This paper aims to design superconducting mag-netic bearing using HTS tape for a ultra high-speed turbo motor operating up 120000rpm. Despite being recent technology compared conventional magnetic bearings, passive bearings have many interesting features, such as re-duced dimensions, easy implementation and excellent dynamic response at high speed. The results of the finite element simulation a...

The IBM 3850 Mass Storage System (MSS) stores digital data onflexible magnetic tape media; however, it is different in many respects from the conventional multitrack tape machines. In particular, the use of a single-element rotary readwrite head imposes new demands in the areas of data encoding and error recovery. This paper presents a comprehensive scheme for error recovery for the 3850 MSS wh...

Red-tape barriers (RTBs) are an important source of trade costs, but have received little scholarly attention. Here we take a first step toward a theory of RTBs, and show that their implications are very different from those of more traditional trade barriers. Our model highlights that RTBs have important impacts on the extensive margin of trade, and yields rich predictions on how changes in th...

The ideas behind this development are that current models, while well suited for traffic reconstruction and prediction on a motorway, have severe drawback in some other places. There are some constraints to take into account. First consideration, the information available is very heterogeneous. Sensors can be magnetic loops, video cameras or floating car data, the data retrieved and sent by a c...

Elastic Therapeutic (Kinesio Tape) has rapidly become a recognised therapeutic modality in many musculoskeletal and neurological disorders. This tape, applied with a certain amount of stretch to its own paper backing is known under many names making research into it a challenging task. Its recoil properties make it a very suitable tool to assist in current scoliosis management. The studies of t...

Materials with high magnetic susceptibility cause local inhomogeneities in the main field of the magnetic resonance (MR) tomograph. These inhomogeneities lead to loss of phase coherence, and thus to a rapid loss of signal in the image. In our research we investigated inhomogeneous field of magnetic implants such as magnetic fibers, designed for inner suture during surgery. The magnetic field in...

This paper discusses scheduling of random I/O requests for multimedia data stored on magnetic tape using serpentine data layout. Results from simulations and real experiments show that substantial improvements of retrieval performance can be achieved by proper I/O scheduling. A new algorithm, Multi-Pass Scan Star (MPScan*), is presented and shown to give better results than any other known algo...