This paper has as its main objective to develop and apply modularity and platform concepts on an automobile front end structure designed to outperform the Peugeot 406 Coupe. Supported by different existing structures benchmark and main innovation sources research focused on modularization and platforms a new type of structure will be studied and developed.

Performance and energy are the two most important objectives for optimization on heterogeneous high performance computing platforms. This work studies a mathematical problem motivated by bi-objective of data-parallel applications such platforms energy. First, we formulate present an exact algorithm polynomial complexity solving where all application profiles objective type one continuous strict...

Multigrid methods are efficient and fast solvers for problems typically modeled by partial differential equations of elliptic type. For problems with complex geometries and local singularities stencil-type discrete operators on equidistant Cartesian grids need to be replaced by more flexible concepts for unstructured meshes in order to properly resolve all problem-inherent specifics and for mai...

Wildlife–vehicle collisions (WVCs) are a major research focus because of increasing human health and safety concerns and the potential for biological impacts on wildlife. A key component of both understanding the causes of WVCs and designing mitigation measures is the collection and analysis of environmental and roadway data at WVC sites. However, collecting these site data can be logistically ...

BACKGROUND Mental and behavioral disorders are the main cause of disability worldwide. However, their diagnosis is challenging due to a lack of reliable biomarkers; current detection is based on structured clinical interviews which can be biased by the patient's recall ability, affective state, changing in temporal frames, etc. While digital platforms have been introduced as a possible solution...

decommissioning of petroleum installations and platforms is a process to be decided by the parties on how to move or dismantle the installations and platforms that have reached to the end of their lives. although this is a relatively new topic, it has attracted much attention at the international level especially since 1990. a major concern for governments and industries since that time has bee...

The high speed at which new businesses are developed can to a large extent be attributed to their ability to flexibly combine existing services into an integrated business platform. The development of such platforms requires the representation of the business architecture in a model which can be implemented in a software solution. However, aside from diagramming techniques little help is availa...

This symposium presents an ideal “platform” to support the launch of a new journal focused on telecommunications and high technology law. Unlike more established areas of the law, the field of telecommunications or, as more aptly termed, information law, is not easily defined. To be sure, there is an ambitious statutory code (the Communications Act of 1934, as amended, most notably by the Telec...

By 2010 over 95 percent of what is designed into Systems-on-a-Chip (SoC) will be IP (Intellectual Property). To effectively design these SoCs of the future, designers will need to make a conceptual shift from the current notion of “integrating IP into a design” to “integrating designs into IP platforms.” Assembling a platform consists of connecting IP blocks such as processor cores, memory bloc...

Mechanotransduction has been a topic of considerable interest since early studies demonstrated a link between mechanical force and biological response. Until recently, studies of fundamental phenomena were based either on in vivo experiments with limited control or direct access, or on large-scale in vitro studies lacking many of the potentially important physiological factors. With the advent ...