In layered and blocky rock slopes, toppling failure is a common mode of instability that may occur in mining engineering. If this type of slope failure occurs as a consequence of another type of failure, it is referred to as the secondary toppling failure. “Slide-head-toppling” is a type of secondary toppling failures, where the upper part of the slope is toppled as a consequence of a semi-circ...

Determination of the maximum temperature and its location is the matter of the greatest importance in many technological and scientific engineering applications. In terms of numerical calculations of the heat conduction equation by using uniform mesh increments in space, large computational cost is sometimes countered. However, adaptive grid refinement method could be computationally efficient ...

Since the inception of next-generation mRNA sequencing (RNA-Seq) technology, various attempts have been made to utilize RNA-Seq data in assembling full-length mRNA isoforms de novo and estimating abundance of isoforms. However, for genes with more than a few exons, the problem tends to be challenging and often involves identifiability issues in statistical modeling. We have developed a statisti...

A new method is presented for modeling contact surfaces in Lagrangian cell-centered hydrodynamics (CCH). The contact method solves a multi-directional Riemann-like problem at each penetrating or touching node along the contact surface. The velocity of a penetrating or touching node and the corresponding forces are explicitly calculated using the Riemann-like nodal solver. The contact method wor...

A new method is described to handle slide lines in cell-centered Lagrangian schemes for the modeling of sliding problems between two fluids in the framework of compressible hydrodynamics. The method is an extension of the one proposed in the reference [1] and is conservative in momentum and total energy. Our method is based on the minimization of an objective function over a specific set that m...

Recent approximation algorithms (e.g., CounterStacks, SHARDS and AET) make lightweight, continuouslyupdated miss ratio curves (MRCs) practical for online modeling and control of LRU caches. For more complex cache-replacement policies, scaled-down simulation, introduced with SHARDS, offers a general method for emulating a given cache size by using a miniature cache processing a small spatially-h...

3D modeling of industrial parts is the key foundation and preceding step of 3D inspection and measurement of industrial parts. The common characteristic of industrial parts is that its surface is sleeky, homogeneous and lack of the texture. So the key difficulties in 3D modeling of industrial parts are the matching and the extraction of the suitable texture and the makeup of the 3D model. The p...