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SCAPA (Spacially Addressable Protein Array) – a Novel Protein Array for the Differential Profiling of Ligand-receptor Induced Signalling
(2005-01)While protein microarray technology has been successful in demonstrating its usefulness for large scale high-throughput proteome profiling, performance of antibody/antigen microarrays has been only moderately productive. ... -
Scheduling of Batch Processors in Semiconductor Manufacturing – A Review
(2003-01)In this paper a review on scheduling of batch processors (SBP) in semiconductor manufacturing (SM) is presented. It classifies SBP in SM into 12 groups. The suggested classification scheme organizes the SBP in SM literature, ... -
Second-Order Fluid Dynamics Models for Travel Times in Dynamic Transportation Networks
(2002-01)In recent years, traffic congestion in transportation networks has grown rapidly and has become an acute problem. The impetus for studying this problem has been further strengthened due to the fast growing field of ... -
Secondary Flow and Upstream Dynamics in Double Bifurcation Model
(2007-01)Flow behavior in bifurcation models is of great importance to health risk assessments and pulmonary drug delivery. This is particularly true of secondary flow behavior in multi-bifurcation models. Previously, both numerical ... -
Segmentation of Dimensionally-Large Rapid Prototyping Objects
(2003-01)An algorithm was developed to enable efficient segmentation of dimensionally-large objects into smaller components that can be fabricated within the given Rapid Prototyping (RP) machine workspace. The algorithm uses vertical ... -
Selective DNA-Directed Assembly on Dual-Functionalized Microparticles
(2004-01)The bottom-up assembly of functional devices requires novel building blocks to facilitate the incorporation of functional and structural hierarchy. Anisotropic building blocks can substantially broaden the creation of ... -
Self-Assembled Coatings for Controlling Biomolecular Adsorption on Surfaces
(2003-01)We have investigated a series of molecular and polymeric approaches for generating adherent thin films that impart anti-fouling characteristics to oxide surfaces. These films incorporate oligo- or poly(ethylene glycol) ... -
Self-Assembly of Stimuli-Responsive Water-Soluble [60]Fullerene End-Capped Ampholytic Block Copolymer
(2005-01)Well-defined, water-soluble, pH and temperature stimuli-responsive [60]fullerene (C₆₀) containing ampholytic block copolymer of poly((methacrylic acid)-block-(2-(dimethylamino)ethyl methacrylate))-block–C₆₀ (P(MAA-b-DMAEMA)-b-C₆₀) ... -
Setting Real Time WIP Levels in Production Lines
(2006-01)A new algorithm is developed for setting WIP level in production lines. It is a pull policy that determines when to authorize a job to be processed. Dynamic information in the system such as machine failures and repairs, ... -
Shock Capturing with Discontinuous Galerkin Method
(2006-01)Shock capturing has been a challenge for computational fluid dynamicists over the years. This article deals with discontinuous Galerkin method to solve the hyperbolic equations in which solutions may develop discontinuities ... -
Si Industry at a Crossroads: New Materials or New Factories?
(2002-01)Many trends in the silicon industry could be interpreted as the herald of the end of traditional Si scaling. If this premise holds, future performance and system-on-chip applications may not be reached with conventional ... -
SiGe-On-Insulator (SGOI) Technology and MOSFET Fabrication
(2002-01)In this work, we have developed two different fabrication processes for relaxed Si₁₋xGex-on-insulator (SGOI) substrates: (1) SGOI fabrication by etch-back approach, and (2) by "smart-cut" approach utilizing ... -
SiGe-On-Insulator (SGOI): Two Structures for CMOS Application
(2003-01)Two SiGe-on-insulator (SGOI) structures for CMOS application are presented: surface-channel strained-Si on SGOI (SSOI) and dual-channel SGOI structures. Comparisons between two structures are made from both device performance ... -
SiGeC Near Infrared Photodetectors
(2002-01)A near infrared waveguide photodetector in Si-based ternary Si₁âxâyGexCy alloy was demonstrated for 0.85~1.06 µm wavelength fiber-optic interconnection system applications. Two sets of detectors with active absorption ... -
Signaling Biochip – Profiling ligand-receptor induced signalling
(2004-01)Intracellular communication controls most cellular functions, which includes cell growth, death, and differentiation. The current challenge in cell biology is to decipher the spatial-temporal interactions of these highly ... -
Similarity-Driven Cluster Merging Method for Unsupervised Fuzzy Clustering
(2004-01)In this paper, a similarity-driven cluster merging method is proposed for unsupervised fuzzy clustering. The cluster merging method is used to resolve the problem of cluster validation. Starting with an overspecified number ... -
Simple and Versatile Route to the Synthesis of Anisotropic Bimetallic Core-Shell and Monometallic Hollow Nanostructures: Ag (AgCl)-Pt Core-Shell Nanocubes and Pt Nanoboxes
(2007-01)We report herewith a simple and versatile route for the preparation of anisotropic Ag(AgCl)-Pt core-shell nanocubes and Pt nanoboxes. The core-shell nanocubes were first synthesized through the simultaneous reduction method ... -
Simple Bivalency Proofs of the Lower Bounds in Synchronous Consensus Problems
(2004-01)A fundamental problem of fault-tolerant distributed computing is for the reliable processes to reach a consensus. For a synchronous distributed system of n processes with up to t crash failures and f failures actually ... -
A Simple But Effective Evolutionary Algorithm for Complicated Optimization Problems
(2002-01)A simple but effective evolutionary algorithm is proposed in this paper for solving complicated optimization problems. The new algorithm presents two hybridization operations incorporated with the conventional genetic ... -
Simplified Model and Numerical Analysis of Multi-layered Piezoelectric Diaphragm
(2003-01)The validity of the dynamic analysis based on simplified plate model was investigated using of FE-codes ANSYS in the present paper. The simplified clamped multi-layered plate model was first verified by comparison with the ...