An [n, k] code C is said to be locally recoverable in the presence of a single erasure, and with locality parameter r, if each of the n code symbols of C can be recovered by accessing at most r other code symbols. An [n, k] code is said to be a locally recoverable code with sequential recovery from t erasures, if for any set of s ≤ t erasures, there is an s-step sequential recovery process, in ...

A recognition model which defines a measure of shape similarity on the direct output of multiscale and multiorientation Gabor filters does not manifest qualitative aspects of human object recognition of contour-deleted images in that: a) it recognizes recoverable and nonrecoverable contour-deleted images equally well whereas humans recognize recoverable images much better, b) it distinguishes c...

This work focuses on the stress-induced transformation in solutionized and overaged single-crystal NiTi alloys. The potential role of detwinning on the recoverable strains was investigated both theoretically and also with temperature-cycling experiments. The detwinning is the growth of one variant within a martensite in expense of the other. It is shown that the experimental recoverable strains...

The development of concurrent object-oriented programs, from a software engineering perspective, must possess a set of features to allow control of its inherent complexities, such as non-determinism. This dissertation contributes the definition of an approach for constructing concurrent object-oriented programs. The approach is rooted in a divide-and-conquer strategy, in which functional and no...

Among the multiple classes of mechanofluorochromic (MFC) compounds reported in recent years, simple donor–acceptor molecules involving oligooxyethylene N-substituted diphenylamine connected to a dicyanovinyl group by thienyl spacer constitute specific class mechano-stimulable smart materials with unique combination properties including turn-on mechanofluorochromism red-light photoluminescence e...

In this paper, we propose a novel design and fabrication strategy to produce architected core structures for use as the in composite sandwich structures. A traditional foam or honeycomb structure is lightweight stiff, but susceptible permanent deformation when subjected excessive loading. Here of an composed arrays hollow truncated cone unit cells that dissipate energy exhibit structural recove...

Real-life planning problems are often complicated by the occurrence of disturbances, which imply that the original plan cannot be followed anymore and some recovery action must be taken to cope with the disturbance. In such a situation it is worthwhile to arm yourself against possible disturbances by including recourse actions in your planning strategy. Well-known approaches to create plans tha...

The explosion in the volumes of data being stored online has resulted in distributed storage systems transitioning to erasure coding based schemes. Yet, the codes being deployed in practice are fairly short. In this work, we address what we view as the main coding theoretic barrier to deploying longer codes in storage: at large lengths, failures are not independent and correlated failures are i...

The area function of the vocal tract in all of its spatial detail is not directly computable from the speech signal. But is partial, yet phonetically distinctive, information about articulation recoverable from the acoustic signal that arrives at the listener's ear? The answer to this question is important for phonetics, because various theories of speech perception predict different answers. S...