A bewildering array of food items, diseases, individual and group dispositions, colors, eventualities, and spatial arrangements are projected into the hot/cold scale. While there are clear examples from routine everyday use (in English and other languages), there are also elaborate expositions of the thermal properties of entities, people and substances laid out within the Ayurvedic tradition i...

A novel approach to the estimation of seafloor geoacoustic parameters from the measurement of the acoustic field in the water column is introduced. The approach is based on the idea of approximating the inverse function that links the geoacoustic parameters with the measured field through a series expansion of Radial Basis Functions. In particular, Gaussian basis functions are used in order to ...

In this paper two linear arrays including a linear 1×4 and a planar 2×2 of microstrip patch and half-mode substrate integrated waveguide (SIW) cavity hybrid antenna are introduced and investigated. These are simply implemented using low cost single layer printed circuit board (PCB) process. The array element consists of a rectangular microstrip patch with appropriate dimensions in the vicinity ...

Microfabricated capillary array electrophoresis (microCAE) microchannel plates are the next generation of bioanalytical separation devices. To fully exploit the capabilities of microCAE devices, supporting technology such as robotic sample loading, gel loading, microplate washing, and data analysis must be developed. Here, we describe a device for loading gel into radial capillary array electro...

Stress corrosion cracks (SCC) in low-pressure steam turbine discs are serious hidden dangers to production safety in the power plants, and knowing the orientation and depth of the initial cracks is essential for the evaluation of the crack growth rate, propagation direction and working life of the turbine disc. In this paper, a method based on phased array ultrasonic transducer and artificial n...

This paper reports a novel actuating design that uses the shear deformation of a piezoelectric actuator to deflect a bulge-diaphragm for driving an array microdroplet ejector. In essence, we employed a circular-shaped actuator poled radial direction with remnant polarization normal to the actuating electric field for inducing the piezoelectric shear effect. The array microdroplet ejector consis...

I interpolate CMP gathers with PEFs arranged on a dense, radial grid. The radial grid facilitates preconditioning by radial smoothing, and enables the use of relatively large grid cells, which we refer to as micropatches. Even when the micropatches contain enough data samples that the PEF calculation problem appears overdetermined, radial smoothing still noticeably improves the interpolation, p...

We present the first results of a pilot program to conduct an Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) Band 6 (211-275 GHz) spectral line study young stellar objects (YSO) that are undergoing rapid accretion episodes, i.e. FU Ori (FUors). Here, we report on molecular emission observations FUor system, V883 Ori. In order image object with full coverage from ~0.5 arcsec map size ~30 ar...

This paper analyzes and evaluates various topologies of yokeless rotary-linear (RL) machine with permanent-magnet (PM) mover targeting for the achieving high dynamic performance. For conventional RL machines, single-stator topology features limited slot area armature winding excited both motions, coupled magnetic fields motions requires complex control strategy. In order to mitigate these issue...

In this paper, an analytical formula to calculate the radial stiffness of groove elastic support is presented. The influence of structure parameters on radial stiffness and homogeneity of radial stiffness is investigated as well. The accuracy and calculating speed of the analysis formula are compared to that of finite element method (FEM). Findings are as following: The calculating speed of ana...