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Bringing real world applications for wireless sensor networks into the classroom: Telemetric monitoring of water quality in an artificial stream [2013: Poster]
This poster discusses research on bringing real world applications for wireless sensor networks into the classroom in the context of telemetric monitoring of water quality in an artificial stream.
Solar Powered Security Systems to Monitor Wildlife
This poster discusses research on creating a solar powered wildlife monitoring system using a security system, Arduino, PIR motion sensor and solar panels with a battery bank.
Solar Powered PIR Security System to Monitor Wildlife
This poster discusses research on building a solar powered PIR security system to monitor wildlife. Researchers introduce the concept of off-grid wildlife video monitoring using a security system, a microcontroller, passive infrared motion sensor and the solar panels with a battery bank.
Protein Sequence Classification Using Feature Hashing
Article on protein sequence classification using feature hashing.
Optomechanical Design for Precision Lens Positioning and Mounting
This article presents a lens positioning and mounting in a few microns accuracy using a kinematic mount module.
Controlling the length scale and distribution of the ductile phase in metallic glass composites through friction stir processing
This article demonstrates the refinement and uniform distribution of the crystalline dendritic phase by friction stir processing of titanium based in situ ductile-phase reinforced metallic glass composite.
In Situ Fabrication of a Graphene-Coated Threedimensional Nickel Oxide Anode for High-Capacity Lithium-Ion Batteries
This article discusses the development of an in situ fabrication of a graphene-coated, three-dimensional (3D) NiO-Ni structure by simple chemical vapor deposition (CVD).
Operando tribochemical formation of onion-likecarbon leads to macroscale superlubricity
This article demonstrates that tribochemical reactions occur even in dry conditions when hydrogenated diamond-like carbon (H-DLC) surface is slid against two-dimensional (2D) molybdenum disulfide along with nanodiamonds in dry nitrogen atmosphere.
Impactos Potenciales de los Cambios Climaticos Globales en los Sistemas Agricolas y en los Ecosistemas Terrestres de Venezuela: Resultados Preliminares
Report on the potential impacts of global climate change in the farming systems and terrestrial ecosystems in Venezuela.
Complejo Hidroelectrico General Jose Antonio Paez: Sedimentos en el Embalse
This report is on a study to quantify the production of sediment created by erosion in the upper basin of the Rio Santo Domingo dam site and determine the magnitude of the problem of sedimentation in the "Hydroelectric Complex General Jose Antonio Paez" reservoir.
Taller de Trabajo sobre evaluación de los Efectos Ecológicos de los Cambios Climáticos Globales
This report discusses the Ecological Effects Assessment of Climatic changes in Venezuela Workshop, organized by the PAN-EARTH Project and the Centre for Ecology of the Venezuelan Institute for Scientific Research (IVIC). The main objective was the evaluation of the effects of climate changes on the main ecosystems in Venezuela using ecological models.
PAN-EARTH/FONAIAP Workshop on Crop Model Training and Calibration
This report discusses a PAN-EARTH / Fondo Nacional de Investigaciones Agropecuarias (FONAIAP) Workshop on Crop Model Training and Calibration.
Proyecto PAN-EARTH Estudio de Caso Venezuela: Informe de Actividades Octubre 1988 - Marzo 1990
This is the activity report for the PAN-EARTH Project Case Study Venezuela from October 1988 to March 1990.
PAN-EARTH Project: Summary of Annual Report 1989-1990
This report is a summary of the PAN-EARTH Project Annual Report from 1989-1990.
Reconfigurable Surface Plasmon Polariton Wave Adapter Designed by Transformation Optics
This article proposes a reconfigurable surface plasmon polariton (SPP) wave adapter designed by transformation optics, which can control the propagation of SPP waves on un-even surfaces.
Synthesis and Ionic Conductivity of Siloxane Based Polymer Electrolytes With Pendant Propyl Acetoacetate Groups
This paper discusses decision to develop solid polyelectrolyte membrances on the basis of new siloxane matrices.
