Customers expect a modern automobile to be comfortable and safe. The spring damper system in the wheel suspension is the most important component to ensure both. During the design process of the spring damping a physically based conflict between these two main functions arises. For passive systems improving the driving comfort will always worsen the driving safety and vice versa. We developed a...

The Tibetan Plateau (TP) has long been identified to be critical in regulating the Asian monsoon climate and hydrological cycle. In this modeling study a series of numerical experiments with a global climate model are designed to simulate radiative effect of black carbon (BC) and dust in snow, and to assess the relative impacts of anthropogenic CO2 and carbonaceous particles in the atmosphere a...

The paper presents an assessment of the effect of the Chinese Spring Festival on urban air quality in a southern China city. Various trace gases and aerosols were measured over three consecutive winters (2014-2016), including both the Spring Festival (SF) and non-Spring Festival (non-SF) periods, at an urban site of Shenzhen city. By comparing the concentrations of these pollutants in different...

In this work, the triple convolution of Daubechies wavelet is used to solve the three dimensional (3D) microscale Dual Phase Lag (DPL) problem. Also, numerical solution of 3D time-dependent initial-boundary value problems of a microscopic heat equation is presented. To generate a 3D wavelet we used the triple convolution of a one dimensional wavelet. Using convolution we get a scaling function ...

During the austral spring and summer months, the Antarctic limpet Nacella concinna colonizes intertidal environments in the Western Antarctica Peninsula region. The species is divided into a permanently sub-littoral and a seasonally intertidal, migratory subpopulation. We investigate the physiological differentiation between the two limpet groups to identify cellular and molecular changes that ...

While the wing kinematics of many flapping insects have been well characterized, understanding the underlying sensory, neural, and physiological mechanisms that determine these kinematics is still a challenge. Two main difficulties in understanding the physiological mechanisms arise from the complexity of the interaction between a flapping wing and its own unsteady flow, as well as the intricat...

This paper reports on eeorts to evolve an optimum de/convo-lution function to be used to convert analog to binary signals (spike trains) and vice versa for the binary input/output signals of the neural net circuit modules evolved at electronic speeds by the so-called "CAM-Brain Machine (CBM)" of ATR's Artiicial Brain Project 1, 2, 3]. The CBM is an FPGA based piece of hardware which will be use...

This paper reports on efforts to evolve an optimum de/convo-lution function to be used to convert analog to binary signals (spike trains) and vice versa for the binary input/output signals of the neural net circuit modules evolved at electronic speeds by the so-called "CAM-Brain Machine (CBM)" of ATR’s Artificial Brain Project [1, 2, 3]. The CBM is an FPGA based piece of hardware which will be ...

The Chinese Spring Festival is one of the most important traditional festivals in China. The peak transport in the Spring Festival season (spring travel rush) provides a unique opportunity for investigating the impact of human activity on air quality in the Chinese megacities. Emission sources are varied and fluctuate greatly before, during and after the Festival. Increased vehicular emissions ...