A theory of earthquake input energy to building structures under single impulse is useful for disclosing the property of energy transfer function. This property shows that the area of the energy transfer function is constant irrespective of natural period and damping of building structures. However, single impulse may be unrealistic from a certain viewpoint because the frequency characteristic ...

Abstract. Neural networks use neurons of the same type in each layer but such architecture cannot lead to data models of optimal complexity and accuracy. Networks with architectures (number of neurons, connections and type of neurons) optimized for a given problem are described here. Each neuron may implement transfer function of different type. Complexity of such networks is controlled by stat...

In this paper we propose a user interface for the design of 1D transfer functions. The user can select a feature of interest by drawing one or more strokes directly onto the volume rendering near its silhouette. Based on the stroke(s), our algorithm performs a histogram analysis in order to identify the desired feature in histogram space. Once the feature of interest has been identified, we aut...

Transfer functions are fundamentals for direct volume rendering to visualize object through mapping optical properties to the voxel data values. One aspect of direct volume rendering which has received no attention in transfer function design is the use of voxel position in transfer functions. Often, there are features of interest in volume data that are visualized or not depending on their vox...

in this research mass transfer coefficient under jetting regime in different directions (from dispersed to continuous and continuous to dispersed phase) has been studied using an experimental setup. n-butanol-succinic acid-water with low interfacial tension has been selected as experimental chemical system. the effects of various parameters such as jet velocity, nozzle diameter and the height o...

The study of piezoelectric material in the past was in T-Domain form; however, no one has studied piezoelectric material in the S-Domain form. This paper will present the piezoelectric material in the transfer function or S-Domain model. S-Domain is a well known mathematical model, used for analyzing the stability of the material and determining the stability limits. By using S-Domain in testin...

alizing large 3D data sets from scientific or medical applications. Transfer functions are particularly important to the quality of direct volume-rendered images. A transfer function assigns optical properties, such as color and opacity, to original values of the data set being visualized. Unfortunately, finding good transfer functions proves difficult. Pat Hanrahan called it one of the top 10 ...

For mechatronic systems, accurate frequency response data (FRD) can be obtained at low cost. Controller design techniques exist that can be applied directly to FRD, e.g. classical loop-shaping. However, loop-shaping can not guarantee that the designed controller is optimal in the sense of closed-loop norm speci cations, and the closed-loop pole locations cannot be computed directly. Besides ana...

| Transfer function methods are attractive in performance analysis of coded modulations since they allow averaging of all possible error event probabilities. However, they can be computationally intensive when the code has large number of states. In this paper, a method to reduce the complexity of the transfer function method is proposed. In addition, transfer function methods for computing the...

This paper examines the methods for exploring volume data by optimization of visualization parameters. The size and complexity of the parameter space controlling the rendering process makes it challenging to generate an informative rendering. In particular, the specification of the transfer function (which is a mapping from data values to visual properties) is frequently a time-consuming and un...