Nature\u27s DNA

Abstract The goal of this design was to utilize apparel design as a communication tool to represent the relationship between fashion, the human body, and natural scenery. The question we asked was how we can aesthetically appreciate the natural environment and how can we express the conceptual and material values of the relationship between fashion and natural scenery through the application of digital textile printing, digital pattern making, and textile designs. The designers explored methods for creating textile prints based on photographs of the Upper Antelope Valley from the first author’s own photo collection and utilized the structures of pattern making to express the flowing textures on the rock. This design demonstrates a successful design process, translating representational photographs of natural scenery into non-representational textile prints. The silhouette and structure of the garments are integrated with digital textile printing technology by strategically planning intricate digitized pattern pieces and the textile prints. Keywords: Digital textile printing, Modaris pattern making, Kale textile desig

Wireless Sensor networks and the Internet of Things

It is estimated that mobile internet devices that can act as sensors will outnumber humans this year (2013), and by 2015, there will be about 15 billion internet-connected devices. Related applications are thriving in commercial, civic, and scientific operations that involve sensors, web, and services, leading by both academic societies and industry companies. It is commonly accepted that the next generation of internet is becoming the “Internet of Things (IoT)” which is a worldwide network of interconnected objects and their virtual representations uniquely addressable based on standard communication protocols. Identified by a unique address, any object including computers, mobile phones, RFID tagged devices, and especially Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN) will be able to dynamically join the network, collaborate, and cooperate efficiently to achieve different tasks. With all these objects in the world equipped with tiny identifying devices, daily life on earth would undergo a big transformation

Study of Charging Nitrogen to External Floating Roof Tank to Prevent Rim-seal Fires from Lightning

AbstractIt is estimated that 95% of rim seal fires are caused by lightning strikes. To avoid rim-seal fires caused by lightning, the existing methods mainly focus on the use of secondary sealing to reduce volatilization of oil and the electrical connections measures such as air terminals, deflectors, grounding device, discharge shunts and scalable grounding device to avoid sparks caused by lightning current. But these devices can’t eliminate the spark generation thoroughly. A new method charging nitrogen to external floating roof tank seal ring is proposed to prevent rim-seal fires from lightning. In this paper, the safe oxygen content is set as the goal to charge nitrogen. An annular nitrogen charging pipe network is designed and its reliability is verified by experiment. The time of filling nitrogen to the seal ring of an external floating roof tank with the capacity of 10×104 m3 at the rate of 63.38 m3/h to reach the nitrogen charging goal is proved within the time of lightning warning through experiment. And this experiment can provide some reference to the application of nitrogen charging

Properties of a coupled two species atom-heteronuclear molecule condensate

We study the coherent association of a two-species atomic condensate into a condensate of heteronuclear diatomic molecules, using both a semiclassical treatment and a quantum mechanical approach. The differences and connections between the two approaches are examined. We show that, in this coupled nonlinear atom-molecule system, the population difference between the two atomic species plays a significant role in the ground-state stability properties as well as in coherent population oscillation dynamics.Comment: 7 pages, 4 figure

Magnon dark modes and gradient memory

Extensive efforts have been expended in developing hybrid quantum systems to overcome the short coherence time of superconducting circuits by introducing the naturally long-lived spin degree of freedom. Among all the possible materials, single-crystal yttrium iron garnet has shown up very recently as a promising candidate for hybrid systems, and various highly coherent interactions, including strong and even ultra-strong coupling, have been demonstrated. One distinct advantage of these systems is that the spins are in the form of well-defined magnon modes, which allows flexible and precise tuning. Here we demonstrate that by dissipation engineering, a non-Markovian interaction dynamics between the magnon and the microwave cavity photon can be achieved. Such a process enables us to build a magnon gradient memory to store information in the magnon dark modes, which decouple from the microwave cavity and thus preserve a long life-time. Our findings provide a promising approach for developing long-lifetime, multimode quantum memories.Comment: 18 pages, 12 figure