Active room compensation based on wave field synthesis (WFS) has been recently introduced. So far, the verification of the compensation algorithms is only possible through elaborate acoustical measurements. Therefore, a new simulation method is applied that is based on the functional transformation method (FTM). Compared with other simulation techniques, the FTM provides several advantages that...

There is evidence suggesting that subjects affected with the Wolfram syndrome (WFS) and normal carriers present an increased risk of psychiatric disorders, particularly depression and suicidal behavior. We investigated a possible role of the gene involved in WFS (WFS1) in the neurobiology of suicide and the potential modulatory effect on traits associated to suicidal behavior. Genetic variation...

A three-dimensional wire-feeding model has been developed to study the transient coupling behaviour of heat and metal transfer, fluid flow, solidified bead shape in wire plasma arc additive manufacturing (WPAAM). novel surface source considering energy shading effect is proposed adopted. An improved momentum force pressure also used. This used transfer dynamics, flow patterns, WPAAM process wit...

A new concept of using focus-diverse point spread functions (PSF) for modal wavefront sensing (WFS) is explored. This concept is based on relatively straightforward image moment analysis of measured PSFs, which differentiates it from other focal-plane WFS techniques. The presented geometric analysis shows that the image moments are nonlinear functions of wave aberration coefficients but notes t...

Wave field synthesis (WFS) is a spatial sound reproduction technique that uses a high number of densely placed loudspeakers (secondary sources). This implies a spatial sampling process that may lead to aliasing artifacts. In the past, the spatial aliasing artifacts of WFS have mainly been investigated for the reproduction of monochromatic signals, and hence in the frequency domain. This contrib...

Medial axis is known to be unstable for nonsmooth objects. For an open set O, we define the weak feature size, wfs, minimum distance between O and the critical points of the function distance to O. We introduce the ‘‘lambda-medial axis’’ Mk of O, a subset of the medial axis of O which captures the homotopy type of O when k < wfs. We show that, at least for some ‘‘regular’’ values of k, Mk remai...

Venous leg ulcer (VLU) is a huge healthcare problem with poorly understood pathophysiology. Transforming growth factor-β (TGF-β) and endoglin (Eng), are inflammatory and wound healing mediators. Eng, co-receptor for TGF-β type-II receptors, may be cleaved forming soluble Eng (sEng), antagonizing TGF-β signaling, a crucial process in vascular pathologies. We evaluated the accumulation in wound f...

To evaluate the effects of physically processed flaxseed [ground flaxseed (GFS) and whole flaxseed(WFS)] as a replacement for extruded soybeans on feed intake, milk production, milk composition, milk fatty acid (FA) composition and blood biochemical parameters, nine primiparus Holstein dairy lactating cowsaveraging 495 ± 34.5 kg of body weight (BW) and 70 ± 5 days in milk (DIM) were assigned in...