Florida Polytechnic University

About: Florida Polytechnic University is a education organization based out in Lakeland, Florida, United States. It is known for research contribution in the topics: Computer science & Catalysis. The organization has 302 authors who have published 538 publications receiving 6549 citations. The organization is also known as: Florida Poly.

Gaming, fitness, and relaxation

Abstract: A game was designed to encourage the player to exercise their physical and mental faculties through the use of wearable devices. The player would receive in-game benefits from curling and punching repetitions, meditating, and calm movement while wearing commercially available ECG and EEG devices.

Green processing: CO2-induced glassification of sucrose octaacetate and its implications in the spontaneous release of drug from drug-excipient composites

Abstract: Liquid and supercritical (sc) CO2 offer tremendous advantages as a greener and safer solvent platform for the pharmaceutical industry. Sugar acetates form a class of inexpensive, carbonyl-based, CO2-philes that exhibits remarkably high solubility in liquid and scCO2. In this work, we combine the use of the green CO2 solvent platform and a class of renewable, FDA-approved excipient systems, viz., α- d -glucose pentaacetate (AGLU) and sucrose octaacetate (SOA), to disperse two active pharmaceutical ingredients, viz., aspirin and paracetamol. When treated with CO2, these excipients undergo profound structural modifications in comparison to those processed using two conventional organic solvents, viz., ethyl acetate and acetone. Of particular interest is the glass formation of sucrose octaacetate. Spontaneous drug release from these excipient systems processed using CO2 and the conventional solvents are compared. It is observed that the drug release from the CO2-processed SOA/drug system is an order of magnitude slower as compared to those processed using conventional solvent systems studied, plausibly due to the immobilization of the drug inside the glassy SOA matrix.

IoT Devices with Non-interactive Key Management Protocol

Abstract: The Internet was built with no security, so it is considered an unreliable network. All IoT devices use this unsecured Internet, making them vulnerable to various types of attacks. For IoT devices, the traditional encryption and validation approaches would not work because of their low memory and processing power. Hence, it is essential to design a lightweight encryption technique for IoT. In this paper, we presented a non-interactive key management and refreshment protocol for IoT devices that improve upon existing protocol Authenticated Key Management Protocols for the Internet of Things (AKMPIoT). The security analysis shows that the proposed protocol provides better security in terms of authentication, availability, confidentiality, integrity, perfect forward secrecy, and defends against attacks such as DoS and Man in the middle.

Soft Error Tolerant Quasi-Delay Insensitive Asynchronous Circuits: Advancements and Challenges

Abstract: Susceptibility to soft errors caused by radiation or other noise sources is a major concern for devices operating with limited supply voltages at scaled technology nodes. These errors are occasional abnormalities that give rise to single event effects (SEE), which may corrupt the circuit functionality. Although the insensitivity to timing variations allows quasi delay insensitive (QDI) circuits to be robust against many of the radiation or noise effects that affect the timing behavior of CMOS based synchronous digital circuits, they are still susceptible to soft errors. Various error detection, mitigation, and radiation hardening schemes for QDI circuits exist in the literature. This paper provides a comprehensive overview of the existing techniques and a comparative analysis of their significance, performance, and limitations.