Adhesive or repulsive forces contributed by both meniscus and viscous forces can be significant and become one of the main reliability issues when the contacting surfaces are ultra smooth, and the normal load is small, as is common for micro/nano devices. In this study, both meniscus and viscous forces during separation for smooth and rough hydrophilic and hydrophobic surfaces are studied. The ...

To perceive, the brain must interpret stimulus-evoked neural activity. This is challenging: The stochastic nature of the neural response renders its interpretation inherently uncertain. Perception would be optimized if the brain used Bayesian inference to interpret inputs in light of expectations derived from experience. Bayesian inference would improve perception on average but cause illusions...

In this contribution, an acoustic front-end for distanttalking interfaces that only requires two microphone signals is presented. It comprises a directional blind source separation (BSS)-based noise and interference estimation scheme and Wiener-type filters for noise and interference suppression. The proposed front-end and its integration into a speech recognition system is analyzed and evaluat...

Received Sep 1, 2017 Revised Nov 18, 2017 Accepted Nov 30, 2017 In this study, we propose a multi-way array decomposition approach to solve the complexity of approximate joint diagonalization process for fault diagnosis of a motor-pump system. Sources used in this study came from drive end-motor, nondrive end-motor, drive end pump, and nondrive end pump. An approximate joint diagonalization is ...

This second part focuses on estimation of secret parameters of some practical watermarking techniques. The first part reveals some theoretical bounds of information leakage about secret keys from observations. However, as usual in information theory, nothing has been said about practical algorithms which pirates use in real life application. Whereas Part One deals with the necessary number of o...

Various existing criteria to characterize the statistical independence are applied in blind source separation and independent component analysis. However, almost all of them are based on parametric models. The distribution model mismatch between the output PDF (Probability Density Functions) and the chosen underlying distribution model is a serious problem in blind signal processing. Non-parame...

We present novel algorithms for fast proximity queries using swept sphere volumes. The set of proximity queries includes collision detection and both exact and approximate separation distance computation. We introduce a new family of bounding volumes that correspond to a core primitive shape grown outward by some ooset. The set of core primitive shapes includes a point, line, and rectangle. Thi...

â a model is developed for separation of multicomponent gas mixtures in a countercurrent hollow fiber membrane module. while the model’s solution in countercurrent module usually involves in a time consuming iterative procedure, a proper initial guess is proposed for beginning the calculation and a simple procedure is introduced for correcting the guesses, hereby the cpu time is decreased ess...

The complex shock waves/boundary layer interaction is an important problem in inlets, which induces the of multiple separation zones and has attracted experts’ attention gradually. In this paper, based on a two-dimensional hypersonic inlet model, numerical method used to study influence characteristics expansion corner dual zones’ interaction. wave distance changed realize fusion re-separation ...