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    A study of the design expertise for plants handling hazardous materials

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    A study of the design expertise for plants handling hazardous material

    Topics in radiation at accelerators: Radiation physics for personnel and environmental protection

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    Sayre: Undergraduate Catalog 2010-2011

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    Image and Signal Processing in Intravascular Ultrasound

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    Intravascular ultrasound (rvUS) is a new imaging mOdality providing real-time, crosssectional, high-resolution images of the arterial lumen and vessel wall. In contrast to conventional x-ray angiography that only displays silhouette views of the vessel lumen, IVUS imaging permits visualization of lesion morphology and accurate measurements of arterial cross-sectional dimensions in patients. These unique capabilities have led to many important clinical applications including quantitative assessment of the severity, restenosis, progression of atherosclerosis, selection and guidance of catheterbased therapeutic procedures and short- and long-term evaluation of the outcome of an intravascular intervention. Like the progress of other medial imaging modalities, the advent of IVUS techniques has brought in new challenges in the field of signal and image processing. Quantitative analysis of IVUS images requires the identification of arterial structures such as the lumen and plaque within an image. Manual contour tracing is well known to be time consuming and subjective. Development of an automated contour detection method may improve the reproducibility of quantitative IVUS and avoid a tedious manual procedure. Computerized three-dimensional (3D) reconstruction of an IVUS image series may extend the tomographic data to a more powerful volumetric assessment of the vessel segment. Obviously, this could not be achieved without the advance of 3D image processing techniques. Furthermore, it is demonstrated that processing of the original radio frequency (RF) echo signals provides an efficient means to improve the IVUS image quality as well as a new approach to extract volumetric flow information. The goals of the studies reported in this thesis are therefore directed toward development of video image and RF signal processing techniques for image enhancement, automated contour detection, 3D reconstruction and flow imaging. In this chapter several IVUS scanning mechanisms and some background information about ultrasonic imaging are briefly introduced. The principles of different video-based contour detection approaches and examples of contour detection in echocardiograms are discussed. Subsequently, applications of RF analysis in IVUS images are reviewed, followed by the scope of this thesis in the final part

    Европейский и национальный контексты в научных исследованиях

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    В настоящем электронном сборнике «Европейский и национальный контексты в научных исследованиях. Технология» представлены работы молодых ученых по геодезии и картографии, химической технологии и машиностроению, информационным технологиям, строительству и радиотехнике. Предназначены для работников образования, науки и производства. Будут полезны студентам, магистрантам и аспирантам университетов.=In this Electronic collected materials “National and European dimension in research. Technology” works in the fields of geodesy, chemical technology, mechanical engineering, information technology, civil engineering, and radio-engineering are presented. It is intended for trainers, researchers and professionals. It can be useful for university graduate and post-graduate students

    A Corpus-driven Approach toward Teaching Vocabulary and Reading to English Language Learners in U.S.-based K-12 Context through a Mobile App

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    In order to decrease teachers’ decisions of which vocabulary the focus of the instruction should be upon, a recent line of research argues that pedagogically-prepared word lists may offer the most efficient order of learning vocabulary with an optimized context for instruction in each of four K-12 content areas (math, science, social studies, and language arts) through providing English Language Learners (ELLs) with the most frequent words in each area. Educators and school experts have acknowledged the need for developing new materials, including computerized enhanced texts and effective strategies aimed at improving ELLs’ mastery of academic and STEM-related lexicon. Not all words in a language are equal in their role in comprehending the language and expressing ideas or thoughts. For this study, I used a corpus-driven approach which is operationalized by applying a text analysis method. For the purpose of this research study, I made two corpora, Teacher’s U.S. Corpus (TUSC) and Science and Math Academic Corpus for Kids (SMACK) with a focus on word lemma rather than inflectional and derivational variants of word families. To create the corpora, I collected and analyzed a total of 122 textbooks used commonly in the states of Florida and California. Recruiting, scanning and converting of textbooks had been carried out over a period of more than two years from October 2014 to March 2017. In total, this school corpus contains 10,519,639 running words and 16,344 lemmas saved in 16,315 word document pages. From the corpora, I developed six word lists, namely three frequency-based word lists (high-, mid-, and low-frequency), academic and STEM-related word lists, and essential word list (EWL). I then applied the word lists as the database and developed a mobile app, Vocabulary in Reading Study – VIRS, (available on App Store, Android and Google Play) alongside a website (www.myvirs.com). Also, I developed a new K-12 dictionary which targets the vocabulary needs of ELLs in K-12 context. This is a frequency-based dictionary which categorizes words into three groups of high, medium and low frequency words as well as two separate sections for academic and STEM words. The dictionary has 16,500 lemmas with derivational and inflectional forms

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