Small-scale sensor packages and parachutes manufactured for model rocket recovery were handdropped from within a building in order to gain familiarity with the descent kinematics of a planetary probe through an atmosphere. A number of parachute-probe systems ranging in size, shape, weight, riser length, and sensors were dropped while exterior video cameras and onboard sensor data were collected...

A new technique for determining the point spread function, which is required measuring surface potential using Kelvin probe microscopy (KPM), presented. The method involves a silicon carbide substrate coated with single-layer and bilayer graphene as test structure obtaining KPM profiles in different directions on surface. This makes it possible to determine can be used perform deconvolution acc...

We compared an alkaline phosphatase-conjugated oligonucleotide DNA probe with the Sereny test to determine the sensitivity and specificity of the probe in detecting virulent Shigella strains. The probe hybridized with all 52 Sereny-test-positive strains (sensitivity, 100%) and 4 of 21 Sereny-test-negative strains (specificity, 81%). The probe did not hybridize with any of the Sereny-test-negati...

We introduce an integrated framework for detecting brain activity from fMRI data, which is based on a spatial discrete wavelet transform. Unlike the standard wavelet-based approach for fMRI analysis, we apply the suitable statistical test procedure in the spatial domain. For a desired significance level, this scheme has one remaining degree of freedom, characterizing the wavelet processing, whi...