The paper presents a study on a nine-phase permanent magnet synchronous starter-alternator for automotive applications, analyzing different converter topologies, detailing the simulation programs and discussing the results in different operating conditions, from entire healthy machine to several faulted phases. The comparison between the two converter topologies controlling the multiphase machi...

One reason why Lucas and Penrose should not be faulted for continuing to believe in their well-known Gödelian arguments against computationalism lies in the lack of an adequate consensus on the term ‘computation’. For instance, Boolos, Burgess and Jeffrey (2003: Computability and Logic, 4th ed. CUP, p37) define a diagonal function, d, any value of which can be computed effectively, although the...

We propose a novel surface-aware ray tracing method based on implicit model representation. Each horizon is represented by a signed distance field and the spatial relationships between horizons are described by a stratigraphic binary tree. With this kind of implicit representation, complex structural model (e.g., heavily faulted, intrusions and unconformities) are easily handled, and the veloci...

The impact of next-generation sequencing (NGS) on the issue of return of results is defying clear policy guidance and creating international confusion. Limiting ourselves to the return of results revealed by NGS (including incidental findings) in adults, children, family members of deceased individuals, and population studies, we describe and contrast emerging policy positions in Europe, Canada...

Variable temperature scanning tunneling microscopy experiments reveal that in Ir(111) homoepitaxy islands nucleate and grow both in the regular fcc stacking and in the faulted hcp stacking. Analysis of this effect in dependence on deposition temperature leads to an atomistic model of stacking-fault formation: The large, metastable stacking-fault islands grow by sufficiently fast addition of ada...

Clays are understood to form the majority of fluid-flow barriers in faulted reservoirs and numerous fault gouge seal studies have quantified volumes smeared abraded clays create along surfaces. However, clay-related permeability adjacent surface, including damage zone, has largely been neglected. Previous shown morphology distribution unfaulted authigenic clays, not just clay volume, exert a si...