Malnutrition is a global public health problem more prevalent in developing countries than in developed countries. Indicators of malnutrition include household food security and life expectancy. Corruption might be one of socio-political problems fuelling malnutrition in developing countries. The aim of this paper is to compare influence of corruption on food security, live expectancy (LE) and ...

The primal and adjoint, time-dependent fluid—structure interaction (FSI) formulations are presented. A simple control strategy for FSI problems is formulated based on the information provided by the solution of the adjoint FSI problem. A well-known benchmark FSI problem is computed to demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed technique. Such control strategies as proposed in this paper are ...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES Early first sexual intercourse (FSI) is a risk factor for unplanned teenage pregnancy, sexually transmitted infection, and adverse social, emotional, and physical health outcomes in adolescence and into adulthood. The aim of this study was to examine relationships between internalizing (eg, anxious/depressed, withdrawn) and externalizing (eg, delinquent, aggressive) be...

39 The development of computational models that predict the aerodynamic performance of parachute systems has significantly enhanced the technology of airdrop systems by providing alternatives to or complementing drop tests and laboratory experiments. Increases in the scope and reliability of computational modeling are bringing current technology closer to establishing “virtual proving ground” m...

GPS radio occultation (RO) is characterized by high accuracy and excellent height resolution, which has great advantages in analyzing atmospheric structures including small-scale vertical fluctuations. The vertical resolution of the geometrical optics (GO) method in the stratosphere is about 1.5 km due to Fresnel radius limitations, but full spectrum inversion (FSI) can provide superior resolut...

This paper presents the optimization of vibrations of centrifugal pump considering fluid-structure interaction (FSI). A set of centrifugal pumps with various blade shapes were studied using FSI method, in order to investigate the transient vibration performance. The Kriging model, based on the results of the FSI simulations, was established to approximate the relationship between the geometrica...

Frequency-Shifted Interferometry for Fiber-Optic Sensing Fei Ye Doctor of Philosophy Graduate Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering University of Toronto 2013 This thesis studies frequency-shifted interferometry (FSI), a useful and versatile technique for fiber-optic sensing. I first present FSI theory by describing practical FSI configurations and discussing the parameters that aff...

The aims of the present study are developing a financial stability index (FSI) using banking indices to measure financial stability in Iran, and examining the relationship between financial stability and macroeconomic variables for policymaking. To these ends, we have employed principal-component analysis, out of sample forecasting, Autoregressive Integrated Moving Average (ARIMA) method, and V...

A distribution space is called finitely shift invariant (FSI) if it is generated by a vector-valued distribution (generator) and its shifts. The linear independence of shifts of a generator is important in many applications. This paper provides a characterization for linear independence of the shifts of a generator of an FSI distribution space and presents a way to find the generators with line...

This problem can be investigated using fluid structure interaction (FSI) simulations. However, few FSI investigations have been performed on patient specific aneurysms models. With the restriction of constant thickness, Valencia et al. have compared FSI with computational structural dynamics simulations. The difference in the maximum effective stress on the aneurysms was small, but the differen...