Data entities from various data sources could be ordered according to a variety of attributes associated with those entities. These orderings result in a ranking of entities in terms of the values in the attribute domains. ...

Rate Distortion analysis is a branch of information theory that predicts the tradeoffs between rate and distortion in source coding. In this thesis, we present the rate distortion analysis for conditional motion estimation, ...

Errors in the field of medicine are costly, both in terms of monetary expenses and the cost of lives. Computerbased decision aids have been shown to decrease physician error. These decision aids decreased many types of ...

Delta sigma data converters have found to be of greater interest for almost 40 years now. Continuous time implementation of these converters, especially for high speed and low power applications has been very challenging. ...

Since the field of wireless technology is growing rapidly, security is becoming a major concern. A variety of security problems are being addressed, and much research work is taking place in order to provide adequate ...

This thesis presents a dynamically feasible and real-time trajectory path generation algorithm for unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) flying through a sequence of a random N number of waypoints (WPs) in three dimensions. ...

In the past, electronic and magnetic materials have been atom based materials made up of metals or metal-oxides. Functionally,these atom based materials are extremely efficient, however, they are very expensive to synthesize, ...

The Native American novel is inherently a “cross-cultural” device with roots both in the western written tradition and Indigenous oral tradition; a mix that oftentimes makes these novels difficult for readers, especially ...

Recent flight test experience and simulator studies have shown that the traditional test for static lateral stability, the steady heading sideslip, in some cases may be overly conservative and place unnecessary restrictions ...

There is growing interest in whether invasive species may be controlled by targeting key life stages or by tailoring different management strategies to the specific characteristics of particular life stages. In this study, ...