Model interoperability, also known as model coupling, is involved in a significant part of scientific research and offers an interesting and worthwhile area of exploration and development for related supporting software frameworks and environments. This paper presents the challenges of scientific model coupling, with emphasis on climate change research, and briefly describes the current main me...

Although focal brain cooling has distinct power on suppressing epileptic seizures, the technological and physiological feasibility for therapeutic application still remains unknown. This paper addressed the issue of technical feasibility though the development of an implantable, thermoelectricallydriven cooling device. Chronic application of the device on the seizure focus in rats significantly...

We show by Monte Carlo simulation that electron mobility is greater when strained-silicon inversion layers are grown on SiGe-on-insulator substrates than when unstrained-silicon-on-insulator devices are employed ~as experimentally observed!. However, the electron mobility in strained-Si/SiGe-on-insulator inversion layers is strongly dependent on the strained-silicon layer thickness, TSi , due t...

Vicarious trauma, traumatic stress, and burnout were investigated among three separate groups of mental health professionals working primarily with three different client populations (sexual violence, cancer, and general practice). Participants (N = 221) completed the Traumatic Stress Institute Belief Scale Revision M (TSI), the Maslach Burnout Inventory (MBI), and the Impact of Events Scale (I...

In this paper, we present a robust and unsupervised approach for recognition of object categories, RTSI-pLSA, which overcomes the weakness of TSI-pLSA in recognizing rotated objects in images. Our approach uses radial template to describe spatial information (position, scale and orientation) of an object. A bottom up heuristical and unsupervised scheme is also proposed to estimate spatial param...

Luminosity, which is the total amount of radiant energy emitted by an object, one most critical quantities in astrophysics for characterizing stars. Equally important temporal evolution a star's luminosity because its intimate connection with stellar budget, large-scale convective motion, and heat storage interior. Here, we model solar extending semi-empirical irradiance (TSI) that uses solar-s...

Building pedagogical applications in virtual worlds is a multi-disciplinary endeavor that involves learning theories, application development framework, and mediated communication theories. This paper presents a project that integrates game-based learning, multi-agent system architecture (MAS), and the theory of Transformed Social Interaction (TSI), The project implements a group of engaging, a...

OBJECTIVES The primary objective was to test in vivo for the first time the general operation of a new multifunctional intracardiac echocardiography (ICE) catheter constructed with a microlinear capacitive micromachined ultrasound transducer (ML-CMUT) imaging array. Secondarily, we examined the compatibility of this catheter with electroanatomic mapping (EAM) guidance and also as a radiofrequen...