The authors have developed a speech synthesis system based on articulation in order to study relationships between the human vocal tract shapes and speech signals. The articulatory speech synthesizer proposed by Sondhi and Schroeter is used to produce speech sounds in the system. By using a GUI (Graphical User Interface) technique, the system can provide easy and interactive operation for users...

In this study, we investigate the shapes of starless and protostellar cores using hydrodynamic, self-gravitating adaptive mesh refinement simulations of turbulent molecular clouds. We simulate observations of these cores in dust emission, including realistic noise and telescope resolution, and compare to the observed core shapes measured in Orion by Nutter & Ward-Thompson (2007). The simulation...

Our goal is to develop an automated digital fabrication process that can make any object out of smart materials. In this paper, we present an algorithm for creating shapes by the process of duplication, using modules we have termed smart sand. The object to be duplicated is dipped into a bag of smart sand; the particles exchange messages to sense the object’s shape; and then the particles selec...

The Relaxed Complex method will be used in many of the new experiments performed on the FightAIDS@Home grid. This wll allow us to evaluate potential drugs by docking fullyflexible versions of known and potential inhibitors against an ensemble of hundreds to thousands of different conformations of the target protein. In other words, we examine how well a potential drug binds to and blocks a mass...

Abstract Diffusive behaviour is the fundamental mechanism of ionic-induced corrosion in cement–granular composites. Aggregate characteristics, including shape anisotropy, spatial orientation, and size distribution, significantly influence effective diffusivity. However, influences all such types aggregate irregularity have rarely been systematically quantified, most representative shapes numeri...

This model focuses on the behavior of capillary-tissue fluid exchange system when the diameter of the capillary is less than that of red cell. In vivo and in vitro observations indicate that the width of the gap between the red cell and the vessel wall is generally small compared to the radius of the capillary for a single file flow of red cell in narrow vessel, particularly if the vessel diame...

Shapes and volume fractions (number and volume) of the red blood cells (RBCs) are important indicators for checking the patient cases. Microcytes, macrocytes, Elliptocytosis, oblate, and prolate are different RBCs shapes related to the blood diseases. The structure, the volume and the number of RBCs cell have direct effects on the electrical characteristics of RBCs. Many mathematical algorithms...

Modeling of interstitial fluid flow involves processes such as fluid diffusion, convective transport in extracellular matrix, and extravasation from blood vessels. To date, majority of microvascular flow modeling has been done at different levels and scales mostly on simple tumor shapes with their capillaries. However, with our proposed numerical model, more complex and realistic tumor shapes a...