This study presents the effect of porosity on mechanical behaviors of a power distribution functionally graded beam. The Euler-Bernoulli beam is assumed to describe the kinematic relations and constitutive equations. Because of technical problems, particle size shapes and micro-voids are created during the fabrication which should be taken into consideration. Two porosity models are proposed. T...

background and objective: the current study was undertaken to check in vitro different characteristics of lactobacillus plantarum as potential probiotic. these characteristics include viability of probiotic and ph during cold storage, tolerance to acid and bile, and antibiotic resistance. material and methods: samples of yogurt were stored at 4°c and analyzed in time 0, 1, 3, 7, 10 and 14 days ...

We say that a real number α is in Log space if its n-th bit (n ∈ Z) can be computed in O(log |n|) space. We show that π = 3.14159 · · · is in Log space. This implies that π is in the complexity class SC. The latter result has been conjectured by Lipton, and widely assumed to be true from the work of Bailey, Borwein and Plouffe (BBP) and others. Our result extends to other constants such as log ...

Experiences in our Micromégas project have shown that a detailed interaction log can be valuable to both users and designers of interactive systems. In this paper, we describe two different attempts at logging traces of Web activity, the first by instrumenting a specific browser, Camino, and the other by creating a cross-platform Firefox extension. We briefly discuss some of the issues brought ...

Given a description of a probabilistic automaton (one-head probabilistic nite automaton or probabilistic Turing machine) and an input string x of length n, we ask how much space does a deterministic Turing machine need in order to decide the acceptance of the input string by that automaton? The question is interesting even in the case of one-head one-way probabilistic nite automata (PFA). We ca...

The porosity and architecture of bone scaffolds, intended for use in bone repair or replacement, are two of the most important parameters in the field of bone tissue engineering. The two parameters not only affect the mechanical properties of the scaffolds but also aid in determining the amount of bone regeneration after implantation. Scaffolds with five different architectures and four porosit...

Novel mathematical method called spectral measure method (SMM) is developed for characterization of bone structure and indirect estimation of bone properties. The spectral measure method is based on an inverse homogenization technique which allows to derive information about the structure of composite material from measured effective electric or viscoelastic properties. The mechanical propertie...

The characterization of gas migration through low-permeability clay formations has been a focus of R&D programs for radioactive waste disposal, which is also of great importance for shale-gas exploration, and cap-rock behavior of hydrocarbon reservoirs and CO2 sequestration. Laboratory tests on Opalinus clay cores from a shallow borehole in the Mont Terri Underground Research Laboratory (URL) a...

Abstract— This paper introduces a log-domain decoding scheme for LDPC codes over . While this scheme is mathematically equivalent to the conventional sum-product decoder, log-domain decoding has advantages in terms of implementation, computational complexity and numerical stability. Further, a suboptimal variant of the log-domain decoding algorithm is proposed, yielding a lower computational co...