Fibre-packed coalescers are widely employed to remove drops from liquid-liquid dispersions. This work has as its objective a quantitative correlation of drop removal with$ltration variables. Photo-etched screens, which were positioned perpendicular to the flow, served as geometrically defined representations sf jibrous media. Forward-angle light scattering was employed to measure the extent of ...

The mobile, wireless, and self-organizing features of ad hoc networks pose many challenges with respect to continuous availability and accessibility of data. In such a dynamic environment, there are many advantages in replicating a data item so there are multiple copies, including reduced response times and higher data availability. Also, if done efficiently, replication can help reduce energy ...

York University evaluated a prepcessing approach for this year’s enterprise document search task. With different parsing tools, we create two data sets. Based on each data set, we generate two official runs. Their results demonstrate that the removal of raw data in preprocessing stage has a negative impact on the retrieval performance.

This descriptive study explores deliberate barriers to user participation on the long-lived discussion site Metafilter.com. Metafilter has been in continuous operation since its founding in 1999, and at the time of this writing has around 12,000 active users. While many newer online sites appear eager to eliminate barriers to participation and recruit as many new members as possible, Metafilter...

Recently, analytical reproducibility in scientific research has been a keenly discussed topic within scientific research organizations and acknowledged as an important and fundamental goal to strive for. Scientific studies published recently have found that irreproducibility is widely prevalent within the research community even after releasing data openly. At Bielefeld University, nine researc...

The two-bit multiplier is a simple electronic circuit, small enough to be feasible for evolutionary design, and practically useful as a fundamental building block used in the synthesis of many digital systems. To attain understanding of the evolvability of this digital circuit, we consider its evolutionary design as a search on a fitness landscape. We study the structure of two-bit multiplier l...

The calculation of compatibility measures is an important technique employed in group decision-making with interval multiplicative preference relations. In this paper, a new compatibility measure called the continuous logarithm compatibility, which considers risk attitudes in decision-making based on the continuous ordered weighted geometric averaging (COWGA) operator, is introduced. We also de...