We present a Lagrangian data assimilation experiment in an open channel flow above a broad-crested weir. The observations consist of trajectories of particles transported by the flow and extracted from a video film, in addition to classical water level measurements. However, the presence of vertical recirculations on both sides of the weir actually conducts to the identification of an equivalen...

Smartphone users often use private and enterprise data with untrusted third party applications. The fundamental lack of secrecy guarantees in smartphone OSes, such as Android, exposes this data to the risk of unauthorized exfiltration. A natural solution is the integration of secrecy guarantees into the OS. In this paper, we describe the challenges for decentralized information flow control (DI...

liable mode of treating cases of snake-bite. In investigations regarding the action of drugs of a complex nature, it frequently occurs that the physiological action of the drug, considered as a whole, differs from its isolated constituents. Thus, while opium is narcotic, thebaia, one of its constituents, is purely excitant, and in doses of one grain causes tetanic spasms (Farquharson). The expe...

How to maximize the efficiency of X-ray Talbot interferometry (XTI) is discussed for X-ray phase imaging. Shape parameters of an amplitude grating used in XTI strongly affect the efficiency. We calculated efficiencies assuming rectangular and trapezoidal patterns for an absorption grating. As a result, a rectangular absorption grating of a duty ratio of 1:1 is optimal. But, a trapezoidal patter...

Fuzzy number approximation by trapezoidal fuzzy numbers which preserves the expected interval is discussed. New algorithms for calculating the proper trapezoidal approximation of fuzzy numbers with respect to the distance based on bi-symmetrical weighted functions are proposed. It is shown that the adequate approximation operator is chosen with respect both to the global spread of a fuzzy numbe...

In this paper we explore various interconnections between rich words, Sturmian words, and trapezoidal words. Rich words, first introduced by the second and third authors together with J. Justin and S. Widmer, constitute a new class of finite and infinite words characterized by having the maximal number of palindromic factors. Every finite Sturmian word is rich, but not conversely. Trapezoidal w...

Standard intuitionistic fuzzy arithmetic operations have certain problems in division and subtraction operations. Ezzati et al. (2014) defined a new operation on symmetric trapezoidal intuitionistic fuzzy numbers in which the properties ≈ 1 and ≈ 0 are satisfied. In this paper, the new operations according to Ezzati et al. (2014) are extended to symmetric trapezoidal intuitionistic fuzzy number...

This letter presents a new directional dual-band slotted trapezoidal inverted-F antenna (IFA) for indoor Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN) applications. The dual-band performance can be obtained by tuning the lengths of the inner symmetrical trapezoidal slots and the outer trapezoidal arms in a nearly independent manner. The measured results show that the proposed antenna can provide two separ...

In this study, a new modeling method based on trapezoidal fuzzy number FAHP has been proposed to solve the problem of risk element transmission in enterprise project evaluation chain. We firstly put forward enterprise project chain risk element transmission and constructs enterprise project chain risk element transmission tetrahedron model and then proposed the theory of enterprise project eval...