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Aspect oriented design (AOD) research is fragmented. Barriers to AOD adoption are, in part, due to the fragmented nature of AOD research. Individually, many approaches provide elegant solutions to subsets of particular key issues which relate to AOD. Collectively, a significant set of these issues are addressed. We propose integrating existing AOD approaches through a generic AOD process. It is...

We have developed an evaporative cooling technique that accelerates the rotation of an ultracold 87Rb gas, confined in a static harmonic potential. As a normal gas is evaporatively spun up and cooled below quantum degeneracy, it is found to nucleate vorticity in a Bose-Einstein condensate. Measurements of the condensate's aspect ratio and surface-wave excitations are consistent with effective r...

We use a new objective measure of illusory contour strength, threshold reduction for aspect ratio discrimination, to examine the effect of dynamics and relative phase on the Kanizsa illusion. We found no dependence of illusory contour strength on the relative phase of flickering inducers (in phase, antiphase, or in quadrature phase) either for the standard Kanizsa square, or for modifications t...

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We present high-precision measurements of the Nusselt number N as a function of the Rayleigh number R for a cylindrical sample of water (Prandtl number sigma=4.4) of height L approximately equal to 50 cm and aspect ratio Gamma identical with D/L approximately equal to 1 (D is the diameter) for 3 x 10(9)< or =R< or =6 x 10(10). For R approximately 3 x 10(9) the data are consistent with existing ...

It has been recently emphasized that the angle of maximum wave amplitude α in the wake of a disturbance of finite size can be significantly narrower than the maximum value α_{K}=sin^{-1}(1/3)≃19.47^{∘} predicted by the classical analysis of Kelvin. For axisymmetric disturbance, a simple argument based on the Cauchy-Poisson initial-value problem suggests that the wake angle decreases following a...

Reporters: Shigeru Chiba Associate Professor, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan Theo D’Hondt Professor, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium Examiners: Nancy Hitschfeld Assistant Professor, Universidad de Chile, Chile Éric Monfroy Professor, Université de Nantes, France Jacques Noyé Assistant Professor, École des Mines de Nantes, France Gustavo Rossi Professor, Universidad Nacional de La Plat...