Magnetic nanoparticles attracted a great deal of attention in the medical applications due to their unique properties. The most exceptional property of magnetic particles is their response to a magnetic force, and this property has been utilized in applications such as drug targeting, bioseparation, contrast agents in magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and heating mediators for cancer therapy. In...

Title of Dissertation: ZOOMABLE USER INTERFACES FOR THE AUTHORING AND DELIVERY OF SLIDE PRESENTATIONS Lance Everett Good, Doctor of Philosophy, 2003 Dissertation directed by: Professor Benjamin B. Bederson Department of Computer Science Millions of slide presentations are being authored and delivered with computer software every day. Yet much of the computer’s power for these tasks remains unta...

Experimenting and building integrated, operational systems in computational vision poses both theoretical and practical challenges, involving methodologies from control theory, statistics, optimization, computer graphics, and interaction. Consequently, a control and communication structure is needed to model typical computer vision applications and a flexible architecture is necessary to combin...

We describe a method of automated reconstruction of buildings from a set of uncalibrated photographs. The method proceeds in two steps (i) Recovering the camera corresponding to each photograph and a set of sparse scene features using uncalibrated structure from motion techniques developed in the Computer Vision community. (ii) A novel plane-sweep algorithm which progressively constructs a piec...

Strings are ubiquitous in computer systems and hence string processing has attracted extensive research effort from computer scientists in diverse areas. One of the most important problems in string processing is to efficiently evaluate the similarity between two strings based on a specified similarity measure. String similarity search is a fundamental problem in information retrieval, database...

The directed synthesis of main chain-type polyrotaxanes possessing crown ether wheels was successfully achieved through two methods, A and B. Method A involved the direct wheel threading of poly(sec-ammonium salt) followed by end-capping with a bulky group, while method B utilized polyaddition of a pseudo[2]rotaxane monomer to facilitate the control of the structure, i.e. the rotaxanation ratio.

This study was conducted to clarify the group tactical structures of “pick and roll” in basketball by having players who excel at tactic share their knowledge verbally. It anticipated that such sharing would help provide information useful for improvement individual skills situations where multiple face off on court. To better understand this tactic, 8 female compete international level were in...

These days, computer based image registration techniques are increasingly being used in the area of medical imaging as they offer significant benefits for aligning different images together and for visualizing their combined images. However, these techniques require an enormous amount of computation time due to the high resolution and complex nature of the medical images. We propose to alleviat...