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Fast assembly of non-thiolated DNA on gold surface at lower pH
(Elsevier, 2013-12-01)In a typical protocol for attaching DNA to a gold electrode, thiolated DNA is incubated with the electrode at neutral pH overnight. Here we report fast adsorption of non-thiolated DNA oligomers on gold electrodes at acidic ... -
Fast Bootstrapping in Z_q
(University of Waterloo, 2015-08-28)In 2015, Ducas and Micciancio presented a novel technique to compute the NAND gate using the Learning With Errors cryptosystem (LWE), along with a novel bootstrapping technique that turns turns this cryptosystem into a ... -
Fast control and decoherence in superconducting quantum circuits
(University of Waterloo, 2015-08-24)This thesis discusses a series of experimental and theoretical studies on fast control and decoherence in superconducting quantum circuits. These two subjects are complementary aspects of the problem of improving the gate ... -
Fast DC Fault Current Suppression and Fault Ride Through in Full-Bridge MMCs via Regulation of Submodule Capacitor Discharge
(University of Waterloo, 2022-05-16)High Voltage Direct Current (HVDC) is more cost-effective than High Voltage Alternating Current (HVAC) for transmitting power over long distances, and therefore is ideal for bulk power transfer from wind, solar, hydroelectric, ... -
Fast Extraction of BRDFs and Material Maps from Images
(University of Waterloo, 2003)The bidirectional reflectance distribution function has a four dimensional parameter space and such high dimensionality makes it impractical to use it directly in hardware rendering. When a BRDF has no analytical ... -
A Fast Hybrid Method for Analysis and Design of Photonic Structures
(University of Waterloo, 2006)This thesis presents a very efficient hybrid method for analysis and design of optical and passive photonic devices. The main focus is on unbounded wave structures. This class of photonic systems are in general very ... -
Fast Intra-frame Coding Algorithm for HEVC Based on TCM and Machine Learning
(University of Waterloo, 2016-09-27)High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC) is the latest video coding standard. Compared with the previous standard H.264/AVC, it can reduce the bit-rate by around 50% while maintaining the same perceptual quality. This performance ... -
Fast Methods for Millimeter-wave Dielectric Resonator and Antenna Analysis and Design
(University of Waterloo, 2009-04-02)Ever-increasing interest in millimeter-wave and terahertz spectrum has prompted research and development of novel passive components working at these frequencies. Compared with the conventional planar components, non-planar ... -
Fast Molecular Beacon Hybridization in Organic Solvents with Improved Target Specificity
(American Chemical Society, 2010-12-02)DNA hybridization is of tremendous importance in biology, bionanotechnology, and biophysics. Molecular beacons are engineered DNA hairpins with a fluorophore and a quencher labeled on each of the two ends. A target DNA can ... -
Fast Multi-Level Co-Clustering
(2013)We present a new multilevel method for hierarchical co-clustering. The fast multilevel co-clustering method (FMCC) implements a bi-coarsening process on the bipartite graph induced by the feature matrix. It does so in a ... -
Fast Nonlinear Model Predictive Control of Quadrotors: Design and Experiments
(University of Waterloo, 2020-01-21)Quadrotor (or quadcopter) is a type of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs). Due to the quadrotors simple and inexpensive design, they have become popular platforms. This thesis proposes a computationally fast scheme for ... -
Fast Order Basis and Kernel Basis Computation and Related Problems
(University of Waterloo, 2013-01-28)In this thesis, we present efficient deterministic algorithms for polynomial matrix computation problems, including the computation of order basis, minimal kernel basis, matrix inverse, column basis, unimodular completion, ... -
Fast pH-assisted functionalization of silver nanoparticles with monothiolated DNA
(Royal Society of Chemistry, 2012-10-18)Attaching monothiolated DNA to silver nanoparticles has been achieved at pH 3.0 in 30 minutes and difficulties associated with DNA attachment to AgNPs at neutral pH have been revealed by studying DNA adsorption kinetics. -
Fast Prefix Adders for Non-uniform Input Arrival Times
(Springer Nature, 2017)We consider the problem of constructing fast and small parallel prefix adders for non-uniform input arrival times. In modern computer chips, adders with up to hundreds of inputs occur frequently, and they are often embedded ... -
Fast quantitation of opioid isomers in human plasma by differential mobility spectrometry/mass spectrometry via SPME/open-port probe sampling interface
(Elsevier, 2017-10-23)Mass spectrometry (MS) based quantitative approaches typically require a thorough sample clean-up and a decent chromatographic step in order to achieve needed figures of merit. However, in most cases, such processes are ... -
Fast Quantitation of Target Analytes in Small Volumes of Complex Samples by Matrix-Compatible Solid-Phase Microextraction Devices
(Wiley, 2017-06-20)Herein we report the development of solid-phase microextraction (SPME) devices designed to perform fast extraction/enrichment of target analytes present in small volumes of complex matrices (i.e. V <= 10 mu L). Micro-sampling ... -
Fast Ray Tracing Techniques
(University of Waterloo, 2008-09-02)In the past, ray tracing has been used widely in offline rendering applications since it provided the ability to better capture high quality secondary effects such as reflection, refraction and shadows. Such effects are ... -
Fast Recognition of BCI-Inefficient Users Using Physiological Features from EEG Signals: A Screening Study of Stroke Patients
(Frontiers, 2018-02-21)Motor imagery (MI) based brain-computer interface (BCI) has been developed as an alternative therapy for stroke rehabilitation. However, experimental evidence demonstrates that a significant portion (10% to 50%) of subjects ... -
A Fast Sphere Decoding Algorithm for Rank Deficient MIMO Systems
(University of Waterloo, 2007-09-26)The problem of rank deficient multiple input multiple out (MIMO) systems arises when the number of transmit antennas M is greater than number of receive antennas N or when the channel gains are strongly correlated. Most ... -
Fast Stochastic Global Optimization Methods and Their Applications to Cluster Crystallization and Protein Folding
(University of Waterloo, 2005)Two global optimization methods are proposed in this thesis. They are the multicanonical basin hopping (MUBH) method and the basin paving (BP) method. <br /><br /> The MUBH method combines the basin hopping (BH) ...