The Ultra-luminous Compact X-ray Sources (ULXs) in nearby spiral galaxies and the Galactic superluminal jet sources share the common spectral characteristic that they have extremely high disk temperatures which cannot be explained in the framework of the standard accretion disk model in the Schwarzschild metric. We examine several possibilities to solve this “too-hot” disk problem. In particula...

Diffusion-driven flow arises when a stably stratified fluid is bounded by an inclined wall. For a stratified fluid in an inclined fissure, in which fluid is confined to a gap between two inclined parallel walls, the flow field is determined by the gap width and the angle of inclination. When the gap width is much wider than the buoyancy layer thickness, the problem reduces to that of a semi-inf...

This paper presents numerical analysis of stress intensity factors (SIFs) of inclined cracks due to mechanical mismatches. According to literature survey, tremendous amounts of SIFs can be found elsewhere. However, the SIFs for inclined cracks are difficult to obtain especially when mechanical mismatch at the crack interface are considered. ANSYS finite element program is used to model the crac...

This study describes the development of a cervical traction therapy simulation model that evaluates two types of the traction positions, namely the sitting position and the inclined position. An anatomically correct human skeleton model and two mechanical traction device models were constructed in simulations using a physics engine. The anterior and posterior intervertebral separations were mea...

Abstract: In this paper, natural convection from vertical cylinders with inclined plate fins is investigated experimentally for use in cooling electronic equipment. Extensive experimental investigations are performed for various inclination angles, fin numbers, and base temperatures. From the experimental data, a correlation for estimating the Nusselt number is proposed. The correlation is appl...

Linearization of control model of inclined inverted pendulum (IP) is the main focus of this paper. The areas of application and associated reliability issues of IP are increasingly important in control engineering. A generalized control model, which can facilitate the understanding of system dynamics of an IP irrespective of the plane it is orientated compared to the plane of the control input ...

[Purpose] The purpose of this study was to identify the effects of an inclined ankle on the activation of the abductor hallucis muscle during short foot exercises. [Subjects] We recruited 14 healthy volunteers who were free of pain, and did not suffer from arthritis or osteomuscular problems related to the foot or ankle. [Methods] The subjects performed short foot exercises and short inclined f...

This study investigated the effect of Black women’s skin-tone on employability ratings. Employability ratings were defined by three measures: personal evaluation, qualifications-for-employment, and racial discrimination. Forty Black and forty White college students participated in the study. All participants were asked to read a job description and a resume, examine a picture of a hypothetical ...

In our previous paper, we evaluated the transit duration variation (TDV) effect for a co-aligned planet-moon system at an orbital inclination of i = 90◦. Here, we will consider the effect for the more general case of i 6 90◦ and an exomoon inclined from the planet-star plane by Euler rotation angles α, β and γ. We find that the TDV signal has two major components, one due to the velocity variat...

The nomenclature of each part of the lacrimal canaliculus, for example the vertical portion, does not always reflect the true course. Since we have sometimes observed findings suggesting the so called vertical portion of the lower lacrimal canaliculus inclined laterally, we re-examined the course of the vertical portion. Twenty-eight postmortem lower eyelids in 16 Japanese were examined and div...