Isosurface extraction is a common technique applied in scientific visualization. Increasing sizes of volumes over which isosurfacing is to be applied combined with increasingly hierarchical parallel architectures present challenges for efficiently distributing isosurfacing work loads. We propose a technique that, with a modest amount of preprocessing, efficiently distributes isosurfacing load t...

Design of an avalanche photodiode with high gain and low noise that can achieve single photon counting is a research application of the drift-diffusion model. System-level load balancing when combined with application-level load balancing is shown to improve the performance of simulation code on a Linux cluster supercomputer. The two forms of load balancing are required to approach a smooth inc...

In this study, the energy release rates in a centrally perforated star-shaped disk, which was made of a polymeric material, under internal pressure and thermal loads, were determined. The deformations of the disk were constrained by a circular steel ring enclosing the disk. Two constitutive models, namely, Hookean model and Ogden model, were used to model the constitutive behavior of the materi...

The short-term load forecasting is an important method for security dispatching and economical operation in electric power system, and its prediction accuracy directly affects the operating reliability of the electric system. So the global optimization ability of particle swarm optimization (PSO) algorithm and classification prediction ability of support vector machine (SVM) are combined in ord...

Class-E amplifiers are a type of switching amplifier offering very high efficiency approaching 100% . In this paper, a topology and design methodology, which could be used for a transmission-line implementation of a class-E power amplifier, is presented. A simple transmission-line class-E load network is proposed that offers combined transformation of the load resistance down to a suitable leve...

Recently, researchers started using cognitive load in various settings, e.g., educational psychology, cognitive load theory, or human– computer interaction. Cognitive load characterizes a tasks’ demand on the limited information processing capacity of the brain. The widespread adoption of eye–tracking devices led to increased attention for objectively measuring cognitive load via pupil dilation...

This study aimed to clarify how composition and water immersion of home reliners affect the attenuation of the transmitted load. To conduct a transmitted load measurement, we used three different home reliners (Tafugurippu Pink A, Liodent Pink, and Cushion Correct), which were combined acrylic resin disks. They were immersed in distilled water and then placed on a silicone quasi-mucosa (φ20×1.5...

The major part of environments for parallel programming in distributed systems either neglects load distribution support or realizes load distribution by the trivial task farming paradigm. This paper presents new language concepts for the support of application integrated load distribution. In addition to the task farming approach, the system can also dynamically migrate objects. Active objects...

Based on energy variation methods we calculated the deflection of membranes under the combined load of an external pressure and an internal lateral stress. A lateral load gives rise to buckling once a critical load is exceeded. The combination of transversal loads and lateral loads changes the properties of the membrane (and other structures) in the vicinity of the buckling load: The membrane d...

In this paper, the impact of charging a large number of electric vehicles (EV) on the power system voltage stability is investigated on an example of a real power transmission system. First, the maximum load factors for different states in a selected part of the power system are determined using the continuation power flow (CPF) calculations and PV curves. The approach provides information abou...