PROBLEM STATEMENT When designing and evaluating asphalt pavements, engineers must have an understanding of how the pavement materials will react to the stresses and strains of vehicle loads at varying temperatures. When a load is applied to asphalt concrete at a certain temperature, to what degree will the pavement "bounce back" to its original height? Pavement designers predict this spring-lik...

Leakage resilient cryptography attempts to incorporate sidechannel leakage into the black-box security model and designs cryptographic schemes that are provably secure within it. Informally, a scheme is leakage-resilient if it remains secure even if an adversary learns a bounded amount of arbitrary information about the schemes internal state. Unfortunately, most leakage resilient schemes are u...

PURPOSE Finite element study on the effect of abutment length and material on implant bone interface against dynamic loading. MATERIALS AND METHODS Two dimensional finite element models of cylinderical implant, abutments and bone made by titanium or polyoxymethylene were simulated with the aid of Marc/Mentat software. Each model represented bone, implant and titanium or polyoxymethylene abutm...

PURPOSE This paper examines individual, family, and neighborhood level predictors of resilience in adolescence and young adulthood and describes changes in resilience over time from adolescence to young adulthood in abused and neglected children grown up. METHOD We use documented cases of childhood physical and sexual abuse and neglect (n=676) from a Midwestern county area during the years 19...

In Resilient IoT, the revenue of service provider is resilient to uncertain usage-contexts(e.g. emotion, environmental contexts) of Smart-device users. Hence, Autonomic Resilient IoT Management problem is decomposed into two subproblems, namely m-connectivity and k-dominance, such that m-alternations on revenue making process is resilient to users common interests, which might be depicted throu...

It is unclear whether there is variation in the impact of intimate partner violence (IPV) on child peer problems, and which individual and environmental factors might predict such variation. This study uses data from 7,712 children (3,974, 51.5% boys) aged 4 from the Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children (ALSPAC). Children were cross-categorized based on exposure to IPV from birth to ...

This paper presents a new approach for the determination of 3 − RPR planar parallel robot assembly modes. In this approach, the parallel robot is considered as a multi robot system. The segments are then regarded as serial robots moving a common load. The proposed approach is based on a parallel robot Jacobian matrix factorization. This factorization is an extension of global formalism develope...