In this paper, we present an integrated model to find the optimum size of blast block that uses (i) a multi-criteria decision-making method to specify the applicable size of the mineable block; (ii) a linear programming method for the selection of the blasted areas to be excavated and in deciding the quantity of ores and wastes to be mined from each one of the selected blocks. These two methods...

Blast exposure is associated with traumatic brain injury (TBI), neuropsychiatric symptoms, and long-term cognitive disability. We examined a case series of postmortem brains from U.S. military veterans exposed to blast and/or concussive injury. We found evidence of chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE), a tau protein-linked neurodegenerative disease, that was similar to the CTE neuropathology ...

Basic Local Alignment Search Tool (BLAST) is a heavily used bioinformatics application that has gotten significant attention from the high performance computing community. The authors have taken BLAST execution a step further and enabled it to execute on grid resources. Adapting BLAST to execute on the grid brings up concerns regarding grid resource heterogeneity, which inevitably cause difficu...

This paper described the design and implementation of G-BLAST – a Grid Service for one of the most widely used bioinformatics application Basic Local Alignment Search Tool (BLAST). G-BLAST uses the factory design pattern to provide application developers a common interface to incorporate multiple implementations of BLAST. The process of application selection, resource selection, scheduling, and...

Multiple Input Multiple Output (MIMO) systems have been extensively studied in context of wireless communication system, which promising the both increased capacity and link level reliability. In this paper we will present an analysis of the Vertical Bell Laboratories Layered Space-Time (V-BLAST) system at high signalto noise ratio (SNR) region using BPSK, QPSK and 16-QAM modulation technique b...

Blast-associated sensory and cognitive trauma sustained by military service members is an area of extensively studied research. Recent studies in our laboratory have revealed that low-level blast exposure increased expression of transient receptor potential vanilloid 1 (TRPV1) and endothelin-1 (ET-1), proteins well characterized for their role in mediating pain transmission, in the cornea. Dete...

Over the last decades there has been an ever increasing effort to better predict the load developed on a structure in explosion events. During the passing time, the computational abilities dramatically improved and the ability to predict quantitative results for complex scenarios became achievable. However, the need to validate the obtained numerical results became a necessity. The validation c...

High-pressure blast waves can cause extensive CNS injury in human beings. However, in combat settings, such as Iraq and Afghanistan, lower level exposures associated with mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI) or subclinical exposure have been much more common. Yet controversy exists concerning what traits can be attributed to low-level blast, in large part due to the difficulty of distinguishing b...