The amount of biosequence data being produced each year is growing exponentially. Extracting useful information from this massive amount of data efficiently is becoming an increasingly difficult task. There are many available software tools that molecular biologists use for comparing genomic data. This paper focuses on accelerating the most widely used such tool, BLAST. Mercury BLAST takes a st...

PURPOSE A computational model of the porcine eye was developed to simulate primary blast exposure. This model facilitates understanding of blast-induced injury mechanisms. METHODS A computational model of the porcine eye was used to simulate the effects of primary blast loading for comparison with experimental findings from shock tube experiments. The eye model was exposed to overpressure-tim...

Title of dissertation: MULTIPLE ENERGY DISSIPATION STRATEGIES OF BASE ISOLATED STRUCTURES UNDER BLAST AND EARTHQUAKE Ruiyang Zhang, Master of Science, 2014 Dissertation directed by: Assistant Professor, Brian M. Phillips Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering Terrorist attacks have become a growing threat worldwide in recent years. Explosive devices, the weapon of choice for a majori...

Unpredicted loading caused by blast or impact may lead to severe damage in structures. Such damage may affect the whole structural performance. Connections are the key contributor to the integrity and energy dissipation capacity of the structural steel systems and play the most important role in mitigating such consequences. In the view of the importance of connections, finite element analysis ...

This article develops a full maximum likelihood method for obtaining joint estimates of variances and correlations among continuous and polytomous variables with incomplete data which are missing at random with an ignorable missing mechanism. The approach for obtaining the maximum likelihood estimate of the covariance matrix is via a simple confirmatory analysis model with a fixed identity load...

In this paper we consider transmission over MIMO channels with channel state information available at the transmitter. This enables the use of precoding as well as an optimization of rate and power distribution over the parallel subchannels in the transmission system. We show that in the case of so-called loading, equalization by the V-BLAST algorithm does not lead to the optimum performance. A...

High velocity impact and shock or blast responses are a critical design characteristic determining sizing of composite parts and, ultimately, weight savings. This study demonstrates the applicability of peridynamics to accurately predict nonlinear transient deformation and damage behavior of composites under shock or blast types of loadings due to explosions. The peridynamic predictions correla...

Hydrocarbon explosions are one of most hazardous events for workers on offshore platforms. To protect structures against explosion loads, corrugated blast walls are typically installed. However, the profiles of real explosion loads are quite different depending on the congestion and confinement of Topside structures. As the level of congestion and confinement increases, the explosion load incre...

in this paper, the non-linear dynamic response of novel steel sandwich panel with hollow i-core subjected to blast loading was studied. special emphasis is placed on the evaluation of midpoint displacements and energy dissipation of the models. several parameters such as boundary conditions, strain rate, mesh dependency and asymmetrical loading are considered in this study. the material and geo...

BACKGROUND With the onset of improved protective equipment against fragmentation, blast-induced neurotrauma has emerged as the "signature wound" of the current conflicts in the Middle East. Current research has focused on this phenomenon; however, the exact mechanism of injury and ways to mitigate the ensuing pathophysiology remain largely unknown. The data presented and literature reviewed for...