diesel exhaust particles are a complex mixture of thousands of gases and fine substances that contain more than 40 different environmental contaminants. being exposed to these exhaust particles (called soot) can cause lung damage and respiratory problems. diesel particulate filters are used in many countries for mobile sources as a legal obligation to decrease harmful effect of these fine parti...

Within a time span of 15 years, acoustic metamaterials have emerged from academic curiosity to become an active field driven by scientific discoveries and diverse application potentials. This review traces the development of acoustic metamaterials from the initial findings of mass density and bulk modulus frequency dispersions in locally resonant structures to the diverse functionalities afford...

This paper investigates the statistical relationship between acoustic and visual speech features for vowels. We extract such features from our stereo vision AV speech data corpus of Australian English. A principal component analysis is performed to determine which data points of the parameter curve for each feature are the most important ones to represent the shape of each curve. This is follow...

Based on an orientation-dependent dislocation line energy, a solution to the acoustic nonlinearity parameter is obtained for pure and mixed dislocations in anisotropic crystals. The solution is validated by comparison with molecular dynamic simulations. Parametric studies using this new solution show that (i) elastic anisotropy can significantly change the nonlinear behavior of dislocations inc...