We present the design and architecture for a device called the “Conductor’s Jacket,” which we built to collect and analyze data from conductors. This device is built into normal clothing and designed in such a way as to allow for normal activity and not encumber the movements of the wearer. The jacket records physiological and motion information from musicians in order to better understand how ...

In this paper, optimization and control of a tubular reactor for thermal bulk post-polymerization of styrene have been investigated. By using the reactor mathematical model, static and dynamic simulations are carried out. Based on an objective function including polymer conversion and polydispersity, reactor optimal temperature profile has been obtained. In the absence of model mismatch, de...

Offshore oil and gas industry is blooming up towards the deep-water region of ocean deposit. Far off the continental shelf, the traditional jacket type fixed platform and bottom supported compliant platform are not suited to be economic offshore structure in deep water oil and gas exploration. Floating Spar platform is essentially most economic and efficient in these sea states. In the present ...

We present the design and implementation of the Conductor's Jacket, a unique wearable device that measures physiological and gestural signals, together with the Gesture Construction, a musical software system that interprets these signals and applies them expressively in a musical context. Sixteen sensors have been incorporated into the Conductor's Jacket in such a way as to not encumber or int...

This paper addresses a detailed analysis of the ice–structure interaction process phase-locked ice crushing (PLC) against offshore structures. Directly measured load, structure response data, and in situ observation from field measurements on Molikpaq lighthouse jacket platform were used study. summarizes new ductile damage-collapse (DDC) failure mechanism for PLC process. The DDC shows that is...

We report a 58-year-old man with multiple yellow jacket stings who developed urticaria, renal failure, quadriparesis, rhabdomyolysis in succession. Investigations revealed renal and hepatic dysfunction, proteinuria, demyelinating polyradiculoneuropathy, acute tubular necrosis and glomerulonephritis. He improved with methylprednisolone, antihypertensives and two sessions of haemodialysis.

This paper promotes the hypothesis that central grammatical categories must be analysed as pragmatic rather than semantic entities, in order to explain their seemingly redundant typological distribution. A case is made of the relatively complex English past tense system versus the single Russian past tense, and it is shown how the distinctions within the former system can be analysed in terms o...

In order to evaluate the flow field characteristics of a marine diesel engine cooling water jacket, and provide theoretical basis for further optimizing jacket structure. A computational fluid dynamics (CFD) method was used calculate three-dimensional jacket. Based on CFD simulation model analysis pressure field, velocity streamline distribution uniformity under rated condition were carried out...