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Arabic Variant Identification Aid (AVIA)
Published Wednesday, March 18, 2009This invention’s entire package is called the Arabic Variant Identification Aid (AVIA). It consists of a manual of 7 colloquial Arabic dialects that describes their key linguistic features and highlights the ways in which they differ from each other, as well as from Modern Standard Arabic. The AVIA is a reference source that is designed...
Categories: Education/Training/Multimedia
Keyword(s): Arabic language variant identification
Docket: IS-2007-065
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high-powered Electrochemical Energy Storage Devices
Published Tuesday, September 2, 2008Recently, coaxial nanowires have attracted attention due to their added synergic properties (e.g. high conductivity) or functionalities (e.g. core/shell p-n junction) arising from the combination of different materials. However, till date, a step-wise synthetic approach has been taken for manufacturing these coaxial nanowires, i.e., metal oxide...
Categories: Nanotechnology + Nanoparticles + Nanomaterials, Power Electronics, Chemical
Keyword(s): nanowire, supercapacitor, battery, storage
Docket: PS-2007-117
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Kriging Metamodel Assisted Multi-Objective Optimization Software
Published Tuesday, August 19, 2008Although population based optimization methods, such as multi-objective genetic algorithms (hereinafter; “MOGAs”), have become very popular for engineering optimization problems because of their flexibility, the high computational cost associated with this type of methods has been preventing applications of these methods to more realistic...
Categories: Software + Algorithm, Information Technology, Engineering
Keyword(s): engineering design, genetic algorithm, metamodel
Docket: IS-2008-070
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Multi-Objective Collaborative Robust Optimization (McRO)
Published Tuesday, August 19, 2008BackgroundEngineering design optimization methods involving “complex” systems often fall under Multi-disciplinary Design Optimization (MDO), where complex refers to a system whose analysis involves multiple coupled subsystems (or disciplines). Several techniques have previously been developed and applied to single-objective optimization...
Categories: Software + Algorithm, Information Technology, Engineering
Keyword(s): MDO, engineering design,optimization
Docket: IS-2008-068
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Multidisciplinary Multi-Objective Sensitivity Analysis
Published Tuesday, August 19, 2008Uncertainty in the input parameters of a multi-disciplinary engineering system is unavoidable and results in variations in the outputs at both the system and the subsystem levels of an engineering system which consists of multiple disciplines or subsystems. Such uncertainty can significantly degrade the performance of the system. Examples of such...
Categories: Information Technology
Keyword(s): design, optimization
Docket: IS-2008-071
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Compressible Shear Layer Mixing Enhancement and Suppression by Compressibility and Shear Modulation
Published Sunday, August 17, 2008Researchers at the University of Maryland have developed a new technique for engineering enhanced or suppressed mixing in compressible shear/mixing layers. The technique primarily relies on the manipulation of the density and velocity ratio across the mixing layer to alter its compressibility and shear, thereby either increasing or decreasing its...
Categories: Aerospace
Keyword(s): Compressible Shear Layer Mixing
Docket: PS-2008-050
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Multihollow Polymer Particles by Dispersive Suspension Polymerization
Published Wednesday, August 13, 2008Porous polymer particles are used in filters, catalysts, sensors, electronic displays, and insulating materials, among others, due to their low density and low heat capacity characteristics. The polymer particles are made by suspension and dispersion polymerization techniques having single phase morphology.Researchers at the University...
Categories: Materials, Chemical
Keyword(s): multihollow polymer particles
Docket: PS-2007-066
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Integrated Reformer/Solid Oxide Fuel Cell/Combustor for Portable Power
Published Wednesday, May 7, 2008Many manufacturers supply compact power systems that weigh in excess of 15 lb and producing greater than 1 kW of power utilizing the pairing of a liquid hydrocarbon fuel engine with an electric generator. Modern gas turbine engines use shaft-driven electric generators to generate electrical power.Researchers at the Department of...
Categories: Clean Technology, Chemical, Power Electronics
Keyword(s): fuel cell, CATALYTIC COMBUSTION
Docket: PS-2006-067
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Motion Sensor with On-Chip Adaptation and Programmable Filtering
Published Wednesday, May 7, 2008Fly inspired navigation systems take the biological evidence of visual motor computation in fly flight control and apply it to vision based micro-air vehicle navigation. These sensors and algorithms are implemented in neuromorphic VLSI hardware, following the structure and function of the biological system. Although conventional vision processing...
Categories: Sensors/Monitors
Keyword(s): navigation, robot, mismatch, chip
Docket: PS-2008-002
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Positioning Quantum Dots in Devices by Electroosmotic Feedback Control
Published Wednesday, May 7, 2008Semiconductor quantum dots (QDs) are ideal candidates for storing and manipulating quantum information. To perform scalable quantum computation and long distance quantum networking requires the ability to deterministically position and fix many QDs into a single device, and ability that is currently not available. Such integration would enable one...
Categories: Nanotechnology + Nanoparticles + Nanomaterials, Engineering, Devices
Keyword(s): positioning quantum dots electro-osmotic feedback control
Docket: PS-2007-118