The flattening of digitized surfaces is still very important in design of thin walled objects such as the airplane wings, parts of car bodies, textile products, and shoe uppers. Especially in shoe industry, the ability of quick respond to changing market needs is essential for successful competition. To give needed flexibility to a shoe designer, special CAD CAM systems have been developed. Tho...

Smart classification software is designed to process data taken for damaged composite structures such as modern car bodies. This software is used in conjunction with Neural Networks algorithms to provide predictive models for impact damage in composite structures. The developed neural models correlates between various NDT testing techniques, such that in the absence of one technique, its result...

Car-to-car communication aims at increased driving comfort and safety. Moreover, it changes the role of vehicles from mere transportation means to “smart objects”. Despite many R&D activities in the last years, this technology still poses multiple challenges on the wireless transmission and network protocols. Aspects like efficient message dissemination, network scalability, and information sec...

Parametric surfaces in various representations, such as Bézier-and B-spline-tensorproduct patches, triangular patches etc., play an important role in CAGD-applications. Connecting patches with different degree of continuity and trimming surfaces are well-known techniques to construct a variety of shapes like ship hulls, car bodies, etc. For finite element analysis, stereolithography, rendering ...

Axonal transport is responsible for the movement of signals and cargo between nerve termini and cell bodies. Pathogens also exploit this pathway to enter and exit the central nervous system. In this study, we characterised the binding, endocytosis and axonal transport of an adenovirus (CAV-2) that preferentially infects neurons. Using biochemical, cell biology, genetic, ultrastructural and live...

Immunocyochemical labeling was applied to follow the developmental changes in the calcium-binding proteins parvalbumin (PV), calbindin D28k (CaB), and calretinin (CaR) during fetal and infant development of Macaca monkey dorsal lateral geniculate nucleus (LGN). For all three proteins, LGN cell body and retinal ganglion cell (RGC) axon labeling patterns changed temporally and spatially over deve...

This paper investigates the coupled axial-radial (CAR) vibration of single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWCNTs) based on doublet mechanics (DM) with a scale parameter. Two coupled forth order partial differential equations that govern the CAR vibration of SWCNTs are derived. It is the first time that DM is used to model the CAR vibration of SWCNTs. To obtain the natural frequency and dynamic respon...

Main goal of this contribution is a first approach to evaluate the suitability of visual programming languages, i.e., Pictorial Janus [3], for the modeling of complex systems and their control strategies. These systems can be seen as networks of communicating objects. Objects select strategies for suitable actions based on incoming messages. Our field of investigation is in computer integrated ...

We have developed a new solid phase enzyme immunoassay (EIA) for detec tion of anti-phospholipid antibodies in sera and platelet eluates from patients with idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura (ITP). Antibodies against cardiolipin (CAR), phosphatidylinositol (PI) and phosphatidylserine (PS), not against phos phatidylcholine (PC), phosphatidylethanolamine (PE), phosphatidic acid (PA) and sphyngom...