X-ray micro-tomography (micro-CT) is a miniaturized form of conventional computed axial tomography (CAT) able to investigate small radio-opaque objects at a-few-microns high resolution, in a non-destructive, non-invasive, and tri-dimensional way. Compared to traditional optical and electron microscopy techniques, which provide two-dimensional images, this innovative investigation technology ena...

MEMS (micro-electro-mechanical-systems) device has been a promising and fascinating topic in both mechanical and electrical engineering domains for decades with the revolutionary contributions to the contemporary micro-scale instruments especially for the micro-actuator and micro-sensor. Among the versatile material foundation to build up the MEMS device, silicon wafer is preferred to due to th...

Self-Assembly Techniques for Massively Parallel Packaging of MEMS Devices Jiandong Fang Chair of Supervisory Committee: Professor Karl F. Böhringer Electrical Engineering This dissertation investigates applications of self-assembly for massively parallel packaging of flat micro-components, the most common appearance of microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) or CMOS chips. Self-assembly assembles...

Due to frequent handoff, Mobile IP has been confronted with some limitations. Cellular IP, one of micro-mobility protocols, was proposed to overcome these limitations and to provide good handoff performance. However, some drawbacks of Cellular IP like packet loss have been addressed. We propose an enhanced semi-soft handoff protocol based on a node’s decision to cope with these drawbacks. With ...

We describe the use of a semi-automated micro-scale extraction apparatus as applied to the assay of free fatty acids in plasma. With it, a smaller plasma sample is required, disposable glassware can replace acid-washed glassware, and the number of samples that one technican can assay per day is increased fivefold. Theroretically, this apparatus can be applied to all assay procedures requiring o...

UNLABELLED We present a new tool for the semi-automated querying of PubMed using a batch of tens to thousands of GenBank accession numbers or UniGene cluster ids. By combining information from UniGene and SWISS-PROT, microGENIE obtains information on the biological relevance of expressed genes, as identified by micro-array experiments, with minimal user intervention and time investment. AVAIL...

This paper describes our system for Chinese word segmentation of micro-blog text, one of the NLPCC-ICCPOL 2016 Shared Tasks [1]. The CRF (Conditional Random Field) model is employed to model word segmentation as a sequence labeling problem, 7 sets of features are selected to train the CRF model. The system achieves fb 0.798144 on closed track, 0.81968 on semi-open track, and 0.82217 on open tra...

The assembly process of a novel micro-scale co-ordinate measuring machine probe is presented. The process makes use of a semi-automated miniature robot. The initial tests that led to the full process chain are described, and the full process chain presented. The presented process chain successfully produced four assembled probes. Future work is suggested to augment the presented process chain l...

We present high aspect ratio 3D solenoidal micro coils manufactured in a serial, high speed and fully MEMS compatible winding procedure using an automatic wire bonder. The coils are wound on steel, glass, or polymer cores with a diameter ranging from 100 μm to 1 mm. The applications of these coils are manifold: as semi-integrated inductors for electronics, for energy harvesting purposes, and fo...

The in vitro activity of cycloguanil was assessed against 86 African isolates of Plasmodium falciparum by a semi-micro assay system. A bimodal distribution of susceptibility patterns was observed, with 44% of the isolates being cycloguanil susceptible. Cycloguanil alone retains a high activity against the intraerythrocytic forms of some isolates and, together with its activity against the hepat...