A new, computationally efficient algorithm has been implemented to solve for thermal stresses, strains, and displacements in realistic solidification processes which involve highly nonlinear constitutive relations. A general form of the transient heat equation including latent-heat from phase transformations such as solidification and other temperature-dependent properties is solved numerically...

Brain-based features of meaning (sensory-motor features: sound, color, manipulation, motion, and shape) are used to compare two popular models of adjective-noun semantic composition: element-wise vector addition and multiplication. A large literature (e.g. Fernandino et al., 2015) suggests that perceptual systems contain information that can be extracted using neural decoding (e.g. Anderson, Mu...

A statistical metrology methodology has been developed and used to study the contributions to spatial variation in ILD thickness remaining after chemical-mechanical polishing. New elements of statistical metrology are described, including a three-phase experimental approach and the use of a modified repeated measure analysis of variance technique.

Crowdsourcing platforms have become quite popular due to the increasing demand of human computationbased tasks. Though the crowdsourcing systems are primarily demand-driven like MTurk, supply-driven marketplaces are becoming increasingly popular. Fiverr is a fast growing supply-driven marketplace where the sellers post micro-tasks (gigs) and users purchase them for prices as low as $5. In this ...

In order to better understand the mechanical properties of biological cells, characterization and investigation of their material behavior is necessary. In this paper hyperelastic Neo-Hookean material is used to characterize the mechanical properties of mouse oocyte cell. It has been assumed that the cell behaves as continuous, isotropic, nonlinear and homogenous material for modeling. Then, by...

Introduction: In Japanese the meaning of free choice is expressed by indeterminate pronouns and the particle mo in comparative environments, as shown in (1). (Note: normally, the meaning of free choice is expressed by indeterminate pronouns plus demo, but demo cannot appear in comparative environments). (1a) and (1b) are different in word order, but semantically, they both have what I call the ...

For the lack of formula of linear range for S-shaped MEMS planar micro-spring, this paper establishes physical and mathematical model and analysis the material stress-strain angle. The formula is deduced by calculating the strain and rotation of the basic unit of micro-spring tension. Compared with the results of the tests on micro-spring which produced by UV-LIGA process, the formula results i...

Scenes, like objects, are visual entities that can be categorized into functional and semantic groups. One of the core concepts of human categorization is the idea that category membership is graded: some exemplars are more typical than others. Here, we obtain human typicality rankings for more than 120,000 images from 706 scene categories through an online rating task on Amazon Mechanical Turk...

We want to enable a pair of communicating users to exchange secret messages while hiding the fact that secret communication is taking place. We propose a linguistic steganography approach, where each human message is hidden in another human-like message. A hard open question is how to keep the steganographic message small – existing related tools tend to blow up its size, thereby revealing the ...

in this paper, a finite element model is developed for the fully hydro-mechanical analysis of hydraulic fracturing in partially saturated porous media. the model is derived from the framework of generalized biot theory. the fracture propagation is governed by a cohesive fracture model. the flow within the fracture zone is modeled by the lubrication equation. the displacement of solid phase, and...