a. Mechanical Engineering Laboratory, National Engineering School of Monastir, Monastir University, Av. Ibn Eljazzar, 5019 Monastir, Tunisia. a, b. LIPPS, ÉTS, 1100, Notre-Dame Ouest, Montréal, H3C1K3, Québec, Canada. [email protected], [email protected] Abstract: The part and assembly requirements are specified by the tolerances. In the Digital Mock-Up (DMU), the product ...

The projective line over the (non-commutative) ring of two-by-two matrices with coefficients in GF (2) is found to fully accommodate the algebra of 15 operators — generalized Pauli matrices — characterizing two-qubit systems. The relevant sub-configuration consists of 15 points each of which is either simultaneously distant or simultaneously neighbor to (any) two given distant points of the lin...

Today, the majority of coronary stents are balloon-expandable and are deployed using a balloon-tipped catheter. To improve deliverability, the membrane of the angioplasty balloon is typically folded about the catheter in a pleated configuration. As such, the deployment of the angioplasty balloon is governed by the material properties of the balloon membrane, its folded configuration and its att...

Exploratory activity was examined in 4 young baboons with the aim of investigating the type of spatial coding (purely geometric and/or by taking into account the identity of the object) used for the configuration of objects. Animals were individually tested in an outdoor enclosure for their exploratory reactions (contact time and order of spontaneous visits) to changes brought about to a config...

some physical properties such as geometrical, gravimetrical, frictional and aerodynamic features of seeds of desi chickpea and its splits were studied at a moisture content of 8.2 and 9.0% w., respectively from north-western of iran. geometrical and gravimetrical properties including the average length, width, thickness, the geometric mean of diameter, sphericity, 1000-seed weight, unit weight,...

Based on the total Lagrangian kinematical description, a discontinuous Galerkin (DG) discretization of the gas dynamics equations is developed for two-dimensional fluid flows on general unstructured grids. Contrary to the updated Lagrangian formulation, which refers to the current moving configuration of the flow, the total Lagrangian formulation refers to the fixed reference configuration, whi...

Among the geometrical isomers of vitamin A and retinene, the neo-b isomer occupies a special position. As the precursor of rhodopsin and iodopsin, it plays a central r81e in rod and cone vision (1, 2). It is stored almost exclusively in the eyes of certain Crustacea (3) and is equally distinctive chemically. The four unhindered geometrical isomers of vitamin A have been identified (4, 5); neo-b...

We have recently described the synthesis of rhodopsin in a solution containing four components: vitamin A, the precursor of the rhodopsin chromophore; opsin, the protein of rhodopsin; and liver alcohol dehydrogenase and cozymase, the enzyme and coenzyme which oxidize vitamin A to retinene (Hubbard and Wald, 1951). 1 This experiment was first performed with a fish liver 0il concentrate as the so...

Topological objects of nontrivial spin or dipolar field textures, such as skyrmions, merons, and vortices, interacting with applied external fields in ferroic materials are of great scientific interest as an intriguing playground of unique physical phenomena and novel technological paradigms. The quest for new topological configurations of such swirling field textures has primarily been done fo...