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Data fusion of ambient technologies to examine relationships between activity and mild cognitive impairment
Mild Cognitive Impairment (MCI) is a disorder that affects millions of elderly individuals across the world. Common symptoms of the condition are decreases in memory function, impaired motor control which can cause regularly ... -
Decellularized cartilage microcarriers as a novel platform for chondrogenic expansion
Osteoarthritis is a degenerative disease associated with the degradation of cartilage. One of the few therapies aimed at regenerating cartilage, autologous chondrocyte implantation (ACI), involves ex vivo expansion and ... -
Deception Detection Tests Along with Brain-Computer Interface
Primarily polygraphs (AKA lie detectors) are being used for deception detection tests (DDT) in terms of knowing hidden and crucial information associated with crime or an incidence. Often, other factors, i.e., nervousness, ... -
Decoding Disease Persistence in Pediatric Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia One Single Cell at a Time
In order to understand the biological and molecular mechanisms underlying disease resistance to therapy in pediatric acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL), we performed an investigation utilizing single-cell RNA-sequencing ... -
Deep Convolutional Player Modelling on Log and Level Data
We present a novel approach to player modeling based on a convolutional neural net trained on game event logs. We test our approach and a hybrid extension over two distinct games, a clone of Super Mario Bros. and Gwario, ... -
Defining tooth and taste bud density throughout development
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2013-05-08)Epithelial-mesenchymal interactions are the foundation for building differing oral tissues. While the epithelium has the ability to develop into multiple tissue types, the mesenchyme confers regional specificity. Using ... -
Degradation of dental resin through water diffusion
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2016-07-18)Dental resin is used in the dentistry field as restorative material that fills out cavity of teeth. It is insoluble, aesthetic, unreactive in dehydration, and inexpensive which makes it a very reasonable option for patients ... -
Density-dependent Stiffness in Petiole Biomechanics
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2008-05-05)Morphological features of plants vary with increasing size. This relationship between different physical characteristics and size is referred to as allometry. Recently allometric research focused on plants and in particular ... -
Dependence of escape fraction of ultraviolet radiation on galaxy mass
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2013-05-08)Using the N-body, adaptive mesh-refinement, ray-tracing code Enzo, we studied the escape fraction of ultraviolet radiation in the early universe. We obtained data from a simulated cube 1 Mpc across of the early universe ... -
Design and development of a novel compact soft-surface structure for performance improvement and size reduction of a microstrip Yagi array antenna
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2008-05-05)An new antenna structure based on a microstrip Yagi array antenna and a soft surface (SS) ring is designed and developed, which enables a highly directional gain in addition to an improved front-to-back (F/B) ratio of more ... -
Design and Evaluation of the Flexible PDMS Microfluidic Diaphragm Pump with Check-Valve
Microfluidic pumps in the field of medicine have several applications, including cell separation, microanalysis array, and drug delivery. Among these applications, the pump’s usage for drug delivery requires flow-in-one-direction. ... -
Design and Validation of a Handheld Probe to Measure Knee Joint Sounds
The goal of this research is to design and validate a system used to record joint sounds measurements that can be collected at home by patients. Wearable and handheld technology allows patients to monitor conditions at ... -
Design of a Blood Serum Acoustic Biosensor for Inferring Prostate Cancer Recurrence
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2011-05-09)Biomarkers and the methods which are utilized to detect them are at the forefront of disease prevention, detection, and prognosis. To further the prostate cancer clinical detection modalities, quartz crystal microbalances ... -
Design of a CubeSat Mission for Persistent Space Situational Awareness with Passive Optical Sensors
This paper will explore the design and implementation of a CubeSat with an electro- optical sensor for purposes of space situational awareness. The Introduction gives an overview of the current state-of-the-art for space-based ... -
Design of a thermoelectric edu-kitchen system
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2013-05-08)The driving force behind this project is to aid the people who live in ru- ral areas of the world and have difficulties in accessing basic electricity and kitchen efficiencies. The most basic kitchen is a pot over a fire. ... -
Design of an actively cooled grid system to improve efficiency in inertial electrostatic confinement fusion reactors
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2008-05-05)Traditional inertial electrostatic confinement (IEC) fusion reactor designs utilize an ion accelerating grid fabricated out of a refractory metal capable of operating at high temperatures to radiate off heat imparted by ... -
Design of Systems and Optimizations for Autonomous Agents using passive RFID Localization Techniques - Recycling Collaborative Robots
This paper aims to describe the work done towards designing and implementing systems and optimizations for a set of autonomous robots that intend to collaborate towards accomplishing the specific common goal of transporting ... -
Design Tool for Simulation of Nanocomposite Material Properties
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2013-05-08)The development of nanocomposites is one of the rapidly evolving areas of composite materials research due to the unique properties exhibited by nanoscale reinforcements. Carbon nanotubes (CNTs), for example, have superior ... -
Designed Beta Hairpin Peptides as Models for Biological Metalloproteins
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2015-06-30)Understanding the chemistry of metalloproteins can lead to innovative solutions to major problems in fields such as energy conservation and drug development. In nature, there are numerous biological proteins that use metal ... -
Designing a character avatar model for the Mermaids MMO
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2010-12-20)This paper describes the technique formed for the creation of an efficient, simply rigged, customizable mermaid avatar model for the Mermaids massively multiplayer online game (MMOG). Our goal was to improve the in game ...