Although silicon technology can be adopted for the fabrication of microfluidic devices with high precision, the capital and operating costs for such technology is often prohibitively expensive. In recent years, many alternative methods have been advocated to reduce the cost of microfabrication but often with reduced qualities in many important features, such as channel resolution, surface smoot...

There is an increasing interest in semantically annotated 3D models, e.g. of cities. The typical approaches start with the semantic labelling of all the images used for the 3D model. Such labelling tends to be very time consuming though. The inherent redundancy among the overlapping images calls for more efficient solutions. This paper proposes an alternative approach that exploits the geometry...

Purpose: This paper, devoted to the selection of strategic sourcing options as a part supply chain design, aims provide designers with guidelines for selecting best option each item (i.e., products, modules, parts and services).Design/methodology/approach: The study is based on review literature options, buyer-supplier relationships, factors criteria select strategy well authors experience in t...

Experimentation is an important next step to take in the study of multi-radio mesh networks, but it involves many obstacles preventing a stable and reproducible testbed environment. Using off-the-shelf equipment we demonstrate the impact that specific design choices for access points may have in the performance of a 2-hop network. We find that only after careful calibration with simulation and ...

in this paper, the role of molecular diffusion in mobilization of waterflood residual oil is examined. a moving mesh method is applied to solve the moving interface problem of residual oil blobs swelling by co2 diffusion through a blocking water phase. the results of this modeling are compared with experimental results of a 2d glass micromodel experiment. although, the solution method is applie...

The routing problem for shared path protection in multidomain optical mesh networks is difficult due to the lack of complete and global knowledge on the network topology and bandwidth allocation. To overcome this difficulty, we propose an aggregated network modeling by overestimation and a two-step routing strategy. In the first step, a rough routing solution is sketched in a compact network wh...

A new approach for constructing a smooth subdivision surface to interpolate the vertices of an arbitrary mesh is presented. The construction process does not require setting up any linear systems, nor any matrix computation, but is simply done by iteratively moving vertices of the given mesh locally until control mesh of the required interpolating surface is reached. The new interpolation metho...

Plant tissue culture is an alternative method of commercial propagation and is being used widely for the commercial propagation of a large number of plant species, including many medicinal plants. Somatic embryogenesis is a process by which asexual or somatic cells are induced to form embryos in culture. Somatic embryogenesis is a multi-step regeneration process starting with formation of pro-e...