The identification of nonlinear aeroelastic systems based on the Volterra theory of nonlinear systems is presented. Recent applications of the theory to problems in experimental aeroelasticity are reviewed. These results include the identification of aerodynamic impulse responses, the application of higher-order spectra (HOS) to wind-tunnel flutter data, and the identification of nonlinear aero...

Common Western-blot imaging systems have previously been adapted to measure signals from luminescent microplate assays. This can be a cost saving measure as Western-blot imaging systems are common laboratory equipment and could substitute a dedicated luminometer if one is not otherwise available. One previously unrecognized limitation is that the signals captured by the cameras in these systems...

Flow boiling in a straight\ rectangular channel was investigated to explore the conditions leading to critical heat ~ux "CHF#[ The ~ow channel had a 4[9×1[4 mm cross!section and 090[5 mm heated length^ heat was applied to the shorter dimension along only one wall[ Tests were performed with FC!61 liquid over a velocity range of 9[14 to 09 m s and at outlet subcoolings of 2\ 05 and 18>C[ Video im...

A.Wambersie(1), P.M.DeLuca Jr(2), R.S.Caswell(3) and H.G.Menzel(4) (1) Université Catholique de Louvain, 1200 Brussels, Belgium (2) University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, 53706, USA (3) National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD, 20899, USA (4) CERN, Geneva, CH International Commission on Radiation Units and Measurements (ICRU), 7910 Woodmont Avenue, Suite 800 Bethesda, Mar...

Geographic information is based on observations or measurements. The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) has developed an implementation specification for observations and measurements (O&M). It specifies precisely how to encode information. Yet, the O&M conceptual model does not specify precisely which real-world entities are denoted by the specified information objects. We provide formal semanti...

PURPOSE First, to show that accurate formulas for scattering power T must take into account the competition between the Gaussian core and the single scattering tail of the angular distribution, which affects the rate of change in the Gaussian width and leads to the single scattering correction (SSC). Second, to show that the SSC requires that T(x) be nonlocal: Besides material properties and en...

We investigated the enhancment of the upconversion luminescence (UCL) of NaYF4:Yb 3 + /Er 3 + co-doped nanocrystals using a 3D plasmonic nanoantenna architecture: disk-coupled dots-onpillar antenna array (D2PA). By optimizing the D2PA structure, we observed a 310-fold UCL enhancement uniformly over a large area and an 8-fold reduction in the luminescence decay time. The enhancement factor is tw...

A new neural network system for classification of the cardiac rhythm is presented in this paper. The system is composed of two neural network classifiers : a morphological classifier cascaded to a timing classifier. While the morphological classifier classify the P and QRS complexes into normal and/or abnormal beats, the timing classifier takes as inputs the information of the morphological cla...

A mvkrr is made of the techniqws that have been developed or are being developed in the United Kilngdon for flight vibration testing and flight flutter testing aircraft. This includes a description of the instnznentation used for recotiing the Vibratioml response, and a comparative assessment of the vaious methods used for exciting the aircraft in i'lipht flutter tests.