As the coupling in a heterogeneous excitable medium is reduced, three different types of behavior are encountered: plane waves propagate without breaking up, plane waves break up into spiral waves, and plane waves block. We illustrate these phenomena in monolayers of chick embryonic heart cells using calcium sensitive fluorescent dyes. Following the addition of heptanol, an agent that reduces t...

In this paper, we have addressed the design and simulation results of an electrothermally driven micromirror that is capable of producing in-plane as well as out-ofplane displacements. The coupled multiphysics simulation and study of the electrical, thermal and most importantly the mechanical behavior of the mirror system is done using COMSOL Multiphysics. The device has an in-plane displacemen...

We study the asymptotic behavior of the largest part size of a plane partition ω of the positive integer n, assuming that ω is chosen uniformly at random from the set of all such partitions. We prove that this characteristic, appropriately normalized, tends weakly, as n → ∞, to a random variable having an extreme value probability distribution with distribution function, equal to e−e −z ,−∞ < z...

Multi-point data distribution for synchronous multimedia communication poses interesting problem for networking environment usually implemented by either native or virtual multicast. In this paper, we describe and evaluate a scalable network of Active Elements (AE) that implements user-empowered virtual-multicast overlay network for synchronous data distribution and processing in the network. T...

We provide a framework to build periodic boundary conditions on the pseudosphere (or hyperbolic plane), the infinite two-dimensional Riemannian space of constant negative curvature. Starting from the common case of periodic boundary conditions in the Euclidean plane, we introduce all the needed mathematical notions and sketch a classification of periodic boundary conditions on the hyperbolic pl...

Digital planes are sets of integer points located between two parallel planes. We present a new algorithm that computes the normal vector of a digital plane given only a predicate is a point x in the digital plane or not . In opposition with the algorithm presented in [7], the algorithm is fully local and does not explore the plane. Furthermore its worst-case complexity bound is O(ω), where ω i...

In joints with 3 degrees of freedom, such as the shoulder joint, the association of different movements results in changes in the behavior of the moment arm of the muscles. The capacity of torque production for the same movement can be changed when movements take place in a different plane. The objective of this study is to quantify differences between torque production and resultant force esti...