The Geological Strength Index (GSI) system is the basis of parameters used in Hoek-Brown failure criterion for rock mass strength estimation. author tested this and here suggests a modified GSI called Index-slope (GSIslope). combines two different existing approaches: Slope Mass Rating (SMR). purpose GSIslope to allow engineering geologists quickly evaluate stability natural excavated slopes or...

We examine the authentication framework for Globus Security Infrastructure (GSI, the current grid security standard) and identify a weakness of poor scalability due to heavy interactions between a user-side client and many resource contribution sites. We propose an alternative authentication framework for GSI using authenticated session keys which are shared between two parties without any inte...

In this work we present the dielectron analysis of 4.5 billion Ag+Ag collisions ((0−40)% centrality) at a center-of-mass energy √ s NN = 2.55 GeV measured with HADES. The obtained signal spectrum is compared to simulated hadronic cocktail and nucleon-nucleon reference spectra revealing strong contribution from hot dense phases. average temperature collision system can be extracted slope in-medi...

To my parents iii ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS I am deeply grateful to my advisor, Dr. Meindl, for his guidance, motivation, and inspiration. I thank my committee members Dr. for many motivating and spirited discussions. I thank former GSI group members Azeez Bhavnagarwala, Keith Bowman, and Ragu Venkatesan, for many inspiring discussions. I thank Blanca Austin for helping me ramp up on my research by prov...

Genetic tools have a long history in fishery management, with the use of genetic " tags " to distinguish hatchery and wild trout described more than 20 years ago (Taggart and Ferguson 1984). More recently, the use of genetic stock identification (GSI) techniques have been used to elucidate ocean migration patterns and to estimate stock proportions in a mixed stock fishery context (e.g. Teel et ...

Snapshot Isolation (SI) is commonly used in some commercial DBMSs with a multiversion concurrency control mechanism since it never blocks read-only transactions. Recent database replication protocols have been designed using SI replicas where transactions are firstly executed in a delegate replica and their updates (if any) are propagated to the rest of replicas at commit time; i.e. they follow...

The DEcay SPECtroscopy (DESPEC) setup for nuclear structure investigations was developed and commissioned at GSI, Germany in preparation a full campaign of experiments the FRS Super-FRS. In this paper, we report on first employment hybrid configuration with AIDA implanter coupled to FATIMA LaBr3(Ce) fast-timing array, high-purity germanium detectors. Initial results are shown from carried out s...

S. Trotsenko, D. B. Thorn, G. R. Plateau, C. G. R. Geddes, N. H. Matlis, E. H. Esarey, M. Battaglia, C. B. Schroeder, S. Shiraishi, Th. Stöhlker, S. Tashenov, C. Tóth, and W. Leemans Helmholtz Institute Jena, 07743 Jena, Germany; GSI, 64291 Darmstadt, Germany; ExtreMe Matter Institute EMMI/GSI, 64291 Darmstadt, Germany; Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA; École Polyt...