The pH sensing and nonideal characteristics of a ruthenium nitride (RuN) sensing membrane pH sensor were investigated. RuN thin films were deposited from a 99.9% ruthenium target on p-type silicon substrates using radio frequency (r.f.) sputtering with N(2) gas. Subsequently, the nanometric structure and surface morphology of RuN thin films were determined. The sensitivity of the RuN sensing me...

The High Energy Focusing Telescope (HEFT) is a balloon-borne, hard x-ray/gamma ray (20-70 keV) astronomical experiment. HEFT’s 10 arcminute field of view and 1 arcminute angular resolution place challenging demands on its attitude control system (ACS). A microprocessor-based ACS has been developed to manage target acquisition and sidereal tracking. The ACS consists of a variety of sensors and a...

This paper deals with the problem of tracking an object from a sequence of images captured from a camera moving towards the object. Many conventional image based trackers trace key reference points over an image sequence using simple correlation processes 1]. However, the presence of noise and the magniication of image features as the camera approaches the object may cause a tracked point to dr...

We demonstrate the use of a focused ultraviolet laser as a track calibration source in drift chambers, and specifically in a small time projection chamber (TPC). Drift chambers such as TPCs reconstruct the trajectories of charged particles by amplifying and collecting electrons produced by ionization of gas atoms with which the target particle collides. The ultraviolet laser induces a two-photo...

We propose a multiple scanner vendor registration method for pathological retinal 3D spectral domain optical coherence tomography volumes based on Myronenko’s Coherent Point Drift and our automated vessel shadow segmentation. Coherent point drift is applied to the segmented retinal vessel point sets used as landmarks to generate the registration parameters required. In contrast to other registr...

We present an ensemble method for concept drift that dynamically creates and removes weighted experts in response to changes in performance. The method, dynamic weighted majority (DWM), uses four mechanisms to cope with concept drift: It trains online learners of the ensemble, it weights those learners based on their performance, it removes them, also based on their performance, and it adds new...

The diffusion of projectiles drifting through a target of strongly coupled dusty plasma is investigated in a simulation. A projectile’s drift is driven by a constant force F. We characterize the random walk of the projectiles in the direction perpendicular to their drift. The perpendicular diffusion coefficient Dp? is obtained from the simulation data. The force dependence of Dp? is found to be...

This paper analyzes the behavior of a variety of tracking algorithms for single-layer threshold networks in the presence of random drift. We use a system identification model to model a target network where weights slowly change and a tracking network. Tracking algorithms are divided into conservative and nonconservative algorithms. For a random drift rate of , we find upper bounds for the gene...

Increasing evidence that the edge plasma plays a crucial role in global tokamak continement motivates this study of two-dimensional (2-D) (0,~) computational models of fluid transport in the edge plasma region. Fluid plasma equations, boundary conditions, and a coupled neutral-plasma model are developed assuming toroidal symmetry. A plasma potential equation~is presented for consistent drift fl...