Stylolites are rough dissolution pairs of surfaces that are generated by stress induced solution. These irregular structures can be found in various rock types and are mainly filled with fine-grained insoluble material. Stylolites are known to represent self-affine structures that have characteristic statistical properties (Schmittbuhl et al., 2004). We therefore investigate the scaling behavio...

polymeric yarns for reinforcing cement composites have got great interest in all over the world. in this research the performance of bonding between nylon tire cord grad yarns, and one kind of cement composite called fine grained concrete was studied. two kinds of nylon cord yarns, nylon 6 and 66, with different finesse were selected. the durability of yarns with time in alkaline media was inve...

Authigenic seafl oor carbonate crusts include fenestrate microbialite, thrombolite, and four types here designated: Fine-grained Crust, Sparry Crust, Hybrid Sparry Fine-grained Crust, and Sparry Crust plus Coarse Grains. Each of the latter four types includes at least some layered examples that have generally been regarded as stromatolites. Recognition and interpretation of these various deposi...

The latest effective defense against code reuse attacks is fine-grained, per-process memory randomization. However, such process randomization prevents code sharing since there is no longer any identical code to share between processes. Without shared libraries, however, tremendous memory savings are forfeit. This drawback may hinder the adoption of fine-grained memory randomization. We present...

Given two images, we want to predict which exhibits a particular visual attribute more than the other—even when the two images are quite similar. For example, given two beach scenes, which looks more calm? Given two high-heeled shoes, which is more ornate? Existing relative attribute methods rely on global ranking functions. However, rarely will the visual cues relevant to a comparison be const...

We performed experiments on two fine-grained classification tasks using a state-of-the-art pipeline (descriptor + dictionary + LLC encoding + max pooling + linear SVM). We found that this standard pipeline out-performed a dictionary-free classification technique (stacked evidence trees) that was specifically designed for fine-grained classification. The success of the method depends on two fact...

Monolithic operating systems (OSes) are complex pieces of software that usually offer very little reliability and security guarantees. Faulty user-space applications can generally be restarted without affecting the existing concurrent communications but those involving the faulty processes. On the other hand, in a monolithic OS design, the kernel and all its components share a common address sp...

Most conventional text retrieval methods are designed to search for documents. However, users often do not require documents themselves, but are searching for specific information that may come from a large collection of texts quickly. To satisfy this need, we have developed a model and two methods for fine-grained searching. The unit of search in this model is called an atom, and it can be a s...