Extensive damage to houses during severe tropical cyclones in the 1970s in Australia highlighted the need for research-based structural engineering principles to be applied in design and construction of houses. Houses have structural redundancies and complex load paths, so the analysis of even simple houses was complicated. In order to evaluate the structural performance of these parallel syste...

We consider the problem of load-balanced routing, where a dense network is modelled by a continuous square region and origin and destination nodes correspond to pairs of points in that region. The objective is to define a routing policy that assigns a continuous path to each origin-destination pair while minimizing the traffic, or load, passing through any single point. While the average load i...

Annoying shaky motion is one of the significant problems in home videos, since hand shake is an unavoidable effect when capturing by using a hand-held camcorder. Video stabilization is an important technique to solve this problem, but the stabilized videos resulting from some current methods usually have decreased resolution and are still not so stable. In this paper, we propose a robust and pr...

Wireless sensor nodes are use most embedded computing application. Multihop cluster hierarchy has been presented for large wireless sensor networks (WSNs) that can provide scalable routing, data aggregation, and querying. The energy consumption rate for sensors in a WSN varies greatly based on the protocols the sensors use for communications. In this paper we present a cluster based routing alg...

This paper discusses and evaluates different parallel implementations of a Region Growing algorithm based on the Split-and-Merge approach proposed by Horowitz and Pavlidis [1]. Region growing is a general technique for image segmentation. The basic scheme consists of joining adjacent pixels to form regions; adjacent regions are then merged to obtain larger regions. The solution has been conceiv...

Extracellular accumulation of amyloid-beta (Aβ) plaques is one the major pathological hallmarks Alzheimer's disease (AD), and target only FDA-approved disease-modifying treatment for AD. Accordingly, use transgenic mouse models that overexpress amyloid precursor protein thereby accumulate cerebral Aβ are widely used to model human AD in mice. Therefore, immunoassays, including enzyme-linked imm...

In this study, thermodynamic modeling and simulations were used to optimize the design point performance of Allam cycle. The topic fits perfectly with strategies for power sector decarbonization toward net zero emission. fact, it offers an environmentally friendlier alternative natural gas combined cycle (NGCC) plants. focus is on oxyfuel combustion that, supercritical CO2 (sCO2) stream as work...