1. Abstract Tension Leg Platforms (TLPs), if designed properly, are the best oil and natural production facilities in the world. They are utilized globally by prominent oil companies such as Hess, Conoco Philips, and Shell. We have designed a prototype TLP with two novel features. First, our prototype structure, dubbed the Governor’s School of Engineering and Technology (GSET) TLP, is taller th...

The conventional wisdom has always been that users should refrain from entering their sensitive data (such as usernames, passwords, and credit card numbers) into http(or white) pages, but they can enter these data into https (or yellow) pages. Unfortunately, this assumption is not valid as it became clear recently that, through human mistakes or Phishing or Pharming attacks, a displayed yellow ...

In wireless multimedia sensor networks (WMSNs), sensor nodes use different types of sensors to gather different types of data. In multimedia applications, it is necessary to provide reliable and fair protocols in order to meet specific requirements of quality of service (QoS) demands in regard to these different types of data. To prolong the system lifetime of WMSNs, it is necessary to perform ...

Java bytecodes can be executed with the following three methods: a Java interpretor running on a particular machine interprets bytecodes; a Just-In-Time (JIT) compiler translates bytecodes to the native primitives of the particular machine and the machine executes the translated codes; and a Java processor executes bytecodes directly. The first two methods require no special hardware support fo...

Site-directed mutagenesis was used to assess the contribution of individual residues and a bound calcium in the 55-69 region of the thermolysin-like protease of Bacillus stearothermophilus (TLP-ste) to thermal stability. The importance of the 55-69 region was reflected by finding that almost all mutations had drastic effects on stability. These effects (both stabilizing and destabilizing) were ...

A new breed of processors like the Cell Broadband Engine, the Imagine stream processor and the various GPU processors emphasize data-level parallelism (DLP) and threadlevel parallelism (TLP) as opposed to traditional instructionlevel parallelism (ILP). This allows them to achieve order-ofmagnitude improvements over conventional superscalar processors for many workloads. However, it is unclear a...

ESD robustness of Low Temperature Poly-Si (LTPS) diodes and TFT devices has been investigated in this paper. By using the Transmission Line Pulsing (TLP) techniques, the It2 (secondary breakdown current) of LTPS diodes and TFT devices were measured. To evaluate the ESD robustness of components for ESD protection, the shifts of breakdown voltage and cut-in voltage of LTPS diode and TFT devices a...

ESD robustness of Low Temperature Poly-Si (LTPS) diodes and TFT devices has been investigated in this paper. By using the Transmission Line Pulsing (TLP) techniques, the It2 (secondary breakdown current) of LTPS diodes and TFT devices were measured. To evaluate the ESD robustness of components for ESD protection, the shifts of breakdown voltage and cut-in voltage of LTPS diode and TFT devices a...

The applicatlon of scannlng electrochemical microscopy (SECM) in the feedback mode to two-dknenslonai scans over conductlve and insuiatlng substrates to obtain topographic information at the micrometer-level Is descrlbed. I n the feedback mode the effect of the conductlvlty of the substrate and dlstance of the substrate from a scanning ultramicroelectrode tlp on the current flowing at the tip c...