CALIBRATION AND RANKING OF COARSE-GRAINED MODELS IN MOLECULAR SIMULATIONS USING BAYESIAN FORMALISM Hadi Meidani,1,∗ Justin B. Hooper,2 Dmitry Bedrov,2 & Robert M. Kirby3 1Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, 1211 Newmark Civil Engineering Laboratory, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL 61822, USA 2Department of Materials Science & Engineering, 206 Civil and Mate...

Population growth followed by the dramatic increase and demand for new services created an urgent and overwhelming need for infrastructures of civil engineering structures. However, the current infrastructure work using various techniques and conventional materials for construction will not solve the traditional and continuous deterioration of concrete structures due to corrosion of steel. One ...

The difficulties of managing and coordinating operations as firms expand are expected to increase disproportionately with firm size. If firms face such diseconomies of managing, then acquisitions should make the combined entity more difficult to manage than the two entities operating independently. To document the existence of diseconomies of managing in acquisitions, we examine the change in c...