Tensegrity structures are spatial reticulated structures composed of cables and struts. Tensegrity systems are good candidates for adaptive and deployable structures and thus have applications in various engineering fields. A “hollow-rope” tensegrity system composed of tensegrity-ring modules has been demonstrated by the authors to be a viable system for a pedestrian bridge. This paper focuses ...

In this paper, we will present an efficient approach for distributed inference. We use belief propagation’s message-passing algorithm on top of a DHT storing a Bayesian network. Nodes in the DHT run a variant of the spring relaxation algorithm to redistribute the Bayesian network among them. Thereafter correlated data is stored close to each other reducing the message cost for inference. We sim...

We study the orientational properties of labeled segments in semiflexible dendrimers making use of the viscoelastic approach of Dolgushev and Blumen [J. Chem. Phys. 131, 044905 (2009)]. We focus on the segmental orientational autocorrelation functions (ACFs), which are fundamental for the frequency-dependent spin-lattice relaxation times T1(ω). We show that semiflexibility leads to an increase ...

Mathematical modeling of thermal effects on steady state dynamics of microresonators, utilizing an analytical approach is studied. Thermal phenomena has two distinct effects, which in this report are called, thermal damping and temperature relaxation. In this part of a two-part report we investigate the thermal damping and its effects on microresonator dynamics. To do this, first the reduced or...

We have studied the effect of shape of an amphiphilic molecule on micellization properties by carrying out stochastic molecular dynamics simulation on a bead-spring model of amphiphiles for several sizes of hydrophilic head group with a fixed hydrophobic tail length. Our studies show that the effect of geometry of an amphiphile on shape and cluster distribution of micelles is significant. We fi...

Monte Carlo simulations of an off-lattice bead spring model of polymer chains are presented, confining the chains between two repulsive parallel planes a distance D apart. Varying the chain length N from N = 16 to N = 128, we show that under good solvent conditions the chains behave like two-dimensional self-avoiding walks, their mean square gyration radius scales as (R() cc N~" with u = 3/4. T...

Sleep is a basic behavior in humans. There are some research reports on the cyclical patterns of different types of sleep and their relationship to breathing, heart rate, brain waves, and other physical function. More recently, scientific research has begun to show how music therapy interacts with relaxation and sleep cycle. This research is focusing on the following hypotheses: 1. Music could ...

Introduction: Hydrogen sulfide (H2S) plays a key role in the regulation of vascular tone and protection of blood vessels against endothelial dysfunction. Since the mechanism of salt impairing H2S-induced vascular relaxation is not fully clear, therefore this study was designed to investigate the role of potassium (K+) channels in the vasodilatory effects of exogenous H2S in rat aortic rings.&nb...