# Browse Dissertations and Theses - Electrical and Computer Engineering by Title

• (2000)
This thesis develops a theoretically sound and computationally practical set of tools for assessing and quantifying the voltage security of a power system in terms of an intuitive measure. This measure, called the maximum ...

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• (2014-09-16)
In this thesis, we develop a class of novel spectral imaging techniques that enable capabilities beyond the reach of conventional methods. Each development is based on computational imaging, which involves distributing the ...

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• (2016-06-22)
In this dissertation, nonlinear electromagnetic and multiphysics problems are modeled and simulated using various three-dimensional full-wave methods in the time domain. The problems under consideration fall into two ...

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• (2003)
As one of humans' primary sensors, the auditory system plays an important role in language acquisition. Computational models for binaural sound source localization and sound source understanding are proposed in this thesis. ...

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• (2016-11-23)
When a sample is illuminated by an imaging field, its fingerprints are left on the amplitude and the phase of the emerging wave. Capturing the information of the wavefront grants us a deeper understanding of the optical ...

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• (2015-01-21)
Inexpensive and fast methods to sequence the genome of individuals using nanopore technology can lead to tremendous advancement in the eld of modern medicine. The thickness of the membranes employed in nanopore-based sensors ...

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• (1981)
In this dissertation both the underlying theory and the computational aspects of a general SC filter analysis program SCAPN are described. The analysis of a periodically time-varying SC network is reduced to the analysis ...

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• (2001)
The operation of silicon quantum-dot based flash memory devices are simulated numerically with emphasis on energy and charge quantization in the quantum-dot. The simulation involves the self-consistent solution of ...

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• (1972)

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• (1998)
A series of examples is presented to demonstrate the applicability of the techniques and models presented in this work.

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• (1975)

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• (2011-01-21)
In railroad track inspection, the inspection images contain periodically occurring components. Computer vision has recently been applied to several railroad applications due to its potential to improve the efficiency, ...

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• (1973)

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• (1991)
This work investigates the use of high frequency electromagnetic scattering techniques, such as the physical theory of diffraction (PTD) and the geometrical theory of diffraction (GTD) and the shooting and bouncing rays ...

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• (1971)

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• (1997)
There is an inherent 180$\sp\circ$ ambiguity in the derived wave propagation direction when using conventional spectral analysis techniques on OH imager observations. A processing technique for computing the unambiguous ...

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• (1991)
Traditional checkpoint and recovery are based upon two basic assumptions. The first is the need to halt the computation in progress to save the state of the computation, i.e., take the checkpoint. The second assumption is ...

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