Recent Patents on Engineering

ISSN: 1872-2121 - Volume 4, 3 Issues, 2010

Editor-in-Chief:

Jianjun Yu
NEC laboratories America
4 Independence Way
Princeton, NJ 08540
USA


Associate Editors:

Zhensheng Jia
Telcordia Technologies Inc
1 Telcordia Drive
Piscataway, NJ 08854-4182
USA


Zhitao Kang
Georgia Tech Research Institute
1473 Willow Lake Dr, Apt C, Atlanta, GA 30329
USA



Editorial Advisory Board:

A.A. Adesina (Univ. of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia)
B. Alzahabi (Kettering Univ., Michigan, MI, USA)
M. Amanullah (ARRC, CSIRO Petroleum, Kensington, Australia)
J.M. Alonso (Universidad de Oviedo., España, Spain)
J.M. Alvarez (University of Oviedo, Asturias, Spain)
T. An (Guangzhou Institute of Geochemistry, Guangzhou, China)
A. Astolfi (Imperial College London, London, UK)
B. Atzori (University of Padua, Padova, Italy)
T.S. Bakirov (State Res.Center Virol. and Biotech, Novosibirsk, Russia)
R. Barbucci (Univ. of Siena, Siena, Italy)
M.J. Bagajewicz (Univ. of Oklahoma, Oklahoma, OK, USA)
A. Barakat (Univ. of California, Davis, CA, USA)
H.-J. Bart (Tech. Univ. Kaiserslautern, Kaiserslautern, Germany)
A. Bergel (Trinity College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland)
J. Bijwe (Indian Inst. of Technology, New Delhi, India)
Y.W. Bin (National Cheng Kung Univ., Tainan, Taiwan)
G. Biskos (Harvard Univ., Cambridge, MA, USA)
J.F. Blais (Inst. National de la Recherche Scientifique, Quebec, Canada)
A.R. Boccaccini (Imperial College London, London, UK)
S.C.S. Cai (Louisiana State Univ., Baton Rouge, LA, USA)
Y. Cao (Beijing Univ. of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Beijing, China)
X. Cao (The Hong Kong Univ. of Sci. and Technol., Kowloon, Hong Kong)
J. Capmany (Instituto De Telecomunicaciones Y Aplicaciones Multimedia (Iteam), Valencia, Spain)
C.C. Chang (Feng Chia University, Taichung, Taiwan)
J. Chang (Chinese Academy of Sci., Shanghai, China)
P. Chang (Yuan-Ze University,Taoyuan, Taiwan)
K.W. Chau (The Hong Kong Polytechnic Univ., Hunghom, Hong Kong)
F.T.S. Chan (The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hung Hom, Hong Kong)
C.H. Chen (Nanyang Technol. Univ., Singapore, Singapore)
C.N. Chen (National Cheng Kung Univ, Tainan, Taiwan)
T. Chen (Univ. of Alberta, Alberta, Canada)
X.D. Chen (Monash Univ., Melbourne, Australia)
T.K. Chiu (Nanyang Technol.Univ., Singapore, Singapore)
K.H. Chon (State Univ. of New York, Stony Brook, NY, USA)
W. Chu (The Hong Kong Polytechnic Univ., Kowloon, Hong Kong)
N.T.S. Chung (National Univ. of Singapore, Singapore)
K. Cox (UNSW/Enterprise Analysts Pty Ltd, New South Wales, Australia)
S. Comani (Univ. "G. d'Annunzio", Chieti, Italy)
S.J. Clarson (Univ. of Cincinnati, Ohio, OH, USA)
P. Dagaut (CNRS, Lab of Combustion and Systems Reactive, Orleans, France)
T.N. Dantas (Univ. Fed. do Rio Grande do N. Natal, Brazil)
L. Dascalescu (Inst. Univ. Technologie D'Angouleme, Angouleme, France)
A. Deletic (Monash Univ., Melbourne, Australia)
A. Demirbas (Selcuk Univ., Konya, Turkey)
A. Denizli (Hacettepe Univ., Ankara, Turkey)
S. Devahastin (Univ. of Technolo. Thonburi, Bangkok, Thailand)
G. Ding (Shanghai Jiaotong Univ., Shanghai, China)
Y. Ding (Univ. of Leeds, Leeds, UK)
I. Dincer (UOIT, Ontario, Canada)
H. Djojodihardjo (Univ. Al Azhar Indonesia, Jakarta, Indonesia)
G. Dogu (Gazi University, Ankara, Turkey)
