High-yield wavelength conversion is one of the key requirements for efficient photon energy harvesting. Attempts to realize by simply stacking layers chromophores have failed so far, even when using highly crystalline assemblies and employing recently discovered long-range (>100 nm) Förster resonance transfer (LR-FRET). Optical efficiency drastically improved chromophoric metal–organic framewor...

the present study sets out to integrate the performance-based seismic design approach with the connection topology optimization method. performance-based connection topology optimization concept aims to simultaneously optimize the size of members and the type of connections with respect to the framework of performance-based seismic design. this new optimization concept is carried out for unbrac...

fresh juices of colourful wild berries: cornelian cherry, blackthorn, white beam and elderberry are considered as valuable, highly nutritive beverages and characterized by the high level of vitamins and antioxidant capacity. the concentration process of these juices by membrane osmotic distillation was studied, where only water vapour is eliminated, while the heat sensitive, valuable compounds ...

tooth/implant supported fixed prostheses may present biomechanical design problems, as the implant is rigidly anchored within the alveolus, whereas the tooth is attached by the periodontal ligament to the bone allowing movement. many clinicians prefer tooth/implant supported fixed prosthesis designs with rigid connectors. however, there are some doubts about the effect of attachment placement i...

Abstract: This research work presents a new rigid connection constructed with channels. In order to assess its hysteresis behavior, three specimens with different cover plates and six specimens with different panel zone thickness have been considered. The energy absorbed by the connection and the behavior of the panel zone were studied during cyclic loading and compared with those of connectio...

Keiko Motoyama, Yuji Nakai, Tomoya Miyashita, Yuichiro Fukui, Maki Morita, Kazutsuka Sanmiya, Hiroyuki Sakakibara, Ichiro Matsumoto, Keiko Abe, Takafumi Yakabe, Nobuhiro Yajima, and Kayoko Shimoi Graduate School of Nutritional and Environmental Sciences, Institute for Environmental Sciences, and Global COE Program, University of Shizuoka, Shizuoka; Graduate School of Agricultural and Life Scien...

† This work was supported in part by NSF Grants CCR-9207971 and CCR-9509589, funding from the Apple Computer Advanced Technology Group, and donations from Thinking Machines Corporation. Our T.M.C. CM-5 was purchased through NSF Grant CDA-9024618, with matching funding from the University of Wisconsin Graduate School. ‡ Editor, IEEE P1596.2 proposed Standard. The views expressed in this paper ar...

AutoBAHN (Automated Bandwidth Allocation across Heterogeneous Networks) has specified and is now prototyping a Bandwidth on Demand (BoD) service intended to operate in a multidomain environment using heterogeneous transmission technologies. The AutoBAHN system aims at providing a guaranteed capacity, connection-oriented service between two end points. This paper highlights the architecture of t...

Eines der Hauptziele des Applied Research Branch in der Numerical Aerodynamic Simulation (NAS) Systems Division am NASA Ames Research Center ist die beschleunigte Einfiihrung von parallelen Hochleistungsrechnern in ein produktionsorientiertes Rechenzentrum. In dieser Arbeit werden die Zielrichtungen des NAS Projekts in Bezug auf Parallelrechner dargestellt. Weiterhin werden die Erfahrungen mit ...