The Element free Galerkin method, which is based on the Moving Least Squares approximation, requires only nodal data and no element connectivity, and therefore is more ̄exible than the conventional ®nite element method. Direct imposition of essential boundary conditions for the element free Galerkin (EFG) method is always dif®cult because the shape functions from the Moving Least Squares approx...

[1] Temperature and ozone observations from the Microwave Limb Sounder (MLS) on the EOS Aura satellite are used to study equatorial wave activity in the autumn of 2005. In contrast to previous observations for the same season in other years, the temperature anomalies in the middle and lower tropical stratosphere are found to be characterized by a strong wave-like eastward progression with zonal...

Registration of point clouds is a fundamental issue in Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR) remote sensing because point clouds scanned from multiple scan stations or by different platforms need to be transformed to a uniform coordinate reference frame. This paper proposes an efficient registration method based on genetic algorithm (GA) for automatic alignment of two terrestrial LiDAR scanning (...

A transfer guard built on a high-assurance multilevel secure (MLS) trusted computing base (TCB) must be a trusted subject with the capability to perform downgrades not otherwise permitted by the MLS security policy. Formal evaluations of MLS systems containing trusted subjects are complicated when the trusted subjects are evaluated as part of a monolithic TCB. While welldeveloped techniques of ...

Pancreatic islets (PIs) transplantation is an alternative approach for the treatment of severe forms of type 1 diabetes (T1D). To monitor the success of transplantation, it is desirable to follow the location of engrafted PIs non-invasively. In vivo magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) of transplanted PIs is a feasible cell tracking method; however, this requires labeling with a suitable contrast a...

Myxoid sarcoma (MLS) is one of the most common types of malignant soft tissue tumors. MLS is characterized by the FUS-DDIT3 or EWSR1-DDIT3 fusion oncogenes that encode abnormal transcription factors. The receptor tyrosine kinase (RTK) encoding RET was previously identified as a putative downstream target gene to FUS-DDIT3 and here we show that cultured MLS cells expressed phosphorylated RET tog...

Type 2 diabetes mellitus is a complex disorder encompassing multiple metabolic defects. We report results from an autosomal genome scan for type 2 diabetes-related quantitative traits in 580 Finnish families ascertained for an affected sibling pair and analyzed by the variance components-based quantitative-trait locus (QTL) linkage approach. We analyzed diabetic and nondiabetic subjects separat...

[1] The first seasonal and interannual validation of OH measurements from the Aura Microwave Limb Sounder (MLS) has been conducted using ground-based OH column measurements from the Fourier Transform Ultra-Violet Spectrometer (FTUVS) over the Jet Propulsion Laboratory’s Table Mountain Facility (TMF) during 2004–2007. To compare with FTUVS total column measurements, MLS OH vertical profiles over...

Secure enterprise programming is a difficult and tedious task. Programmers need tools that support different levels of abstraction and that track all the components that participate in distributed enterprises. Those components must cooperate in a distributed environment to achieve higher-level goals. A special case of secure enterprise computing is multilevel secure (MLS) computing. Components ...

This paper presents a one-sided immersed boundary (IB) method using kernel functions constructed via moving least squares (MLS) method. The resulting kernels effectively couple structural degrees of freedom to fluid variables on only one side the fluid-structure interface. reduces spurious feedback forcing and internal flows that are typically observed in IB models use isotropic structure both ...