Solar panels sustainably harvest energy from the sun. To improve performance, panels are often equipped with a tracking mechanism that computes the sun’s position in the sky throughout the day. Based on the tracker’s estimate of the sun’s location, a controller orients the panel to minimize the angle of incidence between solar radiant energy and the photovoltaic cells on the surface of the pane...

let $omega_x$ be a bounded, circular and strictly convex domain of a banach space $x$ and $mathcal{h}(omega_x)$ denote the space of all holomorphic functions defined on $omega_x$. the growth space $mathcal{a}^omega(omega_x)$ is the space of all $finmathcal{h}(omega_x)$ for which $$|f(x)|leqslant c omega(r_{omega_x}(x)),quad xin omega_x,$$ for some constant $c>0$, whenever $r_{omega_x}$ is the m...

This paper provides a regression model in which both covariates and responses are angular variables. The regression curve is expressed as a form of the Möbius circle transformation. The angular error is assumed to follow a wrapped Cauchy or, equivalently, circular Cauchy distribution. A bivariate circular distribution is proposed to model our circular regression. Some properties of the regressi...

Composite materials, in particular fibre reinforced polymers, present a challenge when reaching their end of life. Current recycling processes are unable to capture the high-end material quality, thus challenging (re)use composite materials Circular Economy. Structurally reusing segmented parts end-of-life products as construction elements has been demonstrated provide promising alternative. Ho...

By Heming Zhang Alwin, M.S. Washington State University December 2002 Chair: John C. Hermanson Structural insulated panel (SIP) use in residential building began in the 1950s. Over the last two decades, greater SIPs usage has been encouraged by many factors. ICBO ES provides “Acceptance Criteria for Sandwich Panels AC04” for sandwich panels recognition. The criteria require that full-scale pane...

Biomarker panels are increasingly important clinical tools for the classification of diseased tissue samples and have been more recently been used for characterizing differentiating stem cell cultures. In order to facilitate high sample throughput biomarker panels are limited to a finite number of hand-picked genes deemed to be of significance by the researcher. However, without statistical sup...

thermoplastic honeycombs based on polypropylene are one of the latest types of cores used in sandwich structures. up to now there have been few experimental and modelling studies on the mechanical behaviour of sandwich structures with thermoplastic cores. in this paper, by considering the similar properties of foams and thermoplastic honeycombs, attempts are made to model the static indentation...

OBJECTIVE Recent primary care workforce pressures in the UK have prompted national reviews. Recommendations to increase the proportion of medical students entering general practice have led to interest in the role of medical schools in career choices. This study sought to identify the career backgrounds of admissions leads at UK medical schools and the proportion of general practitioners on adm...

A new panel technique which produces a globally accurate velocity field has been developed. Traditional panel techniques panelise the body into a set of linear panels and distribute some kind of singularity on the surface of these panels. The singularities normally used are sources, doublets and vorticity. Such panel methods produce high accuracy at the control point but do not produce accurate...

Web-reinforced composite sandwich panels exhibit good mechanical properties in one-way bending, but few studies have investigated their flexural behavior and deformation calculation methods under conditions of four simply supported edges. This paper studies the bending performance of and deformation calculation methods for two-way web-reinforced composite sandwich panels with different web spac...