTRELHowever, we have a significant advantage today, with the ease Now let's move forward almost 20 years to look atand availability of the Internet along with existing ‘Concept MINSTREL. Scott Turner developed MINSTREL which is aKnowledge’ systems. large and complex program that generates short ‘themed based’ stories about King Arthur and the Knights of the Round II. IMPORTANT GROUND BREAKING SYSTEMS Table [6][7]. Minstrel generates a story by following a

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Andrew Martin; Christian Bach

2013[1]. Early detection andmonitoring of the advancement or remission of cancer is of theutmost importance in oncological medicine today andpprevious research has shown early detection of cancerincreases the odds of patient survival[17; 46]. For high risk (a) Graphene film with resonant circuit and inductive coil antenna ispatients, such as those with a genetic pre-disposition to cancer printed onto bioresorbable silk substrate, (b) Transfer of the sensor onto toothand/or those who have already been diagnosed and treated for surface, (c) Magnified view of sensor and inductive coil antenna, (d) Binding ofthe disease, periodic monitoring for early detection

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Verica Radisavljevic-Gajic

, u (t ) is all times. Since the matrices A, B, C are known, it is rationalthe system input vector (that may be used as a system control to postulate an observer for (4) asinput) of dimension m , and matrices A and B are constant xˆ (t ) = A xˆ (t ) + B u (t ), xˆ (t 0 ) = xˆ 0 (5

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Mohammad Daneshzand; Reza Zoroofi; Miad Faezipour

]. This term can control the direction of contours so they can B. Level Set Method shrink outside and expand inside of a desired object in image I. Also, v represents the speed of contours. The enhanced level The level set method which was presented by Osher and set method is a combination of watershed algorithm as a Sethian in 1987, is a simple method for computing and preprocessing step and the new

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Richard Millham

effectiveness of IV. RESULTSthe program. The survey was composed of ten Our results were hampered by a number of factors:themed quantitative, close-ended, and Likert scaled a) The number of students who attendedquestions and several open-ended questions that these sessions and who reported theirallowed comments. The themes of the survey school marks varied from term to term,focused on the value of the session, the venue, and which may have skewed the results.the helpfulness of the peer mentor. A few of the b) A number of students (approximately 6)questions with their results are given in Table 1

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Hamoud Alshammari; Hassan Bajwa; Jeongkyu Lee

data files to DataNodes with 3searches. If a “sub-sequence” is found in a specific copies.blocks in a DataNode, sequence containing that 2. NameNode replays with the IP address of fivesubsequence can only exist in the same DataNode. Since DataNodes (DN1, DN2, DN3, DN4, DN5).current Hadoop Framework does not support caching of 3. Client A accesses the shared data files (DB).data, it ignores location of DataNode with sub-sequence 4. Client A reformats the data files into HDFS formatand read data from all DataNodes for every new job in many Blocks (B1, B2, B3, B4).[10]. Shown in Figure 2 Client A and Client B are 5. Client A sends the blocks to the DataNodes

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Bi Yuying; Prabir Patra

-140nm and 0.1, and GAGs density divided to 5, 15, and 25 to analyze the influence of GAGs density to collagen isotropy, and two cross-sections from each model were analyzed in this group. D. Statistic analysisFig. 4. Co-axial plane view of collagen/GAGs matrix model. a represent theGAGs connection between nearby collagen fibrils from separation line. b The data from GAGsim3D contains both 3D and 2Drepresent the 2D projection from 3D

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Mohammadjafar Esmaeili; Ali Eydgahi

is presented in figure 1. Moreover, thefollowing hypotheses from H1 through H13 as following: a. AgeH1. There is a significant relationship between Perceived Ease b. Sexof Use and Perceived Usefulness c. MajorH2. There is a significant relationship between Perceived d. Years of EducationUsefulness and Intention toward registering in STEM courses e. Have you had any exposure to project-basedand utilizing robotic projects. classesH3. There is a significant relationship between Perceived

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Sundas Zafar; Aparicio Carranza

security systems lead Video ports, USB port, HDMI port, andEthernet port. With the Pi, users can create website [1]. Once it is downloaded, the SDspread sheets, word-processing, browse the card has to be formatted using the softwareinternet, play high definition video and much SDFormatter. Once it is formatted, themore. It was designed to be a cost friendly software Win32DiskImager has to be used tocomputer for users who needed one. There are write the image onto the SD card. The SD cardtwo models, Model A and B. Model B is the can then be inserted into the Raspberry Pi andfaster containing 512MB of RAM as well as booted up using an LCD display and athe ability to over clock [1

