A shear-lag model with a cohesive fibre–matrix interface has been developed for the analysis of stress transfer between the fibre and the matrix in fibre-reinforced composites in this paper. A bilinear cohesive damage evolution law is used to describe the fibre–matrix interface behaviour. The governing equations for the interfacial shear stress and the axial stress in the fibre are derived. Acc...

this paper analyses and compares the performances of business-to-business e-commerce data quality and service quality among the use of the ‘push’ and ‘pull’ models. rosettanet’s original partner interface processes use the ‘push’ model which suffers from data redundancy when the volume of business-to-business transaction increases. however, when the ‘pull’ model is used, although it reduces dat...

The static pull-in instability of beam-type micro-electromechanical systems is theoretically investigated. Two engineering cases including cantilever and double cantilever micro-beam are considered. Considering the mid-plane stretching as the source of the nonlinearity in the beam behavior, a nonlinear size-dependent Euler-Bernoulli beam model is used based on a modified couple stress theory, c...

The allocation of inventory ownership affects the inventory availability in a supply chain, which in turn determines the supply chain performance. In this paper, we consider a supplier-retailer supply chain in which the supplier starts production well in advance of the selling season, and the retailer is offered two ordering opportunities at different points in time. An early order is allowed b...

Globally, many women are still disadvantaged when it comes to business opportunities. Entrepreneurship development programs, specifically designed to assist women entrepreneurs, are assisting in solving this problem to a certain extent. The purpose of this study is to identify the factors that motivate females to start their own business. Females, from three different groups (2013, 2014 and 201...

Let k = k be a quadratic number field with discriminant ∆. For n ≥ 0, we define fields k inductively by taking k as the compositum of all unramified quadratic extensions of k that are central over k. Then k(∞) = ⋃∞ n=0 k (n,2) is the 2-class field tower of k. In the following, we call k the n central 2-step. The structure of the Galois group Gal (k/k) of the first central 2-step is determined b...

We present a novel approach to deformable object manipulation that does not rely on highly-accurate modeling. The key contribution of this paper is to formulate the task as a Multi-Armed Bandit problem, with each arm representing a model of the deformable object. To “pull” an arm and evaluate its utility, we use the arm’s model to generate a velocity command for the gripper(s) holding the objec...

There are currently no objective criteria to evaluate pediatric hypotonia. The purpose of this pilot study was to identify diagnostic criteria for assessing hypotonia in children with neurofibromatosis type 1. Fifty-five subjects between the ages of 1 and 7 years with a diagnosis of neurofibromatosis type 1 were evaluated. A physical therapist recorded a subjective tone assessment and objective...

This paper examines the pull-in behavior of a bio-mass sensor with a cantilevered CNT actuated electrostatically by considering rippling deformation. Although this phenomenon can remarkably change the behavior of CNT, its effect on the performance of a CNT-based mass sensor has not been investigated thus far. This investigation is based on modified Euler-Bernoulli beam theory and rippling effec...

In the 3D object controlling or virtual space wandering tasks, it is necessary to provide the efficient zoom operation. The common method is using the combination of the mouse and keyboard. This method requires users familiar with the operation which needs much time to practice. This paper presents two methods to recognize the zoom operation by sensing users’ pull and push movement. People only...