When interactive real-time applications are developed with very large volume data, the use of lossy compression is often inevitable. Lossy compression schemes generally encode data without consideration of the purpose of visualization that is actually performed, which often results in inefficient compression. In this paper, we present a new method for classifying voxels according to their impor...

Reliable data transmission over lossy communication link is expensive due to overheads for error protection. For signals that have inherent sparse structures, compressive sensing (CS) is applied to facilitate efficient sparse signal transmissions over lossy communication links without data compression or error protection. The natural packet loss in the lossy link is modeled as a random sampling...

In this paper, we study the scalability of an atmospheric modeling application on a cluster with commercially available off-the-shelf interconnects. It is found that interconnects with large latency and low bandwidth are major bottlenecks for performance scalability. Response curves for latency shows that for large message sizes latency is extremely sensitive to the size of the message. Thus, d...

StirMark Benchmark is a well-known evaluation tool for watermarking robustness. Additional attacks are added to it continuously. To enable application based evaluation, in our paper we address attacks against audio watermarks based on lossy audio compression algorithms to be included in the test environment. We discuss the effect of different lossy compression algorithms like MPEG-2 audio Layer...

The term "contact aging" refers to the temporal evolution of the interface between a slider and a substrate usually resulting in increasing friction with time. Current phenomenological models for multiasperity contacts anticipate that such aging is not only the driving force behind the transition from static to sliding friction, but at the same time influences the general dynamics of the slidin...

The MIT Faculty has made this article openly available. Please share how this access benefits you. Your story matters. We give an example of a geometry in which the electrostatic force between a point charge and a neutral metallic object is repulsive. The example consists of a point charge centered above a thin metallic hemisphere, positioned concave up. We show that this geometry has a repulsi...

‘In some of my tests I have noticed the effects and deflection of these waves by metallic objects miles away. It seems to me that it should be possible to design apparatus by means of which a ship could radiate or project a divergent beam of these rays in any desired direction, which rays, if coming across a metallic object, such as another steamer or ship, would be reflected back to a receiver...

School of Chemistry, Physics and Earth Science, Flinders University of South Australia, GPO Box 2100, Adelaide SA 5001, Australia Defence Science & Technology Organisation, PO Box 44, Pyrmont NSW 2009, Australia Institute of Nanoscale Technology, University of Technology Sydney, PO Box 123, Broadway, NSW 2007, Australia Abstract The electronic band structures of Be and BeO have been measured by...