Wireless sensor networks (WSNs) are an important tool for monitoring distributed remote environments. As one of the key technologies involved in WSNs, node fault detection is indispensable in most WSN applications. It is well known that the distributed fault detection (DFD) scheme checks out the failed nodes by exchanging data and mutually testing among neighbor nodes in this network., but the ...

Design For Assembly/disassembly (DFA) allows systematic evaluations and analysis of product assembly and disassembly during the product design stage with the goal of reducing assembly costs, improving quality and shortening time to market. These evaluations include assemblability, disassemblability, part accessibility, and part layout [1]. With the growing availability and widespread use of hig...

Ž . Ž . Normal, pale soft exudative PSE , and dark firm dry DFD pork Longissimus dorsi muscles were vacuum-packaged, irradiated at 0, 2.5 or 4.5 kGy, and stored at 4 C for 10 days. The pH, color and lipid oxidation of pork were determined at 0, 5 and 10 days of storage. Volatile production from pork loins was determined at Day 0 and Day 10, and sensory characteristics at Day 7 of storage. Irrad...

of the Dissertation Image based 3D Sensing and Modeling Technology for High-end Digital Cameras by Xue Tu Doctor of Philosophy in Electrical Engineering Stony Brook University 2009 Image-based 3D sensing techniques have become increasingly important due to advances in digital camera technology. These techniques can be used in numerous applications like auto-focusing, 3D modeling, and photoreali...

Understanding soflware documents requires the logical structure analysis of diagrammatic notations, such as data flow diagrams. A data flow diagram (DFD) represents the functional dependencies within a system: it shows how output values in a computation are derived from input values. We show how the logical structure of a DFD can be described using the formalism of Calculus of Communicating Sys...

Feeding is an evolutionarily conserved and integral behavior that depends on the rhythmic activity of feeding muscles stimulated by specific motoneurons. However, critical molecular determinants underlying the development of the neuromuscular feeding unit are largely unknown. Here, we identify the Hox transcription factor Deformed (Dfd) as essential for feeding unit formation, from initial spec...

We study the performance of a decision feedback decoder (DFD) for convolutional codes over an interleaved burst channel. The DFD adaptively estimates channel reliability information from previous decisions. The effect of ermr propagation, finite interleaving and the length of the initial training sequence is explicitly studied. A binary Gilbert-Elliott channel is used to model the wmla t ion st...