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Selective Laser Sintering as a Rapid Prototyping and Manufacturing Technique
With accelerating growth and competition in today's global marketplace, manufacturers
face the daunting tasks of meeting changing market needs, maintaining market share, and
reasserting a technological edge. Now, more than ever, adopting new technologies is a key
component in ensuring the successful outcome of new projects--and in producing longterm
market success.Mechanical Engineerin
Understanding the Sacred Undergarments: An Outsider\u27s Perspective
In the United States, clothing is seen as the expression of the person who is wearing it, and people have almost unlimited options for what to put on their body. Compared to early-twentieth-century standards, American culture now seems to allow most adults to dress much more provocatively because of the idea of individual freedom. One group that is openly fighting against the lack of standardized dress is the Latter-day Saints (the Mormon Church). Among the standards that the LDS Church has set for its members is that they are mandated to wear sacred undergarments. These clothing standards are set up to ensure that Mormons remain sexually chaste, both men and women, until they are married and sealed in the temple. These clothing standards are intended to remove any form of sexuality to the bedroom and limit it to private interactions between a husband and a wife. However, while clothing standards are established for both men and women, it is clear that the standards are stricter for women. These standards are harsher for women because the focus is on women’s bodies. Women control the sexual standards for both men and women of the church, so women’s bodies need to be covered up in order to protect the LDS society
Verification of Query Completeness over Processes [Extended Version]
Data completeness is an essential aspect of data quality, and has in turn a
huge impact on the effective management of companies. For example, statistics
are computed and audits are conducted in companies by implicitly placing the
strong assumption that the analysed data are complete. In this work, we are
interested in studying the problem of completeness of data produced by business
processes, to the aim of automatically assessing whether a given database query
can be answered with complete information in a certain state of the process. We
formalize so-called quality-aware processes that create data in the real world
and store it in the company's information system possibly at a later point.Comment: Extended version of a paper that was submitted to BPM 201
Tryptophan research in panic disorder.
A considerable body of evidence suggests the involvement of serotonin neurotransmission in the pathogenesis of panic disorder. Research on pathways and functions of tryptophan, an essential amino acid converted into serotonin, may advance our understanding of serotonergic actions in panic disorder and related phenomena. The investigative approaches in this field include manipulations of tryptophan availability as well as genetic association and functional brain imaging studies. In this review we examine the principle findings of these studies and propose further research directions
Query Stability in Monotonic Data-Aware Business Processes [Extended Version]
Organizations continuously accumulate data, often according to some business
processes. If one poses a query over such data for decision support, it is
important to know whether the query is stable, that is, whether the answers
will stay the same or may change in the future because business processes may
add further data. We investigate query stability for conjunctive queries. To
this end, we define a formalism that combines an explicit representation of the
control flow of a process with a specification of how data is read and inserted
into the database. We consider different restrictions of the process model and
the state of the system, such as negation in conditions, cyclic executions,
read access to written data, presence of pending process instances, and the
possibility to start fresh process instances. We identify for which facet
combinations stability of conjunctive queries is decidable and provide
encodings into variants of Datalog that are optimal with respect to the
worst-case complexity of the problem.Comment: This report is the extended version of a paper accepted at the 19th
International Conference on Database Theory (ICDT 2016), March 15-18, 2016 -
Bordeaux, Franc
Wind tunnel tests of Space Shuttle external tank insulation material in the aerothermal tunnel at elevated (1440 deg F) total temperatures
Tests of the space shuttle external tank foam insulation were conducted in the von Karman Gas Dynamics Facility Tunnel C. For these tests, Tunnel C was run at Mach 4 with a total temperature of 1440 F and a total pressure which varied from 30-100 psia. Cold wall heating rates were changed by varying the test article support wedge angle and by adding and removing a shock generator or a cylindrical protuberance. Selected results are presented to illustrate the test techniques and typical data obtained
The hardest part is knowing I will survive: The use of music and creative mediums to enhance empathy and facilitate life-long distance learning in professionally qualified clinicians
© Redfame Publishing Inc.Music is an experience that can cross personal and professional domains alongside cultural, gender, age and generational boundaries; it can also enhance the learning process through emotional processing and connection. This paper focuses on the learning experience of qualified clinical psychologists (CPs) working in the United Kingdom. This group of CPs had experience of undertaking experiential learning and reflective writing during their professional training. It considers the potential to continue a learning process, 3 years post qualification, through long distance methods using vignette-based material. Empathising with, and understanding, the position of others from differing backgrounds is an important competency within the therapeutic work of CPs and this comes alongside acknowledging and understanding ones‟ own experiences, both past and present. CPs work with difficult life experiences and complex issues; connecting constantly can be exhausting and, perhaps, unrealistic. Yet, to truly empathise one must connect with, and understand, the lived experiences of others. We will consider what helps and hinders this process, and how music and other creative mediums can be effectively used in learning even via long distance methods. We will further consider how CPs may be well placed to enhance the learning about, and processing of, difficult emotional experiences for themselves, other clinicians and the people they might work with.Peer reviewe
Mapping-equivalence and oid-equivalence of single-function object-creating conjunctive queries
Conjunctive database queries have been extended with a mechanism for object
creation to capture important applications such as data exchange, data
integration, and ontology-based data access. Object creation generates new
object identifiers in the result, that do not belong to the set of constants in
the source database. The new object identifiers can be also seen as Skolem
terms. Hence, object-creating conjunctive queries can also be regarded as
restricted second-order tuple-generating dependencies (SO tgds), considered in
the data exchange literature.
In this paper, we focus on the class of single-function object-creating
conjunctive queries, or sifo CQs for short. We give a new characterization for
oid-equivalence of sifo CQs that is simpler than the one given by Hull and
Yoshikawa and places the problem in the complexity class NP. Our
characterization is based on Cohen's equivalence notions for conjunctive
queries with multiplicities. We also solve the logical entailment problem for
sifo CQs, showing that also this problem belongs to NP. Results by Pichler et
al. have shown that logical equivalence for more general classes of SO tgds is
either undecidable or decidable with as yet unknown complexity upper bounds.Comment: This revised version has been accepted on 11 January 2016 for
publication in The VLDB Journa
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