Cotton fiber elongation (extensibility, elongation at breaking load) is one of the least utilized measurements from the high volume instrument (HVI). This may be due, in part, to the large standard deviation of this HVI measurement. In addition, the correlation of fiber elongation with yarn elongation is not as high as the physical theory of yarn strength suggests. Thus, an improved method for ...

Towards Efficient Distribution of High-Volume Content

The primary goals of lung ventilation are to bring oxygen into the alveoli from where it can enter the blood, and to eliminate carbon dioxide dissolved in the blood. Since CO2 is much more soluble in blood than oxygen, O2 transport is diffusion-limited and a large alveolar surface area is the primary factor controlling its delivery. CO2 transport is flow-limited, so that efficient gas transport...

In the past decade we have learned a lot about the pathophysiology of septic shock. A lot of experimental research has been performed in vitro and in vivo, showing that hemofiltration can improve hemodynamics and survival. With modern machines, hemofiltration is becoming a sepsis treatment in patients.

AIM To examine the delivered volume during "high volume strategy" high frequency oscillation, used as rescue treatment in preterm infants; and to identify factors, other than frequency and oscillatory amplitude, influencing the magnitude of volume delivery. METHOD Twenty infants (median gestational age 29 weeks) were studied on 45 occasions. Two oscillator types were used (SensorMedics and SL...

Cognitive Work Analysis (CWA) is a methodology for analyzing complex socio-technical systems. It aims to structure system information in a manner that is meaningful for human control and interaction. The Abstraction Decomposition Space (ADS) in an important tool used during the first phase of CWA to describe the work domain. In this paper we create an ADS for a Semiconductor Fabrication Plant (...

Providing WWW or FTP service on a small scale is already a well-solved problem. Scaling this to work at a site that accepts millions of connections per day, however, can easily push multiple machines and networks to the bleeding edge. In this paper, we give concrete configuration techniques that have helped us get the best possible performance out of server resources. Our analysis is mostly cen...

Volumetric representation of 3D scenes is becoming widely used in scientific visualization and computer graphics. Volume rendering confronts performance hurdles due to the voluminous nature of the data, and quality hurdles due to its discreteness. In this paper we present a three-phase template-based algorithm for expediting parallel viewing of volumetric datasets. Our approach exploits coheren...

Our recent improvements to volume rendering using splatting allow for an accurate functional reconstruction and volume integration, occlusion-based acceleration, post-rendering classification and shading, 3D texture mapping, bump mapping, anti-aliasing and gaseous animation. A pure software implementation requiring low storage and using simple operations has been implemented to easily support t...

Fourier volume rendering (FVR) is a significant visualization technique that has been used widely in digital radiography. As a result of its 𝒪(N (2)log⁡N) time complexity, it provides a faster alternative to spatial domain volume rendering algorithms that are 𝒪(N (3)) computationally complex. Relying on the Fourier projection-slice theorem, this technique operates on the spectral representation...