As software is becoming larger and ever more complex, new Software Engineering approaches addressing these complexities arise—for example, Model Driven Development, Software Product Lines Engineering, and Aspect-Oriented Software Development (AOSD) [1, 4]. AOSD has in its core the principle of separation of concerns [3] which aims to simplify system development by allowing the developers to foc...

harvesting practices of potato is one of the most difficult, troublesome and sensitive stages. potatoes enter the machine with huge amounts of clod and stones: in the meantime separation of potato some stone and clod, which are the same size as of that the potatoes, shall be confide red a major problem. many methods of study by investigators are based on physical properties of potato, stone and...

We describe a new method of blind source separation (BSS) on a microphone array combining subband independent component analysis (ICA) and beamforming. The proposed array system consists of the following three sections: (1) subband ICA-based BSS section with estimation of the direction of arrival (DOA) of the sound source, (2) null beamforming section based on the estimated DOA, and (3) integra...

The bottom-up optimization of signal-to-noise ratios for SERS tags employing SAMSA fluorescein as the reporter was achieved using a bifunctional linker with low Raman cross section. By holding the nanoparticles at subnanometer separation, the linker allowed us to optimize the hot-spot thereby significantly reducing the fluorescence background.

A novel hydrocyclone sand washer featured by connecting a cylindrical and conical-cylindric in series was developed to improve the poor grading performance current machine-made processing technology. The former hydroycyclone with flat bottom designed enhance centrifugal intensity, thereby achieving pre-grading of fine coarse particles ensuring discharge most mud from overflow pipe. latter achie...

Extinction cross-section spectra of split-ring-resonator dimers have been measured at near-infrared frequencies with a sensitive spatial modulation technique. The resonance frequency of the dimer's coupled mode as well as its extinction cross-section and its quality factor depend on the relative orientation and separation of the two split-ring resonators. The findings can be interpreted in term...

We discuss the inclusive cross section to produce two minijets with a large separation in rapidity in high energy hadronic collisions. The contribution to the inclusive cross section from the exchange of a BFKL Pomeron is compared with the contribution from the exchange of two BFKL Pomerons, which is induced by the unitarization of the semi-hard interaction. The effect of the multiple exchange ...

Using data collected during the 1992-1993 collider run at Fermilab, CDF has made measurements of correlated b quark cross section where one b is detected from the lepton from semileptonic decay and the second b is detected with secondary vertex techniques. We report on measurements of the cross section as a function of the momentum of the second b and as a function of the azimuthal separation o...

This paper presents a model for Joule heating induced analyte dispersion in electrophoretic separation channels with a rectangular cross section. The model is in closed form and captures the effect of cross-sectional geometry. Three-dimensional numerical simulations are performed to satisfactorily verify the model, which can be used to accurately predict the performance of high speed electropho...

This note surveys and compares results in [12] and [21, 22] on the separation of variables construction for soliton solutions of curvature equations including the Kähler-Ricci flow and the Lagrangian mean curvature flow. In the last section, we propose some new generalizations in the Lagrangian mean curvature flow case.