Asus Tech. is the largest motherboard manufacturer in Taiwan. Hundreds of suppliers cooperate with the company in business. So that supplier selection is the most important function of a purchasing department in the enterprise. An enterprise resource planning (ERP) system in the process of supplier selection may result in the great savings in both costs and man hours. In the concept of push and...

We have analyzed the kinematical parameters of Cir X-1 to constrain the nature of its companion star, the eccentricity of the binary and the pre-supernova parameter space. We argue that the companion is most likely to be a low-mass (∼ 2.0M⊙) unevolved star and that the eccentricity of the orbit is 0.94 ± 0.04. We have evaluated the dynamical effects of the supernova explosion and we find it mus...

A four-leaf steel spring used in the rear suspension system of light vehicles is analyzed using ANSYS V5.4 software. The finite element results showing stresses and deflections verified the existing analytical and experimental solutions. Using the results of the steel leaf spring, a composite one made from fiberglass with epoxy resin is designed and optimized using ANSYS. Main consideration is ...

This paper investigates the effects of unequal compressive and tensile moduli of carbon fibre reinforced plastic (CFRP) composites. The basic assumption is based on the statistics that the compressive modulus is a fraction lower than the tensile modulus. Data evaluated by Finite Element Analysis (FEA) model, Classical Laminate Theory (CLT) model, and experiment are used to investigate these eff...

The homotopy analysis method is used to find a family of solitary smooth hump solutions of the Camassa–Holm equation. This approximate solution, which is obtained as a series of exponentials, agrees well with the known exact solution. This paper complements the work of Wu & Liao [Wu W, Liao S. Solving solitary waves with discontinuity by means of the homotopy analysis method. Chaos, Solitons & ...

Streptococcal Pyrogenic Exotoxin B-Induced Apoptosis in A549 Cells Is Mediated through v 3 Integrin and Fas Wan-Hua Tsai, Chia-Wen Chang, Yee-Shin Lin, Woei-Jer Chuang, Jiunn-Jong Wu, Ching-Chuan Liu, Pei-Jane Tsai, and Ming T. Lin* Institute of Basic Medical Sciences and Departments of Biochemistry, Microbiology and Immunology, Medical Laboratory Science and Biotechnology, and Pediatrics, Nati...

The instanton contributions to the partition function and to homologically trivial Wilson loops for a U(N) Yang-Mills theory on a torus T 2 are analyzed. An exact expression for the partition function is obtained as a sum of contributions localized around the classical solutions of Yang-Mills equations, that appear according to the general classification of Atiyah and Bott. Explicit expressions...

We demonstrate two ultra-low viscosity liquid crystal mixtures to enable field-sequential-color wearable displays for low temperature operation, while keeping a wide color gamut. Our mixtures offer ~4X faster response time than a commercial material at 20°C and ~8X faster at −20°C. Other major attractive features include: (1) submillisecond response time at room temperature and vivid color even...

Real-time positioning of a specific object in the big data environment can improve the monitoring and management capacity for network data. For the real-time positioning of the specific object, it is necessary to quickly search the network data representing a specific object and match its pattern strings and compare the corresponding Internet protocol (IP) address of the matched network data wi...

A parsimonious autoregressive model that is globally mean-reverting but locally driven by momentum is proposed. The local-momentum autoregression (LM-AR) model carries one extra parameter, and depending on the sign of this extra parameter, it can be either local momentumpreserving or momentum-building. The LM-AR model is motivated by observing US interest rate movement over many decades, which ...