Stimuli-responsive materials that modify their shape in response to changes in environmental conditions-such as solute concentration, temperature, pH, and stress-are widespread in nature and technology. Applications include micro- and nanoporous materials used in filtration and flow control. The physiochemical mechanisms that induce internal volume modifications have been widely studied. The co...

Recently, there have been increasing interests in inferring mirco-expression from facial image sequences. Due to subtle facial movement of micro-expressions, feature extraction has become an important and critical issue for spontaneous facial micro-expression recognition. Recent works used spatiotemporal local binary pattern (STLBP) for micro-expression recognition and considered dynamic textur...

Abstract—This contribution deals with the blocking probability in a hierarchical network with two mobility behaviors. A continuous coverage is achieved with micro-cells that accommodate both fresh calls and handover requests. Over this micro-cell coverage umbrella-cells, which only accept handover, are implemented. At every handover, the sojourn time of the terminal in the cell is measured. If ...

A theoretical and experimental study was performed on convective micro mixing in T-shaped micro mixers. In these devices symmetric laminar vortices are developing at low Reynolds numbers Re. The symmetry breaks up with increasing Re numbers. This leads to an enormous enhancement of the mass transfer in the mixing channel. Numerical simulations of the flow characteristics and mixing behaviour ar...

Study of methods resolved top quarks kinematic reconstruction in the $t\bar{t} \rightarrow \ell+$jets channel is presented at particle level as well fast-simulation detector level. Previous and current pseudo-top quark algorithms are compared with suggestions on how to improve reconstructed top-quark mass line shape, including check performance physics observables terms correlations between det...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE In the present study, micro-channel arrays were fabricated on the surface of plastic-based disposable chips. The cell adhesion process and the detection of plaque-forming macrophages were observed. Further, we evaluated cell adhesion in a fluid system in vitro. MATERIAL AND METHODS Features of the micro-channel (1.4 mm wide and 10 mm long) included twenty micro-pillar...

The three dimensional circuit (3D-IC) brings forth new challenges to physical design such as allocation and management of through-silicon-vias (TSVs). Meanwhile, the thermal issues in 3D-IC becomes significant necessitating the use of active cooling schemes such as micro-channel liquid coolings. Both TSVs and micro-channels go through the interlayer regions of 3D-IC resulting in potential resou...