Insitu soil tests in general have the advantage of allowing measurements under the field environmental conditions with minimum amount of soil disturbance due to sampling. A comparison of continuous dynamic probing with the SPT has been made for a study case of highly weathered limestone in Eastern Sudan. The correlation between the two test results is obtained in terms of penetration resistance...

This dissertation addresses several optimal stochastic scheduling problems that arise in partially observable wireless networks and multi-class queueing systems. They are single-hop network control problems under different channel connectivity assumptions and different scheduling constraints. Our goals are two-fold: To identify stochastic scheduling problems of practical interest, and to develo...

The AQUILA project defines and implements a QoS architecture for dynamic end-to-end service provisioning in IP networks. This paper presents the distributed QoS measurement architecture (DMA) designed as a part of AQUILA. The scope of QoS measurement in AQUILA is the evaluation and validation of the AQUILA architecture and the support of the AQUILA resource control mechanisms. The measurement m...

We formulate and study the Probabilistic Hitting Set Paradigm (PHSP), a general framework for design and analysis of search and detection algorithms in large scale dynamic networks. The PHSP captures applications ranging from monitoring new contents on the web, blogosphere, and Twitterverse, to analyzing influence properties in social networks, and detecting failure propagation on large electro...

In this paper, we propose to exploit the temporal dimension in dynamic QoS-based multicast routing to significantly improve the performance of previous spatial-oriented protocols while using less control overhead. We describe the design of a new protocol named TTBP (temporally correlated ticket-based probing), which is extended from a previous proposal TBP (ticket-based probing) protocol [IEEE ...

We propose practical analysis techniques to accurately measure geometric, dynamic, and material properties of MEMS. Analytical methods and test structures are presented to extract over a dozen properties by electric probing in a minimal chip area. Geometric properties include fabrication error with respect to layout geometry such as beam widths, gap spacings, etch holes, and beam lengths. Dynam...

objective: the aim of the present study was to compare the performance of laser fluorescence (lf) method with other conventional diagnostic techniques in detection of small occlusal caries in permanent teeth. materials and methods: prior to this in vitro diagnostic study, a pilot study assessed intra- examiner reliability and reproducibility. the occlusal surfaces of 90 extracted human premolar...

BACKGROUND Controversy exists regarding the treatment of infants with symptomatic nasolacrimal duct obstruction. One philosophy advocates "early" nasolacrimal duct probing, generally in the office. An alternate strategy advocates medical management until the infant is approximately 12 months old to allow for spontaneous resolution, with those with persistent nasolacrimal duct obstruction usuall...

Context. The initial periodontal examination which includes full-mouth periodontal probing is one of the discomforting procedures for a patient. Aim. To evaluate the efficacy of two local anesthetic gels in the reduction of pain during periodontal probing using Florida probe in CGP patients in comparison with manual probing. Materials and Methods. Ninety systemically healthy patients with moder...