Epicyclic gearboxes are prevalent in a variety of important engineering systems such as automotive, aerospace, wind turbines, civil equipment and industrial robots owing to the merits compact structure high power density. To ensure productivities systems, condition monitoring techniques being actively studied resolve challenge varying transmission paths multiple modulations vibration signals ac...

Biodesalination: an emerging technology for targeted removal of Na and Cl from seawater by cyanobacteria K. Minas, E. Karunakaran, T. Bond, C. Gandy, A. Honsbein, M. Madsen, J. Amezaga, A. Amtmann, M.R. Templeton, C.A. Biggs & L. Lawton a Institute of Design and Environmental Sustainability, Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen, UK Tel. +44 1224 262823 b Department of Chemical and Biological Engi...

Exonic splicing enhancers (ESEs) are pre-mRNA cis-acting elements required for splice-site recognition. We previously developed a web-based program called ESEfinder that scores any sequence for the presence of ESE motifs recognized by the human SR proteins SF2/ASF, SRp40, SRp55 and SC35 (http://rulai.cshl.edu/tools/ESE/). Using ESEfinder, we have undertaken a large-scale analysis of ESE motif d...

the redundancy allocation problem can be described as selecting the components and system configuration in order to optimize some objective function(s) without violating the system constraints. operating conditions are not constant in many advanced engineering systems. mostly, in the engineering applications selection, the number of redundancy components must be balanced among the constraints (...

1 Lizette R. Chevalier, Chair, Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering, [email protected] 2 Shashi Marikunte, Asst. Professor, Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering, [email protected] 3 Jemil Yesuf, Graduate Student, Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering, [email protected] Abstract The use of empirical models is an integral part of the design and analysis of civil and ...

Canalization is an umbrella term a leading C. H. Waddington introduced in 1960’s. The term describes the ability of a population to buffer disturbances in phenotypic development. There are two major types of canalization based on the sources of disturbances: genetic and environmental. Genetic canalization describes the ability to express the same phenotype from different genotypes, while enviro...

Being able to work with mathematical models of hydrological and environmental systems becomes increasingly important for students of civil and environmental engineering departments. Courses or course sections teaching the specific skills needed are slowly making their way into the curriculum. This paper discusses the requirements for tools to teach these topics. Two example tools for model iden...

cientists and engineers in the APL Space Department have made notable contributions to ocean remote sensing science and technology for more than a quarter of a century. Radar altimeters designed and built at APL have set the standard for measurement precision and reliability, and concepts for new instruments promise to maintain this leadership. A variety of techniques have also been developed t...