The influence of clay preparation methods on the sorption and hydrolysis of carbaryl (1-naphthyl, N-methyl carbamate) by K+-saturated reference smectite SWy-2 was studied. Four methods were utilized: (1) The reference (or specimen) clay used as received was K+-saturated (hereafter referred to as whole clay). (2) High-speed centrifugation (3295g) of whole clay resulted in a pellet with three dis...

Clay minerals have been used in medicinal applications since Aboriginal times (Carretaro, 2002; Wilson, 2003). Clay poultices are used to heal wounds; people eat clays to coat stomach linings and soothe indigestion; animals eat clay containing trace elements (e.g., As) that can kill worms. The reasons that various clay minerals are effective as medicines may be as variable as the ailment, but b...

Composites based on high density polyethylene (HDPE), pine flour, and organic clay were made by melt compounding and then injection molding. The influence of clay on crystallization behavior, mechanical properties, water absorption, and thermal stability of HDPE/pine composites was investigated. The HDPE/pine composites containing exfoliated clay were made by a two-step melt compounding procedu...

Water saturation and cation exchange capacity are the most significant parameters used to calculate a hydrocarbon zone potential. In clean formations, by applying the famous Archie model, which assumes that in the formation the only electric conductor is the formation water, the water saturation can be calculated. Additionally, in shaly sand formations this assumption may not be true as the ion...

Task-level reconfiguration techniques in automotive applications aim to reallocate tasks to computation cores during failures to guarantee that the desired functionality is still delivered. We consider a class of mixed-criticality asymmetric multi-core systems inspired by our collaboration with General Motors, for which we automatically synthesize task-level reconfiguration services to reduce t...

This report provides an overview of the discussions, the program and the outcomes of the second Dagstuhl Seminar on Mixed Criticality on Multicore/Manycore Platforms. The seminar brought together researchers working on mixed criticality real-time applications, industrialists from the aerospace, railway, and automotive industries, and experts in certification. Seminar March 26–31, 2017 – http://...

We develop a semismoothness concept for nonsmooth superposition operators in function spaces. The considered class of operators includes NCP-function-based reformulations of infinite-dimensional nonlinear complementarity problems, and thus covers a very comprehensive class of applications. Our results generalize semismoothness and -order semismoothness from finite-dimensional spaces to a Banach...

The consumer market is continuously pushing for smarter, faster, more durable and cheaper products with ever more complex and sophisticated functionality. Other fields such as safety–critical and dependable applications are not unaware of these requirements, and even impose others (e.g. certification). In the current multi-core era, industry and research entities are facing the important challe...

The MC (mixed-criticality on multicore) framework has been proposed and implemented in LITMUS, a realtime extension to Linux. The implemented MC framework has been used in several research efforts pertaining to multiprocessor real-time systems. This paper describes the current status of work on MC. There are currently two MC branches. We describe the features of each branch and report on curren...