With the aim of extending the use of integrated variational principles on fluid and deckplate to the large deflection analysis of floating roofs, this paper investigates the significance of theflexural and membrane components in the formulations of the deck plate. Applying integratedvariational principles on deck plate and fluid facilitate the treatment of the compatibility ofdeformation betwee...

Plasma-etching is a powerful tool in the determination of the resistance of the sublayer of skinned asymmetric hollow fiber membranes of poly (2,6-dimethyl-1,4-phenylene oxide). Using a resistance model and data provided by etched hollow PPO fiber membranes it is possible to predict the ultimate selectivity of the total membrane for helium over nitrogen and oxygen over nitrogen. From this model...

We present a post-integration cavity resonance tuning technique for asymmetric Fabry-Perot MQW modulators flip-chip bonded to silicon CMOS. The process relies on highly selective chemical etching and GaAs surface oxidation. High-quality devices are successfully integrated.

I empirically analyze the sources and magnitude of asymmetric information between competing lenders in residential mortgage lending. Large property developers often cooperate with vertically integrated mortgage lenders to provide financing offers to buyers of their newly constructed homes. I show that these integrated lenders have superior information about the construction quality of individua...

For the development of a high-performance software system of membrane protein prediction, we analyzed the distribution of hydrophobicity and the amphiphilicity around transmembrane helices, using dataset of membrane proteins whose 3D structures or topologies are known. The moving average of 7 residues showed that there are a hydrophobicity peak in the center of a transmembrane helix and two amp...

Microring resonators are an interesting device to build integrated optical interconnects, but their asymmetric loss behavior could limit the scalability of classical optical interconnects. We present new interconnects able to increase scalability with limited complexity.

BACKGROUND Asymmetric cell division (ACD) is a key process that allows different cell types to be generated at precisely defined times and positions. In Drosophila, neural precursor cells rely heavily on ACD to generate the different cell types in the nervous system. A conserved protein machinery that regulates ACD has been identified in Drosophila, but how this machinery acts to allow the esta...

Abstract Coupled nanomechanical resonators are interesting for both fundamental studies and practical applications as they offer rich tunable oscillation dynamics. At present, the mechanical coupling in such systems is often mediated by a fixed geometry, joint clamping point of or displacement-dependent force. Here we show graphene-integrated electromechanical system consisting two physically s...

Asymmetric light propagation is crucial to the development of optical-based functional components in nanophotonics. Diverse configurations and structures have been proposed to allow asymmetrical propagation of photonic signal, but on-chip integration is difficult to achieve due to their complex structure and/or relatively large footprint. Here we report the first design and realization of asymm...