This study investigated flow characteristics and heat transfer enhancement in various sinusoidal corrugated channels. The channel height the phase shift effects on structures thermal performances were examined numerically for Reynolds numbers range of 2500≤Re≤7500. geometrical configurations this cover three different heights (Hmin/Hmax=0.36, 0.54, 0.72) angles (φ=0°, 90°, 180°). Velocity distr...

The purpose of this study was to investigate the validity of the modified Ashworth Scale (MAS) by using both the conventional (Hmax/Mmax ratio) and the new indicators (Hslp/Mslp) of motoneuron excitability. This research was a correlational study on twenty post-stroke patients. Main outcome measures were the MAS and electrophysiologic assessments. The latter was performed using both conventiona...

The group mutual exclusion problem is an extension of the traditional mutual exclusion problem in which every critical section is associated with a type or a group. Processes requesting critical sections of the same type can execute their critical sections concurrently. However, processes requesting critical sections of different types must execute their critical sections in a mutually exclusiv...

This paper explores the relative accuracy of deriving solar EUV flux, exospheric temperature Tex, and meridional winds using complete altitude profiles of ionosphere electron density as compared to just using key parameters such as Nmax, hmax and ionospheric electron content. Incoherent scatter radar observations at Millstone Hill and Shigaraki and an ionospheric model are used in this study. W...

Lowering the extracellular calcium concentration from 10 mmol/l to 1 nmol/l causes, besides reducing membrane potential (PMP) and peak amplitude (hmax) of the light response of the Limulus ventral nerve photoreceptor (see Stieve and Bruns [1]), a prolongation of the time course of the light response. The retarded time course (characterized by latent-period tlat, time-to-peak tmax, decrease time...

The brain mechanism of extracting visual features for recognizing various objects has consistently been a controversial issue in computational models of object recognition. To extract visual features, we introduce a new, biologically motivated model for facial categorization, which is an extension of the Hubel and Wiesel simple-to-complex cell hierarchy. To address the synaptic stability versus...

This paper presents a model for view independent recognition using features biologically inspired from dorsal and ventral stream of visual cortex. The presented model is based on the C3 features inspired from Ventral stream and Itti's visual attention model inspired from the dorsal stream of visual cortex. The C3 features, which are based on the higher layer of the HMAX of the ventral stream of...