1. Herd MK, Aldridge T, Colbert SD, Brennan PA. Odontogenic skin sinus: A commonly overlooked skin presentation. J Plast Reconstr Aesthet Surg 2012;65:1729‐30. 2. Peermohamed S, Barber D, Kurwa H. Diagnostic challenges of cutaneous draining sinus tracts of odontogenic origin: A case report. Dermatol Surg 2011;37:1525‐7. 3. Gupta SK, Saxena P. Cutaneous manifestation of odontogenic infection mis...

The aim of the paper is to highlight the importance of alarm correlation in traffic monitoring and control systems, and to propose a knowledge–based solution for developing a module of a traffic monitoring and control system. The Alarm Correlation Module (MCA) integrated with the System for Automatic MOnitoring of Traffic (SAMOT) will be described. The aims of the MCA are to analyze, filter and...

This paper describes the experimental design, implementation, and testing of a network for tele-command, control, and communications of micro robots over long distances. The system utilizes commercial low bandwidth satellites to transmit near real-time video and leverages micro-robot platform synergies for commandcommunications relays. The system is capable of controlling micro ground vehicles ...

OBJECTIVE To study whether quantitative analysis of M. tuberculosis mRNA could be used to assess bacterial viability. METHODS The levels of M. tuberculosis mRNA were compared 24, 48, and 72 hours after M. tuberculosis H(37)R(V) was treated with no drug, 1.0 micro g/ml and 10.0 micro g/ml rifampicin, 0.2 micro g/ml and 1.0 micro g/ml isoniazid, 2 micro g/ml and 4 micro g/ml ethambutol, 2 micro...

This paper is a preliminary investigation of the organization of a parallel micro-computer designed to emulate a wide variety of sequential and parallel computers. This micro-computer allows tailoring of the control structure of an emulator so that it directly emulates (mirrors) the control structure of the computer to be emulated. An emulated control structure is implemented through a tree typ...

MEMS (Micro-Electromechanical Systems) is an area of research and applications that is becoming increasingly popular. It's mainly concerned with integrating micro-mechanical transducers with micro-electronic circuits on common substrates, traditionally silicon, through micro-fabrication. Instead of traditionally having the transducer and the communicating (or control) circuit as two separate en...

We present an overview of the results of our recent research in the field of adaptive optical components based on silicon microtechnologies, including membrane deformable mirrors, spatial light modulators, liquid-crystal correctors, wavefront sensors, and both spherical and aspherical micro-optical components. We aim at the realization of adaptive optical systems using standard-technology solut...

This paper further explores the use of a genetic algorithm for the purposes of evolving the control systems for distributed micro aerial vehicles (MAVs). The control systems are essentially evolved rule sets which take into account target surveillance area coverage and built in sensors in the MAV. As in previous work where the overall task is distributed, the same rule set is contained in each ...

Shock/boundary layer interaction (SBLI) is an undesirable phenomenon, occurring in high-speed propulsion systems. The conventional method to manipulate and control SBLI is using a bleed system that involves the removal of a certain amount of mass of the inlet flow to control boundary layer separation. However, the system requires a larger nacelle to compensate the mass loss, larger nacelles con...

The objective of this paper is to design and fabricate a micro-cooler to provide integral cooling to electronics or Microelectromechanical Systems (MEMS) type components utilizing current MEMS technologies. A three-port capillary pumped loop (CPL) was analyzed and fabricated from silicon and quartz for this purpose. An analytical study of the device is presented in support of this design. This ...