Valeriy Sukharev, Ara Markosian, Armen Kteyan, Levon Manukyan, Nikolay Khachatryan, Jun-Ho Choy, Hasmik Lazaryan, Henrik Hovsepyan, Seiji Onoue, Takuo Kikuchi, Tetsuya Kamigaki Mentor Graphics Corporation, San Jose, CA, USA 95131 Toshiba Corporation, Corporate Manufacturing Engineering Center, 33 Shinisogocho, Isogo-ku, Yokohama-shi, Kanagawa 235-0017, Japan Toshiba Corporation Semiconductor Co...

KENGO NOZAKI,* SHINJI MATSUO, TAKURO FUJII, KOJI TAKEDA, MASAAKI ONO, ABDUL SHAKOOR, EIICHI KURAMOCHI, AND MASAYA NOTOMI Nanophotonics Center, NTT Corporation, 3-1, Morinosato Wakamiya Atsugi, Kanagawa 243-0198, Japan NTT Basic Research Laboratories, NTT Corporation, 3-1, Morinosato Wakamiya Atsugi, Kanagawa 243-0198, Japan NTT Device Technology Laboratories, NTT Corporation, 3-1, Morinosato Wa...

Letter to the Editor ors of the original paper [1] were invited to comment on this Letter to the Editor but declined the offer. §§ I am a principle investigator in the International Early Lung Cancer Action Program (IELCAP) lung cancer screening project. I have received $30,000 in data management support as well as travel, meals and accommodations to semi-annual IELCAP meetings. Last week an ar...

In recent years, a number of commentators have criticized corporate law's traditional commitment to shareholder primacy because of the costs it imposes on nonshareholder corporate constituencies. The phrase "shareholder primacy" refers to management's legal duty to pursue shareholder wealth maximization without regard for competing considerations. Despite the jarring social effects of the hosti...

Current human-computer interface design relies too heavily on a traditional model that casts the human as an operator of a dumb machine. Methods of human-computer interaction based on the keyboard and mouse alone require reevaluation, insofar as they do not foster a personable dialogue between the user and the computer. The ideal interface uses, among other things, knowledge of the position of ...

An action integral is presented for Hamiltonian mechanics in canonical form with unilateral constraints and/or impacts. The transition conditions on generalized impulses and the energy are presented as variational inequalities, which are obtained by the application of discontinuous transversality conditions. The energetical behavior for elastic, plastic and blocking type impacts are analyzed. A...

Letter to the Editor ors of the original paper [1] were invited to comment on this Letter to the Editor but declined the offer. §§ I am a principle investigator in the International Early Lung Cancer Action Program (IELCAP) lung cancer screening project. I have received $30,000 in data management support as well as travel, meals and accommodations to semi-annual IELCAP meetings. Last week an ar...

Many useful classes of graphs can in principle be recognized with finite batteries of obstruction tests. One of the most fundamental tests is to determine whether an arbitrary input graph contains K4 in the immersion order. In this paper, we present for the first time a fast, practical algorithm to accomplish this task. We also extend our method so that, should an immersed K4 be present, a K4 m...

This is a report of a novel tactile musical instrument. This instrument is called "Multi Rubbing Tactile Instrument (MRTI2015)", using ten pieces of "PAW sensor produced by the RT corporation". Previous research was focused on "untouchable" instruments, but this approach is fully tactile "rub" and "touch". The ten PAW sensors are assigned on the surface of the egg-like plastic case to fit the t...

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