Abstract Modern science needs to focus on integrating data and different disciplines … My biggest motivation is know why crystals are so beautiful …“ Find out more about Daisuke Tanaka in his Introducing Profile.

A new modeling approach is proposed for predicting the bulk electromechanical properties of piezoelectric composites. The proposed model offers the same level of convenience as the wellknown Mori-Tanaka method. The electromechanical properties of four piezoelectric polymer composite materials are predicted with the proposed, Mori-Tanaka, Self-consistent methods, and detailed finite element anal...

s | 43 (sleep) and molecular mechanisms involved in contextual processing deficits. Methods The evolution of functional neuroimaging studies from early studies of responses to emotional probes to recent multi-day studies of fear conditioning, extinction, renewal, and of intrinsic connectivity networks, will be discussed and novel finding presented. Parallel findings from studies using Single Pr...

Fuzzy-model-based (FMB) control approach provides a systematic and effective way to control nonlinear systems. It has been shown by various applications (Lam et al., 1998; Lian et al., 2006; (b)Tanaka et al., 1998) that FMB control approach performs superior to some traditional control approaches. Based on the T-S fuzzy model (Sugeno & Kang, 1988; Takagi & Sugeno, 1985) the system dynamics of t...

Micromechanics models for the stiffness of aligned short-fiber composites are reviewed and evaluated. These include the dilute model based on Eshelby’s equivalent inclusion, the self-consistent model for finite-length fibers, Mori-Tanaka type models, bounding models, the Halpin-Tsai equation and its extensions, and shear lag models. Several models are found to be equivalent to the Mori-Tanaka a...