background: one of the challenges of pet/mri combined systems is to derive an attenuation map to correct the pet image. for that, the pseudo-ct image could be used to correct the attenuation. until now, most existing scientific researches construct this pseudo-ct image using the registration techniques. however, these techniques suffer from the local minima of the non-rigid deformation energy f...

This paper summarizes the results of a recent investigation on the dynamic response of asymmetric-plan buildings with supplemental viscous damping to harmonic ground motion using modal analysis techniques. It is shown that most modal parameters, except modal damping ratios and dynamic amplification factors, are affected very little by the plan-wise distribution of supplemental damping in the pr...

A set of experiments was conducted to investigate the relationship of environment damping to performance of a Fitts one-shot tapping task, and especially the relationship of environment damping to the haptic perception of target position. In the experiments, subjects were asked to locate a narrow target region that had a different level of viscous damping than the background regions. The task w...

This study presents the auxiliary damping control with the reactive power loop on the rotor-side converter of doubly-fed induction generator (DFIG)-based wind farms to depress the sub-synchronous resonance oscillations in nearby turbogenerators. These generators are connected to a series capacitive compensation transmission system. First, the damping effect of the reactive power control of the ...

objectives: this paper describes further improvement and preliminarily evaluation of a novel viscoelastic ankle-foot prosthesis prototype. the objective was to control the ankle hysteresis at slow and normal walking speeds. methods: inspired by the ankle biomechanics, in which the hysteresis differs based on the gait speeds, a manually damping control mechanism imbedded in the prosthesis for ad...

This paper presents the Fourier and wavelet characterization of vibratio...

the purpose of the matching interdiction problem in a weighted graph is to findtwo vertices such that the weight of the maximum matching in the graph withoutthese vertices is minimized. an approximate solution for this problem has beenpresented. in this paper, we consider dendrimers as graphs such that the weightsof edges are the bond lengths. we obtain the maximum matching in some types ofdend...

The invention concerns a method to remotely measure the nodes’ quartz frequencies within a distributed system based on FlexRay. The proposed approach uses the clock correction mechanism and more especially the integrated damping factor, which slightly shifts the node’s internal clock correction term and its resulting time base. The invention was made by researchers of the Vienna University of T...

[1] Flexural modeling of Ithaca Chasma on Tethys suggests that the elastic thickness and the surface heat flux were 5–7 km and 18–30 mW/m respectively, when the feature formed ( 4 Gyr B.P.). Tidal heating is a plausible heat source, suggesting that Tethys’ eccentricity was higher in the past. Depending on Tethys’ internal structure, eccentricities in the range 0.001 to 0.02 are sufficient to ha...

A family of Boussinesq systems was proposed by J. L. Bona, M. Chen and J.-C. Saut to describe the two-way propagation of small amplitude gravity waves on the surface of water in a canal. Our work considers a class of these Boussinesq systems which couples two Benjamin-Bona-Mahony type equations posed on a bounded interval. We study the stabilization of the resulting system when a localized damp...