Net-casting spiders' adjustable silk stiffness point to tunable fiber design

What makes spider silk so extraordinarily strong and elastic at the same time? This was the focus of recent investigations carried out by researchers from the University of Greifswald, the University ...
Le Lézard

Public and Private Works Projects Honored by Statewide Engineering Association

The American Council of Engineering Companies, California (ACEC California) and the ACEC California Scholarship Foundation, in partnership with public sector agencies and private companies, will ...
The Scientist

Spider Silk Threads May Inspire New Polymers

The remarkable silk used by net-casting spiders to snare prey is both highly elastic and exceptionally strong, offering clues ...
GitHub

Transport classes and utilities shared among .NET Elastic client libraries

This library was lifted from elasticsearch-net and then transformed to be used across all Elastic services rather than only Elasticsearch. Provides the clients connectivity components, exposes a ...
IEEE

Compressed sensing dynamic MRI reconstruction using multi-scale 3D convolutional sparse coding with elastic net regularization

Abstract: In this paper, we introduce a fast alternating method to reconstruct highly undersampled dynamic MRI data by using multi-scale 3D convolutional sparse coding. The proposed method ...
IEEE

A Support Vector Machine with Elastic Net Regularization and Radial Basis Function based Spectrum Sensing for Cognitive Radio Networks

Abstract: In recent years, communication technologies are growing significantly and Cognitive Radio (CR) networks is an expert system to adjust the radio spectrum. However, wireless communication ...