Volume VI, Issue II

About the Cover

The cover depicts an artistic visualization of a digital circuit. The feature article explores several signal-processing based filters to denoise electromyography signals. The implementation of these filters in hardware devices requires complex digital circuits.

Published Fall 2014

Table of Contents

• Editorial

  • Welcome Letter
    G.P. "Bud" Peterson
  • Interdisciplinary people drive groundbreaking science
    Mohamad Ali Najia

• News

  • Stiffness-dependent separation of cells
    Gautam Rangavajla
  • The pervasive applications of nanotechnology
    Amrita Banerjee
  • The origin & evolution of RNA: Molecular midwives and their role in nucleic acid polymerization
    Alex George
  • Novel stem cell culture leads to osteoporosis prevention in diabetics
    Brandon Philbrick

• Interviews

  • Previous Authors in The Tower
  • Professor Michael Eisen: A Pioneer of Open Access Science

• Perspectives

  MATERIALS SCIENCE & ENGINEERING
  • Progress toward stretchable electronics
    Xueying Zhao & Ching-Ping Wong, PhD
  BIOLOGY
  • The pouch microbiome and its long-term impact on human health
    Abigail Shockey & Frank Stewart, PhD

• Articles

  ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING
  • Denoising electromyographic signals via stationary wavelet decomposition and filtering
    Rehman Ali, Gareth Guvanasen & Stephen Deweerth, PhD
  BIOLOGY
  • Biofilm production regulates horizontal gene
    Sarah Wilson, Eryn Bernardy & Brian Hammer, PhD
  COMPUTER SCIENCE
  • Warpic: A four-finger system for designing two-dimensional image warping animations
    Brian Edmonds & Jarek Rossignac, PhD
  • PHYSICS
    The trajectory of a table tennis ball is determined by its diameter
    Jeffrey Heninger, Aishwarye Chauhan, Nathan Holley & Edwin Greco, PhD