Long fiber-reinforced thermoplastics (LFTs) are an attractive design option for many engineering applications due to their excellent mechanical properties and processability. When processing these materials, the length of fibers inevitably decreases, which ultimately affects performance finished part. Since none existing modeling techniques can accurately predict fiber damage LFTs during inject...

In this paper, first we examine the usual treatment of temporal information and we recall the main features relative to the temporality analysis in texts. Then we deal with the formal representation of calendar expressions, and we provide a functional approach, based on a categorical representation of ordinals. Finally, an ongoing application providing a help for the reading of long biography i...

For several decades, Restoration studies have noted deficiencies in the treatment of the theology of leadership and of practical ecclesiology. This paper responds to the lack of research linking ecclesiology to organizational design and to the theology of leadership in the Church of Christ tradition by building upon the ecclesiological framework composed of theological tradition, church metapho...

In this note we use a functional approach to the integral to obtain a special case of the Keisler-Fubini theorem; the general case can be obtained with a similar proof. An immediate appUcation is the standard Fubini theorem for products of Radon measures. Similar methods give the Weil formula for quotient groups of compact Abelian groups.

Poly(vinylidene fluoride) (PVDF) fibers with two molecular weights were prepared via electrospinning process. In this process, the concentration of spinning depended drastically on the gelation process. Also, it was experimentally smaller than obtained concentration in the solution entanglement number approach (SENA). Proof of this incompatibility was explained by the properties of PVDF a...

In the history of adoption research, subjective norm mostly remains as the unloved child, being significant in this analysis and not significant in that analysis. Already Davis et al. had to exclude subjective norm of the Technology Acceptance Model due to theoretical and measurement problems. Overall the results of subjective norm as an antecedent for behavioral intention in IS research are qu...

In this paper we present an evolutionary approach for optimising the seedpoint setting in brain fiber tracking. Our aim is to use Diffusion Tensor Imaging (DTI) data and Diffusion Magnetic Resonance Imaging (dMRI) data for feeding an automatic fiber tracking approach. Our work focusses on customising an evolutionary algorithm to find nerve fibers within diffusion data and allocate an appropriat...

A new all-in-fiber trace-level chemical sensing approach is demonstrated. Photoconductive structures, embedded directly into the fiber cladding along its entire length, capture light emitted anywhere within the fiber's hollow core and transform it directly into an electrical signal. Localized signal transduction circumvents problems associated with conventional fiber-optics, including limited s...

Diffusion Tensor Imaging (DTI) in combination with fiber tracking algorithms enables visualization and characterization of white matter structures in the brain. However, the low spatial resolution associated with the inherently low signal-to-noise ratio of DTI has raised concerns regarding the reliability of the obtained fiber bundles. Therefore, recent advancements in fiber tracking algorithms...