Simultaneous Direct Holographic Fabrication of Photonic Cavity and Graded Photonic Lattice With Dual Periodicity, Dual Basis, and Dual Symmetry
This article demonstrates the digital, holographic fabrication of graded, super-basis photonic lattices with dual periodicity, dual basis, and dual symmetry.
Extremely High Strength and Work Hardening Ability in a Metastable High Entropy Alloy
This article studies the design of a transformation induced plasticity (TRIP) assisted high entropy alloy (HEA) with enhanced strength using two strands of motiviation.
Virtualization Based Secure Execution And Testing Framework
Article discussing the use of a virtualization software to build a Virtualization Based Secure Execution and Testing Framework for testing hardware secure architectures.
Secure Embedded Platform Networked Automotive Systems
This paper discusses secure embedded platforms for networked automotive systems.
How to Hide Secrets from Operating System: Architecture Level Support for Dynamic Address Trace Obfuscation
This technical report addresses how to hide secrets from an operating system. The authors provide a detailed design for the VM blackbox and some microarchitecture level simulation derived performance data. They also describe a compiler directed prefetch scheme that uses both instruction and data prefetches to obfuscate the address traces on the address bus between on-chip L2 cache and memory.
Efficient Energy Saving Scheme for On-Chip Caches
This paper discusses efficient energy saving techniques for on-chip caches, focusing especially on drowsy cache schemes.
Improvement of mechanical, humidity resistance and thermal properties of heat-treated rubber wood by impregnation of SiOâ‚‚ precursor
This article proposes a novel methodology by impregnating SiOâ‚‚ precursor solution into the heat-treated wood to improve the mechanical properties.
Slurry Erosion of Thermal Spray Coatings: Effect of Sand Concentration
This paper from the Malaysian International Tribology Conference 2013 conference proceedings discusses using Ni based thermal spray coatings deposited on a commonly used hydroturbine steel.
A Cost-Effective Wireless Sensor Network System for Indoor Air Quality Monitoring Applications
This paper from the 9th International Conference on Future Networks and Communications, FNC 2014 conference proceedings presents a low-cost indoor air quality monitoring wireless sensor network system developed using Arduino, XBee modules, and micro gas sensors.
Competition Between Resonant Plasmonic Coupling and Electrostatic Interaction in Reduced Graphene Oxide Quantum Dots
This article presents a study of the plasmonic interaction that effects the optical properties of light emission from graphene oxide system.
Gleipnir: A Memory Analysis Tool
This paper from the International Conference on Computational Science, ICCS 2011 conference proceedings describes a program profiling and analysis tool called Gleipnir.
Three-Dimensional Carbon Nanostructures for Advanced Lithium-Ion Batteries
This review contains the authors' recent progress on the design and fabrication of 3D carbon nanostructures, their performance in Li-ion batteries (LIBs), and their implementation into large-scale, lightweight, and flexible LIBs.
High Tensile Ductility and Strength in Dual-phase Bimodal Steel through Stationary Friction Stir Processing
This article demonstrates a facile single-step processing route for the development of bimodal grain structure in austenitic stainless steel, SS316L.
Characterization and Research on Mechanical Properties of Bamboo Plastic Composites
This article observes the mechanical properties of bamboo plastic composites (BPCs) with bamboo pulp fiber (BPF) or white mud (WM).
Quantifying Access Disparities in Response Plans
This article develops and explores data driven methods to quantify vulnerabilities in the context of response plans, addressing limitations on the availability, granularity, and currency of data to identify vulnerable populations.
Centimeter Scale Patterned Growth of Vertically Stacked Few Layer Only 2D MoSâ‚‚/WSâ‚‚ van der Waals Heterostructure
This article reports the chemical vapor deposition (CVD) growth of large-area (>2 cm²) patterned 2D vdW heterostructures composed of few layer, vertically-stacked molybdenum disulfide and tungsten disulfide.
