Peristaltic transport of a fluid in channels has been a subject of great interest for the last four decades. Such interest is motivated by several applications of peristaltic flows in engineering and industry. In animals and human bodies, the physiological fluids pumped by the muscular oscillations which correspond to peristaltic activity. In particular, the flow of blood through arteries and v...

This paper investigates the diverging incentives for product quality in a channel with two asymmetric retailers and a common supplier. When retailers differ in terms of service provision and channel power, changes in manufactured quality cause channel conflicts. In particular, our results show that if the low service retailer becomes dominant in the channel, it may induce a low level of quality...

o bjectives: headgears are among the effective orthodontic appliances to achieve treatment goals. unilateral molar distal movement is sometimes needed during an orthodontic treat- ment, which can be achieved by an asymmetric headgear. different unilateral headgears have been introduced. the main goal of this study was to analyze the force system of uni- lateral expanded outer bow asymmetric hea...

A key challenge in censorship-resistant web browsing is being able to direct legitimate users to redirection proxies while preventing censors, posing as insiders, from discovering their addresses and blocking them. We propose a new framework for censorship-resistant web browsing called CensorSpoofer that addresses this challenge by exploiting the asymmetric nature of web browsing traffic and ma...

This paper presents an Interleaver-Division Multiple Access (IDMA) based architecture with single-user decoding using parallel concatenated non-linear trellis codes (PC-NLTCs). These PC-NLTCs are designed specifically for the Z-Channel that arises in a multiple-user OR channel when each user treats the other users as noise. Over the OR Multiple Access Channel (OR-MAC) single-user decoding permi...

Abstract Innovative selling channels have brought about opportunities as well challenges for upstream manufacturers. The past few years witnessed both the success and failure of manufacturers with different channel strategies. To explore rationale strategies in various contexts, we develop a model to analyze manufacturer's selection decision among three strategies, i.e., direct-channel strategy...

This paper presents the bit error rate (BER) upper bounds for trellis coded asymmetric 8PSK (TC-A8PSK) system using the Ka-band satellite in the rain fading environment. The probability density function (PDF) for the rain fading random variable can be theoretically derived by assuming that the rain attenuation can be approximated to a log-normal distribution and the rain fading parameters are c...

We propose to study hadron-hadron scattering using lattice QCD in an asymmetric box which allows one to access more non-degenerate low-momentum modes for a given volume. The conventional Lüscher’s formula applicable in a symmetric box is modified accordingly. To illustrate the feasibility of this approach, pion-pion elastic scattering phase shifts in the I = 2, J = 0 channel are calculated with...

We propose to study hadron-hadron scattering using lattice QCD in an asymmetric box which allows one to access more non-degenerate low-momentum modes for a given volume. The conventional Lüscher’s formula applicable in a symmetric box is modified accordingly. To illustrate the feasibility of this approach, pion-pion elastic scattering phase shifts in the I = 2, J = 0 channel are calculated with...

Dynamic decision problems with cooperative and strategic agents and asymmetric information by Deepanshu Vasal Chair: Achilleas Anastasopoulos There exist many real world situations involving multiple decision makers with asymmetric information, such as communication systems, social networks, economic markets and many others. Through this dissertation, we attempt to enhance the conceptual unders...