We perform simultaneous interferometric and fluorescent detection of molecular protein layers on a BioCD. The 488 nm excitation wavelength of fluorescein also provides the interferometric detection channel that operates in a common-path in-line configuration in the condition of phase quadrature set by a thermal oxide on silicon. The simultaneous acquisition of both channels enables a direct cor...

Modern applications increasingly require scalable, highly available and distributed storage systems. High-availability schemes typically deliver data despite up to n ≥ 1 simultaneous unavailabilities of the storage nodes (disks, processors with storage, or entire computers), where n is fixed. Such schemes are insufficient for scalable files, since the probability of more than n failures increas...

In this paper, we introduce a large-scale three-dimensional (3D) erasure network, where n wireless nodes are randomly distributed in a cuboid of nλ×nμ×nν with λ+μ+ν = 1 for λ, μ, ν > 0, and completely characterize its capacity scaling laws. Two fundamental path-loss attenuation models (i.e., exponential and polynomial power-law models) are used to suitably model an erasure probability for packe...

the arya and paris model is a commonly accepted method to translate a particle-size distribution curve into a corresponding soil moisture characteristic curve using scaling parameter (α). the scaling parameter, in the original model of arya and paris (1981), was assumed constant (α=1.38) for all soil texture classes. in recent years, several studies have shown that α is not constant and its qua...

Hybrid fiber reinforced concrete (HFRC) consisting of two or more different types of fibers has been widely investigated because of its superior mechanical properties. In the present study, the effect of the addition of steel (0.25%, 0.5%, 0.75%, and 1% of concrete volume) and Polypropylene (0.2%, 0.4%, and 0.6% of concrete volume) fibers on the surface scaling resistance of concrete, depth of ...

The intensity –duration –frequency (IDF) curves play most important role in watershed management, flood control and hydraulic design of structures. Conventional method for calculating the IDF curves needs hourly rainfall data in different durations which is not extensively available in many regions. Instead 24-hour precipitation statistics were measured in most rain-gauge stations. In this stud...

Energy consumption reduction is central to the design of modern embedded systems. Consequently, modern processors are equipped with software controlled mechanisms such as DVFS to allow the operating system to reduce the power consumption while meeting the required performance. This work presents two new policies for DVFS configuration which take into account the limited core DVFS range. Based o...