Mechanical properties of cellular materials depend on their relative densities. In this paper, variability in elastic modulus, plastic strength, and energy absorption of a closed-cell Al foam, ALPORAS, and their connection with the variability in the density was examined. It was found that the tangent modulus in initial loading is considerably lower and has higher variability visa-vis the unloa...

The above is called the “strong” version of the game. In the “weak” version, also called “maker-breaker”, the second player’s aim is not to occupy a winning set but just to prevent the first player from doing so. The interest is both for general theorems about games and also in particular games of interest, like the Hales-Jewett game (multi-dimensional noughts & crosses). Roughly speaking, a fa...

This paper describes our submission to the sentiment analysis sub-task of “Build It, Break It: The Language Edition (BIBI)”, on both the builder and breaker sides. As a builder, we use convolutional neural nets, trained on both phrase and sentence data. As a breaker, we use Q-learning to learn minimal change pairs, and apply a token substitution method automatically. We analyse the results to g...

In recent decades, many dams have been built or are under construction. Due to the high demand for water and soil erosion, increasing the need for dam construction in different regions are quite tangible. In 1900 the number of large dams, did not exceed 50. But in the 1950s to 1986 the number of large dams (over 15 meters), more than 39,000 were counted. The 70s dams has been increasing develop...

We consider a tic-tac-toe game played on the d-dimensional integer lattice. The game that we investigate is a Maker–Breaker version of tic-tac-toe. In a Maker– Breaker game, the first player, Maker, only tries to occupy a winning line and the second player, Breaker, only tries to stop Maker from occupying a winning line. We consider the bounded number of directions game, in which we designate a...

In order to guarantee the operation stability of high-voltage circuit-breaker, this paper extracts eigenvector of vibration signals based on mining of characteristic entropy of the wavelet packet obtained under the state of circuit breaker. Besides, the eigenvector of various fault samples is adopted as the input information of the BP network. After that, the author conducts training of the wel...

INTRODUCTION During critical illness, dental plaque may serve as a reservoir of respiratory pathogens. This study compared the effectiveness of toothbrushing with a small-headed toothbrush or a foam-headed swab in mechanically ventilated patients. METHODS This was a randomised, assessor-blinded, split-mouth trial, performed at a single critical care unit. Adult, orally intubated patients with...

We study the Maker-Breaker H-game played on the edge set of the random graph G(n, p). In this game, two players, Maker and Breaker, alternately claim unclaimed edges of G(n, p), until all the edges are claimed. Maker wins if he claims all the edges of a graph H; Breaker wins otherwise. Recently, Müller and Stojaković determined the threshold for the graph property that Maker can win this game i...