There are changes afoot in the way that US granting agencies, most notably the NIH, evaluate proposals. Change can be a good thing, and it is probably high time that the NIH reassessed how grants are evaluated. Frankly, I was becoming blasé about the entire granting process. It seemed that once I became inured to the low probability of funding, competition from the mega-labs, and the shift towa...

Deep drawing is the process of obtaining three-dimensional containers certain depths and shapes under pressing forces with help molds sheet materials. In this study, numerical shaping rectangular cups in angled deep dies was investigated experimentally by using finite element method (FEM). For purpose, die/blank holder surfaces have α=0°, α=3°, α=6°, α=9°, α=12° α=15° angles order to facilitate...

†Hoogovens Research and Development, Product Application Centre, P.O. Box 10000, 1970 CA IJmuiden, The Netherlands, e-mail: [email protected] *University of Twente, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, P.O. Box 217, 7500 AE Enschede, The Netherlands, e-mail: [email protected] Automotive Tailored Blanks, P.O. Box 505, 3750 GM Bunschoten, The Netherlands, e-mail: bstokman@automoti...

Circular anchored maps have been proposed as a drawing technique to acquire knowledge from bipartite graphs, where nodes in one set are arranged on a circumference. However, the readability decreases when large-scale graphs are drawn. To maintain the readability in drawing large-scale graphs, we developed “sphere anchored maps,” in which nodes in one set are arranged on a sphere. We describe th...