This paper describes the process of developing a model that relates the shear stresses in a gas welded aluminium alloy weldment with the corresponding flux constituent elements that make up the flux composition. This model, considering the initial composition ranges, from where 13 flux compositions were formulated and their shear stresses determined and transformed into a model. This model was ...

iv v Where flowers bloom, so does hope Abstract Modelling and Simulation (M&S) is a multidisciplinary field that is widely used in various domains. It provides a means to study complex systems before actual physical prototyping and helps lowering, amongst others, manufacturing and training costs. However, as M&S gains more popularity, the demand on reducing time and resource costs associated wi...

The article provides an insight into a problem of lexical semantic change. A short historical outline of the development of semantic studies is given. The authors analyze some of the most important stages in the history of the formation of this field. The existing approaches to dealing with form and meaning, namely semasiological and onomasiological ones are discussed. The authors consider the ...

The proliferation of sensor devices and services along with the advances in event processing brings many new opportunities as well as challenges. It is now possible to provide, analyze and react upon realtime, complex events about physical or social environments. When existing event services do not provide such complex events directly, an event service composition maybe required. However, it is...

Objective(s):Development of new generation of vaccines against leishmaniasis is possible because long-term protection is usually seen after recovery from cutaneous leishmaniasis. ISCOMATRIX is particulate antigen delivery system composed of antigen, cholesterol, phospholipid and saponin. In this study, the role of ISCOMATRIX bilayer composition made by different phase transition temperature (Tc...

In addition to the four grain size fractions of diamonds separated from the Efremovka (CV3) meteorite reported earlier [1], six more diamond size-fractions from the same meteorite have been generated with sizes both coarser and finer than the original set. Isotope analyses of C, N and noble gases in the new fractions confirmed most of the trends observed earlier for concentrations and isotopic ...

Smokes are used on the battlefield for signaling, for marking targets, and for screening troop movements. Many high-performance compositions are toxic or hazardous, while non-toxic alternatives offer sub-par performance. The environmentally benign compositions described herein use boron carbide as a pyrotechnic fuel to produce thick clouds of white smoke. Experimentation and thermodynamic model...

This article presents methods for the automatic retrieval of motion andmotion compositions in movies.We introduce a user-friendly sketch-based query interface that enables the user to describe desired motion compositions. Based on this abstract description, a tolerant matching scheme extracts shots from a movie with a similar composition. We investigate and evaluate two application scenarios: t...

An algorithm known as the Musical Imitation and Creativity Algorithm (MICA) that composes stylistic music based on a corpus of works in a given style is presented. The corpus works are digital music scores created from the widely available MIDI format. The algorithm restricts the note placement in compositions using a Markov chain model built from discrete-time representations of the corpus pie...