A common operation in clothing and shoe design is to design a folding pattern over a narrow strip and then superimpose it with a smooth surface; the shape of the folding pattern is controlled by the boundary curve of the strip. Previous research results studying folds focused mostly on cloth modeling or in animations, which are driven more by visual realism, but allow large elastic deformations...

BACKGROUND Epidemiological and clinical studies frequently use echocardiography to measure LV wall thicknesses and chamber dimension for estimating quantitative measures of LV mass. While echocardiographic M-mode LV images have traditionally been measured using hand-held calipers and strip-chart paper tracings, digitized M-mode LV image measurements made directly on the computer screen using el...

this paper is concerned with investigations into the effect of tension between the stands of the finishing mill on width control in a hot rolling process. an analysis is given to predict satisfactorily the variation in width due to spreading and also due to strip tension between the stands. wusatowskis model which is developed to give an account of spreading is specified and a similar model to ...

A triangle strip is one of the standard rendering primitives used to reduce the amount of data transmitted to the graphics pipeline. In order to exploit such efficient triangulation data in level-of-detail-based rendering applications, real-time updating of triangle strips is required, and it can be done by repeating vertices. However, the number of degenerate triangles increases in strips as t...

OBJECTIVES/HYPOTHESIS The purpose of this study was to validate the use of edible taste strips for measuring taste recognition thresholds for the bitter-tasting compound 6-n-propylthiouracil (PROP). STUDY DESIGN Taste recognition thresholds for PROP were obtained by two separate methods. Thresholds were also identified in subjects whose airflow through the nose was blocked. Threshold values w...

In this paper Micro strip Patch Antenna Array are designed and analyzed for WLAN application, which operating at S-band frequency Range of 2.4 GHz. Antenna arrays are used to achieve higher gain. The larger number of antenna elements, the better gain of antenna array is achieved. In this paper feeding element and power divider is used to design the 4 X 1 micro strip patch antenna array. Micro s...

Several methods have been used in wound closure after coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG). In this study, the safety and efficacy of one of these methods, Steri-Strip S is compared with the traditional intracuticular suture method. Eighty-one patients undergoing CABG were prospectively randomized into two groups according to the method of skin closure: Steri-Strip S group and traditional sut...

An analysis is made of the deflected forms assumed by an elastic strip when it is bent and stretched around a rigid drum. A summary is first given of the method of analysis used and the results obtained in a previous study where the drum width is equal to or greater than that of the strip. This work is then extended to the case where the strip width exceeds that of the drum. Defiected forms and...