The present study investigates the hydrophilic properties of acrylonitrile/acrylic acid P(AN/AA) copolymer films with various acrylic acid (AA) contents dendrigrafted with citric acid from zero to fourth generation numbers. It was found that the hydrophilicity of the dendrigrafted films was a complicated phenomenon. Various parameters such as intermolecular hydrogen bonding, roughness and activ...

Traffic measurement is an important issue in IP networks for both internet service providers and users. Over the past decade, a number of active measurement tools have been implemented to measure and analyze IP networks. By making these tools interoperable, we can measure a wide network that encompasses different administrative domains. In this paper, we present the accumulated observation from...

Industrial organizations are complex systems` where the interactions among the various functions such as Sales, Distribution, Manufacturing, Materials, Finance, Human Resources and Maintenance have to be man-aged towards a common purpose of delivering the customers satisfaction. However, since most of these or-ganizations have a `Functional Structure`, each function or department works towards ...

− A numerical model of a general purpose commercial equipment for current versus voltage (I-V) and differential capacitance versus voltage (C-V) measurement of active devices is presented. The good agreement between the model results and experimental data show that the model takes into account the main error sources of the instrument and can be used as a base to perform error correction and to ...

Since the early days of ARPANET, network performance measurement has played a key role in the continuous enhancement and evolution of the Internet. During this research project first a high accuracy measurement infrastructure ensuring highly accurate and reliable timestamping and test traffic generation was developed, and second, once the proper infrastructure was available, existing measuremen...

Spam and other electronic abuses have long been a focus of computer security research. However, recent work in the domain has emphasized an economic analysis of these operations in the hope of understanding and disrupting the profit model of attackers. Such studies do not lend themselves to passive measurement techniques. Instead, researchers have become middle-men or active participants in spa...

We here address the classical bearings-only tracking problem (BOT) for a single object, which belongs to the general class of nonlinear filtering problems. Recently, algorithms based on sequential Monte Carlo methods (particle filtering) have been proposed. As far as performance analysis is concerned, the Posterior Cramér-Rao Bound (PCRB) provides a lower bound on the mean square error. Classic...

We demonstrate an active laser heterodyne interferometer which can automatically compensate environmental disturbances and is capable of precision displacement measurement. Two Zeeman He-Ne lasers were employed. Laser II was used as the light source to stabilize the interferometer by using a piezomirror in a feedback loop. The hetereodyne signal of the two lasers was used to directly calibrate ...

PURPOSE To compare the spatial accuracy of three typical active tracking sequences using a new, unique phantom design. MATERIALS AND METHODS Three different tracking sequences (Single Echo, Dual Echo and Hadamard Multiplexed) were compared with each other in a phantom study with respect to their positional accuracy. A custom-built phantom was constructed to conduct the experiments with precis...