Facilitating application development for distributed systems has been the focus of much research. Composing an application from existing components can simplify software development and has been adopted in a number of ...

This thesis describes work on the thermodynamics and transport properties of photoexcited carriers in bulk and two-dimensional semiconductors. Two major topics are addressed: I. Excitonic Phase Diagram in Si: Evidence for ...

We have used light scattering techniques to probe the vibrational properties ofGaAs/AlAs superlattices and the dynamics of electrons in GaAs/AlxGal-xAs multiple quantum well structures. In our study of the effects of ...

The work described in this thesis involves the study of optical and thermal properties of semiconductors and consists of three separate topics.

This dissertation presents the design and evaluation of iART : an Intelligent Assistant for Robotic Therapy. iART is a robot-assisted therapy system designed for home-based upper limb stroke rehabilitation. Stroke is the ...

Vortex structures observed in the shear layer were presumed to be the cause of large-scale pressure fluctuations upstream of reattachment at small angles of attack. Pressure spectra near reattachment exhibited wide bandwidth ...

Previous iced airfoil investigations have demonstrated somewhat reduced aerodynamic penalties resulting from a three-dimensional ice simulation, compared to those of a two-dimensional ice simulation of a representative ...

Can a robot understand natural language? This thesis describes and discusses the first stage of a project that tries to help answer this question using the approach of music performance. One of the most demanding cognitive ...