DESIGN AND CHARACTERIZATION OF COMPLIANT BACKPLATE HELMHOLTZ RESONATORS By STEPHEN BRIAN HOROWITZ A THESIS PRESENTED TO THE GRADUATE SCHOOL OF THE UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA IN PARTIAL FULFILLMENT OF THE REQUIREMENTS FOR THE DEGREE OF MASTER OF SCIENCE

Design and Evaluation of a BLAST Ungapped Extension Accelerator, Master's Thesis

The amount of biosequence data being produced each year is growing exponentially. Extracting useful information from this massive amount of data is becoming an increasingly difficult task. This thesis focuses on accelerating the most widely-used software tool for analyzing genomic data, BLAST. This thesis presents Mercury BLAST, a novel method for accelerating searches through massive DNA datab...

Fabrication and Characterization of a New MEMS Capacitive Microphone using Perforated Diaphragm

In this paper, a novel single-chip MEMS capacitive microphone is presented. The novelties of this method relies on the moveable aluminum (Al) diaphragm positioned over the backplate electrode, where the diaphragm includes a plurality of holes to allow the air in the gap between the electrode and diaphragm to escape and thus reduce acoustical damping in the microphone. Spin-on-glass (SOG) was us...

STRONG VALID INEQUALITIES FOR MIXED-INTEGER NONLINEAR PROGRAMS VIA DISJUNCTIVE PROGRAMMING AND LIFTING By KWANGHUN CHUNG A DISSERTATION PRESENTED TO THE GRADUATE SCHOOL OF THE UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA IN PARTIAL FULFILLMENT OF THE REQUIREMENTS FOR THE DEGREE OF DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY

of Dissertation Presented to the Graduate School of the University of Florida in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy STRONG VALID INEQUALITIES FOR MIXED-INTEGER NONLINEAR PROGRAMS VIA DISJUNCTIVE PROGRAMMING AND LIFTING By Kwanghun Chung August 2010 Chair: Jean-Philippe. P. Richard Major: Industrial and Systems Engineering Mixed-Integer Nonlinear Progr...

DESIGN AND CHARACTERIZATION OF LEXA DIMER INTERFACE MUTANTS A Thesis Submitted to the College of Graduate Studies and Research In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements For the Degree of Masters of Science In the Department of Biochemistry

COOPERATIVE COMMUNICATION IN WIRELESS NETWORKS: FLOW-OPTIMIZED DESIGNS AND INFORMATION-THEORETIC CHARACTERIZATIONS By DEBDEEP CHATTERJEE A DISSERTATION PRESENTED TO THE GRADUATE SCHOOL OF THE UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA IN PARTIAL FULFILLMENT OF THE REQUIREMENTS FOR THE DEGREE OF DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY

of Dissertation Presented to the Graduate School of the University of Florida in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy COOPERATIVE COMMUNICATION IN WIRELESS NETWORKS: FLOW-OPTIMIZED DESIGNS AND INFORMATION-THEORETIC CHARACTERIZATIONS By Debdeep Chatterjee August 2010 Chair: Tan F. Wong Major: Electrical and Computer Engineering The challenges involved in...