This paper will describe recent work on the paving algorithm. The paving algorithm is an advancing front meshing method for generating quadrilateral elements on a general three dimensional surface. The work presented in this paper will describe the algorithmic changes to shift the paver from a row by row advancing front to an element by element method. This method modifies the paver to perform ...

Pollination is the mechanical transfer of male pollen of a flower on the female stigma.This process has a fundamental role to survive the plants species.Since this process is invisible ,its importance has been ignored.Insufficient pollination can be harmful for the farmer instead of being useful.Pollination can be done via some ways.The most important ways are done by insects and wind.Pistachio...

The data contained here were obtained from the National Highway Transportation Safety Administration׳s National Automotive Sampling System - Crashworthiness Data System (NASS-CDS) for the years 2008-2014. This publically available data set monitors motor vehicle crashes in the United States, using a stratified random sample frame, resulting in information on approximately 5000 crashes each year...

The front row of a rugby union scrum consists of three players. The loose head prop, hooker and tight head prop. The objective of this study was to determine if known biomechanical risk factors for triceps surae muscle injury are exhibited in the lower limb of front row players during contested scrummaging. Eleven high performance front row rugby union players were landmarked bilaterally at the...

As a first step in that campaign, some 120 researchers met late last month in Montreal to kick around ideas ranging from drilling beneath the martian surface to returning samples from one of its moons. “We look at this as the next major space program for Canada,” says Marc Garneau, recently named executive vice president of the Canadian Space Agency. “We want to be involved with Mars in more th...

Pictures and cinema seen at a slant present the optics of virtual objects that are distorted and inconsistent with their real counterparts. In particular, it should not be possible for moving objects on slanted film and television screens to be seen as rigid, at least according to rules of linear perspective. Previous approaches to this problem have suggested that some process (perhaps cognitiv...

Prize and Award recipients at the March meeting gather together for a group photo with sponsors of two of the awards. They are listed left to right, with an asterisk denoting the sponsors. Front row: Phaedon Avouris, Ivan Schuller, Jason Alicea, Giacinto Scoles, Arthur Ashkin, Andrew Lovinger, Dhiraj Sardar. Back row: Boris Altshuler, Ruud Tromp, Kennedy Reed, C. Paul Robinson, Kevin Lehmann, S...

OBJECTIVE To describe the anthropometric and physical performance characteristics of a sample of senior A club rugby players and to highlight differences between the positional categories of the players within the forwards and backs. METHODS 94 senior A male rugby players were assessed on a number of anthropometric and physical performance assessments. The forwards were categorised into props...