Brick and Mortar Chip Fabrication Martha Allen Kim Chair of the Supervisory Committee: Professor Mark Oskin Computer Science and Engineering While Moore’s Law has advanced the semiconductor and technology industries, it has simultaneously driven up the cost of engineering a chip in a modern silicon process. The result is that fewer and fewer chips are produced in larger and larger volumes, stif...

Most models of consumer purchase process that are used in operations focus on purchases from a single channel, typically the offline brick-and-mortar store [3]. However, there has been a proliferation of multiple retail channels, such as online and mobile. This proliferation has created the need for operational decisions to model consumer switching between different channels during the purchase...

We prove that every minimal brick on n vertices has at least n/9 vertices of degree at most 4.

background: the aim of this study was to measure137cs levels in soil and brick samples to set the baseline data and an indicator of fallout radioactivity for this part of the world. this study will help to probe, if there is any health threat posed by 137cs exposure to the residents of the area. materials and methods: twenty five samples of soil and 6 samples of bricks were collected from diffe...

We introduce a tiled 3D MIP map representation of global illumination data. The representation is an adaptive, sparse octree with a “brick” at each octree node; each brick consists of 83 voxels with sparse irradiance values. The representation is designed to enable efficient caching. Combined with photon tracing and recent advances in distribution ray tracing of very complex scenes, the result ...

In this thesis properties and the origin of black hole entropy are investigated from various points of view. First, laws of black hole thermodynamics are reviewed. In particular, the first and generalized second laws are investigated in detail. It is in these laws that the black hole entropy plays key roles. Next, three candidates for the origin of the black hole entropy are analyzed: the D-bra...

We generalize the brick polytope of V. Pilaud and F. Santos to spherical subword complexes for finite Coxeter groups. This construction provides polytopal realizations for a certain class of subword complexes containing all cluster complexes of finite types. For the latter, the brick polytopes turn out to coincide with the known realizations of generalized associahedra, thus opening new perspec...

The demand for sustainable alternative construction materials to cement in modern technology cannot be underemphasized. This paper presents a non-fired green brick with an agriculture residue namely, rice husk. Although, high plasticity brown clay deposits are widely distributed in Malaysia and rice husk is a well known agriculture residue, research works on non-fired green brick with rice husk...