T. Dogu (Middle Easty Technical Univ., Ankara, Turkey)
H. Du (Northumbria Univ., Newcastle, UK)
P. Englezos (Univ. of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada)
M.E. Emera (Univ. of Adelaide, Adelaide, Australia)
M. Fan (Georgia Inst. of Technology, Georgia, GA, USA)
M. Fatemi (Mayo Clinic College of Med., Rochester, MN, USA)
H.-Y. Feng (The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada)
S.R.S. Ferreira (Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Santa Catarina, Brazil)
R.E. Filman (Google Inc., California, CA, USA)
D.I. Fotiadis (Univ. of Ioannina, Ioannina, Greece)
S. Gao (Northumbria Univ., Newcastle, UK)
L. Gelman (Cranfield University, Cranfield, UK)
G. Ghinea (Brunel Univ., London, UK)
H. Grant (Univ. of Strathclyde, Glasgow, UK)
S.A. Grinshpun (Univ. of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH, USA)
J. Gu (Carleton Univ., Ottawa, Canada)
O. Gulnaz (Cukurova University, Adana, Turkey)
V.K. Gupta (Indian Inst. of Technology, Roorkee, India)
I. Guler (Gazi Univ., Ankara, Turkey)
P. Gurfil (Israel Inst.of Technol., Haifa, Israel)
F. Golshani (Wright State Univ., Dayton, OH, USA)
R.G. Guidoin (Laval Univ., Quebec, Canada)
J. Hahn (Texas A&M University, Texas, TX, USA)
Q.L. Han (Ctr. Queensland Univ., Rockhampton, Australia)
M. Haenggi (Univ. of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN, USA)
J. He (Peking Univ., Beijing, China)
S. Hernandez (Univ. of Coruna, Coruna, Spain)
W.N. Hien (National Univ. of Singapore, Singapore)
K.P. Ho (National. Taiwan Univ., Taipei, Taiwan)
M. Houska (Food Research Institute Prague, Prague, Czech Republic)
M. Z. Hu (Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN, USA)
Y-C. Hu (Providence University, Taichung, Taiwan)
B. Huang (Univ. of Alberta, Canada)
C.H. Huang (National Cheng Kung Univ., Tainan, Taiwan)
Y.Y. Huang (Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, USA)
H.T. Hui (Univ. of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia)
M. Janus (Szczecin University of Technology, Szczecin, Poland)
Y.R. Jeng (National Chung Cheng Univ., Chiayi, Taiwan)
G. Juncu (University Politechnica of Bucharest, Bucharest, Romania)
N. Kalogerakis (Technical Univ. of Crete, Chania, Greece)
S. Kalogirou (Cyprus University of Technology, Limassol, Cyprus)
E.T. Kang (National Univ. of Singapore, Singapore)
L. Kang (Imperial College London, University of London, UK)
K.K. Kar (Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, India)
S. Kara (Erciyes University, Kayseri, Turkey)
M.D. Ker (National Chiao-Tung Univ., Taiwan)
G. Kerschen (Univ. of Liege, Liege, Belgium)
M.H. Kim (Korea Adv. Inst. of Sci. & Technol., Daejeon, Korea)
Z. Knez (Univ. of Maribor, Maribor, Slovenia)
W. Kwong (Hofstra Univ., Hofstra, Hempstead, NY, USA)
V. Kosarev (Khristianovich Inst. of Theoretical and Appl.Mech., Novosibirsk, Russia)
G.M. Kontogeorgis (Technical Univ. of Denmark, Denmark)
D. Kujawski (Western Michigan Univ., Kalamazoo, MI, USA)
A. Kusiak (The Univ. of Iowa, Iowa, IA, USA)
R. Labow (Univ. of Ottawa Heart Inst., Ottawa, Canada)
R. Lai (La Trobe University, Australia)
F. Larachi (Laval Univ., Quebec, Canada)
C.T. Laurencin (The Univ. of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, USA)
S.S. Law (The Hong Kong Polytechnic Univ., Kowloon, Hong Kong)
H. Lee (Korea Univ., Seoul, Korea)
J.H. Lee (Univ. of Cincinnati, Ohio, OH, USA)
