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Stress concentration in a rubber sheet under axially symmetric stretching
Differential equations and numerical analysis for determining stress concentration and elastic deformation in rubber sheet under axially symmetric stretchin
Multiple Timescale Energy Scheduling for Wireless Communication with Energy Harvesting Devices
The primary challenge in wireless communication with energy harvesting devices is to efficiently utilize the harvesting energy such that the data packet transmission could be supported. This challenge stems from not only QoS requirement imposed by the wireless communication application, but also the energy harvesting dynamics and the limited battery capacity. Traditional solar predictable energy harvesting models are perturbed by prediction errors, which could deteriorate the energy management algorithms based on this models. To cope with these issues, we first propose in this paper a non-homogenous Markov chain model based on experimental data, which can accurately describe the solar energy harvesting process in contrast to traditional predictable energy models. Due to different timescale between the energy harvesting process and the wireless data transmission process, we propose a general framework of multiple timescale Markov decision process (MMDP) model to formulate the joint energy scheduling and transmission control problem under different timescales. We then derive the optimal control policies via a joint dynamic programming and value iteration approach. Extensive simulations are carried out to study the performances of the proposed schemes
aFold – using polynomial uncertainty modelling for differential gene expression estimation from RNA sequencing data
Data normalization and identification of significant differential expression represent crucial steps in RNA-Seq analysis. Many available tools rely on assumptions that are often not met by real data, including the common assumption of symmetrical distribution of up- and down-regulated genes, the presence of only few differentially expressed genes and/or few outliers. Moreover, the cut-off for selecting significantly differentially expressed genes for further downstream analysis often depend on arbitrary choices
Bounding the efficiency of road pricing
This paper deals with the following question associated with congestion pricing in a general network with either fixed or elastic travel demand: what is the maximum efficiency loss of a general second-best pricing scheme due to inexact marginal-cost pricing in comparison with the first-best pricing or system optimum case? A formal answer to this question is provided by establishing an inefficiency bound associated with a given road pricing scheme. An application of the methods is provided for the practical trial-and-error implementation of marginal-cost pricing with unknown demand functions
New structural approach for determining load carrying capability of filament wound composite materials
Metal lined boron and graphite composites exhibit high strength and minimum weight, making them superior to aluminum cylindrical shell structures and to steel or aluminum constructed pressure vessels. S glass filament-epoxy resin matrix with aluminum liner is suitable for cryogenic tanks
Ferromagnetism in Fe-doped Ba6Ge25 Chiral Clathrate
We have successfully synthesized a Ba6Ge25 clathrate, substituting 3 Fe per
formula unit by Ge. This chiral clathrate has Ge sites forming a framework of
closed cages and helical tunnel networks. Fe atoms randomly occupy these sites,
and exhibit high-spin magnetic moments. A ferromagnetic transition is observed
with Tc = 170 K, the highest observed Tc for a magnetic clathrate. However, the
magnetic phase is significantly disordered, and exhibits a transformation to a
re-entrant spin glass phase. This system has a number of features in common
with other dilute magnetic semiconductors.Comment: Submitted to Applied Physics Letters. Fig. 1 resolution reduced for
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