Controller Area Network is normally used in eventtriggered communication systems. These are known for not supporting composability with respect to the system temporal behavior. When using a time-triggered communication paradigm, such composability is achieved. However, common time-triggered systems rely on static message scheduling which compromises system flexibility. In this paper the authors...

The quadrupole moments of odd neighbors of semi-magic lead and tin isotopes and N = 50, N = 82 isotones are calculated within the self-consistent Theory of Finite Fermi Systems based on the Energy Density Functional by Fayans et al. Two sets of parameters, DF3 and DF3-a, fixed previously are used. They differ by the spin-orbit and effective tensor force parameters, the latter being significantl...

We investigated the effects of gallium (Ga) and tin (Sn) compositions on the structural and chemical properties of Ga-Sn-mixed (Ga:Sn) oxide films and the electrical properties of Ga:Sn oxide thin-film transistors (TFTs). The thermogravimetric analysis results indicate that solution-processed oxide films can be produced via thermal annealing at 500 °C. The oxygen deficiency ratio in the Ga:Sn o...

We study N-K-edge electron energy-loss near-edge structures for well-defined TiN/VN bilayers grown on a MgO(100) substrate by both calculations and experiments. The structural relaxations and the electronic structure of TiN/VN multilayers are calculated using the Vienna Ab Initio Simulation Package computer code, which uses density functional theory to describe the electronic interaction. The e...

This article presents a study on efficient dependability evaluation via fault injection using an extension of the True Time network simulator. The experimental results were obtained for checking and comparing fault tolerant aspects of CAN and TTCAN safety critical network interfaces.

The following chalcogen compounds of stanna-closo-dodecaborate were synthesized and characterized: the tetrameric oxide [(O-SnB(11)H(11))(4)](8-) from the reaction with hydrogen peroxide and the sulfide and selenide [S-SnB(11)H(11)](2-), [Se-SnB(11)H(11)](2-) from the reaction with elemental sulfur and selenium, respectively. The stannaborate derivatives were characterized by (119)Sn Mössbauer ...

The paper introduces a mechanism to implement distributed scheduling for the CAN-bus resource in order to meet the requirements of a dynamic distributed real-time system. The key issues considered here are multicasting, distinguishing between hard real-time, soft real-time, and non-real-time constraints, achieving high resource utilization for the CAN-bus, and supporting dynamic hard real-time ...

The new potential tracer of bone imaging, AHBDP-Sn(II)-TcO.3H(2)O was synthesized by reducing the TcO(4) (-) to TcO(2) (+) in the presence of AHBDP and Sn(ll)'s reducing agent. We found that tin rapidly forms a stable complex with AHBDP, giving AHBDP-Sn(II).3H(2)O. In the excess of AHBDP-Sn(ll).3H(2)O, the AHBDP-Sn(II).3H(2)O coordinates with TcO(2) (+) to give AHBDP-Sn(II)-TcO.3H(2)O which cou...

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