The heat loss and surface temperature of the top surface and sidewall of large-scale floating roof tank is tested by the heat flow meter and surface temperature method. Based on the test data, the heat loss from the top surface is about twice more than that of the sidewall which means the top surface is the weakest insulation part of the floating roof tank. On the surface, the heat loss profile...

In the recent high speed processor, floating point ALU (FP ALU) is one of the important units to perform the arithmetic and logical functions of the floating point number. Floating point multiplication is one of the arithmetic operations that take more computational time and when implemented in hardware, it requires more area due to the large number of component. However the advantage of implem...

The fundamental property of Fano varieties with mild singularities is that they have a finite polyhedral Mori cone. Thus, it is very interesting to ask: What we can say about algebraic varieties with a finite polyhedral Mori cone? I give a review of known results. All of them were obtained applying methods which were originated in the theory of discrete groups generated by reflections in hyperb...

A new endmember extraction method has been developed that is based on a convex cone model for representing vector data. The endmembers are selected directly from the data set. The algorithm for finding the endmembers is sequential: the convex cone model starts with a single endmember and increases incrementally in dimension. Abundance maps are simultaneously generated and updated at each step. ...

Nerve growth is regulated by attractive and repulsive factors in the nervous system. Microscopic gradients of Collapsin-1/Semaphorin III/D (Sema III) and myelin-associated glycoprotein trigger repulsive turning responses by growth cones of cultured Xenopus spinal neurons; the repulsion can be converted to attraction by pharmacological activation of the guanosine 3',5'-monophosphate (cGMP) and a...

Axonal growth is believed to depend on microtubule transport and microtubule dynamic instability. We now report that the growth of axon collateral branches can occur independent of microtubule dynamic instability and can rely mostly on the transport of preassembled polymer. Raising embryonic sensory neurons in concentrations of either taxol or nocodazole (NOC) that largely inhibit microtubule d...

Offshore wind resources are abundant. Vertical axis turbines (VAWTs) suitable for working in the sea environment because of their low cost and high reliability. In this paper, an offshore floating inverted cone vertical turbine (ICVAWT) is proposed. The 3D unsteady computational fluid dynamics (CFD) method utilized to model ICVAWT. turbulence SST k−ω used solve Navier–Stokes equation, setting p...

i P is closed, nonempty, and P / {0}, ii a, b ∈ R, a, b ≥ 0, and x, y ∈ P imply that ax by ∈ P, iii x ∈ P and −x ∈ P imply that x 0. The space E can be partially ordered by the cone P ⊂ E; by defining, x ≤ y if and only if y − x ∈ P . Also, we write x y if y − x ∈ int P , where int P denotes the interior of P . A cone P is called normal if there exists a constant K > 0 such that 0 ≤ x ≤ y impli...

We present a theoretical analysis of fluid flow and particle interactions in the cone-plate viscometer under conditions typically applied in biological studies. The analysis demonstrates that at higher shear rates, besides linear primary flow in the rotational direction, prominent non-linear secondary flow causes additional fluid circulation in the radial direction. Two parameters, the cone ang...

Katsevich formula is currently a hot topic for cone-beam computed tomography (CBCT). The filter in the formula can be computed by a regular discrete Hilbert transform (DHT). A configurable single precision floating-point (SPFP) DHT processor is proposed for accelerating the calculation of filter in Katsevich formula. The configurable processor is of memory based architecture with one pipelined ...