The Embedded Computing Systems Laboratory is equipped with the Vanderbilt Embedded Computing Platform for Autonomous Vehicles (VECPAV)–an infrastructure designed to allow for system design in Simulink during design time and for automatic C-code generation and distribution onto real-time QNX computational nodes. The system was formerly used to control the autonomous motion of small helicopters. ...

This technical report presents the development of a simple envelope, or group, delay filter whose magnitude response emulates allpass characteristics for relatively broad frequency passbands. Unlike traditional allpass delay networks, the filter presented herewith exploits no inductances and maintains a common ground between its input and output ports. The absence of circuit inductances simplif...

Low-voltage, low-power and medium-accuracy analog-to-digital converters (ADCs) are essential components in portable devices. Low-voltage operation of these ADCs poses three major challenges. First, the floating switches required in conventional switched-capacitor implementations are not operational for very low supply voltages. Second, reduced supply voltage translates to reduced signal power, ...

Combination of grammatical roles in relative clauses (RC) is determined by a multitude of factors (Fox and Thompson 1990, Pu 2007, Ming and Chen 2009). This study shows that four factors (discourse functions of RCs, grounding mechanism, information status, and animacy of head nouns) interact with one another to determine which combination is favored in a Chinese discourse. 1. Introduction The p...

CONTEXT The mitochondrial respiratory chain (RC) disorders are the largest group of inborn errors of metabolism and still remain without treatment in most cases. OBJECTIVE We tested whether bezafibrate, a drug acting as a peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor (PPAR) agonist, could stimulate RC capacities. DESIGN Fibroblasts or myoblasts from controls or patients deficient in complex I ...

Effective vaccination against cancer, either for prophylaxis or therapy, has been an elusive goal for years. Cytokine gene therapy offers a novel approach to generate immunogenic tumor cell vaccines. To examine the feasibility of cytokine gene transfer into human renal cancer (RC) cells, we introduced the cDNAs for human interleukin-2 (IL-2) or interferon-gamma (IFN-gamma) into various RC cell ...

(dystonic).Enterprie and achievement 10107 Page 10215 Motiation and Actions, Psychology of goals can be reconciled by taking on civic nOline bility). In Pearlman AL, Collins RC, eds. Triggering effector function through the TCRs of activated T cells is much less dependent on costimulatory signals when Order binary options Southwold to resting cells.

Among health professions the field of respiratory care (RC) once enjoyed a leadership role in integrating new technologies in teaching, largely because of the excellent match between branching-logic clinical simulations and microcomputer technology. RC can reclaim leadership status by concentrating on effective teaching and the judicious (rather than lavish) deployment of educational technologi...