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Deep Learning Methods Using Levenberg-Marquardt with Weight Compression and Discrete Cosine Transform Spectral Pooling
(2018-04-18)
State-of-the-Art Machine Learning methods achieve powerful results on practical problems in all data-driven industries. As these methods are improved, the hardware and training time necessary to implement them have grown ...
Four-Chamber Endocardial Surface Reconstruction from MR Images and Application to Geometry and Mechanics Analysis on Healthy Subjects and Mitral Regurgitation Patients
(2018-07-20)
Heart failure is a common cause of hospitalization and the leading cause of death in the world [1]. It is usually secondary to a primary cardiovascular disease (CVD) and it is estimated that by 2030, about 23.6 million ...
Design of High Performance Radio-Frequency Phase-Locked Loops
(2018-07-26)
Phase-locked loop, or PLL, is widely used in different areas of electronic system such as wireless transceivers which use PLL to generate carrier signals. Nowadays, the requirement for ever increasing data rate puts more ...
SiGe HBT Parameter Extraction Using Mextram 505.00
(2018-04-24)
Applications of SiGe HBT need a robust model which can accurately describe the performance of SiGe HBT at various temperatures. Circuit simulation requires accurate transistor model and reliable parameters.
This work ...
Hybrid Aerial and Ground-based Mobile Robot for Retail Inventory
(2018-05-10)
Radio frequency identification (RFID) technology is increasingly used in retail stores and warehouses because it can help to improve the inventory process, enable automatic checkout, and reduce shoplifting. This dissertation ...
An Analytical Study of a Grid Connected Direct Drive Permanent Magnet Generator Wind Turbine: Modeling and Simulation
(2018-11-14)
Wind is clean, free and a readily available energy source. Around the world, every day, wind turbines are capturing the wind’s power and converting it to electricity. There is considerable interest in wind power as a ...
Designing an Anisotropic Noise Filter for Measuring Critical Dimension and Line Edge Roughness from SEM Images
(2018-04-23)
The scanning electron microscope (SEM) is often employed in inspecting patterns transferred through a lithographic process. A typical inspection is to measure the critical dimension (CD) and line edge roughness (LER) of ...
Fabrication and Characterization of Carbon Nanotubes on Ceramic and Silicon Substrates for High Temperature Electronic Device Applications
(2018-04-24)
This dissertation focuses on characterization and fabrication of multi-wall carbon nanotubes (CNTs) by DC plasma sputtering and thermal chemical vapor deposition techniques (CVD) on silicon (Si) and ceramic (Al2O3) substrates. ...
Neural correlates of emotions in dogs
(2018-04-24)
Dogs are considered to be man’s best friend; they share a close and intense relationship with humans and have shown to excel in reading human social cues, including facial cues. Due to this intimate relationship shared ...
Advanced Clustering Methods and Applications for Data Visualization
(2018-04-13)
Categorizing all sorts of data without any label information is one of the most important tasks in preprocessing raw data. To achieve that, an unsupervised learning technique, called clustering, is utilized. Generally, ...