A BIPV-powered smart window comprising a building-integrated photovoltaic (BIPV) panel and an all-solid-state electrochromic (EC) stack is proposed. In the proposed device, the output voltage of the BIPV panel varies in accordance with the intensity of the incident light and is modulated in such a way as to generate the EC stack voltage required to maintain the indoor illuminance within a speci...

The conversion of a nucleic acid from single strands to double strands is thought to involve slow nucleation followed by fast double-strand propagation. Here, for RNA double-strand propagation, we propose an atomic resolution reaction mechanism. This mechanism, called the stack-ratchet, is based on data-mining of three-dimensional structures and on available thermodynamic information. The stack...

A class of priority algorithms that capture reasonable greedy-like algorithms was introduced by Borodin, Nielson, and Rackoff [7]. Later, Borodin, Cashman, and Magen [4] introduced the stack algorithms, advocating that they capture reasonable primal-dual and local-ratio algorithms. In this thesis, some NP -hard graph optimization problems Maximum Acyclic Subgraph (MAS) problem and Minimum Stein...

This paper presents a generic addressing framework (GAF) which enables the development of protocol stack independent applications. This framework has been developed in the context of dynamic protocol stack composition [8]. Having a way to compose [8][7] and build [3] protocol stacks is not sufficient. The protocol layers a stack is composed of have an impact on the addressing used inside the st...

In this study cross section geometry and material of gasket in proton exchange membrane (PEM) fuel cells have been investigated to achieve optimized fuel cell in terms of energy efficiency. The role of gaskets in fuel cells is sealing of gas flow channels and preventing from combination of them. In a PEM stack, gasket with approved geometry that suffers more stress has better sealing. For this ...

1. STACK-BASED GENETIC PROGRAMMING Genetic Programming, or GP, has traditionally used tree-based techniques for representation and reproduction. The most widely used crossover method is subtree crossover, and the majority of the alternatives in published literature are variants thereof. However, if the trees are manipulated in their prefix or postfix form, other approaches exist that preserve t...

A new 3-D full-scale thermo-structural finite element model of two-stack FPGA with TSVs, which is developed from an experimentally validated single-stack FPGA model, is proposed. Typical 3-D distributions and evolutions of temperature and von Mises stress on both the active layers and TSVs are presented.

A 3-D test circuit examining power grid noise in a 3-D integrated stack has been designed, fabricated, and tested. Fabrication and vertical bonding were performed by MIT Lincoln Laboratory for a 150 nm, three metal layer SOI process. Three wafers are vertically bonded to form a 3-D stack. Noise analysis of a power delivery topology is described. The effect of the through silicon via (TSV) densi...

A range of techniques was used to search for the fittest filter to remove noise from data from a blood flow measurement system. Filter types considered included finite impulse response (FIR), RC (exponential), a generalized FIR form, and stack filters. Techniques used to choose individual filters were heuristic, the genetic algorithm, and genetic programming. The efficacy of filters was assesse...