THE RESPIRATORY SYSTEM is composed of a conducting part and a respiratory part. The conducting airways, i.e., the trachea, bronchi, and bronchioles, differ in architecture. Both trachea and bronchi are surrounded by rings of hyaline cartilage for support, whereas the bronchiolar wall does not contain any cartilage and therefore tends to collapse in response to changes in intrapleural or airway ...

Rotary electromagnetic generators that have high power density, large output, and rotational inertia are increasingly used in vibration energy-harvesting systems. When applied to single-degree-of-freedom (SDOF) systems, it is found the inertance reduces system frequency bandwidth. Furthermore, maximum output of SDOF systems limited by mechanical damping allowable stroke. Two-degrees-of-freedom ...

In this study, active tendons with Proportional Integral Derivation type controllers were applied to a SDOF and a MDOF building model. Physical models of buildings were constituted with virtual springs, dampers and rigid masses. After that, equations of motion of all degrees of freedoms were obtained. Matlab Simulink was utilized to obtain the block diagrams for these equations of motion. Param...

Pointing out relevant information to a user is one application of focus+context techniques in information visualization. We present a method for doing this which uses selective blur to direct the user’s attention. This method is based on the depth of field (DOF) effect used in photography and cinematography, and is therefore both familiar to users and perceptually effective. Because this method...

Abstract The future Air Traffic Management System (ATM) is based on the concept of Trajectory Based Operations (TBO), in which all stakeholders have access to a consistent and synchronised view flight trajectories. In TBO framework, trajectory prediction plays key role. Inaccuracy current predictors caused by lack common understanding stakeholders’ intents can be reduced sharing information air...

This paper describes a method to construct highly modular and extensible recursive descent parser. This parser is used in an extensible Java preprocessor, EPP. EPP can be extended by adding plug-ins which extend Java syntax and add new language features. The EPP's parser consists of small mixins. A recursive descent parser class is constructed by composing these mixins. The syntax accepted by t...

A factorized and analytical form for the A(γ,pp) and A(e,epp) cross section is proposed. In the suggested scheme the two-proton knockout cross sections can be directly analyzed in terms of the ground-state correlation functions. Central, spin-spin and tensor correlations are considered. In the longitudinal channel, the (e,epp) cross section is predicted to exhibit a peculiar sensitivity to grou...

Plastic energy dissipation is a key factor in the response of inelastic structures subjected to seismic input, and often regarded as primary source structural damage due deformation components. Accurately predicting structure’s plastic essential for efficient energy-based design assessment. While single-degree-of-freedom (SDOF) system provides simple effective method estimating dissipation, few...

Erythropoietic protoporphyria (EPP) is a disease associated with ferrochelatase deficiency and characterized by the accumulation of protoporphyrin IX (PROTO IX) in erythrocytes, liver, and skin. In some cases, a severe hepatic failure and cholestasis were observed. Griseofulvin (Gris) develops an experimental EPP with hepatic manifestations in mice such as PROTO IX accumulation followed by cell...