Steel-concrete-steel (SCS) sandwich panels are composed of two steel plates with low thicknesses and high densities and strengths and one thick layer between both plates with low strength and density known as core that is composed of concrete. Cohesive material-epoxy resin or shear connectors are usually used to connect the plates to the concrete core. SCS sandwich composites are being develope...

The emerging of wireless computing motivates radical changes of how information is derived. Our paper concerns with developing push and pull based application in wireless environment. We use a simplified e-health (hospital) context to demonstrate some effective uses of pull-based and push-based mechanisms. The pull mechanism involves information retrieval from a database, and update information...

This is in response to recent feedback from our peers that calls for a number of clarifications regarding the experimental section of our paper. Table 1 clarifies which optimizations are used in each evaluated flavor of LegoBase. HyPer-simulated is a configuration of the LegoBase codebase that mirrors the HyPer system as closely as possible by just activating some of the main optimizations and ...

In this paper we present the realization of the formalism we have proposed for affordance learning and its use for planning (Şahin et al., 2007) on an anthropomorphic robotic hand. In this realization, the robot interacts with the objects in its environment using the programmed push and grasp-andlift behaviors, and records its interactions in triples that consists of the initial percept of the ...

We consider the problem of existence of entire solutions to the Allen-Cahn equation Δu + u - u(3) = 0 in , usually regarded as a prototype for the modeling of phase transition phenomena. In particular, exploiting the link between the Allen-Cahn equation and minimal surface theory in dimensions N ≥ 9, we find a solution, u, with ∂(x(N))u > 0, such that its level sets are close to a nonplanar, mi...

We study a singular limit problem of the Allen-Cahn equation with Neumann boundary conditions and general initial data of uniformly bounded energy. We prove that the time-parametrized family of limit energy measures is Brakke’s mean curvature flow with a generalized right angle condition on the boundary.