suspension system is one of the most important factors in provision of ride comfort and dynamic stability in any vehicle. meanwhile the suspension systems of tracked vehicles, due to their continuous track, have particular specification in comparison with other vehicles. this specification causes tracked vehicles having an improved dynamic stability in off-road maneuvers compared to vehicles wi...

Transmission of blast waves is a complex phenomenon and the characteristics vary with blast design parameters and geo-technical properties of medium. Frequency of vibration and triggering component for structural excitation generally quantifies safe vibration magnitude. At closer distance or higher elevations than the blast locations, vertical or transverse component will be the first arrival t...

This contribution provides a quantitative model of the relation between supply voltage scaling, sustainable cycle time, pipeline depth, instruction level parallelism and power dissipation. The analysis show that there is an optimal sizing of the target supply voltage and pipe stage complexity for power minimization subject to a performance constraint. The behavior of realistic processor impleme...

I kidney allocation, transplant candidates may have private information about their propensity to enjoy good outcomes after transplantation or about their relative expected improvement in quality of life after transplantation. This paper develops a mechanism design model to investigate the effect of such information asymmetry on the kidney allocation system. In this model, there are n transplan...

Nowadays, the pump-storage power plants are a proven solution for storing electricity at large scale and offering flexibility to the power management. Therefore, the hydraulic machines are increasingly subject to off-design operation, start-up and shutdown sequences. However, the fast and frequent switching between pumping mode and generating mode presents technical challenges. In the present s...

Buchanan and Tullock’s original trade-off model of constitutional design is used to analyze how constitutional design affects post-constitutional rent seeking, and, in turn, how the anticipation of postconstitution rent seeking should lead to modification of constitutional design—specifically with respect to imposing and maintaining effective (composite) supermajority decision rules. JEL classi...

BACKGROUND Randomized controlled trials are considered the "gold standard" for scientific rigor in the assessment of benefits and harms of interventions in healthcare. They may not always be feasible, however, when evaluating quality improvement interventions in real-world healthcare settings. Non-randomized controlled trials (NCTs) are designed to answer questions of effectiveness of intervent...

In order for cooperative robots (“co-robots”) to respond to human behaviors accurately and efficiently in human-robot collaboration, interpretation of human actions, awareness of new situations, and appropriate decision making are all crucial abilities for corobots. For this purpose, the human behaviors should be interpreted by co-robots in the same manner as human peers. To address this issue,...

Within the Semantic Web community, resource description frameworks (RDF) and logical reasoning engines work together to provide semantic support and reasoning for Web applications. This paper explores the use of RDF graphs for the representation of graphs of requirements and specification of design component properties. We show that the component selection design problem and associated trade-sp...

We present the results of a self-consistent, unified molecular dynamics study of simple model heteropolymers in the continuum with emphasis on folding, sequence design and the determination of the interaction parameters of the effective potential between the amino acids from the knowledge of the native states of the designed sequences. PACS numbers: 87.15.By, 87.10.+e