Off-road cars’ windshields are vulnerable to different types of stones, road debris and pebbles due to common off paved and gravel surfaces in which they drive. Any attempt to design windshield that minimizes injury and death of occupants during a vehicle accident requires a thorough understanding of the mechanical behavior of automotive windshield subjected to foreign object impact loads...

Recently, the minimum number of reticulation events that is required to simultaneously embed a collection P of rooted binary phylogenetic trees into a so-called temporal network has been characterized in terms of cherry-picking sequences. Such a sequence is a particular ordering on the leaves of the trees in P. However, it is well-known that not all collections of phylogenetic trees have a cher...

Modal parameter analysis is a common method for structural characteristic analysis. To accurately identify the modal parameters that describe vibration characteristics of structure, chassis frame rice transplanter taken as research object. The least squares complex frequency domain method, admittance circle and peak picking are used to process measured signal. parameters, such natural frequency...

I Which size? Trade-off I Minimum size: connectivity by recombination is achieved if at least one instance of every allele is guaranteed to be be present at each locus. Ex: if binary: P∗ 2 = (1− (0.5) ) for l = 50, it is sufficient M = 17 to guarantee P∗ 2 > 99.9%. I Often: independent, uninformed random picking from given search space. I Attempt to cover at best the search space, eg, Latin hyp...

While complex hands seem to offer generality, simple hands are often more practical. This raises the question: how do generality and simplicity trade off in the design of robot hands? This paper explores the tension between simplicity in hand design and generality in hand function. It raises arguments both for and against simple hands, it considers several familiar examples, and it proposes an ...

To reduce labor-intensive and costly order picking activities, many distribution centers are subdivided into a forward area and a reserve (or bulk) area. The former is a small area where most popular stock keeping units (SKUs) can conveniently be picked, and the latter is applied for replenishing the forward area and storing SKUs that are not assigned to the forward area at all. Clearly, reduci...