Examples are a powerful tool for teaching both humans and computers. In order to learn from examples, however, a student must first extract the examples from its stream of perception. Snapshot learning is a general approach to this problem, in which relevant samples of perception are used as examples. Learning from these examples can in turn improve the judgement of the snapshot mechanism, impr...

ABSTRACT:A mathematical model for the performance prediction of an industrial glass furnace with six ports on each side was developed. This model comprises of two main sub-models for the combustion chamber and glass-melting tank. The first sub-model consists of the models for the combustion and the heat transfer model including, radiation, convection and conduction. The fuel combustion in a...

We present a low complexity encoder and mapper for wireless multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems. The BLAST (Bell Laboratories Layered Space-Time) algorithm is enhanced by a dedicated iterative QAM demapper with antiGray code. At the the transmitter a low complexity convolutional encoder and a QAM mapper with anti-Gray code are used, whose EXIT (Extrinsic Information Transfer) chart ar...

Porous hollow glass microspheres have many uses, including encapsulation of active materials. In this paper a fast and facile method for fabricating porous hollow glass-microspheres was demonstrated by etching them using dilute hydrofluoric acid. Then, a highly reactive amine was infiltrated into the etched glass microspheres. Scanning electron microscopy was conducted for the hollow glass micr...

Yaoguang Wei, University of Minnesota Cliff Sze, IBM Austin Research Laboratory Natarajan Viswanathan, IBM Systems and Technology Group Zhuo Li, IBM Austin Research Laboratory Charles J. Alpert, IBM Austin Research Laboratory Lakshmi Reddy, IBM Systems and Technology Group Andrew D. Huber, IBM Systems and Technology Group Gustavo E. Tellez, IBM Systems and Technology Group Douglas Keller, IBM S...

Nesbitt LM, Cliff WH. How the story unfolds: exploring ways faculty develop open-ended and closed-ended case designs. Adv Physiol Educ 32: 279–285, 2008; doi:10.1152/advan.90158.2008.— Open-ended or closed-ended case study design schemes offer different educational advantages. Anatomy and physiology faculty members who participated in a conference workshop were given an identical case about blo...

J.A. Burns, E.M. Cliff, T. Herdman,, Z. Liu and R. D. Spies Interdisciplinary Center for Applied Mathematics Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University Blacksburg, VA, 24061-0531, USA Department of Mathematics University of Minnesota Duluth, MN 55812-3000, USA Instituto de Matemática Aplicada del Litoral CONICET-UNL, Güemes 3450, and Departamento de Matemática, Facultad de Ingenierı́a Q...