In this article various pipes used for transporting of gas are introduced and pros and cons of each one are elucidated. The pipes are categorized in three different subgroups including metallic, polymeric and metallic-wire reinforced polymeric pipes. Metallic-wire reinforced polymeric pipes are nominated as the best option for usage in high pressure pipelines transporting natural gas. As a resu...

microwave energy has potential for the efficient heating of minerals. minerals or materials, which couple to microwave energy are called dielectrics and many valuable minerals are found to be dielectric. the mineral ilmenite is one which shows good dielectric heating characteristics. in this paper, the effect of microwave heat energy on the partial reduction of oxidized ilmenite oxidized in ...

INTRODUCTION: Motion due to respiration poses a significant challenge for MR imaging of the abdomen and thorax. However, it is possible to compensate for the motion, e.g. by accepting data from only a certain respiration phase, when the temporal phases during the acquisition are known. Traditionally, the respiration phases are obtained using respiration bellows, but the clinical acceptance of s...

A rugged jet expansion module was designed, built, and utilized to sample liquefied gas for gas chromatography-discharge ionization detector (GC-DID) analysis. The module is inserted at an intermediate stage between a higher pressure sample cylinder and lower pressure gas injection manifold. The title jet module permits selection of liquid-phase or vapor-phase sampling by setting the valve-cyli...

A Macintosh-based signal processing system has been developed to support simultaneous respiratory and cardiac gating on the ECAT EXACT HR PET scanner. Using the LabView real-time software environment, the system reads analog inputs from a pneumatic respiratory bellows and an ECG monitor to compute an appropriate histogram memory location for the PET data. Respiratory state is determined by the ...

Serpentine robots are slender, multi-segmented vehicles designed to provide greater mobility than conventional wheeled or tracked robots. Serpentine robots are thus ideally suited for urban search and rescue, military intelligence gathering, and for surveillance and inspection tasks in hazardous and hard-to-reach environments. One such serpentine robot, developed at the University of Michigan, ...

Photograph of the case. (A) Rubber tube for supplying a pneumatic pulse to the bellows. (B) Rubber button on the bellows to provide fixed angular location. (C) Oblong orifice near the base through which the great vessels pass. CUTE MYOCARDIAL INSUFFICIENCY either as the result of vascular occlu-sion or surgical operation, can produce inadequate body perfusion. This may be of a self-limited dura...

During summer, melt ponds have a significant influence on Arctic sea-ice albedo. The melt pond fraction (MPF) also has the ability to forecast the Arctic sea-ice in a certain period. It is important to retrieve accurate melt pond fraction (MPF) from satellite data for Arctic research. This paper proposes a satellite MPF retrieval model based on the multi-layer neural network, named MPF-NN. Our ...

Group detection is fundamentally important for analyzing crowd behaviors, and has attracted plenty of attention in artificial intelligence. However, existing works mostly have limitations due to the insufficient utilization of crowd properties and the arbitrary processing of individuals. In this paper, we propose the Multiview-based Parameter Free (MPF) approach to detect groups in crowd scenes...

We give an example of a geometry in which the electrostatic force between a point charge and a neutral metallic object is repulsive. The example consists of a point charge centered above a thin metallic hemisphere, positioned concave up. We show that this geometry has a repulsive regime using both a simple analytical argument and an exact calculation for an analogous twodimensional geometry. An...