The RS:X Olympic sailboard is an all-round board designed to be raced in 4 to 25 knots of wind, and is an example of the current state-of-the-art in sailboard design. This board has been chosen as the specific example for an overview of sailboard aero-hydrodynamics. The current article brings together previous research on sailboard sail and fin lift, and applies it to the case of the RS:X sailb...

* Several students in SAIL have contributed to, and benefited from, research activities at the SAIL laboratory at Tennessee Technological University. These include: (i) Thad Scalf, Joe Cherry and Karthigan Srinivasan: Naval Radar Simulation Project. (ii) Andrew Trent and William Holcomb: Self Organizing Software Entities Project. (iii) Matt Irwin, Noah Rosser, Derrick Muncy and : Home Automatio...

A sail-like, triangular projection from the mediastinum in chest radiographs is encountered in healthy children in the first few years of life. This has been proved to be the shadow of the thymus and is not of pathological significance. As it resembles a “sail” it is known as the thymic Sail Sign (SS). Literature review reported it is seen in about 10% of normal children. Interestingly many tre...

In this paper, we present Sail (Static Analysis Intermediate Language), a front-end which provides both a highand a low-level representation of programs and maintains a precise mapping from the low-level instructions to the high-level expressions and statements in the original source code. This two-level representation makes it easy to perform semantic analysis of programs on the low-level repr...

SUMMARY The Sample avAILability system-SAIL-is a web based application for searching, browsing and annotating biological sample collections or biobank entries. By providing individual-level information on the availability of specific data types (phenotypes, genetic or genomic data) and samples within a collection, rather than the actual measurement data, resource integration can be facilitated....

The goal of this paper is to examine the phonetic correlates of stress and accent in Catalan. We analyzed five acoustic correlates of stress (syllable duration, spectral balance, vowel quality, vowel pitch, and vowel intensity) in two stress conditions and in two accent conditions, which is to say, in stressed and unstressed syllables in both accented and unaccented environments (that is, appos...

THE STANFORD Artificial Intelligence Project, later known as the Stanford AI Lab or SAIL, was created by Prof. John McCarthy shortly after his arrival at Stanford in 1962. As a faculty member in the Computer Science Division of the Mathematics Department, McCarthy began supervising research in artificial intelligence an,d timesharing systems with a few students. From this small start, McCarthy ...

A spacecraft propulsion system utilizing the energy of the solar wind was reviewed. The first plasma sail concept was proposed by Prof. Winglee in 2000, and that was called M2P2 (mini-magnetospheric plasma-propulsion). However, the first M2P2 design adopting a small (20-cm-diamter) coil and a small helicon plasma source design was criticized by Dr. Khazanov in 2003. He insisted that: 1) MHD is ...

This study examined Stimulation Assistance through Iterative Learning (SAIL), a novel stroke rehabilitation system for the upper limb. Five hemiparetic stroke participants with reduced upper limb function undertook 18, 1 hour training sessions. Participants completed 3D tracking tasks in which they moved their impaired arm to follow a slowly moving sphere along a specified trajectory. The parti...

It is very challenging for humans to program a humanoid robot to act properly in human environment. Humans have a fundamental limitation in constructing an adequate model for the world or an adequate behavior model for the robot, because of the complexity of such models and the unpredictable unknown environments that the models must apply. This article introduces a new approach to intelligent r...