In this paper we present a cost effective method to fabricate flexible, high density piezoelectric tape, and expl'ore its potential application as a new type of Lamb wave phased array for Structural Health Monitoring (SHM) through simulating the Lamb wave propagation generated from single element and multielement arrays. The piezoelectric tape consists of many patterned and densely packed PZT (...

We report here the results of a full analysis of all the ROSAT PSPC spectral imaging observations and all the ROSAT HRI high resolution imaging observations of the very nearby (D = 2.1 Mpc) Sculptor galaxy, NGC 300. Many point sources are detected within the field, several of them showing evidence for variability, and we present full source lists detailing their X-ray properties, and attempt to...

Intellectual capital (IC) relevant information is an important aspect of the reporting process because it complements the conventional financial disclosure in the new economy. It describes the hidden assets of a company especially in the initial public offering (IPO) setting where high information asymmetry exists. This study investigates several variables that may contribute to the relatively ...

We present high resolution (∼ 5′′) maps of the J = 1 0 transitions of 13CO and C18O towards the nucleus of NGC 6946, made with the Owens Valley Millimeter Array. The images are compared with existing 12CO(1-0) maps to investigate localized changes in gas properties across the nucleus. As compared to 12CO, both 13CO and C18O are more confined to the central ring of molecular gas associated with ...

We present a new method called Reaction Class Transition State Theory ~RC-TST! for estimating thermal rate constants of a large number of reactions in a class. This method is based on the transition state theory framework within the reaction class approach. Thermal rate constants of a given reaction in a class relative to those of its principal reaction can be efficiently predicted from only it...