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Shawn Maxwell; Rajin Roophnath

command was given. If so then it gives priority to the command over autoB. Power Supply stabilization by momentarily thrusting in the direction of the The other major block is the power supply management. command. It recognizes the command characters ‘u’ (up), ‘d’This is accomplished by the voltage regulators. Since the (down), ‘l’ (left), ‘r’ (right), ‘f’ (forward), ‘b’ (backward),‘h’lithium ion battery supplies a voltage in the range of 4V, and (halt/disarm), ‘a’ (arm).the system requires 3.3V for the logic, a regulator isnecessary. The digital logic supply is generated by a low

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Peter J. Zeno

languages is that optimum speedup is rarely achieved, as compared to the speedup obtained by a programmer skillfully crafting a CUDA kernel [18]. B. Debugging Tools Since a fully automated solution is currently not available, the next best thing is the use of automated tools in areas where Fig. 3. Simplifying GPGPU Programming Model they already exist and are proven. Example tools include

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Yuanyao Liu; Zhengping Wu

as in frequent event patterns. The :2example in the first section includes 4 event sequences, whichincludes 3 types of events. If we enumerate all event Figure 1 Frequent Closed Pattern Tree after Pruningsequences, the sequence set will be: {A:4; AA:2; AB:4; In the Figure 1, this tree is built use BIDE algorithm, thereABB:2; ABC:4; AC:4; B:4;BB:2; BC:4; C:4; CA:3; CAB:2; are only 6 nodes left in this tree. In this tree, all these nodesCABC:2;CAC:2; CB:3; CBC:2; CC:2}. We can construct a are frequent closed pattern, which can be used in further steps.pattern tree through this event sequence set. There are some It is a very

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Dan Tenney; Naif Jalal

statistics. Furthermore, this improved • To explore the perceived limitations of SMART understanding has enabled the students to engage in Table of students and teachers critical thinking to manage their assignments and class • Research Questions activities more effectively. In addition, researchers have The study will focus on the research questions concluded that the use of smart technology bypresented as follows: educational institutions is a form of ‘pedagogical • What are the key features of SMART Table and innovation’ [16]. how they can be applied to educational B

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John Finnie

rate Bed Slope Depth Area Velocity Froude Flow (gpm/ (m) (m2) Average Number Designation lps) (m/s) A 5225 / .005 .215 .430 .768 .539 330.0 B 7750 / .007 0.244 0.488 1.003 0.648 489.3 C 7450 / .013 0.192 0.385 1.223 0.891 470.3 For each flow rate

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Ziyan Qi; Xingguo Xiong; Linfeng Zhang; Md Tauseef Riasat

Booth Encoding, as well as a 108-bit conditional summer adderwork in pre-charge and evaluation phases, and outputs are with separated carry generation block. In [9], a low-cost designvalid only in evaluation phase. Furthermore, dynamic circuits of serial-parallel multipliers using hybrid pass-transistor logicsuffer from charge leakage effect. When output is expected to and CMOS logic is reported. In it, pass-transistor logic (PTL)-based D flip-flop and T flip-flop are used in finite field Out = A ⋅ B + B ⋅ B = A ⋅ B + Bmultiplication. It compares the power consumption of serial- (1)parallel finite field multiplication using

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Arthur Rozario; Justin Paruvaparampil; Keis Sultani; ShuaiXiang Zhang; Andres Mora; Catherine Carti; Brendan O'Brien; M.C. Damas; Wenli Guo; Andrew Nguyen; Vazgen Shekoyan; Sunil Dehipawala; Alexei Kisselev; Tak Cheung

papers. Light sources employing He- diffusion would be useful as a diagnostic tool at millimeter andNe laser and consumer product keychain LED were included in multiple-micron level. A monitoring tool needs baseline datathe project. Application to mHealth monitoring was and deviation would be used as an alert.demonstrated in the measurements of an index finger diffusionmean free path and the embedded blood vessel absorption effect. Community college pre-engineering students needExtension to an iris response measurement was also counseling on which career path such as electrical engineering,demonstrated. The interdisciplinary project has been popular chemical engineering, environmental

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Amanda Zielkowski; Melody Baglione; David Wootton

flow the head and flow rate increase, so does the resistance of the rate, which is driven through the cooper pipes by the outlet valve. The slope of the graph is smaller in the laminar centrifugal pump. The visual flow meter, which measures the flow range and increases greatly as the system becomes inlet flow rate, is able to read flow rates between about 1.0 turbulent. L/min and 4.0 L/min in 0.2 L/min increments. Fig 1: (a) Liquid-Level System; (b) head versus flow rate curve [2] Fig. 3 shows the experimental results for the system under