Public advice columns have provided information, satisfied reader curiosity, and ignited discussion since the late 1600s. The role of the advice columnist can be understood as a form of cultural intermediary who identifies and assesses individual problems of potential relevance to wider audiences. Online columnists are now joined in this analysis of the human condition by communities of contrib...

Clickomania is a classic computer puzzle game (also known as SameGame, Chain-Shot!, and Swell-Foop, among other names). Originally developed by Kuniaki “Morisuke” Moribe under the name Chain-Shot! for the Fujitsu FM-8, and announced in the November 1985 issue of ASCII Monthly magazine, it has since been made available for a variety of digital platforms [Mor03]. Figure 1 shows some examples. Alt...

M and control of distillation columns is a research area that evokes considerable interest. On the one hand, substantial savings are possible with good controllers, on the other hand, distillation columns are often used as test cases for new methods of model based controller design. Strongly nonlinear behavior and high order are the characteristics that present challenges when designing control...

There have been great developments in the area of civil engineering in the recent few decades and among these, construction and material innovation are quite prominent. Steel-concrete composite construction has emerged as one of the fastest methods of construction. Even though considerable research efforts on conventional reinforced concrete columns have been executed prior to now, concrete fil...

BLOSUM and PAM series of protein substitution matrices are popular tools for scoring protein pairwise and multiple alignments. For protein multiple alignments there exists another representation of an evolving column, based on a set of predefined frequency profile patterns. For conserved sites, these profile patterns represent stationary points in a 20-dimensional profile space. There are 20 su...

We show that a sequence over a finite field Fq of characteristic p is p-automatic if and only if it occurs as a column of the spacetime diagram, with eventually periodic initial conditions, of a linear cellular automaton with memory over Fq . As a consequence, the subshift generated by a length-p substitution can be realized as a topological factor of a linear cellular automaton.

brass ferrules have been used as packing in a laboratory- scale glass distillation column approaching pilot plant size because of their availability in all sizes and low cost. the available size range is such that these ferrules could also be used in industry and the results of this study could be scaled up. the performance of the new packing has been compared with the performance of glass pack...

it introduced an innovative bioengineering method of consolidating incompact sand by urea-hydrolysis producing calcite cementation under the inducement of urease producing microbe. in the paper it discussed the effects of cementation methods and time on porosity and mechanical properties of microbe-inspired cementing sand columns. method a adopted reaction fluid gravitational permeating and ext...

this paper presents an experimental study on seismic repair of damaged square reinforced concrete columns with poor lap splices, 90-degree hooks and widely spaced transverse bars in plastic hinge regions according to aci detailing (pre.1971) and (318-02) using gfrp wraps. three specimens were tested in “as built” condition and retested after they were repaired by glass fiberreinforced plastic s...