This thesis deals with the problem of presenting and managing multiple live audiovisual data streams for television viewing. Prior work has dealt with content presentation and navigation in a large information space and typically has not concerned itself with the time critical aspect of the data. This thesis extends and modifies these concepts and applies them to entertainment. A general purpos...

A major, apparently novel extracellular matrix-degrading protease was previously identified and partially isolated from hormone-dependent but not from hormone-independent human breast cancer cells (Shi, Y. E., Torri, J., Yieh, L., Wellstein, A., Lippman, M. E., and Dickson, R. B. (1993) Cancer Res. 53, 1409–1415). Although initially the 80-kDa protease was identified from breast cancer cell-con...

Keratosulfate was first isolated from bovine cornea in 1953 by Meyer et al. (2) and its repeating unit structure determined to be (1 3 3)P-n-galactopyranosyl-(1 + 4)-2-acetamido-2-deoxy-Po-glucopyranosyl 6-sulfate (3). This compound was later reported present also in human cartilage (4) and in nucleus pulposus (5). u-Glucosamine was characterized as the hydrochloride and n-galactose as the or-m...

In recent years, we have seen the proliferation of ubiquitous computers invading our public and private spaces. While personal computing is unfolding to become mobile activity, it rarely crosses the boundary of our personal devices, using the public interactive infrastructure as a substrate. This thesis develops an approach to interoperability and modular composition in the design of ubiquitous...

Stein, Kenneth M., Jeff Walden, Neal Lippman, and Bruce B. Lerman. Ventricular response in atrial fibrillation: random or deterministic? Am. J. Physiol. 277 (Heart Circ. Physiol. 46): H452–H458, 1999.—The ventricular response in atrial fibrillation is often described as ‘‘chaotic,’’ but this has not been demonstrated in the strict mathematical sense. A defining feature of chaotic systems is sen...

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This thesis studies the theory and application of co-channel digital signal separation techniques. We set up a test-bed with the GNU Software Defined Radio (SDR) platform where we implement and experiment with single-antenna signal separation algorithms. We mainly investigate linearly-modulated digital signals. To do this, we design a multiple RFID card reader capable of decoding multiple commo...

This thesis investigates image coding using a combination of sub-band analysis/synthesis techniques and vector quantization. The design of a vector quantizer for image sub-bands is investigated, and the interplay between multi-rate filter banks and the vector coder is examined. The goal is twofold, first, a vector quantizer that is bounded by a distortion criterion versus an apriori fixed limit...

Aims: To determine the relationship between modules’ language contents and students learning engagement during COVID 19
 Study Design: Descriptive-correlational
 Place Duration of Study: This study was conducted in Bato National High School, Sta. Cruz, Davao del Sur from February to June 2021.
 Methodology: research used stratified random sampling. It involved 258 Grades 7-10 stu...