Cell Broadband Engine is a new heterogeneous multi-core chip processor designed to provide a high computational power on a single chip. The advent of multi-core chips posed a challenge for a suitable programming and execution model that exploits this new technology. This challenge is greater with Cell, because of the different properties it has compared to other multi-core systems. In this pape...

Motivation The Recognition Primed Decision-Making model (RPD) (Klein, 1999) has been used to describe Design Decision-Making (DDM). Originally the RPD model was a multi-stage model but it has matured into three variations to better describe differing situations that one could encounter. These variations have not been reflected in the DDM literature. Research approach Theoretical Thematic Analys...

The thermoelectroelastic GreenÕs functions are presented for an in®nite piezoelectric plate with an elliptic inclusion of dissimilar material induced by a thermal load located inside or on the boundary of the elliptic inclusion. The load may be a point heat source and the thermal analog of a line dislocation with temperature discontinuity. The derivation is based on the Stroh formalism, conform...

Poro-thermo-mechanical processes and mineral precipitation/dissolution change the fracture aperture and thus affect the fluid flow pattern in the fracture. In this paper, we study this phenomenon by further development and application of a three-dimensional thermo-poro-mechanical model to include silica dissolution-precipitation effects. The solid mechanics aspect of the problem is treated usin...

Current dental restorations have short longevity, and consequently, there is a need for novel tissue engineering strategies that aim to regenerate the dentin-pulp complex. Dentin matrix contains a myriad of bioactive growth factors and extracellular matrix proteins associated with the recruitment, proliferation, and differentiation of dental pulp progenitor cells. In this study, we show that de...

Interfaces in elastic media need not be in welded contact. For instance, fractures allow a small amount of slip to occur along their surfaces during the passage of a seismic wave. By slip, we mean that the displacement across the interface can be discontinuous. Reflection and transmission of plane waves in this case are frequency dependent. Previous numerical studies have chosen the finite-diff...

Recent work has shown that the choice of the type and concentration of detergent used for the solubilization of membrane proteins can strongly influence the results of functional experiments. In particular, the amino acid transporter LeuT can bind two substrate molecules in low concentrations of n-dodecyl β-d-maltopyranoside (DDM), whereas high concentrations reduce the molar binding stoichiome...

Differential dynamic microscopy (DDM) is increasingly used in the fields of soft matter physics and biophysics to extract dynamics microscopic objects across a range wavevectors using optical microscopy. Standard DDM limited detecting no faster than camera frame rate. We report on an extension where we sequentially illuminate sample with spectrally-distinct light image color camera. By pulsing ...

This paper presents a method to compute consistent response sensitivities of force-based finite element models of structural frame systems to both material constitutive and discrete loading parameters. It has been shown that force-based frame elements are superior to classical displacement-based elements in the sense that they enable, at no significant additional costs, a drastic reduction in t...