Computer-Assisted Interactive Documentary and Performance Arts in Illimitable Space Miao Song, Ph.D. Concordia University, 2014 This major component of the research described in this thesis is 3D computer graphics, specifically the realistic physics-based softbody simulation and haptic responsive environments. Minor components include advanced human-computer interaction environments, non-linear...

Abstract: Multiuser multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) downlink (DL) transmission schemes experience both multiuser interference as well as inter-antenna interference. Instead of treating all the users jointly as in zero-forcing (ZF) multiuser transmission techniques, the investigated singular value decomposition (SVD) assisted DL multiuser MIMO system takes the individual user’s channel cha...

Yan, J. 2014. DNA-Assisted Immunoassays for High-Performance Protein Analyses. Digital Comprehensive Summaries of Uppsala Dissertations from the Faculty of Medicine 1055. 53 pp. Uppsala: Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis. ISBN 978-91-554-9114-7. Proteins play important roles in most cellular functions, such as, replication, transcription regulation, signal transduction, for catalyzing chemical rea...

INTRODUCTION This article is part of the Focus Theme of Methods of Information in Medicine on "Methodologies, Models and Algorithms for Patients Rehabilitation". OBJECTIVES The great potential of robots in extracting quantitative and meaningful data is not always exploited in clinical practice. The aim of the present work is to describe a simple parameter to assess the performance of subjects...

BACKGROUND The practices of euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide remain controversial. OBJECTIVE To achieve better understanding of attitudes and practices regarding euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide in the context of end-of-life care. DESIGN Cohort study. SETTING United States. PARTICIPANTS 3299 oncologists who are members of the American Society of Clinical Oncology. ME...

Improving the FES-assisted indoor rowing exercise (FES-rowing) performance enables the spinal cord injury (SCI) people to perform hybrid FES-exercise in a higher level of intensity. High level of exercise volume and intensity can play a big role in prevention of cardiovascular disease, type 2 diabetes and obesity which is a significant threat to the health of people with chronic SCI. FES-rowing...

A thorough understanding of the effects of lean zones and the improvement of steam-assisted gravity drainage (SAGD) operations with such heterogeneities is critically important for reducing the disadvantages of lean zones. The numerical model shows: (1) SAGD is most influenced by the single-layer lean zone with the above-injector (AI) location; with the decrease of interval distance and increas...

Superscalar microprocessors currently power the majority of computing machines. These processors are capable of executing multiple independent instructions in each clock cycle by exploiting the Instruction-Level Parallelism (ILP) available in programs. Theoretically, there is a considerable amount of ILP available in most programs. However, the actual amount of exploitable ILP within a fixed in...

Utilizing internal energy artificially implemented by cold-pressing in the specimens, we demonstrate a way to synthesize high-quality bulk thermoelectric materials at otherwise too low a temperature to approach to an equilibrium state. This low-temperature synthesis technique will provide a new opportunity to integrate high-performance thermoelectric materials into various electronic devices fo...

The prominence of the wireless communication has been urging the monotonically increasing demand of security and privacy. In wireless systems, the notion of perfect secrecy of information with respect to illegitimate nodes can be ensured via physical layer security (PLS) techniques. Unfortunately, they can be made less effective if sourceeavesdropper wiretap channel is better than the main sour...