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Realistic surgical simulation requires a combination of representative tissue geometry, accurate tissue material properties and lifelike tool-tissue interaction forces. Recent advances in computational power and imaging modalities have provided the capability to represent the anatomical details required for surgical training; however, the mathematical models which govern the underlying tissue pro ...

BioMojo LLC and the Departments of Mathematics and Biomedical Engineering at the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, will develop a preliminary bio mathematical model framework to represent how human tissues interact and behave at their boundaries. Tissue interaction properties (e.g. tensile, shear, friction, and so forth) of connective, epithelial, muscular, and nervous tissue including su ...

With 27% of the world’s coal reserves located in the United States, development of a clean, efficient, and economically viable pathway to coal utilization is of strategic importance. Development of advanced coal-to-liquids technologies provides this direct pathway, while improving energy security, reducing coal environmental footprint, and promoting economic development directly in the communiti ...

The particle accelerators and detectors needed for future high energy physics devices require magnetic fields higher than those that can be produced by the low-temperature superconductor (LTS) technologies used in present-day superconducting magnets (SCMs). High temperature superconductor (HTS) materials, however, have the potential to generate very high magnetic fields, offering a technological p ...

High repetition rate (0.5-3 GHz) mode-locked laser source with ten-watt- level average power and with an ultra-broad wavelength tunable range of 700-850 nm is solicited by Department of Energy (DOE) to drive polarized photon-injectors for the accelerator applications. Although Ti:Sapphire laser systems have been dominant at this wavelength range, it is still very challenging to achieve 10-watt ave ...

The instrumental problem of measuring both precise transverse position of a particle beam and its fluence (intensity) has been a long-standing experimental challenge. While hardly any instrument is truly universal with respect to varying dynamic range requirements and resolution, a versatile, mechanically robust device that is radiation -resistant and relatively inexpensive, can find a wide array ...

Light olefins such as ethylene and propylene are very important high volume commodity chemicals with production value more than $200B. These are used as building blocks for many essential chemicals and products. A major portion of the capital and operating cost in olefin production is for the olefin-paraffin separation by cryogenic distillation, which is highly energy and capital intensive consumi ...

There is widespread concern regarding carbon emissions from fossil fuels, resulting in a drive towards improved efficiency in reactor (boiler) performance while reducing carbon emissions. Coal will continue to be a primary source of energy for economic growth for the foreseeable future, thus there is a push to reduce net carbon emissions of coal operated plants by replacing part of the coal with b ...

Achieving a systems-level understanding of science associated with climate change is a key topic within the DOE mission. Light absorbing particles are an important atmospheric constituent and have a direct impact on climate. They also impact air quality and health and human activities play a major role in their abundance and distribution. There is a critical need for improved observational capacit ...

Prime Solutions Group, Inc (PSG) has an emerging line of business in power and energy with existing Big Data and is proposing tools, techniques, algorithms. Prime Solutions Group propose in this Big Data to support answers to utility operations research questions of existing and future system architecture control. The result is expected to demonstrate new Big Data analysis techniques leveraging mo ...