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An active brace for controlled transdermal drug delivery for adjustable physical therapy
(IEEE, 2014)This study presents an active brace which is a cost efficient precision-controlled advanced therapy medicinal product for time and rate controlled transdermal drug delivery (TDD) through the use of drug containing nanoparticles ... -
Study on the refrigerator bottom cabinet cavity acoustic behavior
(International Institute of Acoustics and Vibrations, 2014)Recently, sound comfort has become important in residential houses and noise emission is a distinctive feature for the selection of the home appliances in the same energy class. Refrigerators run continuously when it is ... -
A Complete procedure for predicting and improving the performance of HAWT's
(IOP Publishing, 2014)A complete procedure for predicting and improving the performance of the horizontal axis wind turbine (HAWT) has been developed. The first process is predicting the power extracted by the turbine and the derived rotor ... -
Needle localization using gabor filtering in 2D ultrasound images
(IEEE, 2014)In the percutaneous needle procedures using ultrasound (US) imaging, the needle should be detected precisely to avoid damage to the tissue and to get the samples from the appropriate site. Excessive artifacts and low ... -
Effect of direct liquid cooling on light emitting diode local hot spots: Natural convection immersion cooling
(Begell House Inc., 2014)The increased popularity of solid state systems with the technological developments have led them to be a favorable choice for many lighting applications besides electronics. However, the development of denser high lumen ... -
Gabor filter based localization of needles in ultrasound guided robotic interventions
(IEEE, 2014)This paper presents an entropy based parameter tuning method for needle segmentation, and a probability map based needle tip estimation method using Gabor-based line filter. The proposed automatic parameter tuning method ... -
Near to far-field thermal emission by nanoparticles on a substrate: Evaluation of effective medium theory
(The Optical Society, 2014)We study the near to far-field thermal emission of a thin SiC film with/without nanospheres placed upon it. We show that Effective Medium Theorem produces questionable results when approximating emission and absorption ... -
Design and fabrication of a robotic tactile device for abdominal palpation
(IEEE, 2014)Palpation can be used as a manual technique for detecting normal and abnormal tissues. According to the recent applications of the robotic and control systems in medical fields, the design and fabrication of a device capable ... -
Simulation and analysis of a TET-walker robot motion
(IEEE, 2014)Tetrahedral walker robots are a group of reconfigurable robots which makes them adaptable for the full spectrum of activities in places that wheeled robots are inapplicable. In this paper, two different gaits for a ... -
Workability characteristics and mechanical behavior modeling of severely deformed pure titanium at high temperatures
(Elsevier, 2014-01)In the present study, compression tests were performed at temperatures of 600–900 °C and at strain rates of 0.001–0.1 s−1 to study the deformation and workability characteristics of commercially pure titanium after severe ... -
Thresholds for global existence and blow-up in a general class of doubly dispersive nonlocal wave equations
(Elsevier, 2014-01)In this paper we study the global existence and blow-up of solutions for a general class of nonlocal nonlinear wave equations with power-type nonlinearities, View the MathML source, where the nonlocality enters through two ... -
Special issue on micro- and nano-scale radiative transfer
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Elevated temperature mechanical behavior of severely deformed titanium
(Springer Nature, 2014-05)In this investigation, compression tests were performed at a strain rate of 0.001-0.1 s(-1) in the range of 600-900 degrees C to study the high temperature deformation behavior and flow stress model of commercial purity ... -
Comparison between discrete dipole approximation and other modelling methods for the plasmonic response of gold nanospheres
(Springer Science+Business Media, 2014-05)We investigate the plasmonic response of gold nanospheres calculated using discrete dipole approximation validated against the results from other discretization methods, namely the finite-difference time-domain method and ... -
Towards active tracking of beating heart motion in the presence of arrhythmia for robotic assisted beating heart surgery
(Plos, 2014-07-21)In robotic assisted beating heart surgery, the control architecture for heart motion tracking has stringent requirements in terms of bandwidth of the motion that needs to be tracked. In order to achieve sufficient tracking ... -
Coupling of near-field thermal radiative heating and phonon Monte Carlo simulation: Assessment of temperature gradient in n-doped silicon thin film
(Elsevier, 2014-08)Near-field thermal radiative exchange between two objects is typically more effective than the far-field thermal radiative exchange as the heat flux can increase up to several orders higher in magnitudes due to tunneling ... -
The seventh international symposium on radiative transfer
(Elsevier, 2014-08)This Special Issue of The Journal of Quantitative Spectroscopy and Radiative Transfer is based on the papers selected from the Seventh International Symposium on Radiative Transfer, which was held June 2013 in Kuşadası, ... -
Analysis of near-field radiation transfer within nano-gaps using FDTD method
(Elsevier, 2014-10)Enhancement of near-field radiative emission via coupling of surface plasmons in nano-gaps formed between thin films is important for understanding and implementation of energy harvesting using nano-thermophotovoltaic ... -
Understanding selectivity on Germanium/SiO2 chemical mechanical planarization through design of experiments
(Cambridge University Press, 2015)The continuous trend of achieving more complex microelectronics with smaller nodes yet larger wafer sizes in microelectronics manufacturing lead to aggressive development requirements for chemical mechanical planarization ... -
Calibration of 2D ultrasound in 3D space for robotic biopsies
(IEEE, 2015)Freehand Ultrasound technique is widely used in intraoperative biopsy procedures for detecting the volumes of interest. Freehand ultrasound probe is faster and flexible with 6 degrees of freedom. Thats why the imaging ...
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