Moonpool is an opening in the floor or base of a hull ship which can be used to lower tools and vehicles into the sea in a protected area. In this paper, the effect of a rectangular cross section moonpool on the resistance force of a supply vessel was investigated both by experimental and numerical methods. For both methods a 1:37.2 scale of Caspian3 surface vessel was used. Experiments were ca...

1603 Binaural recordings enable us to capture all sound attributes including spatial information, room effect, and source characteristics in a given environment. It has been shown that blocked-entrance binaural recordings provide advantages over open-entrance recordings, primarily because the blocked-entrance recordings are not influenced by the ear canal acoustics of the individual. However, b...

1. Supported by FCT grant PRAXIS XXI/BD/13875/97 Abstract This paper presents an original approach to the problem of function hiding based on Error Correcting Codes and evaluates the security of this approach. The novelty of the technique consists in using Error Correcting Codes to hide functions instead of encrypting data vectors. This protocol mainly deals with the issue of secure evaluation ...

The effect of the nucleon recoil for antikaon-deuteron scattering is investigated in the framework of effective field theory. In particular, we concentrate on the calculation of the nucleon recoil effect for the double-scattering process. It is shown that the leading correction to the static term that emerges at order ξ with ξ = MK/mN vanishes due to a complete cancellation of individually larg...

SARS-CoV-2 was identified as the pathogenic agent causing COVID-19 pandemic. Among proteins codified by this virus, Spike protein is one of most-external and -exposed. A fragment protein, named receptor binding domain (RBD), interacts with ACE2 receptors human cells, allowing entrance viruses. RBD has been proposed an interesting for development diagnosis tools, treatment, prevention disease. I...

energy consumption is very high in greenhouses mainly due to off-season production. the main source of its energy supply is fossil fuels. due to the disadvantages of fossil fuels consumption and preventive laws in the incoming years, study on reducing consumption and replacing a part of them with renewable energy is essential. in this research, a solar heating system, equipped with a concentrat...

The performance metric for tank cars and other hazardous materials vehicles involved in accidents has generally been conditional probability of release given involvement in an accident. This metric considers the probability of a release event occurring but does not take into account the quantity of product lost in a release incident. In this paper, a new metric termed “release risk” is introduc...