The design space of fabric multitouch surface interaction is explored with emphasis on novel materials and construction techniques aimed towards reliable, repairable pressure sensing surfaces for musical applications.

In situ transmission electron microscopy study of electric field-induced cracking has been conducted on ^001& oriented 0.65Pb~Mg1/3Nb2/3!O3 – 0.35PbTiO3 crystal. Fracture of the 90° domain boundary was directly observed in the tetragonal area under both static and alternating electric fields. The field strength required to induce domain boundary cracking was lower for alternating electric field...

In this paper, an M/M/1 queue with working vacation and vacation interruption is investigated. The server is supposed to take a working vacation whenever the system becomes empty and if there are at least N customers waiting in the system at a service completion instant, vacation interruption happens and the server resumes a normal working period. A matrix geometric approach is employed to obta...

A commonly used definition of a repairable system (Ascher and Feingold [3]) states that this is a system which, after failing to perform one or more of its functions satisfactorily, can be restored to fully satisfactory performance by any method other than replacement of the entire system. In order to cover more realistic applications, and to cover much recent literature on the subject, we need...

Abstract Orthopedic implant coatings with optimized surface topography and chemistry can achieve favorable osteogenesis inflammatory responses. In this work, to take advantage of micro/nano-topography nutrient element Mg, atmosphere plasma spray hydrothermal treatment were employed fabricate two kinds Mg-incorporated micro/nano-topographical calcium silicate 0.9 15.7 wt% Mg content (Mg1-CS Mg2-...

there are some problems with estimating the time required for the manufacturing process of products, especially when there is a variable serving time, like control stage. these problems will cause overestimation of process time. layout constraints, reworking constraints and inflexible product schedule in multi product lines need a precise planning to reduce volume in particular situation of lin...

In this paper, we study a single server Markovian queue with state dependent accessible services, reneging and feedback of customers. The server can accommodate at the most $d$ customers in the service station, after which the new arrivals have to wait in the primary queue of infinite waiting space. All arrivals demand First Essential Service (FES), after completing FES, customers decide to joi...