The enigma of MAX phases and their hybrids prevails. We probe transition metal (M) alloying in MAX phases for metal size, electronegativity, and electron configuration, and discover ordering in these MAX hybrids, namely, (V2/3Zr1/3)2AlC and (Mo2/3Y1/3)2AlC. Predictive theory and verifying materials synthesis, including a judicious choice of alloying M from groups III to VI and periods 4 and 5, ...

hyperdiamonds are covalently bonded fullerenes in crystalline forms, more or less related todiamond, and having a significant amount of sp3 carbon atoms. design of severalhypothetical crystal networks was performed by using our original software programscvnet and nano-studio. the topology of the networks is described in terms of the netparameters and several counting polynomials, calculated by ...

Web 2.0 is beyond a jargon describing technological transformation: it refers to new strategies, tools and techniques that encourage and augment informed, creative and social inter(actions). When considered in an educational context, Web 2.0 provides various opportunities for enhanced integration and for improving the learning processes in information-rich collaborative disciplines such as urba...

In this paper, a new approach for the reconstruction of a 3D plane by solving the geometry of two perspective projections of the plane is presented. It is assumed that the position and the orientation of one camera are known with respect to the other one. The correspondence between the object space and image planes is established using the collinearity equation. The projection of the original p...

Physiologically interactive (or affective) gaming refers to research on the evocation and detection of emotion during game play [21]. In this paper, we first describe the two building blocks of our approach to affective gaming. The building blocks correspond to two independently conducted research strands on affective human–computer interaction: one on an emotion simulation system for an expres...

The human singing voice is highly expressive instrument capable of producing a variety of complex timbres. Singing synthesis today is popular amongst composers and studio musicians accessing the technology by means of offline sequencing platforms. Only a couple of singing synthesizers are known to be equipped with both the real-time capability and the user interface to successfully target live ...

The estimation of genetic linkage maps is a key component in plant and animal research, providing both an indication of the genetic structure of an organism and a mechanism for identifying candidate genes associated with traits of interest. Because of this importance, several computational solutions to genetic map estimation exist, mostly implemented as stand-alone software packages. However, t...

Hamiltonian truncation is a non-perturbative numerical method for calculating observables of quantum field theory. The starting point this to truncate the interacting finite-dimensional space states spanned by eigenvectors free $H_0$ with eigenvalues below some energy cutoff $E_\text{max}$. In work, we show how treat systematically using effective theory methodology. We define integrating out a...