Head injuries are the most common injuries sustained by children in motor vehicle crashes. Prevention of these injuries through advances in vehicles and restraint systems requires a biofidelic anthropomorphic test device (ATD). Pediatric ATDs are primarily developed from scaling down adult volunteer and cadaver impact test data. Limited experimental data exist on pediatric head and neck kinemat...

The rice paddy eel, Pisodonophis boro (P. boro), is of special interest because of its peculiar burrowing habits. P. boro penetrates the substrate tail-first, a technique common for ophichthids, but it is able to burrow head-first as well. P. boro exhibits three feeding modes: inertial feeding, grasping, and spinning. Rotational feeding is a highly specialized feeding mode, adopted by several e...

Most studies on wave-in-deck loads focus head-on wave impingement whereas due to waves incident from oblique directions are rarely reported. Numerical simulations for were presented in Iwanowski et al. (2002), Brodtkorb (2008) and Chen (2018). However, these studies, only numerical validations performed against either two-dimensional experiments or empirical formulations a lack of experimental ...

Arthropods (i.e. insects, spiders, crustaceans, myriapods and others), are the most successful Phanerozoic animals. The group is characterized by possession of a segmented body, jointed limbs hard cuticle that episodically moulted. One highly but now extinct arthropods trilobites. Trilobites underwent episodic moulting (ecdysis), trilobites possess facial sutures, lines weakness in cephalon, vi...

amir kabir dam was built in varian strait, at 23 km north of karaj in 1961. the dam is multipurpose and its maim aims are the spring floods control, supplying potable water for tehran city, producing electricity and providing irrigation water. different pollutants which discharge to the river finally enter to the dam reservoir. determining the pollution loads of the dam sub-catchments can help ...

Rising demands for repetitive SARS-CoV-2 screens and mass testing necessitate additional test strategies. Saliva may serve as an alternative to nasopharyngeal swab (NPS) its collection is simple, non-invasive amenable mass- home testing, but rigorous validation, particularly in children, missing. We conducted a large-scale head-to-head comparison of detection by RT-PCR saliva NPS 1270 adults ch...

This work presents the design and evaluation of an adaptive packet router aimed at supporting CC-NUMA traffic. We exploit a simple and efficient packet injection mechanism to avoid deadlock, which leads to a fully adaptive routing by employing only three virtual channels. In addition, we selectively use output buffers for implementing the most utilized virtual paths in order to reduce head-of-l...

Reliable and accurate distribution system modeling, including the secondary network, is essential in examining performance with high penetration of distributed energy resources (DERs). This paper presents a highly automated, novel method to enhance accuracy utility feeder models capture their by matching simulation results corresponding field measurements. The demonstrated using an actual from ...