Insulin hormone is an important part of the endocrine system. It contains two polypeptide chains and plays a pivotal role in regulating carbohydrate metabolism. Insulin receptors (IR) located on cell surface interacts with insulin to control the intake of glucose. Although several studies have tried to clarify the interaction between insulin and its receptor, the mechanism of this interaction r...

Previous research into the friction behaviour of elastomers has typically focused on effects velocity, contact pressure, counter surface and lubrication coefficient friction. O-ring type elastomer seals are common in many different industries. Friction plays a critical role during setting service these components. An experimental testing rig been developed that can measure sliding speed hydrost...

Insulin hormone is an important part of the endocrine system. It contains two polypeptide chains and plays a pivotal role in regulating carbohydrate metabolism. Insulin receptors (IR) located on cell surface interacts with insulin to control the intake of glucose. Although several studies have tried to clarify the interaction between insulin and its receptor, the mechanism of this interaction r...

This contribution describes the automatic creation of highly realistic flexible 3D models of participants for distributed 3D videoconferencing systems. The proposed technique uses a flexible mesh template surrounding an interior skeleton structure, which is based on a simplified human skeleton. The vertices of this template are arranged in rigid rings along the bones of the skeleton. Using 3D d...

Abstract In this article, we define the following: Let N 0 {{\mathbb{N}}}_{0} be set of all nonnegative integers and D = ( d i ) ∈ D={\left({d}_{i})}_...

A hydrostatically coupled dielectric elastomer (HCDE) actuator consists of two membranes of a dielectric elastomer, clamped with rigid circular rings. Confined between the membranes is a fixed volume of a fluid, which couples the movements of the two membranes when a voltage or a force is applied. This paper presents a computational model of the actuator, assuming that the membranes are neo-Hoo...

0. Introduction. Let (A,m) be a regular local ring and let α and β be points of the real spectrum of A centered at m . α and β may be viewed as total orderings on quotients of A . Associated with α and β , there is the so-called “separating ideal”, 〈α, β〉 ⊆ A , which is generated by all a ∈ A such that a is non-negative with respect to α and −a is non-negative with respect to β . 〈α, β〉 is a va...