Transient excitation currents generate electromagnetic fields which, in turn, induce electric currents in proximal conductors. For slowly varying fields, this can be described by the eddy current equations, which are obtained by neglecting the dielectric displacement currents in Maxwell’s equations. The eddy current equations are of parabolic-elliptic type: In insulating regions, the field inst...

Hybrid laminates, such as fiber metal are increasingly used in engineering applications due to their outstanding damage tolerance and weight-specific performance. Prone vibrations, laminates have recently been complemented by viscoelastic elastomer layers order achieve a desired level of damping following the principles constrained layer damping. This paper presents an analytical modeling appro...

A unified multi-stage power-CMOS-transmission-gate-based quasi-switched-capacitor (QSC) DC-DC converter is proposed to integrate both step-down and step-up modes all in one circuit configuration for low-power applications. In this paper, by using power CMOS transmission gate as a bi-directional switch, the various topologies for step-down and step-up modes can be integrated in the same circuit ...

We present a novel unified framework for explicitly parameterizing white fiber tracts. The coordinates of tracts are parameterized using a Fourier series expansion. For an arbitrary tract, a 19 degree cosine expansion is found to be sufficient to reconstruct the tract with an error of about 0.26 mm. By adding specific periodic constraints to open tracts, we can avoid using the sine basis. Then ...

A new multiresolution wavelet model is presented here, which accounts for brightness assimilation and contrast effects in a unified framework, and includes known psychophysical and physiological attributes of the primate visual system (such as spatial frequency channels, oriented receptive fields, contrast sensitivity function, contrast non-linearities, and a unified set of parameters). Like ot...

Process scheduling is a classical problem in the field of production planning and control; in particular, effective job shop scheduling remains an essential component in today’s highly dynamic and agile production environment. This paper presents unified framework for solving generic job shop scheduling problems based on the formulation of a job shop into three main classes of problem, namely, ...

Existing algorithms for joint clustering and feature selection can be categorized as either global or local approaches. Global methods select a single cluster-independent subset of features, whereas local methods select cluster-specific subsets of features. In this paper, we present a unified probabilistic model that can perform both global and local feature selection for clustering. Our approa...