Portable libraries of highly-optimized hardware cores can significantly reduce the development time of reconfigurable computing applications. This paper presents the tradeoffs and challenges in the design of such libraries. A set of library development guidelines is provided, which has been validated with the RCLib case study. RCLib is a set of portable libraries with over 100 cores, targeting ...

Boundary value problems of the third kind are converted into boundary integral equations of the second kind with periodic logarithmic kernels by using Green’s formulas. For solving the induced boundary integral equations, a Nyström scheme and its extrapolation method are derived for periodic Fredholm integral equations of the second kind with logarithmic singularity. Asymptotic expansions for t...

Operators of agricultural machinery are exposed to an extensive range of indirect vibrations through the seats, which gradually causes chronic damages. One of the ways to reduce the vibrations imposed on the operators is to use appropriate materials in tractor seat cushion. The present study was carried out in order to select appropriate foam or sponge and investigate different factors in reduc...

Position and velocity of accommodation are known to increase with stimulus magnitude, however, little is known about acceleration properties. We investigated three acceleration properties: peak acceleration, time-to-peak acceleration and total duration of acceleration to step changes in defocus. Peak velocity and total duration of acceleration increased with response magnitude. Peak acceleratio...

in this paper, the range doppler algorithm (rda) for synthetic aperture radar moving on a ballistic trajectory is presented. the 3-dimension acceleration and non-uniform trajectory cause decreases in efficiency of conventional imaging algorithms. in this paper, the analytical expression for the 2-d signal spectrum for ballistic trajectory using taylor series expansion and series reversion is de...

The £-algorithm is a general extrapolation method which includes most of the sequence transformations actually known. Some new convergence acceleration methods are derived from the f-algorithm by applying the so-called (^-procedure. The algorithms thus obtained are studied. Some theoretical results are proved and numerical examples are given.

Considerable variability in tibial acceleration slope (AS) values, and different interpretations of injury risk based on these values, have been reported. Acceleration slope variability may be due in part to variations in the quantification methods used. Therefore, the purpose of this study was to quantify differences in tibial AS values determined using end points at various percentage ranges ...

This paper presents a system that attempts to encourage a person to drive their best. It is based on sensors found in a standard car and focuses on how to recognize when and how to give feedback to a car driver. Focusing on tactile feedback, the system notices missing turn signals, erratic driving, acceleration and de-acceleration. It focuses on tactile and simple feedback for the controls. It ...

Computational expressions for the exact CDF of Roy’s test statistic in MANOVA and the largest eigenvalue of a Wishart matrix are derived based upon their Pfaffian representations given in Gupta and Richards (1985). These expressions allow computations to proceed until a prespecified degree of accuracy is achieved. For both distributions, convergence acceleration methods are used to compute CDF ...