In this paper we present an Internet browser plug-in for real-time sound synthesis. The plug-in uses the Pure Data (Pd) sound synthesis engine, and allows flexible and transparent sound generation and control embedded into webpages. Pd is a general sound synthesis language that is based on the MAX graphical programming paradigm. It can be used to construct and implement a broad range of sound s...

During driving sleeve of cast-in-place piles by vibratory hammers, soils were squeezed into sleeve and then soil plugging was formed. The physic-mechanical properties of the soil plug have direct influence on the load transmission between the sleeve wall and soil plug. Nevertheless, the researches on this issue are insufficient. In this study, finite element and infinite element coupling model ...

Cigarette paper is the wrapping material surrounding the tobacco to form a cigarette rod. Cigarettes can be made from tobacco, filter cigarette paper and filter papers. Filter papers contain plug wrap papers and tipping papers. The permeability range of the highly porous plug wrap papers is one of their most important properties. In addition, other properties, such as mass (g/m), breaking lengt...

We propose a feature construct for deening features, and use it to provide a plug-and-play framework for exploring feature interactions. Our approach to the feature interaction problem has the following characteristics: Features are treated as rst-class objects during the development phase; A method for integrating a feature into a system description is described. It allows features to override...

The nutritional program impacts all of these factors, but not in a favorably coordinated manner (Table 1). If the seedling is supplied with all of the fertilizer that it has the genetic potential to use (high rate), a totally useless plug will result. This shoot on this plug will grow too large for the surface area provided by the plug cell in which it is growing. One seedling will shade the ne...

Electrical plug loads comprise an increasingly larger share of building energy consumption as improvements have been made to Heating, Ventilation, and Air Conditioning (HVAC) and lighting systems. It is anticipated that plug loads will account for a significant portion of the energy consumption of Sustainability Base, a recently constructed high-performance office building at NASA Ames Research...

We report a simple technique to separate plasma from blood in a flowing immiscible plug. We investigate the effect of various control parameters such as blood dilution, injection flow rate, observation time and fluid properties on plasma separation. We find that the technique works best for diluted blood samples at low plug velocities and long observation times. We postulate that the main mecha...

Coordination programming deals with building complex software systems from largely autonomous component systems. Cooperative constraint solving (see for example [1]), which is widely recognized as a means to improve efficiency of constraint solving, is an area that may benefit from techniques developed in coordination programming, because the solvers that we want to combine are generally autono...

Chronopharmacokinetic studies have been reported for many drugs in an attempt to explain chronopharmacological phenomena and demonstrate that the time of administration is a possible factor of variation in the pharmacokinetics of a drug. The present study aimed at preparing a novel time dependent pulsed release system containing ‘pellets in-capsule’ device plugged by biodegradable polymers for ...