Temperature controls the rate of fundamental biochemical processes and thereby regulates organismal attributes including development rate and survival. The increase in metabolic rate with temperature explains substantial among-species variation in life-history traits, population dynamics, and ecosystem processes. Temperature can also cause variability in metabolic rate within species. Here, we ...

A design sensitivity analysis is used to optimize the applied wall temperature vs. time in autoclave curing for thermoset matrix composites. The calculation minimizes the cure time and obeys a maximum temperature constraint in the composite. The transient, coupled thermal and cure problem is solved by a finite element method. Design sensitivity information is extracted efficiently from this pri...

| The star-connected cycles (SCC) graph was recently proposed as an alternative to the cube-connected cycles (CCC) graph, using a star graph to connect cycles of nodes rather than a hypercube. This paper presents an analysis of broadcasting algorithms for SIMD and MIMD SCCs, covering both one-port and multiple-port versions. We show that O(n log n) one-port broadcasting algorithms that have bee...

AbstructWe consider the problem of embedding a cubeconnected cycles graph (CCC) into a hypercube with edge faults. Our main result is an algorithm that, given a l i t of faulty edges, computes an embedding of the CCC that spans all of the nodes and avoids all of the faulty edges. The algorithm has optimal running time and tolerates the maximum number of faults (in a worst-case setting). Because...

Due to the importance of power generation cycles including combined cycle, many studies have been done in recent years and many researchers have been tried to optimize these cycles by using of existing methods. In this study, the Water-Ammonia cycle is investigated in the combined-cycle of the Water-Ammonia, working dual Water-Ammonia mixture is used as the works fluid. This cycle can be used f...

The energy efficiency of separate sensible and latent cooling (SSLC) airconditioning system is higher than traditional one, since SSLC system uses separate cycles which can raise the evaporating temperature of sensible cycle. Separate cycles often include two separate compressors, which makes the initial investment of SSLC cycle too expensive to use in room air conditioning. A novel structure r...

Reproduction in iteroparous marine organisms is often timed with abiotic cycles and may follow lunar, tidal amplitude, or daily cycles. Among intertidal marine invertebrates, decapods are well known to time larval release to coincide with large amplitude nighttime tides, which minimizes the risk of predation. Such bimonthly cycles have been reported for few other intertidal invertebrates. We do...