E-book is a fast growing service for mobile Internet. A user reads e-books through an e-reader that could be a dedicated reading device or a mobile application on the smartphones or the tablets. With content protection of Digital Right Management (DRM), e-books take longer chapter loading time due to necessary data decryption. This paper propose a mechanism that preloads a small number of chapt...

Sizes and stiffness variations of actively deformable objects pose significant challenges on the design compliant constant-force gripper. This paper presents a curved-beam based constant force gripper which is composed module, bistable preloading module linear guide. A mechanism designed to generate output, non-constant motion range further eliminated via curved-based module. After formulation ...

Static use of locking caches is a useful solution to take advantage of cache memories in real-time systems. Locking cache operates preloading and locking a set of instructions, thus cache contents are a-priori known and remain unchanged during system operation. This solution eliminates the unpredictable behavior of conventional caches, making easy to accomplish the schedulability test through s...

Amino-functionalized macroporous silica foam (NH2 -MOSF) has been developed as a host reactor to realize highly efficient proteolysis in acidic solutions where normal tryptic reactions cannot occur. The digestion protocol consists simply of adding the functionalized NH2 -MOSF into the protein and trypsin solutions without altering the bulk pH or preloading the enzymes on the materials. With thi...

1 2 3 4 5 #PE n 2 n{n+\)/2 n 2 + (n— I) 2 n 2 n(n+ l)/2 S 1 1 1 3 2 Diagonal connection No No Yes Yes No Preloading n 0 0 n-l 0 Execution 3n-2 3n-2 3n-2 3«-2 3»-2 Draining n-l n-l 1 1 1 Hence it needs more hardware cost. But there is no need for preloading time of A (1 , hence this design has the minimum computation time. The array size of Fig. 4 is equal to n 2 , but there is no need for proce...

In this study, a 3D numerical modelling of a single vertical drains consolidation incorporating vacuum preloading considering both vertical and horizontal drainage is presented. The effects of nonlinear soil compressibility, varying permeability and vacuum pressure distribution along the drain are examined through the dissipation of average excess pore pressure and associated settlement. A sele...