Target cost management (TCM) is an innovation of Japanese management accounting system and by common sense has been considered with great interest by practitioners. Nowadays, TCM related
dissertations, papers, articles are widely being published in special journals both in North…

The lasing efficiencies and photochemical stabilities of laser
dyes useful in the 710-1080-nm spectral region have been investigated
using a Q-switched ruby laser pumping source. The measured bleaching
rates P defined as the probability of irreversible decomposition of a dye

Thrust-producing harmonically oscillating foils are studied through force and power
measurements, as well as visualization data, to classify the principal characteristics of
the flow around and in the wake of the foil. Visualization data are obtained using
digital particle image…

Visualization studies of the flow behind an oscillating tapered cylinder are performed
at Reynolds numbers from 400 to 1500. The cylinder has taper ratio 40:1 and is
moving at constant forward speed U while being forced to oscillate harmonically
in…

The estimation of the heave, pitch, roll, sway, and yaw motions of a DD-963 destroyer is studied, using Kalman filtering
techniques, for application in VTOL aircraft landing.

The governing equations are obtained from hydrodynamic considerations in the form of…

Significant progress has been made in understanding
some of the basic mechanisms of force production and flow manipulation
in oscillating foils for underwater use. Biomimetic observations,
however, show that there is a lot more to be learned, since
many of…

We describe the general phenomenon of ‘induced-charge electro-osmosis’ (ICEO) –
the nonlinear electro-osmotic slip that occurs when an applied field acts on the ionic
charge it induces around a polarizable surface. Motivated by a simple physical picture,
we calculate ICEO…

We present here a first step towards developing a quantitative model that relates investor emotions to financial markets. We used Wall Street Journal articles as a proxy of investor emotions on a "macro" level. We measured the emotional characteristic of…

Forces are measured at both ends of rigid cylinders with span 60 cm, performing
transverse oscillations within an oncoming stream of water, at Reynolds number
Re ~3800. Forced harmonic motions and free vibrations of uniform and tapered
cylinders are studied.…

We consider the nonlinear interaction problem of surface waves with a tethered
near-surface buoy. Our objective is to investigate mechanisms for nonlinear short
surface wave generation in this complete coupled wave-buoy-cable dynamical system.
We develop an effective numerical simulation capability…