Suspension-feeding organisms dominate subtidal habitats in the Gulf of Maine (GOM) at depths of 25–40 m. Parasmittina jeffreysi is an encrusting cheilostome bryozoan found in this zone throughout the GOM. Regional variation between coastal and offshore locations in both flow speed and particle concentration makes the GOM an ideal location to study the effect of these factors on the growth of P....

In this study, a mathematical model is introduced to simulate the coupled heat transfer equation and Stefan condition occurring in moving boundary problems such as the solidification process in the continuous casting machines. In the continuous casting process, there exists a two-phase Stefan problem with moving boundary. The control-volume finite difference approach together with the boundary ...

Application of thermoplastic materials has increased dramatically in recent decades due to its recyclability, low density, resistance to chemical changes. The friction stir welding process is one of the new methods of solid state welding, which has recently undergone a significant improvement. In this research, using a new tool Made of plain carbon steel st37 in friction stir welding and low co...

The discrete-time recursion system un+1 = Q[un] with un(x) a vector of population distributions of species and Q an operator which models the growth, interaction, and migration of the species is considered. Previously known results are extended so that one can treat the local invasion of an equilibrium of cooperating species by a new species or mutant. It is found that, in general, the resultin...

For targeted prevention of falls, it is necessary to identify individuals with balance impairments. To test the sensitivity of measures of variability, local stability and orbital stability of trunk kinematics to balance impairments during gait, we used galvanic vestibular stimulation (GVS) to impair balance in 12 young adults while walking on a treadmill at different speeds. Inertial sensors w...

It has recently been shown that gait speed has an effect on multi-segment foot kinematics. To increase our understanding of these effects, it is critical to compare and develop a database of walking speed ranges. Therefore, the purpose of this study was to determine the effects of walking speed on multi-segment foot kinematics. A 12-camera Vicon motion capture system was used to collect kinemat...

Round Trip Time (RTT) estimation is an important variable for efficient fairness bandwidth flows of different RTT. This paper propose a stabilized rate scheme to enhance the RTT fairness on high speed Transmission Control Protocols (TCP) namely BIC-TCP, FAST, H-TCP and LTCP. The rate of window growth is stabilized in high speed protocols from the current window size, such that competing flows a...

Nowadays, the development of the IC technology resulted in a growth of digital systems. Thus, Analog to Digital converters have become important. The important criteria of an ADC are resolution, speed and power. Among them, speed plays an important role to be enabling faster and more reliable for data processing. This paper describes a successive approximation ADC that uses a charge-redistribut...