Path-addition is an operation that takes a graph and adds an internally vertex-disjoint path between two vertices together with a set of supplementary edges. Path-additions are just the opposite of taking minors. We show that some classes of graphs are closed under path-addition, including non-planar, right angle crossing, fan-crossing free, quasi-planar, (aligned) bar 1-visibility, and interva...

This article presents an improved Filtering Facepiece Respirator (FFR) designed to increase the comfort of wearers during low-moderate work. The improved FFR aims to lower the deadspace temperature and CO2 level by an active ventilation fan. The reversing modeling is used to build the 3D geometric model of this FFR; the Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) simulation is then introduced to investi...

Any non-affine one-to-one binary gate can be wired together with suitable inputs to give AN D, OR, N OT and fan-out gates, and so suffices to construct a general-purpose computer.

Three studies demonstrated that collective identity and identity threat shape representations of the physical world. In Study 1, New York Yankees fans estimated Fenway Park, the stadium of a threatening out-group (but not Camden Yards, the stadium of a neutral out-group) to be closer than did non-Yankees fans. In Study 2, the authors manipulated identity threat among people affiliated (or not) ...

In this paper we suggest a modification of classical Lupanov’s method [8] that allows building circuits over the basis {&,∨,¬} for Boolean functions of n variables with size at most 2n n ( 1 + 3 log n+O(1) n ) , and with more uniform distribution of outgoing arcs by circuit gates. For almost all Boolean functions of n variables in the circuits for these functions, which are built using our meth...

No dendritic spikes occur in the input fan of the lobular giant movement detector (LGMD) neurone. The action potentials are initiated at the point of thickening of the axon, which therefore represents the site of convergence of the retinotopic projection in the MD system. Previous work has shown that the site of decrement in response to repetitive visual stimulation is distal to this point. No ...

The present study aimed at assessing a novel annular-ducted fan lift system for VTOL aircraft through computational fluid dynamics (CFD) simulations. The power and lift efficiency of the lift fan system in hover mode, the lift and drag in transition mode, the drag and flight speed of the aircraft in cruise mode and the pneumatic coupling of the tip turbine and jet exhaust were studied. The resu...

The purpose of this study was to use computational fluid dynamics software Fluent, the numerical simulation to discuss the impact pressure within the flow channel device for flat radiator fan heat flow characteristics. Piezoelectric fan was placed in front of the flow channel, and the cold air flow was introduced to the radiator cooling fan, and thus generated vortex fluid in the flow path arou...

Properties similar to countable fan-tightness are introduced and compared to countable tightness and countable fan-tightness. These properties are also investigated with respect to function spaces and certain classes of continuous mappings.