The Liquefaction Experiment and Analysis Project (LEAP), an international research collaboration among researchers from the US, UK, Japan, China and Taiwan, is a validation campaign to assess the capabilities of existing numerical/constitutive models for liquefaction analysis by using laboratory experiments and centrifuge tests. The nature, goals, and scope of the project are presented in this ...

We are interested in the problem of map construction of an unknown environment. Even with a complete map, navigation of real autonomous mobile robots is still conducted with imperfect information. This can be caused by various factors, such as imperfect sensors, imperfect mechanical control capabilities, and imperfect road conditions. Computational resource constraints for real time performance...

971 The most esoteric research field in the natural sciences is probably quantum physics. Despite the fact that Werner Heisenberg first proposed its central concepts nearly 80 years ago, it continues to baffle physicists and to cause headaches among non-physicists. Even Albert Einstein was unwilling to accept the central tenet that everything is just a matter of possibilities; he famously dismi...

BACKGROUND Team-based care is now recognized as an essential feature of high quality primary care, but there is limited empiric evidence to guide practice transformation. The purpose of this paper is to describe advances in the configuration and deployment of practice teams based on in-depth study of 30 primary care practices viewed as innovators in team-based care. METHODS As part of LEAP, a...

It is not easy to achieve secure key establishment in wireless sensor networks without public key cryptography. Many key management protocols have been proposed for the purpose. Among them, LEAP is a simple and elegant protocol that establishes multi-level keys in an efficient way, but its security mainly relies on that of a single initialization key. Though it is assumed that the initial deplo...

We recently used the Atom LEAP (a new energy measurement testbed developed at UCLA) as the foundation for CS 188, an undergraduate research seminar investigating potential trade-offs between security and energy consumption. Twenty-three students, in five groups, researched the energy costs of full disk encryption, network cryptography, and sandboxing techniques, as well as the potential savings...

Late Embryogenesis Abundant proteins (LEAPs) comprise several diverse protein families and are mostly involved in stress tolerance. Most of LEAPs are intrinsically disordered and thus poorly functionally characterized. LEAPs have been classified and a large number of their physico-chemical properties have been statistically analyzed. LEAPs were previously proposed to be a subset of a very wide ...

of the Dissertation Energy Efficient Computing with the Low Power, Energy Aware Processing (LEAP) Architecture by Dustin Hale McIntire Doctor of Philosophy in Electrical Engineering University of California, Los Angeles, 2012 Professor William J. Kaiser, Chair Recently, a broad range of ENS applications have appeared for large-scale systems, introducing new requirements leading to new embedded ...

BACKGROUND Scanning cytometry now has many of the features (and power) of multiparameter flow cytometry while keeping its own advantages as an imaging technology. Modern instruments combine capabilities of scanning cytometry with the ability to manipulate cells. A new technology, called LEAP (laser-enabled analysis and processing), offers a unique combination of capabilities in cell purificatio...