New adaptive structural systems comprised of optimal material combinations, innovative sensors and actuators, and control subsystems need to be developed and tailored for damage tolerant applications associated with severe loading conditions and harsh environments. In this position paper, fundamental considerations related to the modeling, design, and performance prediction of adaptive heteroge...

A new model for the correction of topographic effects in satellite images of rough terrain is described. The model simulates a synthetic image of the scene using a computer graphics approach which combines ray-tracing techniques with radiosity methods. Computation is structured on three levels: a macro level in which the image is described by the Digital Elevation Model and the light source, a ...

UNLABELLED Little is known about immigrant Latino sexual minorities’ health seeking behaviors. This study examined factors associated with perceptions of access and actual care behaviors among this population in North Carolina. METHODS A community-based participatory research partnership recruited 180 Latino sexual minority men and transgender individuals within preexisting social networks to...

A new model for the correction of topographic effects in satellite images of rough terrain is described. The model simulates a synthetic image of the scene using a computer graphics approach which combines ray-tracing techniques with radiosity methods. Computation is structured on three levels: a macro level in which the image is described by the Digital Elevation Model and the light source, a ...

We propose a layout algorithm for micro/macro graphs, i.e. relational structures with two levels of detail. While the micro-level graph is given, the macro-level graph is induced by a given partition of the micro-level vertices. A typical example is a social network of employees organized into different departments. We do not impose restrictions on the macro-level layout other than sufficient t...

The biomimetic flow at different scales has been discussed at length. The need of looking into the biological surfaces and morphologies and both geometrical and physical similarities to imitate the technological products and processes has been emphasized. The complex fluid flow and heat transfer problems, the fluid-interface and the physics involved at multiscale and macro-, meso-, micro- and n...

A critical investigation into computational models developed for studying the spread of communicable disease is presented. The case in point is a spatially explicit micro-meso-macro model for the entire Swedish population built on registry data, thus far used for smallpox and for influenzalike illnesses. The lessons learned from a software development project of more than 100 person months are ...

Empirical research on happiness took off in the 1970s and accelerated after the emergence of positive psychology by 2000. Today this has resulted in some 23,000 research findings. In this article, I take stock of the findings on social conditions for happiness and distinguish between conditions at the macro level of society, the meso level of organisations and the micro level of individual cond...

Fixture design is critical to the development of a mesoscale machining system capable of yielding micro-size features with high accuracies. A reconfigurable, intelligent fixturing system with embedded sensors is required (i) to fixture a large group of similar workpieces with minimal set-up changes, (ii) to sense the location of the workpieces placed on the fixture, (iii) monitor clamping force...

This paper aims at connecting democratic theory with civic technologies in order to highlight the links between some theoretical tensions and trilemmas and design trade-offs. First, it reviews some tensions and ‘trilemmas’ raised by political philosophers and democratic theorists. Second, it considers both the role and the limitations of civic technologies in mitigating these tensions and trile...