Narrative Interpretive Centers in Ray Bradbury’s Cistern: Exposing Internal and External Human Conflicts

X-ray Flares: Late Internal and Late External Shocks

We analyze several recently detected gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) with late X-ray flares in the context of late internal shock and late external shock models. We find that the X-ray flares in GRB 050421 and GRB 050502B originate from late internal shocks, while the main X-ray flares in GRB 050406 and GRB 050607 may arise from late external shocks. Under the assumption that the central engine has two...

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Internal Forces in Piles “Under External Forces and Earthquake in Homogeneous and Nonhomogeneous Media”

Exposing and exploiting internal parallelism in MEMS-based storage

MEMS-based storage has interesting access parallelism features. Specifically, subsets of a MEMStore’s thousands of tips can be used in parallel, and the particular subset can be dynamically chosen. This paper describes how such access parallelism can be exposed to system software, with minimal changes to system interfaces, and utilized cleanly for two classes of applications. First, background ...

Internal Forces in Piles “Under External Forces and Earthquake in Homogeneous and Nonhomogeneous Media”