Wang Lin, Pablo Benítez, J.C.Miñano, José Infante, Guillermo Biot 1. CEDINT, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid 2. LPI-LLC, 2400 Lincoln Avenue, Altadena CA 91001, USA ABSTRACT: In this work, two SMS algorithms are presented for an objective design with different selected ray-bundles: three meridian ray-bundles (3M) and one meridian and two skew ray-bundles (1M-2S), the latter from pin hole poin...

Wang Lin, Pablo Benítez, J.C.Miñano, José Infante, Guillermo Biot 1. CEDINT, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid 2. LPI-LLC, 2400 Lincoln Avenue, Altadena CA 91001, USA ABSTRACT: In this work, two SMS algorithms are presented for an objective design with different selected ray-bundles: three meridian ray-bundles (3M) and one meridian and two skew ray-bundles (1M-2S), the latter from pin hole poin...

This article explores the origin of meridians. It suggests that the origin of meridians is closely related to the imageries derived by ancient physicians experiencing the circulation of Qi in their bodies during Qigong practice. Based on the cognitive experience from Qigong practice, as well as the symbolic analogy of the flow of rivers and the irrigation system of agriculture, the meridian the...

Bellows are special structures that require high strength as well as good flexibility. The design, manufacture, and analysis of bellow tubes thus are more complicated. Test of bellows to understand their mechanical behavior, and to verify a design purpose finite element program is needed for practical use. In this paper, digital-image-correlation method is applied to measure the stiffness of si...

In this paper, the nonlinear dynamic properties were introduced to the analysis of the acupoint signals from a meridian channel, i.e. the signals acquired from the Lung Channel of Hand-Taiyin (LU). Then, the chaotic properties like Lyapunov exponent, Kolmogorov entropy, correlation dimension were researched. The obtained results showed that the acupoint signal is chaotic signal. And the chaotic...

The performance of peer-to-peer and overlay networks depends to a large extent on their awareness of the underlying network’s properties. Several schemes for estimating end-to-end network distances have been proposed to simplify this task. The mOverlay framework identifies groups of nodes that are near to each other in the network topology. Instead of distances between nodes mOverlay measures d...

A companionship argument is used to give a constructive geometric proof of a key result concerning the knot homomorph problem: Given elements p and A in a group G, is there a knot K in S3 and a surjective representation p : n,(S3 K) + G, such that p(m) = y and p( [) = A, where m and I are the meridian and longitude of K. The result presented here is that if for some p that normally generates G,...

In this paper, we derive a nonlinear equation of corneal asphericity (Q) using the tangential radius of curvature (rt) on every semi-meridian. We transform the nonlinear equation into the linear equation and then obtain the Q-value of corneal semi-meridian by the linear regression method. We find the 360 semi-meridional variation rule of the Q-value using polynomial function. Furthermore, we co...

BACKGROUND The scientific basis for acupuncture meridians is unknown. Past studies have suggested that acupuncture meridians are physiologically characterized by low electrical impedance and anatomically associated with connective tissue planes. We are interested in seeing whether acupuncture meridians are associated with lower electrical impedance and whether ultrasound-derived measures--speci...