Simulations of fluid-structure interaction (FSI) are increasingly being used to calculate the mutual interaction between a fluid flow and a flexible structure. Mature, reliable and optimized codes are readily available to solve flow equations or structural equations separately but the handful of monolithic codes which are able to solve all equations in an FSI problem simultaneously have not yet...

Semiconductor pixel detectors offer features for the detection of radiation which are interesting for particle physics detectors as well as for imaging e.g. in biomedical applications (radiography, autoradiography, protein crystallography) or in Xray astronomy. At the present time hybrid pixel detectors are technologically mastered to a large extent and large scale particle detectors are being ...

It is a truism that meaning depends on context. Corpus evidence now shows us that normal contexts can be summarised and indeed quantified, while the creative exploitations of normal contexts by ordinary language users far exceed anything dreamed up in speculative linguistic theory. Human linguistic behaviour is indeed rule-governed, but in recent years, corpus analysis (e.g. Hanks 2013) has sho...

Question answering (QA) systems focus on making sense out of data via an easy-to-use interface. However, these systems are very complex and integrate a lot of technology tightly. Previously presented QA systems are mostly singular and monolithic implementations. Hence, their reusability is limited. In contrast, we follow the research agenda of establishing an ecosystem for components of QA syst...

Any 2-bridge knot in S has a bridge sphere from which any other bridge surface can be obtained by stabilization, meridional stabilization, perturbation and proper isotopy.

Tutte’s famous 5-flow conjecture asserts that every bridgeless graph has a nowhere-zero 5-flow. Seymour proved that every such graph has a nowhere-zero 6-flow. Here we give (two versions of) a new proof of Seymour’s Theorem. Both are roughly equal to Seymour’s in terms of complexity, but they offer an alternative perspective which we hope will be of value.

This paper describes the design of the elastic body of a new torque sensor to measure torsion moment faithfully in the presence of strong overhang and thrust forces as well as bending moments. This feature, in conjunction with high stiiness makes this sensor an ideal choice for robotic applications. The structure inherently exhibits minimum strain sensitivities and compliances to all non-torsio...

The electro-tactile display with localized high-speed switching is a novel type of electro-tactile display based on H-Bridge circuit that uses only one electrical source at a time. By using this display electrical stimulations can easily be presented and measured simultaneously. In this paper, other new methods for electrical stimulation, including scan-type ectrical stimulation and dipole elec...

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