Residual stresses may exist in different finitely deformed soft multifunctional materials such as electro-active and magneto-active polymers. In order to develop accurate constitutive frameworks of these smart experiencing electro-magneto-mechanically coupled loads, the presence residual needs be considered on onset model development. this contribution, a spectral equation for finite strain mag...

We employ an image identification algorithm for interactive museum guide with pictures taken by camera phones. Our algorithm is based on the shift-invariant feature transform (SIFT) algorithm. However, efficiency is a critical issue in the real-time interactive system, so a simplified version of SIFT algorithm is implemented in this work. Our testing database includes 33 paintings at the Cantor...

It is shown that if a generalized definition of gauge invariance is used, gauge invariant effective stress-energy tensors for gravitational waves and other gravitational perturbations can be defined in a much larger variety of circumstances than has previously been possible. In particular it is no longer necessary to average the stress-energy tensor over a region of spacetime which is larger in...

We present a model in which the breackdown of conformal symmetry of a quantum stress-tensor due to the trace anomaly is related to a cosmological effect in a gravitational model. This is done by characterizing the traceless part of the quantum stress-tensor in terms of the stress-tensor of a conformal invariant classical scalar field. We introduce a conformal frame in which the anomalous trace ...

let a be a bounded linear operator on a banach space x. we investigate the conditions of existing rank-one operator b such that i+f(a)b is invertible for every analytic function f on sigma(a). also we compare the invariant subspaces of f(a)b and b. this work is motivated by an operator method on the banach space ell^2 for solving some pdes which is extended to general operator space under some ...

background: invariant natural killer cells (inkt) are an important immunoregulatory t cell subset. currently several flow cytometry-based approaches exist for the identifi-cation of inkt cells, which rely on using the 6b11 monoclonal antibody or a combina-tion of anti-vα24 and anti-vβ11 antibodies. objective: the aim of this study was to compare the ability of two flow cytometry-based methods f...

The expectation value of the stress-energy tensor of a free conformally invariant scalar eld is computed in a two-dimensional reduction of the Al-cubierre \warp drive" spacetime. The stress-energy is found to diverge if the apparent velocity of the spaceship exceeds the speed of light. If such behavior occurs in four dimensions, then it appears implausible that \warp drive" behavior in a spacet...