Viruses could manipulate cellular machinery to ensure their continuous survival and thus become parasites of living organisms. Delineation of sophisticated host responses upon virus infection is a challenging task. It lies in identifying the repertoire of host factors actively involved in the viral infectious cycle and characterizing host responses qualitatively and quantitatively during viral ...

We designed, fabricated and tested a novel imaging system that fuses diffuse optical tomography (DOT) and photoacoustic tomography (PAT) in a single platform. This platform takes advantages of both DOT and PAT, and can potentially provide dual-modality two dimensional functional and cellular images of the breast quantitatively. Here we describe this integrated platform along with initial tissue...

The trend to reduce the size of electronic packages and develop increasingly sophisticated electronic devices with more, higher density inputs/outputs (I/Os), leads to the use of area array packages using chip scale packaging (CSP), flip chip (FC), and wafer level packaging (WLP) technologies. Greater attention has been paid to the reliability of solder joints and the assembly yield of the surf...

A number of signature schemes and standards have been recently designed, based on the Discrete Logarithm problem. In this paper we conduct design validation of such schemes while trying to minimize the use of ideal hash functions. We consider several Discrete Logarithm (DSA-like) signatures abstracted as generic schemes. We show that the following holds: “if the schemes can be broken by an exis...

This paper develops a new design method for predictive repetitive control systems to track periodic reference signals or reject disturbances with bandlimited frequency content. In the presence of input disturbances acting on the system, the new design estimates these disturbances using an observer. This approach is complementary to the predictive repetitive control system designs previously rep...