J.P. Lee (Defence Res. Establishment, Ottawa, Canada)
T.Y. Lee (National Cheng-Kung Univ., Tainan, Taiwan)
A. Leung (City Univ. of Hong Kong, Kowloon, Hong Kong)
C.Z. Li (Curtin University of Technology, Perth, Australia)
K. Li (Imperial College London, London)
Q.S. Li (City Univ. of Hong Kong, Kowloon, Hong Kong)
R. Li (Georgia Inst. of Technol., Atlanta, GA, USA)
C.W. Lim (City Univ. of Hong Kong, Kowloon, Hong Kong)
J. Limtrakul (Kasetsart University, Bangkok, Thailand)
C.Y. Lin (National Taiwan Ocean Univ., Keelung, Taiwan)
G.R. Lin (National Taiwan Univ., Taipei, Taiwan)
X. Liu (Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies, Holmdel, NJ, USA)
Y.W. Liu (Hunan Univ., Changsha, China)
A.Q. Liu (Nanyang Technological Univ., Singapore)
L.H. Lu (National Taiwan Univ., Taipei, Taiwan)
A. Lushnikov (Univ. of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland)
S. Mall (Air Force Inst. of Technol., Ohio, OH, USA)
H.D. Mansilla (University of Concepcion, Concepcion, Chile)
F.D. Maria (Dip. di Ingegneria Industriale, Perugia, Italy)
J.M. Martín-Martínez (Univ. of Alicante, Alicante, Spain)
T.D. Mast (Univ. of Cincinnati, Ohio, OH, USA)
G.L. Matloff (New York City College of Technol, New York, NY, USA)
P. Mattavelli (Univ. of Padova, Vicenza, Italy)
J.V. Meer (INFRAM, Marknesse, The Netherlands)
M.A. Meireles (State Univ. of Campinas, Campinas, Brasil)
F. Mendez (Univ. Nacional Autonoma of Mexico, Coyoacan, Mexico)
S.D. Minteer (Saint Louis University, St. Louis, MO, USA)
D.P. Mishra (Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, India)
A.O. Mohamed (UAE Univ, Al Ain, UAE)
A.R. Mohamed (Universiti Sains Malaysia, Pulau Pinang, Malaysia)
E. Morganti (FBK-irst Microsystems Division, BioMEMS, Trento, Italy)
P. Moulin (Univ. Paul Cézanne, Marseille, France)
M. Moszynski (Soltan Inst. for Nuclear Studies, Otwock-Swierk, Poland)
G. Nakhla (Univ. of Western Ontario, London, UK)
M.G. Na (Chosun Univ., Gwangju, Korea)
K.G. Neoh (National Univ. of Singapore, Singapore)
C.T. Nguyen (Université de Moncton, Moncton, Canada)
S.D. Nobile (Univ. of Foggia, Foggia, Italy)
A. Noore (West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV, USA)
K. Ohgaki (Osaka Univ. Osaka, Japan)
B. Pan (Nanjing Univ., Nanjing, China)
C.T. Pan (Nat. Sun Yat-Sen Univ., Kaohsiung, Taiwan)
T. Park (Samsung Advanced Inst. of Technology, Gyeonggi-do, Korea)
V.G. Pangarkar (Univ. Inst. of Chem. Technology, Mumbai, India)
L. Pengzhi (Sichuan University, Sichuan, China)
S.N. Piramanayagam (Data Storage Institute, Singapore)
F. Pourboghrat (Michigan State Univ., Michigan, MI, USA)
G. Provenzano (Dipartimento ITAF, Palermo, Italy)
J. Qin ( NTU,Nanyang, Singapore)
L. Qin (The Chinese Univ. of Hong Kong, Hong Kong)
M. Radosz (University of Wyoming, Laramie, WY, USA)
S. Ray (University of Calcutta, Kolkata, West Bengal, India)
L. Reinisch (Univ. of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand)
M.A. Rodrigo (UCLM, Albacete, Spain)
F.E. Romesberg (The Scripps Res. Inst., La Jolla, Canada)
C. Ronco (San Bortolo Hospital, Vicenza, Italy)
E. Rosenberg (AT&T Lab, Middletown, USA)
R. Rusli (Nanyang Technological Univ., Singapore)
H. Sadat (Higher school Engineers of Poitiers, Poitiers, France)
W. Salvatore (Univ. of Pisa, Pisa, Italy)
E. Santacesaria (Università “Federico II", Napoli- Italy)
E.J. Sapountzakis (National Technical University of Athens, Athens, Greece)
