the aim of this research is to investigate the effect of carbon fiber reinforced polymer (cfrp) composite fabric on monotonic and fatigue behaviors of reinforced concrete beams. to control the failure occurrence, a small notch was induced at the middle span in bottom surface for all of the studied rc specimens. totally 12 beams were tested from which 6 beams tested under monotonic and 6 other t...

Cell navigation is directed by inhomogeneous distributions of extracellular cues. It is well known that noise plays a key role in biology and is present in naturally occurring gradients at the micro- and nanoscale, yet it has not been studied with gradients in vitro. Here, we introduce novel algorithms to produce ordered and random gradients of discrete nanodots--called digital nanodot gradient...

i Preface Logic has always provided a rigorous foundation for mathematics and philosophy, and more recently it has been called upon to support formal concepts and problem-solving mechanisms for computer science, operations research, and artificial intelligence. Recent work emphasizes that, in addition to traditional concerns such as soundness and completeness of proof systems, it is important t...

We propose monotonic consistent caching (MCC), a cache scheme for applications that demand consistency and monotonicity. MCC warrants transaction-like request always sees view of the backend database observed writes over will not be lost. show complexity ranges from P time to N p -C omplete . characterize via notion obsolete items, based on which we abstract principle designing competitive poli...

given a mapping $f:xto x$ we naturally associate to it a monotonic map $gg_f:exp xto exp x$ from the power set of $x$ into itself, thus inducing a generalized topology on $x$. in this paper we investigate some properties of generalized topologies which are defined by such a procedure.

We introduce binary locally monotonic regression as a first step in the study of the application of local monotonicity for image estimation. Given an algorithm that generates a similar locally monotonic image from a given image, we can specify both the scale of the image features retained and the image smoothness. In contrast to the median filter and to morphological filters, a locally monotoni...

We investigate the retrieval phase diagrams of an asynchronous fully-connected attractor network with non-monotonic transfer function by means of a mean-field approximation. We find for the noiseless zero-temperature case that this non-monotonic Hopfield network can store more patterns than a network with monotonic transfer function investigated by Amit et al. Properties of retrieval phase diag...