Natural Sciences Foundation; National Key Research and Development Plan; Science Engineering Research Council of Canada; Fundamental Funds for the Central Universities

g20 world brain mapping initiative (neuroscience/n-20) is putting brain mapping on the top of global economic issues the society for brain mapping, therapeutics, and brain mapping foundation are propelling therapeutic advances in nano-neurosurgery, nano-bio-electronics, artificial intelligence, neuro-supercomputing and ‘cross-pollination’ among the bio-medical sciences and engineering worldwide...

Requirement Engineering acts as foundation for any software and is one of the most important tasks. Entire software is supported by four pillars of requirement engineering processes. Functional and non-functional requirements work as bricks to support software edifice. Finally, design, implementation and testing add stories to construct entire software tower on top of this foundation. Thus, the...

1 John D. Carpinelli, New Jersey Institute of Technology, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Newark, NJ 07102 [email protected] 2 Angelo J. Perna, New Jersey Institute of Technology, Acting Dean of Engineering, Newark, NJ 07102 [email protected] Abstract  The Engineering Education Coalitions Program, sponsored by the National Science Foundation, has brought about signific...

Many countries in the word have loose and unstable soils encompassing a wide range ofgeological materials, which when inundated, may collapse and cause very significant distress to the structure. Stone columns have been used to strengthen such soils; even so, there are still cases where failure has occurred. In this technical note, the process and causes of stone column failure in reinforcing c...

Background: The present study aims to investigate which variables affect English as a foreign language (EFL) students’ listening comprehension test performance. It examines two types of variables: (1) test formats and (2) test materials. Methods: First, three types of test formats are investigated: (1) questions are not written but given orally only once in English and in the students’ first la...

33 ABSTRACT This paper presents a comparative evaluation of five topologies of single-phase AC-DC boost converters having power factor correction (PFC). These converter topologies are evaluated on the basis of performance and their salient features are discussed to analyze their applicability. The techniques not only help to develop a deeper understanding of these converters but also to evaluat...

In this paper, we present a Web-based English abstract writing tool, the “BEAR (Building English Abstracts by Ricoh).” This English writing tool is aimed at helping Japanese software engineers improve the organization of their writing by enabling them to select a rhetorical template of the target abstract and to build up component sentences while having access to good-quality sample sentences. ...

This research is being funded by a grant from the Engineering Information Foundation, EiF 98-4, and by a grant from the National Science Foundation, EEC-9872498. Magaly Moreno, Mary Besterfield-Sacre, Larry J. Shuman, and Harvey Wolfe, Industrial Engineering/School of Engineering, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15261 Cindy J. Atman, Industrial Engineering and CELT, University of Washi...