Disabled submarine (DISSUB) survivors will achieve inert gas tissue saturation within 24 h. Direct ascent to the surface when saturated carries a high risk of decompression sickness (DCS) and death, yet may be necessary during rescue or escape. O(2) has demonstrated benefits in decreasing morbidity and mortality resulting from DCS by enhancing inert gas elimination. Perfluorocarbons (PFCs) also...

The level of land consumption for housing and transport contrasts sharply with both the necessity and the legal obligation to maintain the ecological potential afforded by open spaces to meet the needs of current and future generations in terms of resource protection and climate change. Owing to the increasing intensity of soil usage, in many urban landscapes the soil conditions has deteriorate...

This paper describes the outcomes of a case study aimed at surfacing and analyzing decision making criteria used to prioritize process automation initiatives with a view toward engendering a process-centric organization and eventually exposing these processes as services. The study used structured interviews, content analysis, and enterprise process architecture mapping techniques to explore th...

WINTER 2015 87 The Internet has been strongly gaining prominence as a news medium; in 2012, it overtook the TV as the most used news source for people under 30 in the United States (Kohut 2013). In addition, it has significantly changed the way in which many people find and consume news. Multiple publishers are now reachable more easily than ever before. Social bookmarking sites present us with...

Automatic simplification of highly detailed mesh models has been gaining considerable interest in the research field of reverse engineering and rapid prototyping recent years. However, almost all the present simplification algorithms are only focus on the geometry similarity. The triangle quality and the machinability of the mesh are less considered. We have developed a simplification algorithm...

Traditional search engines create their indices by spidering or crawling surface Web pages. To be discovered, the page must be static and linked to other pages. Traditional search engines can not "see" or retrieve content in the deep Web -those pages do not exist until they are created dynamically as the result of a specific search. Because traditional search engine crawlers can not probe benea...

We present a new point set surfacing method based on a data-driven mapping between the parametric and geometric spaces. Our approach takes as input an unstructured and possibly noisy point set representing a two-manifold in R3. To facilitate parametrization, the set is first embedded in R2 using neighborhood preserving locally linear embedding. A learning algorithm is then trained to learn a ma...