By the time of his death on 23 November 2012, Michael (Mike) E. Robbins had gained a national and, indeed, international , reputation as a leader in the fi eld of radiation-induced normal tissue eff ects. For the fi nal decade or so of his career, Mike had been based at Wake Forest Medical Center, an institution where he had developed a world-class research program looking at the prevention and...

Abstract The rivers rejuvenate themselves by traveling over a distance, thereby they assimilate the pollution load and cause their own self-cleansing, also termed ‘Self-purification capacity’. To ascertain such assimilative capacity of river system, various water quality models (WQMs) were studied. Out numerous WQMs, six including QUAL2Kw, WASP, SWAT, SIMCAT, MIKE-11, CE-QUAL-W2 selected studie...

Atmospheric reaeration process plays a key role in degradation of organic matter and self-purification processes affecting dissolved oxygen (DO) concentrations rivers streams. Moreover, water quality (WQ) can be highly dependent on flow velocity conditions. Where, rates are positively correlated with high velocity. Therefore, the present work reports deep insights concentration DO biochemical d...

For research into bipedal walking machines, autonomous operation is an important issue. The key engineering problem is to keep the weight of the actuation system small enough. For our 2D prototype MIKE, we solve this problem by applying pneumatic McKibben actuators on a passive dynamic biped design. In this paper we present the design and construction of MIKE and elaborate on the most crucial s...

Reseña/Review (Davis, Mike, "Control urbano. Más allá de Blade Runner", Barcelona, Virus, ISBN: 978-84-17870-04-01, 156 págs., 2020)

in this study, the capabilities of wawewatch-iii and mike21-sw for predicting the characteristics ofwind-generated waves in hormuz strait are evaluated. the numerical models have been set up using input data including gfs wind with 5° spatial resolution and 6 hours time intervals, along with the etopo1 bathymetry data with 2 arc-minute spatial resolutions. the results of the two model simulatio...

I thank Eli Amir, Deen Kemsley, and Mike Kirschenheiter for helpful conversations. All errors and misinterpretations are mine.

1 I am grateful to Mike Tomasello, Devin Casenhiser and Giulia Bencini for very helpful comments on an earlier draft.