Turbulence in the surfzone mixes momentum vertically, transmits stress to the sea bed, influences the structure of the crossand alongshore currents, and controls the suspension of sediment from the sea bed. In many coastal and shelf environments, the sea-bed is the primary source of tur­ bulence due to bottom induced shear. In the surfzone, the breaking-wave generated turbulence dominates over ...

Time is critical for a variety of applications in wireless sensor networks. In this work we present, theoretically analyze and evaluate in practice a simple time synchronization algorithm for wireless sensor networks, based on entrainment. This algorithm requires no specialized servers or beacons but it relies on local communication between neighboring nodes spontaneously emerging to global net...

The present paper performs experimental and numerical investigations on the global performance and internal flow of a supersonic air ejector. The effects of operation parameters and geometrical factor on the air ejector performance have been analyzed. The results show that: the static wall pressure and axisymmetric line static pressure remain constant in critical mode under different discharged...

The model of the human Type I ANF developed in this study is verified against measured temporal characteristic data from literature. In Chapter 2 a review is presented on the temporal characteristics investigated in this study. For the sake of completeness , the temporal characteristics not covered are briefly reviewed in this addendum. These are: 1. discharge rate 2. adaptation 3. alternation ...

An experimental study was conducted on a large size stepped spillway model with a moderate slope (26.6o) for a range of discharges between 0.020 and 0.237 m/s. In some experiments, the stepped chute was equipped with uniform steps of 5 and 10 cm heights respectively. In addition several non-uniform configurations with combinations of 5 and 10 cm high steps were investigated. For each configurat...

This paper describes an 18-GHz coupled VCO array for low jitter and low phase deviation clock distribution. To reduce the skew, jitter and power consumption associated with clock distribution, the clock is generated by a one-dimensional VCO array in which the oscillating nodes of adjacent VCOs are directly connected with wires. The effects of the wire length and number of unit VCOs in the array...

Synchronization of connected oscillator networks under global and local cues is ubiquitous in both science and engineering. Over the last few decades, enormous attention has been paid to study synchronization conditions of connected oscillators in chemistry, physics, mechanics, and particularly in biology. However, the influences of global and local cues on the rate of synchronization have not ...

This paper discusses the contribution of an additional feedback loop to the entrainment and the robustness of a circadian system. To quantify robustness, we perform a global analysis of the system’s parameter space. We quantify the parameter region where the circuit displays an experimentally observed behavior, under entrainment. This global measure is comleted with a classification based on th...

In this paper, we report on our research for learning biped locomotion from human demonstration. Our ultimate goal is to establish a design principle of a controller in order to achieve natural human-like locomotion. We suggest dynamical movement primitives as a CPG of a biped robot, an approach we have previously proposed for learning and encoding complex human movements. Demonstrated trajecto...

Electrical stimulation of an epibranchial vagal ganglion, which innervates the gill region, had a marked influence on the respiratory rhythm of the carp Cyprinus carpio. Vagal input could initiate ventilation in fish displaying intermittent respiration. In fish breathing steadily, vagal stimuli could reset the respiratory rhythm by modifying the existing breathing cycle. An increase of stimulus...