Cyberlearning is the use of new technology to create effective learning experiences that were never possible or practical before. Among those technologies, virtual reality (VR) attracts many people’s attention and interests ...

Successive approximation register analog to digital converter (SAR ADC), which mostly consists of digital components, is becoming more and more popular in recent years as it is power efficient and friendly to process ...

This dissertation examines Alejo Carpentier’s novel, The Kingdom of This World, by using Mikhail Bakhtin’s dialogic theory. To do this, the first chapter of my dissertation focuses on Carpentier’s interaction with and ...

Chronic diseases afflict patients for many years. One way to decrease the burden of chronic disease care on the healthcare system is to have patients self-manage their disease. The ubiquity of smartphones presents a great ...

Many applications demand precision oscillators, which are usually generated through employing resonators with high quality factor (Q). Quartz and MicroElectroMechanical systems (MEMS) are the most common precision resonators ...

In human-human interaction, people tend to temporally adapt to each other as the conversation progresses, changing their intonation, speech rate, fundamental frequency, word selection, hand gestures, and head movements. ...

Seepage of suspicious iron, arsenic and sulfur rich waters from streambanks down-gradient from unlined landfills in North Texas has led to sharp public concern. Seep waters exhibit somewhat low pH (6.3), reduced state ...

This research revealed promising results by merging old principles to new approaches in visual design education. Initial empirical analysis of participants who tested the mDes application applying four of the principles ...

Millions of people around the world suffer chronic upper extremity disability. Reliable measurement of arm function is critical for development of therapies to improve recovery after impairment. In this study, we report a ...

Jerzy Kosinski’s novel The Painted Bird has been described as a work built on the “unhallowed ground” of “evil” and “ruled” thematically “by cosmic terror.” Many argue that the work identifies the human condition as ...