Mentat is an object-oriented parallel processing system developed at the University of Virginia which has been ported to a variety of MIMD architectures. The computation model employed by Mentat is macro data-flow (MDF), a medium grain, scalable, data-driven computation model that supports both high degrees of parallelism and the object-oriented paradigm. A key aspect of the model is that it ca...

Introduction The surface Electromyography (EMG) signal detected during a voluntary isometric muscle contraction is a random, non-stationary signal. It is well known that during a sustained contraction the EMG signal becomes progressively ‘slower’. This is a manifestation of muscle fatigue and can be quantified by monitoring specific variables, which indicate the change that occurs over time. Th...

Wood-based composite panels generally are first tested out-of-plane in the primary panel direction followed by the cross panel direction, but rarely edgewise. While most applications use wood-based composites in the flat-wise orientation and only need the out-of-plane properties, there are construction configurations where edgewise properties are needed for improved design configurations. A squ...

Poultry is a crucial global protein source.However, processing creates sizable quantities of feathers as by-product. Identifying suitable uses for these poses major challenge. One possible use would be an extender in medium density fiberboards (MDF). At the same time, might also modify inherent fire resistance resulting panels, suggesting need additives to enhance performance. The potential usi...

In wood-based composite panels, low-molar ratio (LMR) urea-formaldehyde (UF) resins usually result in reduced formaldehyde emission (FE) at the expense of poor adhesion. However, FE and adhesion medium-density fiberboard (MDF) bonded with LMR UF were both improved this study. The modified transition metal ion-modified bentonite (TMI-BNT) nanoclay simultaneously MDF panels. 5% TMI-BNT resulted a...

Silver is a tool used by automotive development engineers to integrate and test control software virtually us ing simulation on Windows PCs. Silver provides built-in support for automotive standards such as A2L, MDF, CAN, and XCP to perform co-execution of control software and vehicle simulation models. In this paper, we describe Silver and its application to automotive software development.

The “Name Your Price” model is based on the idea of negotiation which is held via electronic means and has as its main goal equal satisfaction among all parties, namely customer, service provider and supplier. One or more customers using a web platform, which implements this model, can register their orders for a specific product and offer the price they are willing to pay in order to purchase ...