the the main objective of this research paper is to present 3-d elasticity solution for free vibration analysis of elastically supported continuously graded carbon nanotube-reinforced (cgcntr) annular plates. the volume fractions of oriented, straight single-walled carbon nanotubes (swcnts) are assumed to be graded in the thickness direction. an equivalent continuum model based on the eshelby-m...

Two new techniques for multi-method dispatch are presented, both sufficiently general to apply to reflexive languages where methods and types can be added and removed at run-time. However, these techniques also apply to non-reflexive languages. One of the techniques operates by performing projections onto single-receiver dispatch tables, and thus benefits from existing research into single-rece...

Cohesion has been a topic of interest since structured design [20, 23] in the 1970’s. Today, there are numerous researchers continuing this work into object-oriented designs [1, 3, 5, 7, 9, 10, 12, 13, 16, 18, 19, 22]. Most of the current research has focused on the interaction of methods within a class, the inter-method cohesion. In this paper we consider both the inter-method cohesion and the...

This paper reports the results from an action research project which studies the benefits of documenting the evolution and the rationale for the evolution of a requirements specification. Earlier research into the use of ad hoc design explanation, in which design decisions were documented using the IBIS notation (Issue Based Information System) as they were made, found both benefits and weaknes...

prosite database contains a set of entries corresponding to protein families, which are used to identify the family of a protein from its sequence. although patterns and profiles are developed to be very selective, each may have false positive or negative hits. considering false positives as items that reduce the selectiveness of a pattern, then, the more selective pattern we have, a more accur...

Mesoporous amino-functionalized metal-organic framework thin films with the UiO-68 topology were grown in a highly oriented fashion on two different self-assembled monolayers on gold. The oriented MOF films were covalently modified with the fluorescent dye Rhodamine B inside the pore system, as demonstrated with size-selective fluorescence quenching studies. Our study suggests that mesoporous m...

objective(s):this study was carried out to investigate the effects of cox-2 selective inhibitor (celecoxib) or non-selective cox inhibitor (ibuprofen) on gastrointestinal motility. materials and methods: the rats were randomly divided into five groups including: intact, sham, traumatic brain injury (tbi) group (intact rats under tbi), celecoxib group (10 mg/kg), ibuprofen group (10 mg/kg). rats...

Since Smith seminal work, there have been numerous reflective language definition and implementation proposals. These proposals, initially restricted to functional languages, have been quickly extended to object-oriented languages. Unfortunately, reflective objectoriented language definitions remained mostly ad hoc. In this paper, we present a generic reification technique which enables the sel...