What is optimization in engineering ?

Under the perception of genetic programming, symbolic regression, and many other forms of optimization including automated synthesis of generic dynamical systems, is there a clear definition of...

09 October 2018 3,536 1 View

Are multiple time-scales world-class collaborations more productive for scientific careers?

Complex phenomena are really disturbing sometimes. Especially when we think in terms of multirate filter banks and nonlinear time-frequency distributions, rather than traditional statistics. Can...

07 August 2015 2,904 0 View

Is the 'Speculative Realism', more specifically the Object-Oriented Philosophy, the fundamental framework of modern science, engineering and learning?

07 August 2015 2,713 0 View

Who would want to cooperate with experimental results in a stochastic dynamical Preisach model for Barkhausen noise?

07 August 2015 2,878 3 View

What is the relation between the Fermi-Pasta-Ulam (FPU) problem and swarm synchronization algorithms with embedded artificial intelligence?

A Mathematical Explanation for the Fermi-Pasta-Ulam System Problem First Proposed in 1953 - http://news.rpi.edu/content/2015/03/23/solution-1953-fermi-pasta-ulam-problem Google robot army and...

06 July 2015 1,635 0 View

Is the supervenience of biologic first principles related to bio-inspired computer architectures, telomeres and artificial intelligence?

Cell division is a noisy process and needs an error-correction technique trough added redundancy in a form of apparent useless pieces of DNA. Telomere measure the level of fitness of an individual...

06 July 2015 3,734 0 View

Is it possible to create a UML-based information-theoretic dynamical model for protein biosynthesis?

06 July 2015 3,864 4 View

From concept to implementation: May the plethora of argumentation break the achievement gap of the underdeveloped world?

Social impacts of upcoming one petaflop home computers. Industrial impacts of upcoming one teraflop low-cost digital signal processors. Widespread use of visual languages and symbolic mathematics....

06 July 2015 8,285 0 View

Are the technological changes increasing the odds of failure in the Western social contract?

Alternatively, is our secular esthetic perception of Harmonices Mundi in collision with the effects of disruptive innovations? It seems that socioeconomic organizations evolve in time and space in...

06 July 2015 6,164 0 View

Are ferroelectronics, metamorphosis and adaptable resilient chips correlated in terms of manufacture?

Nanotechnology and the begin of transhumanization. The hardsoftware operating system may run an evolutionary self-organized and self-replicating algorithm to solve complex problems while capable...

06 July 2015 9,750 0 View

Why does blocking with my immunogenic peptide cause nuclear fluorescence in ICC?

Hi all, I am validating a polyclonal antibody raised against human ANT4, through WB and ICC. In most of my controls, the antibody shows very little off-target binding, but when I pre-incubate the...

03 March 2021 5,999 3 View

Irradiation data for JAPAN?

Hi, Could you help me to get the latest (2019, 2020) solar resource data for a particular site in JAPAN? PV GIS and NSRDB data are not in reach to JAPAN, I'm looking for some other database for...

03 March 2021 961 3 View

Why are the velocities so high in my Boussinesq approximation Fluent simulation?

Hello, I have a mechanism where air rises due to convective flows. In this simulation, nothing is driving the air except this. I understand that the Boussinesq approximation only works for small...

02 March 2021 4,910 3 View

Does Napabucasin soluble in dichloromethane and in ethanol?

I need to prepare a solution of Napabucasin (inhibitor of cancer cell stemness) in dichloromethane. The drug is expensive, so maybe somebody already tried to do it. If it is soluble, what is the...

02 March 2021 9,945 3 View

Help request in CST microwave?

im working now on TPV solar cells and metamaterials and i realy need our help in CST microwave i have a tpv cell simulation and i want to extract particullarly the absorbtion of only the active...

02 March 2021 2,246 2 View

What are anisotropic electrical and optical properties of a semiconductor due to?

In some materials, properties such as band gap, thermal conductivity differ along different crystallographic axes. What are the basics?

01 March 2021 1,923 3 View

Anyone found any research papers on solar furnace design calculations (for solar concentration)?

I am thinking about working on solar furnace with heliostats that concentrate sunlight and heat molten salt, but currently no luck with research. Not a lot of papers based on the subject. (check...

01 March 2021 5,023 5 View

How to size battery banks?

I am designing a small grid connected solar PV power-plant. As the battery's capacity is specified in Ah and demand in kWh. What is the best way to size the battery bank? I have battery price in...

28 February 2021 1,638 3 View

Dapi fluorescence protocol for colon cell lines ?

28 February 2021 2,534 2 View

How to design a boost converter for a mppt controller?

I have a doubt on how to select the inductor and capacitor value when I want to implement MPPT controller. This is because we always take a maximum output voltage and current but in this case, we...

28 February 2021 3,637 2 View