F. E. (1851-1885) and Oscar (1858-1957) Ruffini worked during a transitional period in the professionalization of achitectural practice in Texas and the United States. Yet scholars know little about the professional ...

Songs by the wayfarer Don Quixote Why do the nations See the raging flames Three poems of Fiona Macloud Op. 82

The textile industry needs a reliable, accurate, affordable, and efficient system to automatically evaluate fabric wrinkles. This thesis is a preliminary attempt to achieve this goal. In this work, one laser-camera system ...

Organic energetic material (OEM) research has attracted a lot of attention due to its wide application in mining, demolition, military weaponry, and aeronautical engineering. OEMs often exhibit a tradeoff between properties, ...

In recent years, satellites, especially micro satellites, uses higher and higher power to achieve advanced mission and complicated thermal management or more power to heater are needed. Then, the concept of the Autonomous ...

Techniques have previously been described for holographically representing space-variant systems. By spatially sampling the input plane and using phase mask diffusers to encode the multiple reference beams, one can ...

Tissue engineering has emerged as an alternative cell-based approach, aiming at replacement of damaged organs with in vitro generated tissue equivalents. Electrospinning has shown great potential in tissue engineering due ...

Charged particle detectors are widely used in nuclear physics, astrophysics and environmental monitoring areas. The applications include charged particle spectroscopy, air monitoring, alpha beta counting, etc. This thesis ...

Face authentication is a biometric classification method that verifies the identity of a user based an image of their face. Accuracy of the authentication is reduced when the pose of the training face images is different ...