this workshop features, (live) demonstration of sonographic technique of the upper extremity joints; patient positioning; transducer choices, operation and position on the anatomic landmarks; optimal evaluation of the anatomic structures in shoulder, elbow and wrist; hopefully on thursday or friday.

The electric power industry and society are facing the challenges and opportunities of transforming the present power grid into a smart grid. To meet these challenges, new types of control systems are connected over IT infrastructures. While this is done to meet highly set economical and environmental goals, it also introduces new sources of uncertainty in the control loops. In this thesis, we ...

The focus of this chapter is on describing procedures for the optimal design and operation of man-portable power generation processes. For a given power demand, or a power demand varying in a specified range, the design and operation problem is to determine values of the design variables (e.g., sizes of the individual components such as fuel processing reactor and fuel cell) as well as operatio...

Against a backdrop of healthy domestic and foreign demand, the steel industry is continuing its fundamental trend of increasing production for the manufacturing industry. Meanwhile, since the steel industry accounts for approximately 11% of final energy consumption in Japan, efforts to improve the efficiency of energy usage have been pursued actively for a long time. Since the first oil crisis,...

i ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS I am thankful to my Committee Members for their contributions to this dissertation. I am most grateful to my major Professor, Jay Lund, for his enthusiastic guidance and endless ideas during these four years. His sense of humor contributed to having a pleasant work environment. I am indebted to Professor Richard Howitt for his valuable comments and for providing the computati...

In this paper, We propose a class of 2k-variable Boolean functions, which have optimal algebraic degree, high nonlinearity, and are 1resilient. These functions have optimal algebraic immunity when k > 2 and u = −2, 0 ≤ l < k. Based on a general combinatorial conjecture, algebraic immunity of these functions is optimal when k > 2 and u = 2, 0 ≤ l < k. If the general combinatorial conjecture and ...

A novel solution to the reliable multicast problem is the “digital fountain” approach, in which data is encoded with an erasure protection code before transmission, and receivers can recover the original data after receiving enough distinct encoded data. This solution, however, is not desirable for streaming media schemes in which it is preferable for parts of a movie to be available for consum...