We employed the Tag-seq technique to generate global transcription profiles for different strains and life stages of the nematode C. elegans. Tag-seq generates cDNA tags as does Serial Analysis of Gene Expression (SAGE), but the method yields a much larger number of tags, generating much larger data sets than SAGE. We examined differences in the performance of SAGE and Tag-seq by comparing gene...

We present an electronically rewritable chipless RFID tag based on integrated nonvolatile Conductive Bridging Random Access Memory (CBRAM) RF switches. CBRAM is a memory technology, which identified as innovative switching solution in this decade. Reconfigurable resonator or encoding particle (REP) used closed-loop with two switches each to tune its electrical length, and encodes three states e...

Introduction: Radio frequency identification (RFID) can be traced back to the late 1940’s work on using RF modulated backscatter for communications [1]. Fig. 1 illustrates the operation of a modern passive RFID system which includes an RFID reader and an RFID tag, composed of an antenna and an integrated circuit chip. The reader signal alternates between a continuous wave (CW) and modulated tra...

Progress: We have been investigating the use of dynamic cache resizing techniques for energy reduction. The idea of cache resizing is to match the active cache size with the current program cache usage requirements. When the cache usage is small, we can turn off parts of the cache. Neither active switching energy nor static leakage energy is dissipated in the part of the cache that is turned of...

Amplicon sequencing of tags such as 16S and ITS ribosomal RNA is a popular method for investigating microbial populations. In such experiments, sequence errors caused by PCR and sequencing are difficult to distinguish from true biological variation. I describe UNOISE2, an updated version of the UNOISE algorithm for denoising (error-correcting) Illumina amplicon reads and show that it has compar...

Social networking services, such as Facebook, are important channels of communication both for monolingual users and those having various degrees proficiency in L2, with the latter deploying expression from L1 L2. It can, therefore, be presumed that on FB plays a role practicing use One phenomena can examined relation to forms code-switching. There is animmense research gap related Polish-Engli...

SOLUTIONS TO CONSTRAINED PATH COMPUTATION IN MULTI-LAYER NETWORKS Shujia Gong, PhD George Mason University, 2007 Dissertation Director: Dr. Bijan Jabbari Traffic Engineering methods as applied to traditional IP networks rely on link attributes advertised by link state protocols, such as Open Shortest Path First (OSPF) or Intermediate System to Intermediate System (IS-IS). Extending link state p...