Modeling immune response and its effect on infectious disease outbreak dynamics
This article presents a model that incorporates individuals' immune responses to further examine the role of the collective immune response of individuals in a population during an infectious outbreak.
Influence of ordered L1â‚‚ precipitation on strain-rate dependent mechanical behavior in a eutectic high entropy alloy
This article focuses on Al0.7CoCrFeNi, a lamellar dual-phase (fcc + B2) precipitation-strengthenable eutectic high entropy alloy. The back-stresses from the coherent L12 precipitate were insufficient to cause improvement in twin nucleation, owing to elevated twinning stress under quasi-static testing. However, under dynamic testing high density of twins were observed.
Synthesis of uniform single layer tungsten disulfides for tunable photoluminescence
This article explores single-layer tungsten disulfides (WSâ‚‚) because of their unique tunable bandgap. The authors report the scalable synthesis of uniform single-layer WS2 film by a two-step chemical vapor deposition (CVD) method followed by a laser thinning process.
Enhancing elevated temperature strength of copper containing aluminum alloys by forming L1₂ Al₃Zr precipitates and nucleating θ" precipitates on them
This article presents a new approach in designing an Al-based alloy through solid state precipitation route.
On the security of the Courtois-Finiasz-Sendrier signature
This article proves that a variant of the Courtois-Finiasz-Sendrier signature is strongly existentially unforgeable under chosen message attack in the random oracle model, assuming hardness of the Permuted Goppa Syndrome Decoding Problem (also known as the Niederreiter problem).
NLP (Natural Language Processing) for NLP (Natural Language Programming)
This paper discusses Natural Language Processing (NLP).
Investigations in Unsupervised Back-of-the-Book Indexing
This paper discusses investigations in unsupervised back-of-the-book indexing.
The Multidisciplinary Facets of Research on Humour
In this paper, the authors summarize the main theories of humor that emerged from philosophical and modern psychological research, and survey the past and present developments in the fields of theoretical and computational linguistics.
A Bootstrapping Method for Building Subjectivity Lexicons for Languages with Scarce Resources
This article discusses a bootstrapping method for building subjectivity lexicons for languages with scarce resources.
BABYLON Parallel Text Builder: Gathering Parallel Texts for Low-Density Languages
This paper discusses BABYLON parallel text builder.
Learning to Identify Emotions in Text
This paper discusses learning to identify emotions in text.
An Algorithm for Open Text Semantic Parsing
This paper describes an algorithm for open text shallow semantic parsing.
Making Sense Out of the Web
This paper discusses the main lines of research in deriving efficient Word Sense Disambiguation.
Putting Pieces Together: Combining FrameNet, VerbNet and WordNet for Robust Semantic Parsing
This paper describes the authors' work in integrating three different lexical resources: FrameNet, VerbNet, and WordNet, into a unified, richer knowledge-base, to the end of enabling more robust semantic parsing.
Text Semantic Similarity, with Applications
In this paper, the authors present a knowledge-based method for measuring the semantic-similarity of texts. Through experiments performed on two different applications: (1) paraphrase and entailment identification, and (2) word sense similarity, the authors show that this method outperforms the traditional text similarity metrics based on lexical matching.
Topic Identification Using Wikipedia Graph Centrality
This paper presents a method for automatic topic identification using a graph-centrality algorithm applied to an encyclopedic graph derived from Wikipedia. When tested on a data set with manually assigned topics, the system is found to significantly improve over a simpler baseline that does not make use of the external encyclopedic knowledge.
Using Encyclopedic Knowledge for Automatic Topic Identification
This paper presents a method for automatic topic identification using an encyclopedic graph derived from Wikipedia. The system is found to exceed the performance of previously proposed machine learning algorithms for topic identification, with an annotation consistency comparable to human annotations.
Channel Assignment in an IEEE 802.11 WLAN Based on Signal-to-Interference Ratio
This article discusses channel assignment in an IEEE 802.11 WLAN based on signal-to-interference ratio.
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