A.K. Sarma (Tezpur University, Tezpur, Assam, India)
R. Savino (Univ. of Napoli Federico II, Tecchio, Napoli, Italy)
D. Shi (Univ. of Cincinnati, Ohio, OH, USA)
J. W. Shi (National Ctr. Univ., Taoyuan, Taiwan)
F.Y. Shih (New Jersey Inst. of Technol., New Jersey, NJ, USA)
V. Singh (Atilim Univ., Ankara, Turkey)
H. So (National Taiwan Univ., Taipei, Taiwan)
S. Sombra (UFC, Fortaleza- Ceará -Brazil)
G.A. Sorial (Univ. of Cincinnati, Ohio, OH, USA)
D. Spinellis (AUEB, Athens, Greece)
F.C. Su (National Cheng Kung Univ.,Tainan, Taiwan)
S.S. Su (Biosensors International, Newport Beach, CA, USA)
K.O. Sun (Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, USA)
W. Sun (Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA, USA)
H. Sunan (National Univ. of Singapore, Singapore)
E.L. Tan (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore)
K.C. Tan (National Univ. of Singapore, Singapore)
P.A. Tanguy (URPEI, Montreal, Canada)
B. Tohidi (Heriot-Watt Univ., Edinburgh, UK)
H.F. Tse (The Univ. of Hong Kong, Hong Kong)
A.-D.G. Tsonos (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece)
M. Turek (Silesian Univ. of Technol., Gliwice, Poland)
G. Vozzi (University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy)
C.M. Wang (National Univ. of Singapore, Singapore)
G. Wang (Univ. of Nebraska Med. Center, Nebraska, NE, USA)
Q.G. Wang (The National Univ. of Singapore, Singapore)
R.Z. Wang (Shanghai Jiao Tong Univ, Shanghai, China)
S. Wang (The Hong Kong Polytechnic Univ, Kowloon, Hong Kong)
Y. Wang (McMaster Univ., Ontario, Canada)
Z. Wang (Brunel Univ, Middlesex, UK)
R.J. Wai (Yuan Ze Univ., Chung Li, Taiwan)
C. Wanji (Dalian Univ. of Technology, Dalian, China)
T.J. Webster (Purdue Univ., West Lafayette, Indiana)
S. Wongwises (King Mongkut’s University of Technology Thonburi, Bangkok, Thailand)
C.H. Wu (Da-Yeh Univ, Chang-Hua, Taiwan)
H. Wu (University of Louisiana, Lafayette, LA, USA)
F. Xi (Ryerson Univ, Toronto, Canada)
H. Xiao (Univ. of New Brunswick, New Brunswick, Canada)
Y. Xiao (The Univ. of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL, USA)
W.F. Xie (Jilin Univ., Changchun, China)
L. Xiang (Lucent Technologies, Holmdel, NJ, USA)
C. Xu (Underground System, Inc, Armonk, NY, USA)
L. Xu (University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada)
L. Xu (Canadian Cold Formed Steel Res. Group, Ontario, Canada)
M. Xu (University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK , USA)
T. Xu (Univ. of Sci. and Technolo. of China, Hefei, China)
D. Yao (Univ. of Electronic Sci. and Technology of China, Chengdu, China)
L. Yan (Univ. of Southern California, California, CA, USA)
D.L. Young (National Taiwan Univ., Taipei, Taiwan)
W.-B. Young (National Cheng Kung Univ., Tainan, Taiwan)
A. Yu (University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia)
C.C. Yu (National Taiwan Univ., Taipei, Taiwan)
D. Zhang (Hong Kong Polytechnic Univ., Kowloon, Hong Kong)
M. Zhang (Southern Yangtze University, Jiangsu Province, China)

Y. Zhang (Univ. of Texas, Austin,TX, USA)
Y. Zhang (National Univ. of Singapore, Singapore)
J. Zheng (Nanyang Technological Univ., Singapore)
Z.W. Zhong (Nanyang Technol. Univ., Nanyang, Singapore)
J. Zhu (The Univ. of Western Ontario, Ontario, Canada)
W.B. Zimmerman (University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK)
A. Zouboulis (Aristotle Univ, Thessaloniki, Greece)