For simplicity, SAP 2009 uses only first-order efficiency value for solar heating panels. This works well for most solar panels that have a relatively straight-line efficiency characteristic, however solar panels with poorer insulation and a more curved efficiency characteristic are unfairly rewarded. A simple enhancement of the current calculation is put forward to remedy this anomaly and make...

An algorithm for fast calculation of the Coulombic forces and energies of point particles with free boundary conditions is proposed. Its calculation time scales as N log N for N particles. This novel method has lower crossover point with the full O(N(2)) direct summation than the fast multipole method. The forces obtained by our algorithm are analytical derivatives of the energy which guarantee...

Huntington's disease, the most common inherited neurodegenerative disease, is characterized by a dramatic loss of deep-layer cortical and striatal neurons, as well as morbidity in midlife. Human genetic studies led to the identification of the causative gene, huntingtin. Recent genomic advances have also led to the identification of hundreds of potential interacting partners for huntingtin prot...

The Single-Pass Language-Driven Incremental Compilation (SLIC) strategy uses a series of model-to-model (M2M) transformations to compile a model or program to a specified target. Tool developer and modeler can inspect the result of each transformation step, using a familiar, graphical syntax of the successively transformed model, which is made possible by harnessing automatic layout. Previous w...

The roughening phase diagram of the d=3 Ising model with uniaxially anisotropic interactions is calculated for the entire range of anisotropy, from decoupled planes to the isotropic model to the solid-on-solid model, using hard-spin mean-field theory. The phase diagram contains the line of ordering phase transitions and, at lower temperatures, the line of roughening phase transitions, where the...

ISDN-TA APPLICATIONS IMPLEMENT ALL KEY FEATURES OF THE BORSHT FUNCTION SINGLE SUPPLY (5.5 TO 15.8V) BUILT IN DC/DC CONVERTER CONTROLLER. SOFT BATTERY REVERSAL WITH PROGRAMMABLE TRANSITION TIME. ON-HOOK TRANSMISSION. PROGRAMMABLE OFF-HOOK DETECTOR THRESHOLD METERING PULSE GENERATION AND FILTER INTEGRATED RINGING INTEGRATED RING TRIP PARALLEL CONTROL INTERFACE (3.3V LOGIC LEVEL) PROGRAMMABLE CONS...

The goal of this project is to explore the use of a combination of line and point correspondences to improve the computation of homography transformations. The rink registration aspect of the UBC Hockey Tracking System currently uses only keypoint matches between frames leaving the line information on the rink unutilized. The hypothesis is that use of line information will help make the homogra...

We propose a practical numerical framework for free surface flows with surface tension force. The numerical framework consists of the CLSVOF (coupled level set and volumeof-fluid) method, the THINC/WLIC (tangent of hyperbola for interface capturing/weighted line interface calculation) scheme, multi-moment methods (CIP-CSL and VSIAM3) and the density-scaled CSF (continuum surface force) model. W...

We propose a representation of simple conceptual graphs with binary conceptual relations, which is based on finite-state automata. The representation enables the calculation of injective projection as a two-stage process: off-line calculation of the computationally-intensive subsumption checks and encoding of the results as a minimal finite-state automaton, and run-time calculation by look-up i...