The microstructure and physical properties of new Y2O3 and Al2O3 oxide-doped silicon nitride ceramics fabricated by cold isostatic pressing and free sintering were investigated. The phase composition of produced material was also studied by X-ray diffraction at room and elevated temperature. The fabricated ceramics featured a microstructure of Si5AlON7 grains with a fine-grained α-Si3N4 with a ...

Kinetic Monte Carlo on coarse-grained systems, such as nucleic acid secondary structure, is advantageous for being able to access behavior at long time scales, even minutes or hours. Transition rates between coarse-grained states depend upon intermediate barriers, which are not directly simulated. We propose an Arrhenius rate model and an intermediate energy model that incorporates the effects ...

This paper describes a unified approach to version control of documents and configurations. Hierarchical structure, which is present in most documents such as programs, is recognized and utilized in a fine-grained version control system. The same mechanism is used for version control of configurations and extended to handle DAGs as well as trees. Change propagation within one hierarchical docum...

Interaction with the solvent plays a critical role in modulating the structure and dynamics of a protein. Because of the heterogeneity of the interaction strength, it is difficult to identify multi-scale structural response. Using a coarse-grained Monte Carlo approach, we study the structure and dynamics of a protein (H3.1) in effective solvent media. The structural response is examined as a fu...

Standard SQL is insufficiently expressive for representing many access control policies that are needed in practice. Nevertheless, we show how rich forms of access control policies can be defined within SQL when small amounts of contextual information are available to query evaluators. Rather than the standard, relational structure perspective that has been adopted for fine-grained access contr...

We present simulations of causal dynamical wave function collapse models of field theories on a 1 + 1 null lattice. We use our simulations to compare and contrast two possible interpretations of the models, one in which the field values are real and the other in which the state vector is real. We suggest that a procedure of coarse graining and renormalising the fundamental field can overcome it...

The paper discusses problems of checkpointing in distributed object systems and presents an algorithm suited optimally to their fine-grained structure. Usually, checkpoint algorithms assume nodes or processes as system units. This assumption results in a coarse-grained structure of checkpointing. We will show that this difference in granularity makes usual checkpoint algorithms inadequate. The ...