the effect of a distributed patch mass on the natural frequency of vibration of a laminated rectangular plate with simply supported boundaries is investigated. the third order displacement field of a composite laminated rectangular plate is defined using the two variable refined plate theory. equations of motion of the plate are obtained with the help of calculus of variation. parametric study ...

Previous meta-analysis of genome-wide association (GWA) studies has identified 180 loci that influence adult height. However, each GWA locus typically comprises a set of contiguous genes, only one of which presumably modulates height. We reasoned that many of the causative genes within these loci influence height because they are expressed in and function in the growth plate, a cartilaginous st...

The errors in plate motion azimuths inferred from shear wave splitting beneath any one tectonic plate are shown to be correlated with the errors of other azimuths from the same plate. To account for these correlations, we adopt a two-tier analysis: First, find the pole of rotation and confidence limits for each plate individually. Second, solve for the best fit to these poles while constraining...

Fault reactivation plays a fundamental role in the generation of plate tectonics from mantle convection. Converging and transform plate margins are mechanically weak due to both preexisting faults and preserved shear zones within the crust and lithosphere, on the one hand, and continuous brittle failure of lithosphere, on the other hand. Transform margins are the site for nucleating new converg...

In this paper, first, an overview is given about the whole scenario of analogic CNN computing. Next, two areas on CNN Computing Technology are considered briefly: (i) the architectural advances, especially the variable resolution and adaptation in space, time, and value and (ii) the computational infrastructure from high level language and compiler to physical implementations. Three basic physi...

In this paper we examine ways to verify reference nets, a class of high level Petri nets supported by the Renew tool. We choose to restrict reference nets to hypernets, another nets-within-nets model more suitable for verification purposes thanks to an expansion toward 1-safe Petri nets. The contribution of the paper is the implementation of such analysis techniques by means of a Renew plugin. ...

This contribution presents the formalism of Elementary Object Systems (Eos). Object nets are Petri nets which have Petri nets as tokens – an approach known as the nets-within-nets paradigm. Since object nets in general are immediately Turing complete, we introduce the restricted class of elementary object nets which restrict the nesting of nets to the depth of two. One central aim of this contr...