We develop two complementary pipelines, "Zhang-Server" and "QUARK", based on I-TASSER and QUARK pipelines for template-based modeling (TBM) and free modeling (FM), and test them in the CASP12 experiment. The combination of I-TASSER and QUARK successfully folds three medium-size FM targets that have more than 150 residues, even though the interplay between the two pipelines still awaits further ...

In chip design, pipeline depth and cycle time are fixed early in the design process but their impact on physical design can only be assessed when the implementation is mostly done, making it impractical to change such parameters. Elastic Systems are insensitive to latency, and thus enable changes in the pipeline depth late in the design time with low effort. Nevertheless, current Elastic System...

Asynchronous circuit design is a promising technology for large-scale multi-core systems. As a family of asynchronous circuits, Quasi-delay-insensitive (QDI) circuits have been widely used to build chip-level long interconnects due to their tolerance to delay variations. However, QDI interconnects are vulnerable to faults. Traditional fault-tolerant techniques for synchronous circuits cannot be...

The main purpose of this study is to develop a Geospatial Information System (GIS) model with the ability to assess the seismic damage to pipelines for two well-known hazards, including ground shaking and ground failure simultaneously. The model that is developed and used in this study includes four main parts of database implementation, seismic hazard analysis, vulnerability assessment and sei...

Pipelines constitute the dominant inland transportation mode for crude oil and oil products. Lots of refined products such as gasoline, jet fuel and diesel are shipped from refineries and seaports to truck-loading terminals by multiproduct pipelines. Planning the operation of multiproduct pipelines is a very difficult task demanding efficient tools to get safe, on-time, low-cost and high-qualit...

In the structure theory of inverse semigroups, there are two approaches, basically from the 1970’s, to build up inverse semigroups from semilattices and groups via their semidirect products. These approaches are dual to each other in the sense that one produces any inverse semigroup from a semidirect product of a semilattice by a group by taking an idempotent separating homomorphic image of an ...

There are many results on the minimum distance of a cyclic code of the form that if a certain set T is a subset of the defining set of the code, then the minimum distance of the code is greater than some integer t. This includes the BCH, Hartmann-Tzeng, Roos, and shift bounds and generalizations of these (see below). In this paper we define certain projective varieties V (T, t) whose properties...

Branched or multiply branched iron oxide nanoparticles are synthesized, the crystal domains rearrange forming single crystalline structures, that is crucial for efficient magnetic hyperthermia.

This article presents a new graph-based algorithm for identifying branched metabolic pathways in multi-genome scale metabolic data. The term branched is used to refer to metabolic pathways between compounds that consist of multiple pathways that interact biochemically. A branched pathway may produce a target compound through a combination of linear pathways that split compounds into smaller one...

In many kinds of irregular media, propagating waves enter a beautiful and relatively neglected regime called branched flow. It affects sound, light, water, matter over vastly different length scales.