A vehicle hitting a traffic barrier creates a major threat to traffic safety as a result of displacement of components of the barrier by the forces transferred from the vehicle. We built a theoretical model of the dynamics of such processes and behaviour of concrete barriers set on various types of surfaces. We calculated the displacement as a function of vehicle impact energy and barrier base....

The problem of computing an approximate solution of an overdetermined system of linear equations is considered. The usual approach to the problem is least squares, in which the 2-norm of the residual is minimized. This produces the minimum variance unbiased estimator of the solution when the errors in the observations are independent and normally distributed with mean 0 and constant variance. I...

Problem statement: Piezoelectric actuator is a kind of key driving components for micropositioning stages, micropumps, micro valves, micro gripper and so on in the fields of micro/nano technology such as integrated circuit manufacturing, precision instruments, ultra precision fabrication, biomedical manipulation. It has lots of advantages including high stiffness, fast response times, less heat...

Hoxc family transcription factors are expressed in different domains along the rostrocaudal (RC) axis of the developing spinal cord and they define RC identities of spinal neurons. Our previous study using an in vitro assay system demonstrated that Fgf and Gdf11 signals located around Hensen's node of chick embryos have the ability to induce profiled Hoxc protein expression. To investigate the ...

To satisfy the demands of the continuous zoom stereo microscope, a parfocality measurement method is proposed. First, the mechanical parameters of the focusing system are estimated by testing the highest and the lowest displacements of the lens group and the rotation angle of the knob simultaneously. Second, by analyzing images captured under different zoom rates, the relatively sharpest displa...

Soft materials have the advantage that their subsurface structure may be imaged utilizing imaging modalities such as ultrasound, magnetic resonance imaging, computed tomography (CT) scans, and optical coherence tomography. In recent decades subsurface displacement fi elds were successfully measured using these imaging modalities. These displacement fi elds are of time-harmonic, transient, or qu...

Multiple regression analysis was used in order to evaluate the independent contribution and combined use of mechanocardiographic indices for assessing cardiac function in 23 patients with coronary artery disease. Three indices were derived from the quantitative displacement left apex cardiogram: the time from the onset of electrical depolarisation to the peak of the first derivative (t peak dD/...

Based on the displacement monitoring sequence of cultural heritage, the stability of relics could be judged effectively by forecasting the displacement in the future. Through analyzing advantages and disadvantages of grey forecasting methods and neural network respectively , a new forecasting model of verhuslt radial basis function neural network was proposed. First, in this study,by use of the...