Understanding the phenomenon of droplet coalescence in nanoparticle suspensions is extremely important for the preparation of Pickering emulsions. A microfluidic platform, which can provide compulsive droplet collisions, was developed to imitate the droplet coalescence process in the early stages of emulsification. Microscope videos showed the variations in the droplet coalescence percentage, d...

A diverse collection of correctness statements have been proposed and used in microprocessor verification efforts. Correctness statements have evolved from criteria that match a single step of the implementation against the specification to seemingly looser, multi-step, criteria. In this paper, we formally verify conditions under which two categories of multi-step correctness statements logical...

A new method of numerical integration is presented here, the variable-step Störmer-Cowell method. The method uses error control to regulate the step size, so larger step sizes can be taken when possible, and is double-integration, so only one evaluation per step is necessary when integrating second-order differential equations. The method is not variable-order, because variable-order algorithms...

The usefulness and value of Multi-step Machine Learning (ML), where a task is organized into connected sub-tasks with known intermediate inference goals, as opposed to single large model learned end-to-end without sub-tasks, presented. Pre-optimized ML models are better performance obtained by re-optimizing the one. selection an from several small candidates for each sub-task has been performed...

Ab initio calculations at HF/6-31G* level of theory for geometry optimization and MP2/6-31G*//HF/6-31G*for total energy calculation are reported for Z-cyclooctene (1). The most favorable conformation of 1 is theunsymmetric boat-chair (1-BC) geometry. Potential energy profiles for two different boat-chair/boat-chairinterconversion processes were calculated. The process via a chair transition sta...