successively decomposes the artifact being designed along functional lines. It describes the functional relationship between the parts and abstract parts in the domain. This relationship describes how abstract parts may be realized by combining sets of lower-level functions, which may include parts. (4) R e q u i r e d f u n c t i o n s parts and abstract parts often require the functions perfo...

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The effect of deprivation of rapid eye movement (REM) sleep upon retention of a passive avoidance response was studied in rats. An incompletely-learned avoidance response was established in one trial by shocking the animals when they stepped down from an elevated platform. Fourteen animals were then deprived of REM sleep by placing them on small inverted pots in a pool of water. Twelve control ...

3d imagination of human's organs has become feasible by digital image processing techniques and algorithms via ct or mri images in recent years. in this study, a new method for reverse engineering and biomodelling of hard tissues by catia cloud points' concept has been considered. comparing with the current softwares (e.g. biobuild or mimics) has shown the new method's easiness of implementing ...

Systematic reviews Systematic reviews are scientific investigations, with preplanned methods and an assembly of original studies as their “subjects” [1,2]. They synthesize the results of multiple primary investigations by using strategies that limit bias and random error [1,2]. Systematic reviews are transparent about how studies were identified and which were included or excluded, the risk of ...

An integrated methodology using quality function deployment (QFD) and analytic network process (ANP) is proposed to determine and prioritize the engineering requirements of a cast part, based on the customer needs, for selecting and evaluating an appropriate rapid prototyping (RP) based route for tooling fabrication. The QFD incorporates a planning matrix to translate the customer needs into me...

This paper presents a technique based on both nets and object orientation for rapid prototyping of parallel systems. The technique described here is currently implemented under a software environment.

We discuss new methods for non-compact sigma models with and without RR fluxes.The methods include reduction to one dimensional supermagnets,supercoset constructions and supertwistors.This work is a first step towards the solution of these models,which are important in several areas of physics. I dedicate it to the memory of Volodya Gribov.