Liability Factors and Conceptual Framework for Contracts to Manage Design for Digital Fabrication in Construction Projects

The adoption of digital fabrication - fabrication based on digital design - in the early design phase in projects requires a thorough understanding of the liability factors to design the contract. This paper addresses this issue using a two-stage research approach. First, a case study research maps the process from digital design to digital...

A stochastic model of geomorphic risk due to episodic river aggradation and degradation

In some steep valleys, flood-induced changes in river bed elevation pose significantly greater risks to infrastructure than floodwaters alone. Over the short term, the river may aggrade or degrade by several meters during a single flood. Whereas floodwaters recede after each event, moreover, riverbed changes add up over successive floods. To...

Quantum channel marginal problem

Given a set of local dynamics, are they compatible with a global dynamics? We systematically formulate these questions as quantum channel marginal problems. These problems are strongly connected to the generalization of the no-signaling conditions to quantized inputs and outputs and can be understood as a general toolkit to study notions of...

Discovery of Enterovirus A71-like nonstructural genomes in recent circulating viruses of the Enterovirus A species

Enterovirus A71 (EV-A71) is an important nonpolio enterovirus that causes severe neurological complications. In 1998, Taiwan experienced an EV-A71 outbreak that caused 78 deaths. Since then, periodic epidemics of EV-A71 associated with newly emerging strains have occurred. Several of these strains are known to be recombinant; however, how...

Observation of predator-prey dynamics and the universality class in transitional pipe turbulence

Near the onset to turbulence in pipes, around Re = 1700-2000, turbulent puffs decay either directly or, at higher Reynolds numbers through splitting, with characteristic time-scales that exhibit a super-exponential dependence on Reynolds number [3, 1, 7]. The goal of our work [5] is to understand the phenomenology of this transition in terms of...

A physical model of liquid helium

Cavitation inception for a two-dimensional half body in a uniform stream with a free surface and a solid bottom

Ultrasonic cavitation in liquid helium

The influence of the trajectories, and radial dynamics of entrained gas bubbles on cavitation inception

On the shock transition, the hydraulic jump, and Vortex breakdown